 The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic brought about many undesirable effects, but socially and economically. Though education was also affected and teachers among the badly hit, Beti Haiemba, a professional teacher, chose to see the brighter side of things by mobilizing children and building on their talents. My name is Beti Haiemba. I am a teacher at a very nice school, Essekes and Phillips Academy in Gashia. I grew up in western. I think I've been a teacher since I was born, considering I come from a family of teachers. Like everyone around me is a teacher. So I tried to pretend like other people do, but the calling was heavy on me. So I really am a teacher by passion, profession, and all the peace on being a teacher. I've taught for now seven years, going eight, wuki toa mokaya corona ni seven. And it's a good experience dealing with children and just seeing what they can become when they grow up. Though most people say that talent is inborn, it is also made. Mtoto ni mtoto wa watu wote, like if it is a child and they have something to do, then let them do. Ulajiwa kama mtutakona talent, sika mtumkuba, I always say that if you are a child, we say, hey, this girl, she's a talented singer. When you grow up, you're not a talented singer ni mu, you have a responsibility of singing. You see now, if they are talented, right now we always say they are talented. When they grow up, it's always different. When you come up with a thing, when you are a grown up and people accept you, it's different when you start when you are young. Sasawa wa wuki ona talenti mtoto, na unezafanya something about it, it doesn't matter. Just do it. You never know what's going to happen. But this is a child. You don't know tomorrow. They can be something greater. And actually, this is not like they can be something greater. They will be something greater. My name is Lucy. I'm from Benjamin Channel and I have a talent of singing. I learned Ruth Shabeti. She just called me and I showed her my talent and she told me that I have a great talent. So I got into Benjamin Channel and it hasn't been for long but it was from 2020. My name is Imani and I mean, I go to school in Daisy Flower and I am in grade 3. Tisha Beti came and told me about Benjamin Channel and she wanted me to come to Benjamin Channel. For Beti, her biggest focus was on encouraging self-love amongst the children. I want dancers who have them and we have these ones who are dancers at heart. We cannot send them out. Dancers at heart are the best. What do you mean? But I want them to cooperate. I want them to come to me. The way they do fashion show. That's all I can say. Children cannot ignite and stock talent factors on their own. It is there for our responsibility to provide them with the right conditions. We started depend on me but now everybody has their own conditions and we are supposed to do this thing. And remember we didn't even have the cameras that we were supposed to use and all the facilities but now we want to keep the social distance and wear the mask all through unless we want to present. Those who accept we don't have a place to meet. So we had to look for a place. I get a child who is in baby class and they are English. So good in their life. Okay. So this parting was just those days. The parting is not here now. And yes, we started with some tuxas, dancing, fashion critic. We had these children who are saying this one is looking good but now if they had kwa mga kwa miongezahi ununa kumbe umdotata najiwa mambuaya mabazi kuliko venyemi ufkiri penda miwi is a collection of everything. Like everything about children. I have a collection of everything about children. And some other things children have never done. What I've seen our local channels and everywhere I've not seen the same thing. There are some that resemble but now there are some that do not really like. Though she might have encountered a number of challenges beti never gave up. We have financial challenges of which that time we were able to kill them too. Kill them too, see kill them too. We had some people who had money. No, no, not everybody. But for penda memes that was the biggest, hugest, everything. Biggest challenge because if we had to hire like the people who were to come and do the shooting we are supposed to like give them something even though how when you were kujakutu sa idea how I could to charge anything but now we had to facilitate like if they are supposed to have something to eat we had to facilitate their transportation and now we are ata kama niten bukama hauna hauna Ya, so that was another challenge so finances and the kila mutu anahitaji kitu ya ke kila mizazi anahitaji alafu sometimes you shoot a thing mizazi alisema they don't want their children to do when you shoot a thing and the child is not in they are like why didn't you put my child in and you are like but you said you don't want ok, now that you want we are just going to do it but now because ni watototuna like watototuna taka tu unadiwa hiki tuwa ina sa idea ku build confidence so, ya that is the thing also tulguana shidea space but of which ili solviwa na awa vika or by that time but he passed on she came up with a YouTube channel where she uploads all her videos Fendamim channel a channel for children children who love themselves so much like pure love without conditions they love themselves unconditionally like where we depend where we want build our conditions so here I perform vizuri siji ni ki fanya hivi mi sa he ni ki imba kama mi ndo ni kona depend a channel for children who can like do anything and nobody will judge them unadiwa na kumbuka I was once nilkua na fundisha watoto ku ku dance when I was in a church before the churches were closed ena ulku no na ee watoto wame practice kuna watoto wengine wana practice Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday siku zote alafu wana kuja on Saturday vitu zina kum ena wana neskia the refuse mo the body refuses to cooperate alafu kuna wame ni aliku ja tu jana a kashika ku dance aki dance imeweza sasa nilikua na ambi wa iwi na the sosa tu seme the concerned patches okuna ni ambia why would you why would you take this child like uiwa tahadziki tu na wambia umtoto ako dedicated but with the time ulku wana wana shika how when you ulku wana dance na migu yote left like no not left that's the bad thing wale ulku wana dance vene watu hawa taki the iliku wana kubali with the time so ni kusema ok hapando ulku wame sema practice makes perfect ya lakini wana mitu a kuna dedication alafu na mambia you're not going to present because you're not doing it well that's so unfair so with me in my heart and depend on me as a whole and depend on me as a whole we know that every child is talented and it's a YouTube channel that welcomes every idea of a child for them to grow knowing that they are special loved protected everything you see we record our videos after recording our videos we have an editor that is myself I do the editing then we post them on YouTube our YouTube is panda memes it's a very nice YouTube channel and please you can subscribe ya you can subscribe it's a good thing you can even let your child to participate it's so easy you just let your child do something and then you send the video to the number there is a number on the screen on our screen that we always place it there you can send it on WhatsApp number and then we will upload that one of late we've not uploaded anything that was sent but we have uploaded but we have the material that was sent we are going to like now it's so busy subscribe to panda meme channel in her final remarks Betty says the seeds of talent are usually planted early and in the home just encourage your child to be to exercise what they can do best sometimes they have them but they don't know they have them until you encourage them to do them so if you encourage them you realize that they can do even better than what you were thinking about and also subscribe to panda meme channel and watch our videos because they are good they are homely I would like to say to other children that are out there and they do not want to show up their talent they should subscribe panda meme channel and see children singing and they will be inspired by us I believe that children have a lot of talents and some children are also afraid of using their talents but it's good for them to use their talents so many boys me na feel so high ahadi zakeni na zipata kama badio uta pata piga fiesa