Stranger #69

Meet Adesanya.

"My name is out of the yoruba culture from Nigeria. I'm 50 years old and I'm a graduate student at the University of Penn. I've traveled all over the world with a non-profit organization for international community development, that's what my first masters degree was in. I spent my first 20 years as an accountant and then went back to school for the social work/community development degree. My second masters that I'm currently working on is executive coaching and organizational consultant. When I worked for the non-profit, they had offices in 24 countries, and I've traveled to at least 10 of them. I've been to Vietnam, Bangkok, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, and DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo). I would buy jewelery when I traveled, and the South African village women who had HIV Aids would sit all day, and bead in order to buy their medicine. They would come to the city, and sell their handmade jewelry to tourists, because they made more than they would selling to tourists than to people of their own culture. I bought the jewelery while I was there for $25.00 and would bring them home and easily sold the pieces for $50.00. I sent the difference ($25.00) back in a check to the village to help them. The women were so happy!" - Adesanya