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Hi. I want to wish you happy.
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International Women's Day 2021 Today I will talk about the
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importance of International Women's Day, who I am and why
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I choose to challenge.
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So who am I?
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My name is Dr Olu.
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I told me Lapa told me for sure to Mercy
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Academical. I'm a public health adviser with almost two decades
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of experience in the field of public health, working in
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the Africa, Caribbean and American region with a top public
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health agency.
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And I'm also the host of wellness and Mahala podcast.
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Yeah, So why do I choose to challenge well this
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year? I choose to challenge gender stereotypes and bias not
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just today but every day.
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And I love this photo.
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This is a recent trip that to me and my
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sisters and my daughter and bestie took to Puerto Rico.
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And we need tohave opportunity to challenge different stereotypes and
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bias, to be able to close the gap and to
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be a Trailblazer and to shatter the glass ceilings that
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exists so we can be ableto level up in different
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sectors in our society where we'll be able to serve
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regardless of your gender regardless of your sex, regardless of
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your religion, regardless of your age, we should all have
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opportunity. And we need to be able to raise our
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voice and be a voice of the voiceless and choose
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the challenge.
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So why should we choose the challenge?
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A challenge?
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Nation is an alert nation, and from challenges we can
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become, ah, sustainable transfer meitiv nation.
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That makes the concrete changes that we need to address
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the gaps and the disparities and the inequalities in our
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system. So when you make challenges, changes come.
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So I doctor told me mercy anyone will choose to
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challenge. And I choose to challenge you today on International
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Women's Day so we could make our community, our families
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in our world, a better place.
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Thank you and bless up.