disabled women and youth and she is deaf and you will be hearing the voice of her interpreter brenda denver is just off camera and thanks for being here and you are all in d.c. as part of the young african leaders summit because you are leaders in your community. christian innovation is a big part of what all of you do. you have seen two decades after war in the drc and very much a generation of hopelessness, how do you use art to turn all of that around? >> thank you very much for the question and thank you for the viewers and thank you for al jazeera to giving us this chance to be able to interact with the american audience. we have been here in the u.s. for the past six weeks and i have said again i'm a cofounder of youth action center, initiative we started three years ago to empower youth for responsible leadership through art and communication. now, when you talk about eastern part of drc many of us know of the sad and gruesome war incident that has been going on for two decades and youth have been on the forefront of war and used by politicians or malitia groups to cause harm. it hap