hello and welcome to another episode of this fight the challenge is a show where we showcase people with amazing abilities who will despite the impeding circumstances the challenge is not only their turn around their own lives but they go out  community and to amazing things and in our journey in this life time we do come across many people who have out of their comfort zone have gone out to make a big difference in the lives of those who really need our help mr lanny is the president and founder of swat relief initiative so this initiative is to improve lives of women and children and pakistan she has done tremendous work for health care education and economic growth of a woman who really  you know when i was growing up i saw first of all a lot of discrimination against women and i would i mean the first discrimination came with me because i would always hear help you know the people who would help us in the house that say that you know you were the fourth girl in the family and when you were born people were crying and you know they were very upset but in the next year you had a brother and when he was born there was dancing and singing i'll tell you why there are celebrations so i was kind of you know that what's the difference between me and my brother that they celebrated when he was born and you know they were crying when i was born and then subsequently as society that i grew up in it's a very male dominated society so women are basically second class citizens and they based women men consider them to be chattel you know like the d so you know a woman can anything can be done with the woman and there's no questions asked and my grandfather was a big champion for women and so i remember when i was growing up they were always people who would come to my grandmother to to my grandfather to like for instance there was a little girl who was seven years old and her parents had gotten a married to an eighty year old man because there was some eighty eight zero  son yeah and she hadn't even lost all her milk teeth hadn't even come out and this was a you know dream injustice yes so people would come to my grandfather to remedy these kinds of injustices and i was i would see them i would always be i was a very quiet child i never spoke much but i was always thinking of these things it why are women discriminated against and i always felt that one day i was going to make a difference in the lives of women saw those h educating young girls i was helping women i would try to get a lawyer for you know a woman who was in need but then what really sort of the platform made me start an organization was that the people of swat went through a very big tragedy yes you we spoke about that you mentioned that within a short time there were three major catastrophe exactly and the first one came in the form of because you know when my grandfather was ruling he was a very just ruler there was a lot of there was a very strong justice system and he built hundreds of schools in hospitals and basically you know that's doesn't seem like an unusual thing but for swat it was very unusual because in swat society was just had was a society with no governance and there were just wild tribes that were fighting one another and vying for power and when my great grandfather came along he actually united all the tribes and disarmed them and formed a here that when people like the taliban came and said we will take it back to the old justice system and people started believing them and as they got stronger they started taking over swat but then later on people realized that it was one hundred twenty degrees out and we were in the camps with them we were providing health care medicines you know whatever they needed because a lot of times been people would come no one would know  try and then that's when i when i saw that so many people supported me there were so many friends and relatives who came to the to my support you know but to the support of the idea of peace and i saw that there was a women and children because you know a lot of women and children became widows during that time i mean children became oftens women became weirdos and basically in that society the solution for that so they still need someone they need still to keep care of their children and themselves you know if children are at that age that they cannot go make a living and then they don't have electricity so woman has a male child was there to be would start the only reason women were not respected was because they were an educated and they didn't know any skills and so they didn't have any earning power and the they were not part of the s to providing for the families that are providing and you know we've seen because we have two centers for women we have to creation training centers for women in swat in swat and we have one for men because you know be felt it's important for the women when also deucalion training because a lot of young boys who were not educated became victims of taliban and the taliban because what they did with these kinds of boy they train them to cousins but i think no matter what happened it's still your duty to help the people that you grew up with i do work with women especially women who are less world countries that women are much more interest because they don't have that when the opportunities over there yes and they have never been exposed to clearly like for instance let you know i'll give you an example of  we'll give them education at least in tenth grade and then any of the children who are talented they will go on to higher education i see what that sin is such an admirer of all the effort that you are doing and i know that we've been presenting it to a lot of rotary clubs and then a lot of the new jersey community pakistani community as well as the you know with the people from many different communities who are part of  sending for the poor people i was compelled to start to start a new way of starting an organization and basically our organization at the higher level is all volunteers  volunteers for the organization and my husband and i pay for all the overhead of the organization so that hundred percent of what anyone gives us goes directly to the programs for and this district child assembly was supposed to give a voice to many children because you know after the taliban came children were traumatized because they saw dead bodies on the street shows or people beheaded on street corners so he wanted to give and he's our board member and he's helped us with a lot of processes so bored in swat and programs have become much stronger and stronger because of his help and he like us is also a volunteer so you  many people who are willing to be volunteers and i feel that as volunteers you can really make a difference yeah area so you can't really think i think at any level either it's kindness and goodness of the heart and the passion that they carry it really takes the message so far but people like yourself they have to plant a seed the interacted so many volunteers as we ourselves work as well in tears and we feel that it's the volunteer spirit that really makes everything work yes they sure does and i think i think when people hear more about the world being done and how their lives are being transformed it really inspires many people so we can provide information on the screen to both the website and the type of volunteers that you're looking for how they can as i was growing up when women are educated the mothers are educated the whole family flourishes because they are the center of the they are the pillar of the family so their education is more important and when we take away that no from the foundation to smother being the first teacher and if we take that away it's pretty difficult for hard to be you know so i am a very strong supporter of of women's education and you know it's more and more that we hear about many cultures just start third world countries and so many places that you do hear about young child marriages with the effort that you are making do you see a difference now that only marriages for girls have somehow the schools but the ground or the foundation of effort is based in the community and the we start organizing we also have community organizations and by starting the schools we involve the whole community we involve the parents and we teach them about women's rights how we teach them about how important it is to give a woman equal rights son and we get them on board and we tell them that the reason why we are giving the children free education is because we want the change in the society we want to experienced that having their lives right they did not know and when you go tell them that you there because you know when we were growing up in swat i think after the taliban came people became much more conservative and i think it took away the rights of women that they had previous so i think they still have that in the back of their why did they know that's the right thing to do and so all we have to do is bring it to the forefront and when we tell women that we showed them the benefits of you know of family planning for women and women are fed up the they don't want to have that many children because of that conservative mindset you know men are they don't have as many not to have it so basically it's changing society and me takes time there and it takes time it takes time so we have to constantly remind women about you know the right thing to do even though culturally it may not be acceptable but get an education and to have women stand equally with me to have equal opportunities and help equal opportunities in education equal opportunities  well you know all the things that they have we have to consider that not something that are right but it's something that it's given to us and with responsibility and we have to assume that  so i would and i feel that one people say one person cannot do it but i think one person can make a huge difference yes and if everyone in this world did their duty did their job to help another here well i thank you so much for coming here to the show and sharing your ideas and thoughts and specially the work you're doing with young girls and women and i of luck and for our we were just please check out the website and if you are interested in while interesting there is information on the website you can contact them i thank you for joining us