 Standing before you is a woman who never graduated high school, Les Mast College. My father was a simple fisherman from the island of Bohol, and my mother was from the island of Mindanao. I am the eldest of the children, of all the children, and we grew up in a small, undeveloped fishing village. Some of my earliest memories are the tears of my mother's eyes when we would go to bed without eating. I know the face of first-hand poverty. Like many other women born into poverty in the Philippines, my only chance to break the cycle of poverty for myself and my family was to go overseas to seek employment. So I left my two children behind and spent the next 20 years working as a domestic helper and raising other people's children. As a side note, I am proud to say I accomplished my task as a mother. Both my girls graduated to college. It was while working as a domestic helper in Hong Kong that I became involved in community service by founding and serving as a chairman for eight years of the Mindanao Hong Kong Workers' Federation. My employer at that time, Mr. and Mrs. Fung, trusted me to help raise their son, Jonathan. It was young Jonathan, only eight years old, who told this woman to use computer. At that time, 1999, all I knew about technology was that name Bill Gates invented the mouse. Now today, I know my facts were wrong. But that time, that was all I knew about technology. I told myself that I have something in common with Bill Gates. Our humanity. We were both human beings. If he was smart enough to invent the mouse, I should be smart enough to learn how to use the mouse. It was the use of the internet for men fed that I began to fully understand that technology behind the internet meant people could perform services without the need to leave home. For those of you who had never had to leave your children behind, you have no idea how powerful the concept that is. I eventually returned home to the Philippines and founded a business process of searching company called Mind Consulting. Today, Mind Consulting operates three ships offering wide range of services to our overseas clients, including web development, graphic designs, programming services with a specialty in development of social media application, the social media management system. When you look at me, you are looking at the women, those life has changed by empowering nature of technology. But it is important note. Behind me, there are so many others whose lives has also been changed dramatically. When you empower women with technology, you are giving one most precious gift that can be given, the gift of knowledge. On behalf of myself and the million women you will empower and the tens of millions those women will influence. Thank you very much.