 And tell us about the event tonight. This is a memorial fundraiser to recall the losses of life over the last year, maybe more like the last 25 or 30 years in Western Bar El Ghazal, which is one of the ten states of South Sudan. And most people don't know what's going on there, which is part of this story tonight. Tell us a little bit about the history of that area. That's a particularly interesting part of South Sudan because it's where the slave trade started. And it's a very heavily populated with many different tribes, which is part of the problem. There are many small tribes that have lived there peaceably for a long time, but there's also one very large tribe that wants to dominate. And this has been going on for a long, long time. And what are some of the things that have been going on there? Well, it's a battle of revenge. It's turned into a feud where perhaps the dominant tribe will come in and take over an area, burn a village, and then those people's relatives will decide maybe a year or two later that it's time to get even when they see a weakness in the dominant tribe. And then, of course, like all feuds, it goes back and forth without end. And violence, refugees, what's going on there? Talk about that a bit. Primarily the killing of the men. The women and children and the elderly seem to be pretty safe, but unfortunately that means that you're living in a country where the median age is 19. And there are a lot of orphans and a lot of widows. And is the government involved in this one way or the other? The government, unfortunately, is, first of all, connected to the dominant tribe. So they try to poo-poo and say that this isn't really a problem. They try to underplay it. And if a military force comes in, it always consists of members of the dominant tribe who are not the residents of the area. And tonight's event is a fundraiser as well. What's the purpose of the fund? Well, there is an American side, Western Bar Community Organization that's focused in Phoenix, Arizona. And two years ago, they raised enough money to build a clinic in WAU, which is the capital of this state. And during the last violence, the clinic was destroyed. So we are here to remember the dead and to try to learn to forgive each other and to rebuild that clinic. And if people want to donate to this cause, where can they get more information or where can they go? You could go to Facebook to Western Bar El-Ghazal Community Organization of USA if it's on the sign directly behind me. Or you could contribute locally to a project, Pizia. And we would make sure your donation got to the right place. Sarah, one of the themes for tonight is forgiveness. Talk about that a little bit for us. Yeah, our people have gone through a lot of suffering because of the war. Innocent people have been killed. And for so many reasons, of course, this has created a lot of animosities between different groups, between different tribes. But we cannot build our community. We cannot build our nation if we hate one another. So what we are asking our people is to forgive. Even if somebody who hurt you, we want to forgive that person or that group. Because without forgiveness, we will not be able to live. Happily, as neighbors, as people from the same country, we have seen how innocent children have been murdered. Innocent people have been murdered in front of our own communities. This has actually become a problem. We are not able to build our nation. We want a chance that these victims, to speak, in order to forgive, we need to be listening to one another. We need to tell our story. We need to tell what hurts us. And even sometimes talk to the person who hurt you. If you cannot talk to them, you can write them a letter. But we want to acknowledge our mistakes. Without acknowledging what we have done, we will not be able to move forward. And one of the important messages of forgiveness that I would like to encourage people to look at is a book of forgiving by Reverend Desmond Tutu and his daughter. This book is really very important in the lives of many people, especially South Sudanese, who have taken the time to read. And it has taught us ways of how we can be forgiving and how we can forgive one another. Because without forgiveness, we will not be able to move forward. We may not forget for a long time, but the most important is to keep having it in our heart that we forgive any person who has hurt us. And what are some of the lessons that Reverend Tutu has in the book that you find are instructive? One of the most important, what I learned is about listening and telling our stories. Because in many cases, we don't tell our stories. We keep it to ourselves and it traumatizes us. But the most important thing that we can do is to go and find a way just to talk about our stories and to somebody very close to you, to your friend, to a neighbor, to your enemy and be heard and acknowledge how hurtful that event or the situation that you have gone through hurt you. And forgiveness of course comes from both sides. It's not only one way action, but it has to be coming from both sides. And that to me, that's the beginning of healing. Because for us to heal, we have to tell what is hurting us. Because we cannot heal if we cannot say it, even if you have to go to a doctor. If your problem is not diagnosed, you have to tell the doctor what your problem is to be able to heal it. And healing our feelings is the same. If anything hurts us, we need to speak about it so that we can get to a point. And the beginning of any healing is talking about your problems and learning to forgive the other person or the other situation that brought the hurt or the hate in you. Pastor Daldoom, perhaps the most important theme of tonight is rebuilding and looking to the future. Talk about that a little bit please. Rebuilding and looking to the future is something that talk about hope that we must have in order to have a reason to live. So future is all about planning for our happiness. And how do you go about doing that in this sort of situation where there's been so much suffering? Indeed there has been so much suffering in the Republic of South Sudan as a newly born nation. But despite all this challenging and setback, we as human, we must set our core, our self, into motion and gear to the future because we do not have anything else. We have fought the war, we have lost life, and now we live in a total disintegration. We must reharmonize our relationship with our fellow men. We must reconcile and we must look forward to the future and this will be based on love and forgiveness. And is this a political solution, an academic solution, a social solution? Talk about some specifics that you see must be done. The war came as a result of unfairness. It encompasses all kinds of solutions politically, economically as well. When you look at the country where there are fortunate people and less fortunate people, that is a recipe for a disaster. But as a leader, a true leader, someone who believes in bringing the best out of his people is the way out because we cannot be in the front leading people from behind. We must be in the line and move forward horizontally together. This is what future is all about. No one is left behind and everyone has an equal stake in the whole thing. And how do you go about building a bridge to the people on the other side? It must be difficult to find that way. In order for us to build a bridge, we must have an understanding that out of the bad situation, we must develop a solution. And this solution must be based on reconciliation, on forgiveness and love. And love is the driving force. When I love you, that means I turn a blind eye to all your past faults. And I propose in my heart that this is no longer a reason to cause me to hold grudges. We look at the future of our country, the future of our children as something that is at stake and we cannot afford to forfeit that.