for putting out this wonderful event this afternoon to help support reducers with our borders and we're going to come a little bit about just hours at the end of the magic show and show a little six minute film about our work and i'm going to talk to or three minutes or specifically about the project in india and i'd like to dedicate this show to someone from india who happens to be in the audience here and i probably wouldn't be doing this work if it wasn't for my daughter by who came to me from india twenty three is just hold this bottle with this piece of and this area just filled with traffic would have been kidnapped from the villages kidnapped from from the other countries and  the province and this organization is trying to put him in and to second generation traffic seventy percent of those kids end up in the tr houdini once said when i escape from my impossible situation i think i inspire hope that the impossible is possible my name is tom ver and i'm a magician seven or eight years ago i started an organization called magicians without borders i started magicians without borders because i think magic is a wonderful way of bringing joy and happiness and hope to refugee and orphan children around the world and they tend to be many of the most forgotten tommy has such a wonderful gift with people but children in particular because he knows how to connect with them i think a really wonderful part of this work is the fact that i get to do it together with my wife janet and my stage name that is love for a big part of what i do is before the show i go out and do a silly handshakes and improvise play with the kids and the kind of warmed up we do three things we have the shows we do in refugee camps in orphanages twenty five countries somalia ethiopia sudan all the countries of the former yugoslavia thailand after the tsunami burma and the afghan refugee camp on the iran afghan border we were asked to create a magic show to teach refugee children about hiv and we did that show for a hundred fifty thousand refugees in west africa so the third thing we're doing is now going regularly to el sol adore and we're working with a group of kids they're training them to become magicians a lot of the people that we perform for have very little for many of them have lost their homes lost a limb and they've got a lot of reason to i think despair that they can never have what they've lost again i really do believe that laughter and heals and magic you know wild way is sort of filled the folks we perform for their lives seem very impossible to them i try to inspire them to look at magic as something other than just tricks or just amusement and amazement but that it can so i feel that weird citizen diplomats and that feels like a very important thing to do in the world at this time magic is a universal language i don't speak burmese i don't speak hindi or arabic but i do speak magic and all children around the world speak magic they all get it magicians only do three things whether they're chinese indian african european south american they make things appear they make things disappear and they make things change they do it in a thousand different ways but magic is universal and everyone understands that i don't have to say a world