 What if love came with a target or need written for you, then it would have been so easy to find, don't you think? What if love didn't have to be a scavenger hand in a thick forest full of wolves in sheepskin that forget to cover their tails and from a point, you can really tie the wolf in the sheep and wonder, what's the point of the sheepskin when at times? Well, someone preferred the wolf, the kind that just grabs and gets its way. Now, all we do is jump from one frog to the next and realize that no matter how hard we kiss, they don't really turn into princess and princesses and we jump over to the next and I'm left wondering, who is the frog at this point? But what if love worked up to you on a calm morning when the sun shines behind the clouds? Will you be ready to say, I love you back? My name is Vanessa Michebe and I am a kids talents ambassador. I advocate for people to believe in kids talents, for them to get support and to get natural. I've worked with kids as young as two years and I'm still working with some kids I started with two years back and right now they are in high school. Tansarad and faces aside, the trees are gone and the birds are gone, the rivers are dry and the land is ugly, the summer is empty, the summer is empty. No rain, no grain, left a real hustle, no more muscle for the bustle, it is a curse, digging on grave, human life, wildlife, gods displaced, humanity displaced, the green is gone, check away the birds, cut the air supply, disturb the soil, no more soil, just a concrete jungle. No place to toil, heavy living soil, maradi sabon, kebiko sabodies, our holies, our holies, our holies, how we kill life, how we kill us. My background or my career is media and in 2017 I got this call and a passion for children and talents, so basically I started in 2017. I also work with private primary schools and churches, I work with different institutions, as long as there's a child, I'll go for that child. Okay, we've done karate, fashion and design, it's our favorite, we have done spoken word, there is music, there is journalism, there is art and craft, there is acrobat, there is just so much in kids. Mchiwe tu wa matunda tukupenda, wa matunda tukupenda, tuta kulinawe, tuta kutunzawe, uzitiku tukupama tunda, tukupenda mchiwe tu. Let us take care of it, let us hold hands and take care of it, remember umoja ningubu ute gano niu daifu. Thank you. Just commercialize and for them to see that they can actually, they can actually earn from their talents. As a talents ambassador my typical day, I don't have a typical day, anything can happen in my day. I can walk in a school and talk to a school director, I can go to a church and talk to the person in charge. I can be walking down the street and see a kid and I'm like wait, that kid can actually dance or do karate or cut walk. Our contact points are the directors, the school directors. I'm really working close with Kenya Previous School Association, different chapters in different counties. So my contact points mainly are the schools and now after the schools we get in touch with the parents because at the end of the day the parent is the decision maker. And once we've been having a challenge with that, parents still want, we are still in that era of academics. Pitam tihani, pitam tihani. So a kid can really be talented and ataka kufanya, batum zazi kuna vienye. So our program, kuna program tukonayo in itwa talent is not enough. So we are not just teaching on the technicalities of the talents, but we have kids self-development. We are teaching kids about self-awareness, self-acceptance, confidence, building their self esteem. Some other challenges that we may be facing is in Nairobi there is a lot of exposure. Kids have that, they have so many platforms. I mean there are so many events in Nairobi happening. But out there, out of Nairobi it's a hard sale. Going to schools and parents and telling them talent is something. It's a hard sale. So exposure for kids that are not in Nairobi and that is why we are on the lookout for what they can do. We travel all the way we come and give them that chance. I work with trainers in their different talents and I am so specific on the guys I bring on my team because you've got to be a professional. You know you can be a dancer but you're not doing it professionally. You can be a spoken word artist but you're not doing it professionally because at the end of the day you want to brand these kids. So we have trainers for different talents. So it's a music teacher, a sensei, a sensei is the karate master. Karate unategineza haki risa kwa na muria kwa na kwa fiskali fiti and the mind is set. So mini niya kwa nbachu. Chote nbachu tu kwa na fanya. Outu kwa na shida, fiskali fiti na haki risa kwa sawa. These kids tu na taka kwa na chasa sa diwa kwa karategas na wakena nidamu yahali. My favourite thing, my best moment about what I do working with kids is seeing them light up once they are performing. They come, they literally come alive. You will see a child dancing out there. But once that child starts dancing, oh my gosh, it's just amazing. She's seen the children coming alive. It's just one of my favourite moments. Karatega unategineza haki risa kwa na muria kwa na muria. So TAP Kids Africa is under a company, VF Communications. We are on Facebook VF Communications. And if any school director or parent would like to get in touch, I am available on call 0700 823 179. 0700 823 179.