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political establishment in latin america as a pandemic? thanks. millions in support receive fuel prices and trying of course the fruits. and whereas the least max tech unicorn can see the cost on out here in the high and for the i tell you today on the stream i'm going to bring you african pride hope, joy resilience. how am i going to do that in just 24 minutes? well, i'm going to introduce you to elizabeth yama yarrow. she is reading a memo puerto i am a girl from africa. elizabeth, it is so great to see you. welcome to the stream. a little i am going to ask people who are watching on youtube, to off that questions and to really help you, how for you to help them understand, how do you become a humanitarian? what is that journey like? what was your journey? like each of us have the comments section,

it is waiting for you to take part in the show. elizabeth, i know you are ready for questions. let's start with a question from the question is, when should i go from africa? what were you? what does this mean? to you and what were you hoping that i would go from africa learn from the book and the word line as well? hello. 2 in the call, thank you so much for your thoughtful question. so the book title is a testament of why i am and my sense of pride to be in african. and so i wanted this book to really reflect that sense of pride, but also to that title, it say my knowledge means that my story is literally one with millions, right? i'm not the gill from africa. i am ed gill from africa. and so i hope that my story inspires the millions of girls on our beloved african continent to also share their own stories and be the protagonist for their own narrative care. one laptop is an

image that you shared on your instagram account and it's a beautiful picture. but this was your home. as a little girl, tell us what we're seeing here and why it's important. so this is the hodson which i grew up in. i was raised by my go go, my grandmother and its more african religions, and bob, wy, and this was, since all of our well being, the hot was a, what keep sandy was the one living room. it was also a bedroom. and in fact, right behind me is the picture of the hogs. and so it's very, very personal to me. i carry this picture with me all the time. it's my home. so they happen to you 8 years out that completely change your life is why you're k talking to you on the stream. it's why you're actually in the world and that for

a period of drought in bob way, where your, your go go, your grandma was off to help some relatives who were not very well. and she said it was take care of things. you can look after yourself and listen, i was was, i want to say a bad bleep. you are a bad please. with an 8 year old. you could face with a stick, he's not birds of the tree like the the grocery store was alive and well in the forest surround you. so you'll go, go your grandma just went off for a couple of day. yeah. and that you by yourself. and then what happened? yeah, i mean, prior to this though, for me, what's really interesting is the leads up to that i had grown up in this village where we never wanted for anything because we lived upon land withdrew in abundance of crops. we shared everything that we had with each other and it was, this is really, really beautiful childhood. and so, but sadly, as you say,

you know, 8, the age of 8 is severe drunk. he's how a village and literally left with nothing to eat and drink. and one day my go go was that way. i was home all by myself. i had at this point run natural foods and had not really eaten anything for 3 days. and i decided it's just sad because my go go ahead, told me to take care of myself. i decided that i was going to go and look for berries in the forests that set at the bottom of our village. but of course, when i got that there was nothing left and i collapsed onto the ground. and in my young mind actually thought i was going to die because i was just so weak that i couldn't even move. but then this incredible thing happens. a fellow african sister sissy as we called them in my language, found me and she gave him a bottle of poor each that literally saved my life. and i then found out that she was a humanitarian with the united nations. and that was the moment that my dream, i remember thinking, you know,

i to want to be just like her so that maybe one day i can save the life of others in a similar where my life had been saved. what makes your story remarkable is that 8 years old, you decide what you want to be and you become exactly the person you want to be. so lots of mentors along the way, the lots of challenges along the way. but what stood out for me from the book was that as a youngster, how little agency you, how does a little african girl? things will happen to you. you passed around from family member to family member. know to even told you why you were going to a different family member, and this is all they was all trying to keep the safe or try to make sure that you were supported and that you weren't experiencing the worst of poverty, the worst of drought. but they didn't talk to you about this. i am wondering if that is what shape the person you are. not necessarily the woman in the uniform who was to unicef, but the fact that your family to make you thrive past you from family member to family member. it is. i think you can look at this right through this land off.

well, you know, i didn't have any agency in some level. that's true, right? because i was a child. and so the parents made decisions, but that's all the very core to african cultures. you know, how the time the parents or the decision? well, in my situation, it was the stabilizing for a while, because i went from living with my go go my grid, my back in my on home like the very home that had known since i was a baby, to then meeting my parents at the edge of 10 to then live with an aunt in the city, but what all these moves and changes did for me was remarkable because i got the opportunity to go to really, really good school. and that education, that proud of education with so many girls not only in africa but around the world are still lacking access to enable me to dream even bigger. right. it made me

realize there was a whole world out there that could be possible in a meaningful way. when i see your story, the one word that comes up to describe here is what is your joyful so that, that goes without saying, i can see that when i look at the other one is written, read this or rather lou. you do not give up. know you turned up in london with almost no money and you're ready to work in the united nations. and you've done some research, but not enough elizabeth share that story with us. you know, but it is true though, but i have to give credit to my go go. because in dmitri spirit, yeah, i know the width of wisdom for the call who i am and she told me never, ever to give up. so yeah, long story short, i decide that i am going to wait for the un against or i leave the african continent. i've done research, but there's no incentive. so i've gone to the library and i've done research. and i

understand from her research that the ease and office of the united nations in london. so my global self cause and a few goats and we managed to put together money to buy me tickets. landon i landed heaps were a port would literally time to 50 pounds to my name, no family or friends in the u. k. because why do i need them? i mean, i have my dream and i'm going to with when the un telling me anything and everything that could fall apart fall apart. but the whole dream just falls apart because a, the un office that i think is the un office is not the un. it's an organization called the united nations association. similar name, but very different organization. i run not so my, me, i almost become homeless. but what is remarkable, as you say, is that i didn't give up in 3 years after i arrived in london, the un setup an office in london, and i became the go in the blue uniform. i joined the un so and i choose my dream.

this is, audrey audrey has a question for, you have a listen. have a look looking big from where you are now. is it in things that that you wish we had done differently? maybe you didn't know what you needed to go back to the things you would give to change in any way. and then what part of my question is that what the deal for young, i mean, why she was saying to discover their ways how they can they can their voices. and also when they find is how can they make sure that the thank so much audrey. so yes, i think of is one thing that i would change is real lives and much alia. own that being my shoes self is enough. you know, i ended up at a brisk school and the kids,

they looked at me in a very different way. you know, i was certainly not equal. you know, i was, this young girl would come from a small village and i questioned everything about myself. you know, suddenly the color of my skin became a problem to the kids in my country. i'm just going to say this in your own country . the problem that all of your skin that i just want to just like just pause and think about that for a moment. yeah. you know, in did it. i had ended up with this really wonderful brush school. but then of course, you know, my, i come from a very humble are bringing and i wasn't, i didn't have the same means as the kids of the school. and so, yeah, so i question, never thing my hair was too kinky, my skin was too dark. my i was too big and, and i tried so much to see teen. and yet now much later in life, i realized with so much time, you know, trying to be something else that i was and, and get the best part of who i am. is african is being the true south and owning

my one identity. and so i think to have gone to the 2nd question about the young girls, i think that's one thing i would really encourage them is that you might not noise in the moment. you know, it's a young go, you want to be someone out, you know you either never to skin enough or too big enough or not to reach an output to something enough. and being your show self is enough. and the ways that you can make your voice head is being authentic south the well, it is looking for a sense of the voices and that your voice matters. your story, max, as you are the protagonist of your own story. let me share this thought with you. this is matessa. matessa is on youtube right now. she asked, how can we get out of white or foreign gaze and a sense that we no longer have to seek approval or appreciation whatsoever from others. rather, we focused on developing african ideals, to serve us. oh,

that guys so nicely into the philosophy that runs through the work. all right. it was taken away. no, i mean that, that's it for me. right. i think it's exactly what i was saying before. you know, is a young child, i try to live up to the white gaze and try and please the white gaze. and we have to be able to own our own identity. and we have to be able to show the world that there's beauty in who we are. and so i think my advise is a very similar thing. we have to tell the african stories, right? we have to how north of people would look like us because even as a young girl i in for stories of people would not like me. and so my own small contribution to this is this book. and i'm sure we all have stories that we can all share and power. and so that's what i would encourage. we can expect the war to change when we don't give them the opportunity to, to discover which really. yeah,

it's really interesting, elizabeth, i'm reading this book and it's a, it's a, it's a very mature story. but i also feel that you are talking to youngsters. because the way you describe people a personal reception at a hotel, a hostile, it's called tiny nose of the units, hit worker who rescues you, is called to go in the blue uniform. the horrible, horrible mean pretty go at the british school that you went to who gave you a president, but it's so disgusting and growth the everybody. you need to go read the book to find out that it's on page 79. i think it's like that is just awful. so you almost create these characters that young people going to gravitate in. is that your audience? it is the audience, but it is also bigger than that. but yes, i think for me the audience was that right there is, you know, i will be locked up and go consonant has a young if you've population in the well, soon to become the largest population in the world. and for me that represents hope

and potential. and so i wanted to be able to write a book that is accessible to them. and more importantly, i also wanted this book to be able to go behind the scenes and how the struggles, right. then it can be very easy to look at me and sort of glorify what have become . and i wanted this to be, you know, listen, i am just like you, i came from miss more village. and if i can do it, perhaps you too can. and so it was really the idea that, you know, we painted the full story and this wasn't being written smith perspective. well, someone sitting at a job in new york city of the united missions. but the other aspects of this is, of course, it also tell stories about it's a humanitarian. it's also a book that i hope in spies more fast, you know, young and old, to be activists. to realize that we all have a responsibility in creating change in our well, in, in our communities. because when we uplift add those,

we intend atlas also. and this is, i love looking at this video. this is kids in her rory, looking at the book. let's get to this because i feel like you've come full circle that go from a village in zimbabwe. then helping other little kids to from zimbabwe they're looking at your work. looking at that right now. and we see not yet, but hopefully said because i, i feel that this is a book that you would have one kid to read you needed to read when you go and it wasn't there for you. what have kids said to you about the book as well? i sorry, i thought we're waiting for the video. so i think the thing that's been read this, this image is actually taken by a very good friend of mine. yeah. right. who is an education activist in my home country? and by the way, she's waking with young kids and trying to educate as many as possible at the one

thing that is resonated the most with the, with the young kids. it's just that they get to see themselves reflected on the pages of a book, right. and it's such a validation because for me also part of the what's a vision for this book was for them to realize that where we are born or current circumstances should not limit our potential to dream big. and, you know, based on the feedback i've had from nary, this is some of the comments we've been hearing from the, from the young kids. and it's just very had warning for me to hear that you are really well known for trampling the rights of women. treaty has a question for you about that, but also connect it back to men or an important part of this equation is have a look. i'm actually crude and ecstatic to see that this finally out. so that good young women and women everywhere can read about your life.

and so that they can see and learn that what is possible as the now we all know what you initiated to me please. she initiative which is now become a global movement. again, congratulations. i've been such a big fan of the work. and my question for you is really, what has been the role of men and boys in your life? you know, in your upbringing, when you were a little girl all the way to now when you're doing amazing walk, as i managed to various organizations like the one i should say. so by the way, she is an incredible activist as wow, on the issue again, the violence. so i'm really excited, but she chose to be part of this. so yes, with my colleagues that you and women, we created this incredible movement called t for she,

which was literally based on the principles of this african philosophy of boon to which recognizes our shades humanity. right. and the idea behind the he was, she movement was that we have to figure out a way to i like ship on the issue of gender inequality because women in, although we have of the world's population, we're still facing so many qualities simply because of our gender and for a very long time, this issue has often been seen as an issue for women by women. and men have been perceived to be the oppressor. right. and so we wanted to really focus on this powerful applicant for a lot of a whole born to, to create. i live ship a mound agendas because that's the only way that we can solve this issue. because it shouldn't be a woman trying to figure out how to get to not get raped. mentioned simply, not, not to rip a woman. we put all the better the young girls, 12 boys, child marriage instead of actually making sure that man,

i'm not marrying young girls. and so that for me was a really important conversation that needed to be had. and of course he for, she became an overnight success, at least one men in every single country in the world, joins the movement in just the 1st 3 days. there was one point to be in conversations within the 1st week. and for me though, bad to shoot this question it's, it's been of cause being an african, i can tell you that we come from a very much reactive society. women don't often get the credit and all the villages, but we are the ones upholding the community. my grandmother, my go go, was the woman who was literally holding the village together. but at the same time i've had incredible uncles secures of it. incredible. my uncle sam. you know whom i lived within the city was a big champion for me for my education. my own bread, the oscar, who is just an incredible human being. and of course the mentors along the way. the

bottom points of this is that we need our lives shape. we need both male and female role models and as a gender as well. so he, for, she is an international movement, his spread far wide. i want to bring in one of the international voices. he was part of that movement. and this is, mona says, i was engaged in g for steve, move bent as a focal point on one of the she for she champions in japan. i learn how the global read id movement wrote many changes due to words, especially in japan. launch number 120. so on gender gap index dfcs, it was innovative that the concept of she was, she could tell us a significant perspective which gender issue is a program of all human beings, not just female mother. i was like to ask is your best, what does a he was she initiative mean for your own life?

and how do you expect this legacy will be able to fail to to change the global society? hello, mind that and nagoya university is one of the he for she champions that came on board to try and create real change in japan around gender inequality. the he for she movement is bigger than me. right? in this one to say last sophie, our african cultures, we believe that a person is a peasant throughout the pestilence. and secondly, this is the story of this movement. it's been built by so many people and the vision or leadership of put the live will family. you and i, we know who she is. yes. ahead of us when it with she's just incredible. in fact, right now with a quick sidebar in a, she's in power is and has been able to mobilize 40000000000 new investments, however, gender you quality yesterday. so you know, this, this really took a village as we say in, in our african cultures. but the biggest thing for me,

in terms of legacy is what the communities have done for themselves. i'll give a very quick example. one of the stories in the book is a story of my law. we is small african country where like most countries around the world, including here in the us, that we're having an issue which our marriage girls being married way before the 18 years old. they joined that here for she movement, the government, and then as part of the commitment they themselves outlaw child marriage. but what was remarkable is the communities and what they did there went around the communities, the villages, mail shifts now working alongside female shifts in a way that had never been done before. and they ended up analysis, 20000 child marriages, and sending those those back to school. that is the power of a boon to write communities, working together for themselves, solutions for themselves by themselves to uplift one. another in that for me is the

important piece of this. is this review of your book? i am a gulf from africa just made me small. it was so exuberant, maybe even more exuberant than you are able to produce, which is quite a feat. have a if you read this book, you're going to be a minister to, you're going to be transformed. you're going to, to be encouraged to rise out beyond your difficulties. this is in a go from africa book, but it's going to help anybody in this world. we are phase, we've called we have been with quite a bit mountain. some people have lost income. people have lost a lot of things. when you read this book is going to help you to, to rebuild, to say, if a girl almost died, then there is something that's going to happen for you that there's something. if you do not give up. all right. yeah, i'm pretty sure i know that i am

a thank you for that lovely comment. so i think actually what are we speaking to? i'm pushing touch on, but you should call it and that's, that's one of the biggest things that i want people to take away from this book. this book is about my story, but it's much bigger than that. this book into just this is the, well, it's a very powerful ation african philosophy of boon to which is about i live ship, it's about compassion. it's a both thing the humanity and he's had the and if you minute, terry, and we are living in one of the most divided world. there's rising income inequality, right? because of the me, this as we mentality, we have racial tension. and where are we expecting the minorities and the people of color can do all the work in sick and freedom and listen, we need, how much is the author of a memoir? i am a go from africa. you've been looking to have for the last half hour here on the stream. if you look at the book and you get the book,

you will find each chapter has a problem. i will leave you with this gone a problem, which i think, summed up elizabeth spirit, you must act as if it is impossible to fail. that is that they imply that the real can use thanks for watching. years ago, the great the damage caused the precious grove plants chilling its being reversed with one of the world's biggest ada conservation projects. they're pretty emblematic of the patagonia and if they're plentiful and they're calm like this one is, then you know that the system is going back and that they feel no threat. and that's why you're calling for re wilding pass, go on, i'll just say around the world, the lungs are being ceased. the amazon rain forest is diminishing. it rated to football pitcher a minute to meet the market insatiable appetite for logging mining. i'm farming,

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