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And that's what we did.

let me give you a few examples.

We don't keep them all.

In recent years we lost the gene bank, the seed bank in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can guess why.

Men are not frequently part of pregnancy care.

First, meet Sabukware from Rwanda.

Which was a very good thing, providing low cost clothing.

After all, Jimmy Stewart filibustered for two entire reels.

And that moment came on April 21, 1994.

(Laughter)

German Southwest Africa that's now known as Namibia German East Africa which is now Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.

And then we have others working in these other related programs.

We came out of the end of the Cold War in despair.

It exemplified the best that humanity has to offer.

Now we say, oh, my God.

And in this way, these women enacted a lot of transformation, beautiful transformation.

Recently we did an evaluation of the first 18 months of our efforts in Rwanda.

You can make up stories. Maybe it's different there for some reason or another.

It was a lot like the Holocaust coverage, it was buried in the paper.

And then war and chaos descend.

Somalia had disintegrated into anarchy.

I lived through a very hard moment in my life, mostly in Rwanda.

Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

Fast forward 11 years later, I'm a 25 year old kid.

So that is why I started working in disaster areas.

In my travels and in my work, from Congo to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Rwanda,

The systems are not there to reach the people.

Rwanda is a place that haunts me a lot.

But during the time that I was photographing this,

But I want you to realize that resources in the hands of African women is a powerful tool.

It continued. They were always trying to make thing better and better.

Oh, half a million women in Rwanda get raped in 100 days.

The best example I can think of this is Rwanda, where I recently worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative.

And yet somehow, 50 million Americans slip through the cracks, remaining uninsured.

Perhaps because a lesson had been learned by the weak response to the war in Bosnia and the failure in Rwanda, when Serbia attacked Kosovo, international action was taken much more decisively.

And I found myself in the places where people are fighting every day to survive and can't even obtain a meal.

And I have learned that power, particularly in its absolute form, is an equal opportunity provider.

And that was that an American congresswoman named Patricia Schroeder from Colorado met with a group of journalists.