*preroll music*
Linus Neumann: My dear community!
Now the moment you’ve all been waiting for
without even knowing what that moment would be.
As hackers we think a lot about virtual gates
and how to overcome them.
But away from keyboard our competence and resources
in overcoming gates are maybe limited a bit.
So for this motto we had to find a very special keynote speaker.
Somebody with experience of overcoming physical gates
or borders, as some people call them.
Our keynote speaker has overcome physical borders twice.
She was born in Somalia and escaped to Kenya when she was still a child.
And just recently she escaped Kenya to search refuge here, in Germany.
Carina Haupt: She hates the term “refugee”.
Instead, she prefers the term: “newcomer”.
She worked with international humanitarian organizations
in the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya.
So not only does she know these camps as visitor
but also as an humanitarian aid worker.
Linus: We’re curious for her unique perspectives and insights.
Please welcome Fatuma Musa Afrah!
*applause*
microphone does not work
Angel: You have to take that microphone, please. Fatuma: laughing Oh, what’s going on?
For an hour, this! Okay.
I’m not used to this anyway, points at headset mike
I’m friend more with this! points at handset mike
But when I get tired, I hope I will keep it somewhere.
Thank you so much, dear Linus and the beautiful Carina
for this beautiful introduction.
I have no words to say. I remember when Linus wrote me this long email
and asking me: “We would love to have you here” and I was like:
“What is Chaos Computer Club?” I just gave him a call
after I received the mail from him. And he was like: “You will understand,
for now you don't know, but: Can we please meet and discuss this?”
And I was like: “In the field of IT, that I don’t know anything about?"
The only thing I know about it is the basic use of my Laptop,
which is a compulsory thing to do because of the world we're at right now.
And I would like to ask everybody in the audience to give
a very heavy round of 'pplause for the man who succeeded
in bringing me here because I can’t say other things because of being
in front of you. Thank you so much to Linus and the Angels.
Can we give a round of applause? *applause*
I told him actually that time: "You are a damn good business marketer!"
That’s actually the term I used. And he told me:
“Oh yeah, I gotta try what it takes to bring you here.”
And I was like: “Thank you so much for having me here.”
Before I proceed to dip into – huh huh –
the one long hour which I hardly did it, to be honest.
With other combination, yes, as a motivational speaker.
But just one good hour talking by myself? laughs
This is a beautiful experience, and to be honest
I haven’t been in front of this huge, larg..., damn big audience.
I’m used to maybe … heh, is it strange to say 2000?
laughs Ya, I don’t know.
I’m just so grateful, feel so honored, humbled to have me here.
And the majority of you being hackers. I don’t know what “hacker” means,
but somehow I understand what it means after the long discussion
and several meetings that I had with my dear Linus.
I don’t know, sometimes I pronounce the German names wrongly, don’t get me wrong,
like I remember Carina telling me: “The English speaking people and other
people have a problem with my name the way it’s pronounced." And I was like:
“Okay, how do they pronounce it?” – "Carrrina" (German rolling “r”)
And I said: “I know that: Carina” (perfect pronounciation)
I have the German-typical “r” with me.
I’m just very shocked here in Deutschland (Germany), like,
one year and eight month soon graduates into two complete years.
Und, mein Deutsch ist kaputt, aber… (my German is broken, but…)
*laughter, applause*
Vielen Dank! (Thank you!)
Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch. (I speak a little German.)
Ich bin in die Schule drei Monaten, (I am in school three months,)
aber ich verstehe nicht so gut Deutsch. (but I don’t understand German very well.)
Warum? (Why?)
laughs
Deutsch ist schwer. (German is hard.)
Aber habe hier andere Menschen oder Leute, (but I’ve got other people here)
nicht die sprechen Deutsch? (not who speaks German?)
laughing Aber ich viel besser auf Englisch! (But I much better in English!)
Did you understand my Deutsch (German) from that practice? *applause*
Thank you. *applause*
I gotta practice my Deutsch whenever I go in public, otherwise
I will stay forgotten in my language because I consider it my language right now
because I belong to this community. I’m a German!
Some people will ask me: “You are a German?” shyly: “Aha?”
You understand, obviously, when you tell somebody "I'm a German" in THIS! points at her clothing
You understand what I mean? I don’t have to explain (laughs) in detail.
And I remember one guy told me: “Hey, how are you?” – I met him in an event
And I said: “Cool.” And he said: “What’s your name?” And I said: “My name is Fatuma.”
And he said: “Where do you come from?” I told him: “From a human world.”
And he said: “Huh, human world?” *applause*
Thank you!
"What did you expect me to give you as an answer?"
And he said: “Yeah, well, I don’t know, this is a typical question,
as Germans we ask everytime.” And I asked him: “Don’t behave
like the Germans behave, behave as who you are!
Don’t bring me like I’m a dumb and I’m a
Somalian this, and... I don’t believe in that!
I believe in an individual choice, an individual decision
and an individual mind for love. That’s what I believe in.
sternly: Don’t follow what other says because they say it
or you found it there. Be creative and find a way to change things
And how we do it? Is within us.
*applause*
Thank you! Going directly to the concept today,
Gated Community, I wanna be honest with you.
When Linus came to me and asked me: “We want you to be our keynote speaker,
do you understand what a Gated Community means?” And I told him:
"Obviously, yes.” And he said: “What is it?”
And I told him: “Coming together.” laughs I wanna be honest!
And today it’s so funny after the long explanation he gave me
I gotta be standing here, in front of this big, beautiful audience,
listening to me about Gated Community, a topic connected to Gated Community.
So, learning is a process. We don’t know everything
and I wanna be honest I didn’t know much about Gated Community until
he brought up the topic and he said: “I believe you can do it.”
Thanks Linus for giving me the belief to be here
and make it happen in a possible way. Thank you so much
for the deep explanation. And thank you so much to everybody in the audience
for taking your beautiful time. The Angels – I’m part of them,
you see what I have? I’m part of them. I didn’t do much,
I was just feeding myself with my small belly.
But I tried, somehow. I want to connect the concept of Gated Community
through a simple… and funny story
while my stay here in Deutschland.
I’m usually a quick speaker but today I gotta slow down
for everybody to understand me and also to kill the one hour.
Don’t you think it’s too long to be here for one good hour?
I’m already damn thirsty so I gotta have some water in the process
before I start my funny–
I’m not used to gassed water, is this with gas? Don’t make me vomit on this stage!
laughter
louder: Can I have water without gas? I had already some problem with this.
Sorry.
No, I can’t take this, sorry.
I can’t shake it! Shake it yourself.
laughter
So, going to this funny story about Deutschland;
what a beautiful children that I worked with.
This will be part of my deeper story later.
I taught a German school as an English assistant teacher because
I was not a professional, annoyedly clears her throat
I was not a professional English teacher.
Neither do I have any experience in teaching.
But I just wanted to contribute and give something back
to the German community since they where trying their best
to give us something, you know? And I went out,
I remember, to our manager and asked him how – which I will go back
to this story later in deep – but the funny story about it is that the children,
they saw me in this outfit – from head to toe –
and I could not speak German most of the time.
I had very nice teachers who were translating hand-to-hand with me all the time
because this school had almost three hundred and sixty-something children
and all of them were in this Brandenburg – you know Brandenburg?
The beautiful Brandenburg? – ...Most of them were blonde.
And then one of the child told me: higher pitched: "Frau Fatumo..."
I said: "Yees, bitte??" interrupts
to Angel on stage: Thank you so so much! I honestly appreciate it!
Thank you so much! *applause*
You give applause to the man who feeds the Poor People!
Thanks! *laughs* thanks!
So this child asked me... The children were wondering all the time
– because of how I'm covered – if I have ears;
they were doubting if I have hair. You know that like the normal human functionings.
laughs
And then these children all the time busy touching me if I'm really a human,
everywhere, you know? Another problem was this: that skin color.
And one of the children asked me.
She was so intelligent, she was so in love with me, that...
she was so nice and kind, you know?
Love and kindness doesn't come with the language, it comes from the heart.
And this child was all the time bringing me drawings with love
from her family and everything... bringing it to me and say:
higher pitched: "Ha, da, warte mal, ich hab' hier DAS, ich hab' hier DAS!
And I am like "Okay, thank you so much!" and then I kept piling these stuffs
from the children, actually I didn't wanna throw because they were my first family
when I was just 4-months-old in Deutschland, when I felt my life is over,
I have no more family, I'm all alone.
My life is completely different again, I got to struggle in this lifestyle.
So... this lady took me to the wash room.
And she said: higher pitched: "Yeah, bla bla." I didn't understand, I asked the teacher
and the children like: "What... where do you wanna take her?"
...to the wash room and then she did immediately higher-pitched: "feeeee!"
...to confirm the hair is there She did peek to confirm I have ears.
She left me alone. So another child asked me, because of the skin color
because it was different from the whole school: if I become white during night!
laughter
And I said: "Come again!" Honestly!
If something keeps my day going, laughs
Whenever I remember this, whether I'm alone or whether I'm with somebody,
I just laugh, because this explains about the world we live in.
And the answer I gave the child was: "I'm black always."
high pitched: "Was?" And then they were concerned why here is
points at inner side of hand different from here.
shows outer side of hand To go to the point this is apparent failure
and this is the meaning of a Gated Community. As a parent
it's upon our responsibility to educate our childen
about what kind of world we live in. Educate them about EVERYTHING!
*applause*
Thank you! Thank you so much.
I don't think these children will be so busy about all of THIS
if the parent would have given them the proper education they needed
by just showing them at least something about it like we exist
in a world of diversed communities in terms of color,
in terms of eyes appearance in terms of height, in terms of everything.
So I hope from there those children have learnt something
– I never hold any grudge against innocent children –
They are so beautiful, so kind, they're just curious, you know?
When they're growing up they're so beautiful. I'm hoping to have five kids soon,
and... Hopefully, too, they'll be beautiful. I want to have my own choir,
my own community in my own house. But I,... yeah!
We'll light for these 5 kids, hopefully, one day.
And, that was the story about the children.
And now in connection with "Gated Community" like I said previously -
I don't wanna do a lot of repetition: Let us stand up for change!
Let us stand up for information! Let us stand up
for connecting each other to reality!
Let us inform each other what's there!
Find a way to communicate! Find a way to open these gates!
And how you open these gates everybody has the key in the own hand,
in their own mind, however you describe it. It's a responsibility
that it is within each and every individual within us.
I remember educating my Mom - 'cause I grew up,
as you can see, the description from me, a religious family.
And I'm not doing this because they forced me to
but this is me what I wanted to.
Just to have a point of clear understanding about what I'm explaining.
My Mom, I remember educating her everytime:
"Mommy, ... !". Because I had a lot of friends when I was in the university
who were Christians and I used to tell mama
"We got to open our arms for everybody!" She was so kind and generous, definitely.
But they're these kind of levels of helping each other that we need to.
And failure to do that: nobody else will.
We have to respect each other, regardless of who we are.
Personally, I don't care about stupid color,
this plays no role in my world whatsoever.
I don't care about THIS, this is an individual belief.
That's up to YOU. I don't discriminate people against their social status.
I believe in a world of respect.
I believe in a world belonging to people with respect and peace.
And that's all I go for. No more, no less!
Just respect, passion, based on the heart That's what I go for.
As long as you can respect me and we can understand each other
what else do I look for, more? Absolutely nothing.
I just respect you, who you are. The good respect and connections we have,
and that's all I go for. The rest is bullshit.
*applause*
They call it "Cheers!". This is my alcohol, I've never drunk alcohol...
and will I ever! small fraction applauding
surprisingly shouting: Aaah! Applause for my alcohol!
Can we have applause for my alcohol drinking!? *laughs*
This is funny! *laughs*
And the other funny story I would like to share
– but this has nothing to do with Gated Community -
is, you know, the developed world.
It will have something to do with it in the Gated Community section,
depending on how I explain it.
When I was new in Deutschland,
where I come from there are no trains.
I'm not used to trains, honestly. I'm used to planes! descending whistle
They are easy, yes. But trains: NO!
So, laughs one of the drama thing that happened to me when I came to German'
the first time I came by flight then the next I remember I went to Frankfurt the first time.
And then I asked. I was told: "Go to the train!"
Now the problem was: chuckles I see this LONG train! chuckles again
This has nothing to do with education. No matter, how you're educated.
Some things don't need multi education but needs to be used to that.
So I remember going to the train.
The first train left me because I didn't know how to open!
And I was a newcomer – don't call us refugees, a point of correction.
Call me by my name! If that's not enough,
call me any other more beautiful name, choose! I don't restrict, I believe
in a world of freedom. But as long as it's beautiful and not insulting
then I give you the freedom.
So, the first train left me, so I had to stand there in this cold.
Luckily enough I got the help from a woman that I even didn't know.
But God knows what was going in my head. I thought like, because I had a bad information
about Deutschland until I discovered slowly by slowly by myself
that: don't listen to what others say, listen to your heart!
I went with this woman, she saved me.
We will come back to this bigger story later.
raising voice again: So, what did I had to do to open the next
train
which will be coming in 40 minutes? I stood there trying to calculate,
and I didn't want to look ignorant, you know? This is the worst thing!
You better ask than pretending to know something and you don't know!
This is the worst thing a human being should ever do.
So I stood there, I said: "Next time when the train comes...",
because I was in the end and then I came in the middle, where there're some people,
so that I stand next to the people. When they open I go in with them.
I look where they open, and then I stand behind them and then I get in there.
Otherwise I'll end up in a ship, (?) left again by the second train.
So educating yourself in a culture,
in a very developed country that you don't know
is a big risk and it's a big challenge. Anyway,
the second train did not leave me because I folled the followers.
And she pressed, she got in another person – that was an old man –
I was so kind to give him a way because I got to get in anyway.
So I got in! I was safe!
The next step: using the toilet. How the hell do I use the toilet?
chuckles I wanna be honest, I don't wanna hide anything.
I got in the toilet! I saw a woman comin' out, I got it,
and this toilet were Automatic Toilet!
chuckling, losing words by that: And I got stuck there .. for toilet .. five minute!
I tried to open, it doesn't open, I tried to open.
The next time I didn't miss the... try touching the Alarm.
imitates alarm sound: WEEE OOOO WEEE OOOO WEEEK
I was like: "Why the hell is Polizei coming !?"
chuckles
Anyway, they're kind they helped me while I sweated too much
thinking "My life is...", "What the hell is going on?" "Where did I...?"
"Where am I?" I didn't know, honestly. And this was so hard for me.
So, in connections that this what I wanna say is: Please give information
to the newcomers when they're coming. Try to sacrifice a little bit of your time.
It's similar to you guys when you come to Africa, we have these beautiful toilets,
that inside whatever you put from behind inside, you will sit!
So if you go to these big holes and sit there you will be shocked, as well!
Like: "This might... I might die inside... The toilet is looking at me!"
This is a reality, that's where we are from. Can we give the beautiful toilets in Africa
a big applause? *applause*
Thank you!
Going to the Gated Community issues, please, if I'm too fast, you don't understand
the little English that I've learnt kindly raise your hand, I give you the freedom
to ask me "Please slow down!", or "Please use very simple terminologies!"
It's a gift, I give it to you. So, if I'm too fast also that will be a nice idea from
you
because we have to kill the 1 hour together. Just tell me. It's not a necessary thing.
So anyway, the developed world
– I don't wanna point any specific country –
not only the developed world, even the developing world, we have all these different
kinds of gated communities. Whether it's in a profession, whether it's
just
a small settlement of communities. In all directions, these exist.
It's a fact which is there. And I always hoped for a perfect world
which is never gonna be so soon or it's gonna be there at all. I don't think so.
You'll always dream of this perfect world which there is no killing, no war,
no disrespect, no racism or whatever. But this will be a long jouney!
And the journey belongs to all of us. How we view it, how we wanna make a change,
it's a decision that belongs collectively to all of us. I don't know how to do IT,
but before the... I will be here for 4 good days, I hope I'll have some basic
– I have basic, of course, computer usage, I have some – but the bigger one, well,
everybody: what is wrong with that IT experts? They're always like this...
You're sitting next to them like I was yesterday, yeah, sitting next to people...
People are busy: pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop! And I was like: "These are machines or
human beings?"
Sorry, I don't meant to disrespect or insult, sorry.
But you got to raise your head a bit up and see the next person sitting.
Some people are looking at me very strangely, wondering what kind of a hacker is this woman?
Honestly, I had a lot of looks like this until I was asking people next to me what's going
on,
is there something wrong with me, check me out!
And it was like "You are perfectly fine, maybe... these are hackers, they have
never seen a hacker like you". And I said: "The world is changing,
I got to be one, one day". *applause*
Vielen Dank, mit Deinen 'pplaus (Thank you, with your applause)
Is that how it's called? Is that correct, the German way?
Vielen Dank, mit Deinen... (Thank you, with your...)
You said this! *thumbs down" This means wrong! ... He?
fuer? für? ... Oh, that's a typical German...
Say "für euren" !! ("for your")
That's a complicated German term!
Anyway, thank you so much! Now, I want to go ... next ... is ... coming
up...
is my personal story in connection with the gated community.
I'm sure you received this surprise! Well connected, and a newcomer in front of
you
and explaining how gated community affects us, and now I hope I will try to figure out
everything in a beautiful flowered manner to fix the context and my story together.
Can I go next story I don't know IT?
Hey, you got to help me, I'm honest, I don't know...nothing.
What is this? audience amused
Hey, hey-hey-hey-hey. Linus, come over please!
Fix this damage! Now you are ruining my speech, what is this?
audience amused
This is bullshit, my Italian friend said, this
is bullshit. Now we... this is, that's the...
another problem, they just come here and this is
what they do, this is bullshit...
THIS is not bullshit, this is beautiful!! audience amused
Thank you! That's my beautiful Italian friend, I don't mean to disrespect the language
but it looks so interested...
No no, don't go too high! Leave it to me! I can control!
Just leave me like "Next, next, next!" and then I can take care of it,
thank you so much! You don't have to do much work. Free! You're free!
Thanks!
I 'came two times a newcomer in my life.
The first time I was a newcomer in my own continent.
Next... the neighbor, next to my country, that's Kenya.
I grew up in Kenya. I don't know how it feels
when my mom went through all this pain.
When she took the five of us – one was inside.
When she took us from the war country, bringing us to Kayner???
And the main reason was my father was killed, I wasn't lucky to see my father.
And 'til that nobody knows who killed him and where his dead body is.
Til now we don't know. But I just wanna say: "I love you, daddy". I don't know much about
you,
but I love you, whereever you are. And rest in peace!
When my mom came to Kenya, she always told me how hard it was,
but I could not understand! Because I didn't go
through the pain she went through.
It's a different story when you have a feeling about a problem
and you're telling me the story. I don't have... we can have much connections here.
Of course the connection will be there, but how you have felt and how you're feeling
is never the way I'm gonna feel! It's just like
"Oh, sorry, you went through this, poor."
"I'm sorry, it's so painful, it's so hard." It's just difficult. And this is how it is.
So we grew up in Kenya, my mom did everything within her power
to give us the best she could including education.
And the culture I come from, cultural education is not a priority.
But my mom was a complete woman that was standing
for the true meaning of change. I had the same benefit
and equal respect to my brothers and thanks to my lovely uncle
who also paid my highschool fees and everything because mom could not raise
all of us with all of this money because where I come from in Kenya
is not similar here where education is for free. You got to pay there highschool.
The primary: yes, but highschool you got to pay. And the schools are not good quality.
If you need a good quality school, you got to
pay for it. You have to make an earning
to make this. To call your children very intelligent and then they have this good life.
But luckily enough I'm here in front of you to at least make
some languages that I can communicate with other people. I learned English
and hopefully, next time, I will speak in Deutsch. No more English Drama,
and I hope I will be confident in my Deutsch speech because I am not sure...
Deutsch is... I don't know. My Deutsch somewhat disappeared.
But I belive one day – I never lose my hope – I will come here
hopefully, one day. Not here necessarily but somewhere to speak in Deutsch.
And all my speech will be fluent: "Pa, pa pa pa pa!"
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...and what happened? Polizei flies you into the jail
or you pay or give me your documents.
And it's not a good easy life when you end in a different country.
You got to accept all the challenges that you go through. Stand for it,
alit, move forward, find a way to help yourself and others.
And then one day you got to be flying somewhere and be happy at least!
Try to be happy.
So my mom went through all of these problems
and I went to school there, everything, and I worked in a place called Dadaab.
Can you identify me from those photos? You can see somewhere...
I worked like I said before in introduction, with
different humanitarian international organizations,
one of it being "Save the children International", others being "Terre des hommes".
I also worked in Somalia partial time because I wanted to see what it feels like
to go back home and see my own country.
But I don't believe in an own country things, I believe in a world of no border,
get that one right. *applause*
Thank you so much!
When I was working in Dadaab, did I ever knew I will be another newcomer
for the second time. I used to feel the pain that people are going through.
All the damages I could see that and when I was new working there
I hardly had lunch because you have these big UN security staffs
and lines and everything is there. But I could never comfort myself
and eat properly because I could always see mothers
who lost their children on the way. She had 6 children for example,
2 or 3 died on the way. And she has to move on with her life.
And that life was so hard, and I chose
to work in the field of child protection.
The way I say it some people don't understand louder, pronounced: CHILD PROTECTION.
Here, you don't know much about it because the government takes care of it.
But this is one of the biggest refugee camps in the world, Dadaab refugee camp.
And I'm happy, I remember this memory and I kept it with me
because I was not so much into making the children play with them or this, (?)
but I was more of a case manager. But this was the universal Children's Day.
And I was like I just wanted to make them happy and it happened I have this memory with
me still.
Can we give applause for these beautiful kids? *applause*
computer "dong" sound
I touched in between, sorry sorry, you told me this. You told me, don't touch.
You know, I told them, the first time they gave
me this: "You got to show me how to use this,
are you stupid or something?" And he said: "No, just use it"
and then the first time I did it he said: "You see? You said 'I know it',
why did you do the mistake?" And this is how it goes back to the memory of exams
you say this exam was so easy and then you fail. And the [credit] points you expected
is not there because we just take things so easy.
So I will not take next time things for easy,
I got to be careful. And this was still part of Dadaab...
audience amused
Damn! What's up? Your computer is virus!
I have a beautiful laptop there. Get mine!
Helper: What for?
Fatuma: Okay. Gut! Thank you.
And these beautiful ladies there... we were doing a lot of different
work with children. I was more in the case management and
dealing with child abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence.
There are a lot of children who are sexually abused
and you got to stand there for them, take them through the process
because the parents are psychologically traumatized. They have no energy at
all whatsoever. To do anything. And this is what's called girl child empowerment.
I tried for my own level with my colleagues and everybody. To help the girls
speak out and say something. Because if their voice is not heard,
nobody will make them raise their full voice. (?) Because voice is power.
Voice is the key change to everything.
And these girls were always shy I remember them putting... hides face you see her hand
was already there.
They do this... my cloth is far... (?) They're so shy and they can't say much.
And it's not their fault. It's what's called culture setup.
This is how we were brought up. As a woman.
This how we behave. But I disagree.
Everybody should be equal. Everybody should have equal freedom.
Of speech, of saying whatever they feel like, letting it out.
Respect it. Be part of their change process.
Because these are expected to be the leaders of tomorrow, today.
But if we don't empower them if we don't support them
they're not going to be anything.
[In my case] It's hardly to see. From-the-culture-I-come-from-woman standing in front of
the majority-dominance-men here. Hackers, hehe and women.
And speak to them. It's something rare because
this is not how we are brought up. You got to be shy, sitting somewhere.
Not speaking here like notorious, this is not a good woman.
Standing in front of men and talking you're not a good woman. This is what it is.
But I say that good women should be standing in front of people and speaking up.
*applause*
Thank you so much. There're a lot of problems. That I saw.
I want to give a comparison between what I saw in Dadaab and here.
But sometimes it's hard to give the comparison because I was working there
earning my own money and doing my own stuffs. But now here I am
and opposite. Somebody has to work for me and help me.
But generally some of the key problems that were there in Dadaab refugee camp: education.
Education was a key problem.
Girl child education was a key problem as well. There were highschools,
there were over 40 international humanitarian organizations
and some of them were responsible for education. But you know they
can't do everything, they don't have support from the government.
And there was a lot of... poor educational infrastructure.
There was no clear support in erms of education. There were no class rooms.
There were not enough teachers. The resources was completely not enough.
And these people there was restrictions of freedom.
People could not cross the normal way to go to the cities or other part of Kenya.
They were restricted in that Dadaab zone. If you wanna go out of Dadaab
you gotta ask for permission. Go to the UNHCR,
ask for permission to go out and state why you wanna go there,
outside of this camp. So it was not easy.
It's similar to here some months ago, in our country here.
We were not allowed to travel out of – like I come from the beautiful Brandenburg.
You're not allowed to travel outside Brandenburg.
But then so much to the leaders now they're making a change.
And they're trying something at least. It's not perfect. But they're trying.
Can we give a round of applause to our leaders who're at least trying,
I like to appeciate those who are even trying. Can we give applause, please?
*applause*
helper approaching speaker's desk
Sorry, Linus! I'm so sorry.
I think the mistake comes from here! Just to stand there...
No, this is not the mistake. Okay, cool.
I know, in every country there are a lot of newcomers
and similar problems are there. But one good things I discovered from Dadaab
is that the people are still within their culture. At least they are within a language
they can understand. Basically things they're used to.
But here you come – it's completely the opposite. So what leads
to these big refugee camps? It's poor management of responsibility.
If the developed world would support the developing world
and the problems they went through I don't think we would have been in the direction
we are right now. I just wanna go back a little bit to History.
When colonisation was happening in this developing world
no person was asked why they came to those countries.
Nobody asked them [about their] permission to
get in. They didn't ask anybody permissions
to get in. Now my big question is: Now that we need the help of the developed world
why are we called "Illegals" – number one. Why are we called
you need to come in with a permission. Why?? The permission on us
and YOU never asked for permissions before! Ever! Why?
*applause*
Thank you.
These are the good examples of gated community.
Sorry.
If leaders would forget about the past because what your parents or
your leaders did in the past you don't have to do and repeat the same mistake.
You need to correct that mistake. And make a difference.
*applause*
We are not perfect in any way. And I always call politics is a dirty game.
But I want to send a message to all the politicians and leaders in the world.
Please... stand... for human rights
and respect it! Don't put your political interest first,
put the human life first! Then the rest becomes number two!
*applause*
Thank you.
I love this woman called Claudia Roth. I had a panel discussions
once with her in re:publica. And I loved her approach.
She's at least a very mentoring woman. She's a role model to me.
And I remember her telling me one time, I said thanks to the German government,
"at least they're trying to do something". And she told me: "No no no no no no no no!"
And I was like: "What?" – "Don't say 'Thank you'! What for? Haa?"
And I was like: "Yeah, at least they did something! At least they give us a shelter,
somewhere to sleep, something to eat!" For me, I would grate that. When if everything's
not perfect, I will say to that little thing "thank you". And something very imoportant.
But thanks to Claudia Roth and her team, they're really trying to do a beautiful job.
And the rest of the leaders whatever they are,
not only them, everyone who's doing nice job.
So that was the life in Dadaab. It's very tough and hard.
I came to German'. And I was in Eisenhuttenstadt first time.
And life is so hard and horrible.
I can tell you here all of this in words. But believe me,
you can never understand unless you're in that situation yourself.
You can not understand. The rest is just a story.
You will just say: "OK, oh sorry it's a painful pro... oh sorry, yeah,
I understand." – No, you're lying, you're not understanding. Be in that condition
and then you got to tell me what it is.
There's a lot of health problems. The people are overcrowded,
There're a lot of outbreak of diseases at different times.
And people are congested in containers and in other
not-deserving human shelter areas. I understand them on one side
but on one side I refuse to understand them.
I mean this is a very well developed countries. Not only I don't point fingers
only,
because I wanna avoid pointing fingers on specific countries because this problem
is a global concerned problem. Gated communities everywhere in the world
and it's not only here in German', it's everywhere!
So this message I'm sending is going to everywhere.
And I remember, in Eisenhüttenstadt,
you're put in 5..10 people... 20 people – not 20, I don't wanna lie –
but at least 10 people could be in one room.
And you can't say anything about ist. You're from different country. We don't
understand each other culture-wise, language- wise, everything. But you still are forced
to live together. There is no freedom of education like I wanted,
to further my education. There is nothing like
that. The bureaucratic is another story.
Leave it aside. But so complicated that you can't be who you wanna be!
And my question was all the time: When this difficult condition where you're not allowed
to work, you're not allowed to go to school, you're not allowed to function like a
normal human being! You're not even allowed to go out and visit Berlin,
the first time you are... I asked myself is this a perfect Welcome
in German'? Keep in isolated, damage, and not giving us
the freedom to move out and see people. Everybody is like this:
tired, sad: "You go to the office, you ask..." Not everybody! Some people.
I remember the first time I visited there, I went to a woman and I said:
"Is this true? Is this where I am? Is this really true? Is this happening to me?"
I was like: "In a moment I don't know where the hell I was!"
I thought my life was over! – No, it wasn't over,
it was the beginning.
And I asked her – Thank you – and I asked her
"What's going on? Can I go out?" And she said: "Was??" – "Do you speak English?"
–
"Was?? Deutsch, bitte!" And I was like: "I can't speak Deutsch!" -
"Was?? Raus, bitte, nächst'..." – "Can I please have a permission
to go out at least see the city or something, because I'm not having
a contact with my family, no relation whatsoever, I'm really dying
of trauma here!" – "Was?? Raus, bitte! Nächst', nächst' bitte! Nächst'!"
You have no choice! You have no voice! You got to leave!
That was some of the difficult moments I remember.
But there were also nice people in the same Eisenhüttenstadt. Working as a social worker.
Very kind generous and very supporting.
But all of a sudden life wasn't easy basically. I remember there was
this small internet area I don't think it's their fault that's the only space
they were given. Refugee inspection (?) where you can just go and google something.
And I would like to ask everybody in the audience to give them a big 'pplause
because they're doing a beautiful job there.
*applause*
Thanks. So the life in Eisenhüttenstadt was completely a very...
problem with slides projection
helper approaching again
Yes, so out of my transfer in Brandenburg,
still in Brandenburg I went to... Life wasn't easy and blabla...
everybody knows how hard it is and not everybody can understand this.
I went transfered after 2 months or 3 months of... When you are new in German'
you're transfered to another refugee camp. Then I was in Bestensee.
And I was asking myself: Back home I was somebody,
I had my own dog, I had my own little money, I had my own life beautiful.
Here you come you're nothing! I wanted to find a way I could help myself
get out of this terrible situation. Put myself at least somehow at distance (?) out of it,
then help others get out of it. And then I asked the manager
how I can help the community and I was an English assistant teacher in this area.
The beautiful teachers were very supportive, many of them could not speak English.
But the beautiful heart was there. So kind, so generous. Very supporting
and loving! I could not ask more. They were so kind and nice.
Can we give them a big round of applause, to my beautiful teachers!?
*applause* If you don't mind!
And I encountered a lot of problems while I was working in the school because
if you work there they said the socials said (?)
the school wanted to pay me
but the socials said "No, we can't." And the socials said,
I can only work 1 hour 1 Euro.
A whole hour you are paid 1 Euro, Schilling...
Do you understand the meaning of 1 Euro!? Can somebody give me 1 Euro?
Each one of you give me 1 Euro. And then we see how much it is.
Smiling amused
So this was... But they made it a difference and they said: "We wanna have you
and do everything possible within our power to
support you. Because you are supporting us."
Because, I wanted to do something useful with my life because in the refugee camps
all that we do is either drink, fight... It's not our choice.
That's where we are put in. We're so much isolated and outside of the community.
The community is completely gated. And then we are put in a very complete
isolation situation. We need to stand up together and make a difference
by breaking these gated community. Each and every individual of us, we have to.
And find a way to. *applause*
Thank you, Vielen Dank!
And then, well I was in Bestensee. This place is called Bestensee,
some of you might come from here I don't know. I was also part of a...
a sport club because I love sports. And I remember them giving me...
Nee... Nooo!
I'm sometimes Clown so that's why sometimes I behave like this. chuckles
This was a beautiful picture from their T-Shirt and the sports club,
they bought me. And... "you are nobody you have nobody but somebody's there for you
loving you supporting you and doing everything for you." I was so lucky.
And I wanted to do something for the community. And I was like:
"What can I do to help people?" And the children I used to love wherever they're
in the world. And these are some of the things... 10 minutes left sign – Thank you –
...these are some of the things I was trying to do just to escape from stress.
I didn't wanna drink, I didn't wanna do bad things. I just wanted progress with my life.
And these are some of the things I tried to do.
chuckles on next slide
So please let us get used to the name newcomers,
not refugees. And these were my beautiful communities I was doing twice
in the whole of German'. And if you want to invite me in some of the cities
I have never seen, do that and give me one bread and
I was... I'm basically an international speaker and I have been going to different places
talking to the people and trying to give them some hope together with the support
as there are a lot of nice people in Deutschland, for example. I can talk about German',
not elsewhere. There are a lot of nice people who wanna do something but they don't know
how.
So I don't like to generalize. And for those of
us who are defined as racists I don't belive
in the word racism. I think it's about lack of
information. When people understand
who we are where we come from and what problems we went through
I think they will be kind, nice and generous. To understand us and support us.
So if we continued that those people who discriminate us and that then
we discriminate them I don't think we are going anywhere. The best way...
If a killer kills and then you kill this is not the best way to move forward.
It's about trying to figure out how best can we try to make both sides together
and I'm doing a project called, a program called "United Action". And the idea behind
is
visiting refugee camps, creating events, bringing the community
and the newcomers together because I don't wanna only say: "Support us,
newcomers, newcomers." There are people in the community who are vulnerable,
who are poor and they need help. And that's the reason why they don't want us.
They feel jealous and it's their right. I mean
they're human beings, they're not perfect.
So we got to find a way to fit both sides together, to come together.
And support each other. And that's my idea behind "United Action". I believe
when we all of us come together, do things together, eat together,
the rest of the bridge will just slowly fall down, like the "Berliner" Wall.
*applause*
Thank you! *applause*
This one of the photos when I was in Neuhardenberg. And these are
part of the friends that were helping me going there taking food and drinks
and stuffs and just having a good time with the people. And trying to figure out
what we could do together. I have a Facebook page called... I don't want this
keynote speech to be my own advertising thing,
but I just wanna give you more information about myself so that you know
who you're talking to and if you need more questions or you have
anything to tell me you better meet me outside later with 1 Euro.
audience chuckling
Joking, don't give me any Cent!
And these are still some of the events and I love being happy. I mean
happiness is my family. And hope is my family. Without losing hope
and happiness we can be somewhere.
And this was still Neuhardenberg with the team and we were doing a wonderful
amazing thing. This was a group I've been supporting and they won some awards.
And this is my beautiful visit to the beautiful German parliament
with my Coca Cola.
Please! Stand for Change! Please
call us our names or any other beautiful name or our personal names!
And we got to find a way to figure out how best we can call each other.
We don't have to call ourselves Refugees anymore. Because this word
has been used in the wrong way. We are meant to be very vulnerable.
We are meant to be nothing! We are somebody just like anyone of you!
We only lost our home and family. We are human beings
just like anyone of you! We can do something. Don't look at the word!
Look at us as a human being. As a person, as somebody in a capable position
to do something. Don't you believe we are human beings? Then get rid of this name!
*applause*
Thank you! Situations should never define us.
What should define us is the name "human being".
And the respect we label to each other.
And I would like to send a message to the world: These Gated Community issues
is a global issue. Please let us try to promote
Peace, Love, Unity. Break the isolation. Come together!
Support each other! Love each other! Love each other! Love each other
and love each other again! And be there whatever possible.
I can't say more words than this, I just wanna say:
Thank you so much to everyone of you. And I want you to go home...
Not you, you are the wrong audience, I think. You know what's you doing already.
Thank you so much to that! But for those of us who don't know what Gated Community
means and how we can break the silence: take the responsibility,
go out, do a lot of awareness campaign and find a way to kill and delete
this gate. Let us open the gate with open arms for everybody
regardless of who you are. Let us stand with one name as human beings.
Don't believe in the name of a nationality. Don't believe in the name of stupid colors,
always respect the human dignity. "Don't lose hope in the name of humanity!"
This was a word Linus [Neumann] told me several times and I loved it and that's why
I wanna say it right now with you all. And...
the first question says: "If you were me what would you do?"
Imagine, you are this. pointing at her face and clothing
Pointing at someone in audience front row What would you do?
I don't know, it's a decision you're making, answer belongs to you.
"What would you wish from the Hacker community?"
What I wish from the Hacker community is that you're doing a great job.
Keep the good work. Give us more internet, in the Heims, we don't have this.
Do this for us everywhere in Germany, everywhere!
*applause*
Please visit all the refugee camps next to you, whereever you live!
Find a way you can make a difference by helping these camps and
some of the excuses that politicians use why they don't give internet
to us is: They said we might watch Porno.
shouting: Whoo hooo!
What a stupid excuse!! Shame!! Shame Shame Shame Shame Shame!!
Thank you so much, everybody! I will be here for 4 days, I will be having 2 workshops
and if you're interested more, kindly let us make together and
love you so much!! And I hope everybody enjoyed the speech
and no more words to say! Just say again Thank you and Thank you to the Angels
Thanks to all the people who are trying to do this beautiful congress as successful.
Stay Peace and I wanna be the first person – I don't know if I'm the first person –
I wanna say "Happy New Year!". Maybe we don't know each other and we hopefully will meet
again.
Happy New Year to all of you. Big love! Be Peace and Unity!
I salute to you all! Thank you so much, everybody!
*huge applause*
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