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Every woman is a diamond | Georgette Biebie Songo | TEDxWanChaiSalon


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Madame Georgette Tickets are your friends

I am from Kikwit a small town

I am the eldest of a family of

twenty children including 14 girl and I am

the eldest of a family of 21 children

14 of which is boy my father

was polygamous is what you can

applaud my father yes madam jay-z and

my father invested at least no to

montfranc a diamond which abounded

Democratic Republic of Congo

but he made me a diamond who

was to publish on all this great

family

unlike his time girls

were meant for marriage but me

he pushed me he pushed me to go

at University

until becoming a pharmacy doctor at

the university rené descartes in paris

in 1988 mythical emeritus to

the university rené descartes in may

pushing to go very far in my

studies I understood later at the end

from my studies that my father wanted

cut rough diamonds that saw him in

me to turn me into stones

valuable for later on guiding the

big family and at the end of my

studies I told myself I’m in charge

of the diamond manager I have to go

pray a democratic republic of

congo and that’s what pushed me to

come back to my native Haiti

stop back to congo and go back

shine factors bibeau congo I had

a fight as a militant of

rights protection fighters

women and the promotion of

female leadership

it was a legal fight and then a

fight against excessive poverty

women of the congo and in 2005 with a

group of women obviously with the

collaboration of some kind men

and we were able to enroll in our

constitution

two articles favorable to the promotion

women’s rights

Article 14 on parity is there

Greece, which condemns all violence

Sexuality on anyone as a crime

against humanity

what is a pity is that these fights

we won it thanks to his man

gender deputies released from

retrograde mentalities in my husband

that helped us get the

law because there were only 60 women

out of 500 deputies in parliament but he

should know that in republic

Democratic Republic of Congo

there have been many wars and

armed conflict there is a social crisis

serious economic and women live

in excessive economic poverty

situation is so horrible and it’s in

living the fight of survival every day

and by getting involved body and soul in the

social struggle of Congolese women that

I was appointed president of

Congolese women’s caucus

from this point and this organization militates

for full participation

sociopolitical women and thanks to

she is a member of the march

World Women’s Day for Peace

remember and in 2010 bukavu a city of

the democratic republic of the congo has

has been declared the world capital of

rape on our request

5000 women of the world from 50

countries came up to bukavu as a way

of solidarity walk with us for

say stop at the violin drc yes stop and go

and when I saw these women parading

with us I said wow but these

women are also diamonds that are

come shine in the drc to support us

in our country as I told you 80%

women of economy rather it was

because of the war of the crisis

had turned into an economy

informally in the hands of women

through activities generating

sure income at all see

no these activities are activities

of survival and does not develop a country

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as I lived with his women all

the day in the activities

income generators I told myself

wow

if we manage to transform his

income generating activities in

small and medium enterprises

Canada

women fighting in small and medium

companies by connecting them either a

grant be a small credit

all these women engaged in

income generating activities

considered small diamonds

will be turned into stones

valuable things that will also fold on the

family say yes even a siren

in 14 keys anne giafferi

that’s how in 2009

I created a savings mutual and

credit for the city of kikwit ma

hometown and for kinshasa the

capital of the drc and with our own

funds we subsidized a thousand end

to manille own france

yes yes but after six months these women

have seen the volume of their activity

increase and their turnover in

rise in six months at home I do not know

not how it is at home but

at home we say when we give 10

dollars to a man he goes on the spree

stockings but when we say dollars to a

woman she will fructify him and put him

at the disposal of

the whole family is what I experienced

with the mutual to illustrate the g3

a small example an example is leocadie

a divorced teacher mother of six

children are low wages him

did not allow his children to go to school

she had a credit to the mutual

50 bucks and bought himself a couple of

piglets and when latruwe put down 12

for that she sold for $ 30 from

scholarships and greeted them makes 360 bucks to

from that moment on he started

to school all his children and his

eldest son is licensed in economics

and works in a large bank of

kinshasa he is his mother ap studies

d other child in six leaves chicago

the second example is jeanine

married her husband gary was unemployed

at the time she herself a facilitator

social she was selling ginger juice

in detail with the $ 100 that the

mutual benefit is granted to her she created

with his daughter a catering service that

gradually transformed

a small medium-sized family business

who today is able served

will go to not 300 people and this

family his life has changed but the

pressure while all vis-à-vis cases

life already the anthem changed but I

would like to talk about thirty women

raped nyangezi at age 30 at 30 km

of the city of bukavu that I have you

spoken to bukavu from thanks to a

UN grant women we are

went to bukavu and we found

raped women who were like

said beings dead who was

reputed of their husband from their home who

was rejected from their family

and when we arrived at bukavu

we told them they were

soiled in their flesh but that

all Congolese seigner dallaire

that with rigor of the mines of paris and

after a few sessions of nothing mans

moral rearming for a few days

we gave them the grant of

the women they organized themselves

a cooperative even and every year

this cooperative is for the

red brick factory and sale

of red bricks with his income

have been rehabilitated they have

regained their dignity and they have

been integrated into society in

their community and their lives changed

encouraged by all these examples

I was brought to ride a

foundation the foundation tibet jbs it’s

the dark georgette foundation for

support generating activities

of income transform them into peace but

to change names enough

to chain yes but our ambition to

long term these words to set up a bank

women’s bank by women for

women but men they are the

welcome obviously

and you what is your idea is this

that you want to join us not

here in Hong Kong there is a phrase that tells me

haunts the spirit that says this life the

worth of a life and measure by the

numbers of life she touches that the

touch or she will have touched 16 of

kent major and live your life never

says if you’re lucky enough to be

happy

you also have the responsibility

to help others find happiness

to take refuge there who 9 to be happy life

to the member our project you go

may be touched by many lives

people you do not know that

you may never see or see

you may see one day coming

ground floor but you squeeze into a

diamond that will shine with a thousand stars

joyner project winner is i pod and

girls from congo and meet you

Amen

[Applause]

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