The early morning air in Nairobi was crisp and buzzing with energy.
Ethan stepped out of the shuttle and onto the red soil of a refugee innovation hub, one of the first stops on his year-long sabbatical. At just seventeen, most kids were figuring out who they wanted to be.
Ethan?
He was building opportunities for people who didn’t even know his name, and that was exactly how he liked it.
As he walked toward the learning pavilion, rows of young students looked up from their screens. Some were coding. Others design clean water solutions. Most were interacting with a custom interface he and his team had created: Sprout Light, a low-bandwidth, solar-powered platform that taught innovation through storytelling.
A little girl ran up to him, grinning. “Are you the one who made the machine ta
