of washington i'm part of college access now and you die making connection they help me with my college essays and help me get through high school and the and a member of him r t i which is located on the ne third and jackson we get to do a lot of fun activities and interview people and learn something new my fairest segment was the we dance programming and it's the program that allows you to capture cultural dance movement and it converted to a programming and make it into a game so others can play or we continue to do more fun activities like and in the future we're hoping to do captured it up and festival everybody is welcome and join us for more fun during the summer and contact mr sorry if you're interested cultural fair our goal at seattle world school is to bring all the cultures into the community so we're going to have a big cultural fair sort of like the folklife festival of seattle but first the outer world school where we're going to have arts and crafts and music food to celebrate all the cultures that we have in our school our number one reason was to figure out a way to get all of our community parents and the community to come to the school and just celebrate who we are but the second reason was th on a recently graduated with a b a in journalism from seattle university i have recently had the privilege and honor to watch firsthand the work of m r t i and if you use media throughout the community these programs are giving kids the opportunity to find their voices and use them to benefit the community and we would really appreciate your support and sponsorship to keep programs like these a lot if you'd like to make a donation please go to w w w dot  live my name is eleanor angelica's i am seattle professional as well as a volunteer for ethiopia reads i am delighted to come talk to you today about the beauty and connections that come through media and through collaboration through different organizations that may have different goals and different vehicles but work together to accomplish a common goal one of those is the multimedia resource and training institute that we have here in seattle which allows ethiopian  to connect through media both from seattle to back in ethiopia one of the things that allowed us to be hugely successful at our first ever fundraiser for ethiopia reads was the support of this training institute to both capture the vent as it unfolded to allow volunteers that couldn't attend or supporters who couldn't attend what the event was all about the beauty of media is it allows people who may not be able to travel or may not have a view into the world that accessible to them from where they are to see and to learn and to connect to individuals that may live across the globe that may have a completely different experience than they have i am the mother of a little girl who was born in ethiopia one of the things i wanted to give her was a connection to her home country and a connection to her culture part of the reason i started volunteering for is i had read about their organization and i had understood what they were trying to do which was allow children in her home country to have the same access to education and books and dreams that they could have that she would have here in the u s and as i worked with this organization part of the power of media allowed me to meet artists and writers and to learn about the ethiopian youth media here in seattle and what they were doing and the power of all the different forms of media that connect us and that allow us to become truly global community is astounding and it's available to all that this is an area where people come and can share their message and their message because of the beauty of you tube and the internet can be available you know here in seattle in washington d c you know in europe where my years we have about twenty two guys participating in this game we we had a lot of weekend to meetings there's a lot of practices and we came up with so many plans unfortunately we didn't come up come up short this time but we have another game coming up so hopefully on the next game it may look better but so far it's good and when you mean by it would take someone say take some time to do better like how many days in a week do that do they practice here usually you usually have practice on saturdays and then the and then there's a there's a station that we do like one of the weekdays like for example on when stace in the evening we do sound physical practice running but mostly we make games on saturday morning we invite so many teams sometimes so that's how we do it ok but why is saturday morning the best time  i think most of the guys that we practice are all from school that off from work so it made it convenient for us like to practice like ten am in the morning if the way that permits of course sno and spreading out the news so we have appreciate that since i've been a us for over twenty years now so is there anything else you'd like to say well i really want to say this like i said i like what i see i'm hoping that you guys keep it up and down and i'll like to get more involvement in whatever process you get have so going to be able to help any time it is good they keep to keep the cultures going it's very good because american society is a society where you can really actually lose touch of your culture ok and i really love this i'm hoping that all it brought a country now from africa can you know put something to get to like this i know about the time as a guest do travel quite a bit all over the country playing soccer that is stats could i say that's a good thing ok anything that we can do to encourage the community coming together and working to get out of the group is is very good thank you is there anything else you'd like to say i like said thanks for coming here and i'm having a good time and i'm hoping this program will get better and bigger and bigger and include children and and grown ups and everybody so i'll be happy to be here work you're doing so what do you so what are your expectations of the soccer i what i really am interested in the already i'm very delighted to see all these young people very excited taking potshots even own not a rainy day like this it's quite a big turnout and good competition and very good positive spirit so i'm very delighted about any final thoughts together a lot of them but samini and only other ones that are here we still remember the ones water not with us now but we remember their legacy and we all want to try ou young people so they can take over and lead and this is very nice i'm so delighted thank you for giving me the chance to say yes it's my pleasure interview june twenty