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Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.95,0:00:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a group of people in Kenya,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.10,0:00:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people cross oceans to go see them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.87,0:00:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people are tall, they jump high,\Nthey wear red and they kill lions.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.48,0:00:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might be wondering,\Nwho are those people? \N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.32,0:00:41.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the Maasais.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.29,0:00:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what's cool?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.20,0:00:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm actually one of them.\N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.32,0:00:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Maasais, the boys are brought up\Nto be warriors, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.38,0:00:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the girls are brought up to be mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.13,0:01:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was five years old,\NI found out that I was engaged,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.18,0:01:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be married as soon as I reach puberty.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.07,0:01:05.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother, my grandmother, my aunties,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.85,0:01:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they constantly reminded me \Nthat, "Your husband just passed by."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.31,0:01:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)\NCool, yeah?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.17,0:01:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everything I had to do from that moment
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.25,0:01:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to prepare me to be \Na perfect woman at the age of 12.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.76,0:01:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My day started at five in the morning,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.29,0:01:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,milking the cows, sweeping the house,\Ncooking for my siblings,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.40,0:01:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collecting water, fire wood.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.97,0:01:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did everything that I needed to do,\Nto become a perfect wife
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.86,0:01:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to school not because\Nthe Maasai women all go to school.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.84,0:01:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's because my mother \Nwas denied an eduction
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.31,0:01:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she constantly reminded\Nme and my siblings that,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.74,0:01:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she never wanted us \Nto live the life she was living.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.91,0:02:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why did she say that?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.88,0:02:05.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father worked \Nas a policemen in the city,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.77,0:02:11.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he came home once a year, we didn't see him\Nfor sometimes even 2 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.39,0:02:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And whenever he came home, \Nit was a different case.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.93,0:02:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother worked hard in the farm \Nto grow crop so that we can eat,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.04,0:02:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she read the cows and the goats \Nso that she can care for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.14,0:02:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when my father came,\Nhe would sell the cows,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.80,0:02:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he would sell the products we had
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.10,0:02:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he went and drank \Nwith his friends in the bars.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.42,0:02:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Becasue my mother a women, \Nshe was not allowed to own any property
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.91,0:02:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by default everything in my family,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.83,0:02:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anyway, belonged to my father\Nso he had the right.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.41,0:02:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if my mother ever questioned him, \Nhe'd beat her, abused her
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.80,0:02:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and really, it was difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.24,0:02:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I went to school, I had a dream, \NI wanted to become a teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.42,0:03:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Teachers looked nice, they wear \Nnice dresses, high-heeled shoes --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.51,0:03:04.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found later that they were \Nuncomfortable, but I admired it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.66,0:03:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.79,0:03:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most of all, the teacher \Nwas just writing on the board --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.09,0:03:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not hard work, that's what I thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.51,0:03:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compared to what I was doing at the farm, \Nso I wanted to become a teacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.66,0:03:23.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I worked hard in school, \Nbut when I was an eight grader,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.63,0:03:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a determining factor.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.76,0:03:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In our tradition, there's a ceremony that girls\Nhave to undergo to become a woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.84,0:03:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's a right of passage to womanhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.03,0:03:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I was just finishing my eight grade \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.15,0:03:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was a transition \Nfor me to go to higschool,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.62,0:03:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this was the crossroad.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.38,0:03:46.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once I go through this tradtion \NI was going to become a wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.89,0:03:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, my dream of becoming a teacher \Nwill not come to pass.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.12,0:03:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I had to come up with a plan \Nto figure these things out.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.33,0:04:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I talked to my father, I did something\Nthat most girls have never done.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.26,0:04:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told my father, I will only go through this \Nceremony if you'l let me go back to school.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.25,0:04:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason why, if I ran away, my father will \Nhave a stigma, people will be calling him,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.18,0:04:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The father of that girl who \Ndidn't go through the ceremony."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.18,0:04:19.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a shameful thing for him \Nto carry the rest of his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.33,0:04:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he figured out - well, he said,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.43,0:04:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"OK, you'll go to school\Nafter the ceremony."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.41,0:04:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did. The ceremony happenned,\Nit's a whole week long of excitments.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.64,0:04:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a ceremony, people are enjoying.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.87,0:04:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the day before \Nthe actual ceremony happens,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.79,0:04:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were dancing, having exceitments
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.74,0:04:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and through all the night,\Nwe did not sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.23,0:04:46.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The actual day came \Nand we walked out of the house
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.45,0:04:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we were dancing,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.86,0:04:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we danced and danced \Nand we walked out of the courtyard
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.75,0:04:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there were a bunch of people waiting, \Nthey were all in a circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.74,0:04:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as we dance and dance, \Nand we approach this circle of women -
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.86,0:05:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,men, women, children everybody was there.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.42,0:05:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a women\Nsitting in the middle of it
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.31,0:05:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this women was waiting to hold us,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.87,0:05:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was the first, there were my sisters\Nand a couple of other girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.79,0:05:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I approach her, she looked at me \Nand I sat down and I opened my legs.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.20,0:05:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I opened my leg, another women came, \Nand this women was carrying a knife.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.43,0:05:34.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she carried the knife\Nshe walked towards me,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.09,0:05:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she held my clitoris,\Nand she cut it off.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.84,0:05:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you can imagine, I bled. I bled.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.48,0:05:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After bleeding for a while, \NI fainted there after.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.40,0:05:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's something that so many girls -\NI'm lucky I never died, but many die.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.62,0:05:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's practice with no anaesthesia, \Nit's a rusty old knife
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.82,0:06:03.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.82,0:06:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was lucky because my mom\Ndid something that most women don't do
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.43,0:06:12.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three days later, \Nafter everybody has left the home
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.27,0:06:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my mom went and brought a nurse.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.24,0:06:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were taken care of,\Nthree weeks later I was healed
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.56,0:06:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was back in high school.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.62,0:06:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was so determined to be a teacher now
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.19,0:06:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that I can make a difference\Nin my family.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.96,0:06:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, while I was in high school, \Nsomething happened,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.55,0:06:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met another young gentlemen\Nfrom our village
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.96,0:06:37.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had been to the university of Oregon.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.51,0:06:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This man was wearing \Na white T-shirt, jeans, a camera,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.59,0:06:46.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white sneakers -\Nand I'm talking about white sneakers.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.21,0:06:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something about clothes I think\Nand shoes. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.44,0:06:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this was in a village \Nthat didn't even have paved roads,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.47,0:06:58.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was quite attractive.\N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.33,0:07:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him, "I want to go\Nto where you are,"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.96,0:07:06.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this man looked very happy\Nand I admired that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.89,0:07:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.13,0:07:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, what do you mean you want to go, \Ndon't you have a husband waiting for you?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.76,0:07:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I told him,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.31,0:07:18.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Don't worry about that part,\Njust tell me how to get there."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.39,0:07:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This gentlemen, he helped me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.20,0:07:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I was in school also, \Nmy dad was sick, he got a stroke -
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.24,0:07:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was really sick so he really \Ncouldn't tell me what to do next.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.52,0:07:34.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the problem is my father \Nis not the only father I have.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.28,0:07:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody who is my dad's age, male, \Nin the community, is my father by default.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.26,0:07:44.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My uncles, all of them,\Nthey dictate what my future is.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.37,0:07:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the news came, \Nand I applied to school \N
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.63,0:07:51.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was accepted to Randolph-Macon \NWoman's College, In Lynchburg, Virginia
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.57,0:07:55.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I couldn't come \Nwithout the support of the village
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.05,0:07:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I needed to raise money\Nto buy the air ticket.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.66,0:08:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got a scholarship,\Nbut I needed to get myself here.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.99,0:08:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I needed the support of the village
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.58,0:08:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and here again, \Nwhen the men, the people heard \N
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.90,0:08:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a women had gotten \Nan opportunity to go to school
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.93,0:08:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they said, "What a lost opportunity,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.25,0:08:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this should have been given to a boy \Nwe can't do this."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.88,0:08:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went back, \Nand I had to go back to the tradition.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.79,0:08:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a belief among our people \Nthat morning brings good news.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.94,0:08:29.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I had I to come up with something\Nto do with the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.65,0:08:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's good news in the morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.58,0:08:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the village also there's one chief \Nor person, male, an elder
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.91,0:08:41.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if he says "Yes,"everybody\Nwill follow him.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.35,0:08:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went to him, very early\Nin the morning, as the sun had rised,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.16,0:08:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first thing that he sees \Nwhen he opens his door is me.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.12,0:08:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My child, what are you doing here?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.36,0:08:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well Dad, I need help, can you support me\Nto go to America?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.70,0:08:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I promised him that I'll be the best girl,\NI will come back
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.47,0:09:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything they wanted after that, \NI will do it for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.64,0:09:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "Well, but I can't do it alone."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.60,0:09:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gave me a list of other 15 men \Nthat I went, 16 more men.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.64,0:09:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every single morning\NI went and visited them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.94,0:09:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all came together - the village, \Nthe women, the men.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.42,0:09:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody came together to support me\Nto come, to get an education.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.08,0:09:25.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I arrived in America, \Nas you can imagine, what did I find?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.77,0:09:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)\NI found snow,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.96,0:09:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found Walmart,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.69,0:09:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vacuum cleaners \Nand lots of food in the cafeteria.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.31,0:09:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in a land of plenty.\NI enjoyed myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.93,0:09:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but during that moment while I was here, \NI discovered a lot of things
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.23,0:09:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned that, that ceremony that I went \Nthrough when I was 13 years old
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.52,0:09:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was called female genital mutilation.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.79,0:09:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned that it was against the law\Nin Kenya,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.28,0:10:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned that, I did not have to trade\Npart of my body
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.06,0:10:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get and eduction, I had a right!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.16,0:10:11.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as we speak right now,\Nthree million girls in Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.41,0:10:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are at risk of undergoing through\Nthis mutilation.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.68,0:10:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned that my mom\Nhad a right to own property,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.14,0:10:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned that did not have to abused \Nbecause she was a women.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.73,0:10:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those things made me angry.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.86,0:10:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to do something.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.86,0:10:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every time I went back, I found \Nthat my neighbours' girls
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.87,0:10:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were getting married,\Nthey were getting mutilated.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.53,0:10:42.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after I graduated from here,\NI worked at the UN, I went back to school
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.07,0:10:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get my graduate work, the constant cry \Nof these girls was on my face.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.74,0:10:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to do something.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.36,0:10:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I went back, I started\Ntalking to the men,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.08,0:10:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the village, and mothers and I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.00,0:10:57.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I want to give back\Nthe way I had promised you
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.23,0:10:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I would come back and help you.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.01,0:11:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you need?"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.04,0:11:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I spoke to the women, they told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.02,0:11:04.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You know what we need?\NWe really need a school for girls."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.85,0:11:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because there had not been\Nany schools for girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.23,0:11:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the reason they wanted\Nthe school for girls
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.50,0:11:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because when a girl is raped \Nwhen she's walking to school
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.38,0:11:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mother is blamed for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.97,0:11:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If she got pregnant \Nbefore she got married,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.85,0:11:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mother is blamed for that \Nand she's punished, she's beaten.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.50,0:11:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said, "We wanted to put our girls\Nin a safe place."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.30,0:11:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we moved, \Nand I went to talk to the fathers,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.96,0:11:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he fathers of course, \Nyou can imagine what they said,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.56,0:11:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We want a school for boys."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.94,0:11:36.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said, well, there are a couple\Nof many men from my village
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.89,0:11:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had been out\Nand they've got an education
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.32,0:11:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why can't they build a school for boys \Nand I'll build a school for girls?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.58,0:11:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That made sens and they agreed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.76,0:11:51.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I told them, I wanted them to show me \Na sign of commitment
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.86,0:11:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they did.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.19,0:11:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They donated land where we build\Nthe girls' school, we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.86,0:12:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to meet \None of the girls in that school.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.93,0:12:03.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Angelene came to apply for the school
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.69,0:12:07.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she did not meet \Nany criterias that we had.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.13,0:12:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's an orphan, yes. \NWe could have taken her for that,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.15,0:12:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she was 12 years old\Nand we were taking in girls
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.57,0:12:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were in the fourth grade.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.02,0:12:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody were telling us Angelene \Nhad been moving from one place, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.25,0:12:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because she's an orphan,\Nshe has no mother, she has no father,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.25,0:12:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moving from one grandmother's house\Nto another one
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.78,0:12:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from aunties to aunties, \Nshe had no stability in her life.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.61,0:12:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And people said, and I looked at her\NI remembered that day,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.84,0:12:35.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw something beyond \Nwhat I was seeing in Angelene
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.69,0:12:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yes she was older \Nto be in fourth grade, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.36,0:12:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we gave her the opportunity\Nto come the class.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.22,0:12:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five months later, there is Angelene.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.38,0:12:47.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A transformation had begun in her life
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.15,0:12:50.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Angelene wants to be a pilot\Nso she can fly around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.69,0:12:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and [make] a difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.18,0:12:54.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was not the top student \Nwhen we took her,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.69,0:12:57.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now she's the best student\Nnot just in our school, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.28,0:13:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the entire division that we are in.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.14,0:13:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's showing different, that's Sharon, \Nthat's five years later,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.22,0:13:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's Avaleen, five months later, \Nthat's the difference that we are making
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.87,0:13:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a new dawn is happening in my school
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.98,0:13:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A new beginning is happening,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.46,0:13:21.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we speak right now \N125 girls will never be mutilated.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.47,0:13:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,125 girls will not be married\Nwhen they are 12 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.69,0:13:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,125 girls are creating \Nand achieving their dreams.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.53,0:13:34.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the thing that we are doing -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.71,0:13:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,giving them opportunities\Nso they can rise.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.09,0:13:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we speak right now, \Nwomen are not being beaten\N
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.14,0:13:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the revolutions \Nwe've started in our community.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.18,0:13:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.75,0:13:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to challenge you today
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.25,0:14:01.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're listening to me because \Nyou are here very optimistic.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.45,0:14:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are somebody who is so passionate
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.99,0:14:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are somebody who wants\Nto see a better world.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.73,0:14:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are somebody who wants to\Nsee the war end.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.93,0:14:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No poverty.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.20,0:14:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are somebody who wants to \Nmake a difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.84,0:14:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are somebody who wants to \Nmake our tomorrow better.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.44,0:14:23.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to challenge today\Nto be there first -
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.43,0:14:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because people will follow you.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.73,0:14:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be the first - people will follow you
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.96,0:14:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be bold - standup.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.70,0:14:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be fearless.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.00,0:14:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be confident.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.56,0:14:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Move out because\Nas you change your world,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.02,0:14:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you change your community,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.90,0:14:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we believe we are impacting \None girl, one family, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.61,0:14:46.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one village, one country at a time.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.95,0:14:48.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are making a difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.57,0:14:52.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you change your world,\Nyou're going to change your community,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.11,0:14:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're going to change your country.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.98,0:14:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And think about that, \Nif you do that and I do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.32,0:14:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aren't we going to create a better future,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.42,0:15:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for our children, for your children,\Nfor our grandchildren,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.52,0:15:05.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we will live in a very peaceful world.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.35,0:15:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.60,0:15:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)