Press "Enter" to skip to content

As meninas dos chinelos | Betty e Brenda | TEDxCentroUniversitárioNewtonPaiva


[Music]
no people we are not twins
our age difference is exact
11 months our age difference is
always embarrassing because for you that
Did you realize that I
was pregnant when she still had
two months
That’s it on my one-year anniversary .
I was then from there I discovered
that my whole life would be
shared
My parents keep my clothes.
We ‘ve already shared a brunch in
another place we talk but anyway
everything was shared but what more
motivates today is the dream that we
we share and because of this dream
that it is shared that we are
sharing this stage too
everything started in 2010 last year of
Faculty of Biomedicine and us
we are happy on the one hand because
that excitement when coming back from it
Thank God, but on the other hand, I’m going
I need to do a job right now.
accurate stability
Our difficulty is that this has never been
our true dream we are children
of a Mozambican who is married to a
brazilian and grandson of an
Our house looks like an UN meeting when
the family joins us we always dreamed
to know the world but not to know
tourist spots but meet people and
change the lives of people
This is kind of difficult when people
Imagine we’re going to be at least
plus 30 years working eight hours
within a laboratory having waiting
the salary at the end of the month so that
finally we have a nice house one
cool car and three meals a day and
every time I shared this dream
with someone or even put that
sorry inside of me that I want
do something but I do not even have money
Resolution is counted to check
in college how much more do something
relevant and then one day while we
we were talking about this
advertising that people used to live
we thought our parents would go
spend in the next few months about eight
thousand reais in the four solemnity of
graduation and then came the idea brenda por
So what do not we stop?
side these graduation parties ask
Our parents ‘ money and let’s finally
do what he really wants
perfect solve our problems
only that convincing our parents was not
easy task
so we come out with a lot of arguments
We called him to talk and the
Talk was good.
The next we want to change our
graduation party
To take a trip on this trip we
We want to stay three months.
we want and for any country of the
african continent and there we go
work as volunteers
that silence in the room my father after
some time I said yes and my
Man calmly let me speak
my arguments
The coolest of all this is that two
months after we were boarding
for better graduation of all that
the graduation of life and the graduation of life
something interesting happens because
tests take place before the elections and
we the first lesson we learn
after that is that in fact just not
They cost nothing as people say let’s go.
talking to dreaming does not cost us anything
it costs everything
When you have a real dream, it ‘s
It’s at dawn and it’s going to cost
their decisions and it will cost people
with whom you walk with whom you leave
to walk a real dream will cost
sometimes even his name a dream of
It’s true, it’s going to cost you the holidays.
to go to the graduation you leave
do
but who knows we are worth it
very worthwhile because those three months
we were there we took turns in three
hospitals to make the care and in the
The two weekends are also the
dancers
We used it, that’s our ability.
to be able to teach dance to
children and adolescents, it was a
very cool immersion
it was a dance class any one started
with the heating and after we leave
there in fact the steps and in this end of
week in the first ten minutes of class
or me deep down started crying a lot
only it was not that drinking cry of
child was that cry of the soul
when I asked her to see what was
happening she always asks neither goes there
honey will take care of the crying child
while change she does this to me
But when I got there to talk to
that child I understood that the eyes
also speak because she did not need
answer because of her crying
looked at her feet and there that look
to her parents made me look at me
also where I was because I was giving
dance class for children in a
desert at two o’clock in the afternoon
that it was sand only hot sand place that
the zinc sheets of a
meter and a half down and the child
was there with her feet full of sores and
every step she made who entered the
lost
I told her I told her not to expect you.
do not want to do this work that way
going to slip on slippers and she said no
had but I do not have a slipper and do not
It’s okay, we’re just starting.
back home wearing slippers and back
She gives up and I have no part of her.
At that moment I understood that our life
can not be just ours
I understood at the time that it is not
The less sense I find that doing something
of interesting in the world makes the child
dancing barefoot in the desert while I
sidewalk if put in the other’s place
It is more than taking pictures if you put it in the
The other’s place is more than you
imagine that you are dealing with what the
person wants to get put in place
the other and felt the pain in the foot that
girl and it was what I went through
feel that day what we
we began to feel that day
We look forward to that.
opportunity is there with those
children of our trip we took a
full suitcase
only as full of thing for us
we use it had space to
nobody else
we are the theme of our meeting today
a three letter word and it is
Funny that we all want things
better for us but how many people
these three letters fit when you are
Saying that you want the best thing to
Who exactly are you talking about?
because at that moment when I remembered
my bag I knew it would take into
Angola I was going to wear clothes occasion but it was
everything to us and there we are in
place where the minimum wage was
about $ 120 and a pair of flip – flops
it cost 40 dollars
Imagine you father and mother with two three
children receiving the $ 120 and having
who to choose who you ‘re going to wear
that month when we came back
Brazil
we understand that ours could
be the 250 children we left behind
back 100 pairs of slipper and the idea
It was very simple we called our
dance company friends
we made photos with them we edited the photos
are also the designers and we
to elaborate texts that
that situation so that people
could simply donate a couple of
slipper and on October 13, 2012
we did the first publication with the
our photos explaining the
history and hashtag 2 nelson
Excitement was too much because I thought
Now, yes, we can do something.
on the first day it had no tanning
no comment or sharing
nothing and before bed we think
Wow, I can not afford all this I think
that it will be very difficult 250 pairs of
slipper is a lot of people
rake will not give but another day
before we woke up when we
counted on the company of someone’s house
left a bag with my father and so
arrive the first six pairs of
slippers at the end of that week our
car was full of 100/1
pairs of slippers and in the other week we
already we had the 250 pairs of slippers but
more than that we had asked to
other people of haiti and india
Talking I do not have slippers either.
There you go. You can send the year here.
2013 was amazing
we talked about the campaign two slippers
43 of the 43 52 weekends and in
17 Brazilian states have sponsorship
no agent talked about the opportunity
that same year we reached 5,000 par
of slippers and we learned the second
lesson is that when you have a dream
you happen to be identified by him
I know the Jonathan who wants to be.
military, I also know Sara that she
dreamed of dentistry and today she leaves
providing care in communities
need 2 streets from then passed
to be known as the girls of the
slipper was coming on the market
shopping with our parents
I also told you, it’s those girls.
rage window of anger so the
person go there to buy money that was
in our car then what we
we understand that a real dream
besides costing your time will cost
your identity
you will be identified by what you
Burn in your heart, you ‘re going to
a person is going to be a cause
We’re here, you did not understand, bland.
in my interest to be here today with
It’s not like you look at us.
said valcke cool that they do
the interest is here is that you
listen through us is that you come back to
give moral to that voice with day played
in your heart and talk, I can
do this
we do not have photos we do not want
show the poverty that we have seen
worldwide
we do not want to show that there are
worse people that we are not the
objective of a social action
sometimes people come looking for us
like this
my son on a trip you stay
giving work when he sees what you
see he will improve
no we are not people who need
to see the other ‘s poverty is to feel better
we are people who need to look
in the mirror understand why we have
lived this poverty of purpose despite
of so much
What we want here today is that you
imagine what it is you imagine
photos you could be presenting
here what you could have done and not
is doing because sometimes it can be
difficult
we got to 5 thousand pairs of flip-flops
first year 10,000 pairs in the second year
23 thousand for the 3rd year and this week we
we reached the mark of 41 thousand pairs of
slippers
besides you can think the legal aoki
four times the initial goal but the
People do not want to stop here.
now we have a brand new to the brand
of 100 thousand pairs of slippers
we want we are building
school of crafts and entrepreneurship
for women in situations of risk
we also carry health in communities
need because we understand that the
Our life does not have to be just us.
dream when it is shared a
dream when he is destined to another he
gives the power of immortality to a
person, why am I going to pass it?
and you will pass, but what you
You leave here, maybe
you have the least idea that you
You can make your life
We brought a little suggestion to
you
this was our last trip we
We are back in ten days from angola and in these
eight years we know more and more and
more people who did not know the whole way
who did not have everything to offer
were part of what was and part of the
that I had was enough to change the
someone’s life
In this club either river fall was 15 in
frankly nothing but the challenge half an hour
I work in Brazil and so in the fight for
do not fall fast
human rights are rights that are
guaranteed for the simple fact of
human being are inherent to their condition
and nature consisting of rights and
basic freedoms considered
fundamental to their dignity
[Music]
am not
it’s d
hey already
up until
ah
[Music]
O
eg
here is the time
oh israel
O
[Music]
the arraia floor
the bay
the world
[Music]
the risk of strong fall proves us nothing
the first challenge
this is for nobody
That’s how I ended up falling.
in 1948 the United Nations Organization
adopted a Universal Declaration of
of human rights, the document that
as its name implies, is not intended to
constitute rights but only declare
recognize existing rights
emphasizing the inherent dignity of all
members of the human family their
equal rights are inalienable
constituting the foundation of freedom
justice and peace in the world
regardless of the cultural context
involved but always prevailing
human nature and the rights
Sao Paulo
[Music]
[Music]
I am
the poet
[Music]
the dollar
[Applause]
promote human rights and justice
social commitment is an act of commitment
next
breaking the chain of government and doing
of his own life a path through which
flow accompanied
[Music]
I’m here to say that a trip
change your life because maybe you do not
It will arrive to travel.
I ‘m here to say that you have to
collect 50 100 thousand pairs of flip-flops
because not only the numbers that define us
I’m here to say that when you
Can you look at someone else?
see the word us when you
understand that there is in fact no other
but that the other is simply you in
another situation
so you will understand that your
stay that by this land can be something
much bigger than you think
so you have a better motivation to
study to work to do what
my crisis here today is because
believe in that stage was there in that
and I was in doubt if I came to
here’s your big jump tennis
We fought this because I
I wanted to win what she wanted to
and that poetry of life in which the
my biggest crisis pick the shoe error
while today there are 300 million
people who have nothing to wear is not
only part of it our cause today is a
rubber piece
our cause today remember that there are 15
days ago we met a girl
who after hearing us and offered three
to buy a pair of slippers at
Angola, I told her I was not
there to sell a pair of flip-flops but
she said aunt today it’s sunday on Thursday
My mother left me at home on Monday.
taking care of my younger siblings and
When she came back she missed
500 when even more or less seven
real and she says that she hit me and
He threw me out
if you give me a pair of slippers I ‘ll
To remind you there costs 45 dollars
if you give me a pair of slippers on her
will leave back home I had came
of the party are neither part nor
It’s not just the time of your life.
maybe a little you have to
offer today will be transformed into
thousands and thousands of people returning
to a place where they will be able to
call home looking at this land and
finally call this land from home a
place where it only
Our beautiful wish is that your life
be in fact a life of compassion
why compassion
we usually say that the way we
God what anything you
Believe, give us to see the world.
through his eyes
thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
Please follow and like us: