Dream Chasers

🧿✨May every weapon formed against black women never prosper. May every hand raised against black women fall limp and rot.✨🧿

Whitney❤

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[10/10] actresses » Michaela Coel

To see people laughing or crying or listening, then being inspired to do their own thing? I can’t think of anything better than that.

“Let’s not wait and wonder,” said Charity Ngilu, sitting at an appropriate social distance at the end of a long conference table in her governor’s office in Kitui. “We import everything and produce nothing, despite having all the resources at our disposal.”

Kenya has fewer than 200 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and just one in Kitui County so far. But the county is churning out as many as 30,000 masks a day and selling them to private and public hospitals across the country, which are desperate for them.

Nearly 400 stitchers work in the factory, and 80 percent are women, most of whom never got a formal education. They once made all sorts of uniforms, and even embroidered sets of place mats and napkins, but now all their effort is focused on surgical masks that match the high industry standards for N95 respirators. They were retrained in just a week.

“It was a lot of challenge to bring them from the village to where they are today,” said Mbuvi Mbathi, the factory manager. “But they are all experts now. They could each run their own factory, if you ask me.”

“We had to stop the things we were doing here to support the country,” said one of the workers, Celina Mutiso, 32. “We should always be there for each other. That’s what this disease has taught us. That you cannot exist alone. You need others.”

The factory floor pulsates with the thrum of sewing machines and is littered with piles of the mesh, string and wire that make up the masks. A big whiteboard has the hourly target for each line of workers: 1,250.

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Kardamyli, Greece

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Dubrovnik - Croatia (by Anna Jewels (earthpeek))

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“I’m pretty sure life is going to start sucking around 15 or 16 because that’s when I have to get my first job.  After that everything looks pretty scary.  Adults don’t have an actual life.  You can’t go outside.  You don’t get to hang out with friends very much.  Maybe text a little, but that’s it.  You just wake up, get ready for work, then work, then maybe watch a little TV, then go to bed.  All of it seems depressing.  But apparently everyone has to do it.” (Hong Kong)

— Nelson Mandela

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