to two amazing work in terms of education in community building learning how to be strong employees learning how to build community bringing multiple age groups and diverse communities together you and leaders both elected officials and not and also trying to create leaders out of our young children would love  everywhere i went out i always see him everywhere you go and his warmth and his smile and welcoming is one of the reasons that i'm here with the community so thank you for that all these years resource and training institute thank you so i met him very briefly and we chatted and so his story is amazing he was born in thirty five and detroit and got us ph d in fifty thirty which would have made him twenty eight he's been around the here in seattle there is a growing growing population of eastern european i will call you guys immigrants will call you citizens people and so you move here from your country for whatever reason sometimes because the war sometimes  through so forth and finally came out about africa in egypt so i wanted my kids to have their experience and to see all of the different cultures and to begin to get interested in history and i think the difference is there are all in their fifty's now and they're different and i'm so happy that i had the foresight to take them and tour them around africa so they could  experience should know about african american culture and society the only claim to fame that i have but i was in a position to begin these things and now that we have this generation of young people you have at least the beginning of how this community started you have the beginning of the struggles they will through to get to where you are pretty not everybody will successful but that's ok because at least you know the history you know the history and you know it from your own people in other words i don't i'm just a storyteller they told me  that was a universe that graduated from as an undergraduate and he just received this vision for the purpose of central michigan he received the presidential award so he has gone from not having a of that is part of your history all of that is what we tried to do thank you after i can't believe it was thirty years ago when you said that number i just didn't even want to believe you but so much more has happened since then so we'll introduce some other people to share some of that exciting collaboration between kids be here again i've worked with for size for a number of years and this is a great place and great work is being done at the studios with respect to teaching use stills and media skills and science and computer skills editing skills and addition that's what the pan african technical source and that's what we do are so we teach the youth about science and technology we offer and adduction the science and technology class in los angeles and ethiopia and we want to bring that here too and that's what one thing we're going to work with and what we do in x lass's is that we introduce children to a solar technology so there's a little smart all a car that they learn to put together and learn how to and this photons help to bring energy and make the car move we also learn a little bit back in pewters computer programming which circuit boards and they learn simple programming and they vary in variables technology centers there and maybe the museum here so we want to bring these programs to seattle and want to continue them in los angeles and continue them in the theology and that's where your support comes in you can help us do that you can go t can you know girth and you can give your time you can help us do editing and help us do english type editing to cut the children want to learn that so some of the project that we're going to work on with your help  is helping to bridge the gap between the students in the hope you and the students here in seattle and los angeles the students an ethiopian they need to get the english better need to understand english and be able to be a little bit more proficient in english the students here and seattle and los angeles they may lack a little ethiopian culture in their traditional culture so we want to stablish exchange programs and summer programs where the students from seattle and l a go to been a number of weeks there and helping the students with their anguish and while the students from the states are there the ethiopian students can help them with traditional european culture and being an exposed to that so we're really excited about the opportunities we have and you are here in the seattle area the l a area and various other areas of the world can help us bring these to if you wish and continue our programs because we've been established for a number of years and we're working well but we want to expand and we want to do more and with your help we can do