Thank you oh it’s a good question um I’ve never quite thought about a definition for hope so it’s going to take a second to me hope is an imagination for a better future hello Leaving something for our children after we leave oh you you do things for other people Hope is very human and the Hope bus brings Eternal you know paradoxically I think you find Hope when you go into the darkest places you need to have some sort of Hope and that’s the only thing that’s going to keep you going forward keep you moving sounds like
Talk to people go outside let the sun touch your face or something you can talk to them and um figure out what’s going wrong family social interaction everything matters a lot if people is in the community there is always hope oh you can make a friend we have responsibility
To look out for others down here A supportive Community taking our role in making this place a better place they need to change that sounds about right the Need For Change hope can be the need for change I don’t think I could put it any better Your highness your excellencies ladies and gentlemen esteemed guests thank you so much for joining us here this evening and welcome to the desired award for human fraternity 2023 ceremony my name is your host for this evening and we are here to honor inspiring people who have spent their lives advocating for human
Fraternity in their communities and across the world it’s been four years since this Global humanitarian award was launched this award that was named after the Visionary founder of the UAE the late Memorial Garden we now gather the award was inspired by a historic meeting of his Holiness Pope Francis and
His Eminence the grand Imam of el-azhar Professor Ahmad on February the 4th 2019 these two great leaders signed the document on human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi under the patronage of His Highness president of the United Arab Emirates inspired by the signing of the document the United Nations declared the 4th of
February as an international day of human fraternity and today on this special day we come together to help Advance the aspirations of the document S foreign Kia foreign And configuration is Foreign Salma Foreign Foreign S and your Holiness thank you for your reminder on the importance of unity as we strive toward these shared humanitarian values let’s reflect on the events of 2022 a year that needed us to stand up more than ever and make a difference while the world was in conflict
There were those who took a positive role in these times of need and gave us all a gift the gift of Hope hope to believe hope to dream hope that things would and could get better and to remind us all of the importance of unity and hope in all our lives a
Group of Performing artists from around the world collaborated to deliver a message of Hope foreign Lives residing Within Reach where it resounds with purpose and resilience intangible yes but not impossible if made attainable only by understanding and compassion hope is knowing that from Stillness and silence we can create Symphony hope to me is endless gratitude for both the lightning and the storm in the dark it
Is seeing Neches hail at the end of a long summer telling us that something is on the horizon to me hope hope is the real life part of me at my WhatsApp my best hope is always with me at my WhatsApp makes me feel like best
Friends are coming and not my best time to be blessed having told you something you know that you plus hope make I believe I’ve been told you something that you plus hope maker you can having to do something that you plus hope maker you will I’ve introduced something that you plus hope
Make a dream and dream survalley dreams and Imagination flickering at first then sparking ideas Illuminating the entire Skyline beyond what we ever thought was possible a spectacle of light inspiration echoing like the most hopeful chorus is the paper saying to The Poets through wazen and Mafia you need not be afraid
This poem can still be written hope is to imagine the night and stars saying this your sky What a moving performance that truly conveyed the harmony of human fraternity and it is that sense of unity of making a difference that is so intrinsic to desired award for human fraternity it’s the reason why we recognize outstanding people and organizations each year whose work change lives and inspires hope
Join us as we hear from some of those whose lives have been impacted by the work of honorees recognized by desired award for human fraternity over the past four years foreign Foreign Let’s put peace at the heart of our words and actions Let’s talk about the displaced individual that reached up to a 103 million the sad reality is the fun thing doesn’t match the needs Antonio coderas donated black his award to the unhcr that means unhcr can use it anytime anywhere whenever a crisis occurs that’s the biggest impact that desire the world has I met something together [Applause] thank you Heavier Jason yet YouTube Foreign foreign it is so touching to see the impact that our honorees have made the influx of nominations received each year shows us the diversity of individuals and organizations that striving to make a real difference in our world which makes it increasingly difficult to select the most deserving honorees each year we
Have an independent panel of diverse and distinguished public figures to select the honorees each member is an accomplished expert in their own field foreign To be part of this important jury of this community of human fraternity this award is the most urgent and more needed Awards Dr it is not exclusively on peace it is not exclusively on human rights it combines everything is to put that ideas in in real actions we open also the
World of these Persians and organizations to a wider audience Their common commitment leading to action even if not seen by the world they want to change the world in a better way they are full with compassion courage conviction is All the nominees are incredible people or organization but who could help us to promote human fraternity as a new ideology for the world based on the criteria and the needs for decision the nominees for this year then we have to choose each one of had independent views
We came with Open Hearts so that shows the association for one cause and the cause is human fertility and I think that is what the pope and the grand Imam are trying to do is the award winners come from one country or two countries three countries but the
Message of human faternity would be spread through this award across the globe and that is very much needed when we identify people and recognize them for what they have been doing then we are declaring to the world human fraternity is real it is not just an idea it is real
I would like to invite to the stage judge Muhammad abdisalam Secretary General of zeid award for human fraternity and Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Elders his Excellency Mr Miguel Angel moratinos United Nations under Secretary General and higher representative for the United Nations Alliance of civilizations 2015 Nobel Peace Laureate and
Entrepreneur and to introduce the first recipient of the 2023 Zaid award for human fraternity and to tell us more about their decision process Foreign mission foreign foreign foreign foreign committee will study each nomination thoroughly keeping in mind the values embedded in the document of human fraternity as a judging committee it was clear to us that community of San Diego has gone above and beyond to respond to this command to help those most in need completely
La fraternity Apache Foreign Video una basic universe Foreign Junior Enterprise I appreciate 140 Estrada episodes Divisa In action in group financially is Congratulations to the community of San Diego before we ask them to join us to the stage there is someone here that has a very special story to tell us Mrs zainab Ahmad please join us on the stage I want to tell you that there is too much violence in our world today I too experience it when I had to live many years ago from Somalia at the world that donated as any future or hope in Italy I a young Muslim thanks to community of the Santi gido and Christian Community
Was welcomed and integrated I was able to study and find a job understanding the family but above all my heart is open it I told that the difference between religion and culture was any episode don’t that could not be overcame but I was saved by those I didn’t know
From then on I too beginning to welcome and help those Fleek from another world I received the hope as a gift and giving back it it is at the what human fraternity is all about and this special prize make me happy today it is all message of Peace as precious
As the air we breathe it saved me it can save everyone shukran jasiran [Applause] welcome on the stage the community of Santa Gio Your arms is your excellencies honor guests ladies and gentlemen for the community of Santa GD I would like thank you all and especially the higher Committee of human fraternity and the judging Committee of desired award for human fraternity for honorary honoring us with this award that encourages us in our commitment to
Fraternity peace and service to the poorest in the world the values and principles of human fraternity bring us together today those same values compassion tolerance and Innovation guided shake diet to whose Legacy the institution of human fraternity Foundation is linked the land we are in on February 2019
So one of the greatest events of dialogue meetings and fraternity among religions with the signing of the historic document of human fraternity by Pope Francis and the grand Imam Ahmed al-tayab which we all feel responsible to fearful today the community of San Diego that I represent here believes that dialogue between religions
Is the path to fraternity religions in their Millennial wisdom Polished by prayer and contact with human suffering our Laboratories of humanity they are living organisms they gather and listen to desires of men and women they are not ideologies but communities rooting in the land close to the pain joy and sweat of people
The prayer of so many who suffer from war of those who live in place of pain or face terrible Journeys like the refugees calls us to build the fraternity and peace to alleviate suffering and prepare a better word this is a world called SAS once again not only to look
At past history but to work with even greater commitment to a future in which human fraternity is finally established everywhere thank you shukran and now I’d like to invite his and Cardinal Miguel Angel ayosso co-president of the higher Committee of human fraternity who is representing his eminence Cardinal Lewis Antonio Tagle Pro prefect
Of deity castri for evangelization Dr Epsy Campbell Barr former Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica and Mr kailash satyarthi 2014 Nobel Peace Laureate and child rights activists to join me on stage and tell us more about the journey to selecting our second awardee of the night foreign poured over
Hundreds of nominations to find those who embody the values of human fraternity in addition to the community of San Diego they chose a woman who has taken seriously and personally the document on human fraternity called to protect the Dignity of young people she’s a true Builder the Builder of peace of community
Of solidarity without help youth young people have turned away from violence extremism crime and drugs she has transformed the lives of so many young people men and women all this could only be triggered by her inner spark of compassion your word has embodied the values of human fraternity
You are an example of how women participation and leadership in our society is not only a blessing of to all us but it’s a crucial necessity your compassion and your love Inspire us to build a new word on behalf of the 2023 Sierra war from Human fraternity judging committee congratulations [Applause]
I remember I was sleeping I had gunshots and then we had a scream a neighbor who lives in the third house sends me a message ibra has been killed imagine seeing a 14 year old boy lying in a pool of blood that child should be in school that child is a society’s responsibility
I decided to visit my County Commission and he told me there are 124 on the shoot to kill God please don’t kill them give me a chance these boys can change the area I come from was the most notorious area in the map of Kenya 98 of nearly Islams it’s hoodlums
Income here is less than a dollar a day that’s why we have a lot of criminal activities going on something we have created for ourselves it has come to our disadvantage by not believing in community service People know me as mama shamsa as I found out a lot of Youth needed a mother figure in their lives Tina is a very good friend of my niece whenever as a mother when they come in from school notice Tina was not free as he should be I suspected something was not right
My biological mother didn’t take care of me she didn’t love me she even used to tell me that I am a bad luck to her that was my stepdad he was holding a knife at my stomach he stabbed me took me to the hospital for the wounds when I was with Mama
I felt safe mama shamsa is golden heart because having to receive children taking care of them like her own mentoring them and showing them the way I took her to so many sessions of trauma healing and Trauma counseling we noticed that she was very good in talking
Because she is a country she knows exactly what you look out for and with the trainings we’ve mentored her she told me now Mom I want to be a human rights Defender in terrorism somebody starts from somewhere these are the children we are trying to do prevention we sit together
And talk to the youth because there is no employment and we look for our alternative living skills for them Abbas was the leader of the criminal gangs in the nearly sub-county people used to feel now he sits with boys and talks to them This is Foreign People see me as mama I need to give birth to 10 000 will operate all over the world everybody has a party to play in this the strength of the women in Kenya are the women sitting in here [Applause] yes I Cry Sometimes I just wish my parents for a life to see the successes I’ve picked they went too much to make sure I get through the best this is a huge responsibility this award should motivate me to do more in society focus focus focus This award is not about me this award is for the thousands of women who are seeing more true happiness comes when you uplift others Essence and meaning of living This is extremely inspiring it’s really hard for me to keep my kids while watching the video and now before we ask our honorary Mama shamsa to join us we are going to hear from someone whose life she transformed I’d like to invite Mr Alfani Ali Alfani to the stage foreign
My name is Alfani Ali Alfani from Mombasa Kenya I am studying before you today as a living testimony of the great work done by mama shamsa she was the only strong barrier between me my friends and a militia group in Somalia if it wasn’t for her we would have been
Long dead or still alive but killing innocent people and doing massive destruction around the world I say this with humility and honest before Almighty Allah because this is the only way I can reward her for being a mother figure to me she stood by me even when the whole
World identified me as a loser this started after I suffered searching for a job and an opportunity it was my dream to serve my country as a soldier or joined Kenya post Authority but all in vain I conflicted with the law and everyone who stood to correct me
I believe they was right in everything including the choice of violence to sustain my life and shine among other young people peer pressure was real and I was in the process of joining an eximus militia group through a friend just to fulfill my dream of joining a military job after all
It was an opportunity for me to operate weapons as it was my dream to be a soldier for my country I remember this very day when I received an invitation to attend a community forum I decided to join thinking I will receive an allowance to get food afterwards only to meet mama shamsa
The days facilitator whose wisdom hit me she opened her arms to hug me and ever since I have never missed the warmth over mother’s love hope to me is to build more independent and patriotic young people free from crime and violence thank you so much Zayed award for human
Fraternity for honoring this Noble award to my mom super mama shamsa foreign Thank you foreign ladies and gentlemen good evening I thank the almighty God and the Syed a word for human fraternity for this prestigious recognition which goes to all women and youth in Kenya and globally as women we are full of circle within ourselves and with a little help we can create nature transform
And reform and that help comes from Zaid award human fraternity during my journey of transforming juvenile gangs and women affected by sexual gender-based violence and terrorism I had reached a dead end I had lost hope I begged cried and prayed for an opening or a breakthrough towards achieving my mission of giving them
Alternative livelihood skills your highness your excellencies God answered my prayer and directed Zaid award for human fraternity committee to me this honor is not about winning but how to live and fulfill the objectives the mission the core values of the award the honor is about the continuation of
The process in transforming lives from zero to a hundred in being compassionate and having empathy to the less in society this is why we work on bringing the soul of the Zaid award for human fraternity to Kenya I want people in Kenya in the whole world to know that you do not have
To come to United Arab Emirates to fill the spirit of Zaid but that the spirit of Zaid will come to you and it will touch you this is why I promised today in front of you this is why I promised today in front of you and beg Allah to guide me
To do justice to this award Long Live Sayed award for human fraternity and be blessed all of you thank you [Applause] [Applause] let’s hear from two inspiring leaders Foreign Foreign foreign Foreign S and your Holiness thank you for your kind words your highness your excellencies honored guests ladies and gentlemen it has been an absolute privilege to have been your host for this evening we leave you here with much hope for Humanity for kindness fraternal bonds and peace Thank you together we can spread the message of human fraternity and keep hope alive
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