跟读练习: Shakira's speech at #WISE19 (Qatar) - 通过视频学习英语口语

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Shukran.
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Good morning, Your Highness, Excellencies, friends and colleagues.
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I would like to thank you for the opportunity to be here today.
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It's also an honor to join forces with Educated Child, an organization led by a woman who is an amazing role model,
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a woman who has shown such relentless dedication to getting every child in school.
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This is such an exciting day for us because it marks the beginning of a new era in my home country, Colombia.
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Most of you may know me as an artist,
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as an entertainer, and that's indeed my calling and what I've been doing since I was 13 years old.
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But I never would have imagined when I started out
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that my work as an artist would end up being the
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vehicle for me to serve my greater purpose in life of working towards eradicating poverty through the power of education.
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As a Colombian citizen, inequality is a concept that sadly one becomes very familiar with at a very young age.
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It's a country like many others in Latin America, where a few have a lot, a lot have almost nothing,
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and where if you're born poor, you will almost certainly die poor,
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and where people don't access equal opportunities.
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And because of that, generation after generation after generation live trapped in the same vicious cycle fed by prejudice and inaction.
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Growing up in my country when I was around eight years old,
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I remember I saw kids my age who instead of being in school were already working in the streets,
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were barefoot in the park,
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kids like me whose reality was completely different my mind only because of the circumstances into which they were born.
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It was really hard for me to accept that, to accept that something so unjust didn't have a solution.
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There had to be something that could be done.
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So I often ask myself why the adults around me were
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so resigned to the fact that these kids who were just like me
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or even their own children were living in a parallel reality so different and so cruel.
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As Kofi Annan put it, poverty is intolerable in a world of plenty.
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So as soon as I had some success, the first thing I wanted to do was to invest as
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many resources I could into what later would become the most meaningful project of my life, working for children.
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So I set out to find a team, a team of people who dream big and worked hard
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and thought like me to help me right the wrongs that I had witnessed throughout my entire childhood.
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And that's when our foundation, the Barefoot Foundation, P.S.
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Descalza Foundation was born.
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I knew, and I was only 18 years old then, but I knew that I wanted to focus on children and improving their lives, but I didn't know where to start.
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So I really felt that I needed to learn what the roots of inequality and low social mobility were.
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So I decided to study the reasons why children were working in the streets,
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or why some children were being recruited by the violent organizations like the paramilitary or the guerrillas.
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Why were so many children suffering from chronic malnutrition?
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And I realized that most of the issues that children face in my country had and have a common denominator,
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the lack of access to quality education.
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To me, it became crystal clear
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that education was the surest way to give all of these kids the best fighting chance of improving their circumstances in life,
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because education is the great equalizer.
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When I started building schools in Colombia, we chose the most remote areas, areas where there was literally nothing,
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no infrastructure, no paved roads, no electricity, no potable water and we decided to build in those places
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but not only build schools but state-of-the-art schools schools with comprehensive models
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that included ECD programs school feeding programs parent and teacher training
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and another very important part is we decided to engage the government as a strategic partner
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and made it nearly impossible for them to say no to
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doing their part by showing them results through our holistic model that really proved to work.
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We noticed that as soon as a school is built in those places, everything is transformed.
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The improvements to the infrastructure were jaw-dropping.
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Electricity, potable water were made available, made accessible, roads were paved,
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malnutrition plummeted, but the best part of all is the academic results.
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The kids really, really responded academically,
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and now those kids who could have been recruited by the guerrillas or paramilitaries, or that could have had completely different outcomes for their lives,
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they're now on their way to the university and thriving in their communities.
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Some of them are athletes, some of them are professionals.
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That's why I'm so, it really is a thrill to work for education.
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That's why I'm so passionate about it,
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because I've really seen results that are as palpable as this podium.
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And seeing all these success stories that have a name
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and a last name has been one of the most rewarding things I've done in my lifetime, even more so than winning Grammys, I think.
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Now.
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Now, that said, our work is far from being done.
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Many, many developing countries are still rife with inequality and internal conflict, and there are a lot of kids who still need to be reached.
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History is not only the past.
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History is made every day in the present.
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What matters now is how we go forward and how we fix what's wrong.
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And that is the real challenge.
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This is the goal of the SDGs and what people like Her Highness
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and myself and so many more of you who are adamant about achieving are here for.
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Facts don't lie, and numbers show what an incredible return on investment a quality education provides.
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For instance, if all students in low-income countries left primary school with basic reading skills,
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171 million people could be lifted out of poverty.
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Systemic change often begins from the bottom up rather than the top down.
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The government must take responsibility and we should all put as much pressure as we possibly can but the rest of all,
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the civil society, should also do their part.
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What we have discovered, both at PS Descalzos and Educated Child, is that many times only one single barrier to entry, such as no access to transportation
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or basic needs like a functioning bathroom can prevent a kid from attending school
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or even put them at risk of dropping out.
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Sometimes all it takes to change a child's life is the security of a hot meal in school
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or the ease of being able to hop on a bus that will leave you safely at your classroom store.
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It's as simple as that.
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And these are simple interventions and they don't cost a lot.
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The biggest effort really is in mapping the communities, in going door to door,
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searching for the out of school children, talking to the parents, talking to their families,
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giving Putting a name and putting a story behind these children is the first step to start rewriting their story.
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Over the next three years, we pledge to get 54,000 kids who are out of school or at risk of dropout into the educational system.
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Ultimately, more than 295,000 people will benefit from this project,
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including children, teachers, families, and community members.
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New schools and classrooms will be built.
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School kits and uniforms will be distributed.
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Children will be enrolled in school feeding and transportation programs.
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Teachers will be trained in strategies
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and in how to identify those students who are at risk so they can receive psychosocial support.
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And we are extremely confident that this partnership is only the beginning
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and will be the model to replicate throughout my country until not a single child is out of school.
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This is our responsibility.
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Thank you.
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This is our responsibility to our children and our debt to fulfill for the generations to come.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you.

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