What it takes to make change

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A few years ago I found
myself in Kigali, Rwanda
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presenting a plan to bring
off-grid solar electricity
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to 10 million low-income East Africans.
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As I waited to speak
to the President and his ministers,
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I thought about how I'd arrived
in that same place 30 years before.
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A 25-year-old who left
her career in banking
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to co-found the nation's first
microfinance bank
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with a small group of Rwandan women.
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And that happened just a few months
after women had gained the right
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to open a bank account
without their husband's signature.
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Just before I got on stage,
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a young woman approached me.
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"Ms. Novogratz," she said,
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"I think you knew my Auntie."
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"Really?
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What was her name?"
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She said, "Felicula."
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I could feel tears well.
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One of the first women
parliamentarians in the country,

	Oliver Friedman edited English subtitles for What it takes to make change
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