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hi everyone and we've got a special

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guest here today this is Renoir uh we've

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got a short interview and so let's start

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ven okay hello everyone uh tell me a bit

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about

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yourself okay so yes my name is benoa

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I'm French I've already spent 14 weeks

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in

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mingua because yes I needed to refresh

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my English

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um to expand my vocabulary and to speak

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speak speak speak more and more and yes

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before coming here I've already

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completed my

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University I studied geography and

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ecology as part of an initial course and

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um environmental economics in developing

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countries as part of a vocational course

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okay and then I had the opportunity to

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work uh in the Central African

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Republic yes at in a cont that was much

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more uh peaceful than the current one uh

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I worked in friends but despite the work

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was very interesting my heart wasn't in

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it and I decided to go back to Africa

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and I worked in a in the Democratic

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Republic of Congo okay so tell me what

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kind of projects are really close to

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your

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heart uh actually I would say that in my

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heart of earths what what I really like

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is working on natural resources

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management um issues such as the def

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forestation such as um wildlife

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management but project that that

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involves the local communities this is

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something that is really important for

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me because uh with this kind of approach

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we can we can um we can design a

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sustainable and practical solution

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because people are involved in the

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decision making proc process and I've

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been pretty lucky so far because I

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already work for for two project that

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put at the hurt of the concerns the

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local communities so it was uh there

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were project after my own hurt okay so

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tell me you're from France you're going

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into Africa there must be challenges uh

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communicating your ideas how do you go

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in into another country and say this is

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my idea this is what you should do how

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do you overcome these

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challenges okay this is very important

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to to always remain openminded and

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before um giving solution to listen to

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people and as long as you listen to

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their concern as long as you show them

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that you have their best interest at at

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hurts then I would say that a confident

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relationship settling you can have a h

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word with them and the word the the work

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becomes uh really

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exciting

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okay okay venir tell me this is your

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past experience what's close to your

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heart what's on the

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horizon um actually um over the last few

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decades um we have seen that at an

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international level the

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stakeholders are ch hurt and now on the

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International Convention um recognize

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the the identity and the role of the

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local communities as part of Natural

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Resources management issues and although

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the situation on the ground is still far

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from perfect we I think that we can't

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ignore the progress that have been

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realized so far and this should be a

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source of inspiration for people who

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work on this topic

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so thank you very much ben for coming in

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um thank you and good luck for the

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future thank you and good luck everyone

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for this lesson thank you hi guys uh you

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heard there an interview between uh

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benir uh a preview student and myself uh

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we were talking about various issues

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that uh he's involved with things that

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he's interested in uh particularly uh

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wildlife and deforestation

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ation uh he used several Expressions all

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involving the word

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heart um one of them was to be close to

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your heart he was talking about issues

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that were important to him something

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that would really meant something uh we

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can say that it's something that's close

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to your

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heart um an issue or

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concern uh in my heart of hearts uh we

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use this expression to talk about

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something um you know when you're being

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completely honest something you maybe

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even have to admit to

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yourself um in my heart of hearts I know

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that this relationship is not right for

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me something really deep you know maybe

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you don't say it but you know it in your

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heart um to have someone's best

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interests at

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heart um if I think about um myself and

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a student maybe the relationship as a

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teacher um I always have my students

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best interests at heart the things that

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they want this is what I want to give

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them so it's to have someone's best um

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as it said interests or desires at the

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heart or at the core the center of of

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what you're

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doing um he said at one point uh my

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heart wasn't in it if if you give 100%

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of yourself your heart is in it if you

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are doing something but you don't feel

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that real energy that love from within

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you can say my heart wasn't in

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it and finally he used uh the idiom or

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the expression to have a heart to

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heart uh in in in beno's case he was

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talking about uh when he goes to Africa

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and he sits down and he really gets to

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know the people uh that he's working

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with and he said we sit down and have a

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heart to

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heart um it's when you really express

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your true emotions and your true

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feelings with another person and you

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have that same respect back it's vice

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versa you give your heart they give

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theirs you sit down and you have a

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really true deep

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conversation um so that's all our

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Expressions today that you saw in the

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the interview with benoir I'd like to

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take this opportunity to thank him again

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for uh writing the uh script together um

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again see you soon bye