Building Maison Shalom | Marguerite Barankitse | TEDxWarwick

Marguerite takes to the TEDxWarwick stage to tell the story of how she came to start Maison Shalom, which aims to protect and promote children’s rights in order to create a new generation that is free of violence. Marguerite Barankitse — often hailed as the Angel of Burundi — is a Burundian humanitarian who founded Maison Shalom, an organisation that adopts and cares for tens of thousands of Hutu and Tutsi orphans in the impoverished east African state after narrowly escaping slaughter in the Burundian genocide in 1993. Marguerite has been awarded the $1.1m Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, the Prize for Conflict Prevention by former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, and the UNESCO prize, amongst many others. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx