Wow
It looks like the audience is all girls
Are there boys at the scene? Please raise your hand
Are you forced to come to the scene?
(laughter)
Here, I must admit something
I am a trouble ghost
At least my father called me from an early age and it’s still been
I really don’t know why
Maybe because I always wanted to sing
Maybe because I like to fight with boys since I was a kid.
So I often get disciplined because of this
You really can’t blame me
We all know that we are growing up in a social system called culture.
Everyone present is growing in the same system in their respective countries.
When you are born, you are destined to your name, gender, and your favorite color
Girls like pink, boys like blue
Why do I like pink?
Just because I’m a girl? The current social system operates this way
Determined your life, your education, your work experience, and your future partner
Once you choose to be different
Once you say: “No, I don’t want this.”
Be prepared to accept the challenge, prepare to fight with this society
One and their own resistance, then parents
Then face yourself, your friends, and then your boss. This is the so-called society.
Get ready to face this
Whether learning to fight or not
Because you are going to live in the challenge
Or stop fighting and follow the trend of society
However, I cannot choose
I was born to fight
As I grow older, I become better at fighting
God and life lead me to earth to do this work
To influence and save human life
You must find the reason for your existence
Once you find it, you feel calm
This is how I am
(laughter)
Even if I was forced to wear pink clothes
(laughter)
I’m kidding, I don’t remember at all
Since childhood, I knew
I’m often bullied by boys
Because I often want to compete with them
I want to prove that I am strong and smart
And can do what boys can do
I am very emotional
When you see something unfair, I’m angry
Including violence against women, gender inequality, poverty, war
even more
I see many things that I have never understood why
I have been in doubt but I can’t find the answer
I told myself to be strong when I grow up
From the inside out
So I learned Taekwondo from childhood
I decided to live for myself
Every time I go out to the street to play with boys
They will throw me stone
I’ll chase me again and keep chasing me out of that area and won’t come back
Of course, I’m a bad guy, isn’t it?
I always go back
(laughter)
I also know that I will face more and more trouble
My taekwondo is very good
I started playing at the age of 14.
I got black belts and paragraphs
Win 20 gold medals, of which 3 are international medals
I found my passion and my best sport
I love it
Because I can beat the opponent in the game
Not on the street
(laughter)
Just kidding
I remember my last match was in 2002
My legs twisted in the game
But I still insist on continuing to play
So I won my last gold medal
After being sent to the hospital
The doctor told me that I must operate
Because all my ligaments are completely torn, the anterior cruciate ligament is completely separated
I have no choice
One week later I had surgery
After that, I rehabilitated for six months
I imagine people who are so energetic, but they can only lie in bed and cannot do anything.
The only thing that can be done is thinking about life
No one will give you a glass of water
Because they are bored with you because you just sit there and command
The doctor is worse and more negative
They told me that my training career has ended
They advised me to stop what I am doing now and do something else.
I think about what I can do when I grow up
But I can imagine myself doing other things with martial arts
The best part of my person is that I never believe what others say
I follow my heart
If my heart told me to do
I believe I can do it. This force is far greater than science and medicine.
Dear people, please raise your hand
Hey, some people don’t have heart
Maybe you are from space or other places
Put your hands on your heart
Has it stopped beating?
Did it disappoint you or ever betrayed you?
Have you ever been up and asked if your heart has run away?
Or did your heart tell you: “Hey, you.”
“Are you talking to me?”
“Yeah, I’m talking to you. I hate you.”
You are working and eating pocket cakes all day
Why didn’t you go to your own life? I want to leave here
Has your heart been tired of doing only one thing?
Has been beating since she was born
Make sure you are alive
I guess it’s not like this
Your heart never disappoints you, so trust your heart
In 2004, I attended a university lecture
Sarah, my friend, enters the stadium
I can see the sadness and tears in her eyes
But she is very strong
I talked to her after speaking
She told me that her brother and dad beat her every day
I told her: “We must do something about this matter.”
She said: “No.” Then left.
I am so sad
I know Sarah feels weak and weak
Of course, she follows her heart
However, I think women should not be hurt in any way
I never believe that women are vulnerable
In fact, I always believe that women are strong
They can make the world better
It’s just that they don’t know yet
Because I have a background in martial arts, I decided to stand up for women
I decided to start training women how to defend themselves
Against all kinds of violence
Give them strength so they can speak
Become a leader, changer and influencer
After the Sarah incident
I started training female self defense in the basement of my hometown
Over time, more and more women are interested in this training
I must create a self-defense studio
In 2012, I risked opening SheFighter
The first and only self-defense studio in the Middle East
At that time, everyone opposed
They said: “Women can never defend themselves.
This idea will certainly fail. ”
I prove that they are wrong
From the beginning to the present, we have trained more than 12,000 women and empowered them
These women spread throughout Jordan and the Middle East
We train at school and university
And cooperate with many different non-governmental organizations
We train Syrian refugees, disabled women and orphans
We train about 2,000 Syrian refugees
Give them spiritual strength through studios and seminars
Give them strength to confront attacks, sexual harassment and domestic violence
We expanded the studio from a small scale to
It took three years to start and it took only two years
To attract more women interested in this training
The fact is that when training women, she is not only physically stronger
At the same time, it also builds its own confidence
This will help them out of all kinds of traumatic situations
They have met before or may encounter in the future
Violence against women is a major problem in today’s society
We don’t want to be just slogans. We must act to end the violence in this industry.
SheFighter is the best tool we can use
To end violence against women and empower women
However, we need to cooperate with men, women, and shoulder to shoulder
Together to end this problem
Let me tell you a story–
We have photos of some Syrian refugees trained
There are also photos of disabled women trained
These women, who have been harassed, are harassed by the so-called “people who take care of them.”
They do not know that they have such a great power
In their upper body
So we gave them intensive self-defense training
I’ll give you a story again
The importance of self-defense in women’s lives
A woman named Lubna
She was trained at SheFighter for three months
She was attacked by a stranger at home in the elevator
She said she is walking towards the elevator
Suddenly she felt someone pushing her into the elevator
A big man tries to marry her neck and wants to rape her
She said, “I can’t breathe. I start to sweat.”
“It should be like this. I’m dying.”
Suddenly, she began to react
She pushed him several times
Until it generates a lot of noise, he has to flee the elevator
She was angry and pursued him after several streets.
(laughter)
She is a mischief
She asked some boys for help. They caught him.
She started hitting his face again and again
Until he cried and asked her to stop
Then the police came, of course, they arrived only after a long time
Perhaps they are also eating fried chickpea cake, not only I eat
So she accused him in court
He accused her of chasing him in the lane
Of course, she won
He is now in prison for sexual intercourse for three years
On that day, when Lubna was talking to me
She told me she was very excited
Because she can defend herself and send criminals to prison
I feel proud and I feel motivated
I think I need to train more and more women
So we started coaching
The purpose is to extend SheFighter to other places and countries
We train about 100 coaches and the numbers continue to increase
When I was attending classes for men in the Middle East,
They always ask me a question after class
“Are you planning to teach our wife how to deal with us?”
They have always been afraid of their wives
I usually answer them like this:
“I will not teach your wife how to beat you.
I will teach them how to protect myself from all kinds of violence.
If you are a violent person, you will know the answer. ”
You know, I always say this
The attacker is a coward.
One woman trained at SheFighter
One night to go home, walking on the road
She thinks someone is chasing her
As he gets closer and closer, he puts his hand on her shoulder
She suddenly turns and poses for a fight
So he escaped
(laughter)
All she did was to pose for a fight
This is why I stress that the attacker is a coward.
We have already faced so many challenges
We began to believe that these challenges are the best things that happen in our lives.
Because we will grow through these challenges and go beyond all
I was sued by a lawyer and his wife was trained by SheFighter
Obviously, they have a dispute
She must use self defense to deal with him
Once again, I swear I did not teach my wife how to beat her husband.
However, it may be that she was forced to use self-defense
So he blamed us for teaching his wife self defense
At first I thought it was just a joke
After that, I took a lawyer seriously.
And must take the legal route
Sometimes you have to overcome problems
Another challenge is to change the mentality of social women
It is not a normal thing for them to believe that they were beaten.
They must stand up for themselves, their daughters, and their social sisters.
Silence in violence is itself a crime
They must begin to speak for themselves
Men also fear that women have power
Because women will fight for their freedom
In addition to these challenges, we also have many great achievements.
A big achievement is that we won the first prize for global women’s business
This was held at the UN headquarters in Geneva.
This award gives us the motivation to continue what we are doing right now.
Another award and motivation
It was we who were President Obama.
In his speech in a White House in 2015
This also gives us the motivation to continue what we are doing
Sometimes I sit and think and ask myself
“Why me? Why does God choose me? Why do I have to go through all this?
Why am I different? ”
All along, I only have one answer: Because I am a fighter
If I do not do it now, who will do it?
If Sarah learns some self defense skills like Lubna
She will not be battered
Can also protect herself
But we all know that you cannot change the past
You can only start from now and create a better future
You can change human life from now on
Over the years, I learned that you don’t have to compete with boys or other people
Come and prove yourself to the world
You only need to compete with yourself
Become the best person that this life can become
Not a man or a woman but a person
Then you will find peace and overcome all difficulties
My name is Lena Califee
When life meets impact and beats you on the ground
Even though you got up, you said: “You beat someone like a child.”
thank you all
(applause)
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