Good afternoon everyone.
It is so nice to see so many young faces in here
who've come to Washington from so far away.
Very, very impressive.
Carolyn, thank you.
We are grateful for your 20 years of service to Save the Children.
On our way into this ballroom I asked Carolyn how she got involved in Save the Children
and it struck me that you can be going down a path in your life and something happens.
You see something; you have some off-chance meeting,
and it can change the direction of your life all together.
Carolyn shared with me, and I know this is in her bio.
But she said that she had been working at American Express,
a big us-based company in Hong Kong and she saw mother and children --
and her children who needed food assistance, or they were begging, I believe you said.
And here you are today 20 years later leading all of this.
So congratulations to you, and thank you for what you're doing. (applause)
As Carolyn mentioned, before I joined the State Department
I had a prior career and that was in the news business.
In 2004, I had the opportunity when I was working for Fox News to go to Darfur, Sudan
where there was a very extreme -- what was genocide -- that was taking place in Western Darfur.
Southern Sudan at the time was not its own country
but they were trying to pull together a very fragile peace deal
As a reporter I went there with US AID.
US AID is a sister agency to the State Department
as many of the adults in the room here will know
and supports the work of Save the Children.
The reason I'm telling you this is that I had the opportunity to see the work
of Save the Children firsthand when I was a reporter.
At that time I was so proud to be able to share with the American public through my job then
the work that saved the children and other NGOs were doing in the field.
And I thought boy someday I would love to have the opportunity to tell the story of
what America does for countries around the world.
The United States often gets criticized for not giving enough money.
The reality is -- to any situation across the world -- the reality is that
the United States is the most generous, humanitarian donor across the world.
We step into places where other countries won't, don't. Why?
Often because it's simply the right thing to do, and we do it.
So is now my honor to work for the State Department.
And I say to my husband, family, and friends, the two best days of my life were having my children --
I'm a mom of two little boys who are hopefully in school right now --
hopefully not in the principal's office --
and then taking - taking the oath of office.
And as corny as it may sound I stood there above a little dusty flag on a dusty desk
at the State Department on the first floor.
Mark (inaudible), you'll know what I'm talking about;
our former ambassador and a foreign service officer who had served
at the State Department for many years.
And I put my hand up and I took my oath and I had tears in my eyes --
so proud of what I was doing.
So my life was going in one direction in the news business -- it was a great job, a fun job,
but people said it was a glamorous job -- it really wasn't -- but --
And here I am today working for the State Department. I couldn't be prouder.
So I just wanted to share that with you.
if you think your life is going down one path, keep your eyes open because you may
see something else that may take you on a different path all together
But you're on a good path because you're here.
Through the work of Save the Children you've impacted the lives of millions of
mayor of people around the world and I'm happy to see so many young leaders here
today childhood is the cornerstone of development of the individual community
and national level what happens during childhood has a profound impact through
the rest of your life it shapes you and it can change your course as Carolyn and
I have both seen the good news is that cost-effective strategic investments
made during childhood can mitigate the effects of poverty social inequality and
also discrimination the result is that long-lasting gains that benefit children
and youth and families communities and also nations as well I want to talk with
you about some of the ways that the State Department joins Save the Children
in this work in your mission to help children have a brighter future in 2017
the State Department provided to Save the Children through one of our bureaus
called population refugees and migration seventeen million dollars
this Bureau that we have at the State Department there's some of my favorite
people there they help in many of these refugee camps where they help provide
not the services but they work with NGOs such as Save the Children to make sure
that when families are forced to leave their communities that they have a place
where they can sit stay and I've seen some of that work in my job at the State
Department so far in the field whether it's caused by natural disaster conflict
civil war humanitarian challenges they are certainly multiplying around the
world nearly two hundred and fifty million children around the world are
affected by armed conflict about fifty million by natural disasters and over
half of the 65 million people currently displaced by war are children in the
midst of these emergencies and crises children are separated from their
families some are actually recruited into armies or economically exploited
many are at greater risk of injury and disability physical sexual violence and
also distress ensuring their safety and well-being calls for a range of actions
including fulfilling basic needs like food clean water promoting a protective
environment enhancing access to education providing psychosocial support
and identifying short and long term arrangements the United States is
committed in ensuring that all vulnerable children have the opportunity
to thrive our country is proud to be a global leader in responding to crises
around the world and to getting children the help that they need a few months ago
I was in Bangladesh and in Burma where there's a crisis taking place there
against the Rohingya minority population who live in Burma also known as Myanmar
700,000 of these people have been forced to leave their homes since last August
alone it's a complicated battle as our situation as anyone at the State
Department will tell you but nevertheless 700,000 people since August
alone have been forced out of their homes in Burma forced into Bangladesh
and part of what the United States and Save the Children does is set up these
camps to help take care of these families and I walked around these camps
had a chance to meet some of your Save the Children colleagues there and saw
the incredible work that you were doing and I just want to paint this picture
for you so you
know how important the work that you were doing now and your advocacy is to
these people on the ground buses would pick up some of these families at the
border children were naked many of them the adults incredibly frail
some of them had to be carried by other adults in their community carried off
the bus and their first stop was to a triage center where at this triage
center the doctors quickly took a look at them some of them I recall were saved
the children doctors and they determined those who were in the worst physical
condition would need to go to a field hospital that was set up and mind you
this is a dirt camp you know in the middle of nowhere this is not in the
middle of a bustling city that it has all kinds of high-tech stuff these are
camps that were formed up from you know just with the the tarps and everything
that you all had brought along with other aid groups so these people were
taken care of on the spot and quickly assessed and it was determined where
they would go next some of the children had been separated from their family
members imagine that you're just a young child five eight ten years old and
you're no longer with your mom and dad because you get separated as you're as
you're attempting to flee the country and part of the work what saved the
children did was ask these children questions and take down these
assessments and try to team them up with family members or at least people from
their villages it was incredible to see that kind of work going on anyway I
digress I have prepared remarks that our Deputy
Secretary was was here at the little liver and I'm just going off so my my
apologies but I wanted to I wanted to share that with you and the incredible
work that your folks are doing about two weeks ago there was some additional
funding that was bounced on the part of the State Department and USAID to
provide 145 million to those affected by conflict in South Sudan as well as
nearly 939 million to help the South Sudanese refugees in neighboring
countries the United States is also one of the leading humanitarian donors for
the Syrian response our country has provided more than seven billion dollars
in humanitarian assistance for those who are displaced inside Syria and in the
region since the start of the crisis the assistance helps more than 4 million
Syrians every month across 14 governance inside the country it also supports the
five and a half million Syrians affected by the conflict in neighboring
neighboring countries as you can imagine their refugee
camps that are set up there that we are supporting through save the children and
other NGOs as well many of you have heard about the tragedy in Burma I just
mentioned that we are providing assistance to that 177 million dollars
since early 2017 alone that money saves lives it helps provide protection
emergencies shelter food nutritional assistance as well as health care for
the people who have been affected by that we hope some day when it is safe
they can voluntarily be able to return home in a dignified fashion we also
understand that investing in children is a solid investment education provides
children with stability while developing essential skills to equip them for their
future with an education the cycle of conflict and displacement can end so we
prioritize education for young people since 2011 the USAID has provided an
education to more than 22 million children living in conflict or crisis
settings today USAID also funds education programs for basic and higher
education about 60 countries and then we have another program you had touched on
the young lady Hana who was from Malawi and there's a program called PEPFAR
which stands for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS relief that ties
into the dreams program she spoke about the administration has made an
unprecedented commitment to the health and well-being of vulnerable children
adolescent girls and young women two and a half million babies have been born
hiv-free to hiv-positive mothers imagine that I mean years ago that is a story
that not would not be told told they've been born HIV - HIV positive mothers and
that is in part due to PEPFAR support PEPFAR investments contributed greatly
to sixty percent decline in new HIV infections among children in 21
sub-saharan African nations between 2009 and 2015 through PEPFAR more than 1
million children are receiving life-saving treatment and six and a half
million orphans vulnerable children and their caregivers have received for
support we continue this humanitarian leadership we will continue to emphasize
the importance of coordinated affected and
efficient international responses no government or organization can do this
work alone this is a time for collective action not just by governments but also
by NGOs the private sector and others we need help from partner countries the
private sector and nonprofit groups including Save the Children thank you
for doing your part have some wonderful meetings on Capitol Hill and remember
when I talk about the money that the State Department or USAID provides to
these organizations it's ultimately your money taxpayer dollars and so one of the
things we like to say to Congress is hate Congress thanks for what you're
giving us we could use more but thanks for what you're giving us so keep that
keep that in mind as well thank you so much and I'd be happy to take some your
questions
so Heather thank you so much and we like when you digress don't worry I think
that's really when it helps people really understand what it's like so
thank you we were talking right before this about
Syria about the fact that sadly last year last week marked the seventh
anniversary of the conflict and so it would be great to hear just a little bit
more on our strategy from the US government side on Syria and some of the
work that the State Department is supporting there and USAID is supporting
them sir how long do we have go it's a it's a big topic it's a big topic and a
lot going on um so if I could back up for a minute the United States is in
Syria our expressed reason for being in Syria is to fight Isis and so we are
there to combat Isis and we were working with locals on the ground to do that are
where we are positioned is in the eastern part of Syria the part that
you're hearing about in the news so much nowadays is Eastern Gudda you don't see
it on television as much as you should here in the United States I was just in
Israel overseas last week and I would turn on the international news and that
was the big story seeing the humanitarian disaster that is
taking place in eastern Gudda the United States is not in this part of the
country but the United States is helping to provide some monetary assistance
to NGOs that are operating in in that part there's another another part that's
in the news a lot as well and that's called a freeing and that's up in
northwestern Syria where the United States is not operating either so our
whole reason for being in Syria is to defeat Isis we support a political
transition for Syria so that eventually Syrian people and it's a long way off
certainly because the country is really in tatters sadly right now but so that
the country can eventually have a political process through Geneva talks
and that people eventually would be able to vote and have elections and all that
but again that's a long way off so when we see what's happening in eastern Gudda
you will see video of aerial bombardments the Syrian government
attacking its own people calling them terrorists the Syrian government is for
a fact backed by the Russian government at this time providing air support
attacking these people so the State Department has taken a very strong role
in calling out the Russian regime for its backing of the Syrian regime killing
its own people Iran also plays a significant role in
this where Iran is contributing assisting the Syrian government in its
attacks and annihilation of the Syrian people it is a horrible situation what
we try to do is shut a light on the reality of what is taking place there
there's an incredible aid group you're probably familiar with called the white
helmets and these are brave men and women all from Syria and they're first
responders so they do all the search and rescue work that your normal Fire
Department might do but imagine that you're living in a war-torn country you
have a wife and children and every single day when you get a notification
that a bombing has taken place you leave your wife and kids you go to the scene
and you help dig people out of the rubble in a warzone so the State
Department is helping to support financially these groups they're doing
incredible work we are a long way off the international community needs to
come together and really hold the Syrian regime accountable and also hold Russia
around accountable accountable as well yeah it is amazing when you and I'm sure
you saw this as well when you talk to anyone who's from Syria who's living in
the countries surrounding the one thing they want more than anything in the
world is to go home yeah and there is little home to go back to but that's
that's really what people want and that's an interesting thing I've learned
since coming to the State Department and talking to I mentioned one of our
bureaus population refugees and migration I thought well goodness
everybody from around the world wants to come to the United States who doesn't
want to live here as it turns out people and I guess no surprise because you love
your home even in crisis torn countries they want to be able to eventually
return to their homes so some people may aspire to come to the United States at
some point but many want want to be able to come when it's safe to do so
so hopefully that day will come in the not-too-distant future so you spoke a
little bit about the row hangar crisis and we were probably there about the
same time I was there in November let me tell ya so we probably passed each other
somewhere put it as a giant camp and you know one of the things that save the
children is working there in a very large way on both health programs but
also trying to get kids into some kind of informal education so lots and lots
of efforts there I think one of the things that so struck me when I was
there is that the solution on that one is also very hard to see mm-hmm because
this is a people who have been so persecuted for so long and the
Bangladeshi government really doesn't want them there there are 600 almost 700
thousand now so it is a huge number of people to come into a very poor country
but certainly the Burmese don't want the back either so do you see a solution
there do you think there's a way forward I mean that one to me is and there are
you know half of those 700,000 her children yeah well first let me say the
government in Bangladesh has been so generous in accepting willingly
accepting and the United States has provided them financial support for
doing so but 700 thousand people in a small and poor country alone and they
provided the land not everybody was thrilled about it of course but they
provided the land the facilities all of that to take care of these
of these people now it is going to be a long process because it is so
complicated because the government of Burma Myanmar same place refuses to
accept culpability for what they've done to these peoples so we are such a long
way off from this unfortunately the state councillor on sung su Chi who was
this hailed as this hero of democracy has now played a role in letting us take
part in her own country so they'd really need to open up their eyes there's a
un-led Commission on this hopefully we can just get more of a ground truth of
what really happened one of the difficult things about this country is
that and we found this in other countries as well as I know you have
that some countries do not want to let in the media they don't want to let in
to let aid groups in and so we as a government and people around the world
can't get the real facts from the ground because they don't have the access and
that has been a huge problem in this part of Burma where aid groups can't get
there sometimes and when they do get there they have to be very quiet about
their work because they could easily get kicked out and reporters can't get there
so if you can't get reporters there even the State Department has trouble getting
there sometimes because you still need government permission to do so so it's
very hard to deliver the facts on the ground and relay the stories to do to
the world that so hopefully we'll get there at some point that's our hope as
well I mean we've been working with the RO hinga inside Myanmar for many many
years and so it has been a very difficult you don't want to get kicked
out of the country because you want to be able to continue to do more but yet
finding a way to speak out for those families that have if I can say one of
things I noticed about the work that you all are doing is helping to give the
kids something to do during the day when they're in these refugee camps because
you imagine this you got kids running around and there's no real structure and
any view parents are out out there will know that kids need structure need to be
at school or doing something
these safe spaces for kids where they can kind of hang out and get some
semblance of an education until you can get something more permanently set up so
you've done some great work on that
important in these kinds of crises particularly particularly that you give
kids that normality then getting them to come to a informal learning center just
a couple hours a day it makes them feel like okay there's something something
normal here so we got time for one more question and so oh I'm sorry I don't
think we're gonna take any from the floor but maybe I'll ask one that you
would want to know we'll see so that question is what can you tell this
audience of people who are here to advocate on these issues of child
survival early education what should they say when they go up to talk to
their elected officials what should they do I guess I'd have to ask a couple
questions of the audience I I think I would need to know you know where are
you from yeah why are you passionate about it is
anyone here from Minnesota anyone okay sir where you from the Minnesota Twins
okay so you're probably meet you're meeting with some of your members of
Congress I would imagine okay so your member of Congress will know what a
strong history Minnesota has bringing in refugees from years and years of
conflict the Hmong from Laos back just post-vietnam so try to figure out if
your community has a connection to a to a community overseas that has had has
faced this kind of strife as this gentleman and I talked about my family
connections in Minnesota that's how I know that
but his member of Congress his members of Congress or senators will understand
that and be appreciative of that so try to draw that that in because that can
help sort of sell the story as we supported the Hmong in the years
following the Vietnam War and now look at what they've become here in the
United States you know we should consider doing this same kind of work
for the rahaga from Burma or Syrians or elsewhere
so let me just thank Heather again that's fantastic advice look for a
personal connection that really makes a difference in your meetings
I want to thank Heather for coming today thank all of you guys


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