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092    BIO|bODEDE 
100 1  Odede, Kennedy,|eauthor. 
245 10 Find me unafraid :|blove, loss, and hope in an African 
       slum /|cKennedy Odede and Jessica Posner. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bEcco, an imprint of 
       HarperCollinsPublishers,|c[2015] 
300    335 pages :|bcolor illustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    Kennedy Odede found his first grey hair at six. Named 
       after John F. Kennedy, he grew up as the eldest of eight 
       children in Kibera, a teeming Kenyan slum without sewage 
       systems, roads, running water, or access to basic needs, 
       like health care and education. At ten, he was alone on 
       the streets. Homeless and in despair at sixteen, Kennedy 
       was given a book of Martin Luther King's speeches. 
       Inspired, he bought a twenty-cent soccer ball and started 
       a youth group, determined to bring the hope he'd found 
       into the lives of his fellow citizens. He called it 
       Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO).  Several years 
       later, Jessica Posner, an irrepressible Wesleyan student, 
       went abroad to work with SHOFCO and, despite Kennedy's 
       incredulous objections, moved into his tiny house. They 
       fell in love. When Kennedy was threatened by political 
       violence, Jessica helped him win a full scholarship to 
       Wesleyan and brought him to America. Torn between his 
       lifelong wish for an education and an abiding loyalty to 
       his community, Kennedy, with Jessica at his side, decided 
       to start a school for Kibera's most vulnerable population:
       girls.  The alchemy of their remarkable union and the 
       small, joyful world their brilliant collaboration has made
       in Kibera have drawn the support of community members and 
       celebrities alike. With this support, Jessica and Kennedy 
       have been able to provide water, health care, and 
       entrepreneurial programs, which now serve more than 
       seventy-six thousand people, and have replicated this 
       model in Mathare, another Kenyan slum. Because of their 
       efforts, hundreds of young girls have the potential to 
       become Kenya's future leaders, and tens of thousands of 
       people living in poverty have access to clean water, 
       health care, and economic empowerment programs. Their 
       girls attend school every day in crisp blue uniforms and 
       red sweaters. Filled with hope and ambition for the future,
       they adhere to a rigorous curriculum and outperform 
       students from the most expensive schools in Kenya. By 
       elevating these girls, Jessica and Kennedy have started a 
       subtle yet powerful revolution in each community, and have
       dedicated themselves to bringing the same resolve and 
       enthusiasm to urban slums beyond Kibera and Mathare.  
       Jessica and Kennedy's story is many things: a tender love 
       story, a tale of how true leaders are made, and an account
       of the successful melding of the best in two cultures. Few
       have fought as tenaciously and ingeniously against poverty
       and hopelessness as these two young people. Their story 
       vividly illustrates the power of young, hopeful people to 
       have an impact on the world, and stands as a testament to 
       the transformations made possible by true love. 
600 10 Odede, Kennedy. 
600 10 Posner, Jessica. 
650  0 Social reformers|zKenya|vBiography. 
650  0 Girls|xEducation|zKenya|zKibera. 
650  0 Schools|zKenya|zKibera. 
650  0 Poor|zKenya|zKibera. 
651  0 Kibera (Kenya)|vBiography. 
651  0 Kibera (Kenya)|xSocial conditions. 
700 1  Posner, Jessica,|eauthor.