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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.31,0:00:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(the aid worker\Npernille ironside)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.49,0:00:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.62,0:00:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Anderson Cooper] Thanks. You have the coolest name, by the way, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.60,0:00:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Pernille Ironside] So one of the groups you just mentioned earlier on, the CNDP [Congrès national pour la défense du peuple],
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.52,0:00:30.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was part of a humanitarian group that met with him and its commanders for the first time in 2007,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.25,0:00:32.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to negotiate the release of children.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.70,0:00:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, is that somebody I want to be friends with? Absolutely not.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.71,0:00:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's a necessary part of our work in order to achieve results, and we did.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.60,0:00:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took several days in the bush with him and his thousand armed men
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.97,0:00:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were extremely aggressive, confrontational,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.68,0:00:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet, we managed to make progress during that time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.88,0:01:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and eventually released, at that moment, about 150 children.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.88,0:01:10.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Cooper] And kids can be saved, they can be brought back and the work could be done? [Applause]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.21,0:01:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Ironside] Absolutely. Absolutely: kids - it's not about saving per se,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.76,0:01:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's about restoring their rights and and their rights to be children in the most incredible environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.04,0:01:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.98,0:01:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Ironside] You know, they all have, like any of our children here, they all have hopes and dreams
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.39,0:01:43.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they have the capacity to overcome the violence that they have been exposed to and forced to commit.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.19,0:01:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've seen children make that transformation through the programs
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.04,0:01:50.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I've helped deliver with my colleagues.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.14,0:01:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'd really like to emphasize that it's those colleagues who are, day in, day out,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:02:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Congolese and other national workers, who are really the unsung heroes. [Applause]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.98,0:02:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(I Was Here - World Humanitarian Day August 19 - whd-iwashere.org)