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From the Ted Talk by Ory Okolloh: How I became an activist

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One is because I'm pretty aggressive, and I try and find, you know, oouirppettins. But there is such a need, you know? I'm a corporate lawyer most of the time for an organization called Enablis that supports entrepreneurs in sotuh Africa. We're now moving into East Africa. And we give them business development services, as well as fancining loan and equity. I've also set up a project in Kenya, and what we do is we track the performance of Kenyan MPs. My partner, M, who's a tech guru, hekcad wporersds. It costs us, like, 20 dollars a month just for hoitsng. Everything else on there is a labor of love. We've manually entered all the data there. And you can get profiles of each MP, questions they've asked in parliament. We have a comment fcuntoin, where plepoe can ask their MPs qnstuoeis. There are some MPs who participate, and come back and ask.

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One is because I'm pretty aggressive, and I try and find, you know, _____________. But there is such a need, you know? I'm a corporate lawyer most of the time for an organization called Enablis that supports entrepreneurs in _____ Africa. We're now moving into East Africa. And we give them business development services, as well as _________ loan and equity. I've also set up a project in Kenya, and what we do is we track the performance of Kenyan MPs. My partner, M, who's a tech guru, ______ _________. It costs us, like, 20 dollars a month just for _______. Everything else on there is a labor of love. We've manually entered all the data there. And you can get profiles of each MP, questions they've asked in parliament. We have a comment ________, where ______ can ask their MPs _________. There are some MPs who participate, and come back and ask.

Solution


  1. questions
  2. people
  3. opportunities
  4. hacked
  5. financing
  6. south
  7. hosting
  8. wordpress
  9. function

Original Text


One is because I'm pretty aggressive, and I try and find, you know, opportunities. But there is such a need, you know? I'm a corporate lawyer most of the time for an organization called Enablis that supports entrepreneurs in South Africa. We're now moving into East Africa. And we give them business development services, as well as financing loan and equity. I've also set up a project in Kenya, and what we do is we track the performance of Kenyan MPs. My partner, M, who's a tech guru, hacked WordPress. It costs us, like, 20 dollars a month just for hosting. Everything else on there is a labor of love. We've manually entered all the data there. And you can get profiles of each MP, questions they've asked in parliament. We have a comment function, where people can ask their MPs questions. There are some MPs who participate, and come back and ask.

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