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My family name is Nzao. Nzao Means "bull."
So with that spirit of being a bull,
I believe I'm the guy that can push all the problems people have in the country.
My name is Franklin. I am currently 22-years-old and I am from Mombasa, Kenya.
I participated in a cultural exchange program to the United States for a year and then I came back to Kenya.
I continued high school, I finished and now I am in college.
I've been doing a lot of projects.
It means a lot to me, I can say. This was a project on children's rights issues.
So, whatever parents thought was the best for their children, they would go ahead and do it,
without minding the children's interest.
There are some people who really appreciated us,
but there are some people who are really into the traditions, who thought we were wasting our time.
There was one case that really pushed me to do this work.
It was the case of a watchman who *** his own daughter who was 13-years-old.
We first empowered kids to know their rights.
And second, we used the local village elders and area chiefs. We actually educated them.
There are so many things that pushed me to do such a project.
First is that, as I grew up in my community, children were not appreciated.
And the cases of child abuse were just too much.