How women are revolutionizing Rwanda | Agnes Binagwaho

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In 1996, Agnes Binagwaho returned home to Rwanda in the aftermath of its genocide. She considered leaving amid the overwhelming devastation, but women in her community motivated her to stay and help rebuild -- and she's glad she did. In an inspiring talk, Binagwaho reflects on her work as Rwanda's former Minister of Health and discusses her new women's education initiative for the country, which strives to create one of the greatest levels of gender equality worldwide.

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0:44.2	I came back in my home of Rwanda two years after the 1994 genocide against the Tootsie.
0:54.2	The country was devastated.
0:57.4	The children I was carrying off at the hospitals
1:00.4	were dying for treatable conditions
1:03.7	because we didn't have equipment or medicine to save them.
1:11.1	I was tempted to pack my bag and run away.
1:17.0	But I debate with myself.
1:19.9	And because I'm really dedicated to social justice and equity,
1:25.7	and there were only five pediatricians in total for millions of children
1:31.9	in Rwanda. I decided to stay. But among the people who have motivated my decision to stay,
1:43.4	there was some fantastic woman of Wanda.
1:47.4	Some women who had faced the genocide and survived it,
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