To solve the world's biggest problems, invest in women and girls | Musimbi Kanyoro

翻译人员: Howel Wang 校对人员: Peipei Xiang

My mother was a philanthropist.

我的妈妈是一个慈善家。

And now I know you're asking --

我知道你们要问什么——

let me give you the answer: yes, a little bit like Melinda Gates --

让我告诉你们答案： 是的，她有点像梅琳达·盖茨——

(Laughter)

（笑声）

but with a lot less money.

就是手里的钱要少得多。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

She carried out her philanthropy in our community

她在我们社区通过一种

through a practice we call, "isirika."

叫 “Isirika” 的方式做慈善。

She supported the education of scores of children

她支持孩子们的教育，

and invited many to live with us in our home

还为了他们能够上学，

in order to access schools.

邀请他们来我家里住。

She mobilized resources for building the local health clinic

她调动资源建设当地的医疗诊所，

and the maternity wing is named in memory of her.

其中产科楼的名字， 就是为了纪念她而命名的。

But most important,

但最重要的是，

she was endeared by the community for her organizing skills,

她所在的社区十分爱戴她，

because she organized the community,

因为她将社区组织起来，

and specifically women,

特别是社区的女性，

to find solutions

为遇到的任何问题

to anything that was needed.

寻找解决方案。

She did all of this through isirika.

所有这些，她都是 通过 "Isirika" 做到的，

Let me repeat that word for you again:

让我把这个词再重复一遍：

isirika.

Isirika。

Now it's your turn. Say it with me.

现在轮到你了，请跟我说一遍。

(Audience) Isirika.

（听众） Isirika。

Musimbi Kanyoro: Thank you.

谢谢。

That word is in my language, Maragoli,

这个词出自我的母语 Maragoli，

spoken in western Kenya,

起源于西肯尼亚。

and now you speak my language.

现在你们会说我的语言了。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

So, isirika is a pragmatic way of life

Isirika 是一种为人处世的方式，

that embraces charity,

它将慈善、

services

服务他人

and philanthropy all together.

和公益结合在一起。

The essence of isirika

Isirika 的本质是，

is to make it clear to everybody

让所有人都明白，

that you're your sister's keeper --

你要照看姐姐妹妹——

and yes,

同时，

you're your brother's keeper.

也要照看哥哥弟弟。

Mutual responsibility for caring for one another.

互相照顾是我们共同的责任。

A literal, simple English translation would be equal generosity,

这个词字面的意思是， 同等的慷慨，

but the deep philosophical meaning

但是更深层的慈善意义则是，

is caring, together, for one another.

一起相互照顾。

So how does isirika really happen?

Isirika 到底是怎么来的呢？

I grew up in a farming community

我在西肯尼亚

的一个农村长大。

in western Kenya.

I remember vividly the many times

我清楚地记得，

邻居们经常会 去另一个邻居家——

that neighbors would go to a neighbor's home --

a sick neighbor's home --

一个生病的邻居家——

and harvest their crop for them.

帮他们收割庄稼。

I tagged alongside with my mother to community events

我经常跟着妈妈参加社区活动

and to women's events,

和针对女性的活动，

and had the conversation about vaccinations in school,

积极讨论关于学校开展疫苗接种，

building the health center

修建医疗诊所，

and really big things --

等一些重大的事情——

renewing seeds for the next planting season.

比如为下一个播种季节准备种子。

And often, the community would come together

我们的社区居民也经常走到一起，

to contribute money to send a neighbor's child to school --

比如捐款送邻居家的孩子去上学，

not only in the country

不仅是去国内的学校，

but to universities abroad as well.

也包括海外的大学。

And so we have a surgeon.

我们有一位外科医生，

The first surgeon in my country came from that rural village.

我们国家的第一个外科医生， 他就来自我们的村庄。

(Applause)

（掌声）

So ...

因此……

what isirika did was to be inclusive.

Isirika 非常包容。

We as children would stand alongside the adults

我们作为站在大人旁边的孩子，

and give our contributions of money,

把我们的钱捐出去，

and our names were inscripted in the community book

我们的名字也会 被记录在社区的册子上，

just like every adult.

就像每位大人的一样。

And then I grew up,

之后我长大了，

went to universities back at home and abroad,

上了国内和国外的大学，

obtained a few degrees here and there,

获得了几个学位。

became organized

我成了社会活动家，

and took up international jobs,

开始从事国际性的工作，

working in development,

我主要关注经济发展、

humanitarian work

人权

and philanthropy.

和慈善工作。

And very soon,

很快，

isirika began to become small.

Isirika 变得越来越小，

It dissipated

慢慢消散，

and then just disappeared.

直至消失。

In each place,

在这些地方，

I gained a new vocabulary.

我接触了一些新的词汇，

The vocabulary of donors and recipients.

比如捐助者和受助者，

The vocabulary of measuring impact,

还有影响评估、

return on investment ...

投资回报、

projects and programs.

工程、项目，等等。

Communities such as my childhood community

而和我儿时的社区一类的群体

became referred to as "poor, vulnerable populations."

则被称为“贫穷的弱势群体”。

Those are the communities of which literature speaks about

那些社区就是文献中提及的

as living on less than a dollar a day,

“每天生活费不足一美元”的地方，

and they become the targets for poverty eradication programs.

它们也成了扶贫的重点。

And by the way,

顺便说一下，

they are the targets of our first

它们是第一个

United Nations' sustainable development goal.

联合国可持续发展计划的目标群体。

Now, I'm really interested

我非常希望

that we find solutions to poverty

我们能够找到消灭贫困的方法，

and to the world's other many big problems

找到解决其他世界难题的方法，

because they do exist.

因为这些方法的确存在。

I however think that we could do a better job,

但是，我觉得我们可以做得更好，

and we could do a better job by embracing isirika.

我们能通过拥抱 Isirika 来做得更好。

So let me tell you how.

那么让我告诉你们该怎么做。

First, isirika affirms common humanity.

首先，Isirika 强调共同的人性。

For whatever that you do,

不论你做什么，

you begin from the premise that you're human together.

你首先必须明白，我们都是人。

When you begin that you're human together,

当你意识到我们都是人的时候，

you see each other differently.

你就会学会了对每个人另眼相看。

You don't see a refugee first

你首先看到的不是一个难民，

and you don't see a woman first

不是一个女性，

and you don't see a person with disability first.

不是一个残疾人，

You see a human being first.

你首先看到的是一个人。

That is the essence of seeing a person first.

这就是以人为本。

And when you do that,

当你这样做的时候，

you value their ideas,

你就会重视他们的想法，

you value their contribution --

重视他们的贡献——

small or big.

或小或大，

And you value what they bring to the table.

你重视他们能够带来的东西。

That is the essence of isirika.

这就是 Isirika 的本质所在。

I just want to imagine what it would look like

想象一下，

if everyone in this room --

如果在座的每一个人——

a medical doctor, a parent,

医生、父母、

a lawyer, a philanthropist,

律师、慈善家，

whatever you are --

不论你是谁——

if you embraced isirika

如果你拥抱 Isirika

and made it your default.

并让它在你心里扎根， 这个世界将会是什么样子？

What could we achieve for each other?

我们每个人会有怎样的成就？

What could we achieve for humanity?

人类会有怎样的成就？

What could we achieve for peace issues?

和平会有怎样的成就？

What could we achieve for medical science?

医学会有怎样的成就？

Let me give you a couple of hints,

让我给你们一些提示，

because I'm going to ask you to accompany me

因为我想邀请大家和我一起

in this process of rebuilding and reclaiming isirika with me.

重新找回和重新打造 Isirika。

First, you have to have faith

首先，你必须相信

that we are one humanity,

我们都是人类，

we have one planet

我们拥有一个地球，

and we don't have two choices about that.

我们没有第二种选择。

So there's not going to be a wall that is high enough

再高的墙也不可能

to separate humanity.

打破这种人类的共性。

So give up the walls.

所以，放弃这堵墙吧，

Give them up.

赶快放弃吧。

(Applause)

（掌声）

And we don't have a planet B to go to.

我们也没有第二颗可以居住的星球。

So that's really important.

这十分重要，

Make that clear;

要讲清楚了，

move onto the next stage.

然后进入下一阶段。

The second stage: remember,

第二阶段：记着，

in isirika, every idea counts.

在 Isirika 中，每一个想法都很重要。

Bridges have big posters

桥梁有大的桥体，

and they have nails.

它们也有钉子。

Every idea counts --

每一个想法都很重要，

small or big counts.

不论大小。

And third,

第三，

isirika affirms

Isirika 认为，

that those who have more really enjoy the privilege of giving more.

那些拥有更多的人， 也享受能够给予更多的特权，

It is a privilege to give more.

能够给予更多的确是一种特权。

(Applause)

（掌声）

And this is the time for women to give more for women.

现在是女性给予女性 更多帮助的时候了，

It is the time to give more for women.

这是一个给予女性更多帮助的时候。

Our parents, when they brought in other children to live with us,

当我们的父母带着其他孩子 和我们一起生活时，

they didn't ask our permission.

他们并没有征求我们的允许。

They made it clear that they had a responsibility

他们表示，他们需要肩负这份责任，

because they had gone to school

因为他们上过学，

and they had an earning.

因为他们有收入。

And they made it clear that we should understand

他们要我们明白，

that their prosperity was not our entitlement,

他们的富足不是我们应得的权利，

and I think that's good wisdom from isirika.

我认为这就是 Isirika 智慧的地方。

We could use that wisdom today, I think, in every culture,

我觉得我们可以把这个智慧 运用到每个文化中，

in every place,

运用到每个地方，

passing to the next generation what we could do together.

将这种智慧和集体的力量 传递给下一代人。

I have,

这些年来，

over the years,

我在许多地方

encountered isirika in many places,

都发现了 Isirika 的身影。

but what gives me really the passion today

但是我今天拥抱 Isirika 的热情

to embrace isirika

主要来自于

is the work that I do with women all over the world

我与世界女性一起做的工作——

through the Global Fund for Women,

通过全球女性基金会，

though women's funds

通过针对女性的基金，

and through women's movements globally.

通过全球妇女运动。

If you work with women,

如果你和女性一起工作，

you change every day

你每天都在经历改变，

because you experience them living isirika together in what they do.

因为你亲眼看到了 她们在行动中实践着 Isirika。

In the work that I do,

在我的工作中，

we trust women leaders and their ideas.

我们信任女性领导和她们的工作。

And we support them with funding so that they can expand,

我们给她们提供资金支持， 使她们的队伍能够扩大、

they can grow

成长、

and they can thrive within their own communities.

并在她们的社区内得以茁壮发展。

A woman in 1990 came to the Global Fund with a big idea --

1990年，一位女士带着她伟大的想法 来到全球女性基金会，

a woman from Mexico by the name of Lucero González.

她来自墨西哥， 名字叫 Lucero González，

She wanted to begin a fund that would support a movement

她想创办一个基金，用于支持

that would be rooted in the communities in Mexico.

扎根在墨西哥社区的运动，

And she received a grant of 7,500 US dollars.

她收到了 7500 美元。

Today, 25 years later,

在 25 年之后的今天，

Semillas, the name of the fund,

一个叫 Semillas 的基金，

has raised and spent,

已经募集

within the community,

并在社区内投入了

17.8 million dollars.

1780 万美元。

(Applause)

（掌声）

They have impacted over two million people,

它已经影响了 200 万人的生活，

and they work with a group of 600,000 women in Mexico.

帮助了 60 万墨西哥妇女。

During the recent earthquake,

在最近一次地震中，

they were so well rooted

由于它深深扎根在社区中，

that they could quickly assess within the community and with others,

它能很快地评估

what were the short-term needs and what were the long-term needs.

社区的短期和长期需求。

And I tell you,

我要告诉各位，

long after the lights have gone off Mexico,

在墨西哥，当灯熄灭后，

Semillas will be there

Semillas 会一直在，

with the communities, with the women,

和那些社区

for a very long time.

以及社区中的妇女一起。

And that's what I'm talking about:

这就是我想说的：

when we are able to support the ideas of communities

当我们有能力支持 扎根在她们内心的

that are rooted within their own setting.

对社区有帮助的想法时会发生什么。

Thirty years ago,

30 年前，

there was very little funding that went directly to women's hands

在社区中，能直接送到 妇女手中的基金

in their communities.

非常少，

Today we celebrate 168 women's funds

今天，我们为全球的

168 个女性基金庆祝，

all over the world,

100 of which are in this country.

其中的 100 个来自这个国家，

And they support --

它们支持……

(Applause)

（掌声）

they support grassroots women's organizations --

它们支持草根女性组织、

community organizations under the leadership of girls and women,

由女孩和妇女领导的社区组织，

and together we have been able,

加起来，

collectively,

我们已经

to give a billion dollars to women and girls-led organizations.

为这些组织提供了 10 亿美元。

(Applause)

（掌声）

But the challenge begins today.

但是，挑战也从今天开始。

The challenge begins today

挑战从今天开始，

because we see women everywhere organizing as isirika,

因为我们现在看到很多 Isirika 形式的女性组织，

including women organizing as isirika in TED.

包括通过 TED 大会组织的女性。

Because isirika is the evergreen wisdom that lives in communities.

因为 Isirika 是社区中的常青智慧。

You find it in indigenous communities,

你在土著社区、

in rural communities.

农村社区都能找到它。

And what it really ingrains in people

而在人们心中扎根的

is that ability to trust

是信任

and to move the agenda ahead.

和行动的能力。

So, three things that I have learned that I want to share with you

我从工作中学到了 3 件事，

through my work.

想分享给你们。

One: if you want to solve the world's biggest problems,

第一：如果你想解决世界上的难题，

invest in women and girls.

那就投资妇女和女孩。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Not only do they expand the investment,

她们不仅能扩大投资，

but they care for everyone in the community.

还能关心社区里的每一个人。

Not only their needs but the needs of their children,

不仅是她们自己的需求， 还有自己孩子们的需求，

the needs of the rest of the community,

社区其他人的需求，

the needs of the elderly,

长辈们的需求。

and most important,

更重要的是，

they protect themselves --

她们能够保护自己——

which is really important --

这是非常重要的——

and they protect their communities.

并且还能保护社区。

Women who know how to protect themselves

懂得保护自己的女性

know what it means to make a difference.

懂得如何改变世界。

And the second reason that I'm asking you to invest in women and girls

我请你们投资女性的第二个原因是，

is because this is the smartest thing you could ever do

这将会是你们在这个特定的时间

at this particular time.

能做的最聪明的事。

And if we are going to have

如果我们

over 350 trillion dollars

想在 2030 年获得超过

by 2030,

350 万亿美元，

those dollars need to be in the hands of women.

这些钱应该掌握在女性手中。

And so I grew up with isirika.

Isirika 伴随着我长大，

My mother was isirika.

我的母亲一辈子践行 Isirika，

She was not a project or a program.

她是人，不是一个项目或计划。

And now, I pass that to you.

现在，我把它传递给你们，

That you will be able to share this with your families,

希望你能够与你的家人、

with your friends

朋友和社区

and with your community,

一起分享 Isirika，

and embrace isirika as a way of living --

将 Isirika 作为为人处世的一种方式，

as a pragmatic way of living.

作为一种务实的生活方式。

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）