Marshall Islands
are simply beautiful,
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stunning, really,
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750,000 square miles of
deep blue Pacific Ocean.
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But 1225 islands
comprise the whole area,
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was actually 29 atolls.
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An atoll is an
area that has a lagoon.
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But all the other islands
like you see in the distance
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are dotted everywhere.
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Unique, absolutely
stunning and beautiful.
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I've heard from so many
people about the good work
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the wellness center is
doing in the neighborhoods.
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I wanted to check
it out for myself.
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So let's see what's going on.
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Tanner, is this
pretty typical neighborhood?
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Yes, it is.
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Jim, this is a very
typical neighborhood
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you'll see here on
Majuro with families
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being pretty
close knit, you know.
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They'll actually have
most of the family members,
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you know, cousins, aunts,
uncles in their little area.
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Yeah. Okay.
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And, kind of, is
this a little typical
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of the kind of a
style or the quality of home
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in the area too?
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It is actually.
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You usually see
a lot of laundry,
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of course, like you
see here hanging outside.
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A lot of times, they'll
have the cooking done separately
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from the inside of the house
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where they'll just mainly
have a flat bed, or mattress,
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or sometimes just,
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you know, sleeping on
the dirt floor type of deal.
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Now you've been organizing teams
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and train them to go out
in neighborhoods like this?
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What are they doing?
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So this program we started
was with Ministry of Health
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here in Majuro.
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And they sent out teams
already to see patients.
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So we said, "Let's
partner up with you guys.
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And we'll send out our
team of community health workers
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to see the patients
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and teach them lifestyle change.
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And let's see if
that doesn't help them
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lower their blood sugar
and their blood pressure,
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help the wounds that
they have on their feet,
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a lot of times heal faster."
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And right now, the program
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has about four
community health workers
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that operate out
of the wellness center
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here in Majuro.
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And then we see
about 50 patients.
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So tell me the success of
this program to this point?
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Right.
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So the success so far we've seen
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at least two people like
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you see the woman
in the background here
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had a very bad
wound on her heels.
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I saw at her, it
looked absolutely terrible.
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Yeah. And this is from diabetes?
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Exactly.
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A lot of times,
diabetics can't feel
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when they get
cuts on their feet.
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It's called diabetic
neuropathy in their feet.
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So they don't feel that
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and out here
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things get
infected very quickly.
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So they got infected,
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they don't know how to treat it.
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They try maybe
traditional medicine first.
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That doesn't work.
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So a lot of times by the
time they come to the hospital,
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it's too late for
antibiotics to save the foot.
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And the doctors have
no choice but to amputate.
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Wow.
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So you're really
doing intervention
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in the neighborhoods
before it gets to that point?
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Exactly. That's
what we wanna do.
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We wanna get it
before it gets bad,
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where they have no
choice but to chop off the leg.
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The health workers we have
went through a training course
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with Secretary of
the Pacific Community
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where they were trained in
how to help manage diabetes,
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do self management
goals with the patients.
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And then each patient
gets their blood sugar checked.
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Blood pressure
checked, if they have two legs,
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they can get
walking shoes to walk.
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And then we'll also
help them find wheelchairs
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if they need wheelchairs.
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Which is a real
tough thing on this island.
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Very tough thing. Yeah.
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Very hard commodity to find.
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And we'll also
encourage them to get active
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and exercise any way they can.
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Like a lot of the
patients we see at home
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have had amputations already.
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And so, we'll give
them the exercise bands
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that they can do
and teach them how to do
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the stretching
exercises with those.
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And what we've
seen is over time,
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their health improves.
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You know, a lot of
them when we start out,
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they'll complain.
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"Oh, you know, my
body aches all the time.
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My vision is blurred.
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I'm dizzy all the time."
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And within just a few weeks,
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once they get their
blood sugar under control,
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those symptoms go away.
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Yeah, I'm just
guessing you're the nurse.
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But just by you being around
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and coming to the home
doing those regular visits,
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you're offering hope.
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And that helps them also.
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Yeah, you can see the
smile come back to their face,
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when they start feeling better,
and they have more energy now.
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And they start to see
on their machine, you know,
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"Hey, my blood sugar
was 500, and now it's 300,
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and then 200, and then 100."
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And you just see that
smile get bigger and bigger,
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you know, and it's a
real joy to see that.
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And we have that
happening all over the island
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with these people.
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Now their
sugars are coming down,
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you know, we check
A1C levels on them.
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A1C, translate that for me?
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Okay, A1C is a
blood test that checks
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how well your blood
sugar does over 90 days.
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So you and me would be about 4%,
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diabetic is usually above seven.
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So a lot of the people
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that we see here are 11, 13, 14.
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And they're
coming down to 8, 7, 6.
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Now you also go right
to the core of the problem
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and changing their diet,
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which is what originally caused
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a lot of these
problems, is that correct?
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Right.
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One of the keys to this program
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is that we come to them
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and meet them where they're at.
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And we don't bring
any food in there with us.
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We teach them how
to cook with the food
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that they have at home.
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Because if it's
not familiar to them,
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they're not going to eat it.
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So we teach them, you know,
if you're gonna eat chicken,
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for example, a lot of
people love to fry chicken,
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and they deep fry
it in a ton of oil.
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So we teach them,
"Okay, you can boil that,
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and take the
skin off the chicken,
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reduce the fat, "
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just simple
little things like that,
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that can make a
ton of difference
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in a person's diet.
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But even that is a
shocker to a lot of people
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because they like that
skin, they like all that flavor.
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So how do you
help them transition?
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One of the things we do
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is we encourage
them to start garden.
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So part of the program
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is we bring each
family to garden boxes,
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and we supply them with
the soil and the plants.
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And we make sure
that they understand,
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you know, this is theirs now,
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this is
something that they can use
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to supplement, you know,
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the high costs that you
see in the stores out here.
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When you come out
here, you're shocked
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because a
cucumber can cost you $5.
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You know, so we have
them growing easy stuff.
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Spinach, kangkong
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which is a Spinach type of deal
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where you can cut it
down and it will re-grow.
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And they use
that and we tell them,
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you know, put it into
your dish with your rice.
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Now tell me about
your future plans.
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I've got a feeling you
just don't wanna leave this
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right where it is?
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No, we don't at all.
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This is a two year
kind of pilot program
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that we're doing here.
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And we're hoping
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that in
conjunction with the hospital,
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we're looking to form
an actual home health team
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that would reach island wide,
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and then eventually
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out to the
outer islands as well.
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Now I was talking
just the other day
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with a Senator
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who as of now's
Minister of Health,
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he just had tremendous
praise for the wellness center
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and what you're
doing because he said,
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"We can't do it all."
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So that's what
you're looking for
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is these partnerships to help.
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Right.
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You have to partner with people.
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Out here, you can't
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like you said you
can't do it by yourself.
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There's no way you can do it.
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There's simply too much need.
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So we've gone and developed
over the last 10, 12 years,
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many different relationships
out here on the island,
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with NGOs
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and with
government organizations
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so that we have
those connections now
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that we can say, "Okay,
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let's all sit
down and talk about
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how we can solve
this problem together."
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Give me a five year plan
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or a dream
actually at the moment
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maybe but give me
a five year dream?
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Five Year dream
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out of this would
be that each village,
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each village
here is called watos.
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Say it again? Watos.
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Watos.
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Yeah, each village would have
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its own community health workers
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that would be in charge
of taking care of their area.
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And they would be
trained in diabetes counseling,
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basic education
on for nutrition.
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They be trained in how to
do cooking with the patients,
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and they be
kind of the overseers
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of the health
for that community.
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Now, you've
probably if you've done
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that five year kind of dream,
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how many workers
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are we talking
about to fulfill that?
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I think the early estimates
put it at about 25 at least.
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Twenty five. At least.
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I mean it's not out a reason to,
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but simply if
the money comes in.
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Exactly, funding is a problem.
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So that's, that's
one of the big things.
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You know, a lot of people say,
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"Okay, if I'm gonna do this,
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I'm not gonna do it for
free, you need to pay me."
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So we need to
pay, find a way to pay
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all these
community health workers.
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Which is understandable,
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because they put
in a lot of time.
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Absolutely understandable.
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So then you have
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another big
cost is the supplies.
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Give me an idea on the
supplies for one patient?
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For one patient typically,
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typically would
go through about,
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you know, 50 test strips,
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for blood sugar
tests each month.
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And then, you know,
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multiply that
out over the years.
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And roughly a cost?
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About $15 a bag of strips.
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So $15 a month
roughly for just that?
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Yes.
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And a normal family
here makes 30 to $50 a month.
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So they couldn't afford it
is what I'm kind of getting at.
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There's no way
they could afford it.
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No, there's no way
they could afford it.
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I mean, your minimum wage
out here is about $3 an hour,
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you have a family on
average of at least five people,
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and then one person working.
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So, if Canvasback
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and the wellness center
don't help these people,
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they're not
probably gonna be helped.
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Yeah. Wow.
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Well, I sure appreciate
all the work you're doing here.
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Thank you. Really appreciate it.
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The people in
the Marshall Islands
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are so sweet.
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They're just wonderful people.
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And we've got a lot more
to share with you about them.
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So please stay tuned.
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According to the
World Health Organization,
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depression is the leading
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I understand that
you started having
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some physical problems
while you were in school?
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Yeah, when I was in,
I think, fourth grade,
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one night I was sleeping
and then all of a sudden,
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my ears started, like hurt.
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And it was so painful
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that my mom was
working an overnight shift.
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I had to cry all the
way through her workplace.
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And then she put
some hot water under it.
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And I was able to
sleep and overcome the pain.
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But then the
next day, I started,
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I had discharge
like it was coming out.
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And then we didn't
do anything about it
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because we thought it was
just maybe it was gonna go away.
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And this
started in fourth grade?
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Yeah. In the fourth grade?
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So now this went on
for a year, then what?
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And then we went to
the hospital to check
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and that's when they
sent me to the Philippines.
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And then I stayed
there for four months.
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Four months,
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but they had it
open but they said,
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it will come back
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somewhat one
year from that time.
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You went to the doctors here.
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The doctors here
couldn't do anything,
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they sent you someplace else.
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Tell me a little
about that story?
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So every time we heard
about ENT doctors coming in,
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we would go.
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The first time I
went was with Taiwan.
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They came here, ENT,
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and I went with them
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and they wanted to
take me with them to Taiwan
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but instead they said
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I have to go to the Philippines.
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So I stayed
there for four months.
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Four months? Yes.
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I couldn't hear people talking.
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Even this short, I
couldn't even hear.
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So was just like, "What?
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Can you talk louder?"
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Now it really it
started in both ears,
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or it just it was so bad in one,
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you just couldn't hear?
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Yeah. Just the right one.
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And then they had to open it up,
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cleaned it inside, clean inside.
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And then I came back
here and it was good.
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And then another
year started coming back.
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And now I was in seventh grade.
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And then we would go
to the hospital every day
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just to find something
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that would just
give me the same.
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They would give me
prescriptions of ear drops,
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and some medicines.
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And, but still
there was nothing.
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How did you feel as a child
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with all that
going on in your life?
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It was hard.
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I mean, because
people would get mad at me
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for never hearing them.
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I mean...
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They thought you
were ignoring them.
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Yeah, they thought
I was ignoring them.
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And then I'm like, "Hey,
I can't hear, I'm sorry."
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I just can't hear.
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And then they said,
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"Then how can you talk so good?"
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'Cause you know how
some deaf couldn't hear,
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and then they
end up, can't talk."
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And I'm like, "Oh,
'cause the left one is good.
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So you have to
talk on this side of me
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because the
right one is not good."
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And they'd understand.
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Now you're in the
three or four years
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of this misery going on?
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Yes.
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How did you deal with this?
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There were people beside
me that were very supportive.
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Like, if
someone's called for me,
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and then they hear
them calling for me,
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they would, "Hey,
you have to talk louder.
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She cannot hear."
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So other people that
had to really help you
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and support you that way?
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Yes. Okay.
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And so they
wouldn't call for me,
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but they would just
come and tap my shoulder.
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How many years did this go on?
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For three years,
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because my freshman year
I met up with Canvasback,
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my mom heard about them.
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And then she gave her my name.
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And they said,
"They will come next year,
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my 10th grade
to do the surgery."
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And then I had it.
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And then they said,
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"They would come
back the next year
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of my 11th grade
to open it up again."
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So, yeah, it opened
up for the third time.
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Like you said,
third's the charm.
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Third time's a charm
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and you're
doing wonderfully now?
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Yes, yes. All right.
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How long has it been now?
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This year is
2018, three, four years.
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If you could talk
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with the people
of Canvasback again,
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what would you tell them?
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I'll say thank you, in
Marshallese Kommooltata.
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How does
everybody else respond now
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that they don't
have to help you anymore?
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They're happy for me.
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And it's like it
never happened before.
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It's good.
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When our viewers
see someone like you
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that their life has
been completely changed,
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really, almost a miracle.
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What would you tell them
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if they're thinking
about supporting the ministry?
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A lot of families
can't afford medical.
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And they can't
go to the hospital
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because they can't afford it.
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So if a donor were
to help the ministry,
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it would be a big, big thing.
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You can truly say for you.
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It's life changing. All right?
Yes, it's a very life changing.
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What's the best part of
being able to hear again?
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To be able to hear
again. To be able to hear again.
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That make sense. Yeah.
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But, yeah, the best
part is hearing every word
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from the first to the last.
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And that is not
being able to say, "What?
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Can you say it again?"
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Yeah.
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I've got a feeling,
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you smile a lot more
now than you used to smile.
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Yeah, it sounds very smiley.
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Thank you so much.
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I appreciate it.
Thank you so much too.
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There were so many times
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when Jesus found
Himself by the seaside
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teaching and
preaching and sharing about God.
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Jesus was God,
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but He came down
here to planet earth
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in human form,
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so that He might
share with people
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who God really was
because the devil had lied.
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The devil still lies
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about how Jesus
really is who God really is.
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He came down here to
die for you and for me.
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One day toward the end
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of His three and a half
years of earthly ministry,
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they captured
Him, they took Him,
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they beat Him,
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they did all
these things to Him.
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And finally He
stood before Pilate.
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Pilate was the Roman
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who held him up
before the people
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and asked
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whether he should
be crucified or not.
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But then he said a
very interesting thing.
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He looked at him and he said,
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"Behold, the man."
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Behold the man.
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I would invite you
today to behold the man.
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We behold Jesus,
the great teacher,
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who overlooking
the Sea of Galilee
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began sharing things
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that no one had
ever shared before.
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Things that change hearts
and lives, changed my life,
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maybe it changed yours.
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Behold the man.
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We see Jesus who
told the disciples
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to cast out and go to
the other side of the lake.
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Out in the middle of that
lake, He controlled the storm
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because He was the
creator of the universe.
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Peter came to Him and
said, "You know, Lord,
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they've told us to pay taxes."
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Jesus said, "Go to the sea,
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catch a fish, the first fish,
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and pull out a
coin out of his mouth,
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and use that to pay taxes."
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And that's exactly what he did.
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Seems, may be hard to
imagine, hard to believe,
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but not for the
creator of the universe.
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The disciples one time
were fishing out on the sea,
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they were casting their nets,
they'd fished all night long.
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And Jesus stood by the seashore,
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and He called out to them,
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cast your nets on the
other side of the boat.
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Well, it turned out
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that was the side
between He and the disciples.
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They cast the nets in
after a little bit of argument,
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because they were
seasoned fishermen,
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they didn't
wanna listen to Jesus.
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Cast the nets in,
the catch was huge.
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They pulled up
this mighty catch.
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Why?
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Because Jesus was the creator.
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I invite you today to
behold Jesus as the creator.
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And Jesus, we see Him
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just before the
time of the crucifixion,
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He's in the
Garden of Gethsemane.
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He stayed under a tree,
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He poured out His
heart to the Father,
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because as the God man,
He'd taken on human form,
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human life, and a
young man in His early 30s,
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He didn't want to die.
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He really didn't
want to die, says,
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"Father, please, if
this cup can pass from Me,
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let it be so."
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No word, nothing.
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"Nevertheless,
Father, not My will,
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but Your will be done."
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That happened three times,
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"Not My will, but
Your will be done."
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Finally, He was
completely resigned
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to the fact that He
would do the Father's will,
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He chose to do
the Father's will.
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He was then
captured, taken to Pilate.
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Were back to that
same Pilate that said,
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"Behold the man."
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And then they took
Him to Calvary's Cross.
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He laid down on
that cross willingly
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because that's why
He came to planet earth
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in order to die for you and me.
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Laid there as they
pounded those nails
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into His hand, into His feet.
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He was bleeding hanging there.
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He looked at the crowd,
said, "Father, forgive them.
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They don't know
what they're doing."
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Truly, they didn't,
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they were
crucifying God Himself.
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And then they took
Him, placed Him in a tomb.
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I've had the
opportunity to be in that tomb,
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to lay almost in that tomb.
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And guess what?
The tomb was empty.
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I've had the
wonderful opportunity,
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the team and I have to
film all over the world,
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many places and we
filmed pieces of Buddha here,
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pieces of Buddha there,
pieces of this one here,
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this one there.
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They're all in the
grave, but not Jesus,
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that grave is empty
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because the
Father called Him forth.
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He raised to eternal life.
00:25:14.31\00:25:16.85
What a God we serve and He said,
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"You know, this same Jesus,
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He's going to come
again in the same way.
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He's going to come
back to planet earth,
00:25:22.38\00:25:24.62
and He's going to
take those to Himself
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who committed their lives
fully and completely to Him."
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Today, behold Jesus.
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When you behold Jesus, you
see Him with your own eyes,
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He will change your life.
00:25:35.36\00:25:37.50
Can you imagine
having an ear infection
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that's so bad that
you lose your hearing?
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And having the pain
00:26:14.10\00:26:15.44
continue for
years with no relief?
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Would you want
your child or grandchild
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to suffer such an experience?
00:26:21.78\00:26:24.41
I know you wouldn't,
00:26:24.45\00:26:26.11
neither can we at
Canvasback Missions.
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That's why we've been working
in partnership with donors
00:26:29.45\00:26:32.85
to help the Mimis
of the Pacific Islands
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for years.
00:26:35.46\00:26:36.89
Reestablishing
00:26:36.93\00:26:38.26
health and
wellness is our mission.
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We subscribe to
the formula Jesus
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so plainly laid out.
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Some plant the seed,
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others water and
still others harvest.
00:26:47.74\00:26:51.37
Mimi smile is so wonderful.
00:26:51.41\00:26:54.48
Her life is so full
of joy since the surgery
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because she can hear
again, and she's pain free.
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I hope you'll join
Canvasback Missions,
00:27:02.02\00:27:04.75
and helping to bring hope,
00:27:04.79\00:27:06.96
healing and happiness
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to thousands of
Mimis in the Pacific.
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Thank you so much.
00:27:11.89\00:27:13.26
To be a part of
this exciting ministry,
00:27:24.74\00:27:26.47
write us at Canvasback Missions,
00:27:26.51\00:27:28.21
940 Adams Street, Suite R,
00:27:28.24\00:27:30.68
Benicia, California 94510.
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You can also log
on to Canvasback.org
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or call us at (707) 746-7828.
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Thank you for watching.
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Please join me again
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for another
exciting island adventure.
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Remember, Canvasback is making
an impact on hearts and lives,
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one miracle at a time.
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