An innovative way to support children with special needs | Billy Samuel Mwape

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🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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After his son was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, Billy Samuel Mwape realized that his project management skills might be put to use to support his child’s special needs. In this inspiring, personal talk, he describes how project management -- the process of leading a team’s work to achieve goals on a tight timeline -- can help you tackle life’s biggest challenges.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh. You're listening to TED Talks Daily. So I needed a little inspiration, and today's talk from Billy Samuel Mwap is just what I needed. In his talk at TED at PMI 2020, the Zambian computer scientist shares how he put his tech and project managing skills to work
0:22.3	to help heal his baby's brain and body, all on a tight timeline. Really?
0:30.3	It is the 3rd of March, 2016, and I'm anxiously waiting for my wife to deliver our first phone son.
0:39.4	Second, stand in two minutes, and then hours without a sign of a child coming through.
0:46.6	Then a midwife images with a silent baby in her hands, and she runs past me as though I'm not even there.
0:54.2	Why is he not crying?
0:57.4	I'm gripped with chills in my spine as I run after her in terror.
1:02.9	She puts the baby on the bench and begins a resuscitation procedure.
1:08.9	30 minutes later, she tells me,
1:12.6	don't worry, he will be fine.
1:16.2	And thank you for staying calm.
1:19.5	He was placed in the ICU.
1:22.8	And though I cannot touch him, I repeatedly say,
1:27.0	shine on my son. Don't give up. I am here with you and you
1:33.6	don't have to be scared. Please pull through and let us go home. You do not belong here.
1:41.2	Seven months later, he would be diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
1:45.0	A non-progressive brain injury, which primarily affects body movement and muscle coordination.
1:53.0	About two to three children out of 1,000 in the United States have celebrity palsy.
2:01.6	I do not know the statistics for my country and continent
2:05.6	because there's not much documentation.
2:08.6	Maybe this could be the journey that changes everything.
2:13.6	We named them Lulutu, a beautiful Zambia name from a Lundi tribe of the Bamba-speaking people, meaning light.
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