i'm very delighted to be here thank you so much for inviting me it's an honor to come to your event as the deputy mayor for the city and i have enjoyed meeting a number of you with the embassadors a delegation of and the business leaders that make up this community now that i'm working at the city of seattle the role and importance of international trade is underscored by our growing economy and the opportunities to increase trade and technology in transportation and all long relationships with both of those communities and we are very enriching by their partnership this year we've had delegations from each of those cities come to visit us in seattle which was a wonderful experience and in our meetings with them seattle has made clear that we want to expand trade and continue to build strong relationships with african nations like seattle countries in africa have seen extraordinary growth in their economy in recent years and adult leader summit held by president obama this summer to share commitment towards global prosperity was clear i want to echo president obama when i say that we see africa as part of an interconnected world we are not separate we are together as one one of the goals of our president obama and our federal partners is to work with the african nations to increase the quality of infrastructure throughout the continent here in seattle we too are finding that we must work hard to build a better infrastructure to help business exceed from mass transit to education and from having quality roads to a reliable power grid and internet service these simple yet vital duties of government are hughes predictors of our business climate and our projects that we share like many african nations seattle's home to a wide array of entrepreneurs i hear a lot about the real entrepreneurial energy and all over africa and in seattle you don't have to venture far to find global headquarters for companies like boeing microsoft and amazon each of these companies has something in common they were started by someone who saw a better way to do a business or deliver a product next year the global entrepreneurship summer will be held in sub saharan africa for the first time which i think would be very exciting for people and all that on twitter that are in africa as we've learned here in beijing young leaders with the tools they need to create and enhanced business is a key to a future of shared economic prosperity i would like to close by thanking the african chamber of commerce for putting on this very important event and to all the dignitaries that have traveled here to participate armors is a shared future seattle's the fastest growing city in america and we need to remain globally competitive to sustain this growth this means working with you to build partnerships that will benefit and enhanced not only our businesses but the citizens of places where we live thank you and i look forward to working with you and talking about how we can work together  that they never even think they can find affordable drugs in the united states so they were trying to get all of that drugs from sort of world of countries and all the system all the m almost one third of the malaria tell it's been sold in holy african countries or fact or substandard and because of that we have a gas where our group here we started this project we are fighting that and he said you know what your price is affordable to my people to our country to africa and just to give you an example we're getting three hundred medication for about three  are stagnated here it is everything is done but this is g n p certificate that's not in the united states is directing us or dr el or the president is here now and he's going to be in dallas but we flew in that was i was in september and said to the president come to inspect one of the manufacturer in new jersey and all the medication of that company will be approved and we're going that will have a generic drug that will compete with the fixed medication so thank you  about hiv and malaria but then fortunate thing about your side is they put so much money to that give it to the government the government goes back and buy that medication from india and there is no random quality was you know mention one more thing so we have medicine to let you get disease but the other thing that's so crucial important is a nutritional supplement that have done it and i search and found out the best product well first of all i want to say thank you to the african chamber for giving me the opportunity for giving me the opportunity to serve most of you who know me know that have spent a lifetime as an entrepreneur and i have learned quite a bit through the school of hard knocks so i encourage those that i have an opportunity to share my experiences with the please don't go through the same path way that i had to go i'll hopefully we can avoid some of that but you know as i and i want to thank the other participants miss would be for for feeding us during the  classes i want to thank my sister than that who could not make it and i want to thank all of those members that have the courage to commit a portion of their time because time is so valuable to spend ceuta four hours in a class every saturday to better themselves and to make their business better that's what a commitment starts it doesn't start with the m b da we're the port of seattle it starts with the individuals but however we do need the resources that the port of seattle under the leadership of mr luis navarro provided to enable this program to take place we need the commitment resources like the african chamber of commerce so i want to encourage each of you to continue to support mr peter gets rude and the african chamber so that he can keep paying for it he's been in this battle quite a while and  thank you very much for this a prestigious hon it's been almost two years out of charlie black is our business loan officer that work with the company and we were able to help them build their business i think before they were a group of individual truck owners a they were relying on brokerage to get their dispatch but we were able to have them form a company where they could now control their own dispatch and get the business and get a bigger share of the trade fees that they are able to do so the this kind of ways that our organization the rainier valley community development fund helps businesses particularly immigrant businesses like the african businesses we've also helped african market sattar located in our neighborhood and we've helped transportation companies that are doing for hire and we also help the community and that we finance the ethiopian community center and the aroma cultural center so we're with a group of sixteen and a vigils and we work with them over a year to put their together and they did everything that they were supposed to do they i am very very proud that they came together we worked in conjunction with the african chamber of commerce and a one of the advisers business advisors from score and we were finally able to put that together and we look forward to continuing part of participating with their business in the our organization is geographically restricted in terms of who we can loan money to so either the business it has to be within the rain or valley or they have to have an office in rainier valley and their particular case they run their day their trucks are down on sixth avenue on sixth avenue but their offices there their offices is in rain or valley so and then we require what most lenders do however we do not have the strict banking rules because we understand we're really doing business with individuals it's not the businesses that are going to pay us back it's the individuals we do business with well first of all yeah we're called the rainer valley