 Thank you for that beautiful and inspiring welcome and for surrounding us and starting us in a good way and reminding us of the importance of the war and the air and also our beautiful people that surround us, fast and present and our ancestors and the Georgian community together. Thank you and thank you Ed and thank you to the local organizing committee for hosting us and organizing this beautiful event. So I'm Rachel Warden and I'm the partnership manager at Kyros and I have distinct privilege of working with these local partners here and the Kyros team and people like you on this Lunar Courage and Peace and Security program. Thank you for coming this evening. I know there is no walk going on. So thank you for coming. It's an opportunity to highlight and celebrate the tenacity and innovation of perseverance and compliance of these partners and their tireless and effective work at building sustainable and just and equitable peace with ecological justice. This is by incredible awesome and challenges. It is also time to recognize the support and generosity, the solidarity of time, the donations, the advocacy of people in this room and many of you have been supportive of Kyros and you have beautiful people that surround Kyros for a long time and you're here to let you know that this support has been effective and has had significant impact. Supporting local women peace builders has had good political and financial investments and it's a good political and financial investment. Thank you for your faith in our work and total thanks to the local Kyros community, as I said, for hosting us. I just wanted to say a few words about the Lunar Courage and Peace and Security program. I'm not going to be long because I know you're really here to listen to the partners. But this community peace and security program was developed and led by partners in this room. Partners that live and work in countries and regions like South Sudan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Palestine places and regions where women are particularly impacted by war. But also they have learned that women have a critical role to play in peace building and change and transformation. So these partners came together around the period of change or transformation, a knowledge that when women who are survivors and victims of gender-based violence, of sexual violence, of military violence, when they are provided with psychosocial support, legal support, human rights training, when they know their rights, when they can reclaim their dignity, they become active in peace building human rights processes as human rights offenders and also as environmental activists. So in 2018, as well as their approved matching funding for this program, recognizing it I think is a living example of the feminist international assistance policy. Now six years into the program, we are seeing significant results and achievements and you'll hear about those. Partners have been sharing with us through reports and last week, we've been sharing more women know their rights and are advocating for their own rights and the rights of others. Women who started out organizing monthly prayer meetings are now active members of the parliament. Men who oppose the work of human rights security are now supporters. More men are organizing around us, we're becoming allies. Women peace building are addressing climate change and they're also developing economic empowerment projects, recognizing that women's peace and security and human rights can't be done without economic empowerment and economic support. So tonight, partners are going to highlight their work and achievements and provide some concrete examples. This is the last year of this current program, because a little bit has had that, but our priority is to find ways to sustain this work. We want to make sure that these outcomes are sustained and there's support for emerging work, work that's going on around women peace building. There is climate change and economic empowerment. The tour, again here tonight, you're part of a climate conflict and gender women of courage. There's 2023 tour and we've brought actually nine representatives from these four partners to Canada. And you'll hear about the partnerships. So last week, the partners met in Toronto. They shared strategies. They participated in a tri-level climate exercise. They had finished discussions about reconciliation, colonization. They evaluated their work together. And then this week, we divided into three groups. One group went east to Montreal and Sydney, Nova Scotia. A group went west to Winnipeg and Toronto. And we're the auto group. And we've been here in Ottawa in lobby meetings. And you'll hear more about those as well. And we've also had some great meetings that have been set up at the little committee. A very excellent meeting and tour today at the Wabanoke Center. Now I want to introduce the partners. And I know you want to hear from them. And you'll hear directly from them about their context and the incredible outcomes of their work. So I'm going to introduce the partners from this slide, from your stage, right, I guess, to the left. And then we'll hear from each of them for ten minutes. So, on my leadership of the Organizational Committee of the Alliance, which is a long-time partner of Kairos and is an organization that has 51 years of existence. It works on human rights in Magdalena, a major region of Columbia. And she's currently meeting the organizational processes in a municipality called Yondo. Lori has extensive experience with the OAP. We heard from her staffers and was the first executive director of the Organizational Committee of the Popular. And she started the OAP when she was especially 14 years old. Gloria came to Canada in 2018. She was the first women of courage to partner together. And then to Gloria's left, there's, we have John Rachel. John Rachel is the advocacy coordinator of the South Sudan Catholic Churches. She's a long-time, sorry, a long-time medical Kairos partner. Joanne works to analyze faith processes in particular, the revitalization agreement of the Resolution of Conflict in the South Sudan, her faith process. While she's doing policies and decisions, this is a meeting of churches and governments. She's engaged in contextualizing and implementing the women's peace and security at Jenzai, in South Sudan. And they began to include women and youth and peace-building governance and climate change. John Rachel was a delegate in the Kairos and for love of creation, she was the seven delegation last year. And very recently, she addressed the United Nations Security Council on the situation in South Sudan. And then to Rachel's left, we have Tarik. Tarik is a Christian-Palestinian who was raised in a little town of Bethlehem. He works, and currently works, with the Women's Security Project as a youth coordinator at PM and Palestinian Conflict and Transformation Center. He's very active in social society and is a member of numerous suppliers. He's been involved in the Women's Security Program, the Women's Security Program from the very beginning, and also participated in the first SCAPS which took place in 2018. And then, last but not least, to Tarik's left, we have Chantel Moujrou and Chantel Moujrou is a project manager of the Women's Peace and Security Program of the United Nations Peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Chantel has numerous years of experience in HLO Justices, defending, protecting and promoting human rights. She's participated in many trainings on women's rights and has been involved in the popularization of national laws and international laws on women's rights. So Chantel has been to, she's been in Canada four times, right? In 2007, in one of the first women's courage tourists, she was here in 2016 and also in 2018 for the first Women's Courage Gathering and again today. Chantel is also a delegate of the Pirate Curl of Creation delegation to COP 27. So that's enough for me. Let's hear from the partners. We're going to go from left to right and each partner is going to speak for ten minutes and after you have a little sign you have three minutes and then another sign and it's time to stop. So welcome everybody and thank you. Good night to everyone. As Reyes has said, I'm from Barrancavermeja, Colombia, I'm from Marancavermeja, from Maranca, Marancavermeja. I'm a 51-year-old organization working for the defense of life, the human rights of women and the territory. It's an organization that has been working for 51 years for defending the women, defending the territory. The popular organization of women they are 2,000 other women that are part of it. Women who are peasants coming from the land who are head of family. They are victims of the armed conflict. They have been displaced from the places so the people have disappeared. They have been a subject of sexual violence as well. They have been victims of gender violence or inter-family violence. They are living in a neighborhood where they have... They couldn't finish their studies or some of them never learned to read or write. Some of them are from the natives, some of them are from the African origins and some of them are living in the rural areas. We are women and youth who are in favor of the non-violence. The project Peace and Security has been a strength in the last 3 years. We have been able to contact these women in the neighborhoods, in the neighborhoods, in very distant places and also facilitate the participation and arrival of them to the city. These are women that we also for providing psychological help during the law services we have been able to teach them about their rights. These are women that we also for providing psychological help during the law services we have been able to teach them about their rights. They have learned about their rights and they have helped others once they have learned. Contact approximately 1,000 women that were able to thank us for what we did and they were able to talk they could speak about the virus the sexual virus that they suffer and they let people know their situation. These are more than 200 women who know their rights who respect their nature who respect their life and they can't participate with other women. Now they sit down at the table and they talk about the problems of traffic of women and the violence of women and they speak about those problems. And many of them are in the social movement against the war and the favor of peace. We have a symbol it's a black robe that is representing showing that we have a voice and that we can talk against the war. This is not a dress this is a symbol of resistance and it's a symbol of our defense of the human rights. And today we are doing a campaign to write letters for the peace. We are going to write letters to the police for women to express how they have affected the armed conflict and how they want peace. And now we are writing them to the president to the ministry of equality and to the office of peace. We are sending these letters to the president to the ministry of the organization of peace and courage since the strategy of women peace and security has been fundamental and vital for women in Colombia and in this region. It has allowed the government to recover the voice to those who did not have the opportunity to speak and to be able to defend the rights and to work for a peace for the whole community. I thank you for saving lives lives of women lives of families and I ask you to continue working on the continuity of this project since it is vital for our community. Thank you because this project has saved life has saved life of women has saved life of families and allows to continue working on the community. Thank you very much. Hello everyone I hope you are awake My name is Rachel from South Sudan which is a country that is going through a transition It's a lot of conflict that has happened in the country conflicts that has still happened in the country but we are holding our hands together and moving so that's why I'm saying that we are in transition. Next year in December we hope to have elections and we have to do everything that we can to make sure that we have peace before during and after the elections so it is a country in transition I am from South Sudan Council of Churches which is a communicable body that is made up of 10 churches 7 member churches and 3 affiliates I can give you information on what those churches are but the Anglican church is part of it the Catholic church is part of it the Presbyterian is also part of it and we have 5 pillars of which we work there is the advocacy pillar the neutral forum pillar reconciliation pillar capacity strengthening pillar and lastly the spirituality pillar which we think is very important for the 4 to 1 and with these 5 pillars we have got a mandate to promote peace and development in South Sudan we are a legitimate and a credible body and it is well respected by the people and we exist in all communities in South Sudan the church is very sacred in South Sudan and you will find a church in every community even if it is just a side soul that we put together and they will put the cross to show that there is a church here that is existing so the church is a very big network and we embrace it and we are very proud of it I want to talk about the women peace and security program in South Sudan and how it has been very important especially for the women there was a disconnect between the women in the churches the women from the civil society and also the women politicians but this program has created a space for these women to connect, to unite put their hands together for a cause and at the inception of this program the women sat together and started a campaign and they marched to parliament and demanded that women should be at the table Rachel in the beginning talked about the peace agreement in South Sudan so the women demanded that they should be on the table to discuss and also make decisions and as a result the women were given 35% in the agreement making decisions so that is a very important outcome for this program and also for the women in South Sudan and this group of women is called Women Think and they continue to meet monthly because they need to continue to share information women in politics, women in parliament they continue to meet and out of this group three of them are now MPs of which one of them is the chief week in the parliament three of these women are also ministers so these are key positions that we hope that we will continue to promote but these outcomes, these positive results have got a lot of challenges and climate change is one of them women continue to face a lot of challenges and these climate changes made it worse economic empowerment is important for these women we want more women to participate in politics they need to have some money because you cannot run for office with no money you cannot join a political party without paying some money so they need to have economic empowerment and I believe that as we continue with this program we will be prioritizing how we can respond to climate change and how we can respond so that we can put our hands together people from different countries we don't even know each other but we know that we have a heart that has to meet so that's why we hold our hands together and we promote women peace and security that's what I can share with you thank you good evening everyone it's great to be here with you and thank you for all coming out to hear our stories and hopefully take our stories with you and for the continued support that you give to Kairis so I'm Tark I come from Palestine and I'm here with the Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center before I start talking about the work of the center it's important to just contextualize a little bit of the reality that we live in so many of you are familiar with the Israeli occupation and maybe a few of you who visited the land but statistically speaking we have a very big problem as it relates to resource access accessibility to the freedom of movement and this really affects our youth and women specifically when we talk about young girls and young women we talk about the most highly educated demographic in Palestine especially women between the ages of 21 to 35 they have the highest attainment of higher education but also have the highest unemployment rate when we talk about Palestinian youth and this is the largest demographic with 70 percent of the Palestinian community under the age of 30 87 percent of them wish to leave and often times and you are probably familiar with the slogans that the youth and the children are the future and it seems for Palestine their future is not within the Palestinian territories with 13 percent only expressing a desire to stay and this isn't because they are fallen out of love with Palestine or with society it's because they simply do not see security or their livelihood within the Palestinian territories as in many places around the world we see during COVID an increase and a huge rise in domestic abuse in gender based violence and in violence in general and this of course disproportionately affects women girls and children and so when we talk about what we can do in the Palestinian community we have found that we are fairly powerless to influence national change and to influence binational change to be able to free ourselves from occupation but we have found that we are very powerful to influence social change within our communities working with each other so in 1994 we started its first program in Sultat which is conflict mediation based in the Arab tradition after years of working in this we found many recurring conflicts and so there was a desire to go from being reactive where there is conflict mediating it to becoming proactive how can we mitigate and limit the rise of conflict in our society so we saw a lot of conflict arising as it relates to women's rights as it relates to women simply having equal access to inheritance to having a voice in public to being able to go out in public and so we established a women's empowerment program which includes WPS programming since 2018 and so for this programming we focus on social, political and economic empowerment understanding that the economic component which is something that all of our partners have in common is integral to women's independence if women continue to be dependent on male patriarchs within their family or their community then their independent agency is limited by their dependence we also work with youth and often times in conflict situations our youth are too busy reacting that they aren't able to practice their culture so trying to build a sense of identity and to connect our youth back to the community so that there is a sense of belonging with 87% and pushing to immigrate we have many youth who are moving away from the community and so we are trying to use this as a way to say no you have a voice you have a place here and we can work together and then we work with children where we are situated in Bethlehem was deemed as 2017's world's most gas area and so we have very high rates not of PTSD but instead what we call CTSD continuous traumatic stress disorder and that means that we can't focus on trauma healing yet but instead we focus on trauma coping being able to teach our children mechanisms using arts and theater and writing and dance and music often times to be able to allow our children to leave lives characterized by their aspirations and ambitions set up by the trauma that they've accumulated and finally our final program is citizen diplomacy in which we welcome visitors both formal and informal to our center to talk about what it's like to be a Palestinian living under occupation what it's like to be a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian and where we talk about creative nonviolence resistance to oppression in all its forms which includes this mentorship of patriarchy and it's important to say that in our context that the greatest form of resistance that we have is by our simple existence and so all these programs we like to see as part of our active direct nonviolent resistance to occupation to patriarchy to injustice so there's a lot of things that can be said about this program but I thought I would focus a little bit on male allyship which is the smallest component of our WBS programming but one that we find quite important especially towards a holistic approach so especially since men are oftentimes the ones who are most advantaged by patriarchy by sexism we find it necessary for us to be accountable for that advantage which directly harms women and women pay the cost for and so we gather together and it's important to note that many of the men that we work with oftentimes come to us not as allies but instead those who wish to speak out against our work those who find women peace and security threatening but it's through welcoming them and building that relationship opening this dialogue and welcoming and including them in our work that we are able to change these ideologies towards more inclusive supportive ideologies recognizing that our liberations are all tied to each other that we are interconnected and this isn't simply nationally we also believe this internationally and so just a quick story of change we had one Muslim leader a shake from the Muslim community who came to us because he was very much against our programming thinking that it threatens Palestinian communities and especially the Palestinian family and after being with us for a year and he's been with us now for almost three years he had this complete switch this complete change and is now one of our biggest supporters from the men of this programming and one of the things that he said is he realized throughout our programming that protection that looks like the limitation and restriction especially of women is simply a furthering of the marginalization and oppression which he faces or they face and so in our context often times some women are kept inside their home inside their community their travel restricted in the name of protecting them from sexual assault from protecting them from social stigmatization and so what we've been able to do is work with these men and say no we want to be protectors if we want to protect we can do that by dismantling the patriarchy by working with other men to remove all barriers so that women have equal and equitable participation in socio-economic life and so this is just a small story of change that we have and I encourage you if you have the time and resources to come and visit us and this is six years of work and we're hoping for many many more as the change has just begun and thank you for your continued support people soft and warm thank you everyone she passed me the microphone because I think she thinks that she has is everybody hearing alright okay anything like this which stands for heritance of justice in English and has been supported by Carlos Canada and the project Women in Peace is one of which we have stood on and built on in regards of putting women at the front line we must work with the men who are victims or have survivors of sexual abuse and we work with them in regards of finding bad voice through different activities and to finally be able to talk about the experience advocate in regards of women knowing their rights, knowing how to use them and most importantly that they do have some not only to be looking to laws on the local basis but also internationally we want women to understand that they are protected not only within the laws of the country but also internationally we work mostly and based on the convention 1325 women rights and children rights convention once they have participated to solve of our activities they are able to finally join and be the ones talking about their own history and for women who are survivors of sexual conflict space sexual assaults they are taken care of in regards of getting the appropriate healthcare those women are become most of the time the ambassadors of the project and they are the ones who are now reaching out to other victims to help them and support them and through that they help us to help promote the importance of being able to talk about the experience they are the ones who are now reaching out to other victims they are able to talk about the experiences and those ambassadors are able to not only have a huge impact within their own communities but also participate actively in regards of any economic activities but in addition of that help the community resolve events and activities there to help and support the activities sorry God I'm a little bit tired and they resolve peacefully different community issues because our community remains for the children for the maternity for the prison but also for the women who are far away and who are not the community those ambassadors have helped us to go and talk to the local chiefs and help them understand that not only that there is laws that defend women rights but in addition of that they need to be able to be applied within those communities because traditionally women are meant to be to take care of the children to be in the kitchen and not really have a voice those ambassadors have helped us to help men understand that there are laws and those laws should be applied within those communities and these women are starting to take changes the girls and the boys are also taking care of their schools and also there are women who are starting to be considered in their community and sometimes the chief of the home we women are starting to participate together and be able to manage the community so many many years girls were not allowed to go to school nowadays our ambassadors have helped us promote girls going to school and being given the same opportunities as their brothers today those women are also being considered by the communities they are sometimes given the opportunity to handle or be the chief or representative of 10 houses which means that we have been able to bring bring to the communities the importance of women participating not only economically but also somehow politically within the communities who want to participate more for example, it is now having difficulties to have ways to go far with this initiative to transform the positive society we want to have a little more means and they have their own version of Cairo and Cairo has supported this initiative and that's the reason why they had requested some support in regards of financial means and they applied to Cairo's friends and Cairo has supported them in regards of purchasing some land and being able to also have some and they also have got some cattle and fortunately that means that right now the challenge is the fact that there is also environmental issues and fortunately right now agriculture is becoming very hard because there is a huge change within climate change and unfortunately because many had chosen agriculture as a form of independence and gaining some ownership within a financial ownership due to the climate change and the lack of production within the different culture that they do they have now come to facing a huge challenge in the regards of not being able to produce as much as they were hoping and the second challenge is having a huge production of plastic which is also impacting the different lens that they have to and fortunately due to the lack of quick elimination of plastic that impacts not only the water so a lot of people are not able to go fishing for example because there is a profit a huge amount of plastic that ends within the lakes there is also the fact that unfortunately those plastic not only the bottles but also the plastic bags usually within the water evacuation which creates a lot of it's blocking it but it creates floods thank you in the past in the past other kitchen utensils and other for the market they can have enough financial and economic means to do the job of creating a consolidation of security in the of the source base thank you so women didn't want to just find a solution what they are looking for now is some support in regard to finding a way to transform all that plastic into different tools that could be used within the community any type of transformation they need support in regard to finding a way to transform that plastic into useful tools for those communities and thank you very much really difficult job to limit viral and transformative stories into cabinets and thank you you've heard about these incredible outcomes life saving and viral and transformative work that partners are doing we've actually just had a few days of blogging meeting we've been bringing this message because sometimes in much less time you know it's nice to have a little bit more time but obviously it's important and hopefully you'll hear from the partners you'll continue to hear from the partners this is the beginning I want to talk a little bit about the advocacy and some of the work and messages that we were doing on time thank you thank you Rachel and thank you to the partners again for sharing your stories as Rachel mentioned we were on permanent build we also met with various officials and we went with the WPS ambassadors and we kept telling the stories over and over they're so compelling and our message to to everybody we met with is very simple this feminist international persistence policy known as that the government of Canada has put forward which is very innovative is paying off, is working we know this after five and six years of the incredible work that our partners are doing on the ground and we just need to fund it we need money and this incredible program is coming to an end but of course we need to continue this work and as Rachel said there is emerging work with this with respect to climate crisis as Chantal and others have said that the women are the progress leaders so far they're finding that there's notations in terms of climate crisis and the impacts on their work and also on which is actually related economic development opportunities as well it is very hard to continue the work in peace building, land, and Canada from the table so we are seeing the alignment between human rights as well as economic development and we want to continue this work so we are appealing to the government of Canada to increase its funding its international assistance and below to 0.7% of gross national income which is less than a $10 per dollar is a rock in the bucket especially when we consider how important this investment is so we're asking for some financial asks that's one part of it the other part of it is to increase its climate finance and to target specifically women-led organizations such as our partners to make sure that this funding is predictable and long-term as well and then there's also a diplomatic ask to ensure that Canada is there the international space is lobbying as well as with individual countries asking that they ensure that women are at the decision-making table so those are some of our corrective asks and this is where it can come in we do have an advocacy campaign happening we are asking calling upon you to please send a letter to your member of parliament and it's also calling to the relevant ministers it's here I have passed this out there's a QR code but there's also a website at the bottom very easy we're going to do this in three seconds send the letter I do encourage you to read the letter of course so we need more than three seconds so if you want to read the letter and please also consider telling your networks about it and better yet bringing friends over have some cookies write your letter and to your MP and copy the relevant ministers as well because that goes a long way too it's really important for them to hear from you that this is really quite important and we need to ensure that the next project we can see an increase in the work overall assistance with the target approach to women better organizations did I mean her? perfect, okay I got an she's a peeper it's quite interesting to hear what happened in Suriname with the number of women in Europe as a team keeping political positions but the number is good but what about the let's say political position because in other countries what happened women arrived over at the start just following the same policies of oppression and injustice and one more question for this group okay thank you thank you about your next question and we'll start from where I am there are 50 years of war in Colombia 50 years of submission to armed groups, guerrillas, etc it's the first time that there is a left-wing government he started the peace talks because the previous government put aside the peace talks and he started conversations of peace with LN he started the dialogue of peace relief it's a group the army of liberation in the the army of liberation in the the army of liberation in the the army of liberation even so in the territory it has been analyzed because there is the armed group and they want to control and prevent these things from being transferred the mayans continue in the different territories because they want to continue controlling the situation we know that it's not easy we have hope that this government will be able to do some transformation we know that it's not easy but we want to continue keeping hope that this is going to be possible that's where women we want to have a voice in the situation because we want a situation of peace where we always we can have a transformation not only to stop the army and the confrontation but have a transformation in the society I hope I answer your question thank you for highlighting that I hope I got you right to asking which positions and what change has happened essentially what kind of policies when they arrive to the position of power they follow are they supporting changes or progressing changes or being just policies that have to do with immigration for the first time we had the first female minister for defence and during her time she established the general court marshals and these court marshals are holding perpetrators of conflict related sexual violence accountable that had never happened when they were the mayor of ministers in addition we also have the gender-based violence bill and we have the family law which is supporting women to stop the inheritance of women in the South Sudanese culture so those are the changes that the women have brought and I believe that we also have a speaker who is female and I think this is why these bills have been passed and these laws are being tabled so we see that when the women are in these positions they really bring out the issues that women are facing and it's not only that there are policy issues that they bring not only for women but for the whole country so we see the change and we need to insist thank you thank you very much for very moving and really quite exciting account of what is going on far away from here but suddenly feeling very close indeed we in Canada are also engaged in many directions to improve status of women for example in indigenous communities in certain very large church organizations and in many other places I would like to ask Kairos again to perhaps indicate what kind of a program would be crafted in order to keep the community aware of what Kairos is doing and what success is going to be achieved so that the interest is maintained and of course the desire to support Kairos thank you is there another question? okay there is very few questions in French I mean so let's try in French alright I want to ask a question to Chantal that I present to you my name is Richard Richard? that's interesting Chantal is member of well member of the collective of three members in the region of the big African lakes who were my former partner in my former professional life it's to help me avoid so I want to ask you Chantal about the complexity of women in their everyday lives in the region of the big African lakes I know there are synergies I will talk about other organisms like coca-fals actually it's for interpretation I'm sorry I'm sorry I didn't want to interrupt but I just want to know that everybody has the right question so if you can speak slower so I can make sure that I have the translation so transfer to her my English, my bad English the question is how do humanitarian justice interact with mental health like coca-fals to face these programs that overcome women in common especially because I think the problems they are facing are really the same as in Erwanda how do we interact and political issues in the countries affect their work thank you very much I want to know how we interact in terms of interpretation we are always in contact with women coca-fals in Erwanda it's the synergies that bring the women from the countries in Erwanda from the countries in Kenya coca-fals and women it's it's a part of the information and there are that women are that we are that we are that we are that we are that we are especially and there are for women in the great Likes there is an organization which is basically a union of women representing Rwanda, Burmudi, Tanzania, Uganda and DRC. All of those groups get together. Though political conflicts exist within those countries, women have been able to continue working with one another. And more and more we see women influencing those politics through different policies and bring to their own community and government. And it is through the exchange that is happening within the Great Lake Kokafen that we are able to support one another. And this gathering is part of our work. Part of our work is to make visible, to amplify and to bring the voices of partners to you as a government of Canada. And we are led by partners. Our work is the best. What our program is to see is led by partners in the global partners and partners in Canada. I mean, just this afternoon we had a really interesting tour and meeting at the Wabana Health Centre. And there were so many connections that were being made by women peace builders and the local human rights organizations globally. That Indigenous Centre and the work they were doing. So many connections even around the theory of change around providing survivors with social and legal support with opportunities to do culture and space and feel safe. And opportunities to work together. Encourage people to become active, to become transformational, and to become active in politics and peace building. Those connections were being made by the partners. They were talking about changes they wanted to do in their programs, possibilities of exchanges. That's the kind of thing that we need to do. And that's the kind of thing that will foster these connections and these partnerships. And have strength in them. I mean, I don't know if I adequately answered your question and it's very much based on our experience with this tour. But I do think that that is a very important part of our work and when our advocacy is led by the partners, I think that's what our work is about. But I'm sure we don't have more time to have more questions. I hope you'll stay a bit after and talk to partners further. But I just wanted to give the final word to the partners. I want to maybe if they can take one minute. Just talk to sort of a final reflection. Keep looking message on your experience with the tour and into Ottawa. What message do you want to leave the audience with? That's actually the message. I just want to say thank you. Thank you for allowing us to bring to you the voice of many women. And thank you because of those eyes and voice that can transmit the work of Kairos. And thank you for allowing each of these organizations that are here to be able to bring transformation to our women. I want to invite you to be part of the campaign Letters of Peace. The women in Colombia are writing this letter to the president, to the ministry of equality and the high commissioner for the peace. And how the Congress has affected them and how they want the peace to come where they live in the neighborhoods, in the land, in the territories. I invite you to write a similar letter so the popular organization for women can continue doing the work for the peace. We have the papers here so if you can write this letter, this is something that is going to be very important for us. I would like to share this with you the unity of the women and work for the peace. I would like to share this with you the unity of the women and work for the peace. I'm so excited and so happy to see that we are sharing these achievements with all of you. I just want to share my sentiment with Gloria to thank you. I'm so grateful for your sacrifice for peace, for a peaceful and thriving world. And I don't want you to give up because change will happen, transformation will happen. And I know it may seem that things are not working out and things are not changing, but they are in every way that they can. So thank you and I appreciate you. I'd like to echo many of the sentiments that we're sharing and I'd like to give a special thanks to Kairus for all of its staff, all of its work and the supporters of Kairus through which this is possible. We had a lot of bureaucratic meetings this week and I think we became very aware of our power. But I'd also like to thank you for your power and the support that you give us through that and encourage you to continue using it. In many of our meetings we heard from politicians, forgive me if that's not the correct term, about the limited funds that are available and the difficulties in being able to access funds. We heard this also from gang at the same time that fossil fuels and the war industry continue to be funded. And so I'd like to leave you with this message maybe to ask especially because you are the people who elect these parliamentarians that you continue to pressure them and ask them to make the resources work in tangent and in line with your ideologies. If you believe in justice work, not just justice work internationally but also domestically. Our liberation is all interconnected and I think it would be wonderful if not only our countries, our women and our people were empowered but also all people living here as well and across the globe. And thank you again. Thank you. Thank you very much for all of you who are here and take the time to come and let us share our stories. This is my fourth trip with Cairo. And I have seen the changes that have been applied through your efforts and your support in DRC. And I would like to thank you again and ask again for your support because we know that you are our best ambassadors to those who can take the decision. But it was important to support the women work because if women stop or disappear, the word disappears. Because if the mother has an economic power, it is the whole family that is here. And if the woman is here, it is the whole community that is here and there is development in society. Thank you very much and may God bless you all. Thank you again for coming. I hope you leave and that you can seek around for a few more minutes to chat with partners. But yeah, thanks again for coming.