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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.81,0:00:02.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started working
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.45,0:00:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with refugees because I wanted
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.33,0:00:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make a difference,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.67,0:00:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and making a difference starts
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.08,0:00:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with telling their stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.44,0:00:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I meet refugees,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.93,0:00:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always ask them questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.73,0:00:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who bombed your house?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.04,0:00:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who killed your son?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.70,0:00:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did the rest of your family make it out alive?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.74,0:00:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How are you coping
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.73,0:00:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your life in exile?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.26,0:00:31.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's one question that always seems to me
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.26,0:00:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be most revealing, and that is:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.72,0:00:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did you take?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.91,0:00:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was that most important thing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.16,0:00:40.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you had to take with you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.23,0:00:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the bombs were exploding in your town,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.64,0:00:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the armed gangs were approaching your house?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.06,0:00:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Syrian refugee boy I know
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.66,0:00:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,told me that he didn't hesitate
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.36,0:00:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when his life was in imminent danger.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.14,0:01:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He took his high school diploma,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.13,0:01:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and later he told me why.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.06,0:01:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "I took my high school diploma
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.26,0:01:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my life depended on it."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.47,0:01:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he would risk his life to get that diploma.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.70,0:01:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On his way to school, he would dodge snipers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.38,0:01:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His classroom sometimes shook
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.90,0:01:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the sound of bombs and shelling,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.13,0:01:23.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his mother told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.94,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Every day, I would say to him every morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Honey, please don't go to school.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.93,0:01:33.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he insisted, she said,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.39,0:01:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I would hug him as if it were for the last time."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.36,0:01:39.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he said to his mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.39,0:01:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We're all afraid,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.24,0:01:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but our determination to graduate
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.13,0:01:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is stronger than our fear."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.46,0:01:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But one day, the family got terrible news.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.80,0:01:53.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hany's aunt, his uncle and his cousin
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.53,0:01:56.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were murdered in their homes for refusing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.22,0:01:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to leave their house.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.22,0:02:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their throats were slit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.08,0:02:02.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was time to flee.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.71,0:02:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They left that day, right away, in their car,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.72,0:02:07.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hany hidden in the back because they were facing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.59,0:02:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,checkpoints of menacing soldiers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.50,0:02:15.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they would cross the border into Lebanon,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.21,0:02:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they would find peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.90,0:02:21.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they would begin a life of grueling hardship
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.59,0:02:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and monotony.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.59,0:02:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had no choice but to build a shack
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.29,0:02:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the side of a muddy field,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.62,0:02:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is Hany's brother Ashraf,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.94,0:02:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who plays outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.68,0:02:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that day, they joined
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.10,0:02:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the biggest population of refugees in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.30,0:02:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a country, Lebanon, that is tiny.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.33,0:02:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It only has four million citizens,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.98,0:02:49.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there are one million Syrian refugees living there.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.55,0:02:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's not a town, a city or a village
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.64,0:02:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not host to Syrian refugees.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.39,0:03:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is generosity and humanity
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.59,0:03:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is remarkable.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.96,0:03:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about it this way, proportionately.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.96,0:03:10.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would be as if
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.71,0:03:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the entire population of Germany,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.70,0:03:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,80 million people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.57,0:03:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would flee to the United States in just three years.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.96,0:03:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Half of the entire population of Syria
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.12,0:03:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is now uprooted,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.55,0:03:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of them inside the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.30,0:03:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Six and a half million people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.60,0:03:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have fled for their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.32,0:03:36.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over and well over three million people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.21,0:03:37.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have crossed the borders
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.93,0:03:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have found sanctuary\Nin the neighboring countries,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.48,0:03:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and only a small proportion, as you see,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.40,0:03:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have moved on to Europe.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.53,0:03:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I find most worrying
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.20,0:03:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that half of all Syrian refugees are children.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.13,0:03:57.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took this picture of this little girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.37,0:04:00.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was just two hours after she had arrived
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.29,0:04:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after a long trek from Syria into Jordan.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.64,0:04:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And most troubling of all
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.06,0:04:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that only 20 percent of \NSyrian refugee children
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.80,0:04:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are in school in Lebanon.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.28,0:04:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, Syrian refugee children,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.21,0:04:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all refugee children tell us
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.51,0:04:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,education is the most important thing in their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.57,0:04:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because it allows them to think of their future
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.76,0:04:33.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than the nightmare of their past.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.15,0:04:38.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It allows them to think of hope rather than hatred.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.78,0:04:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm reminded of a recent visit I took
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.81,0:04:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.39,0:04:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I met this girl,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.20,0:04:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I thought, "She's beautiful,"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.98,0:04:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went up to her and asked her,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.69,0:04:51.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Can I take your picture?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.63,0:04:53.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she said yes,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.33,0:04:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she refused to smile.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.37,0:04:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think she couldn't,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.42,0:05:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I think she must realize that she represents
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.92,0:05:07.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lost generation of Syrian refugee children,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.37,0:05:11.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a generation isolated and frustrated.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.95,0:05:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, look at what they fled:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.50,0:05:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,utter destruction,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.34,0:05:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buildings, industries, schools, roads, homes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.91,0:05:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hany's home was also destroyed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.59,0:05:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This will need to be rebuilt
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.81,0:05:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by architects, by engineers, by electricians.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.64,0:05:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Communities will need teachers and lawyers
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.28,0:05:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and politicians interested in reconciliation
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.52,0:05:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not revenge.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.17,0:05:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shouldn't this be rebuilt
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.92,0:05:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the people with the largest stake,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.02,0:05:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the societies in exile, the refugees?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.88,0:05:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Refugees have a lot of time
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.63,0:05:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to prepare for their return.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.88,0:06:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might imagine that being a refugee
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.60,0:06:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is just a temporary state.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.10,0:06:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well far from it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.04,0:06:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With wars going on and on,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.56,0:06:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the average time a refugee will spend in exile
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.36,0:06:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is 17 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.83,0:06:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hany was into his second year in limbo
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.42,0:06:24.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I went to visit him recently,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.79,0:06:28.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we conducted our entire conversation in English,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.55,0:06:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which he confessed to me he learned
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.44,0:06:34.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from reading all of Dan Brown's novels
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.09,0:06:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from listening to American rap.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.44,0:06:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also spent some nice moments of laughter
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.19,0:06:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fun with his beloved brother Ashraf.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.82,0:06:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'll never forget what he told me
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.44,0:06:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we ended our conversation that day.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.87,0:06:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.28,0:06:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I am not a student, I am nothing."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.81,0:07:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hany is one of 50 million people
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.53,0:07:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uprooted in this world today.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.10,0:07:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never since World War II
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.88,0:07:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have so many people been forcibly displaced.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.15,0:07:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So while we're making sweeping progress
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.78,0:07:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in human health,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.88,0:07:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in technology, in education and design,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.88,0:07:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are doing dangerously little
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.24,0:07:30.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help the victims
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.55,0:07:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are doing far too little
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.24,0:07:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stop and prevent
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.28,0:07:38.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the wars that are driving them from their homes.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.69,0:07:43.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there are more and more victims.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.13,0:07:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day, on average,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.27,0:07:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the end of this day,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.45,0:07:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,32,000 people will be forcibly displaced
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.30,0:07:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from their homes —
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.33,0:07:57.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,32,000 people.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.27,0:08:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They flee across borders like this one.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.02,0:08:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We captured this on the Syrian border to Jordan,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.72,0:08:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is a typical day.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.59,0:08:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or they flee on unseaworthy and overcrowded boats,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.49,0:08:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,risking their lives in this case
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.29,0:08:22.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to reach safety in Europe.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.92,0:08:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This Syrian young man
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.64,0:08:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survived one of these boats that capsized —
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.42,0:08:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of the people drowned —
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.05,0:08:31.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he told us,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.26,0:08:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Syrians are just looking for a quiet place
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.42,0:08:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where nobody hurts you,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.29,0:08:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where nobody humiliates you,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.83,0:08:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where nobody kills you."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.54,0:08:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I think that should be the minimum.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.76,0:08:49.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about a place of healing,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.89,0:08:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of learning,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.77,0:08:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even opportunity?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.83,0:08:58.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Americans and Europeans
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.86,0:09:02.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have the impression that proportionally
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.11,0:09:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,huge numbers of refugees are coming
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.48,0:09:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their country,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.50,0:09:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the reality is
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.64,0:09:12.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that 86 percent, the vast majority of refugees,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.29,0:09:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are living in the developing world,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.97,0:09:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in countries struggling with their own insecurity,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.52,0:09:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their own issues of helping their own populations
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.54,0:09:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and poverty.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.66,0:09:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So wealthy countries in the world should recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.94,0:09:32.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the humanity and the generosity of the countries
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.64,0:09:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are hosting so many refugees.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.75,0:09:40.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all countries should make sure that no one
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.39,0:09:42.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fleeing war and persecution
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.94,0:09:46.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arrives at a closed border.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.65,0:09:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.28,0:09:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.20,0:09:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is something more that we can do
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.50,0:10:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than just simply helping refugees survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.92,0:10:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can help them thrive.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.45,0:10:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We should think of refugee camps and communities
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.51,0:10:11.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as more than just temporary population centers
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.71,0:10:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people languish
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.87,0:10:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waiting for the war to end.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.78,0:10:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather, as centers of excellence,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.51,0:10:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where refugees can triumph over their trauma
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.46,0:10:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and train for the day that they can go home
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.64,0:10:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as agents of positive change
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.72,0:10:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and social transformation.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.12,0:10:37.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes so much sense,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.51,0:10:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm reminded of the terrible war in Somalia
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.82,0:10:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has been raging on for 22 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.74,0:10:48.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And imagine living in this camp.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.25,0:10:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I visited this camp.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.82,0:10:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in Djibouti, neighboring Somalia,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.70,0:10:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was so remote
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.24,0:10:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we had to take a helicopter to fly there.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.68,0:11:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was dusty and it was terribly hot.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.13,0:11:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we went to visit a school
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.42,0:11:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and started talking to the children,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.34,0:11:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I saw this girl across the room
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.94,0:11:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who looked to me to be the same age
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.78,0:11:12.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as my own daughter, and I went up and talked to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.07,0:11:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I asked her the questions
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.61,0:11:15.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that grown-ups ask kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.79,0:11:17.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, "What is your favorite subject?"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.71,0:11:20.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.37,0:11:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is when her face turned blank,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.66,0:11:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she said to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.71,0:11:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I have no future.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.18,0:11:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My schooling days are over."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.16,0:11:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought, there must be some misunderstanding,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.81,0:11:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I turned to my colleague
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.12,0:11:37.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she confirmed to me
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.22,0:11:39.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is no funding for secondary education
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.91,0:11:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this camp.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.18,0:11:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how I wished at that moment
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.65,0:11:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I could say to her,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.97,0:11:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We will build you a school."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.37,0:11:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I also thought, what a waste.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.55,0:11:55.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She should be and she is
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.59,0:11:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the future of Somalia.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.92,0:12:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A boy named Jacob Atem
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.13,0:12:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a different chance, but not before he experienced
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.33,0:12:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,terribly tragedy.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.42,0:12:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He watched — this is in Sudan —
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.88,0:12:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as his village — he was only seven years old —
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.18,0:12:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,burned to the ground, and he learned
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.56,0:12:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that his mother and his father
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.40,0:12:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his entire family
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.39,0:12:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were killed that day.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.25,0:12:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only his cousin survived, and the two of them
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.04,0:12:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,walked for seven months —
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.32,0:12:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is boys like him —
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.17,0:12:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chased and pursued by wild\Nanimals and armed gangs,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.38,0:12:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they finally made it to refugee camps
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.74,0:12:34.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they found safety,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.27,0:12:36.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he would spend the next seven years
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.39,0:12:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Kenya in a refugee camp.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.58,0:12:42.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But his life changed
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.11,0:12:44.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he got the chance to be resettled
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.21,0:12:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.42,0:12:49.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he found love in a foster family
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.11,0:12:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was able to go to school,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.70,0:12:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he wanted me to share with you
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.100,0:12:55.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this proud moment
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.56,0:12:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he graduated from university.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.87,0:13:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.83,0:13:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spoke to him on Skype the other day,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.24,0:13:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was in his new university in Florida
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.24,0:13:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pursuing his Ph.D. in public health,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.24,0:13:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he proudly told me how he was able to raise
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.31,0:13:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough funds from the American public
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.99,0:13:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to establish a health clinic back in his village
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.58,0:13:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back home.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.66,0:13:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I want to take you back to Hany.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.94,0:13:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I told him I was going to have the chance
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.16,0:13:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to speak to you here on the TED stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.88,0:13:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he allowed me to read you a poem
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.17,0:13:41.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he sent in an email to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.53,0:13:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wrote:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.27,0:13:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I miss myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.83,0:13:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my friends,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.34,0:13:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,times of reading novels or writing poems,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.59,0:13:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,birds and tea in the morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.52,0:14:04.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My room, my books, myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.46,0:14:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything that was making me smile.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.12,0:14:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, oh, I had so many dreams
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.25,0:14:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were about to be realized."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.32,0:14:21.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here is my point:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.55,0:14:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not investing in refugees
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.60,0:14:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a huge missed opportunity.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.24,0:14:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leave them abandoned,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.09,0:14:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they risk exploitation and abuse,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.44,0:14:39.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and leave them unskilled and uneducated,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.71,0:14:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and delay by years the return
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.26,0:14:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to peace and prosperity in their countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.12,0:14:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe how we treat the uprooted
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.40,0:14:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will shape the future of our world.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.97,0:14:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The victims of war can hold the keys
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.93,0:15:01.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to lasting peace,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.45,0:15:03.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's the refugees
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.26,0:15:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who can stop the cycle of violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.92,0:15:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hany is at a tipping point.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.94,0:15:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would love to help him go to university
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.21,0:15:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to become an engineer,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.27,0:15:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but our funds are prioritized for the basics in life:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.12,0:15:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tents and blankets and mattresses and kitchen sets,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.16,0:15:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food rations and a bit of medicine.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.52,0:15:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,University is a luxury.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.92,0:15:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But leave him to languish in this muddy field,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.25,0:15:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he will become a member
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.21,0:15:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a lost generation.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.64,0:15:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hany's story is a tragedy,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.34,0:15:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it doesn't have to end that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.07,0:15:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.45,0:15:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)