tell you know what i feel i'm going no i came here to speak about my journey my adoption story but to also kind of talk about issues that could be controversial in terms of adoption and what's going on with pas in ethiopia as it may two thousand and eleven  when i was able to talk about my views on adoption and about the change and i guess one of my own guess what i felt was controversial and others might not have received what the received well was that i'm actually kind of glad that my point on adoption and what i think is what new movement should be going on and i think the new movement should be that we need to focus on ethiopia's infrastructure and work on how we can you know better help the country then kind will absolutely when we dumped it in one thousand nine hundred four there were fifty four children who came to the united states from ethiopia in two thousand and ten i think they were somewhere over two thousand five hundred children they're  personally twenty thousand children adopted from ethiopia to the united states in the last twenty years which is a small number in some ways and which is an enormous number in other ways i think there is more awareness about the needs of children any b i think we are becoming more of a global community and that becomes very important for us to be able to reach out and to connect in whatever ways we can i think one of the pluses that comes out of the adoption movement is that adoptive parents feel this i do and i know a lot of others do feel a very strong connection to ethiopia and indeed a very strong desire to give back to that country because of the amazing blessings that we have received in terms of o diaspora in a different way their movement was not voluntary and in some ways as of a true as a very strong connection i think two ethiopian children would have better talk about that but i think that's a real plus as well as far as that can come out of adoption as reunite with my biological family i had this urge of giving back the sense of i have i have country proud i'm very proud of where i came from and out of that i want to get back and i know a lot of the things that i've done is one of the events i've talked about my journey my story of adoption and they were very you know touched in this story is that they have not we don't have that much in common i mean we're from two different places and but for them to just believe in my cars to want to disregard not intentionally but maybe just because of lack of awareness that the purpose of you can contribute most ways to some of the issues that we're we're witnessing so i'm glad to hear that you know you've reads a different libraries and we made a great connection and once the trip was over we decided to do a fundraiser and he got his fraternities and sororities involved about three hundred people showed up we vibrant nonprofit that works to create a culture of literacy in ethiopia by bringing libraries and books to the children and so when you talk about the youth and education it's such a big part of any young person's life education here in the united states we are hoping to bring more libraries more books to children in india be a particularly in areas that don't have access to books don't have access to libraries we have at this point planted fifty over fifty libraries throughout ethiopia we established the first children's library ever in addis we have several reading centers we have reading centers or libraries in every region as well and we're very proud of what we've done we're hoping to continue training librarians and teachers ethiopian librarians and teachers to work in the schools to work with the children to bring books and we've done some publishing as well in english but also in local languages to bring in and already had other languages so that we have children's books in languages that they're reading as well as in english and good quality ones as well but we're trying to do that and so it's so important for young people to get involved and to not take for granted i would say as a parent and not take for granted what they have in terms of the books in terms of technology in terms of the media but to say well i'm really lucky to have this and when i went to be over in two thousand and eleven and really saw the work that they do i mean these are people volunteer in their hour it's their time and just really working hard because they believe in this community they will even give you mean kids and you know they just it's all up for a good cause and what i was saying is you can even pull ethiopia and you'll find a million different modernizations where you can go to links or they will show you how you can be a part of oh say volunteer opportunities but i think it's just sometimes i think hiding that kids have is china get resources so it hasn't even on the internet and google ethiopia and something and i'm pretty sure you'll find more than enough resources or information about how to get involved in children also has team tests for with runners training runners young men and young women and of course it's one of one of the many things that ethiopia is known for is the quality of its athletes and so we have a program tester has a program to help support the runners and to hopefully bring education and opportunities to them as well i just kind of would like to follow up on some of that you said as well small things make a big difference it is wonderful and amazing the fundraiser that selfish and the others did to raise twenty three thousand dollars absolutely incredible and it's huge the amount that that will help even five dollars ten dollars still makes a big difference and even a book or two can make a big difference so i would just like to add that as i'm closing any of the remarks you like to share with us i wanna say thank you so much for wealth welcoming me and us here i think there's so much that we can do in partnership as we continue to talk i really appreciate the opportunity to for us to talk together today and i hope that other additional doors open and we continue to work together we agree i think you know the big thing is that we are just able to have open conversations where we don't get upset about different issues but look at them as a different perspective and just kind of move on and see what positive things can come out and i think this is a good start also for us you thank you very much thank you be launched here in the near future courses into areas of coverage will be in this course would be social media journalism internet media and others as well so if you have any particular interest in those areas please  about the media and journalism in general this is a great place to come and spend some time and learn more about it so if you have any questions or would like to take some of these courses please feel free to contact the program at that phone