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Exciting enough, for the first time in 13 years, i get to experience freedom. Access and freedom to me mean dont mean the same thing to you. Access to similarly insignificant things, like accessing the shopping mall, accessing the toilet, accessing Public Transportation that are inclusive of people like me. I get to experience it here in america after 13 years. [applause] grace i represent a Huge Community of persons with disabilities who do not have bases, who do not have voices faces, who do not have voices. After so many years, what inclusion and access should be for them, and i am going ba...

I couldnt be prouder of you. With that, let me take some questions, all right . Thank you very much. [applause] let me all right. So here i think youve been told how this works but im just going to repeat it. Im just going to call on as many people as possible. When i call on you, introduce yourself, tell me what country youre from, make your question relatively short so that we can get as many questions as possible and im going to go boy , girl, boy, girl to make sure that its fair. Okay, so let me see who i am going to start off with. This is such a goodlooking group. Im going to start with ...

Its will on a minority group. So there are all kinds of reasons for violence. But one of the phenomenon that we are now seeing is he very specific promotion of violent extremism that oftentimes is twisting and distorting. And i think ultimately defying the hedicts of one of the worlds great religions, islam, and groups like al shabab and isil and boko haram. And the question is how do we fight back against those ideologies that allows us still to be true to the values of peace and tolerance and due process and rule of law. So the United States is obviously committed to this fight against terro...

True. So i have good news from now on we will give americans an opportunity next summer up to 80 Young American leaders will join [ applause ] up to 80 Young American leaders will go there to africa to learn from you and your countries. You guys are going to have to look after them when theyre there. You know, show them good places. But not have too much fun. They need to be doing some work while theyre there. So these connections and partnerships and friendships, they forge an understanding that brings our peoples closer together. After six week period some of you are officially texas long ho...

Its one of the fastestgrowing regions in the world. Africas middle class is projected to grow to more than one billion consumers. With hundreds of millions of mobile phones and surging access to the internet, africans are beginning to leapfrog old technologies into new prosperity. The continent has achieved historic gains in health, from fighting hiv aids to making childbirth safer for women and babies. Millions have been lifted from extreme poverty. So this is extraordinary progress. And young people like you are driving so much of this progress because africa is the youngest continent. I saw...