we're going to have a conversation now up here and let me introduce first samira hamidi who is the head of the spectacular afghan women's network with 5,000 individuals. miss hamidi is very well known across afghanistan, but now internationally, because she has been in the major organizations as their -- as the various conferences where the future of afghanistan is being planned, is being created. thank you so much for coming. then next to her is mossara mossarat qadeem. as you see from the bio, she has been working through an academic setting but has been called upon to be more and more involved at the community life, at the community base. she's published many books, many articles, but probably her most effective work that is really capturing the imagination of people in this country and around the world is when she goes into territory that the u.n. -- that is off limits to the u.n., it's off limits to the u.s., because of the power of extremists in those areas, and she herself goes in to do the work turning those families around, turning those young men around, and i home mossarat, t