Emerging Explorers, Day 2
Thisweek during the domicile in Washington, D.C., the National GeographicSociety hosts the fourth annual Explorers Symposium, in that ourgrantees from around the universe benefaction their work as well as plead suchtopics as educating girls in rural Kenya, sea turtle charge inNicaragua, as well as building perennial crops that can flourish with littleor no pesticides or fertilizer. Traveler intern Daniel Bortz is profiling the little of National Geographic's Emerging Explorers, whose work today may produce systematic breakthroughs in the future.
Kakenya Ntaiya, during thirteen years old, was organised to be married. Growing up in Enoosen in southern Kenya, Ntaiya's upbringing was standard for immature girls from traditional Maasai culture: do the domicile chores, similar to in progress as well as cleaning, while guidance how to turn the mother. She grew up in the culture where preparation was the priority for boys -- not girls. In her village, group noticed girls as investments, an easy ticket to the dowry in that the daughter's palm in matrimony equates to nine cows, dual sheep, as well as other supplies.
But Ntaiya's mom longed for some-more for her daughter. She helped Kakenya convince her father to call off the matrimony as well as let her finish high propagandize as well as eventually swayed the male leaders in the village to send her to America, becoming the initial lady in her encampment to aspire to an preparation in the U.S. Now, Ntaiya's returned to Enoosen to build the propagandize for girls. She wants to see them stay in propagandize as well as continue their guidance -- an event her mom as well as so most Maasai women have been denied.
"These girls have hopes, they have dreams, though they substantially won't comprehend those dreams since they've been denied an event for educatio! n," Ntai ya said Thursday during National Geographic's Explorers Symposium in Washington, D.C. "It was so unpleasant for me to go back home as well as see immature girls losing their dreams."
After violation belligerent upon Aug. 16, 2008, Kakenya's Center for Excellence non-stop final year as well as welcomed the initial category of thirty girls selected from the pool of 100 applicants.
Read some-more about the Emerging Explorers after the jump.
Feliciano dos Santos, another member of the 2010 Emerging Explorers, common his work in Mozambiqueand his passion for song during Thursday's symposium. He achieved his hitsong, "Wash Your Hands," the part of the open health campaign hestarted in communities opposite Mozambique, where some-more than half thepopulation lives in extreme poverty but access to simple sanitation.There, he journeys to the little of the lowest remote villages, using musicto engage the village opposite disease as well as health problems from poorsanitation as well as hygiene.
His band, the Massukos, crafts itsmusic to broach the sanitation message. The Massukos promote low-costsanitation that composts human rubbish into nutrient-rich fertilizers.They've even sang for the president of Mozambique. Santos said, "Mydream was to be the teacher, as well as my mental condition has come true: Teaching peopleto sense to adore music."
Photo: Courtesy of Kakenya's Dream
Kakenya Ntaiya, during thirteen years old, was organised to be married. Growing up in Enoosen in southern Kenya, Ntaiya's upbringing was standard for immature girls from traditional Maasai culture: do the domicile chores, similar to in progress as well as cleaning, while guidance how to turn the mother. She grew up in the culture where preparation was the priority for boys -- not girls. In her village, group noticed girls as investments, an easy ticket to the dowry in that the daughter's palm in matrimony equates to nine cows, dual sheep, as well as other supplies.But Ntaiya's mom longed for some-more for her daughter. She helped Kakenya convince her father to call off the matrimony as well as let her finish high propagandize as well as eventually swayed the male leaders in the village to send her to America, becoming the initial lady in her encampment to aspire to an preparation in the U.S. Now, Ntaiya's returned to Enoosen to build the propagandize for girls. She wants to see them stay in propagandize as well as continue their guidance -- an event her mom as well as so most Maasai women have been denied.
"These girls have hopes, they have dreams, though they substantially won't comprehend those dreams since they've been denied an event for educatio! n," Ntai ya said Thursday during National Geographic's Explorers Symposium in Washington, D.C. "It was so unpleasant for me to go back home as well as see immature girls losing their dreams."
After violation belligerent upon Aug. 16, 2008, Kakenya's Center for Excellence non-stop final year as well as welcomed the initial category of thirty girls selected from the pool of 100 applicants.
Read some-more about the Emerging Explorers after the jump.
Feliciano dos Santos, another member of the 2010 Emerging Explorers, common his work in Mozambiqueand his passion for song during Thursday's symposium. He achieved his hitsong, "Wash Your Hands," the part of the open health campaign hestarted in communities opposite Mozambique, where some-more than half thepopulation lives in extreme poverty but access to simple sanitation.There, he journeys to the little of the lowest remote villages, using musicto engage the village opposite disease as well as health problems from poorsanitation as well as hygiene.
His band, the Massukos, crafts itsmusic to broach the sanitation message. The Massukos promote low-costsanitation that composts human rubbish into nutrient-rich fertilizers.They've even sang for the president of Mozambique. Santos said, "Mydream was to be the teacher, as well as my mental condition has come true: Teaching peopleto sense to adore music."
Photo: Courtesy of Kakenya's Dream
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