Anne Wafula Strike Read By Brenna Huckaby

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

4.5 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this episode we learn the incredible story of Anne Wafula Strike. Anne grew up in Kenya where an undiagnosed case of polio left her with limited movement in her arms and legs. After moving to the United Kingdom to get married she was prescribed a wheelchair which changed her life forever. She became a competitive wheelchair racer and competed for both Kenya and England in Paralympic sports. [This episode originally aired November 2020.] About the Narrator Brenna Huckaby is a world champion snowboarder and mom to two Rebel Girls. She competed in the 2018 Paralympic Games in snowboarding where she took home gold medals in two events! Brenna started her sports career as a top gymnast but at age14 years she was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer and had to have her leg amputated above the knee. After recovering she discovered a passion for the snowboarding and the rest is history! Credits This podcast is a production of Rebel Girls and Boom Integrated, a division of John Marshall Media. It’s based on the book series Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. Our Executive Producers are Jes Wolfe and Katie Sprenger. This season was produced by John Marshall Cheary, Sarah Storm, and Robin Lai. Corinne Peterson is our Production Manager. This episode was written by Jestine Ware and edited by Katie Sprenger. Proofread by Ariana Rosas. Elettra Bargiacchi created sound design, and composed and performed the original theme. Mattia Marcelli was the sound mixer.

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0:00.0	Once there was a girl who would one day race her way to victory, using her arms, a set of wheels, an iron-willed determination. Her name is Anne. When Anne was born in
0:19.5	1969 in Kenya, her grandmother called her a blessing on us all.
0:27.0	And Anne's parents agreed.
0:29.0	Anne would run around, tumbling and playing just like the other kids.
0:35.0	But one day, something happened.
0:40.0	Her body stopped working the way it used to.
0:44.0	First, she couldn't walk, then talk.
0:49.0	And after a time, she couldn't move her whole body from the neck down.
0:55.0	Local healers examined Anne in her five-room mud hut
1:00.0	her family called home.
1:02.0	They looked for snake bites, but didn't find any.
1:06.0	They gave her natural medicine and whispered healing prayers.
1:11.0	In other families, there may have been despair, but Anne's dad George was
1:17.2	convinced that his child was strong and would do great things and he was absolutely right. And he was absolutely right.
1:25.0	I'm Brenna Huckapy and this is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, a fairy tale
1:38.1	podcast about the rebel women who inspire us. In this episode, Anne Waffula Strike.
1:48.8	Some time after that scary day, Anne started to regain feeling in her arms. But she was still
1:56.2	paralyzed from the waist down and the reason her body had gone through this big
2:00.9	change was still a mystery. In her village people whispered cruel
2:06.8	things that she was cursed and would make other children sick. Her mother Ruth begged the neighbors to stop saying these
2:15.8	hurtful things, but there was no stopping the rumors. Finally, looking for peace, the family moved to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.
2:27.0	And it was there that the mystery of what happened to Anne was uncovered.
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