Stumbling across genius...

There is a remarkable story in the history of Mathematics where at the beginning of the last century, a young Indian man by the name of Srinivasa Ramanujan, born into extreme poverty and with very little formal education was 'discovered' to be one of the most significant mathematicians of his generation. Through sheer persistence (and a lot of luck) Ramanjan, who educated himself in mathemathics using an out of date text book, wrote to eminent Mathematicians of the day to convince them of his capability including proofs and postulates of his own in his letters. Eventually the great British Mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy took notice and arranged for Ramanujan to go to to Cambridge college in England and so began an extraordinary collaboration between the two men. Unfortunately the collaboration was short lived. Ramanjuan was of very poor health and died at the age of 33. There is a good link here. This story has always intrigued me. How many geniuses, born into poverty, never get recognised and die anonymous without ever realising their potential? I also have a suspicion that sometimes its the very extreme circumstances and conditions that a person is born into that helps create the genius in the first place. The human mind seems to excel when challenged... I just wish we did not have to reply on poverty to create the challenges in the first place! So the question is will we discover a genius along the way with the Camara project? The answer is that we already have. In the last two weeks, I have met two people (a man and a woman not related) who are truly exceptional. They learn extremely quickly - frighteningly so. They are hungry for knowledge and responsibility. They are passionate and energetic and committed in everything they do. They complete complex tasks effortlessly. I cannot write their names down because since we got internet connectivity into the hub they read this blog! The question is what to do now. What would you do in this instance?