Find Me personally Unafraid tells the unusual love story between two unusual people whose cooperation sparked an effective movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the metropolitan poor. Having a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof.

This is the story of two teenagers from very different worlds: Kennedy Odede from Kibera, the biggest slum in Africa, and Jessica Posner from Denver, Colorado. Kennedy foraged for food, lived on the road, and taught himself to read with old papers. When about Discover Me Unafraid: Like, Loss, and Hope within an African Slum an American volunteer provided him the task of Mandela, Garvey, and King, teenaged Kennedy made the decision he would change his life and his community. He bought a soccer ball and started a youngsters empowerment group he known as Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). Then in 2007, Wesleyan undergraduate Jessica Posner spent a semester abroad in Kenya working with SHOFCO. Breaking all convention, she decided to live in Kibera with Kennedy, plus they fell in love.Their connection persisted, and Jessica helped Kennedy to flee political violence and fulfill his lifelong imagine an education, at Wesleyan University.

The alchemy of their remarkable union has drawn the support of community associates and celebrities alike-The Clintons, Mia Farrow, and Nicholas Kristof are among their fans-and their work has changed the lives of several of Kibera’s most vulnerable population: its girls. Jess and Kennedy founded Kibera’s 1st tuition-free school for girls, a large, shiny blue building, which stands like a bastion of hope in what once felt such as a hopeless place. But Jessica and Kennedy are just getting started-they have expanded their model to connect essential providers like healthcare, clean water, and financial empowerment programs. They’ve opened the same project in Mathare, Kenya’s second largest slum, and plan to expand their extremely successful plan for change.

Ultimately this is a love story about a fight against poverty and hopelessness, the transformation made possible simply by a genuine love, and the energy of teenagers to have a deep effect on the world.