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100 1  Odede, Kennedy,|eauthor. 
245 10 Find me unafraid :|blove, loss, and hope in an African 
       slum /|cKennedy Odede and Jessica Posner ; [foreword by 
       Nicholas Kristof]. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bEcco, an imprint of 
       HarperCollinsPublishers,|c[2015] 
300    xiv, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :|bcolor 
       illustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    "Find Me Unafraid is the story of two young people from 
       completely different worlds: Kennedy Odede from Kibera, 
       the largest slum in Africa, and Jessica Posner from Denver,
       Colorado.  Kennedy foraged for food, lived on the street, 
       and taught himself to read with old newspapers. When an 
       American volunteer gave him the work of Mandela, Garvey, 
       and King, teenaged Kennedy decided he was going to change 
       his life and his community. He bought a soccer ball and 
       started a youth empowerment group he called Shining Hope 
       for Communities (SHOFCO). Then in 2007, Wesleyan 
       undergraduate Jessica Posner spent a semester abroad in 
       Kenya working with SHOFCO. Breaking all convention, she 
       decided to live in Kibera with Kennedy, and they fell in 
       love.Their connection persisted, and Jessica helped 
       Kennedy to escape political violence and fulfill his 
       lifelong dream of an education, at Wesleyan University.  
       The alchemy of their remarkable union has drawn the 
       support of community members and celebrities alike and 
       their work has changed the lives of many of Kibera’s most 
       vulnerable population: its girls. Jess and Kennedy founded
       Kibera’s first tuition-free school for girls, a large, 
       bright blue building, which stands as a bastion of hope in
       what once felt like a hopeless place. But Jessica and 
       Kennedy are just getting started—they have expanded their 
       model to connect essential services like health care, 
       clean water, and economic empowerment programs. They’ve 
       opened an identical project in Mathare, Kenya’s second 
       largest slum, and intend to expand their remarkably 
       successful program for change.  Ultimately this is a love 
       story about a fight against poverty and hopelessness, the 
       transformation made possible by a true love, and the power
       of young people to have a deep impact on the world. "--
       |cPublisher description. 
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600 10 Odede, Kennedy. 
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650  0 Schools|zKenya|zKibera. 
650  0 Girls|xEducation|zKenya|zKibera. 
650  9 Poor|zKenya|zKibera. 
651  0 Kibera (Kenya)|xSocial conditions. 
651  0 Kibera (Kenya)|vBiography. 
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700 1  Posner, Jessica,|eauthor. 
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