." you are watching "france 24 thank you for joining us. these are the headlines. a slap in the face for the president of venezuela. gets twice as many signatures needed to move forward on a recall vote. there are still several steps to go in the lengthy process towards a referendum. slamrepublican leaders donald trump's comments about the family of a slain u.s. muslim soldier appeared the -- from senator

john mccain. warplanes attack in libya following a request from the libyan government for help. continueexpected to for weeks. ♪ ♪ >> we will start first and venezuela where the opposition now has the green light to move forward in its push to remove the president, nicolas maduro. the council confirmed the opposition has the 1% of voter signatures required to begin move towards a recall vote. they now require some interest from 20% of voters.

hashe election council completed the first stage to oust nicolas maduro. this after nationwide petition back by the opposition managed to gain the required number of signatures. the 24 states fulfilled the requirement of a 1% vote. amid the backdrop of a failing economy, one of the world's highest inflation rates and worsening food shortages commit many believe the only way out of the economic nightmare is to cut maduro's term short and hold elections. the government has vowed to block any referendum this year, launching close to 9000 lawsuits

and accusing the opposition of falsifying signatures. >> the recall referendum is illegal. unfortunately for opposition voters from of their leaders have deceived them by not following the appropriate legal steps. >> the next up in the process towards a referendum would require the opposition gathering close to 4 million signatures or 20% of the voting electorate in just three days. they will be up against the clock. they have until the 10th of january -- he would be replaced by his vice president, ensuring the socialist party stays in power. >> in the united states, more republican leaders have come out today to condemn donald trump's comments about the family of a fallen u.s. muslim soldier.

the latest, u.s. senator john mccain. trump's ugly spat with the parents of the soldier killed in comment that combat has touched a nerve that killed in combat has touched inner. combat has touched a nerve. >> captain khan is at the center of the u.s. presidential election. those who visit arlington cemetery don't want to talk about politics. they prefer to pay to be to life dedicated to fighting or their country. >> once you put that uniform on, you are that team, that unit. mormonn't matter -- i am whether the person next to me as muslim or catholic or whatever come it doesn't matter. bymuslims are frustrated

another attack from donald trump on their community. >> i give my all come of the -- my all, the ultimate sacrifice, my life. i should not be attacked for something like that. he should show respect to the family, more than anything else. a headstone with the same name, another muslim soldier also killed at the young age of -- in iraq. erin raikes pays tribute to her father. >> this country owes that to the people who serve, whether they are active duty or to the families of the teenagers that are buried over here, they are owed respect and honor. that is what i think. of all the controversies that have surrounded donald

trump, it appears to be this one that is taking. -- sticking. >> philip crowther reporting from arlington cemetery. has become the eighth american state to allow guns on university campuses. aw requires public universities in texas to allow concealed weapons in campus buildings. 14 people were killed in a mass shooting in 1966 there. to libya where u.s. warplanes have begun bombing islamic state targets after the u.n. backed government in libya asked the u.s. to push the militants from their stronghold. the i.s. captured the city last

year. the pentagon says this is just the beginning of the strikes. s" douglas herbert pulled us about the importance of the city. >> libya has been more and more -- everyone rushed into that breach. it is the main placed islamic state have set up operations outside of iraq and syria. it has been more and more worrying to anyone watching the situation within libya, it has been the so-called bastion, the stronghold. an offensive there under the unity government for the past since may, really.

they taken back the mediterranean coastline. they have been hemmed in a little bit, the islamic state group. is back in state hands, but you still have a lot of contested areas, several square kilometers in the heart of the city. if you take that back, you have control of that last bastion. they don't have a really tight grip on it anymore. that's not to say they haven't been fighting voraciously, one of the reasons this airstrike has been called in. there have been snipers, mines fierceears resistance -- resistance. perhaps that will be the first step in getting libya under

control and out of the grips of the islamic state group and perhaps plugging one who hole in the global terror threat. >> close to 30 civilians were killed in theheiege to city y of -- the southern edges have been ravaged by intense fighting in recent days as rebels try to push back against the syrian government siege. u.s. backed forces say they are gaining ground against the islamic state group in the northern syrian town. they had seized back control of almost 70% of the town after making rapid advances over the past few days. julia: the operation to retake aleppo started two months ago. i asked militants posting

snipers -- i.s. militants posting snipers, laying mines and using civilians as hostages. now, we are in the city on the city'sines -- cultural center is 200 meters away. >> in and around the city, u.s. seized a treasure trove of data belonging to i.s. fighters. 10,000 documents and for tetra , giving digital data insight into the inner workings of the islamic state group. it will take a lot to go through, then connecting the dots. >> the data is primarily written

in arabic. it has already revealed some of the recruitment methods used by i.s. militants. foreign fighters would enter, it would be screened and assigned a job before being sent to syria or iraq. in iraq thousands have already fled mosul. though still there are waiting to be free from the extreme's group's-- extremist rule. >> painted on these walls, the first letter of the word -- which means "resistance" in arabic. and daring act of defiance.

l was seized in june of 2014. the initially welcomed militants as saviors. fast forward two years, and the self proclaimed caliphate is fraying at the edges. this 27-year-old man escaped just a few weeks ago. messages painted on the walls of the schools. these resistance movements have been going on for several months. the local people have had enough. >> this woman says messages are even pentagon houses where i asked fighters live best painted on houses where the i.s. fighters live. >> the iraqi government forces

have launched a major offensive osul. to be closing in on the city. this kurdish army general says he's been in touch with local residents via facebook and twitter. rebels report on everything that is happening in mosul. one of them's has a jihadist has been killed. --se amateur videos show how blowing up vehicles at security checkpoints. many say these actions are not enough. army experts warn the recapture of mosul could take at least several months. >> some 60,000 people have fled the violence in south sudan in the last three weeks alone. most of them are heading into

neighboring uganda. the road there is a dangerous one. armed groups are looting villages, murdering civilians and forcibly recruiting young men and boys into their ranks. back to france where the priest who was killed in a terror attack on his church will be buried today. that attack came from two teenagers who slit the throat of the 85-year-old priest inside his catholic church in northern france. muslims and christians already came together to mourn his death at mass on sunday. the father will be buried in a location that has not been revealed. there are now just three days to go until the summer olympics kickoff in rio. the first time the games have ever been held in south america.

with brazil struggling already with a political crisis, pollution problems and an outbreak of the zika virus and a scandalonsored doping that has engulfed the russian team, many are wondering how smoothly these games can really go. rio in thetdown to final stretch. all eyes on the resilience of the set to host more than 10,000 athletes and some 500,000 sports fans. a slew of problems continues to cast a shadow over the games. a massive corruption scandal has rocked brazil, engulfing president dilma rousseff. ousseffd anti-re

protesters took to the streets. brazil is also tackling a health crisis, an outbreak of the zika virus has forced some athletes to drop out of the games altogether. and rios contaminated waterways are still under the microscope. a lack of sewage collection means the waters are teaming with dangerous viruses and bacteria. despite a litany of final hurdles, brazil says they are ready for their time in the olympic spotlight. a slap in the face of the venezuelan president. the opposition gets twice as many signatures needed to move forward on a recall vote. there are still several steps to go in the lengthy process toward a referendum. more republican leaders slam donald trump's comments about the family of a slain u.s. muslim soldier.

from u.s. senator john mccain. warplanes attack an islamic state bastion in libya. the first u.s. strikes against the militants since february. they are expected to continue for weeks. time for business news now. let's start with the stock markets. >> a combination of disappointing results and sectors in italy'banking -- italy's banking sector. -- ae 2% fall in profit unicreditn profit -- down almost 5%. the world's oldest bank plans --

its shares down 8% today. not a good day for banks. not a great day for european markets. paris and frankfurt both down over 1%. 4%thansa down some after saying basing seen a tangible impact of terrorism on its business with booking down. the cabinet has approved measures worth $130 billion, boosting the economy hurt by stronger currency and the uncertainty called by the uk's vote to leave the european union. half of that money will be new spending. the yen has climbed again against the dollar. handouts to low income

earners and more spending on infrastructure. the latest attempt by shenzhen abe to jumpstart the sluggish economy. $6 trillion coming from the country's fiscal investment and loan program, bringing together funds from government bonds and other public sources. the government spending will go to welfare, infrastructure and businesses hit by uncertainty due to brexit and reconstruction funds after an earthquake earlier this year. --an's economy has struggled

the most recent plan marks the 26th japanese stimulus .pending package since 1990 there are now fears japan is running out of space to maneuver and new ideas. volkswagenuble for in south korea. >> authorities have suspended the sales of almost all cars made by volkswagen. have been taken off the market after the company allegedly forged documents over noise test levels. the carmaker has been fined a senior60 billion --

executive at the firm was arrested last month. costr france counting the -- >> tens of millions of euros. unions say 210,000 passengers have been affected by the strike . cabin crew went on strike because they are unhappy with the agreement on working conditions. >> i had a flight canceled by air france just the other day. >> now, time for the press review. taking a look at today's papers. a report into the alarming number of killings in the philippines that are part of the so-called war on drugs. a brutal, bloody

campaign led by the president who has been in office just one month. lyingds of prisoners here like sardines in an overcrowded filipino prison. just one result from the so-called war on drugs. the president has promised a bloodbath and has filled that promise. as president,s 420 suspected drug dealers have been killed. a third have been killed by hitmen. >> these vigilante killings are provoking outrage in the philippines. >> this article is from the philippine daily inquirer. nexthave lashed out at

killings that many people in the country say have been spurred on .y the president author, it is crucial that people rise up against this violence otherwise the philippines risks being a police state. >> now, let's go to south africa. south africans going to the polls tomorrow. the polls will be a battle -- the party jewel could lose key provinces to the opposition. it's no surprise that the party jz.n operation save article in the

canadian paper that looks at just why these elections are so important >> why do we care about a local election in south africa? loses, and internal revolt could force the deeply unpopular jacob zuma to quit. reinforcen, he could his power and exacerbate the country's major problems. a host of scandals have already marred the party. squabbles within the party have led to 20 cabinet members being killed. let's come back to france where there is a big story getting a lot of focus here, the death of a young man during his arrest last month in the suburb of paris. >> you might remember his family

have insisted since his death that he died because of a blunder by police while in police custody. his death triggered days of protests and accusations of police prude dalby and racial profiling -- brutality and .acial profiling two separate authorities carried out revealed that he died of his asphyxiation.exy he was powerless against the weight of these three policeman. comeof oxygen could have

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announcer: this is a production of china central television americica. walter: how w do you inspirere teens to volunteerer? the numbes araren't good. only a quartrterf americans age 16 and older are making time to volunteteer at leasast once a year, so volunteerism is at a record low in the united states. that's according to a 2014 u.s. bureau of labor statistics report. this week on "full frame," empowering the next generation of volunteers to make an impact worldwide. i'm mike walter coming to you from the heart of new york's times s squarere. les take it "full frame."

she's a social entrepreneur, an author, and a philanthropist. nancy lublin's online marketing and social media prowess has empowered a new generation of doers. her first foray into the nonprofit world was the founding of dress for success. it gave disadvantaged women a helping hand by providing professional attire, but dress for success was much more than that. it promoted economic independence, networking, and career development tools to help thehem succeed. 15 yearars after its launch, dress for success is now in 19 countries, but more importantly, it has helped over 850,000 women work towards self-sufficiency. named one of the world's 50 greatest leaders by "fortune" magazine and one of schwab's social entrepreneurs of the year, she currently serves as ceo of dosomething.org, one of the

world's largest organizations dedicated to young people and social change. do something boasts over 6 million online users with each committing themselves to impact their community's causes. she's not done yet. her latest venture is a first, and it's potentially a huge game-changer. it's a crisis text line providing a 24/7 support line for young people who may be grappling with emotional issues. growing rapidly since its creation in 2011, counselors currently receive 15 million texts each day. nancy joins us now to discuss the impact of the next generation of social activism. welcome to "full frame." i don't know how you have time to come to talk to us. you're--yeah, well, let's start--let's start--start there. you started 3 nonprofits. lublin: i apparently have an aversion to making money. i don't... walter: but i was going to say, they've all been successful. i mean, they've done well. um, what got you interested in this? i meanan, did your parents say, "we want you to grow up and be a philanthropist"? lublin: no. they all wanted me to be a lawyer. um, i--in the

early seventies, if you were a girl with a lot of opinions, everybody sent you to law school, so i went to law school and hated it. it's not a place for entrepreneurs. it's the place where ideas go to die, and i'm an entrepreneur. i think you're--i think i was born this way. i think entrepreneurs are born. i'm not sure they're made. walter: well, dress for success, you started that with 5,000. i mean, i gave the introduction. you know its success. i mean, at the time you ststarted it, did you say, "ok, this is going to end up in, like, 19 countries, and then i'll move on to something else"? i mean, you couldn't have imagined that, i wouldn't think. lublin: no, i didn't--i don't think i imagined it was going to be that big, but i think i always knew i would leave, um, which is a little strange about me. most--most entrepreneurs build something, and they leave in a pine box or a stretcher, right? like, it's your one thing for life, but i--i truly am to my core an entrepreneur. i get bored really easily, um, and i--i'm constantly thinking of new ideas and--and things that should be started. walter: dosomething.org, i've heard you talk about this. um,

it wasn't dosomething.org when you got there. it was doeverything.org in many respects. i mean, uh, listening to you talk about it almost sounded like it was a disaster. talk to us about why someone who's done very well for herself would want to go in and do something like this? lublin: um, i was 30, and i was getting headhunted for lots of jobs after dress for success, but i don't think anybody was really taking me seriously. i think people think entrepreneurs are crazy, and we are, but i--i think the assumption is that we're really good at vision and we're really good at the creation moment, but we're not great managers, and so i took something really messy, and i wanted to prove that, um, i could execute, and so i purposefully took something that was a disaster, um, and turned it around, so they just laid off 21 out of 22 people. um, there was $75,000 left in the bank, but they were $250,000 in debt. they had no office space. i mean, it was--it was as bad as it gets. walter: and you--you mentioned--i'veve--i've heardrdu say this. it was aimed at kids,

but it went from, like, 3 to 40 or whatever. it was kind of crazy, wasn't it? lublin: plus parents and teachers, just everybody. so, um, yeah, we had to really focus on making something for someone, which is, i think, what makes companies for-profit or not-foror-profit great. just making something because you have the ability to make it doesn't mean that anyone's going to use it or that it's vavaluable to o someone, and soe really laser focused on teens. there was not an organization in the youth space that didn't require adult, and so our basic rules s at do something are we never require an adult, money, or a car, because that's not how most 16- and 17-year-olds live. walter: but most 16- and 17-year-olds live this w way. at least this is the persona that we give them as a society. they're on--they're texting, or they're playing videogames, and they're disinterested, and yet, you're engaging them. lublin: but texting and videogames does not mean disinterested. it means they're interested in what's coming to them in their pocket and in their phone.

walter: but that's the--that's the perception of young people, and it's totally wrong, correct? lublin: totally wrong. totally wrong. they're super engaged. they're super engaged, and they're engaged--um, they're switched on to what's going on in the community. they're spending in different ways, so this is the generation that made toms shoes a multi-billion- dollar company. they really care about the planet. they care about social change, and so we're going where they are. we're going on their phones. so we have 3.7, i think, as of today, million members, and we should be 5 million members by the end of this year, and that's really because we're a mobile-first company. walter: but you're kind of turning things on its head in--in many respects, because i know a lot of people are like, "i've got a nonprofit. i'm going to figure out some way to get in front of bill gates, and i'm going to get a big giant paycheck, and life's going to be great," and your whole thing is kids. now, kids, they--they can't say, "nancy, i love this. here's the big check." that's not how it works. lublin: no, i mean, and by the way, if i did have 5 minutes in front of bill gates, he would leave without his wallet, so i would also be happy to have 5 minutes in front of bill gates.

um, and we don't ever fundraise from young people. we probably could make a lot of money off of our members, but we want their time and their talent, not their treasure. so we're mostly funded by companies who want access to those young people. so we do great campaigns. we're doing a campaign right now to recycle torn and stained clothing, which would otherwise clog landfills, and we work with h&m, and you can drop your clothes off at h&m stores, and we will collect over 400,000 pounds of clothes in about 6 weeks. so it's--these are big-scale campaigns with over 100,000 kids participating. this is--this is big-scale stuff. this is not little bake sales. walter: well, no, it's mount everest. um, i mentioned to you that i--i read the book and was confused by it. talk to us about this "xyz factor," um, and just some of the things that you've learned from young people that are now embedded in here that i can't quite figure out. lublin: so they're different. they're different from us. um, i grew up with two kinds of peanut butter. there was skip,

and there was jiffy, and i remember it was a big deal when there was crunchy and smooth, and now you have, um, you know, nut-free peanut butter, and you have sodium-free, and fat-free and, like, every--like, 30 different kinds of peanut butter in the store, and i remember having 3 channels on the television, and i had to physically get up and turn the channels, and now forget the thousand cable channels. they're not even watching tv, they're online. it's--it's a very different mindset, and we have found that that translates to workforce, also, that the workplace is different. um, so we wrote a book as a team called "xyz factor" because we keep winning awards of best place to work, and so we wrote a book that explains all our special sauce. walter: you know, the interesting thing is, i stopped listening to you when you said they don't watch tv anymore. it was a spear right through the heart, but we'll move on. maybe i should call your... lublin: online. online. walter: maybe i should text you on your crisis text line, um, which i want to talk to you about, because there's a funny side to you obviously, um, but there's a very serious side to you, because i've heard you talk about some of the texts

that you've gotten, which are--are quite moving and--and terrible, uh, and what a resource, and what a grereat id. lublin: so we text a lot of kids, right? every week, we're texting them, and it has huge open rates. you open every text you get, and it skews hispanic and urban, so we're getting very diverse kids, and we have these--lots of people doing our campaigns, but this one side effect was, really, the only people you text are your family, your friends, and do something. we have this weird side effect where whenever we send out a text about the comeback clothes campaign with h&m or other campaigns, we will get back a couple dozen text messages having nothing to do with that campaign, but things like, "i'm being bullied, and i don't want to go to school," or "i'm cutting, and i can't stop," and the worst message we ever got wasas, um, probably too gruesome to talk about here, but it--it was an awful situation from a girl having to do with her father. walter: and--and--and abuse. lublin: yeah. walter: uh, and we'll just

leave it there. and i've heard you talk about this, and obviously, you're very moved by it, but the shocking quality of gettining a text like that, it's--it's a cry for help in a way that you won't get with--with somebody getting on the phone, which you've actually talked about that, where--initially wasn't that the suggestion? call this line, and they don't want to do it. lublin: so when we got that particular message and--and all of the messages before, we would triage it and give people the hotline numbers, and with this girl, it was such a gruesome situation. we gave her the hotline number. we didn't hear back. the next day i said, "send her this hotline number again," and we've actually never heard back from her, and i--to this day, i don't know what happened to her, and, um, to tell us something so personal, so intimate, to strangers, to be that desperate for help, we realized we owed her more and the world owed her more, and so we set out to build a crisis text line, um, so that they could get help 24/7 by text. we spike every

day during lunch because it's private. so you wouldn't call sitting at lunchtime at school, but you can text us. so you're sitting at a lunch table, and maybe your friends think you're texting someone at the next table. you're actually texting us. um, so it's--to them, text is incredibly private because there's no face to face, there's no sound. they spill their guts to us by the third message, and the kinds of things they're telling us, 30% of the messages, can you guess what our most popular issues are? walter: i have no idea. lublin: so i would have thought it would have been bullying, because it's--it's in the news media a lot. it's suicide and depression. so very--severity, i mean, real issues that they're telling us very quickly, and we're able to get them help very quickly, and because it's by text and we're a tech company basically, we've layered on an algorithm so that if you text in, "i want to die" or "i want to harm myself," that goes code orange, and you go to the top of the queue. so instead of waiting chronologically like when you call another customer service number or a hotline, we don't put you on hold if you're suicidal. we handle you right

away. so the quality is good. walter: well, i was just going to say that, you know, this--this episode that you talked about and that she never cacame back and you don't know what happened to her, i--i know a lot of people who would be crushed by that and think about that all the time, and yet you turned it into action. lublin: i had to. i had to. walter: um, and it actually--it's a horrible thing that happened, but in many ways, it was a catalyst for something good. lublin: i hope she knows. i mean, i hope that she's seen an interview or read an article somewhere. first of all, i hope she's safe, and then i hope she's seen that she's actually saving lots of other people's lives. we're doing rescues twice a day. we have to send police or emt to a home to intervene in a suicide attempt. i mean, we're literally saving lives every day. walter: so you've seen each side. i mean, you've seen, uh, young kids who are--are willing to move mountains, and then you see them struggling. so what's your takeaway about the landscape out there? lublin: so i'm actually incredibly hopeful. i--i actually think this is a great generation and that these tools like social media, mobile,

they're going to use for good. some of them will be used for evil or silliness. um, you know, it's lovely that they can get food delivered more quickly and that they can find, you know, hook ups more quickly thanks to tinder. that's fine, but i'm really excited about how these tools are being used for good, um, how facebook has just helped out in nepal, how crisis text line is helping people, um, with their mental health issues, how dosomething.org is pushing millions of kids to do more volunteerism, and they're hungry for it. um, i'm really hopeful. walter: what a pleasure talking to you. lublin: you, too. walter: and keep up the great work. lublin: thanks. walter: i think it's fantastic what you've done so far... lublin: thanks for having me. walter: and--and i'll keep my eye on you. i'm sure there's more great things to come. lublin: thanks. walter: we'll be back with more from new york city in just a moment.

people choose to volunteer for a variety of reasons. most say they simply want to do something good for others. that desire is embodied in our next 3 guests. eliana stanislawski is a campaign chair for the u.s. day of the girl movement. she works tirelessly for girls' human rights. in the process, she celebrates the unique and important contributions of girls. steven rosenthal is the executive director of cross-s-cultural solutionsns. te new york native founded the organization back in 1995. now he's an expert in international development and volunteerism, and riley gallagher knows all about his organization. this past summer, she was involved in their high school volunteer abroad program. she's committed to serving india's most vulnerable children, so much so, she considers the country her home away from home. eliana, steven, riley, welcome to "full frame." eliana: thank you. riley: thank you for having us. walter: steven, why don't i start with you? so you start this organization, and it was

pretty small at the beginning. take us through the steps, and--and what was your vision, what was your goal when you first started? steven: well, i had visited a friend that was working in the peace corps in kenya just on a holiday, and i was lucky enough to volunteer with him, building a health dispensary in northern ghana--in northern, uh, ghana, and it was a terrific experience, and when i returned back from--from kenya to the united states, people said to me, "i w wish i could vontnteer. i wish that i could do what you did, but i don't have two years of my life to give." so that was the inspiration to start cross-cultural solutions, to give people an opportunity to have a really genuine volunteer experience in a short amount of time. we started in india almost 20 years ago today with one volunteer, and today we're in 9 countries throughout asia, africa, and latin america, and we send thousands of volunteers overseas each year. walter: when you started with that first volunteer, did you ever think you'd be where you are today? steven: no, when we started withth one volunteer, the--the dream was to maybe one day have

a hundred voluntee g going too inindia. so to go from there to where we are in 20 years, it's bebe an amazining experience. walter: well, we'll talk to one of the volunteers in a moment, but, eliana, let me start with you. school girls unite. talk to me about how you started with that and how that's kind of evolved in terms of what you're doing now. eliana: for sure. so school girls unite is a club at my high school that i joined when i was a freshman. i was new. uh, it's a club that does two things. one, it raises money to sponsor the education of girls living in rural mali, and that's a program that's run by local malian women, and then the second thing it does is it teaches young american high schoolers about human rights and about international issues, and we go to lobby congress and the state department and other types of things because i'm from d.c., so that was an opportunity we had available to us. so we're... walter: what got you interested right off the bat, if i can ask? eliana: uh, i didn't know anybody at my school, and i knew the girl who ran that, and

i'd always been interest--i always wanted to help people, that was just what i wanted to do, and that seemed really interesting, and then i ended up taking over the club a year later and running it for almost 3 years. walter: oh, my gosh. eliana: so--and it's a pretty small organization. that was one of t the biggest chapters of itit. walter: anand now you know some people at the school. eliana: yeah. walter: obviously. eliana: well, i've skyped with them a few times. they help me with french. walter: fantastic. riley, steven obviously influential in your life. i mean, you jumped right in indiaia. you see it your second home now. i mean, it must have been a life-changing experience. talk to us about your first foray into volununteerism. riley: s see, it was absolutely wonderful, and i've always really had a love for the world and different cultures, and i knew i wanted to volunteer in india because i'd had some experience in india before. i had gone about two years before i went with ccs, but i had an absolutely amazing experience with ccs, and, i mean, we worked with some amazing children in a rural, um, town village in india, and it was just absolutely amazing. working with these children and waking up every morning seeing

the himalayas out your window, it was just surreal and breathtaking. walterer: so everybody goes wiwh a perception of how the experience is going to be. how did that s square with what really happened with you? riley: i mean, i've always-- walter: was it even better? riley: yeah, obviously. it was wonderful, and i think that you realize when you get there how beautiful the culture is and the people and their sense of community and family, and they're just so close, and the children themselves, working with the children was absolutely amazing, as well, and just seeing that these children were so like the children in the united states and being able to take back things that i learned from the children in india and using them and applying them here, like, their sense of family and community. we really need that more here, and that's something that cross-cultural solutionss really emphasizes. walter: steven, when you listen to her--and she's a great ambassador for you--i mean, it really does speak to why this is so important, because it's not just taking somebody over and helping them. they come back enriched, as well, don't they? steven: that's right, and, yeah, first of all, i couldn't be more proud to have great volunteers like riley, uh, and

you're right. today, building bridges of understandiding acros cultures is morere important thn ever. you can see in the global challenges that we face that understanding people of other cultures is what really leads to world peace in the end, and so although our volunteers are helping and they're making a differencece in the country, thy also come back, and the change that they embody in terms of their change of perspective and the community around them that they then empower with knowledge of what's going on overseas is what really creates lasting change. walter: one of the things i like about your organization, though, is it's not, "ok, we really know everything here, and we're going to come over, and we're going to show you how to know everything." i mean, you don't come at it with that point of view. i mean, there's--there's engagement there, guidance there. there's ownership there on both sides, which is key, isn't it? i mean, that's huge. steven: that's righght. our philosophy is that local people are the experts, and so the solutions really need to come from within the community. so

our volunteers are there to lend a helping hand to help in the ways that the local community has deemed as what they need done, and in the process, the volunteers learn, they share. it's really a two-way street. we--we volunteer in the spirit of partnership, not paternalism, and this kind of equal footing is what really builds substantial change. walter: the day of the girl movement, talk to usus about t t and--and kind of your evolution, how you kind of dive in, you're in the club, and then boom, boom, boom, it's--you kind of moved along on that path, haven't you? eliana: yeah. it does kind of seem like it all happened very quickly. so the day of the girl movement, we got the idea from girls who were doing it in canada. they were pushing to make this day an internationally recognized day focusing on girls' rights, uh, and so not just feminism, but the issues of young people, because young people are a group that's often discriminated against, a and i remember hearing the idea and thinking, "what's that going to do? it's not going to do anything." and they were like, "yes, it will, i promise." and

so there were these older girls who used to be involved with schoolol girls unite who weree really p pushing for this, and then over time, they grew older, and then my generation of activists and volunteers grew older, and it becamee ththis--well, first internationally recognized, and thenen a couple of years ago, we also had presidentnt barack obaa declare it a day of action to focus on issues that are directly affecting girls in our communities, and, you know, there's so much devaluation of femin--feminin--femininity and girls in our communities at home and abroad, and so it's a really good opportunity to take action to change that. walter: but you know what's interesting is--i think you really hit on something. "this isn't going to do anything," and yet it does, and i think a lot of times people feel like they can't take that first step. eliana: absolutely. walter: that it's really not going to... eliana: mm-hmm. walter: so i want all 3 of you to talk about that, because i think that's a--it's a great message for our viewers that, you know, we all kind of get--we sit there and we just--"god, the world is so messed up, and what can i do?"

eliana: yeah. walter: and, you know, i think you're all a testament to you really can make an impact. so let's start with you. eliana: yeah, i can definitely attest to that because we wanted to view this as an opportunity to make activism and volunteerism accessible to young girls because they're told that they can't do these things, and we want them to know that they can, and so all of our projects are about providing girls with opportunities and tools to make sustainable and tangible change in their communities. so it started with a proclamation project where we were encouraging girls to contact their local governments and have a county proclamation for day of the girl, and in that process, "oh, my gosh, i can make this happen. i know how to work with my government. i know how to change a law. i know how to, you know, make something really big happen in my community." we have tool kits that we've written about how to plan different events, how to do different actions like lobbying governments, planning, fundraisers and benefit concerts. we have--we just released, um, a tool kit this year all about having meaningful and healthy conversations about gender justice with different types of people and how to have--how to

have those be respectful and useful and healthy, and so what we try to do is use the day to provide girls with the opportunity to explore all these different ways that they can be really involved, and, i mean, it's 100% youth-led. if it's--they look at us, and they say, "oh, wow, the oldest person involved with this is, like, 20 and 21. why can't i do that?" and the answer is there's absolutely no reason why you can't do that, and, yeah, that's all i have to say. walter: wewell, steven, just listening to the two women on the side of you--girls, i should say--it's got to be encouraging for you. i mean, because it does--it make--you can make a huge difference. you can make a dent. steven: yeah, that's true, and it is inspiring to see young people out there making such a difference, and--and it--it's amazing. it can seem like it's very difficult t to make a difference, but when it really comes down to it, you could go on the internet right now, register for a program like ours, and pick where you want to go, how long you want to stay, what you want to do, a

our luluntee makake real difference. eyey're w worng basically inwowo priry a are, child develoenent aneducucatn and teteracyand ththugh thth, they' s servi, ththeyrere learngng, anthey're m making the world a better place. walter: yeah. riley, you're--you're--you've taken that step, and you can't wait to go back, right? riley: yeah, definitely. i mean, from ccs, i learned, i mean, oftentimes people think that their impact will only be a nominal one, but you realize that even if you're just teaching a child some basic english or their shapes or colors or just teaching them a little bit about how to read, you see that there's an impact that's within these children, and you can see it, and it just happens before you, and it's something that's so moving and so amazing to see, and also, they change you, and the thing about cross-cultural solutionsns is it's not only a cultural immersion, 's cultltur exchange, becae e we'rere ging them setethingbut t th' also givinusus somhingng bk, and weanan feethat, anyouu can see atat, anthatat's somethg g thatou g geto wakeke up to evy y day en y yo'rere with ccs. walter: and u u and had d a chance to chat briefly about this before we started the

program. home is a key component. coming home, getting reintroduced to your society after being engaged there, people don't think about that, but that's a key part of it, isn't it? steven: that's right. coming home is--is an unexpected challenge for a lot of people. people prepare for culture shock going abroad, but coming home, there's also certain difficulties associated with thatat. at----at cross-cultural solutions, what we like to do is empower people to take what they've learned overseas and bring the world back home with them, to spread what they've learned to friends, families, people around them, take what they've learned and figure out a way to move change forward in your life and be the change that you want to s see in the woworld. so we feel like the--te experience and the opportunity to change doesn't end when you leave, it's just beginning when you come home. walter: you know, eliana, be the change, you're obviously that, but she also used the word--it's a key word--"impact." when you look at the landscape, what--what kind of impact do

you feel like you've h had with ththis--this drive for----for girls, because, as you said, you know, in other places in the world, you know, they're up against it in many respects? eliana: well, the day of the girl movement is a global movement. i'm only in charge of the united states branch of that movement. globally, it's had a huge impact. you hear about, you know--i mean, it's a united nations official holiday. so unicef, u.n. women, all these huge organizations were organizing these enormous initiatives having to do with international development, um, so that's--i mean, in terms of a global impact, it's definitely on people's radars on an internrnational level. i mean, michelle obama was tweeting about it and talking abouit with people, d,d, you knowwe have lalala ysafzfzai lkining out ititn the news. soso globay, it's definilyly heightening people's awawaress. walter: llll, w'lleave i i there becae i'm spired a motivad just tking tthe 3 of youthanks smuch f comingn. it's beenreat. eliana: thk you. riley: tnk you. lter: ally appreate it. as o p panel jt showeds, ere e armany unie e vonteer oppounitieavailablto young ople, periencethat

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to their destination, casa hogar sionon, an orphanage for about 80 children. corazon de vida, or heart of life, is the organization that sponsors the monthly trips to 12 different orphanages in baja, mexico. carmen escobeldo and her 3 children have madede this trip many times before. carmen: we have everything. you know, we're very blessed with our businessss and our home and material stuff, and i wanted to experience something different. angelica: i was so excited to come. like, i love kids, and i just--like, i realized the first time, like, after i came home from one of these trips, i was, like, sitting alone, thinking, "wow, like, i need--i don't feel alive when i'm not, you know, serving in some way." so i just--i'm hungry for more always, and i'm so glad that she, you know, brought us along. hughes: carmen's youngest son, christopher, was only 14 when he first came to an orphanage with his mom.

christopher: it's kind of nice to see someone that i look up to like my mom be able to just take the time and really make a change, and it's something that definitely inspired me to--in whatat i want to do as a career, because i wanted to go into environmental sciences, but after experiencing this aspect of--of service, i--i've kinind f changed my direction into environmental justice and activism. man: michelle. hughes: volunteering side by side, parents aren't lecturing their children. they're teaching by example how to give of themselves. susan: i want them to know that regardless of how busy you are, you can give. hughes: on this day trip to tijuana, mexico, there are many families, moms and kids, dads and daughters, and most have been here before. susan leclair has brought both her sons. this trip, 15-year-old chris was with her.

chris: my mom is a very busy person, so to put aside, like, her work, her family, and her own personal needs, to come down here and, like, give something back, it--it--it's a powerful message, really. it teaches me, like, i need to give back, as well. pacheco-taylor: the main thing with our bus trips is to have people connect with the kids. now, when you have an orphanage of 80 kids, and you only have a few staff members, the kids do not get a whole lot of one-on-one attention, so we always tell our volunteers, "your main role today is to connect with the kids and to play with them, to do arts and crafts, to do games, to really have that interaction." hughes: the interest in meaningful family trips has grown well beyond u.s. border countries like mexico and extends worldwide. it's called voluntourism, mixing pleasure with the passion to help. a quick internet search, and

you can find opportunities in just about every country of the world, working on disaster relief and conservation projects, taking mission trips in africa, central america, and nepal, enjoy the world, and do good deeds with trips designed spspecifically for familieies. pacheco-taylor: so the beautiful thing about volunteering and h having the opportunity to do, you know, what we're doing with bringing people down to--um, to the orphanage is--you know, usually, people find us on the internet. they get to a point in life where they think, "ok, i--i need to do something outside of my daily, you know, routine. i need to volunteer my work, my time some place." hughes: and according to hilda pacheco-taylor, at that point in their lives, if they have children, it can make for a meaningful family trip. pacheco-taylor: i think what they get is an amazing sense of, you know, connectedness with their parents when they're both helping together. they're

both looking at this child that needs help, at this child that's abandoned. hughes: a lesson in love that will hopefully last a lifetime. for "full frame," this is sandra hughes in tijuana, mexico. walter: coming up next, a look at the culture of volunteerism in asia. we'll be right back. since 2001, when the united nations designated an internationanal year o of volunteeeers, publicic perceptin of volunteerining in china has evevold, especiaially among youg people. in the past decade, millions have volunteered during key national events in china. that's helped to bring increased awareness and attention to social services and the country's development goals. joining us now to

discuss the state of vovolunteerism i in china and wt the next generation may bring is dr. yawei liu. he is the director of the china program at the carter center and the associate direrector of the e ca resesearch center in a atlanta, georgia. he's also an adjunct professor of political science at emory u universitity. welcomo "full frame," dr. liu. liu: it's great to be here. walter: let me take a step back to 2001. whahat were somome of e events that ococcurred then, and--and did that really get, basically, a jump--jump-start the whole volunteerism kick there in chinana, do you think? liu: yeah, obviously, that's the year of 9/11, and the united nations knocked on the door and said, "you know, we want to make this year the year of international volunteerism," and the party leaders said, "great. you know, bring it in," and the one of the most famous ladies of china, the iron lady, wu yi, vice premier, cheered the whole effort. so that put volunteerism on the map in china, so to speak, and all the party and state agencies and department, you know, joined the

chorus, and--and the whole country was mobilized to make this a part of a new china, so to speak. walter: and the u.n. tracks this sort of t thing, and--and they kind of feel that 2008 was kind of a seminal year f for china for two reasons, tragedy and triumph. i mean, this horrendous earthquake that really shook the nation, 70,000 people died, and then the triumph piece of it, the--the olympics coming to beijing. let's take a look at the earthquake first. what did you see happen when it came to thehe government a and to the people after that traragedy? liu: well, obviously, china had a bigger tragedy back in 1976. in 1976, when the earthquake happened, china actually denied all international help, and, of course, chinese people themselves were not able to rush to the zone of--of disaster, whereas when the earthquake in sichuan happened in 2008, you know, this is the age of the internet, so the

news spread wide and far, and many chinese, you know, they were different from when they were back in 1976. you know, they--they had more resources at theheir fingertips, and t the are more non-governmental organizations. they all wanted to rush in to help, and, of course, because of the lack of coordination, we had more than the government could handle at the time, so--but quickly the government responded, and there was much better and more efficient coordination of the volunteers, and i think the government learned a tremendous lesson, that the society actually can deliver a lot more to where services are needed. walter: and so months later in august, you--you have the olympics. did they harness some of that? i mean, did you see a lot of volunteers at that time, too? liu: no, i think the olympic games was different, becauause olympic games you had the assistance and help for the international olympic games. you know, the chinese send their officials all over the world to the cities where olympic games were held. so

that was a much more sophisticated process in terms of recruiting, and i think they had more than they really needed. my daughter also wanted to volunteer, and she filed an application online, wanted to go back to china, but she was never able to hear from the committee. walter: heh heh heh! so she missed out on that volunteering opportunity, but a l lot of the young people tooook advantage of it, didn't they? liu: yeah, i think, you know, college students and junior government officials, even higih school students, you know, they took advantage, and according to the u.n. report, you know, 1.7 million volunteers, and if you calculate their volunteer hours, it could be translated to several hundred million u.s. dollars. that's--so, that's a lot the government was able to save. walter: that is a lot. let me ask you about young people and--and what they're eager to volunteer for in china today, do you think? liu: i think the youngng people, it depends on whwhich group of

young people, whether you're referring to the young people like the high school, where i think they are just way too busy. the study load is way too high for them really to think about seriously volunteering. if you refer to the young people in the universities and colleges, you know, they--they want to be involved. they want to be involved in social services. they want to be involved in terms of going to the countryside. they particularly want to look at migrants in the cities where they don't have equal access to education, to healthcare. you know, they were involved in terms of setting up schools for them, setting up of legal aid centers for them, and many of them, of course, wanted to even go out of china to african countries and other developing countries to volunteer their services. walter: so stepping back to 2008, do you think those--those two critical evevents were building blocks to--for what--where we are not in terms of volunteererism in cnana?

liu: not really. i think china--because, you know, i--when i was growing up, there was this famous soldier by the name of lei feng. you know, lei feng is about volunteerism, and in 1963, mao zedong and all the other state leaders called the whole country to learn from him. so i wouldn't say 2008 put the building blocks. you know, i mean it was--it was there. it was dormant because of the reform, because of the introduction of the market economy, so people tended to focus more on taking care of themselves, and--so 2008 was a turning point only because, you know, these two events, as you mentioned, one very tragic one, and the other a victorious glorious one, that really, you know, sort of woke up that dormant spirit and--and made people think that, you know, "i probably have more to offer to--to the country and to the

society." walter: you talked about the government. the government, of course, came out with the china'a's twelfth, this 5-yearar plan in 2011. what were some of the goals elucidated in the plan? liu: well, the plan itself, you know, the twtwelfth, which means--you know, it started a long time ago. it was really a--a soviet legacy of state economic planning every 5 years. what made the twelfth--fifth--5-year plan different from the previous ones was because this is the first one that declared to the whole nation. you know, the plan is not just about gdp. it's not just about economic growth. it is also about creating a more harmonious society. it is about reduction of poverty. it is about making rural residence and urban dwellers more equitable, and that actually has created more channels for the society force

to be involved, and, of course, you know, volunteerism is a big part of that societal force. walter: can you talk to me about corporate social responsibility initiatives there in china? what are you seeing on that front? liu: i think corporate social responsibility is something that was introduced in china firstly by international corporations like microsoft, like bare, like exxon, and, you know, they're in china, they're doing business, they understand fromom their corporate history, in order for the companies to sustain their development, in order for their product to be popular among any country's people, you have to engage the community at large, and the chinese corporations have learned, and both in china and outside china, the big state enterprises, as well as more private, but also multinationals like huawei and zte, they have

now all engaged in corporate social responsibility activities. they're engaging the community. they're involved in education, you know, involved in art educatioion. they're involved in poverty reduction, and they have done a good job, and--and i think this is a big part of the internationalization that china is going through. walter: you know, when you look at corporations, they can mobilize so many people and--and point them in--in directions and really make an impact, but we've also seen a dramatic impact t through the ages from grassroots, smaller organizations. are we seeing mumuch of an impact t there? are you seeing that startiting to mobilize, as well, in china? liu: i i think they are growing, and according to the--to the u.n. report, you know, there are multimillion ngos in china. there are also 4 million--i--i think they're talking about 20 to 40 million registered, you know, at different levels, and also 4 million ngos at the

grassroots level that were never able to register or chose not to register. so they're all there. the--the issue here is how do you make them more engaged? how do you monitor them? how do you create standards that all these ngos will have to apply to their activities and--and programming, but more importantly, how they're going to be protected, and--and how they can easily, in a very public and transparent way, to register with the government and then after the registration to operate independently? walter: you're kind of sitting on the sideline. you have a nice view from where you are. if you were to recommend sosome changes to realllly enhance volunteerism in china, whwhat might t they b? liu: i--i think, first of all, you need to have a law for--for the ngo, how do you register, how you're going to raise your money, how you're going to file with--with the government. you know, it--it--it is like here

in the--in the u.s., you know, you can have a nonprofit, and basically the internal revenue service is the one that monitors activities of the nonprofit. in china, you don't have such a mechanism, and all the government and party departments and agencies are involved. when--when you have all of them involved, you don't have anybody involved, and--and therefore, there is no centralized guidance on--on this issue. so the national people's congress will have to be quick in promulgating a law so that there will be both regulation and protection, and then the government can always, you know, sort of on the front, but at the same time, give the ngos enough room to move around. walter: dr. liu, thanks so much for joining us from atlanta. it's been great talking to you. liu: it's my pleasure. thank you. walter: when we come back, how one teen's dream to battle discrimination is finding a

global plalatform. 16-year old ziad ahmed is a bangladeshi-american muslim living in princeton, new jersey. shortly after the september 11, 2001 terror attacks in the u.s., he saw firsthand the misconceptions and prejudice people had about islam. ziad saw a need to speak out, to have a voice not just for himself but for others who felt alone in defending who they are and where they come from. two years ago, he started a website called redefy. it's an online place for young people to share their stories in order to help others defy stereotypes and embrace acceptance. his work is so renowned, he was recognized by the white house. in fact, his efforts earned him a seat at president barack obama's dinner

table this past summer. he's here to share e more about his journey. pretty incredible journey, i might say, too. ahmed: thank you. walter: welcome to "full frame." ahmed: thank you for having me. walter: so tell me about starting this. what--what was the deciding factor that you felt like you had to do something? ahmed: so i don't think there's any one moment or thing that made me--that prompted me to start redefy, but it was my entire life experiences coming together, realizing that i had to be part of starting and initiating a positive change in this world. that really prompted me to start redefy. so the summer before my freshman year, um, in 2013, i said to myself, "looook, there's this community need." i see so manyny of my friends, so mamany people in t this world being ostracaci, excluded, marginalized because of who they are, where t they come from, and people are just dedefenseless, and--and i've never had a problem speaking up for r myself and defendingng my faith h and my ethnicity and my attributes, but there are so many people who don't have that same confidence. so i thought to myself, how can i better the situation? what can i do to

make this better? so i went about creating redefy, because even me, myself, like, there were so many m misconceptionss that i held, and even--even as i go through this journey, i learn so much more about the diversity that exists in our world, um, and i wanted to create a platform by which teenagers could really become educated about these issues and engaged in them. so i started this website and reached out to some of my friends to really start this movement, and--and i've been very fortunate to see it b blossom from there.e. walter: ok, but you're a teenager. most teenagers are thinking about going out on a date or perhaps getting a better locker, so, i mean,n, was this a hard sell with other teenagers? like, "why, man? why do we want get all involved in this?" or--or did you find that you had a receptive audience? ahmed: i mean, i'm fortunate to live in princeton, new jersey, and be surrounded by an incredible group of young people and adults, obviously, at princeton university, that are really engaged in issues that are most pertinent to our society. so in that way, i definitely had friends and people who are supporting me from the--from the get-go. however, my--my biggest

obstacle con--my biggest obstacle in my work continues to be trying to convince teenagers that we can have efficacy despite our age, and--and one message that i want every person who hears me speak to--to really fully understand and comprehend is that our age does not limit our activism and that our voices, despite all else, can be heard, and--and--and if anything, they're heard more because of our age, because we're more vulnerable, because we're more innocentnt, because we know what is happening now. it's real. these issues affect us, and i think that as i do things, like go on cctv, and i--and i inincrease m my visibility, andi use my voice to advocate for justice, people are listening, and more and more teenagers are willing to be involveded because they see firsthandnd with me as anan example that, "he y you knw what? teenagers can make a difference, they are making a difffference, , and we want to e part of this." walter: september 11th, a terrible tragedy here in the united states, and yet we saw so many good things come of it, where people lined up to give blood, and--and that--that--that was early on, but then we saw the ugly side

of it, which obviously got you interested in doing what you're doing. what happened after that terrorist attack that you started to see in terms of discrimination or just prejudice, people saying things or doing things that really kind of galvanized your interest in doing what you're doing today? ahmed: i mean, i--i--i want to make clear first of all that i'm not justst inspired to do thisis work because of anti-muslim bigotry. bigotry of all forms, like, deeply, deeply, deeply hururts my heart every time i see it. there are just so many people being discriminated against in this world for thingsgs that they can't control, and--and thatat s why i do this work, not just because of anti-muslim bigotry, but certainly, after 9/11 and in a world where anti--anti-muslim bigotry is so rampant and so normalized. it's a huge issue, and i deal with it every single day of my life, whether it be after an article is written about me, and in the comments there are just disgusting things, saying about how i'm just going go back to isis the next day and

how my work k doesn't hahave validity because of my faith and that it's a front forr anti-semitism and just gross things because people aren't even willing to click on the links. they just see the word "muslim" and catategorized that with gross thoughts because of the way the media has misconstrued my faith. it's something that i deal with every day and something that i am working towards to defeat, because we cannot continue to paint a people with one brush, whether it'd be muslims, whether it'd be the lgbtq-plus community, whether it'd be any community. we are more than the labels that society y gives us, anand i will keep saying it untl the day i die. walter: what about social engagement, social justice engagemement with teenagers? u , you--i--i was looking at your website. you got a lot of people involved in this, from your school and elsewhere, around the world, in fact. um, talk to me a about the ripple effects. once you started to crcreate this, whehen did you ut to see other teens say, "hey, this connects with me," and identifying with what you were after? ahmed: so, i i think that--originally, it was just me and 4 o of my friends, , but

then i really saw a lot of people being interested in the wo and being like, "ziad, how can i hehelp? how can i get involved in promoting acceptance and promoting diversity?" and so we created a school representatives t team, and after we did that, we saw people all over the world, a lot of my friends that i've made through summer programs and things of that sort, reaching out and being like, "i want to be a part of this. i want to be a part of this movement. i want to be a part of the solution," and since then and since we've had more ofof a media presesence and as e grow in visibility, now we get applications on--for our team from all over the world from people who have just heard about us through the internet or people who just see one of our tweets that's been retweeted or things like that, and i think social media and the internet has been instrumental in allowing us to amplify our message, because what we can dodo is we can say--we e blish qualality content, we allow for anyone to publish stories, we--we publish--we--we post on social media. we do all these things that can reach a really huge audience. we have almost 2,000 likes on facebook, over 30,000 hits on our website, and we're growing every single day, and

that allows us to engagage peope from all over the world and really target to the youth because that's who we're trying to engage. walter: so if--if somebody's never gone to your website, what kind of stories are they going to read? what--what are some of the things that they're going to see there? ahmed: well, we hope to be a place where on our website you can see the whole gamut of diversity that exists, and we're trying to get there as we grow a more diverse and more complete team and a more international team, but you'll see stories of people trying to rec--trying to reconcile where they live, with their school, and how people--and their perception to people's faith, and ststories of peoplple sayin, "why do you wear that hijab? what does that mean? y you're a teterrorist," peopople saying, u don'n't belong herere," people saying, "you're not--you're smart for a black k kid or "you don't belong in honors classes because of your race." just--and really m moving stories, reaeally raw, intimimae ststories of teenagers, youth dealing with these issues and having to deal with ththings tht are just completely unfair, people just saying t these uneducated, misinformed, ignorant statements, not necessarily out of malice, but

just out of severe mis--miseducation. we have a lack of education in----in this country and in this world about minonorities, about hehearing narratives that arare different from our own, and what redefy hopes to be is a platform by which we can educate ourselves about narratives that we would otherwisise be unfnfamiliar wit, uneducated about, and that where i think--that's where i think the power lies. walter: let me ask you about hehere in the united statates, because i think--this will connect with you. i mean, if--if you're here in the u.s. and you want to watch news and you have a certain bias. uh, let's say, i--i tend to go to the right. i'm going to watch fox news because it's basically a mirror. everything that i believe is going to be sent back to me. perhaps i'm on the left, and i watch msnbc and everything--so how do you--you're obviously going to connect with the people that you want to connect with who are like-minded. how do you move over and get the people that really need to get on board and start seeing the world in a different way? ahmed: absolutely, absolutely. so one of the things that i did, because i--i saw that issue from the get-go, is, we--so we recently

restructured, um, because before it was what you're saying, "you're interested in social justice, come work with us, come see what we have to offer." but now, under our new restructuring, we have a programming team. we have a journalism team. we have an advocacy team. we have all these different teams, so it's like, "hey, you're really interested in prograramming. you can code in c++. come and join our team and be educated through that process." "you're really into writing. you like journalism. come join our team and you could be educated through that process." so what we're trying to do is use people's existing interests and have that intersect with our mission and have people become educated and aware about our work in that way, and hopefully that prompts them to be part of this larger solution. walter: i had the great fortune to meet your mom, who's sitting righght over there, um, whwho is just basically on fumes trying to keep p with you. you're going a hundred miles an houour, but i get the sense that your parents helped shape who you are today. ahmed: absolutely, absolutely. walter: how so? ahmed: i i would not be half the person i am without t my parent. i think that my upbringiging has been the--the key foundation to my activism. my parents

from--from--from my birth have--have told me that it's my duty to give back to humanity. they took me to bangladesh, and i saw poverty firsthand. they didn't shut off the news. they allowed me to watch the news. they wanted me to be informed about the state of our reaealit, and because of that--because of the exposure that they gave me, the--the tools that they empowered me with, i knew that this--that this world had so many injustices anand that it ws my duty to be part of the solution, that i had to fight for humanity, that i couldn't be complacent in this--in this injustice, thahat as a human being, as part of humanity, it's our responsibility to better it. we can't just sit here a and be lilike, "that's somebody else's job." it's our collective responsibility. we look at syria, we look at the syrian refugee crisis, it's not syria's problem, it's not europe's problem, it's our problem, and my parents inspired that within me because they showed me that we are one people first, and that's whatat we have to rally behind. w wha's most important to all of us is creating a world where a

safe--where our children can be safe, where our children could be accepted, but the only way that's possible is if we all rally bebehind that same idea. f we all recognize that all of our children deserve to be safe anand accepted, they w will be, because we value each other as human beings, because we stand up for what's right, and because we stand together as humanity. walter: well, we will leave it there. thanks so much for coming on and talking to us. ahmed: thank you so much for having me. walter: and that's it for this week. join the conversation with us on social media. we are "cctv america" on twitter, facebook, and youtube, and now, you can watch "full frame" on our new mobile app, available worldwide on any smartphone for free. get the latest news headlines and connect to us on facebook, twitter, youtube, and weibo. search "cctv america" on your app store to download today. all of our interviews can still be found online at cctv-america.com, and let us know what you'd lilike us to tae "full frame" next. simply email us at fullframe@cctv-america.com. until then, i'm mike walter in

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