Over the years, most of you have heard me talk about the Founder of the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy, Abdul Kassim. He is one of the most incredible people I have ever met and is one of the largest reasons that the KGSA Foundation even exists today. He inspires, challenges, and empowers everyone around him and has gone on to create the only free, all-girls high school in the Kibera slum, and provides educational, artistic, and athletic opportunities to some 130 girls every year. It is an amazing, wonderful place filled with talented, driven and world-changing young women and the men and women who teach them.
In a well deserved stroke of luck (and a lot of hard work) Abdul got to present at the TED@Nairobi Talent Search. His talk was so excellent, he's eligible to be a TED Fellow, which would be an incredible opportunity for Abdul, but more importantly for the girls he's devoted his life to helping.
In order to make this happen, we need his video to be the most watched/commented upon video by August 31. I know that these types of "asks" can seem like a burden but this is incredibly important. PLEASE, take a few minutes to watch this inspiring video and share it with your family, friends, and colleagues. We need votes and comments and if Abdul wins, he'll be on the 2013 TEDTalk series. This could be the moment that drastically blows the door down (in a really good way) for these young women.
here is the link:
http://talentsearch.ted.com/video/Abdul-Kassim-Real-change-requir;TEDNairobi
Thank you!
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