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We shouldn't be treating them as adults and putting them in cultures of violence that are nearly impossible for them to escape.
What followed that election was terrible violence, rape, and the killing of over 1,000 people.
My work was to document the violence.
I was a very disturbed man because I saw the violence firsthand.
After quitting my job, I decided to organize my friends to speak about the violence in the country, to speak about the state of the nation, and June 1, 2009 was the day that we were meant to go to the stadium and try and get the president's attention.
And when the president stood up to speak, I found myself on my feet shouting at the president, telling him to remember the post-election violence victims, to stop the corruption.
Most Kenyans did not see the violence.
And so I decided to actually start a street exhibition to show the images of the violence across the country and get people talking about it.
Anger is within each one of you, and I will share a secret for a few seconds: that if we are confined in the narrow shells of egos, and the circles of selfishness, then the anger will turn out to be hatred, violence, revenge, destruction.
You see, Venus was thrown into destitution by violence.
The truth is, the poor of our world are trapped in whole systems of violence.
But I would have no idea, until later, that he was actually a slave, held by violence in that rice mill since I was in high school.
Decades of anti-poverty programs right in his community were never able to rescue him or any of the hundred other slaves from the beatings and the rapes and the torture of violence inside the rice mill.
This is why, over time, I have come to call this epidemic of violence the Locust Effect.
In fact, now when you survey very, very poor communities, residents will tell you that their greatest fear is violence.
But notice the violence that they fear is not the violence of genocide or the wars, it's everyday violence.
We've got to make all this violence against the poor illegal.
And so the epidemic of everyday violence, it just rages on.
Auditors of international assistance recently couldn't find even one percent of aid going to protect the poor from the lawless chaos of everyday violence.
And honestly, when we do talk about violence against the poor, sometimes it's in the weirdest of ways.
I was at the World Economic Forum not long ago talking to corporate executives who have massive businesses in the developing world and I was just asking them, "How do you guys protect all your people and property from all the violence?"
Violence can be stopped.
Number one: We have to start making stopping violence indispensable to the fight against poverty.
In fact, any conversation about global poverty that doesn't include the problem of violence must be deemed not serious.
Recently, the Gates Foundation funded a project in the second largest city of the Philippines, where local advocates and local law enforcement were able to transform corrupt police and broken courts so drastically, that in just four short years, they were able to measurably reduce the commercial sexual violence against poor kids by 79 percent.
Likewise, when our grandchildren ask us, "Grandma, Grandpa, where were you when two billion of the world's poorest were drowning in a lawless chaos of everyday violence?"
I hope we can say that we had compassion, that we raised our voice, and as a generation, we were moved to make the violence stop.
And we've seen prosecutions against perpetrators of sexual violence increase by more than 1,000 percent.
There are many ways that we betray our partner: with contempt, with neglect, with indifference, with violence.
You could go to any housing project, for example, like the one that was down the street from my church, and you would walk in, and it would be like a ghost town, because the parents wouldn't allow their kids to come out and play, even in the summertime, because of the violence.
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