  ♪♪♪ 
  What is keeping me [going] 
  is the situation of 
  the women I'm seeing who are 
  coming from the Nuba Mountains, 
  coming from Darfur, coming 
  from Blue Nile, 
  coming even from some areas 
  within the middle of Sudan, 
  who have no education, whom they 
  feel they have no role at all. 
  So that was- I saw that I 
  have a role, I have to 
  do something for my community 
  and especially the women. 
  ♪♪♪ 
  My organization is called 
  Nuba Women for Education 
  and Development Association. 
  We have a plan to train and 
  build the capacity 
  of the community, the youth, 
  the women because we know that 
  definitely the time will come. 
  But people need to know their 
  rights and even this, 
  they ought to know their legal, 
  their political, 
  their social rights, 
  their citizen rights, 
  and this is what we have been 
  doing for a long time 
  and also supporting women. 
  Some of them initially they 
  are not having that 
  courage to speak in front 
  of men even to say that 
  "I've been beaten at home" 
  but when we train them, 
  they become aware of their rights 
  and how to address even 
  this violence with their 
  husbands, with their 
  people in the community. 
  ♪♪♪ 
  ♪♪♪ 
  Our leadership project that we 
  started five six years ago 
  with NED is really a very 
  important project for 
  us as women in Sudan. 
  Women have to know that they 
  have that strong role to 
  change themselves and change 
  their community 
  and especially working for 
  the coming generation. 
  The training we have today is 
  about advocacy and the 
  importance of advocacy 
  in the political 
  participation of women. 
  This training is special 
  because we are trying to 
  have some women, make them 
  ready [for] when the government 
  announces that they need women 
  to be nominated in Parliament 
  we'll have young women who are 
  ready, who are qualified, 
  to participate in 
  the Parliament. 
  Before as Nubas and especially 
  people coming from 
  conflict areas, we didin't 
  have  a chance to be in 
  the parliament. 
  But I think with this revolution 
  the chance is there. 
  The whole community was out 
  actually for the revolution 
  but women we were really behind 
  it very strongly and 
  they were even leading in 
  the revolution. 
  And I was so happy to see that 
  what we have been struggling 
  to do for a long time it is 
  now that we are seeing 
  it happening in 
  front of us. 
  Going to the Nuba Mountains, 
  going to Blue Nile, 
  going to these areas [that are] 
  very far, facing a lot of 
  challenges and a lot of 
  threats, it is now that we 
  feel that we really did it. 
  And we are happy that we 
  supported each other 
  to create change in 
  this country. 
  ♪♪♪ 
