traveling abroad was believed to be the
surest meetin efficacious like the sound
of an airplane was an emblem of whole
the altima’s dream of every spirited use
was a live in foreign country where up
Muslim brought and of course human
beings don’t die everyone was sort of
looking for harmless encouraged to keep
their vessel I mean everybody wanted a
better life tell them to go to school
Golan a trade or Google a job and
they’ll run you as an enemy of progress
but there were thousands of dollars to
pay for visa fees patches plane ticket
and book a five-star with abroad than to
use that money to pay for the attacks
box paying school bills or maybe our
uniforms they terrorists pilots more
than teachers flying more than sitting
in a classroom determining the atomic
number of a scientific element
discovered by some dead and gone
scientist we were all taught well fed up
hearing about snow falling in some
countries whilst were weren’t it a gas
be hot and I karwar had to cover our
ball in hits my dream as young boy was
also to travel abroad but I realized
that in other to be able to go
international in order to be able to go
global you must not look on and that is
ladies and gentlemen my name is Richard
Parker V Boucher I am a writer a poet
and author the CEO of open trust
movement today I’m here to share a
little bit of my story with you to help
you overcome the challenges if you’re
going through so that one day you can
also achieve your dreams in line so
there are approximately 163 million
orphans in the world 18.2 millions of
these orphans have no parental care at
all the emotional pains that offers goes
through leave ten to fifteen percent
committed suicide before they are 18
those who are fortunate go beyond this
age research shows that sixty percent of
the girls 10 prostitute and seventy
percent of the boys become hardened
criminals I didn’t want to become a
hardened criminal I was tired of always
you know seen Reggie case on stage
mounting the stage no using the Italians
in order to you know change apartment
change the society displaying their
talent and all that and I was always
certain but see I see if I didn’t matter
so an other for me to be able to do
something I mean also change my
community I decided to use my torment
story in which of a capacity and that
was to put my book put my story together
and that’s a telephone open a lesson to
Lane now let me quickly tell you it
wasn’t easy when I said that right in
this book I had no idea of how to edit a
book it was really tough but I didn’t
give up myself I remember that night
when I was right in the introduction it
was village of ours really crying
because in our society when you happen
to be an orphan and I was speaking from
experience people think that you are
useless me losing my parent I lost my
father when I was five and at the age of
seven I lost my mother so eventually I
became an orphan I at the age of seven
but that didn’t stop me so I said I’d
put in my story together and after
putting the storage together
the next thing was to get a publishing
company to publish my book and you know
those of you who are until writing you
know how difficult it is to get a
publishing company by then I was a cafe
attendant before then our I used to go
to an internet cafe had no money to pay
for I mean to buy any time to browse so
I came up with like da and my idea was
that I was going to sleep the Internet’s
coffee I make sure I get there early in
the morning see the place so that the
owner can give me some time and it
worked I was getting 30 minutes and i
was using dr. terminated to type my
stories in order to go on facebook to
search and all that so one morning i was
browsing and i came across a name amanda
young sent him a message I went through
his profile sent my message told him I
hey brother I am an author have a book
entitled blah blah blah blah blah I
didn’t get a reply from him few days
later he accepted my friend request and
then I told him that hey this is a book
that I’ve been telling you about
fortunately he had also releases book so
I told him that why don’t you look at my
book and here is somebody who had no
idea he doesn’t know me from anyway long
story short this guy picked up my book
and said Richard because of your book I
am going to start a company imagine
publishing company and today I am the
first ganiyan both published by emergent
option company in the US and i’ve also
sign on thank you i was a sign on to you
merge a publishing company a very long
term contract with them now i want to
draw your attention to something but if
you realize that you know we all go
through crisis in life but you need to
understand one thing acknowledge that
you are in crisis but
do not accept your crisis I knew that I
knew that I’m an orphan it was so clay
but I didn’t accept the fact that I’m
useless I’m not useless very important
society now this is one of the codes
that really changed my life I was tired
of like i said before our style of
sitting in the audience not the audience
may say but we are all performance on
this earth right we are all performance
on on this day you are going to perform
you are not going to sit in the audience
to watch others in a chair or their own
I must say you don’t share me on or
don’t share at this moment but you are
not just born to you know said how they
always aid that guy is doing it Jill
where point before so as I’m standing
here and performing as you see Ted now
you’re performing because you are living
your purpose so I realized that in order
to be able to you know defense eoz you
need to acknowledge that acknowledge
your crisis but don’t accept it and
those sit at the back I mean in there
hope you are getting there so this
picture is too after publishing my book
the tale of an orphan I was there
somewhere 2013 I was really broke
because you know I throw that after
publishing my book I should get some
money but it wasn’t like that the
journey of a writer so some ways have
too much Supt in material in november i
got a this revelation that I should tell
my publisher to a no-contact EVN and he
sent an email to eat TBN and they said
and weeks later we got a call that TBN
want to interview me in London in the UK
apply for my visa and God being so good
I was approved and this was my first
international interview on TV and arrow
now here was a boy that would have
nobody ever told was ever going to do
something great but now i’m rocking sure
this internationally and you go to the
network the ladder now i want you to
understand something that there’s a
ladder in every human being there’s a
letter in husted here but sometimes
because you are so focused on the ladder
somebody has and by letter I mean the
encouragement to push the money the
position your uncle’s your antes your
friends your father has you’re waiting
for them to use that to help you they
are not helping you and you’ve you are
what that is boiling a bad blood in you
you’re so upset that that your uncle is
so rich and it’s not what using that to
help you tell you what I this hours in
the same situation but I came to a
realization that nobody owes me anything
do you know that nobody owes you
anything the investors that you went you
went your your your elections don’t owe
you any ace don’t owe you anything your
parent brought you into the world for a
reason but they don’t owe you anything
you owe yourself everything and that was
when I discovered that I I don’t have to
sit down and this is another lesson
which I’ve learned you know I lived in
the village for a very long time and I
stayed the chickens can call them files
or whatever now when you study chickens
domestic files we don’t feed them we
allow them to me search for their own
food so I was one time I was just stayed
in one and it it was just such a surface
of the air so strong and I realized that
no matter how tough it was for it it was
still what pressing on it was scratching
the surface of the year and that was
when I learned a lesson that a chicken
does not stop scratching just because
worms are scarce you don’t give up just
because somebody says you can do it you
don’t give up because people are
rejecting you
you don’t have to give up I remember
before I even got my publisher had sent
out two hundred punish crypt I mean poop
was asked to publishers in the u.s. in
the UK and all that I had 91 rejection
letters yes I could have given up but I
know one thing that you don’t have to
give up and we go to the next now this
is one of the quotes that I hold I mean
host my life even in ashes there is hope
see when all seems lost all is not lost
do you believe that do you believe that
when the people that you are waiting on
when your father feels to support you
when you lose your parent it doesn’t
mean that is the end of them or the
world the fact that I lost my parent it
doesn’t mean up that’s the end of me it
doesn’t mean I’ve lost my world today I
wouldn’t if I hadn’t taken that risk to
tell my story I wouldn’t be here Dr Who
at me do you agree with me yeah so my
encouragement is that do not just look
at your situation look to the future
what are you doing right now by where
you are going everyone in this room is
going some way but the question is what
are you doing to get where you are going
now this is something that I really want
to hammer on and I want everyone in this
room together do not go around preaching
your disadvantage something I never knew
now what i realize one of the things i
realized is that when you go around
preaching your disadvantage telling
everyone that you don’t have a degree
tell everyone that you are often telling
everyone that’s your parents are poor
that you you don’t I mean you’re
homeless you know what happens people
buy you keep it was use you anyhow and
that is what happened to me
is it though that he has Richard isn’t
open so I went somewhere to work I on
four buckets for baskets of washing
clothes and then I was just paid 40
gonna say this I did that several times
Noli that there are several instances
people invite me okay we should come and
share your story I go there he told me
we’ll pay you even at the point whereby
I fly out of the country travel abroad
go there and it are you Oh we’ll pay you
go there nothing and then I lose so I
read I’ll and one thing that in other to
protect yourself don’t go around
preaching your disadvantages don’t tell
everyone maybe one of your eyes under
working you don’t go around telling
everyone because the moment is that
people always use your disadvantages
against you like they did to me so
that’s what me and my publisher Amanda
young and I was also in last year I was
selected as one of the Andean writers to
be in Italy for the hundred thousand
poet for change and this is to prove to
you that it doesn’t matter where you are
it doesn’t matter who you are you can
make it that even in ashes there is all
let’s go to the next one so the question
is how do you contribute as a writer as
a creative person how do you defer the
odds in achieving your dream happy
strategies and that is what I’m going to
share with you the first one is that the
icon on the 3ds the first one is
discover discover your talent and when
you discover your talent discover a
problem in where you are now the second
is to decide decide on solution decide
on how best you can use your talents
to solve that problem now let me let me
just quickly explain that when I realize
that as i discovered i’ll have the
giftie right i decided that i was going
to write a book so you get it right and
attack then is deliver after writing the
book I didn’t just sit there I made sure
that I release the book deliver the book
so these three things are going to help
you in other two also you know defer the
O’s whatever challenges that you’re
going through I believe in one thing as
I always say that people like you win
when all seems lost all is not lost
don’t give up on yourself it doesn’t
matter how many times you have told you
that you can do it use the ladder in you
stop focusing on people right stop
focusing on religious construct me no
matter how many times we send messages
on facebook or social media whatsoever
talk about the fact that our leaders are
not doing what they ought to do it is up
to us to make a decision that I’m going
to affect change white where I am and
that is why I decided to write tell my
stories i want to encourage y’all that
don’t give up on your dreams and know
that even in ashes there is hope thank
you
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