 Welkom back to the east side and the only way to turn up here we can. I'm Mike Itzai. You can find me at Mika underscore Kenya on every social media platform. Before we get into the next interview, just a reminder, LengaOgaidi.co.k is where you can get all the information on how to participate on this year's season three version. And in the morning we were having an interesting discussion and we were asking a question of the day. Do you think compass relationships work? So let me sample just a few of your answers before we get into the second interview. Joseph Sanya. I say ma, nivike wimbo ya J. Siki. J. Siki, do you know J. Siki? Shahidi Wangwi to answer your compass question. Apparently that's where we'll find our answer. Okay, we'll do our research. Umetupati akazi, we will try to do that. But again, a tename kuja kasa ma, the same guy Joseph Sanya and I say ma, please, let's be real. Compass relationships are mirrors of true and false relationships ahead. Others end up in marriage, let's say 30% other 70% are preparation of becoming parents. What do you have to say to that? I have no idea what to say to that. Simeon ogeto anasama, to me I can say it doesn't work because ladies are after money nowadays. Guests will answer that question if that's true or not. Please play una kata by Sudi Boy. We'll do that in just a few minutes. George Wabeth, could you please post the video of that cool guy who's so composed as the rest get robbed. We'll do that. We'll turn the URL on our Facebook page. That's our Y254 channel and the E-Circuit. Litch ma, sanasama, kama kawa, kama dawa, niko present from Kisumu. Thank you for watching. Although from Kisumu we really appreciate the feedback. We really appreciate, you know, the support. This name, I'm not really making it up. I'm not making it up. This is what's his name on Facebook. Fisi mtakatifu. Asama, shu ikawa gwan sana. Thank you for watching the E-Circuit. Muiru ala nasama, campus relationships are all sweet, free and open, and some drowns when one lives for attachments and internships. That's kind of true. Obligations finally sink in and you're like eh, it wasn't really what I thought. KSK and Asama, yes they do. And in addition to that, to the diploma and degree certificates, we also get bad certificates. Huh, okay. You see what he did there? You get another certificate, your certificates. I get what she's saying. Oji impenda wengi. Eh, ui oji napenda wengi. Asama, it matters the guy you are dating. Most of them are after money, maybe you're referring to the girl child again. Play for me ma jabu bainboso. The last one, klemo rei, campus ni ile mouto, gold hu pitiya, kablei kwe gold, ha ha ha ha. So it's preparing you for future. Okay, okay. So our next interview, I have the pleasure of interviewing Mary Mukami and let me call you Bashir so that they know where you're from. So hudaba Bashir, they are organizers of the event Rare Beauty, which will happen on the 23rd of 2020. Yes? And now let's talk about Rare Beauty. What's the event exactly? What is it about? That is said to change the mindset of people of how they view persons with disability, persons with vitiligo, persons with albinism, and persons with dwarfism. So every month we are doing a photo shoot and a video shoot of this person so that we can build confidence. We can help them be able to face the world without feeling enclosed. And we've noticed why we came up with this is because when we go to events, we don't see these particular people in events. Let's say because there are no equipment that will help them facilitate or people will look at them in a weird way. So we want to create events that are specific for them. So this is why we are doing this event which is a runway show and we'll have these people doing the runway. These persons with disability, persons with vitiligo, the people who are going to be on the runway, not the normal, tall and skinny, we have only these people doing the runway. Yes? Let me ask you Suda, when you heard about this fashion show just for people who are able to do it differently, what were your thoughts, your first thoughts? It's something that I've always been interested in and I've always like every time I see like a cut work or a fashion thing, I always ask myself like why is it always the same people that have a specific maybe body type or color or whatever it is. Does that mean I as Suda cannot do such a thing? So when I heard about it it was really excited when Mary approached me and was like we need to do this, we need to make it happen. Nice and so far I see a friendship has come out of it because you guys met at an event. Yes. So how did this pop up, who came up, who was the first one to come up with this idea? Okay, myself, when I went to the event. What was the inspiration? Since I think for me I just had the feel of everyone should be included because when we met at that event it was specifically for persons with disability and when they posed all the challenges that they faced, something sparked in me. Yeah, like oh my god, this is actually something that should be out there. So I approached Suda and that's when we just started thinking about it, how can we manuva, how can we come up with this concept, what can we do, how can we impact the community with such a show, a runway show, yes. Nice. Now between now and April 23rd, is it actually from 20th to 23rd? Yes. April 20th to 23rd of 2020. Other than the you know the photo shoots that you'll be doing every month. What else are you doing to prepare for that show Suda? Well we wanted to have little events where we introduced the models and also see if we can create something that will not just be for that day, you know like can we have other events that will be coming once in a while that will be able to open up the doors for these people. Yes. Nice. You are at the event, that's where you met? Yes. In the first place, even before we continue about Rare Beauty, what was the motivation to go to that event? I think for me it was a UN event, so they always send us invites depending on what they have on board. So for me since I am an event planner, it is sort of my obligation to go to events, meet different people and this is where I get my inspiration when I go to an event, I meet people, I talk to people, I get an event idea and my work is to create events that actually create change and impact the community. So basically that's how I came up with this. And that's how you met Suda? Yes. What about you Suda? I was invited the same thing and the UN guys had called another company that had worked in LVCT health and they had asked if they know someone with disability who will be able to come for the event and actually speak because I was one of the speakers and they are like yeah we know someone so ended up being invited and they mentioned that I was the model at the safari kum, I think you've seen one of the billboards. Yes I have. Yeah so they're like yeah we need help there so that's how I ended up being at the event and I think one thing that we clicked was the fact that I love fashion and I feel like people with disability, like whenever people meet me they're like you're so different like you're not like the rest I'm like what do you mean they're like you dress up you do make up you do all these things so for me with her coming up with the idea was so easy because it's something I actually love because even with the safari kum adverts as I had approached safari kum I work for safari kum and I approached them I'm like why don't we ever have a person with disability on any of the adverts because I mean it doesn't mean like we're always seeing the same thing like I said like why can't we have generic adverts yes just a kawida advert like it doesn't have because all we always see about disability sadness and we need help we need this we need this like why can't it just be a general adverts yeah nice nice now like I said earlier we were having a discussion before the interview my favorite part about rare beauty is the self confidence part so how would you go about this exactly other than the modeling part and photo shoots every month all right so one thing we are doing is we are majoring on videos so these videos are sort of telling a story so we have someone one of our models we take a video of what they like to do let's say we have one who plays basketball so we'll go to the pitch we take a video of her playing basketball then after that she tells a story of her about herself what she likes to do why she likes to do it what kind of challenges she's facing what she'd like different and people to know about her then we'll have towards the event we'll have a whole week of Tara self confidence um like sort of a team building event where we'll call different speakers to come and talk to them to come and train them on how to better themselves how to dress better how to look better how to you know be a better person so basically that's what we're doing yes nice uh with that regard so you said that people always viewed you differently why do you think that is what is it about you exactly if you if you could you know talk about yourself for a minute oh god that's like the hardest thing to do yes it's um i think uh the fact that i'm i'm easy with people and for me i always say even when i see anyone like even my friends i always tell them if you look good if you dress up it gives you a lot of confidence you know so for me i always make sure i dress up and it always gives me a lot of confidence so at the end of it like people like you don't dress this way you you take time to dress up i'm like just because i'm physically challenged does not mean like i shouldn't look good you know and at the same time you know i also go out so whenever people see me they're like okay you in a club like what are you doing in a club you know so for me i want to see more people uh with disability or with albinism like being free being out there because i feel like if we do this when you see someone with disability you're not going to stare at them it will be something regular for you you know but the fact that you'll never see anyone with disability or albinism or whatever in an event even kids who have it or parents who have kids with such disabilities don't know what to do but if we do this if they see sauda if they see someone else like one of our models they'll be like oh there are other people like me and we're having fun and being open and doing the thing exactly so that's what we are trying to bring out yes to to start like that i like that a lot uh so far in terms of you know people who are involved in the event upcoming event in april um how many people so far uh the models yeah we have 10 and we are growing since it's a it's a sort of a movement we want to get as many as possible to actually why do you meet them um i think just in normal basis you just meet someone and you strike a conversation and that's it you basically that's what i can say i hope you're involving the boy child as well sauda is it good to need makeup actually we were thinking about it and we're like um we'd love to involve them in the next one the next one yeah we said let's do the next one because we were really trying to to push it the first time so we were like we need to that's what i was saying it shouldn't we don't want it to be an event just for this year like it should be something that grows an annual thing yes so hopefully maybe even a monthly thing yeah you never know definitely yeah you never know so with uh some of the models um some of them i knew uh from okay people with disability and some of them we uh how do i say it um like one of them who plays basketball so i used to swim so we got to know each other so once you know one person it's kind of easy to find the rest like oh is there someone there's some i work with so it's just working with who is also interested because we don't want to just try to force it on yes force it on on on anyone plus for me as sauda i feel like even if i say i'm a model i need to act apart you get because even the other models are doing the same thing so i don't want someone who i'm going to give you a leeway just because yes i need someone who is serious exactly so yes will that be part of it will that you know like a pre-judging criteria before the judging actually happens on April 20th 2020 like will you see about the people who are serious and try to only put in the people who are putting in work actually uh for the people who are we are already involving they already we already received that so that we are only taking through the people who are very serious through the whole process so that anyone else you will attend the event then learn from that yes nice now April 20th is when rare beauty will happen uh how can someone prepare for that event someone who just wants to come and show up and be part of the audience and celebrate all that will happen on that day all right i'm just so it will be there of course so boy child says let me tell you like uh it it's it's true what you're saying and um that's when we were discussing it with Mary but like okay let's do it this first time and we have to involve the boy child because i feel to be honest like the girl child is everything is about the girl everything is about the girl child you know yeah so we would definitely be involving the boy child now in terms of audience participation all right where can someone get more information about this though okay you can go to our social media pages at um rare beauty movement rare beauty movement yes from facebook to instagram and twitter so every every week we are posting information about the models what we are doing the movement everything so that's what we'll be doing then towards the event you'll see more activities like how to purchase tickets when the where the event will be how the event will take place yes uh uh like you know i know these events are not that easy to organize so is it open can anyone come and try to help out can they get the same information from that page on how to contact you guys yes of course we have our our email addresses our numbers there so if one wants to support on facebook twitter and instagram yes yes rare beauty movement so if anyone wants to support they can always reach us they can call us email us we are very ready to have as much support as possible yes i hope you'll let why to fight for channel will be part of this beautiful thing of course of course of course definitely yes awesome now in terms of your personal lives ever since going into this journey i know it's not happened yet but you you already feel it don't you tell me about the feelings that you're feeling right now in anticipation for this event i'm really really excited and let me tell you it's really it's it's one thing to have an idea but it's a totally different thing when you meet someone who who feels you and knows what to do because i've always wanted to do it but then i'm not a events person and then you meet someone like Mary who's going to maybe to actually make it come true then i honestly like i like i'm excited for it yeah like i really because i want the world to see like i want to see when when i go for a fashion show i don't want to just see maybe like what you used to see yes i want to see part yes i want to see a person in a wheelchair i want to see someone at albinism someone in crutches like i want to see that because that's their reality of life i want to see an advert i want to see you know like when you see an advert like pumpers you want to tell me there's no mother with disability who has a child or a father yes a father changing you know a kid with disability or wherever you get so that's for me that's why i'm excited like if this this comes um yes then it's it's going to you know give hope to a lot of people yeah it's wheelchair i think we are ready i think for me i feel um i have mixed feelings i'm i'm excited about it but i'm very nervous because i i always have apart from being an events plan and that's how i came into being an events planner i like to create change so when i go somewhere and i see something is not going right and people are struggling i feel really bad so i'm in my head i'm like how do i make a difference and making a difference is at least by creating an event that is going to bring people together and be able to make that difference so for me i'm very very pumped i'm very excited i hope that this really goes a long way and creates that change that we are looking into and at the same time i'm very nervous because i don't know how people will react what will come out of it okay yeah but i really hope it's going to be positive speaking as someone who's you know looking in outside looking in i think it will be a success and i think it's a beautiful thing you guys are doing thank you i love the initiative and uh i love that she's always smiling too yeah means you know the positivity yeah even surrounding the preparation for the event is just awesome thank you and uh would you like to send a shout out let's conclude with that all right camera number four is yours all right um okay i think i'd shout out to friends family and everyone out there who is willing to join the movement we are really here with open arms ready to receive you and support you and give you the heads up yeah sound abashir um same i'll shout out to my friends my family i feel like that the like the greatest uh supporters for me and i'll also like to tell people with disability or albinazim or whatever it is um like have faith you know be confident you know like that's who you are there's nothing you can do about it so just do what you have to do and even parents who have such kids don't hide your kids show them off yeah show your kids off because confidence is built at home i am who i am today because of how my family treated me yeah that's a beautiful thing yeah nice nice nice rare beauty movement that's where you can find them on facebook twitter and instagram and also a reminder a question of the day do you think campus relationships work and of course you know you guys can't live without answering the question so do you think it can well i think for me it depends with the type of relationship if your init to be serious definitely it will work but if you're in it to just uh play around or see if or feel that you're in a relationship then it won't work that's the tough one yeah just feel like you're like so that you're not left out exactly i get what you're saying so i feel like it's a hard one i feel at that age is where a lot of experimenting takes place and from what i've seen have been being in campus is uh i noticed like when you encompass you know you're together you're always always together always constantly together like why won't you leave yes until i noticed when i was in campus like immediately one of you goes for internship you know you you you see things differently so at some point i feel like that's when now that it's going to determine if your relationship is going to stick or not whether it was real if it was real or not because you know you're going to see the world totally you're earning money you're meeting new people you're doing all these things so but it can work i i don't know about this generation but yeah this generation though it's a whole different breed so thank you guys so much for coming through and another reminder rare beauty rare beauty movement yes sorry it's okay that's how you can find them on facebook twitter and instagram and also you can answer a question of the day on why to fight for channel and the e-scikit of course you can find me at mika underscore kenya and rajiz the dj on facebook twitter and instagram we'll be back after this