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Alice Niyonkuru: Hi, my name is Alice Niyonkuru from Burundi.

Janine Ampulire: Hi, I'm Janine Ampulire from Rwanda.

Averty Ndzoyi: Hello, my name is Averty Ndzoyi.

I am from Republic of Congo.

Steve Zita: Hi, my name is Steve Zita from DRC.

Carl Kopati: Hi, my name is Carl Kopati, I'm from Central African Republic.

David Malual: David Malual from South Sudan.

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[Overlapping Speakers]

Hyasintha Ntuyeko: I'm a social entrepreneur who started from

scratch, but I had a dream of being a big entrepreneur and the most

vibrant change maker.

Alice Niyonkuru: The problem with embarking on a new path is that it

can be a little bit overwhelming because you have a structure,

but you don't really know if it's the best method, if it's the best plan,

and you really need a mentor, a coach who has been there who can

really guide you through it.

Hyasintha Ntuyeko: Through the Mandela Washington Fellowship,

it managed to shape me on how best I can achieve my goals

and even go beyond.

Averty Ndzoyi: So this professional development plan is a canvas

which shows me every time where I am with regard to my objectives,

and what was not done and that needs to be done to

achieve these goals.

Nassim Jahangir: From founding my own organization and being a

director and be able to manage it at this level is really something

that I never thought I would do but I was motivated and inspired

and the self-realization in me that I'm able to do this helped me

achieve all of this.

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Janine Ampulire: So as much as our Fellows have done significant

projects and changes in their communities and on themselves,

we recognize that there were so many social barriers as one of

the challenges that they faced and these were from the different

communities in which they lived, for example, the opinion leaders

who did not understand why they were doing such projects or in some

cases where they were working with women and women are not necessarily

supposed to take on such a role in the communities in which they live.

Averty Ndzoyi: Another blocker we found was job insecurity.

Some Fellows lost their job before the program.

And we can also see that lack of funds was a blocker because many

Fellows have not funds to start a project.

Steve Zita: Some blockers and Fellows have expressed where

limited networks and the fact that they had an idea, but didn't know

who to turn to to implement them, but also limited skills,

as I have the will but I don't know how to do it.

Speaker: One of the main barriers the Fellows experienced before

their fellowship was the lack of confidence in regards to

implementing some of the skills they had.

So after this fellowship, having things like speaker travel grant

and participating in the general fellowship, they gained more

courage and they were able to do some of the things that they were

not able to do before the fellowship.

Janine Ampulire: So as we were talking to the Fellows, most of

them kept highlighting how the leadership development plan has

been an enabler for them to implement a project,

the businesses, or the ideas that they had.

And for many reasons, most of them highlighted that the ability to

identify an essential question and the ability for the leadership

development plan to help them strategize with putting long-term

goals, short-term goals and then putting activities that would help

them achieve their long-term goals or their idea was really key in

helping them achieve whatever they managed to do in the last one year.

So this has been a very important enabler to most of the Fellows and

it has supported them to take their businesses or their projects

to the next level.

David Malual: Many Fellows mention the Regional Advisory Board

as an enabler into what they are doing mostly inspiration, taking

inspiration from fellow members, but also the RAB became a source of

information for them.

Speaker: And another enabler we saw from the Fellows is that the

grants they received, both from USAID and the seed grants from the

different embassies and the Innovation Fund, helped them to be

able to scale either their businesses or start new initiatives

and to continue on their different vision and goals.

Carl Kopati: We have also observed that many change among our

Fellows that is a result of the mentorship that impacts their

personal development, their community work and also in their job.

Speaker: One of the most significant change as reported by

Fellows is the skills that they gain, the skills in writing

reports, the skill in doing project evaluation and monitoring,

the skills in actually speaking and communication.

Alice Niyonkuru: One of the changes that we found was that

a lot of the Fellows experienced a changed leadership perspective

where they had one idea in their mind until after the program where

they were influenced to think in another way in terms of leadership.

We also found that some were able to lead others into gaining more

leadership skills.

So we saw a little bit of change in the leadership influence aspect.

Steve Zita: Some of the main changes we found in our Fellows was

personal growth where they said that they grew as leaders,

but also a clear action plan.

So some knew what they wanted to do and where they wanted to go and

actually they take an action, put in action what they decided to do.

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YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship 2015 Cohort Video Report - West Africa - Duration: 7:27.

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Eric Besong: Hello, I'm Eric Besong from Cameroon.

Victorine Kambe Sarr: Hi, I'm Victorine Sarr from Senegal

and I'm the WARAB chair.

Fombah Kanneh: Hi, my name is Fombah Kanneh from Liberia

and I'm of the MAE committee.

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[Overlapping Speakers]

Abosede Lewu: I will say that the Leadership Development Plan has

helped me to find focus.

When I came back from the Fellowship, I had a lot of lofty

ideas of what I wanted to do and what I wanted to achieve and the

first Leadership Development Plan I built, some of my colleagues from

other African countries critiqued it and said it was fine, I had

lofty ideas but I had not centered, I had not found what I wanted to do

exactly and how I wanted to do it.

Fombah Kanneh: Because the leadership development aspect helps

Fellows to put a dream on paper and to implement their dreams.

Grace Jerry So far, my focus and my target to ensure that women with

disabilities vie for elected positions, women with disabilities

add their voice to peacebuilding process, and women and girls with

disabilities drive a campaign that will bring about an end to hate

speech and end to gender based violence and end to any form of

violence in Plateau and in Nigeria as a whole.

Ejiro Okotie: In networking with the African Disability Alliance,

which helped me to be a part of the disability rights monitors in

Africa, and through that I want to be able to train about 15

disability rights monitors in Nigeria, which is also a form of

empowerment for people with disabilities.

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Olakunle Adewale: I think it's very, very important to look at the

impacts that Fellows have been able to effect in their various

communities through this Mandela Washington Fellowship program.

And looking at the criteria used, I think it's key that those four

criteria are put into place to help Fellows to maximize their

post-Fellowship experience to continue to do the great work

they are doing back in Africa.

Grace Sanches: And I think that it is very innovative because they

use technology to interfere in the community.

So for me, it was a good experience and a good practice that we can

most use in other countries in Africa especially.

Edith Greene: It shows that it's very important for you to

participate in all of the aspect of YALI as a Fellow because if you do that,

at the end of the day you kind of see that change that it creates.

If you participate in the practicum, you participate in the --

you have a mentor, make sure you have a mentor, and then make sure

you do your Leadership Development Plan.

Those three things, if you combine them, it kind of shows that change,

that effective change, you can actually see it after going through

all the programs.

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Koulodiomo Outtara: We learned from them, we learned from what

they have been doing in the different countries

and communities.

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Eric Besong: Hello, everyone.

It's been an exciting one week working on the one internal

evaluation of YALI African based activities implemented by IREX,

and by so, I mean the practicum, the mentorship program,

the Speaker Travel Grant and the Leadership Development Plan.

So we listened to over 21 stories of Fellows to get insights about

these particular activities.

Marilyn Chime: And this evaluation exercise has

demonstrated one key thing would be that in fact, Fellows did not learn

new skills because they already had the skills to do their work, but

they needed a structure to focus, to tell themselves where am I going

to be in the next five years, what am I going to focus on, and all the

tools that the Fellowship makes available they use it effectively

whenever possible to make sure that they have clarity on their goals,

clarity on their activity they were going to implement, and you can see

that it increased the number of initiatives, the number of new

initiatives that were initiated by Fellows has increased.

And we think is really due to the fact that they had a better focus,

clearer focus, and a clearer path to implement those activities after

using the tools that the Fellowship made available.

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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom | Black History Fun Facts for Kids | Educational Cartoon - Duration: 2:01.

An event that changed the United States and Civil Rights as we know it.

Stay tuned as I have you covered with 120 seconds of facts about the "March on Washington

for Jobs and Freedom."

The March on Washington was an event that had a goal of making then-president John F

Kennedy work on changes to Civil Rights in the United States.

Taking a look at the when this all happened.

The "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," took place on August 1963.

If you have ever seen video from the March on Washington the March took place there in

Washington DC or many speakers gave positive messages from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

As far as attendees the March on Washington had anywhere from 200, 000 to 300,000 thousand

people that showed up that day to fight for change in the United States.

An event like this takes teamwork and that came from a group called the Big Six of the

Civil Rights Movement.

The Big Six were men like A. Philip Randolph, Whitney M. Young Jr., Martin Luther King Jr.,

James Farmer, Roy Wilkins and John Lewis.

The event had motivational speakers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

This is where he delivered his famous, "I Have a Dream," speech inspiring people of

all color to come together in unity.

Well, this is all with fast facts for you on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

I hope you enjoyed hanging with me and if so make sure you give this video a thumbs

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YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship 2015 Cohort Video Impact Report - Duration: 7:26.

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Abosede Lewu: I would say that the Leadership Development Plan

has helped me to find focus.

Averty Ndzoyi: My objective is to create a society in which young people

could take the necessary decisions for the development

of their district.

Hyasintha Ntuyeko: It makes you, it directs you to go narrow instead

of going the broad dream or goal, you narrow it to the extent that

you get a specific action.

And this specific action, it has a specific timeframe.

So for me it has been so, so helpful.

Abosede Lewu: So for me, the LDP centered me and gave me focus on

what I wanted to achieve.

I knew my one-year plan, my five-year plan, I knew my one-month

plan or even one-week plan.

That was how important the LDP was to me.

Grace Jerry: Through my Leadership Development Plan, now we

can say that persons with disability issues, women with

disability issues is gaining attention and support.

Hyasintha Ntuyeko: Like when I look back, now I open my Leadership

Development Plan and a look at it and say okay, this is done, this is

done and this is done, and I'm so proud because the document has

become so live to me and so practical to me.

As when I'm done with my fellowship, now I said I've made it.

Brian B'Flow Kasoka: I was able to work with my Leadership

Development Plan and begin to implement it with the help of a

mentor through what we call the Mentors and Fellows Program,

which was assigned to us by the USAID.

Alice Niyonkuru: The problem with embarking on a new path is that it

can be a little bit overwhelming because you have a structure, but

you don't really know if it's the best method, if it's the best plan,

and you really need a mentor, a coach who has been there who can

really guide you through it.

Nassim Jahangir: She's been so helpful to me and through her there

is a lot that has happened.

She's mentored me to be able to speak in public, to network with

many people that have helped to my projects that I do.

Brian B'Flow Kasoka: So my mentor, Kamiza Chikula, helped me

to shape up all the things that are listed in my LDP, including wanting

to set up a nonprofit, which I call Music for Change Initiative,

and a company, which I call Chant-It-On Music and Media Limited.

Alice Niyonkuru : So through the mentorship program I gained a lot

of confidence and courage to continue on the path that I was on.

Abosede Lewu: And then for the practicum, it took me from just

being someone that had a fantastic idea to someone that had a

fantastic, but sustainable idea.

Yvonne Jila: During my practicum, I have been able to visit different

communities of Cape Town collecting stories of change, interviewing men

who have undergone further training programs, and hearing the stories

from the men I actually realized that it is very important for us as women,

as people who are working on women rights issues to focus on men.

Dorothy Okatch: I got an opportunity to do my professional

practicum here in South Africa with an organization called ONE.

At ONE I was exposed to different ways of doing things.

I was exposed to their advocacy, I was exposed to project management,

I was exposed to the values that an organization should have,

how they should have their strategic plans in place.

Abosede Lewu: So even though the practicum is ongoing for me right now,

I'm not done, but it also helped me to know that how do you

form relevant partnerships, how do you find the stakeholders that are

well-aligned with your ideologies.

Ejiro Okotie: Impact from the speaker travel grant experience

as well was the network I was able to build up from that event, like

networking with the Africa Disability Alliance, which helped

me to be a part of the disability rights monitors in Africa and

through that I want to be able to train about 15 disability rights

monitors in Nigeria which is also a form of empowerment

for people with disabilities.

Thato Mochone: Upon the completion of the program I became

a member of the Regional Advisory Board and I took a role of

communication officer.

Fombah Kanneh: Being a Regional Advisory Board member I learned

a lot, especially diversity, working with over 500 young people

is a huge, huge challenge.

Thato Mochone: Through the RAB, the Regional Advisory Board,

my coordinating skills improved.

I became a better team player.

I became a better communicator.

Ejiro Okotie: From the Leadership Development Plan through to the

practicum, to the speaker travel grant and the mentorship, I have

been able to gain significant expansion and growth professionally

as an individual and also organizationally in terms of

developing my organizational structure and expansion

of my organization.

Nassim Jahangir: From founding my own organization and being a

director and be able to manage it at this level is really something

that I never thought I would do but I was motivated and inspired and

the self-realization in me that I'm able to do this helped me achieve all this.

Dorothy Okatch: The most significant thing for me is having

something that I call my own.

I've always wanted to own something, but now I have been

guided through the mentor and through the practicum to actually

establishing my own consultancy.

I've been guided on how to set up systems within my consultancy.

I've been guided on how to be able to give assistance to other

organizations and how to put a price on my worth.

Thato Mochone: I understand the importance of sustainable

collaborations and I also had a better outlook at life so I became

more engaging and more open.

Abosede Lewu: I can't quantify the impact on my personal life as

well as my organization.

I realize that when you find focus you can achieve much more

than when you just imagine things.

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Sen. John McCain honored in Washington - Duration: 4:08.

An honor given to only a select few in our country's 241 year

history. Senator John McCain: war hero, congressman and

senator, will likely have his name memorialized in the halls

of Congress. "I want generations in the Senate and in the world

to remember him. And so I'm introducing legislation to

re-name the Russell Senate Office Building after John

McCain," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. At a time

when party polarization is the norm, Senate Minority Leader

Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, is honoring his late friend and

colleague. "I would like decades from now, little children to ask

their parents, 'who was John McCain?' And they'll explain his

sacrifice and his patriotism and most of his fidelity to do the

right thing as he saw it and when he did the wrong thing to

change," Schumer added. In true McCain fashion, his farewell

letter read by a close friend Monday, showed gratitude and

optimism in what he called "challenging times." "I lived

and died a proud American. We weaken our greatness when we

confuse our differences with tribal rivalries that have sewn

resentment and violence. We weaken when hide behind walls

rather than tear them down. We have always had so much more in

common than in disagreement. If only we give each other the

benefit of the doubt that we all love our country we will get

through these challenging times," McCain wrote. Congress

and the city of Washington DC, lowered all flags to half staff

to honor McCain. A makeshift memorial was set up just outside

the Russell building. The Senate, draped his seat with a

black cloth and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who

served with McCain for his entire tenure, eulogized his

friend. It's a stark difference down the road where all flags on

the White House premises were raised fully until late Monday

afternoon. The White House released an official statement

nearly two days after McCain's passing. The president said in

part: "Despite our differences on policy and politics, I

respect Senator John McCainて service to our country." He went

on to say flags will now fly at half staff until after burial.

Many see McCain's bipartisan approach as now a virtue of the

past. "We will really be missing such an important voice for

national unity. John McCain felt very strongly about virtually

every issue that he tackled. But it was never based in

partisanship. He didn't try to score partisan points as he

worked on issues. He would work with anyone who wanted to

accomplish the goal that he shared," said Republican Senator

Susan Collins. "You don't meet many great men as you go through

life, John McCain was one of them for his patriotism, for his

strength, for his ability to speak truth to power and for him

to do personal acts of kindness, quietly, over and over again,"

Schumer added. Both Arizona Senate seats are now open and

the governor will have to appoint a successor to McCain's

seat for the next two years.

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YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship 2015 Cohort Video Report - Southern Africa - Duration: 7:44.

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Thato Mochone: My name is Thato Mochone, I'm a Mandela Washington

Fellow 2015.

Christian Tomarielson: My name is Christian, I'm from Madagascar,

the biggest island in Africa.

Chisanga Mwamba: Hi, I'm Chi-Chi, I'm from Zambia.

Promise Muleya: My name is Promise.

I am from [Zimbabwe].

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[Overlapping Speakers]

Brian B'Flow Kasoka: The most significant change that has

occurred in me as an individual since I came back from the U.S.

has been that I have developed this self-esteem that I can achieve much

more than what I thought before I attended the Fellowship because

I used to look at myself as just an entertainer, but now I look at

myself as a leader.

Dorothy Okatch: Since I got back from the Fellowship and I engaged

in the Africa based opportunities that were there for me, I've seen

so many significant changes in my life where I've started giving

counseling to people who are addicted to alcohol within the country.

And this consultancy, it's not an NGO, its for-profit.

Seeing as I was in business and entrepreneurship, I realized I am a

social entrepreneur and I do not need to go the NGO route

to be able to help people.

Yvonne Jila: We can change the narrative, we can deconstruct the

fact that all men should behave this way.

It's possible to have men who realize the importance of being

there for their families, the importance of not beating up

their women, the importance of not being violent.

So I would say my knowledge level was increased and now I am prepared

to advocate more on those issues when I get back home.

Thato Mochone: So I can say, all in all, the RAB has not only helped

me as an individual, it has also helped my community.

I got external validation.

I will be on the cover of Finite Magazine, which is a woman's

magazine in Lesotho, and this was by the votes of people who said we

recognize the work that this woman is doing in her community.

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Speaker: We started out with randomly picking the person we

think made the most impact and started giving reasons why and then

from the reasons we came up with criteria and then used the criteria

to go back and vote again on who we think made the most impact

by using the experience.

Speaker: So the basic criteria we spoke about were community

engagements, skills application, inspiration, changing mindsets,

skills application, sustainability, change, and then again community

engagement, collaboration and mentoring.

These are the things we used as criteria.

Speaker: He has managed to become an agent of change in the sense

that initially he was focusing on gender issues and domestic violence

and so forth, but what he's managed to do now is managed to become

relevant to almost anything that depicts positive

social or political change.

Rita Tavares: Well, I found the process very democratic actually,

because each and every person on the group had to give their

opinion on what they think, not only about each person but we had

to give specific reasons on why we're voting for this person,

why we think this story has actually great impact or why we think that

this program has influenced this person's life effectively.

And apart from that, we had to find criteria just to support our reasons.

Jessy Chisi: But this process actually shows you that in a short

video, you can get the broader, bigger picture actually how

impactful this project is.

And I think, imagine if 1,000 of those Fellows did this small exercise

you'd actually quantify it, is it worth while doing it

in the next five years.

Kenny Tonga: A lot of issues were brought out, some of which

personally I did not even think about and I'm thinking okay,

I think they do have a point.

So it was very qualitative and very informative at the same time

so it's a great experience.

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Thato Mochone: From what we learned from the analysis of the

stories, what came out was the fact that more Fellows came up,

came back committed to do more in their communities.

They are volunteering, they're inspiring local communities

and they are actually selfless in their acts.

They're actually going out there to do more for their communities

without wanting any money for it.

Christian Tomarielson: And then we have been working on the

changes, the enablers, and the blockers over here and then we

realized that the LDP was really tremendous to the Fellows because

it was a kind of -- the linear plots to all of these changes

and these blockers we had already.

Speaker: For me, it's projects in a new environment other than the

one that you're used to is really important to bring out certain

qualities because it helps you to focus, it helps you to focus in

your work, it also helps you to see, to look at your community

from a different perspective.

Thato Mochone: Many Fellows acquired skills because of their

Africa-based activities and because of the acquisition of such skills,

they were able to get promotions in their work, to start their own

companies, to get into new ventures, like new collaborations

with other Fellows and other organizations.

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'BEHIND THE TV SHOW' Washington, D.C. Part II. - Duration: 0:48.

(electrical buzzing)

- So one lovely thing that I've noticed about Washington,

just kind of collateral loveliness,

is everywhere you go there are just parks.

And all the leaves are golden brown

in the name of the Stranglers song.

If you're old enough to remember that, you're old.

But Washington DC certainly does remind me of London.

I feel like I'm in Regent's Park right now.

The buildings look very similar.

The climate's very similar.

Except they drive on the other side of the road.

But I'm having all those feelings,

especially because it's November, nearly December.

Those nip in the cheeks,

that little cold in the air,

the brown of the leaves.

Oh, I could be strolling past Buckingham Palace right now.