(music)
- Kia ora, everyone.
I'm here to talk,
we are here to talk to you about our favorite topic,
which is about mana wahine, and it's about women power.
But it's more about balancing
what we have in the world today, right?
We are from the island of Singapore,
and the island of Penang, Malaysia,
where we live among indigenous Malays
and immigrant Chinese, Indians and Eurasians.
We are a network of angels, investing in women,
to help end poverty in this world.
Now, we don't look at angels as only angel investors,
not the people with money,
but the people, social entrepreneurs,
and the people who support them.
They are also angels.
So we are in the business of collecting angels.
(laughs)
And my name is Laina, and this is Pat with me.
We are both Cohort Piripiri
and we are here together with Audrey,
who is Cohort Kawakawa.
And we are here united, looking very different,
but united in a very common mission.
And that is helping to end poverty,
in unity, with women.
So we are a network of angels, as I told you
and we're not all about exclusion.
We're about inclusion.
Because we come from a part of the world
where women have been very invisible.
And they haven't been part of conversations
about climate change and others.
It's a very important component.
So we have HeForShes and SheForShes.
We actually have one of our angels here in the audience,
Mamoru Taniya-san, could you just stand up, briefly?
Yes, thank you.
(audience applause)
And we are together hoping to do this grand, massive,
transformative process of ending poverty
in unity with women.
Why do we talk about poverty,
and why are we talking about women?
As you know with the sustainable development goals,
poverty is number one.
So, in many ways we see that poverty is the root cause
of a lot of illnesses in the world.
When you talked about deforestation often it's at the edge
where people are cutting down forest
to be able to warm their homes, or cook their meals,
or clean their waters.
Or they disburse toxic stuff into the rivers,
like where they are making batik for example, they'll put
very toxic chemicals in the water.
So it's very important to look at issues of poverty.
And 70% of the poor are women.
This is the data a lot of people don't realize.
And yet women are the invisible infrastructures.
They are the ones who walk for miles to carry water.
They are the ones who do subsistence farming.
They are the ones who take care of the elderly.
They are the ones who do a lot.
But when progress comes through, they are the ones
who are often very excluded.
So we'd like to be able to have
that conversation of inclusion.
We also see women as multipliers.
Do you know for every $1 a woman earns,
up to 90% of her income goes back
to her family, and her community.
'Cause women are nurturers and healers.
We had our previous speakers talking about what we need
in the world today, is a world of healing and nurturing.
The other thing we found-- thank you.
And the other thing we found is that
we have actually been very humbled in our journey.
Because we've come across, you know everyone's heard
about microenterprise and microfinance.
And there's actually an unconscious bias today
where people only give women small amounts of money.
They are not given the money to scale and do great.
And yet we've come across many, many amazing women
who have, as we show in this little diagram,
multitudes of people under them.
We have social enterprises of 50,000 smallholder farmers
all across Indonesia, not only giving livelihood,
preserving biodiversity and preserving culture.
We have people working with 1000 weavers under them.
And giving livelihood, saving girls
from going into prostitution, going people
into horrendous things.
I mean honestly, Audrey and I have been through, and Pat,
we've gone through the journey of seeing their lives
and seeing how painful their stories are.
So rather than just give you statistics,
I think I really liked how Charles and Michelle
talked about it.
That we need to go back to the heart.
And I really love Camden as well who talked about love.
So I hope in this story,
we want to share with you a story of love.
And how, as we love humanity, we need to love women.
We need to love that feminine energy in our lives.
And men, we want to embrace that feminine energy
in men as well.
But here are some of the stories of faces of women heroes.
So many, many of them I really can't get into all of them.
So I'm just going to tell you the story of one of them.
- Okay, I think we just wanted to say that
because Wanda, in Cambodia, she makes such good stories
and impact the local community so much that we decided
to actually fund her because she is so inspiring,
and she actually will create and make changes of the life.
So this is just one of the social enterprises.
Okay, basically we only focusing on sustainable fashion
and why New Zealand?
I think we just wanted to say that
because this is a female and a woman-friendly country.
And that we feel that we could help,
we could learn and grow together.
And also able to help New Zealand to connect back
into Asia, especially for women
social enterprise for New Zealand.
And I wanted to say that we are actually hosting a session
actually, like Laina said we are collecting more angels.
And this is, the topic is balancing the two wings.
And we hope that you will join us.
If you share the same mission,
or if you want to support us as well.
And this is at 3:30, right? Yeah. Okay, that's it.
(audience applause)
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