you would just kind of give us a review as to what it does and we're going to get to all the things that you're doing your organization but we have to talk about you there is a pure not surprise wanting book about your the strength and what remains i found your story amazing because we we have to understand why you're doing what you're doing and why you're you're basically giving your entire life back to your country or you were a senior medical student in burundi when civil war broke out yes situation well civil wars are never clean there's a war here in the united states was horrific you know it's it's very hard to compare really you know wars in the und the it's it's how what happened to the people on the people killing each other i was neglected hardly anyone was talking about it or thinking about stopping it when and that's a good question i myself keep wondering why a country that his ten million people went through these who are neighbors who share everything and just as there is so much done in the name of god in the never region in the name of race he was in a name for i city but the real root causes of these killings have to do with nothing but coverage and lack of education and this is a what we have been missing in terms of understanding are as human beings we can intervene anywhere regardless of what we are going to get out of this place in terms of material goods and speaking of getting out that's what you did you you got out of the room the during the civil war itself i mean you if you were a student at the time in medical school i mean you were someone who could fight when you fight you must have the strength to do harm or to protect yourself i didn't have any what i could do was to run like many people who tried unfortunately many didn't make it in that the other is what do i do what would they gain after that i remember growing up my father asked so you were able to get out and fortunately yes and you made it with the help of others to new york i didn't speak english and you can imagine how painful it was for me to have gone through what i went through in the to find myself in a place where i didn't know anyone where i didn't speak the language and yet when they hit so much to share with people they r pocket what was a very interesting to me that that was the biggest amount of money ever had in the my life in the thought that i could put myself up in no tail for quite a few days  escaped take thought that i was going to be a bit of you know you see back home during these terrible times i was constantly running s was physically exhausted every minute it was about where to go to next to hide how to a run away from this and dangerous situation but then when i was he me york city i  one chasing me with a machete or anything so my mind was revisiting everything and i was a stranger in a public space i was the in the culture that i didn't know and things there he you know stay what i saw during that time made me question everything that i had grown a life i couldn't believe that i was in the united states of america were people were just moving around shootings that night in there was a one person who was killed i believe in front of the building where i was staying or it could be here after these the noise from a gun well vehicles and police say reigns in a kind of stuff i was  very frightening for me at some you know some time i thought in my having nightmares or what is that and it was so frightening and so difficult for you that you chose to leave there and go live in central park it was it was a very difficult but i of this big gigantic city in this quiet at night you know i had this opportunity to to see the stars looking up in the sky in though that but that but something inside made you go and decide to teach yourself english yes yes or no story but you know it's a tough language i'm not sure i can teach myself the right to you're not sure but if you get know nothing else the left i just decided to go to a bookstore and they grabbed to these attain me french english dictionary and they started memorizing all these words the problem was that no one could wow but the success of you since then and what has happened i mean is amazing you had what did you do you taught yourself english while you were living in central park just by going to dictionaries and then you decided to go knock on the door  a here's a young man who has you know already contributed tremendously to society but has more i really cannot tell you why they decided to war we know to bring me in saw that my life was about to turn into dust in the field that he had the open gifts and the moral obligation to get me through at least for a few days i don't think that they were thinking what help work though when you were back and rooney was that it or what was it i basically want to ask and you do you have an opportunity to meet dr paul farmer at harvard yes he's a world renowned for his work and global public health how did me feel my god you know wondering and walking the run to thinking who can actually understand the what life is like outside of this environment in other countries in the he's of these men who had spent so many years in haiti from when he was a student at harvard medical school who knew something could be fixed and something that is wrong so certainly after reading all these i saw that even if i couldn't communicate with him this is someone who would understand me and i understand how he sees the world they like to talk to you at some point and he said why don't he just talk to me right now in we stayed together but dave from that day for twenty four hours we became truly not just friends but brothers in decide to do something it wasn't your that was not new to me what was important in the wonderful for me was to find someone who was thinking exactly the same way i was thinking i remember for example go growing up in burundi was not a life in a which i asked myself what am i going to do tomorrow you see you start a school by the end of the school thousand and five for the first time i went back to burundi and spent quite some time over there my mother was sick was in this hospital called room or the hospital is a public hospital i know that detained incarcerated they're kept in hospitals until someone is going to bring money to pay for the bills metro that's the model if you're sick and you can't pay when you have to stay in the hospital and so other people who are sick can't get in they can't they were not released that's a good question so you see often   because of their own need depends on international funding there are regulations so if patients cannot pay figured out a way but it's not this policy that ask peak government to detain people how much can people pay if i believe the status right eighty percent of the people of burundi erling under the international poverty level already  only that we're talking back in two thousand and five that people who most of them spent twelve years on the run many were women and everybody it's a it's a it's hard to understand but that's what bad pushes do to people so i'm sitting here looking at you what i'm hearing all of these different barriers and yet project and what they do have to go on it is going we'll even though we have a long way to go as i said before it is a so uplifting for me to see how people who day and then a few years later you're here queens as working together the key is the to understand why did they kill each other why was that country hutus in the tutsis these are people who are the same people same culture who suffer exactly the same way who here for experience the joy of sitting down with their children and h steel there and i am here as well because they learned so much in the saw knowing that has been crucial for me to sit down with people i knew and asked them former enemies to gether but or still gave them the opportunity to see how much good they could do together how they could really bring decency into their own communities which had been lost in how they could create something that is so humane so that that place can if another image not the story of killing and hatred we're about thirty seconds left unfortunately if you're if  we're coming back together five years from now and i want to ask you have you done or what would you say i hope that i would say we are on the road of