three to three run around in his south seattle washington ninety one one eight there will be a team of doctors nurses and pharmacists providing free screening for cervical cancer himly monogrammed screening d high cholesterol and high blood pressure in addition to doctors nurses and pharmacists will be providing information for substance abuse including information for underage drinking and drug abuse mental help help and wellness dental health checkup and cleaning and also domestic abuse prevention if there is a finding during the screening you will be provided treatment for free if you would like to have a mammogram or several cancer screening hundred six three two five zero three zero four to register these services are provided free of charge and do not require any insurance and addition you do not need to have any legal status in the united states to use these services for example you do not need to have a green card or any type of citizenship verification there also be free food music dancing and soon but still we invite you to come out and it will twentieth two thousand and thirteen from ten a pm and join us for the free health screening thank you my we are very excited to have you here with us today as you may or may not know march is international women's month and we would like to take this opportunity to celebrate and highlight the contributions of ethiopia and ethiopian american the primary goal of this event is to uplift ethiopia and other within in our community and around the world  we would also like to accomplish to celebrate the accomplishments of ethiopian women around the world and it's also an opportunity for us a local community to get exposure to art that tells the story  ethiopian women in addition it will provide local ethiopian artists an opportunity to present their work here we have put together a wonderful program filled with music dance poetry visual arts and much more and we surely hope that you will enjoy it we will begin our program by watching a documentary about a small village in ethiopia we will then move on to the open mike question of our event where you will hear from some very talented a slideshow presentation inspiring european women and then we will conclude the first part of our program with a born not ceremony and that ceremony you guys will actually get to participate so that's a special treat for you  on to hear some more open mike and poetry including some dark poetry and again we thank you for being with us tonight and i would like to begin our program by introducing you to  documentary that we'll be watching the documentary it is about a small village in ethiopia and the reason we chose this documentary is because that village in ethiopia that we will be learning about believes in gender equality and you will see what i mean by that when you watch the documentary but you will see some reverse gender roles and in this very interesting  thank you for sharing that with us very interesting i think we have some new people that have joined us as we first started and i'd like to welcome you and thank you for joining us at that second annual salivation of international women's month we have put together a program for you filled with poetry music dance visual arts and much more in the hope that you will enjoy it really that first half of our program will begin as you saw  documentary and now will be moving on to and my question of the evening after that we will watch a slideshow presentation inspiring ethiopian women then we will move to watch the youth group  dance for us and then we will have been us ceremony that you are all invited to attend so we look forward to that and then at six pm we will begin the second half of our program with a trivia after that she is the president of the if you have any community in seattle she is a graduate of the university of minnesota out with a degree a bachelor of science degree and she's a mother of three adult children she retired after thirty one years of service as a registered nurse actor part but she still cook produces i'm doing the t v program with her husband on scant t v for eight years and  on community media for the last two years the program covers a variety of issues and has been a bridge to many of the integrate refugee populations in seattle and giving them information and updating them issues and language that they understand it is where i would use hope and aspiration to get involved to keep our culture history and tradition alive as well as help immigrants and refugees in our community successfully integrate with th  for the community to do this and enjoy thank you very much up next we have caleb asked came up as a senior at federal way high school and he will be starting college back and are going to expire he hopes to major in math and wants to teach math and urban high school after graduation during his sophomore year in high school ok i took a creative writing class where his teacher introduced the class to spoken word after watching a few inspiring heartfelt spoken word pieces on you tube he wrote his first spoken word piece based on approx ten things i know to be true he was proud of what he came up with and continue to write at the end of the school year came actually heard a story about his mom to his english teacher this  teacher gave him the idea to write a poem that he'll be performing today titled the mark of the distinguished he says i wrote this spoken word piece about my mom and i dedicate it to my english teacher mrs g please help me welcome ca pass the puck into the flame an open fire is where she landed her mother was crippled by a seizure and she left stranded far from the fire father her screams many days later it was discovered that her legs would be truncated to both knees you my son were birth by womb pulled from a fire was burned beyond redemption my only option was amputation and you know this was far from my control but the fact is that i'm here now and that's the most crucial detail of it all i'm a son and mother of three living on here persistently i can't say i have much possessions in my name but but know this i've gone through every step of the way that bar altered my course for without it my life would not be recognized among any others from a third world because of my condition i you may never see what it took but were you made a suit yet the life left is ruined but rather what remains matter is and will survive is purely refined is also efficiency needed in this life brought a fire in this woman and from her a son when defined by the zeal because of his mom his mom taught him divine truth of life you see how relieved rather than retaliate to be kind rather than greece because every john smith has dreams to be free free from being burned by humanity free from th criticisms of his society the freedom to be and you my son can blaze the way as one carrion flying fire as one with heart aflame yes one indeed can bring such change just as one accident can become a lifelong predicament so just don't get it you are an instrument so let your heart guide you but more important than the day yes but my to you must withstand o him son through all that use you may be overly worked overlooked in abuse so let me apologize if i wish that not  you but keep this truth in mind and heart now to join in life is not about what's living what's best for you a part of my life out and to you to share with your fire far is the mark