Priyanka Chopra Speech at UNICEF English Subtitles Learn English with Famous People
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I’m an actor by profession I consider
myself a humanitarian by nature as I
think all of us are I’ve worked with
UNICEF now for 12 years as national
ambassador for India for about 11 and a
year for as a global ambassador when you
hear these kids asking these questions
and we sit in our incredible incredibly
privileged worlds as we do because we
have washing machines and we have
dishwashers and we have cars and we have
great clothes and you know we wake up
with planes not targeting our homes
sitting in that environment I don’t
think most of us don’t understand the
gravity of what kids like mizune and
Hana and I am have been through I had
the privilege of going to Jordan which
has been a host country of about 1.5
million refugees in a camp called
za’tari and which Muslim is from as well
that’s where she went to school - yeah
and I think the one thing that I would
like to respond to these kids is thank
you to all the host countries who feel
the responsibility as a privileged
society and as a privileged world to be
able to take on these children when we
talk about not having a lost generation
these are not just words
this is literally a generation of
children whose choice who did not have a
choice in this matter
war was not their choice being displaced
with not that choice none of it was
their choice but the fact that we can
give them a choice is on us as a
privileged Society of the world the fact
that we can sit in our homes and just
funds compassion time belief faith and
letting those kids feel that you can at
some point become a dentist or you can
at some point become a singer when I
to za’tari and I met all of these kids
like Mizzou was saying each and every
one of them they wanted nothing else
they did not ask for because maybe they
knew I couldn’t do anything about it
war should end or I want a better home
or I all they kept saying to me was we
just want our education to not be taken
away from us so that we can go back to
Syria and rebuild the country that was
broken and that is such a big statement
coming from teenagers who are not
supposed to think like that these are
children who are supposed to be playing
games and studying and getting an
education and thinking about the
possibility of their future and these
children are sitting there saying I want
to rebuild my country that is incredible
and so provocative to me as an
ambassador to go and tell all of you who
are messengers for these children and so
many of you who have done so much so
many host countries so many governments
so many representatives that we have
sitting here who have done so much but
it is still not enough and yes the
numbers are overwhelming but we are so
many more people in the world that can
actually just lend the helding holding
hand helping hand do these kids who have
so much hope and so much faith it takes
and maybe I have an extra emotional
sensitive person because I’m an actor
but it takes
I don’t know how Muslim sits here with a
smile on her face after she lived there
all it took for me was one visit to
break my heart
and for me to have conversations with
these kids and ask them what do you want
to do and I have one six-year-old
telling me I want to become a doctor and
eight-year-old telling me I want to be
an engineer or I want to be an actress
and I know the reality I know that I
don’t know if these children will have
access to higher education will they be
able to go to colleges will they be able
to find their feet again and those are
questions we need to answer sitting in
this room those are the
we need to answer for them as their
voices so my experiences throughout
meeting all of these incredible kids
whether it was in Zimbabwe South Africa
India Jordan has only been consistent
each and every one of them whether they
are dealing with poverty whether they’re
dealing with war whether they’re dealing
with the refugee crisis all of them just
want to be able to have a handle on
their future and we can give them that
so please I implore each and every one
of you to implore the people that you
work with to ask to just move their
spirits and say this is on us as
privileged society to remember those
children that may be forgotten who and
I’m gonna say this with the fear of the
fact that I don’t know if I can but
these are children that can actually get
into the hands of people whose hands
they shouldn’t be in of extremist
thoughts of ideas and these are the same
kids who by the way have to deal with
the stigma of being refugees of the fact
that they have been displaced from the
countries that they come from so all of
those things are something that we as a
society need to talk about educate about
create awareness about but we need to
remember that this Lost Generation
belongs to this one world and we are
part of that one world and it’s on us to
be able to take care of that one world
that we have thank you very much
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