 If you're really concerned about the issues in your community, whatever part of the world, that's the place to be. Thousands of people have applied to this initiative and only a few of us have made it, so I think it's a chance of a lifetime. The fellowship always gave me the drive to know that this is important to do and also to know that we can actually implement this decade because I had seen so much positive commitment among the fellows. How do I really help implement that into a reality so we can advance the three themes, the three goals of this decade, which is recognition, justice and development for people of African descent. I was just looking forward to being in Geneva and seeing how it worked, meeting people that are doing the human rights work that you hear about every day. One thing I was very much looking forward to was meeting the fellows from all various backgrounds and really trying to understand basically what is the international African dilemma and how they are working on solving these issues faced by people of African descent. We have many different sessions related to many different topics, not only content of human rights, understanding international treaties, covenants, but also understand how can we use these tools to explore the UN mechanisms. So I expected to learn a lot from the other fellows and as well as that also learning more about the United Nations and the OHCHR's work from people who work there. Bringing people from African descent that are across the world together in one place to discuss about our issues, most of the time we face the same problems around the world. When you want to solve a human rights situation or case you have to be able to integrate all the systems around you to solve the problem. The challenge of human rights is enormous and of course some of them the offices cannot see but people like me who are on the ground can bring it to their attention. The more I gain experience the more I become more determined in what I want to do which is you know advocating for human rights. I feel even more informed in a way that I never imagined that I could in such a short amount of time. Even if you think you are not capable of you are, it's not about only you, it's about the community, it's about the future, it's about making a better world for our generation and the generations to come.