Question: Tell us about
yourself.
Response: I am a human, a
Christian. I am like every
other person. I love games,
travelling, learning and
meeting new people.
I surprisingly have a wide
range of interests, I love
politics, people, places,
events.
My skillsets: I am a
photographer,
cinematographer, graphic
designer, and an occasional
driver. I write, I love football,
and I produce music
occasionally.
Question: You started off by
telling us that you're human,
what do you mean when you
say you're a human?
Response: I am human; I feel,
I cry, I am no hard man. I am
a very passionate person, and
I'm easily moved. And I think
that's what being human
means. Being vulnerable. The
ability to feel people's pain,
and walk through their pain
with them.
Question: Wow! How did you
become this "human" in your
denition?
Response: Well, it's more of
trying to stay human than
becoming human. I feel like
we've always been humans
but the older we get the more
selsh we may get, the more
insensitive we get and
ultimately the less likely we
are to feel the pain or
struggles people go through.
It's more of a struggle to stay
human than even be a human
because we are all born as
humans. As we grow we grow
into something else.
being (what can you offer).
THE STREET KIDS
DO NOT CARE HOW
MUCH I'M WORTH,
NOR DO THEY CARE
WHAT CAR I
DRIVE...
But over the last four years
I've done a lot of conscious
work on myself, I've been
working hard to be able to
walk in the shoes of other
people.
My greatest achievement and
at the same time the thing I'm
most proud about, is the state
of mind that I have.
Question: You said in the last
four years you've been
dealing with humans, trying
to show them that human side
of you. What and how did you
start?
Response: My work with street
kids has been the most
phenomenal thing that has
happened to me since I got
born again, and this is
because if you can deal with
street kids you can deal with
anybody, because it helps you
see the bright side of life.
When I meet a street child,
the street child does not care
where I have been, who I
have spoken to, how much I
have, what house I live in,
what car I drive. What they
care about is if I have the
solution to their problem and
if I care enough to listen to
them. So, that has given me a
general approach to a human
I'd rather approach people
with my intrinsic value to add
to them than think about any
other thing. It helps me look
at the bright side of life,
because when you sit down
for hours and listen to the
stories of these kids, you see
how very privileged you are. It
has given me a way to see life
and appreciate everything in
any circumstance. When I see
the amount of resilience kids
who are eight years old have
to have to live through every
day on the streets, it just
makes me better as a person.
I think they've had more
impact on me than I have had
on them.
Question: What prompted you
into working with and for the
kids on the street?
Response: To be honest with
you, some other people will
put the question more in
terms of "How did you nd
street kids?”
I didn't nd street kids, street
kids found me.
So even a year after we
started I kept asking myself,
"What are we doing"? "How
did I get here?” My parents
were not the best parents in
the world, but I had one of
the best or I would rather say
the most amazing rst eight
years of my life, and most of
my time I was spent reading. I
know I was somehow naughty
as a child, but I was also very
smart. In fact, I was either the
1st or third in class.
But somewhere along the line
my parents separated, I went
to live with my mum for about
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