tv Teaching Empowerment - Kenya Al Jazeera April 27, 2018 8:33am-9:01am +03
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union capitol here of the parliament has called an extraordinary session next week to vote on prime minister now the former leader. step following days of protests actor bill cosby has been found guilty on all counts in his sexual assault retrial a jury convicted the eight year old of drugging and sexually assaulting a female friend at his home in two thousand and four. russia has taken a number of syrians including children to the headquarters of the chemical weapons watchdog to support his denial of an attack in the city of duma that witnesses were presented to the a p c w in the hague are the headlines up next is rebel education . disillusioned with life in their own countries since the arab spring and looking desperately for a new sense of identity freedom and self worth let me in anyway i don't feel like system my own country the country dreamed about demonstrated for and sought to achieve many things in al-jazeera world here's the stories of those deciding to
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emigrate in search of a new life and nationality passport to freedom on al-jazeera education . the universal rights to expand the rise and offer better prospects the pulse to a better life yet around the globe schools and institutions. system has been deemed to be no longer. thinking what schools are and how they want identifying the skills and knowledge needed in the twentieth century now a new wave of rebel education is sweeping. educate in a radically changed the way it will now challenge the old and work. create opportunities which will impact the individual and then tie a community. let
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a huge overcrowding the majority of prisoners were awaiting trial very few prisoners would ever meet a lawyer. prison services didn't always have resources training resting prisoners health and rehabilitation. and the prison staff often felt overwhelmed and overwhelmed. but i will facilities are prisons filled with people with gifts and talents which are raising to be realised.
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see the question much more secure the reason you're above the position of we need to do. two thousand nine hundred fifty we're sure that that is going to put in the biggest programs within a version of the biggest program as far as the eye can study the location program young students adults who never went to school before they were imprisoned. did get that money is cordin or to bench. is that an inmate has been in prison for the last twenty five almost and five yes now and he is the principal of the school
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and we decided to put him would probably means we can a new from. the roads so that it looks like another piece well to them and they would build quite the number of us. oddly the couple who got to the library. so these are those who teach us and they also prepared. for lessons. very often it's the poorest and least educated who find themselves in prison often their life's been incredibly difficult and they've not had opportunities and they inherent potential and gifts and talents haven't been realized during that and childhood or the adult life before entering prison. good morning. i want you. both. i thought you thought i did if i was that way the
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what's the good with this when you place an aside i couldn't victim it was of them those who never had to the opportunity to attend formal school today so when they come here death up soaked in to school program most of them up to see it then that if they do well for one thing i just thought i'd put that out i thought it was me i kept in a sexual assault case i was convicted for ten years general i was just never in my washed up prison my daughter took part i believe. that now it put to great to communicate to me. also to try to see. that the team you want to get the been for that's what is possible from this program so that the when the displays at the i used to get to that with you know this go to all of them about you then all tried to substitute while much of that
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in countries like kenya eighty percent or more of prisoners one meets a lawyer i think the prison service is struggle with the fact that often there i am responsible for people who mind don't really need to be in prison. it is best. if you ask me what is maybe just to get them to post it is in the rose. because i know in just in the country in the world there is a lot of violence in the world those who are only level of those who were evil and all the men of the prison i saw my child ended up in prison on the corner i didn't
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even know how to grow apart of their cases and of course basically poverty saw a need for me to please and we how not to be there after completing a project and do we have for started a degree class or i law school sponsor from our london school of law i appreciate all of you. to grab this opportunity that game where you are what i think it is the best decision you're going to make quite in these letters to we're back in two thousand and four. sentenced for interrupting right what. they're doing in prison is really difficult and they're. risky this is where we stay. it's just a big needle phobia so in this device so as to get this base to do.
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redo this mission up to ninety square it's test i mean. it's quite telling to us. it was convicted in one thousand nine hundred ninety this in my name here i was that arrested when i was very young my fusty in college may be socratic you know life and i wanted to proceed with education but unfortunately. that came to an end blocked and when i was convicted it was so hard for me to up i truly really accept myself accept this tradition and believe. it was a bitter lemon for me to swallow. i've gone from a challenge to family background and had months in an indication was a big mistake and i've been in prison and you can see that death of in good faith and that has evolved into me we knew of the problem or. the going to present itself
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in the court means most of us are poor and most of those lifted they don't move or not to read their posts to do this so there was a time for them to go to court and to be under their cases proper. it was alone during the day and night. i would could give that picture of what is expected of you in court the confidence to fuss with even this. and of course. views that judge to give you that in a minute of freedom that you'll be needing only for soul on. your country by do no
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defeat we're not dead. you're a girl. are you shocked that. this is going to be supported not when they submissions by the fact that that is somebody else some want to have it is came up which pointed out the two suspects again as being among the i said to me it's very exciting to think that someone who is on death row can sell for the moment and have that confidence and courage to go for one of ten years most see their course in front of very senior judges and to advocate on his behalf and behalf of the many others who are on death row i think that there's a sense of energy and enthusiasm that we find in these musicals which is exciting and gives us a sense that these are going to be game changers who have lost in prison and when they get out are using the radical ways and want to transform the lives of the course inside my back which was done and because of that problem you bet
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you've have a loyal friend. with him because of what a disappointed. and there might have to get a sentence under section two ninety six two of the came to prosecute concert i'm curious as to whether you think being the difference between. the past recent mess of a five judge burns musician and a three judge going to see the court should be saying delete defeat but being the probably being from the from the christan family. and they believe in the restaurant of justice we wish to submit that you drop into the issue of the word accused or came up to give the truth of what about this and give out proper sentence sexual in the face. of this simply. said that any open fifth without misdemeanor or felony may be judged together.
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i was contemplating to unset district death in two thousand and two and i came all told prison in january changed sic a change sixty hours old age to how committed a crime of. which i didn't all go but tough course once you're rounded up. and you don't have enough our resources to fossil take you to court you can become a victim of injustice. i refused to leave like a criminal because i was not up to no irish was the circumstances of the present to determine that my future i had left my one year old child and i just say if i have
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to see this child of mine once again i had to fight to get my way out of prison. one day i like sun clean over the african prison project to her me that says on some. low costs and i was like no i am a victim of injustice i cannot go for the hurt because like i had to blow all together and you told me it concept with you. is definitely so.
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i for countries and project brought to me the opportunity of enrolling in their you first off london. external program. to promote live for. our races now as i'm speaking i have completed my degree. throughout my studies as for my court sessions they have been there with me. monthly. me coming when he could come in two thousand. and three in seven years we resume in the don't remember you come in to fill in the field. give us is it with research you. did in two thousand and one.
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over the odd occasion of my data and in two thousand on the piece when i was sentenced to suffer did. i you've been in prison for fifteen years and it is over recent that there was. a poor knowns issue of if there was somebody you were not to remain dissimilar but i remain disks wrong and i knew that it did was when they would be set free so i never lost hope in my life and i think it does for the miss. i took it as it would have been opportunity for me to achieve what they hope to achieve even in the outside world when. i.
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right now i'm. not sure how much. the officer in charge would not get a women's prison but libya spent three months with us in the u.k. last year as part of a fellowship program for the senior prison stuff spending time in which prisons and universities. after the prison project. has been left on godsend to have been the prison community here because he just looked on me for class i'm not on all plants that it's a prison child it's also the community and on the staff members and their children . when you have one senior prison officer who's passionate about transforming the lives of prisoners or clients as they're known and who brings
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creativity and innovation and resourcefulness to their jobs their worlds to us any of us. present in two thousand and nine i was convicted for ten years. by the time i was coming in i was five months pregnant i believe but in prison i took care of my son in prison and he left prison when it was one year to my. wife having my sentence a student of law. has been really involving drinking needs i did because it's been very very . this was not happening before in our facility because it's really a milestone for us because not even this path of getting this skill set up to for
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at least both and that crowd to alter able to get to be able to have self-esteem and it all just hunky civil out there to try before the court and defend themselves previous trial there are very few staff members but it's pretty good there are more staff members of the world joining the program. one sexists just at a mission point of the program was when one of the trainees and even mit was able to do a mouthpiece for the air quality who eventually went back to court and was able to at least from this inquiry more inmates to join him and currently the doing good work. i hope in future i will be able to help my my fellow inmates go through the trials and appeals. they've been putting up a piece for their friends it will to bring up issues that are not unknown by administration for us to be able to introduce us to use previous within the system
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those who can call for. them. out of their. neighborhoods where they were deserted malcolm one them which you often want to smoke what you're reminded of on your own is not from mine but. i wish to call my bluff because i'm so bored with scully for they're bringing. this business fast and foremost to gain insight and legal insight or. cases so that when they come before me on appeal they're very well prepared in
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was was. was . oh to use because i was disgusted he says yeah and i said it and plan on it and i'm going to our plans for the children and so at this. very few prisons have the opportunities available that you have here please take advantage of them when you go back to your children and your parents and you'll simply things let them say wow this isn't the woman that leaves off three. thank.
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you but if i'm cool with the knowledge ok and because we can see the fruits of economics and it doesn't really change then like with so many of us leagues around here i think almost everybody is clear that what keeps the key is not a book but in case i. lose it but i was told this on put out here look you have to be appalled that everybody is going to your job and you feel really. good when you do it when they get to this from prison i talked to become a practicing lawyer so about to come be able to approach the sort of less fortunate to achieve justice if he has given me what deficient. to want to see tomorrow because i want to make i mean fox he'll give me an opportunity to prove that it's going to be some devious while. i'm a bit of the night was look i feel i'm empowered and able to be cheeky to society
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much more especially. parts to adopt we need the same way i was. we didn't take a look at this thing through. it would be if you could just leave it be going be ok to change the world to change the perception of the world the people need of it so it's my passion and much to say to give back to the club and make it a trace but also in the community where if. you do study that you serve for much of this important for a very important the country but it takes most complicated to achieve this country and it could well be true to this country of the people sitting right here with me so we are moving forward which we love phillippi we want to use it to change this country and retreat with a group of books we've started to get the job is unstoppable. australia's multibillion dollar international student industry is booming but it
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