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CSPAN2 Nonprofit July 3, 2024

Coming up some hillary and Chelsea Clinton with a spade in the open session of the Clinton Global Initiative conference in new york city. Joining them were activists from around the world including Actress Ashley Judd to discuss women and girls writes, Climate Change, and access to aids and hiv treatments. [applause] when whatever secures oldg too young to stay at home alone, i would take a bus everyday after school to my aunts. I wanted to play outside but instead i do listen to life stories of everyday people that came into my aunt daisies beauty salon, the village, in little rock, arkansas. My aunt daisy was hardworking and compassionate. Her salon, though small, was illuminating. My childhood was triggering an overwhelming at times. But is also beautiful. Those days been in her salon showed me that people can make a difference in the life of others, just by a simple gesture, and a decent conversation. And it made me realize how a single moment seated in a salon or a barber chair has the power to create Lasting Impact or even a movement. So if i ask you to close your eyes and think of africa, i bet most of you would see giraffes or probably kids barefoot running in the dust. The cliche of africa is really a succession of tragedy of academics but the reality that those challenges are tremendous. As of today, 1. 3 billion africans representing soon 25 of our population, and in 2001, onethird. Africa is also the most, the youngest continent with a median age of 20, 60 below 25, and all aspiring to have a decent life. Africans are still poor mostly, poor access to clean water, energy, transportation, food security, and above all, the biggest tragedy is poor access to education. That is not conclusive of the large bottom of the pyramid. To give you an example, africa needs 100 times more universities to be able to really answer to the needs, and admitted often inefficient policies that were not able to address these issues so far. Over the years, therapy and personal development has help me to work through some traumatic experiences in my childhood. I recognize the same pain and needing for coping skills that so many other marginalized black men and boys, which led me to great the confess project of america. In 2016, to provide others with Mental Health strategies and coping skills to have them move past her own pill. Paint. Suicide is a third leading cause of death for black men between the ages of 1824 and only 4 of clinicians in the Mental Health field are people of color. Spending time with my aunt daisy is where social innovation and the journey of impact met me as it speaks to the work that the confess project of america now does in over 52 cities and 30 states. Training barbers and stylist to be Mental Health advocates. In 2022 the confess project made a commitment to action to increase Mental Health access and decreased the stigma of Mental Health by meeting people where they already are, in barbershops. Since then in partnership with the department of Behavioral Health in georgia weve expanded our training to women to train 500 beauty stylists. 50 of the barbers and stylus have gone through the training are better informed about Mental Health than they were before. Because of the support of cgi we have expanded our recent partnership with the Walmart Foundation addressing juvenile justice strategy in arkansas. We have also formed a partnership with truest bank to help expand our curriculum across the southeast in 20 barber schools. I am proud to share with you that the confess project of america is now reaching 3. 8 Million People annually through our training of network of barbers and hairstylists. [applause] now, you may think that there is no straightforward solution. We believe that education is the one. Africa does not have the luxury to take its time and build universities the same traditional way in the western countries, so it will have to leapfrog to advanced technology and innovation and alternative education. Seeing this, we started in 20, osd which a a notforprofit supporting gun out of her nose in africa. We started in tunisia and together with Columbia University we felt the program that targeted 100 youth, trained every year, mentored them offer them an international exposure, and we scaled the model slowly through the whole country targeting all university with hundreds of faculty that were all trained to help us in our mission. In seven years we supported 2000 students, around 400 youth led startups using technology to solve global issues. And guess what . After seven years, 98 of our entrepreneurs are unemployed, whether they have their own venture or working for other companies, which is a remarkable outcome in a country where 30 of graduates are employed only. Today i stand before you to announce the overseas commitment to expand the model across africa we tried it in morocco and in cynical and it worked. Were trying to do that at scale, this initiative has at the first allies including Columbia University but also in mikey said lets join, and we added also many countries, the u. S. Embassy, the german government, the european union, eu, france, digital africa, african investment, one of the first in ai built in africa. The commitment to action will empower communities to change the narrative of the continent and showcase the power of talent that exists in our youth. It is no surprise that any of us here today, its not always easy. There are days when its hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Over the last year we face changes in funding and organizational shifts, but last year we made a commitment to a 300 barbers and stylists learn Mental Health strategies to support their clients, their families and their community members. And with the sport of this community we will see our commitment to action to create a culture of Mental Health for communities of color. At times when i start to lose hope, i remember the compassion that i felt as a young child with my aunt daisy. We must all remain compassionate and resilient. We have to keep going. [applause] so i come all the way from tunisia trip a Little Country in north africa that has flowers to disrupt all wishing. Some of you knows as the creators of the spring but in reality we want to create the entrepreneurship and innovation that is built in africa. Tunisia offered its name and as of today i am very humbled to use my voice to make the case of our youth. I never thought one day his holiness would open the door to me my friend lorenzo. [laughing] i think we can retire, lorenzo. [laughing] but i also never thought that we could transform a National Competition into an african ecosystem, recognized globally connected, and changing the narrative of africa with europe, the u. S. , because africa is the future. We refuse to believe that there is no solution. There is no curse. There just needs to be a shift in the paradigm. There needs to be new solutions, and we are witnessing this shift. We are all in this a journey together because its our future, and we will make sure that this reality across the continent happens, and until then we will keep, all keep going. Enjoy your day. [applause] i could not be happier that i had a chance today to see firsthand what is happening here at the foundation for recovery. I just saw a room packed with volunteers who are putting together recovery kits. I just want to come and see all of you think everyone of you and tell you how meaningful this work is. Thank you very, very much. Since 2019 we have distributed and received over 20,000 lifesaving prevention kits which is been a collaborative effort with the Clinton Foundation that action will provide an reverse preventable opioid overdose. So happy to meet you. Three in four people who struggle with addiction to eventually recover, but they cant recover if we ignore them, deny resources for them, think prison is the answer instead of recovery is the answer. And so weve got work to do. Thank you all for all the work you are doing. Not just saving lives, you are truly the glue that is keeping the civilization together. By caring, by loving. And the Clinton Global Initiative i i cant think ofa Better Organization that includes and reminds us that we have to help each other. It is all about separating us from the differences that divide us and finding common ground, because when we Work Together, guess what . We get really great things done. Please welcome president bill clinton and ziv aviram. I really like that last section. And i hope you did. I think of all the challenges we face. It is likely that none requires more collective action than seriously addressing Climate Change. Every day we have new evidence of the new reality we already live in. The wildfires are more deadly and more rapidly moving. The floods are deeper, the droughts are longer, the hurricanes and typhoons more severe. Record air and ocean temperatures, species die offs, and with every new headline, the reminder that the longer we fail to act, the more severe the consequences will be. Things will get worse, and they in turn will exacerbate our other political challenges, including poverty, hunger, malnutrition, disease and, of course, armed conflict. But theres a flip side here. We know that if we Work Together, whenever we do it seriously, deliberately and over an extended period of time, things get better. We can lift up the human community. We can improve the human condition, and we know that theres something for everybody to do, particularly in this space. Entrepreneurs and innovators all around the world have already proven that there are significant responses to Climate Change, which will make things better, lower future risks, ad improve outcomes. Today, i am pleased to introduce one of them. Ziv aviram is an israeli who i last saw in morocco. He has spent a lot of time and effort to unlock the entrepreneurial skills of people in north africa and the middle east, and to reach across the divides to prove that a Common Future can be built. Now, ill let him explain it, but he decided on his own. Thats how we found him and how we begin to Work Together. And he decided on his own death the rest of us had not done enough about Climate Change. Which was painfully selfeviden selfevident, though a lot of people say that, and never do anything about it. So i would like to introduce ziv aviram. [applause] president clinton, distinguished guests, the morning. Thank you, mr. President or the warm words. What an honor to stand here with you on this prominent stage. We worked very hard to reach at this moment of the announcement, and im eager to see the results of our initiative. Ladies and gentlemen, the world is a global theater. Yet, one voice has orchestrated a unique and significant forum focusing on acting for the better. That voice belongs to you, president clinton. Thanks to your leadership and commitment, we all stand here today ready to lend a united hand and address one of the most critical challenges of our time, Climate Change. Our planet is crying out for help. Devastating wildfires, raging canada. How i faced the deadliest blaze in a century. Distractive hurricanes and typhoons are smashing against our coastlines. Crippling droughts are consuming africa, and unprecedented heat waves are striking europe and north america. Disastrous events are alarming signs of a new normal that we cannot and should not accept. Throughout my career, i was privileged to build companies that harness harnessed o empower people. Inspired by you, resident clinton. Now, i inspired to expend that and harvest technologies to help our planet. Following long and extensive preparations, today we proudly announce i joined Climate Tech Fund aye breach echo bridge. [applause] echo bridge represents opportunity to create a future in which Economic Growth and environmental prosperity are two sides of the same coin. The ecobridge fund will invest in a wide range of cutting Edge Technologies that will shape its Sustainable Future for our children. It teaches us that humanity has the resilience to conquer great challenges, beat pandemics, devastating wars, or tyranny. President clinton, we are both full self committed to do everything in our power and leave no stone unturned until we find the most innovative ideas that will hopefully rebalance our world. I call upon you, fellow business leaders, join us. Join us and together we will tackle the Climate Crisis and turn it into a triumph. [applause] lets ensure a better tomorrow for us and for all future generations. After all, we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children. Thank you. [applause] please welcome doctor Chelsea Clinton. [applause] good morning, everyone. I i promise i did not quite know that you of the blue to match, so awkwardly and meticulously. [laughing] i am incredibly grateful for our next conversation, because we are coming together a moment where there is both enormous reason for optimism about the fight against hiv and aids, and also deeply concerning and less than encouraging news in the ongoing effort to end aids. The good news stems from a recent report from unaids that we can in new hiv infections and the Public Health emergency that has been aids for more than three decades, if we stay the course, by 2030. [applause] this is only possible as a promise because of the extraordinary work of activists, of advocates, of scientists, of grassroots organizers and doctors and nurses and midwives, many of you here in this room over the many decades of hiv and aids. It is particularly meaningful to us here at the Clinton Foundation to be on this precipice, because the origin of the foundation really began in 2002 when my father and Nelson Mandela at the barcelona aids conference that you decided to do something about the deep inequity that existed and access to hiv treatment. People here in the United States were more likely to have access, although still far few to did, but People Living in south africa and in much of the global south had no effective access to the medicines that were able to turn aids into a chronic illness because the cost of treating a person per year, more than 20 years ago, was 10,000. 10,000. And so my father launched the clinton hiv aids initiative, now china, to turn what had been a highpriced lowvolume market into highvolume low price market. And today the average cost of treating a a person per year n the global south is less than 60. [applause] so i am incredibly proud of this work, and proud that my father and the many thousands of Extraordinary People who have worked at chi and continue to work at chi kind of taken that as only a reason to keep going to do more. So chi has negotiate more than 140 different commodities, arrangements, enabling earlier detection, treatment, and when possible, vaccinations against a number of the Health Origins that still take far too many lives and far too many people around the world. And we know that while the end of aids being insight is an incredible testament to the work of everyone over the last 30 plus 30 plus years to get us at this point, as we earlier in the conversation about protecting hiv aids writes, we cannot take your foot off the pedal and we could not mistake progress for mistake, and we could not take for granted that everyone will recognize the importance of this fight for justice, equity, and health. Because while certainly we are very proud and chi for all the work that weve been able to be part of, to pioneer, to stand behind, to learn from, we know that much of our work as much of the work of any of us in this room who have been engaged in this fight has been made possible by the work of the global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis, malaria, by the unaids, by the world health organization, by unicef, many of those have been at the large global multilateral institutions, many of whom intermec received support from pepfar of u. S. President s emergency for aids relief that president bush launched in 2003. It is the [applause] single largest effort ever undertaken against a single disease in history. And it is one that were much of it to decade existence has received even recently strong bipartisan support here in the United States. And yet today, reauthorization for pepfar is that something that we can take for granted. And without the continued support of the United States government and effectively of citizens here in the United States, we will not be able to turn aids into part of our history and and of such stia stranglehold of our present, and a shadow for our future. So while the unaids report suggests the date is robust and strong and that we can in aids as a Public Health crisis and in new hiv infections by 2030, that is only possible if we sustain political will and funding and focus it on where the virus continues to spread most rapidly. At the moment that is among women and children. A staggering 84,000 kids thousand kids around the world still die from aids every year. And so for those of us who care about children, for those of us who care about equity, for those of us who care about justice, for those who care about

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