Name: 改變需要什麼｜傑奎琳-諾沃格拉茨。 (What it takes to make change | Jacqueline Novogratz)
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T19:07:14.000Z
Duration: 14 min 32 s

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A few years ago, I found myself in Kigali, Rwanda

幾年前，我發現自己在盧旺達的基加利。

presenting a plan to bring off-grid solar electricity

As I waited to speak to the president and his ministers,

當我等待著與總統和他的部長們交談時。

I thought about how I'd arrived in that same place 30 years before.

我想到了30年前我是如何來到那個地方的。

A 25-year-old who left her career in banking

一個25歲的女孩離開了她在銀行的職業生涯

to cofound the nation's first microfinance bank

And that happened just a few months after women had gained the right

而這一切發生在婦女獲得權利之後的幾個月。

to open a bank account without their husband's signature.

在沒有丈夫簽字的情況下開立銀行賬戶；

One of the first women parliamentarians in the country,

but soon after we'd established the bank,

Felicula was killed in a mysterious hit-and-run accident.

費利庫拉在一次神祕的肇事逃逸事故中喪生。

Some associated her death to a policy she had sponsored

有些人認為她的死與她贊助的一份保單有關

or the practice of paying a man for the hand of his daughter in marriage.

when I thought about all the work so many had done,

當我想到這麼多人所做的工作。

"I'm sorry, would you tell me who you are again?"

"對不起，你能不能再告訴我你是誰？"

and I'm the deputy governor of Rwanda's National Bank."

而我是盧旺達國家銀行的副行長。"

If you had told me when we were just getting started

如果你在我們剛開始的時候告訴我

a young woman will go on to help lead her nation's financial sector,

一個年輕的女人將繼續幫助上司她的國家的金融部門。

And I understood that I was back in that same place

我明白，我又回到了那個地方。

to continue work Felicula had started but could not complete in her lifetime.

繼續費利庫拉已經開始但在有生之年無法完成的工作。

to dreams so big I might not complete them in mine.

夢想如此之大，我可能無法在我的夢想中完成。

That night I decided to write a letter to the next generation

那天晚上我決定給下一代寫一封信。

because so many have passed on their wisdom and knowledge to me,

因為有很多人把他們的智慧和知識傳授給我。

because I feel a growing sense of urgency

that I might not finish the work I came to do,

to everyone who wants to create change in this world

給每一個想在這個世界上創造改變的人。

They are crying urgently for wholesale change

and the cruel inequality that has left us more divided

和殘酷的不平等，使我們更加四分五裂

並比我一生中任何時候都要分裂。

I'm a builder, so I started by focusing on technical fixes,

我是一名建築工人，所以我一開始就專注於技術上的修復。

我們需要的不僅僅是系統的轉變。

Plato wrote that a country cultivates what it honors.

柏拉圖寫道，一個國家修煉的是它所尊敬的東西。

For too long, we have defined success based on money, power and fame.

長期以來，我們對成功的定義都是基於金錢、權力和名聲。

Now we have to start the hard, long work of moral revolution.

現在，我們要開始艱苦而漫長的道德革命工作。

By that I mean putting our shared humanity

and the sustainability of the earth at the center of our systems,

並將地球的可持續發展作為我們系統的中心。

What if each of us gave more to the world than we took from it?

如果我們每個人對這個世界的付出比我們從它那裡得到的更多呢？

Now cynics might say that sounds too idealistic,

現在憤青們可能會說，這聽起來太理想化了。

And though I've learned the folly of unbridled optimism,

雖然我已經知道了無比樂觀的愚蠢。

I stand with those who hold to hard-edged hope.

我和那些堅持硬性希望的人站在一起。

The entrepreneurs and change agents with whom my team and I have worked

我和我的團隊與之合作的企業家和變革者。

have impacted more than 300 million low-income people,

and sometimes reshaped entire sectors to include the poor.

有時還對整個部門進行改造，將窮人納入其中。

But you can't really talk about moral revolution

但是，你不能真的談論道德革命。

without grounding it in practicality and meaning,

and that requires an entirely new set of operating principles.

而這需要一套全新的操作原則。

Too often we use the lens only of our own imagination,

我們常常只用自己想象的鏡頭。

for people whose lives are completely different from our own.

為那些生活與我們完全不同的人。

Moral imagination starts by seeing others as equal to ourselves,

道德想象力首先要把別人和自己看成是平等的。

不在我們之上，也不在我們之下。

It requires immersing in the lives of others,

understanding the structures that get in their way

and being honest about where they might be holding themselves back.

並坦誠自己可能會在哪些方面拖累自己。

That requires deep listening from a place of inquiry,

這就需要從探究的角度進行深入的傾聽。

Several years ago I sat with a group of women weavers

幾年前，我和一群紡織女工坐在一起。

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