So I made it to Harvard.

Never thought I'd be able to say that in my life, but it feels good.

Thank you, Dr. Counter, thank you to the Harvard Foundation, and thank you, Harvard University

for this great honor.

Thank you.

I'm incredibly humbled by this, to be acknowledged at this magnitude for something that in truth

I've never wanted credit for.

When I was five or six years old, I remember watching TV and I would see these commercials

and I was watching other children suffer in other parts of the world and you know the

commercials were [like], 'you can give 25 cents, save a child's life,' you know?

And I would think to myself like, I wonder how many 25 cents I could save up to save

all the kids in Africa.

And I would say to myself you know, 'when I grow up, when I can get rich, I'mma save

kids all over the world.'

I just didn't know I would be in the position to do that by the time I was a teenager.

At 17 I started my career here in America, and by the age of 18, I started my first charity

organization.

I went on to team up with other organizations in the following years and met, helped, and

even lost some of the most beautiful souls, from six-year-old Jasmina Anema who passed

away in 2010 from leukemia, her story inspired thousands to volunteer as donors through DKMS.

Fast forward to 2012 and then my grandmother, the late Clara Brathwaite, she lost her battle

with cancer, which is the very reason and the driving force behind the Clara Lionel

Foundation.

We're all human.

And we all just want a chance: a chance at life, a chance in education, a chance at a

future, really.

And at CLF, our mission is to impact as many lives as possible, but it starts with just

one.

Just one.

As I stare out into this beautiful room, I see optimism, I see hope, I see the future.

I know that each and every one of you has the opportunity to help someone else.

All you need to do is help one person, expecting nothing in return.

To me, that is a humanitarian.

People make it seem way too hard, man.

The truth is, and what I want the little girl watching those commercials to know, is you

don't have to be rich to be a humanitarian.

You don't have to be rich to help somebody.

You don't gotta be famous.

You don't even have to be college-educated.

I mean, I wish I was, I'm not saying you know…

[Crowd laughs] Especially today.

[laughs] It's true, I might come back but all right.

[Crowd cheers]

But it starts with your neighbor, the person right next to you, the person sitting next

to you in class, the kid down the block in your neighborhood, you just do whatever you

can to help in any way that you can.

And today I want to challenge each of you to make a commitment to help one person: one

organization, one situation that touches your heart.

My grandmother always used to say if you've got a dollar, there's plenty to share.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen.

It was my honor.

Over her career, she has worked on several projects aimed towards bettering society.

Including efforts to increase access to education globally through her Clara Lionel Foundation

global scholarship program and her support for the global partnership for education and

global citizen.

But for this part of the night, I like to highlight some of the work she's done in the

field of health and in helping to empower others in that way.

Part of Rihanna's humanitarian work has been to develop a cancer diagnosis and treatment

center at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown Barbados.

As a student of global health, the impact of such an institution is not lost on me.

Too often higher levels of medical care are inaccessible to the populations that need

them.

Allowing individuals to unnecessarily suffer from preventable or treatable conditions.

In my experience studying global health issues abroad, in western Kenya for example, one

of the greatest barriers to obtaining medical care was distance.

Distance to the treatment centers that offered the needed care.

During my time there I remember learning the story of a woman who had lost her life during

labor.

She was being taken care of at a rural health clinic where typical labor procedures could

be handled effectively, however, because of her specific complications the type of care

she needed was at a larger health center which she couldn't reach in time.

Fortunately, there are efforts locally and globally to tackle issues such as these and

I tell this story not to single out a specific region but to highlight them for the importance

of this work.

In providing such valuable resources for cancer treatment in Barbados, Rihanna has worked

to reduce barriers such as these to higher level medical care and the implementation

of such work has reverberations throughout society.

I find this quotation from Rihanna particularly telling of the humanitarian spirit displayed

by such work: "If you have the ability to help and lend a hand, no matter how big or

small, you should definitely make that your responsibility".

To me, the idea that ability to help others, no matter how big or small, now becomes a

responsibility is one that embodies what it means to be a humanitarian.

To prioritize helping fellow human beings to the extent that one can is to exemplify

humanitarianism.

As many of us are students and we'll be navigating life outside of this university in a few years

I hope this humanitarian spirit is one that we will incorporate wherever life may take

us.

Thank you, Rihanna, for inspiring us to use our abilities to work, work, work

and to exercise these abilities in the service of authors.

Thank you.

Rihanna, we thank you for your compassion.

Your philanthropy to help others in need and your wonderful music.

On behalf of the children of Cambridge I present you these flowers as a token of our appreciation.

Thank you so much.

Let’s take a picture right there.

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就这样，我来到了哈佛。

从没想过我能在我的生活中这么说 ，但感觉很好。

谢谢Counter博士，谢谢哈佛 基金会，谢谢哈佛大学

给我的这份殊荣。

谢谢你。

我为此感到非常谦卑，

因为我从未想过要获得荣誉的事情得到如此大规模的认可。

当我五六岁的时候，我记得在 看电视时，我会看到这些广告

，我在看 世界其他地方的其他孩子受苦，你知道

广告是[像]，'你可以给 25 美分，省钱 一个孩子的生活，'你知道吗？

我会想，我想知道 我能存多少 25 美分来拯救

非洲的所有孩子。

我会对自己说，你知道，'当 我长大，当我可以变得富有时，我会拯救

全世界的孩子。

我只是不知道在 我十几岁的时候我能做到这一点。

17 岁时，我在美国开始了我的职业生涯 ，18 岁时，我创办了我的第一个慈善

组织。

在接下来的几年里，我继续与其他组织合作，遇到、帮助

甚至失去了一些最美丽的灵魂， 来自 2010 年因白血病去世的 6 岁的 Jasmina Anema

，她的故事激励了 成千上万的志愿者 通过 DKMS 作为捐助者。

快进到 2012 年，我的祖母 ，已故的 Clara Brathwaite，在与癌症的斗争中输了

，这正是 Clara Lionel 基金会背后的原因和推动力

。

我们都是人。

我们都只想要一个机会：一个 生活的机会，一个教育的机会，一个未来的机会

，真的。

在 CLF，我们的使命是影响尽可能多的 人，但它只从

一个人开始。

只有一个。

当我凝视着这个美丽的房间时， 我看到了乐观，看到了希望，看到了未来。

我知道你们每个人 都有机会帮助别人。

您需要做的就是帮助一个人，不期望 任何回报。

对我来说，这是一种人道主义。

人们让它看起来太难了，伙计。

事实是，我想让 看那些广告的小女孩知道，你

不必富有就可以成为人道主义者。

你不必很有钱才能帮助别人。

你不必出名。

你甚至不必受过大学教育。

我的意思是，我希望我是，我不是说你知道……

[人群笑]尤其是今天。

[笑] 是的，我可能会回来， 但没关系。

[人群欢呼]

但首先是你的邻居， 你旁边的人

，上课时坐在你旁边的人， 你附近街区的孩子，你只要尽

你所能以任何方式提供帮助 .

今天我想挑战你们每个人， 承诺帮助一个人：一个

组织，一个触动你 心灵的情况。

我的祖母总是说，如果你 有一美元，就有很多东西可以分享。

谢谢女士们先生们。

这是我的荣幸。

在她的职业生涯中，她参与了 多个旨在改善社会的项目。

包括 通过她的克拉拉莱昂内尔基金会

全球奖学金计划和她 对全球教育和全球公民伙伴关系的支持，努力增加全球教育机会

。

但在当晚的这一部分，我想 强调她在健康领域所做的一些工作

，并 以这种方式帮助他人赋权。

蕾哈娜的部分人道主义工作是 在巴巴多斯布里奇敦的伊丽莎白女王医院建立一个癌症诊断和治疗

中心 。

作为一名全球卫生专业的学生， 我并没有忘记这样一个机构的影响。 需要它们的

人群往往无法获得更高水平的医疗服务

。

允许个人不必要地 遭受可预防或可治疗的疾病。

根据我在国外研究全球健康问题的经验 ，例如在肯尼亚西部

，获得医疗服务的最大障碍之一 是距离。

与提供所需护理的治疗中心的距离 。

我记得在那里的时候，我了解到 一个女人在分娩时失去生命的故事

。

她在一家农村卫生诊所接受护理， 可以有效处理典型的分娩程序

，然而，由于 她的特殊并发症，她需要的护理类型

是在一个较大的卫生中心， 她无法及时到达。

幸运的是，在本地和 全球范围内都在努力解决此类问题，

我讲述这个故事并不是要挑选出一个特定的 地区，而是要强调它们

对这项工作的重要性。

在为巴巴多斯的癌症治疗提供如此宝贵的资源时 ，蕾哈娜一直在

努力减少诸如此类的障碍，以达到更高 水平的医疗保健，并且

此类工作的实施在整个社会中引起了反响 。

我发现蕾哈娜的这句话特别能 说明这种工作所体现的人道主义精神

：“如果你有能力提供 帮助和伸出援助之手，无论

大小，你都应该把它作为你的 责任”。

对我来说，帮助他人的能力， 无论大小，现在成为

一种责任，这体现 了成为人道主义者的意义。

在 力所能及的范围内优先帮助人类同胞是

人道主义的典范。

由于我们中的许多人都是学生，几年后我们将在 这所大学之外的生活中航行，

我希望这种人道主义精神是 我们将在生活可能带我们的任何地方融入其中的一种精神

。

谢谢你，蕾哈娜，你激励我们利用 我们的能力去工作、工作、工作，

并运用这些能力 为作者服务。

谢谢你。

蕾哈娜，我们感谢你的同情。

你的慈善事业帮助有需要的人和 你美妙的音乐。

我代表剑桥的孩子们向你们献上 这些鲜花，以表示我们的感激之情。

太感谢了。

让我们在那儿拍张照片。