"I WENT THROUGH ALOT FOR ME TO STILL GO THROUGH ALOT".

'My crowd is more over here than in Nigeria, I hold the  ground in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. I recently performed on the same stage with Busta Rhymes and some other Artists'.

Elvis Patrick is a Nigerian afrobeat artist, Known professionally as Eldvee. 

Elvis is from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, Delta state precisely. But he was born and raised in Port Harcourt city where he had is Nursery, primary and secondary school education. Elvis also attended the University of Port Harcourt from 2004 to 2008 and obtained a bachelors degree in physics education .

According to Elvis, he has been in the music industry for over twenty years, and he can proudly say that he is one of afrobeat first generation musician. Elvis moved from Nigeria to the United States of America because he was been persecuted for his political ideology, he came to America also to pursue his musical dream.

 Elvis took us through his journey into music from the street of Port Harcourt to the street of New York. He was recently discovered by a music racord label in America and he is in the process of  signing a contract with the record label.

OUr STORY FROM DIASPORA, SHARING THE STORIES OF BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN

 

DON'T REJECT ANY JOB THAT COME YOUR WAY WHEN STARTING OUT, IT'S A WAY OF EXPERIENCING THE OTHER PART OF LIFE WHICH IS ALSO ESSENTIAL....

Mrs Chika Duruaku was born and raised in Imo State Nigeria, she moved to the United States of America five years ago to pursue her teaching career. 

Mrs. Duruaku has a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a Master degree in Educational Psychology.  She is a 10th grade chemistry teacher in a Charter School in Harlem New York. Mrs. Duruaku shared her story on how she started out in New York as a sales person in a retail store and progresses from there to pursue her teaching career.

 

 

 I DON'T KNOW WHY I BECAME A NURSE

I Was Almost Hit By a Bullet, I Still have the shell, I Saw Life And Death.

    Igwe-Nworji Umunna Brethren is from Ebonyi state Nigeria, he graduated from Ebonyi state University, where he obtained a bachelors degree in public health  Nursing. He is the founder of Unite the Dream, a pet project he started to help young people in his community to achieve their dreams.

Brethren worked as a humanitarian community health care worker in the Northern part of Nigeria before relocating to the United Kingdom to pursue is career as an Emergency Nurse. 

Brethren shared that growing up was not easy for him, but just like every young Nigerian who are determine to succeed in life; he worked hard to see himself through school and to achieve his goals in life. He said that he made a lot of crazy decisions in life like moving to the Northern part of Nigeria to serve his country. Brethren said that because of his love for humanity, not considering the security challenges in the North East, he took the risk to remain in the North and to take up a job to serve as medical health aid at the internal displacement camp for the villagers in the North who had flee their homes due to the Boko Haram terrorist group insurgency in that part of the country. His decision to move to the North was influenced by the stories shared by some Doctors and Nurses in NYSC camp on how women and children were suffering and dying of sickness  and starvation  in the internal displacement camp and there are no medical aid and support system even as they struggle to survive from the bomb blast by the terrorist group. He also shared his experience while serving the people, how he strives to stay alive and how he narrowly escape death, when he was almost hit by a bullet when traveling with soldiers to provide medical aid to the villagers. 

 

When asked about what inspired him to become a Nurse, Brethren said that he does not know why he became a Nurse, his desire was actually to become an Engineer. His Father wanted him to become a Doctor but he said no because he does not want to fail. But along the line he began to understand why he became a Nurse because he was  part of a system that fought for some changes for Nurses in his community.

Brethren lamented about the poor conditions of the  health care system in Nigeria and gave reasons why so many health care workers are leaving the country to pursue their dreams elsewhere. He said that he left Nigeria to pursue his Nursing career in the UK because the system is not changing and no one is benefiting from it, and also he needed to create a better life for his children.

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"I HAD TIMES WHEN  I WAS ALREADY  IN THE MIDDLE OF MY CAREER, AND IN A POSITION WHERE IT WAS RESPECTABLE AND OF A LEVEL THAT DEMAND OTHERS TO PROVIDE ME RESPECT; BUT I GOT CONFUSED FOR THE PERSON WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO SERVE COFFEE". 

 

'PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT IF YOU ARE HISPANIC YOU ARE A MAID OR IF YOU ARE AFRICAN, YOU ARE HOME HEALTH AID. THEY PLACE YOU IN THIS LITTLE BOXES THAT ARE NOT TRUE'.

Elbia Cabral was born in Dominican Republic, and currently lives in  United States of American.  Elbia has a BA in in Emergency Management and public Administration from the Metropolitan College of New York, she is currently pursuing a Master degree in Public Administration in the same College.

She has eight years experience working with the homeless and special needs population in the areas of housing, re-housing and homeless prevention.

Elbia currently works at the Mayor's office of public engagement, she is the youngest Program Director in her organization.  where she is responsible for the coordination and implementation of a publicly aide housing problem to assist New Yokers with long-term stable housing.

in the video above, Elbia shares her  story with our story from diaspora on why she left  Dominican

Republic to settle in New York and all she has achieved for herself.