励志英文：The power of Education

This is such an exciting day for us, because it marks the beginning of a new era in my home country Colombia. Most of you may know me as an artist, as an entertainer, and that's indeed my calling and what I've been doing since I was 13 years old.

今天，是一个激动人心的日子，因为它代表着，我的家乡哥伦比亚，进入了一个新的阶段。你们大多数人可能知道，我是个艺术家或者艺人。没错，我从13岁就开始梦想成为一个艺术家，我实现了梦想，并且一直在这条道路上努力着。

But I never would have imagined when I started out that my work as an artist would end up being the vehicle for me to serve my greater purpose in life of working towards eradicating poverty through the power of Education.

但是，我从来没有想过，我的艺术家事业，会帮助我实现更伟大的人生梦想，那就是，我想通过教育的力量来消除贫困。

As a Colombian citizen, inequality as a concept that sadly one becomes very familiar with at a very young age. It's a country like many others in Latin America where a few have a lot. A lot have almost nothing and where if you're born poor, you will almost certainly die poor. 

不幸的是，作为一个哥伦比亚公民，我从很小就懂得了什么是不公平。哥伦比亚，和其他很多拉丁美洲国家一样，是一个贫富不均的国家。在哥伦比亚，一小部分人，掌握着巨额的财富，而很多人却几乎一无所有。在这里，如果你出身贫困，那你一辈子都会穷困潦倒。

Where people don't access equal opportunities, and because of that generation after generation, after generation live trapped in the same vicious cycle fed by prejudice and inaction.

在这里，因为偏见和不作为，人们得到的机会是不平等的，一代又一代，就这样不断恶性循环。

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