Up at three in the morning so i could get a head start on the day i wrote down my daily schedule and to do list. I was still learning german on my doorstep i was its because im tough i wanted to make sure that my whole day was organized i read a lot. At the bookstore i used to buy books that i shop just around the corner from our house believes i want to find books to improve my writing skills. For letters and things like that. Ill try. It again i want to learn about cassettes and such so i can get some language cassettes or audio books. It was it seemed at least that i was really focused i was determined to master the
language quickly. I wanted to be able to get my bearings in a society that was still very new to me i was prepared to do everything i could to become familiar with german culture. But at the time i wanted to remember where i came from and the things that made me who i am. As adults my goals were to assimilate but also to keep my own identity. There philip is now a german citizen hes married and has two children he has no memories of his parents he wants to be a proper father to his children the father that he never had. I mean i would give anything i would do anything so that my kids dont have to go through what i did see at. Any. You will. Find. Us our second half. Philip travels to kenya regularly hes even brought his children to visit his daughter has heard some of his childhood stories pop off. Campus mom kicked him out of the house. And he ended up in an orphanage. And this is the fourth in a sesame then you imagine what happens in a society when sixty percent of School Age Children dont finish school for this mr its not that those kids arent smart but theyre poor and cant afford to go to
school its. Nice and clear. Ten years ago philip and his wives are hard founded the come do we children association. Is also a teacher they met at college. The couple want to finance an education for as many poor children as possible many kids in kenya come to school because their parents cant afford the tuition. Can that. We want to provide opportunities for children who would otherwise end up living in wretched conditions they might turn to crime. We want to give them a chance. Of children who have been in our program have gone on to study medicine or law. The shaft about their disadvantaged children in hamburg to like fifteen year olds if philip hadnt stepped in and might have ended up in
a special needs school. Some students need someone who is more than a teacher. They need a role model someone they can look up to. Teachers shouldnt just teach they should also help their students cope with their lives. Often. When philip five years ago the boy was aggressive and hyperactive he wouldnt let people get close to him not even his mother. And thats the eiffel tower. I got at seven years ago or so from dad right. Father left the family some time ago philip believed in the young man when no one else would do well has just written his first application. Thats a very modest effort compared to what youre capable of doing. Asked. Mr
spring to try to teach me a lot but it never sank in. And then one day i realized that hes always right about everything so i took his advice and you know weve become good friends to means more than a teacher. And this nancy. Is a diamond in the rough he still needs a lot of things but were definitely on the right track. Tomorrow philip will visit kenya once again hell stop off at the all financially hes to live and hell bring along a few things. Thats. How should i explain it thats how i keep myself from getting homesick. Here in germany they have the most delicious brown bread. Ive never tasted
anything like it. So every time i travel to kenya so i take some with me. If i didnt start missing hamburg in germany my new home. Prices were. This is kenyas Capital Nairobi as a child on the streets. There are an estimated Seventy ThousandHomeless Children in nairobi today philip is going to try to make life a little easier for some of them. If. I was one of The Street Kids myself. And i remember how it really helped me when someone i didnt even know some angel would come by and give me a hand out. To give my heart. When that happened i didnt have to steal. I didnt have to work illegally or beg. And i also didnt have to rummage around in the landfill trying to find something to eat. Street children out. These children have no place to live. Its a big gang of kids he says theyre up to a thousand of them here all different ages. Many of these children were abandoned by their parents like philip. Others often. A lot of the local residents feel threatened by these groups of kids the Police Always chasing them around. He says that society treats them like animals. They are considered the lowest of the low. People hate them and avoid them. So the kids think its great when someone like me comes along and pays attention to them and actually talks to them. Tries to find out what dreams these children might have for the future. The day. They are hed like to become a pilot. Well who knows. Look im lucky that i survived. But the odds of that happening to most of these kids are just about nonexistent. The presenting that philip knows all too well what these kids are going through as a child he was beaten by the police and often went without food for days for me for me back then hunger was my constant companion. It overshadowed everything. I was often willing to risk my life to get some food. Who stole and that could have gotten us killed we had to get blocked beams couldnt. Philip lived in alleys like this completely honest. His parents died shortly after he was born and ont took him in but later abandoned him. He was alone in a city of Three Million people. Oh. Its rough and on. I was lost in the hustle and bustle of nairobi i had no idea what was going to happen to me and i was afraid that id end up in a dangerous part of town and the other street kids would see me as a threat to their existence. I ran around from place to place which i didnt fit in anywhere. Is dear to me all he. Philip was just one
of tens of thousands of Street Children on one occasion he saw his best friend. He experienced violence himself and still bears the physical skulls. Kind of we had no choice. Some of the kids killed themselves. Others joined gangs how sometimes you got beaten up i had to be strong to survive or that. The shocks. You feel. Like youve been issued by league give me shit to end when i think about how i could have ended up here ive talked to lots of people here and i see the misery in their lives im truly grateful that i was lucky enough to get away from all of this down this is the blue culture. Philip used to sleep between Market Stalls like these a lot of street kids still do being discovered it could get them killed these
children simply dont count in kenyan society. These are what heroes from this part of town was key to my survival in nairobi. The markets were busy during the day but they emptied out by evening. So we go there to sleep its done get bored. And current owns we cover ourselves with a tarp. Or find some place to hide. And then we cram in together to try to get some sleep here. But youve got to have a safe place to sleep here but will be our biggest problem was the rats they come around at night. These uninvited guests probably got excited by our bare feet. Under cannot but theyd often shoe on the soles of our feet and that made it difficult for us to walk the next day as it would not give them a tribute to gain so im bored and im talking. But it was philip does what he can tell. You in the telling of the goma in western kenya. His Nonprofit Association can do it children has made it possible for Two Hundred Four mistreat children and kids from poor families to go to school. Philip believes that these students have talent and just serve a chance. In hell and hold. My family. Unfortunately this is. Actually i felt bad this tension and its only straight to good that. Someone come to me to speak to the a message its heartwarming to see that these students dont let things get them down that. I find i mean they try hard they study hard and they dont
complain. They do the best they can with what they have you know thats whats so that they can make something out of themselves. Yeah its just its mind on that i was never did that actually i ten years ago philip started collecting donations to help these kids. So he tells them that at one point he came close to killing himself. You know it was a piece of the house and he says hi and i was ready to jump down to get on the ride drop that slowly leads into the water and i could not swim those days so what would happen it would be the end of me. Take off my shoes. Throw them down and im ready she jumped because at that moment. Three asian men. Shouted i call it a miracle remember they give me enough money to survive for three more months three months without having to steal three months without having to take three months without having to become the garbage. That was the Turning Point for young fella a little later he was taken to an orphanage at the age of thirteen his dream to go to school came true. The regular missing issue to the it was the first time that i had attending classes on a regular basis for my own two and it allowed me to get out of the orphanage which was a living hell. In function chord. Going to school gave me a lot of selfconfidence because it helped me to discover and develop new skills and talents. And dick contour that school will always mean a lot to me or. Z. F. You the door to be aired. In Class Philip Always Sat in the. Having every now and. I was really ambitious. He. Shouts i saw education as a gold mine where i could help myself to all the riches that this world has to offer. A household and country. Philip were tarred and made a name for himself. I think the guns im proficient in for it was a very Simple School compared to the others in the area. And here i was a kid from an orphanage nobody. And i made that ordinary unknown school famous because after my first year i was chosen the best student in the whole state climb in the door to the shooter. To look works but students who were cut off from the
outside world the nearest village just ten kilometers away theres no electricity here and no will still see the system. Let me its two students who live with their mother a single parent in a mud hut school fees cost the equivalent of Three Hundred Euros per student per year. But sixteen year old juliet is committed to continuing hit to cation. What has been having a pressure of being as im at least seen same ones here and i even dont get it but i guess late like writing and i think everything. Is. Sorted out her brother misha is in the eleventh grade thanks to phillips help michelle wants to be an engineer he still misses his father. My father left me wishing to lance a son. Those have never seen me. But have
a never give up. I know one day and each and. Every Finance Minister in the story. Will give. Thanks it is. Hard. Enough that it managed to escape his life on the streets at the age of thirteen when a Police Officer brought him to this orphanage. Some of the children here used to be homeless or they lost their parents to a chevy aids. Clinic is known many of these kids for years one hundred children live here in a facility designed to hold thirty. We know about isnt. There a way to many kids at this with already now and that just shows that the situation has gotten worse. But im happy to see all the Smiling Faces i feel at home here. Its like going back to my childhood my make in the heart. Phillips visit is a big deal for these kids. They have no toys to play with him they arent even enough you know but. Yeah. When philip lived here amy was still a young boy. And now his later hes still here. Come in he had been in my share used to two big bullies round the bend they know when we know my door cloths during the day when youve washed their minds ive ever have. These right now we have philip used to stave about the corner where were used to a sleeping ive a corner he was he was rated we just admit he was very storytelling he could be
tended to tell me he was told it might. Philip storytelling skills helped him to forget about life in the orphanage it was almost as bad as living on the streets the stock forced him to work every day he was beaten and starved. Im still amazed that i survived and that it was nothing short of a miracle i was as well and. Life there was really stressful see. Me To The Bone Environ the. Last two i was subjected to beatings and other physical abuse and general neglect deep enough. In. How to see me but i got through it with sheer willpower and a hell of a lot of luck. Predominate hottest make guns guns who feel. The second philip wants to provide opportunities for as many children as he can. Today at least he can bring some joy into their lives because hes brought some gifts from home back these items with donated to use aid organizations. Then missing some kenyan children songs that inspired philip when he was younger. You thank you. Thank. You. Thank you thank. You return next year to visit the orphans once again. A few days later hes back in hand. Its the end of the school year for this ninth grade class. Theyve spent five years together next year philip will take
of a new group of fifth grade is she well and the other this will happen he teaches though theyre. Treated me like a son and he was like a father term and i thought of going to miss him a lot. Of i have often missed being father he helped us with our problems he laughed with us and cried with us good luck and. Issued a presentation. I never would have survived if some angel hadnt come along to help me. It was always someone i didnt know someone i wasnt related to. But they believed in me. Heart i really needed that kind of support back then and without it i wouldnt have gotten very far missed vite call me corny much i mean its ok thanks very much its ok im not lead. Saying so ill see you around ok. All the
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