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Tasha de Vasconcelos with President Jose-Manuel Barroso at the European Union

'Je me bats depuis si longtemps contre la pauvreté en Afrique que je me suis sentie naturellement et totalement concernée par les 79 millions d'europeans dont 19 millions d'enfants vivant sous le seuil de pauvreté.
C'est pourquoi, j'ai decidé de supporter et de m'engager comme ambassadeur de E.U. pour cette cause '2010 European Year for combating Poverty and social exclusion".

Sur ces 79 millions d'europeens pauvres la majorité d'entre eux rencontrent des serieux obstacles pour acceder a un emploi, à l'education, un logement et aux services sociaux et financiers. Cette situation a été agravée pas la crise economique mondiale qui a entrainée une grande recession et augmentée le chomage dans tous les pays.

Les trois messages que nous devons transmettre.
> > 1)Your attitude makes a difference
> > 2)We can only win the fight together
> > 3)The EU is committed to the European Social model.
>
> > Et je voudrais rajouter un petit message d'espoir
> 'la ou est la haine que je mette l'amour,
>  la ou le desespoir que je mette l'esperance,
> la ou est la tristesse que je mette la joie
> la ou est le désaccord que je mette l'union
> la ou est l'erreur que je mette la vérité
> la ou sont les ténèbres que je mette la lumière
> car c'est en se donnant qu'on recoit.'


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In 2009, Tasha is the new Ambassador of the medical research institute, Institut Pasteur
   
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Deauville, October 15th, 2009 - “Speaking Out”
 
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Speech Pasteur Institute 27 April 2009

'Mesdames et Messieurs, Depuis mon retour du Malawi ou j'ai ouvert le 15 Avril une maternité j'ai encore plus pris conscience des besoins enormes necessaires pour lutter contre le sida, le paludism, la tuberculose et bien d'autres maladies en Afrique ou je suis née. Merci de m'avoir choisi come representante de votre illustre maison et de me donner l'opportunité de parler des causes aux lesquelles je suis très attachée. Je voudrais dire quelque chose en anglais. I would like to share with you this quote that means alot to me 'As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.' Je m'engage a faire de mon mieux pour remplir cette mission. Je me sens humble, honorée et priviligiée de faire partie de votre equipe. Merci'
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Women’s Forum, Deauville 15th October 2009‘Speaking Out’ session

'As I stand here today I am humbled by the task before me.
I have just come back from an astonishing trip to Malawi confronted by the stark reality of a country with enormous need. Maternal mortality, child mortality, malaria, HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty: the needs are enormous.

But think about this fact: for one European woman who dies in childbirth, 190 Malawian women will die. But thanks to the maternity project we have set up there, mothers are surviving childbirth, and 7 out of 8 babies who are born to HIV positive mothers, will be free of the virus.
Let me share with you my journey. I was born in Mozambique. At the age of 10 I was forced to flee the civil war. One million were killed. Four years later at the age of 14 we faced another revolution in Zimbabwe. My grandfather was killed and we were forced to flee again leaving behind a country and the people with whom I shared my home and my life, and most of all a land which I’ve always kept on the soles of my feet. I am African at heart.
Next was Portugal, then Canada where my modeling career began. This profile brought me back to my true life’s journey, and over ten years of humanitarian work, returning me to Africa with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, then UNICEF in Bolivia, and Algeria, and finally back to Mozambique the land of my birth as UNAIDS special Campaigner for Children with HIV. From this trip AMOR - Aide Mondiale Orphelins Reconfort - was born.
And finally 2009, 27th April I became the first ambassador of the Institut Pasteur, the place where the AIDS virus was first identified. A great cause and a great honor for me.

Also in April 2009 we opened the AMOR funded maternity clinic in Kasese in Malawi. We’re committed to funding it for the next three years. It was a struggle to raise the funds as a woman alone and with no legitimacy in this field, and it was hard to be taken seriously. But I never gave up. But the fact is that there are now mothers alive in Africa and babies free from HIV because of AMOR’s work there.This proves that with faith, heart and will mountains are moved and miracles do happen. And if you’d like to partner with us in this exciting work and join AMOR’s struggle I’d love to hear from you.
President JFK in his inauguration speech in 1960 said: ‘ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.’ Today what we must ask is, not what humanity can do for us, but what we can do for humanity.

Et vous savez je voulais vous dire qu'il n y a rien de plus beau au monde que le regarde d'une maman et le sourire d'une enfant qu'on vient de sauver. '