Benter Akoth was born and lives in Kenya, where education is often seen as an opportunity that is given only to boys. But Benter has wanted to change that ever since she was told in primary school that girls could also be things like doctors, engineers, and architects, if they got educated. Although her own education was cut short, she passed on her conviction that girls should be educated too to her son Enos Magaga. He has taken this ideal and made it his life’s work.

This week Katie Semro fills in as host for Katie Hafner, and talks with Magaga about how his mother taught him to value education for girls and to respect women despite this being completely contrary to what he saw around him.

For more about Magaga's work educating girls in Kenya with Beads for Education visit their website: http://www.beadsforeducation.org/


Artwork by Paula Mangin (@PaulaBallah).
Music composed and performed by Andrea Perry.

Producer: Katie Semro
Executive Producer: Katie Hafner

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