00:00The fact that these are issues that we read about every day and the fact that they are real issues
00:05that people are dealing with every day is exciting to me and makes me want to tell these stories.
00:09I'm Mariska Hargitay and I'm speaking to you today as the president and the founder of the Joyful Heart Foundation.
00:23The foundation called the Joyful Heart Foundation for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
00:30And our mission is to heal, educate and empower survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse.
01:00These lives derailed the way that lives go off track.
01:06These are not kids sitting on a shelf.
01:09These are people's lives sitting on a shelf, getting derailed, children getting derailed of what is this life supposed to
01:19be.
01:19I was on this track.
01:21I can't even make sense of what's happened to me.
01:25And we have been letting perpetrators go by not testing these kids and saying we don't care about this issue.
01:33So, as I said earlier to you, these are scary issues that people have turned away from because they're frightening.
01:39But this is about, this is about talking about it, this is about a revolution, this is about facing these
01:45issues head on.
