congratulations. >> this inspired me to be a leader when i became conscious

of the facility issues in my community i mentored a young man who was 14-year-old and i took roenltd for it and just come back to the table what can i do different we talked with a lot of the kids and from the they didn't know who i was or where i came from and to figure that out to go back to the motherland - i never really - this is my first day i was leading to see something different. >> they talk about the trip to the holy mecca we hear so much negative stuff in african-american history i

thought high trip to gi i can't think with e would which i know my experiences and wanted to see the linkage between african-american and ghana 2017 promo you know something not right and when i took the trip to african i said we have to implement that back home. >> it was like a month ago i was reading in any history book but this. >> i was amazed with that library how many books he had and walking in here pictures on the wall and why his kids and meeting different people this awesome he has a history books

and living room. >> from 1960. >> me and my friends show you u saw those books we didn't have much time but heard about the empowering and all the titles that was inspiring i winder we could have stated longer reaching out to him he was a leader. >> a symbol with go back to our roots and we should have - we come if different background and different languages we're still one that's why we wants all of us to see this. >> it is cool to see how important he was to the people. >> you see a statute of him

his head is sitting next to us we wonder why evident in a different place holding a statute and wanted to take the significance away. >> that is unfortunate his government was ousted so that - >> he really made something out of nothing in a place where he was actually he was taken out and put into a prison and he made them an independent country he's making something out of nothing in america at hunters point i can start from the ground up and he inspired me to do that. >> like being negative impact san francisco like a different

location. >> where we saw this and where we saw the those those transcriber we got to do frog climbing on one hand was rock climbing. >> the hike was difficult it felt good to be at the top. >> we in the jungle. >> the highlight of the trip seeing our kids interact with kids and how passionate the kids are about education. >> you know the light switch go

on on we have a vantage. >> i met a guy said he wants to be a lawyer like me i know that paul and i live on different continent we're going through a structural he's the same age but in middle school and has to work hard in america i have to work hard i'm an african-american but i know that me and paul will go through the same struggles. >> in my opinion when we invited the school that was one of the best things in ghana 2017 promo we got to interact with the children they were happy and grateful. >> we should asked someone what we wanted to be one wanted to be an engineer like in the

u.s. but in ghana 2017 promo they don't have the opportunity to do it compared to ours they want to so they're trying whatever we can to do it at school. >> the school was great. >> when we went to the vinyl we saw how they made things from scratchy got to go on machine when they made it they use their feet and hundreds to pull the stipulations that was cool they're making the machines to do that. >> they taught but how to stamp them and the ink was made

stamping my cloth shows leadership brings it out of me shows the world when i wear my kid things people realize what that looks like a bunch of circle there is a historical meaning behind that. >> when we dance you can tell their culture they've been doing that for years and something in their passionate about. >> it made me release we have a don't have that much the little we do i wanted to grasp that culture and get - >> staying in a effort in africa i didn't think i said

that in a forest in africa. >> but i bringing food to the members. >> we had to walk on those canopy bridges we have in the u.s. a long bridge like suspected on top nothing trees below you, you walk into the next spot spot there was 7 of them. >> hit it it really starts with ourselves if he wanted to change something we have to change ourselves. >> when i first met steve richie that was like i've been waiting for this.

>> this is me washing away in my change getting in the river of me walsh away the negative things i'm no longer a slave to society now awake and opening my third eye to see thing i've never seen before. >> that was a moment for me because it gave me a change to re-evaluate myself and life because it is not easy to realize that your enslaving yourselves and recognize how our enslaving yourselves i felt the significance i'm a materialistic person that helped me to realize that in myself i hold back from being a leader in that river i was able to wash away in my

changes and give me the motivation. >> the vibe is different that you walk under a ghana 2017 promo you walk into that slave and into the dungeons it is getting real. >> you can feel the negative energy even if it is talking about you see how coordinated in his eyes. >> you are surrounded. >> we're just lucky to die for

how many days do we think. >> when we stepped into that how days 3 days max. >> i'll not survive for more than two days. >> lack of water it the subject property at me and put a barrier on my soul that is wherewith my aunt went to. >> okay. now what is important - >> is our mindset that sets us different from anywhere else none can tell you you have to learn that within yourself and helped me get to keep a change n my head. >> there was nothing you could do if you call for help we all suffered and tried to survive what can i do to help him.

>> so this was a haven for those - >> this is difficult. >> i just so stuff different i kind of feel like i a colored contact in my i'd say i see that different in a different light now. >> those are the white portions. >> honestly, i of the not ready to go home he felt like we hadn't been there long enough but excited to share my experiences with other and let them know how amazing that was

>> you got to keep it going it actually works. >> when it was time to it was really like heartbreaking. >> i was sad i don't want to leave those people he met these kids that wanted to stay and talk with us i did not want to come back here. >> the whole time in the bus ride i had my head against the window that looking out. >> one of the ways that ghana 2017 promo changed me finding the meaning the self-love and loving the community and people around you that is something that african-american community does struggle with. >> black on black crime i didn't want to go back you feel so alive there and open you can

be another person not the same person you were before that's one thing that he taught us changing. >> i used to want to be a leader but now a leader and create more leader that will create an atmosphere and world full of leaders. >> i felt home in secretary sata, welcome to your first meeting at the helm. would you please call the roll. [roll call]