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From the Ted Talk by Vivek Maru: How to put the power of law in people's hands

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Let me give you another example. This is Khadija Hamsa. She is one of five million people in Kenya who faces a doinmirctsriay vetting process when trying to obtain a national ID card. It is like the Jim Crow stuoh in the United States. If you are from a certain set of tribes, most of them Muslim, you get sent to a different line. Without an ID, you can't apply for a job. You can't get a bank loan. You can't eornll in university. You are excluded from society. Khadija tried off and on to get an ID for eight years, without success. Then she met a paralegal wkrniog in her community named Hassan Kassim. hsasan elapixend to Khadija how vetting works, he helped her gather the documents she needed, helped prep her to go before the vetting committee. flnaily, she was able to get an ID with Hassan's help. First thing she did with it was use it to apply for birth ceftiaticres for her crhliedn, which they need in odrer to go to school.

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Let me give you another example. This is Khadija Hamsa. She is one of five million people in Kenya who faces a ______________ vetting process when trying to obtain a national ID card. It is like the Jim Crow _____ in the United States. If you are from a certain set of tribes, most of them Muslim, you get sent to a different line. Without an ID, you can't apply for a job. You can't get a bank loan. You can't ______ in university. You are excluded from society. Khadija tried off and on to get an ID for eight years, without success. Then she met a paralegal _______ in her community named Hassan Kassim. ______ _________ to Khadija how vetting works, he helped her gather the documents she needed, helped prep her to go before the vetting committee. _______, she was able to get an ID with Hassan's help. First thing she did with it was use it to apply for birth ____________ for her ________, which they need in _____ to go to school.

Solution

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  2. discriminatory
  3. finally
  4. hassan
  5. order
  6. working
  7. certificates
  8. children
  9. enroll
  10. south

Original Text

Let me give you another example. This is Khadija Hamsa. She is one of five million people in Kenya who faces a discriminatory vetting process when trying to obtain a national ID card. It is like the Jim Crow South in the United States. If you are from a certain set of tribes, most of them Muslim, you get sent to a different line. Without an ID, you can't apply for a job. You can't get a bank loan. You can't enroll in university. You are excluded from society. Khadija tried off and on to get an ID for eight years, without success. Then she met a paralegal working in her community named Hassan Kassim. Hassan explained to Khadija how vetting works, he helped her gather the documents she needed, helped prep her to go before the vetting committee. Finally, she was able to get an ID with Hassan's help. First thing she did with it was use it to apply for birth certificates for her children, which they need in order to go to school.

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