he made a six month long escape from burundi, and then from the genocide in rwanda and back to burundi and by accident he got transported to new york city. he arrived at jfk with $200 in his pocket, no english, and these the obtained under false pretenses although that has been long since fix, no friends or relations and memories of course so fresh that he sometimes confused past and present. his first trip on a subway, he got lost for most of the day. at night deese lupton central park. then one day sit-in near despair he delivered groceries to a small catholic church or the mat and it acts contemplative none that decided what he needed was a family and said that defined him one so doggedly that sometimes deo wished he would quit but finally succeeded. he was essentially adopted by childless american couple, painter and sociologists, neither young nor rich but big hearted interbraid obviously and less than two years after landing in new york, he was enrolled as an undergraduate at columbia university. i was struck by the story the first time i heard it, struck by its various remarkabl

it was -- from still is nothing like this operation elsewhere in burundi. people come there for help all over the country. some people come on week-long treks from other countries too. and some visitors have come not for medical help, but only to look at the clinicking. one traveler was asked why he e had come, the traveler said to see america. when i heard president obama's speech in ghana, i thought a little differently. as you recall, he imagined a new partnership between the united states and africa. one that would be grounded in mutual responsibility. village health works seem to me one small example. a model of african and american cooperation. obama's lofty vision embodied in instrument of peace. burundi is a country that was torn apart by two different groups of people. differents that were exaggerated. dayo has inspired an anecdote for the beginning -- or the beginning of a potential anecdote which is common vulnerability to illness and injury and our common hope for life. personally, i find this enterprise of his very moving. in part because it en

a young medical student theirly survived the onset of the native war of burundi. he survives because he left the door to his room open and the men who would have killed him assumed he had already fled. he made a 6-month long on escape and then from the genocide in rwanda and then back to burundi and almost by accident he got transported to new york city. he arrived at jfk with $200, no english, a visa obtained under false pretenses, although that has been fixed. no friends, no relations, and memories of horrors so fresh that he confused past and present. he got lost for most of the day on the subway. he delivered groceries, at night he slept in central park. then one day, he delivered groceries to a small catholic church where he met an exnone who decided

former congressman howard wolpe as a special envoy for the great lakes region including congo and burundind that's all region which has been a hot that as you know of atrocities and genocide over the last two decades to be actively involved in diplomacy in that region to prevent and resolve conflict. even in places like guinea where i think it's -- where we had some recent horrific atrocities. we have been very much involved with not only in new york in the council, but in the region, through our embassy and in various behind-the-scenes to pull diplomatic efforts, including some that i myself have been involved in in the past week to try to deal with that very volatile situation to spend even further out of control. see maxell use it in terms of individual conflict as opposed to an overarching institutional changes? >> well, you've asked what we've done. so i'm trying to address that. >> got you. >> i'm not speaking to the merits or demerits of overall institutional changes. we've also been very active as was the previous administration in going back to the clinton administration in tryin