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Angeline Djampou
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empowering people with information [KIN]

Transcript

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I think if you want to promote peace and promote reconciliation, you should start with the prevention. And I think that the prevention starts with empowering people, giving them the information they need to know in order to make some decisions.

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In Rwanda for instance, the literacy rate is very low. There are no libraries. People were sent to kill and people – most of the people who were killing were killing because they couldn’t judge themselves that this is g-, wrong or right, but because they were receiving orders from people who they consider role models. If they had access to information, they could be role models to themselves and know that this is right or this is wrong.

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So the message that I’m sending is that empower people with information, promote libraries wherever there is a need and I think we start there. Peace starts there.