[ applause ] the pain a child experiences from poverty lingers. the hunger, the hopelessness, the lack of possibilities. for 18 years she lived with her three siblings and her mother in a shack with a dirt floor and a tin roof. every time it would rain, it came through. even though nellie could read, she made reading a priority and nelly got a full scholarship to a college in illinois. she worked in the weekends in the cafeteria and the weekend as a janitor and sent all the money back home to her family. it was there where she became in love with science and became an engineer and she founded tech
start stopping with nicorette. school in malawi who did not seem happy to be there. literally happy to be in school that day. but i would see them on the days when they do not come to school, because coming to school is so much of a struggle for so many kids in malawi. there are a lot of things that get in the way of that decision for that decision to go to school him ally on a daily basis. the other night i mentioned the problems that girls face in primary schools and high schools when they have their menstrual periods, and they have to spend the entire day sitting on a dirt floor or sometimes a chilly cement floor all day in schools that have no desks. there is another thing that gets in the way of kids attending school all the time. soap.
there are a lot of things that get in the way of that decision for that decision to go to school him ally on a daily basis. the other night i mentioned the problems that girls face in primary schools and high schools when they have their menstrual periods, and they have to spend the entire day sitting on a dirt floor or sometimes a chilly cement floor all day in schools that have no desks. there is another thing that gets in the way of kids attending school all the time. soap. every time i stay in a hotel, i grab extra bars of soap and i added to a giant so collection that builds over many months, and then when i go to malawi i quietly slipped those bars of
soap to individual students who are no need. them in most of the schools could come from families who cannot afford shoes or soap and. when they get a bar of soap, it is used not just for bathing but for washing clothes, so without a bar of soap in the house, a kid s clothes can get very dirty very quickly, especially if they spend their days sitting on the dirt floor of their classrooms. [speaking non-english] that is eight greener hamilton, who hopes one day to be dr. hamilton and sitting at a desk that he got a few weeks ago. girls are much more likely than boys to stay home from school because they re closer to dirty. so, most of the soap that i hand out in malawi s to girls. the last time i returned from laos and unpacked i found this in my camera bag and it broke my heart because i forgot to give this bar of soap to a kid whose family could have used this for at least a week, for everything.
every time i stay in a hotel, i grab extra bars of soap and i added to a giant so collection that builds over many months, and then when i go to malawi i quietly slipped those bars of soap to individual students who are no need. them in most of the schools could come from families who cannot afford shoes or soap and. when they get a bar of soap, it is used not just for bathing but for washing clothes, so without a bar of soap in the house, a kid s clothes can get very dirty very quickly, especially if they spend their days sitting on the dirt floor of their classrooms. [speaking non-english] that is eight greener hamilton, who hopes one day to