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In the Masai community where 13-year-old Richard Turere lives, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor shares the solar-powered solution he designed to safely scare the lions away.
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robbersdog49says...There's a Jimmy Kimmel video floating around where he talks about the british kid who sold his app to yahoo for $30,000,000. He then goes out and asks a load of teenagers what their greatest achievement is. They give various inane responses as you would expect and Kimmel says he no longer has faith in the kids as the future of the nation.
Kids like this turn all that on it's head.
The kid who sold his app, well great. He's loaded but he hasn't really made a difference. Richard Turere will have a major effect on the lives of thousands of his countrymen. He will have saved the lives of the villagers, their cattle and the endangered lions. Now that's a major lifetime achievement and he's only thirteen. He had virtually no resources and won't have had much if any formal education and yet he's made a real difference.
Kids like this are the real future of not only their town or nation but the world. Imagine what a kid like this could do with the resources available to the typical western teen.
siftbotsays...Moving this video to oritteropo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.
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