 Good morning, everyone. I'm Jane Therico. I'm the Global Partisan. Buenos dias a todos. Mi nombre es Jane Therico. Antes de comenzar quisiera ser un reconocimiento territorial. Antes de comenzar quisiera reconocer que nos encontremos el día de hoy en el territorio tradicional de los land. We thank them for allowing us to meet and learn together on their territories. The original caretakers of this land, of which we stand, to all that was here for thousands of years before us across Turtle Island. We honour the struggle and the lives of those who gave themselves for it. For those here today, we acknowledge the ancestors. Beneath our feet, we acknowledge the land. Our ears to the ground, we can hear them. The Cree, the Metis, the Deni, the Soto and Anishinaabe. The Dakota and Lakota nations, the Inui, the Blackfoot, the Inu and all nations that came before us and those yet to become. An infinity of footsteps of those who long called this land home. The unfolding of bundles, the undoing of colonisation and the ongoing of this land to allow treaty to come alive. We affirm our relationship to each other and to the land. We acknowledge and pay respects to the indigenous nations and ancestors of this land. I acknowledge the land of the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, where I am right now. Thank you. So to start us off, thank you very much everyone for joining our Men of Courage workshop for this 20th anniversary. We are very excited to have everyone here. And we want to say a big thank you to our guest speakers. We have a lineup of amazing panelists who are going to share with us today. And to start us off, I will welcome now for the Gems Oyet-Latancio to lead us in an opening prayer. So for the Gems is the Catholic priest and the general secretary of the South Sudan Council of Churches, where he has provided executive leadership since April of 2015, supporting the member churches in playing a critical role in building a sustainable peace through implementing South Sudan's Council of Churches Action Plan for Peace. He is a passionate individual about peace and reconciliation, having grown up through decades of war, part of which as a refugee and building on his pastoral service in South Sudan and Italy. For the Gems and his PhD in philosophy from Pontifical Urban University in Rome, Italy. Welcome for the Gems. Thank you very much. Let us join our hands and pray together. God our Father, I want to thank you for this possibility of coming together today, as intergenerational and intersectional in the round table. I want to pray in a special way for all women of courage globally in all corners of the world, going through challenges, going through pains, going through difficulties. I want to appreciate the efforts of these women of courage. May your blessing come upon them. May your wisdom always be with them, the indigenous of the land on which we are. We have to bless this our meeting, bless this round table, bless all our discussion and guide us with your Holy Spirit. We pray and trust this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Jane. Thank you so much for the, oh yeah. And now we move to the crux of the program for today. And Rachel will guide us through the first section of the workshop. Thank you, Jane. And thank you, Father James for, for, for starting us off in a good way. And welcome again to the women of courage workshop, where we come from, where we are at and where we're, where we're headed. I'm Rachel Warden, I'm partnership manager at Kairos and is my privilege to host this workshop with my colleague Jane, through Rika. I want to extend a special welcome and gratitude to the partners who are here from, from Columbia, from South Sudan, from Democratic Republic, Congo, from Philippines from Palestine, all around the globe, and including here on Turtle Island. During this workshop you will have the opportunity to hear from part of these partners from Columbia and South Sudan, and hopefully from Penelope First Nations in BC, as they reflect on partnership. I also want to welcome those of you who are, are connecting from our network. Those who've been accompanying this work and supporting partnerships through advocacy and education and financial contributions for a long time now, and those who are new to this. Welcome and thank you to colleagues at Kairos as, as well. I've been working with partners for a long time, the 20 years of Kairos and seven years before that. And I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Our work in Kairos is grounded in these partnerships informed by a knowledge experience and the realities of partners, and our work is best when it's led by partners. And I think the Women of Courage Program is no exception. I want to do a very, very short overview of the program, very short. The Women of Courage Program I think was precipitated in 2010, when Kairos responded to an invitation of the organization Femenino Popular in Barranca-Bermeja, Colombia to participate in an international mobilization on women against militarization. We organized a delegation including Indigenous partners from Canada, migrant justice activists and global partners to Colombia. We visited Indigenous and Afro-Columbian communities impacted by war and militarization, and accompanied community members in bus caravans, sometimes for three days, back to Barranca-Bermeja to participate in a vigil at a military base. At the end, we held a workshop with partners on the gendered impacts of militarization and war and the use of international human rights frameworks and resolutions like the UN Security Council 1325 on Women, Peace and Security to defend the use of these to defend women's women's rights and build sustainable peace. And after many years of gender justice work, I see this as the birth of the Women of Courage Program and our work on women, peace and security. Jill Harris, who I'm hoping will will join us from Penelope Island, was a member of this delegation. We've learned a lot from partners about the differential impacts of war and militarized conflict on women, the multiple ways in which women are affected by war, but also the critical role that they play in building inclusive, equitable and sustainable peace at all levels. The impacts of war on women and their role in peace building is more and more recognized at the UN in these resolutions and in Canada, however, the implementation and funding of these policies and resolutions falls short. In 2018, we received some funding from Global Affairs Canada for the Women, Peace and Security Program. Part of the Women of Courage Program, Global Affairs approved $4.5 million over six years matched with Kairos funding from Kairos donors, and this funding has allowed us to enhance our work with partners, particularly in the areas of psychosocial and legal support human rights training, advocacy and work with allies. I wanted to welcome and thank representatives of Global Affairs Canada who have joined this workshop. The program is rooted in a theory of change that we've learned from partners that when women and women who are survivors and victims of militarized conflict and violence, including gender based violence are provided with opportunities to heal, self-esteem and dignity to reclaim their rights, they become voices and actors in peace processes. And actually with partners over the years, we've now developed tools to measure these outcomes, including self-confidence and autonomy and participation. These are very difficult outcomes to measure. I'm sure you can appreciate since they're very long-term and they're qualitative, but we've been working with partners on this and partners continue to show an increase in sense of confidence, autonomy, communication, critical thinking in the participants in the program. I think that we can take pride in this work that we're doing with partners to demonstrate these outcomes. Finally, I just want to say it's important to recognize how COVID has magnified the existing inequalities and vulnerabilities of partners, including gender based violence, economic insecurity, hunger, human rights violations and militarized responses by repressive governments. And even in this context, partners are working with impacted communities, building conditions for peace, and working towards transformation. In this context, partners also are drawing our attention to the importance of including economic justice and empowerment, as well as climate change and environmental issues in peace building, broadening our notion or concept of security. And I want to say, I want to let you know that tomorrow around this, at this time, there will be a workshop on exactly this, women, peace and security includes climate adaptation or mitigation. This is by way of a bit of an overview. I don't want to take any more time. We have a lot of speakers to hear from about their direct experience with this program. And to start it off, I want to start with where we come from. So this will be a bit of a roundtable and we're going to hear from speakers about where we come from. What catalyzed this program and women, women, peace and security, women of courage? What brought us together? I was hoping that we could start this with a response from Jill Harris, but she has not been able to join us unless she has been able to join us in the last few minutes. There might be difficulty with connection, but I just wanted to give a shout out to Jill who has been a supporter and an advocate of women of courage program since this inception. She's a member of Penelope Nation and a grandmother and a former chief, a residential school survivor. And currently the secretary of the Penelope Elders Advisory Committee and is involved in the search for unmarked grade in Cooper Island residential school. Yeah, I mentioned that she participated in the 2010 delegation to Columbia and the participation in the mobilization against militarization. I traveled with her to communities in the south, visited indigenous communities in Columbia, and then we traveled back to Barranco-Bermeja on a three day bus ride to the vigil at the military base and she participated in this workshop. And then on the first women of courage tour to Canada, we visited her community in Penalakit actually with a partner from Chantel Ballulu from the Democratic Republic of Congo. And as I said, since then Jill has been an active voice and advocate in the women of courage program. So I just wanted to acknowledge Jill here and hope all is well with her and that we will hear from her soon. Next, I want to move to to Columbia actually to the organization Feminina Popular and to women of courage in Columbia, and it's now my pleasure and my honor to introduce Gloria Suarez. Gloria Suarez is an executive member of the organization Feminina Popular in Columbia. Gloria has been working for more than 40 years in the leadership of the OFP supporting and supporting social movements. In addition to her position with the OFP, Gloria is on the municipal board of victims of in Barranco-Bermeja, and she, she is a representative of gender justice issues. She has extensive experience in providing psychosocial accompaniment to women victims of armed conflict, and has been an advocate for human rights, peace and gender justice. I've known Gloria since the beginning of our partnership with the OFP and my first trip to Columbia in 2001. Gloria received the Kyrus Women of Courage delegation in 2010, and at that time met Jill, and came to Canada in 2018 and participated in the Women of Courage, Women, Peace and Security First South-South Gathering. Thank you. Thank you so much, Gloria, for joining us. It would be great just to hear from you, your thoughts about where we come from as women of courage. Thank you so much, Rachel, for the introduction and for the presentation. I would like to extend a warm welcome and greetings to everyone, to the team in Kyrus who have accompanied us and who have been such an important support for us. And I'd like to send greetings as well to all the partners and allies who have made this work possible and who have made it possible for Kyrus to support us. So I'm in Columbia in Baranca Permeja in the Magdalena Medio region. It's close to the Magdalena River. And this is a region that has been highly disputed by the different armed groups. It's a region where forced displacement and forced disappearance, sexual violence and gender violence has been heightened. And this region has been deeply affected as a result. Our organization was born in 1972. We've been working for more than 40 years. Soon we will be celebrating 50 years for organizations defending human rights and especially women's rights. We also defend lands and natural resources. Our community has been affected by the armed conflict. Members of our community have been murdered, exiled, suffered sexual violence as well, and has been forcibly displaced and disappeared in 2011. We worked in collective reparations. We participated in that process. It was a very complicated experience. And the Women's Courage Program, as Rachel mentioned, began with that accompaniment that Kyrus has given to organizations for more than 10 years. They've not only accompanied us economically, but also have been able to respond in political ways, morally. They've been there with us in the most difficult times. They've been the support that has helped our region move forward and survive. We give you thanks for your solidarity. And we also give thanks to all the allies that make this support possible. Also, as Rachel already mentioned, Women's Courage has been a fundamental program because it has helped to improve and it has helped women to recover from the impact of the armed conflict in the war. These are women who have been victims, not only of gender violence in their homes, but of political violence and persecution because it has been women's bodies where all armed groups have tried to retaliate by using women's bodies. Women's Courage focuses on psychological, legal support, emotional and psychological well-being, collective action and support and accompaniment, human rights, defense, all of that has been absolutely essential for us. It has been a very, very positive experience and it has allowed us to help women empower themselves, empower themselves in terms of their right to become more active, to present themselves in front of authorities. And they often are re-victimized as a result of the access to local groups we've been able to have them empower themselves. We've been able to have them with their self-esteem, with their autonomy. We've also been able to have them with reproductive rights programs as well. I should also mention COVID and the context of the pandemic. It has been and continues to be a very difficult situation for women. Previously women, there were spaces where women could go, could meet and now they had to be locked down with their aggressors in many cases. We spent 24 hours at home and we saw an increase in gender violence and there were also people who were armed, armed actors in their home and therefore the situation became very complicated. And we've been able to accompany a lot of women through this experience and through this period. It has been essential to have access to the Women of Courage program because it focuses so specifically on women's needs. It helps us to accompany women in their everyday lives. For example, there was a woman who was a migrant, which is another of the cases or the examples that we work with. There are women who come from Venezuela, who are also very vulnerable, whose rights are being violated. And so we've been able to integrate them into our work. We're very grateful for the program Women's Courage. It has been essential for our organization and for the work that we do to accompany women. Every day has been the work that Guido's does, their accompaniments, the way of following up with us, even though there's, we're as distant, we feel you very close with us. We're so grateful for your support and for your accompaniment. It has been essential for the women. We're so grateful. We're so grateful for your solidarity for a company. And for being such important human beings in our lives. And thank you for being present in such difficult moments in our region and in our community. Thank you so much. Thank you, Rachel. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you for sharing your, your vast experience of where we come from. And, and thank you for the accompaniment and solidarity of the OP for all these years. We've learned so much from the from the organization Feminina Popular about building feminist piece at all levels and I thank you so much for that. And I know it's very difficult to share where we come from in five minutes. Thank you. And thank you for, for, for those, those words. Now we're going to move on to where we're at. And Jane is going to lead us in a discussion on, on with partners on, on, on where we're at right now. So, thank you, Jane. Thank you, Rachel and Gloria. So for this segment of our workshop, we will welcome our panelists from Columbia and South Sudan to speak to where we are at. And I can share a little bit about that about the time of Kairis's establishment. I remember, I was a wee teenager then and I remember hearing often reading a lot about the United Nations fourth world conference of women that was held in Beijing, China in 1995. And in many ways, this conference heralded is heralded having played a central part in in efforts to improve women's status around the world. But on the other hand, there was and there continues to be a wide ranging resistance to protecting women's human rights. And this could be attributed to, you know, a desire to curb women's effectiveness in human rights advocacy. So, fast forward, moving in addition to the contributions of the from the Beijing conference and into the 2000s, both the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against against women. This framework was adopted in 2000. And for the partners who we're hearing from today, this international human rights instruments, they complement a lot of their work. So just a quick note that after nearly 50 years of conflict, the Colombian government ratified a peace agreement with the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia in 2016. And in South Sudan, Siam nation, South Sudanese voted to secede from Sudan in January of 2011. But in these countries and others experiencing conflict, women and girls are still disproportionately affected by violence against women. So I'm looking to hear from the speakers today, if they can share with us, like what what some of the most significant outcomes of our partnerships in this work are what are the most pressing issues. And what partnerships like with organizations like Cairo's in in their opinion and in their context and landscape, how they have changed them. So I'll begin with our partner in South Sudan, we will first hear from Leonard Mambo. Mambo is the advisor of programs and administration at South Sudan Council of Churches, a Catholic faithful and a lawyer by profession. Mambo has over nine years working experience in humanitarian and civil society organizations, advancing peace building and conflict transformation in the Republic of South Sudan. He is passionate about ensuring social cohesion among communities, having worked as a facilitator in community dialogue. So Mambo, please share with us in your opinion how the context of women human rights landscape has changed where you are. And some of the most significant outcomes from this partnerships that we have, for example with Cairo's welcome Leonard. Thank you so much, Jen and the entire team for giving me this opportunity. I have to appreciate that this is one of the most rare opportunities that one would wish to have. Because looking at the fact that we also celebrating 20th anniversary of Cairo and also looking at the fact that we had a very long time engagement with Cairo's. If you can permit me to have a very simple presentation on behalf of the team. I would like to do some bit of slide where I will be able to highlight some of the key issues. As far as our partnership is concerned with Cairo's specifically Cairo's Canada. Am I allowed to do some presentation simple highlight of presentation on some of the key issues. Yes, so this is some simple presentation that I want to table in this very important event celebrating Cairo's for the 20th anniversary. When you look at the context of social done is a very unique situation that one would not expect to see in this modern era. The context in social done as far as women in particular concern is very unique because we have a lot of stories a lot of issues surrounding gender based violence. As a result of the ongoing conflict and also the level of vulnerability, specifically among among the women girls and children. We'll be able to see that one out of seven social done is women in most cases died from child pregnancies. And also you'll see that 16% of women over 15 and a literate compared to 40% of men, while the constitution grantees equality between men and women. And this sets a percentage quota of 35% for women in legislative assembly but when you look at the practical aspect of how these things are exhibited as far as the context in social done is concerned does not properly reflect what is being done. So looking at this. The current context. As far as this discussion is concerned is that much as we are, we are, we are practically doing a lot of things as far as our partnership with Cairo's is concerned. We still believe in in chapter chapter four verse 13 that much as we are entangled by a lot of issues in this country. We still do a lot of things through the strength that Cairo's is giving us allow me to go straight away to the context itself. What has changed as far as our partnership with Cairo's Canada is concerned, looking at our partnership right from the onset. And I would like to say that through the social council of churches national women program, which is respected across the entire country because of our special position as far as social council of just is concerned because the charts in social context is seen as a neutral body that unites people in different contexts, and you'll be able to see this in different respects as far as conflict resolution in the country is concerned. You'll be able to see some pictures that I generated from our partnership activities that we did together with women, encouraging women to participate. Looking at the fact that the participation of women in different decision making arena is limited through the support we're able to engage women specifically. National women program has brought out a structure that will call the women link social women link under the under those pieces of social council of churches through the support we're able to engage the women in different You can see one on the other side for the James is opening a session, delivering session where women are able to be engaged to, you know, in one of the activities, they are attending prayers and fasting in one of the churches trying to advocate for peace. And this has been a very rare occasion that use not to be done by women on their own. You'll also be able to see that through our support. You see, space has been created for women to communicate and speak. This is also one of the rare opportunities that women in the past were not able to be engaged. You'll also be able to see that women have been created platform to advocate in different ways. We're communicating their voices in different events through Kyra's Canada will engage women through their support to communicate what they want to see where special as far as the participation in the peace process. What do they want to see what what what does the law provide as far as the rights are concerned, but is this are these rights being exhibited as far as the practical aspect of what we call inclusion in the country is concerned So all these communications have been done through different platforms. And in these different platforms women are able to, you know, for us and communicate what they want to communicate to the system that is that is that is that is an attention of this particular kind of event. I will be able to see also that when you see some communication here with this program has made sure that women are able to become facilitators. You'll be able to see a woman giving some wonderful hesitation. As far as gender justice, you've seen some under it here we have a training on gender justice, because women have been engaged in different platforms to be able to understand their rights and these rights can be and they were able to understand this right through different different trainings that were given to them. Most of them are able to become facilitators they have been able to roll out the ideas that they generated from most of these trainings. All in all, recently we have an assessment that we were able to carry on as far as the impact of our engagement with women civil society. And also the entire country is concerned we're able to generate an understanding that matters, we still have existing issues of gender based violence, issues of violation of rights, issues around women and poverty, at least coming from a platform where we coming from a stress on where we don't have a platform that creates an understanding for women to communicate to know the situation where women are able to be together and communicate probably what they want to communicate is a step forward as far as our engagement is concerned. So in this particular end I want to say that our engagement with Cairo's Canada has impacted so much and it's still impacting because we have created a platform. We have also created a mechanism for women and also the other category of vulnerable people who feel they should be part of this kind of discussions are brought together to communicate and this is what I see very important as far as this particular event is concerned. Moving forward as if you may permit me to move on. I think in the interest of time, I'm really, I didn't really want to interrupt because I'm still really interested in what you have to hear about. In the interest of time, I think I'll switch and give the women link members an opportunity to also speak to this. And thank you so much, Leonard. If we do have time, we'll definitely come back to you because I'm really, really interested in hearing the end of your presentation. And we do have a delegation of women link members. I do have on my list, Lily Richard, Asunta, Bernardino, Jacob, Rose, I hope I pronounce your name correctly, and Margaret Barcaba. I'm not quite sure which one is the key speaker from women link. But I will invite them now to share with us a little bit about what has been the most significant outcomes of our partnership in the women of courage work and in the participation in peacebuilding efforts with South Sudan Council of Churches. So, I will welcome the speakers from women link to share with us a little bit about their work and outcomes from this program. Yes, what we can take on. So I think our brother gave more things about women watch activities we are doing here in South Sudan, South Sudan Council of Churches. We have women empowerment. We have workshops in different trainings, human rights like we have the human rights and women rights. From a healing forgiveness reconciliation is the situation where we are. We have forgiveness and reconciliation, and then the teaching about the GDP and women peace and security, then peace intervention. So in our monthly prayer, we are having from church to church, and the women that are from different ethnic denominations, and all the churches that one day under SEC we used to move together and pray for peace. And all the prayers are where we are doing that brings unity, love, understanding forgiveness and reconciliation among women, even not women only entire South Sudan. We went to the president's policy twice for press invited us, and it was a great achievement to have that opportunity. Even here you cannot find a chance to go and pray with your president or in the policy and women we have that chance we went and then we had a nice with our business and all the pastors. And another thing, the March on Street, giving this message. Then we have the outreach. We went home to home, giving awareness and preaching about the COVID-19 and even COVID affected South Sudan. We are being trained for it and then we start teaching people giving awareness from house to house. And even we have the GBB from home to home awareness about early marriage, because here are some tribes they used to call their children to go for marriage in early marriage. And even we have the raping of girls, women. So those are all about is happening here. But now, all what we have done, really there is a great change. Even we have the girls that when they drop out girls now they start going back to schools, even this year, some they let their children with their mothers and now they are going on with their studies. And we have that one, they have language that people used to talk, sometimes just you step on somebody's leg, we start insulting you. But now all that now stops. Now people in peace and even now in the peace language. And we have a harmful tradition. Now some of the Jews, like early marriage, now no longer there. And even we went to the state. We have here that one 10 states and then we will be trained after that one we went to the states for the solidarity. And that solidarity. We give the message of hope and encouragement, because while we are telling the expression for those of IDPs, we went to talk to them to come back home. They're living there, we want them to come and then we're giving them hope for the future, because now we have been preaching about peace. Peace is going to be there. Some they completely, they lose their hope. But now they start coming together, they're loving each other, their friends and all what women have been doing. Women link, they give thanks for your support in our office here, especially the South Sudan Council of churches. Really, we love you people there. Continue and we will have more training and even being together until next time, even when we meet again. I'm for Madrid for Sabah. Women link. Thank you so much, Margaret. Thank you so much. And it's really awesome to see you. We hope that, you know, with with the COVID situation ones things, you know, improve a little bit. We'll be able to, to visit you in South Sudan. We always welcome this visits to meet with partners and and with beneficiaries and to see your work and to stand with you in solidarity and in peace. Thank you so much, Margaret. I'll now move to Kelly from the OFP. So Kelly, in relation to the context, obviously, with what is happening in Colombia, if you could share with us, maybe a little bit about some of the outcomes from the partnerships and what, in your opinion, are the most pressing issues now. Kelly, welcome. Gracias. Muy buenos días para todos y todas. Good morning to everyone. It's such a privilege to be able to be part of this space. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you and to share our experiences with you. We're in a current state of emergency. And the state of emergency is a result of the pandemic. And now we move to Lucy in Bethlehem. For me, I've been in a speaking tour for the women encouraged, by the way, it's really hard to say it, what kind of experience and memories. But one of the memories that I have at Saskatchewan, when we had the chance to participate in that route under consideration, and it was really amazing experience for me. It touched my heart and the comparison between the indigenous and we as a Palestinian that was really painful, but also it's really a strong empowerment to keep walking for peace and justice. Thank you so much, Lucy. Next, Vani from the Philippines. Hi. Good evening. Good morning there in Canada. Good evening from the Philippines. And I'm really very happy to be with you in this, you know, in this space. And well, actually, in terms of experience in advocacy with the women of courage, I'd been part since 2010 when I had been part of the women of courage. But maybe for two very crucial memories is like or very important memories is that like one when we had the audience, along with Jill, and then the members of that team that went to Colombia in 2010. And then after the trip, after the community trip that we were able to like share what we had heard and we had, yeah, the voices that we have heard from the women human rights defenders to the members of the Canadian Canadian Embassy. Yeah, so that was my first meeting with the Canadian Embassy outside of the Philippines. And then, of course, the second when, yeah, unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take photos, yeah, because it was their protocol. So that was something that we missed. And then in 2011, when I joined the Women of Courage Tour across Canada, and then we had the chance of like meeting with Senator Mubina. Rachel, what was her family name? Jaffer. Yeah, Jaffer, yeah, Jaffer. And that was memorable to me in the sense that, you know, she was, well, she heard and she, she heard the, she listened carefully to my story coming from the Philippines and also from Chantal coming from Congo, from the Republic of Congo. And then she also like shared their kind of like an investigation report. In a short while, she was able to arrange a meeting in the Senate. Yeah, so we were able to like, you know, to observe and be welcomed, be acknowledged in the Senate. Yeah, the Women of Courage. So that was like, you know, the memorable. And there are like lots of meetings that had been like organized thereafter. But yeah, yeah, these meetings had really, yeah, had provided us that space to kind of like share, but at the same time to kind of like see, hear from them what they will do to act being the persons or like the bodies accountable to this. Thank you so much, Bernie. Thank you, and we appreciate it's 1015 p.m. right now in the Philippines and we appreciate you joining us. And last we want to hear from Reverend Lee. Thank you so much Jane and everyone who has spoken for your profound courage and wisdom and really the fire of hope and transformation that you have shared with us today. And every day that we know that you are doing on the front lines with your communities so our deepest respect and gratitude. I would say that the most amazing memories are every time we get to sit with you and hear the stories from the communities, because it also it helps with our own clarification of thought and practice on the ground as we also seek to defend our communities that are displaced through generations of colonialism here in the urban centers in Toronto. So, for me, the, the most profound memory is also being accompanied going forward, after, you know, all of the delegations meeting with partners in Montreal, and being so profoundly inspired by our partners. Those same people like Lucy and Tarek and Bernie continue to accompany us now and share their teachings on you know how they cope with violence in their communities and change us you know from from from their witness so thank you so much for the courage of all of our partners. Thank you so much Lee and thank you everyone who shared and I wish we could do this. I wish we could do this for longer. And please if you do have memories do do share them in the chat or share them with me, or with Jane and we will share them with partners because this is, it's, it's, it's nutrients, it's air is oxygen to keep to keep the work going and so I just wanted to say again thank you to everyone for this this fabulous discussion trip down memory lane and look at the current situation and look at our hopes and and aspirations. And I want to recognize extremely difficult conditions that the partners are working in right now working and living in right now and in spite of that in defiance of that, they continue this work of building peace, building justice, building equity so I just want to thank, recognize that and thank them. So thank you to all the speakers are this the this intergenerational panel. Thank you, Father James thank you, Gloria Leonard the women's the women link group. Kelly. Thank you. Thank you to everyone. I hope I'm not missing anyone. Thank you to the translators. Thank you to the translators for allowing us to be able to communicate. Tri-lingually and to communicate with partners. Thanks to the partnership team. I'll make colleagues. Thank you for all the colleagues in Cairo's behind the scenes and doing all the work to make this possible. And thank you for, you know, all the partners who have joined us from from Turtle Island and around around the world to the network to their supporters from Global Affairs Canada. And we hope that you will continue to journey with us for the next to for the next 20 years to build relationships for for change and transformation. So, thank you again for joining us. You will be hearing from from the partnership team and the women of courage program we have activities planned for 16 days of activism which starts on November 25 and goes to December 10 will have 16 16 stories of change and courage that will be highlighted during those 16 days. We have plans for a podcast from Jane. We have lots of plans so please stay tuned. And again, thank you very much and enjoy the rest of the day and the rest of the gallery.