
Helen Ogbu
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Sep 9, 2026
Voices for Equal Futures Podcast 1 - Sophia Saetes and Councillor Helen Ogbu
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Helen OgbuGUEST
Well, my, my, my PhD is all around, uh, the first time I started, I thought about the PhD, it was all around, um, identity crisis.

Helen OgbuGUEST
I call myself a young person because somehow I can connect with young people a lot, and maybe that's because I, I'm a parent, and I'm also a foster mother, so that actually gives me that extra skills.
Helen Ogbu : Community is everything
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Helen OgbuGUEST
Actually, the first word I heard from him, a lot of first words that I heard from him while he was taking us on grinds, you know, we, we used to call it, um, kind of homework, helping us with our homework, but in Ireland, I just, the grinds is what people use.

Helen OgbuGUEST
And, um, he made sure that our education was really important, so he made sure that we did well in school.

Helen OgbuGUEST
And I remember in my primary school, we used to call it composition, like, "What would you like to be in future?" You know? And, like, people would say lawyer, doctors, nurse, teachers.

Helen OgbuGUEST
But I said, "I wanna be an ambassador." And my dad was like, "An ambassador? There's no...

Helen OgbuGUEST
You don't study ambassador [laughs] in school." I said, "But that's what I wanna be." And he said, yeah, because I'd heard that word from him several times.
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Helen OgbuGUEST
And I remember just washing the car he was killed in, because I told them, I said, "Nobody should touch it." I've never said this to anybody, but ...
