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>> Hello, and thank
you for joining us on
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"It Is Written Canada."
It is the Christmas season,
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a time of joy, a
time of gladness,
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and a time of giving,
and why do we think of giving
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at this time of the year?
Well, it's really two words,
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and those two
words are "God gave."
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God gave us life.
He gave us existence,
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and most of all,
He gave us His Son,
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and we think of the coming of
Jesus at this time of the year.
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It's called
Christmas after all because
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Christ came to this world,
and Jesus Himself told us,
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"It is more blessed
to give than to receive."
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And so we have with us
two very special guests
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here in the studio.
We have Steve Matthews,
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who is the executive
director of ADRA Canada.
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>> And we also have
Anita Odondi, who is the
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emergency program
director of ADRA Canada.
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So thank you very much for
joining us today, and welcome,
and we feel honored
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to have you here with us today.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you very
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much. >> So, Steve, I want to
start with you. As the executive
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director of ADRA Canada, how
did you come to ADRA, and also,
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why do you do this job?
>> Sure. Well, I worked as
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an environmental engineer. It's
my background, and as a project
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manager, and about 2 years ago,
I was contacted by one of the
members of the board
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of directors for ADRA Canada who
asked me to put my name forward
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for the executive director
position. Through a lot of
prayer and consideration,
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I did want to be able to take
the skills that I had learned
through my career and apply them
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more toward working full time
for the Lord. When this
opportunity came up,
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I thought, you know, "Here is
kind of an answer to prayer,"
and we did pray, as a family,
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about this opportunity, and here
I am. >> So what does ADRA do?
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>> ADRA is the Adventist
Development and Relief Agency.
We're the humanitarian arm
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of the Seventh-Day Adventist
Church, and we operate as
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a worldwide network. We actually
are in about -- anywhere from
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about 130 to 140 countries
around the world. It fluctuates
depending on what's going on
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in different parts of the
world. >> Mm-hmm. >> And, Anita,
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what is ADRA's mission? >>
ADRA's mission is to serve
humanity so all may live
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as God intended, and we do this
through justice, compassion, and
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love so that the people who are
underprivileged can live having
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the basic needs of life to
survive, and the people who are
more privileged have the
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opportunity to serve those in
need, to give. >> Mm-hmm. Just
like Mike said, it's all
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about we live to give,
right? >> Yes. >> Mm-hmm.
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>> And when we give, we're
so much more blessed ourselves
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through giving. >> So, tell us,
Anita, why are you a part of
ADRA Canada, and tell us some of
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the, maybe, experiences you've
had. >> I am blessed to be part
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of ADRA Canada, and I have
worked only with ADRA all my
life. 19 years ago, when I was
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about to graduate from the
Adventist University in Kenya, I
needed to do my internship,
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so I joined ADRA Uganda,
which is my home country, for my
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internship, and I worked -- I
got the opportunity to work in
the programs department, and
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we had an H.I.V./AIDS project.
When I went to the field and
spoke with the mothers
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and children who had been
infected with H.I.V. and some of
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them now had AIDS, they were
sick, ADRA was giving them hope.
ADRA was teaching them
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a healthier living style so that
their immunity can be better.
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ADRA was giving them livelihood
opportunities so that they were
able to earn income
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and not resort to negative
coping strategies of life. I
thought that this is
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what I want to do. I was touched
by the fact that there was hope
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in a hopeless situation -- >>
Hopeless situation, I mean, they
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have AIDS. They're going to die.
>> That was the thought then.
It's no longer that today,
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but yes, it was a death
sentence then. If you got AIDS,
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the next thing would be to dig
your grave basically, but ADRA
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was helping to stop that from
happening. >> So how long would
a person be expected to live now
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with AIDS? >> Right now, if you
have H.I.V., it will very rarely
transition to AIDS because AIDS
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is when the symptoms begin to
come out. H.I.V. is just having
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the virus, but you can live for
as long as anyone who is not
infected with H.I.V. will live.
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>> Wow. >> There's medication,
and there's much more research
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and solutions that have come. >>
Mm-hmm. >> So when you started
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working with these moms and
children that were infected with
H.I.V., it just touched your
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heart, and you knew this is
something that you wanted to do
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as a life work and as a
ministry. So how did you end up
in Canada from Uganda?
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>> Yes, so after -- I worked
with ADRA Uganda for about 6
years in this project,
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which was a great opportunity
because it prepared me for the
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other ADRAs that God called me
to work. From Uganda, my husband
and I moved to the Philippines
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because he had to do his
master's, and I got to work with
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ADRA Philippines. After that,
God called us to ADRA Indonesia.
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After that -- And each one was
about a year and a half to 2
years. After ADRA Indonesia,
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we went to ADRA Myanmar, and
this is where I began to work in
the emergency response
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because there was the typhoon
-- There was the typhoons
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and cyclones, and then after
Myanmar was Haiti, the
earthquake that happened in
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2010, and after Haiti, Canada.
And I say God called us to work
in these countries because
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literally each country -- We
were just informed, "Would you
guys like to come here,"
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or "We need you guys to come
here." So God has been working
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all through, and I'm blessed
that it's been with ADRA.
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>> Mm-hmm. >> So one of
the things that ADRA does is
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advocate on behalf of education
for children, and so we are
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going to watch a little video
right now, and then we'll come
back after the break and talk
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about that video.
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>> So, after looking at that
short video clip, we can see
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that ADRA's main focus, or
special focus, is on education.
So why education, Steve?
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>> Well, when you look at some
of the challenges around the
world and some of those keys
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for unlocking poverty, we see
that education is very
instrumental in that.
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So right now, there about
262 million children around the
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world that are out of school.
When you don't have an
education, and you don't
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have access to education, it
becomes very difficult to get
out of the cycle of poverty.
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So I mentioned earlier that I
spent my time -- the early part
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of my career as a project
manager, and what I did was
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build schools. I built schools
in Newfoundland, is where I
spent my career for that part.
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When we built a school,
the school would -- I remember
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building a high school, and this
high school had a day care in
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it, and at the time, I asked,
you know, "Why is a day care
designed in the school?"
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And it was actually there for
the students, so it was there
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for the young mothers that
became pregnant and still wanted
to get an education,
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and thankfully, in Canada, we
have that access. Getting
pregnant doesn't mean
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that's the end of the education
for the mother. So, 2 weeks ago
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I was in Rwanda, and while
visiting there, I met with a
teen mothers group. In this
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community, in their culture,
when a mother -- When a young
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lady becomes pregnant,
especially out of wedlock,
they're actually basically
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sent out of the community. They
were telling me about an island
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that was -- They were close to
the border with Tanzania, and
there was an island
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where they would put the mothers
off on this island when they
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become pregnant. The thing about
it is it was waters that were
also filled with crocodiles,
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and so if they were eaten
by crocodiles, that was their
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sentence. That's how things went
for them. So when I met with
these young ladies,
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there were 12 young ladies
between the ages of 15 and 18. I
asked, "How many of you
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are in school now?" And it
was -- The answer was zero.
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I asked, "How many of you, with
the fathers of your children,
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are involved in your lives?" And
the answer again was zero. And
then I said, "How many of
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you would like to go to school?"
And everyone of them put their
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hand up to say they wanted to go
to school, but they don't have
that access, and these are some
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of the barriers that, at ADRA,
we try to break down. It's to
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break down those barriers that
prevent young people from being
able to go to school.
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If every girl were able to get
an education, there would be a
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reduction of about 50 percent
of child deaths, 64 percent of
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young children being married
off, and these are 11-, 12-,
13-year-old children
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who are married off to men
sometimes 50, 60 years old. >>
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Oh, boy. >> And then also a
reduction of almost 60 percent
of teenage pregnancies.
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That's why we focus on
education. Another area is when
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we look at refugee situations.
When we look at refugees, they
are five times less likely
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to have access to education. >>
Education. >> And the specific
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things that we do for education
includes school construction and
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teacher training in the formal
sector, but we also have
refugees, as Steve said, who are
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-- their children, their needs
are in their home country
system, and they are not in the
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new country system. So there are
transition centers, for example,
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where we provide training for
the refugees, and in the refugee
camps and settlements,
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we also have informal schooling,
like child-friendly spaces or
education centers, but also,
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there are children who have --
The schools are there, but they
are not able to go to school
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because they don't have sanitary
pads, for example, the girls, so
we provide things like that,
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solar lamps because the schools
might be there, but there's no
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electricity to do the homework
or do revision for their studies
so solar lamps as well as
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rescuing girls especially,
children, but mostly girls from
child trafficking and things
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like that to make sure that they
get their education. >> So how
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can our viewers get involved? >>
I'm glad you went there because
that was the next thing
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I wanted to say, is when you
think about the video that we
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just showed, at the end of the
video, there's a link that shows
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where they can go. So if you go
to inschool.adra.org, there's a
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petition that we're trying to
get a million signatures before
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June of 2020. >> Mm-hmm. >> What
we want to do with that is then
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take those signatures and use
that to lobby world leaders to
show that it is important
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that everyone has an opportunity
to education, and we want to use
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those signatures to say, "People
within the ADRA network, those
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that support us, care about
education, and they want world
leaders to also focus and care
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on education to break down those
barriers and assure that those
262 million children that don't
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have access right now, that they
do get access." >> Thank you
very much for that,
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Steve. We're going to have
another break, and we'll be
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right back after that. い い
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So here it is, the ADRA
Gift Catalog. This is a physical
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copy. You can go online and also
look at the gift catalog. What
kind of catalog is this,
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Steve? This is a
different kind of catalog.
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This isn't a catalog like you
order toys for your kids or some
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kind of an item for yourself,
but this is actually ordering
something for someone else.
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>> Yes, I remember as a kid
looking through the catalog, and
that's how you pick the toys
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that you wanted. >>
Exactly. >> I grew up in a very
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small community in Newfoundland
where you actually -- That would
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be the way to shop for your
Christmas gifts was to look
through that catalog. >> Yeah,
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me too. >> But this is a
different catalog. This is one
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where you can actually buy gifts
to help people in other parts of
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the world. >> Yes. >> And even
here locally in Canada because
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we do have needs in Canada as
well. >> Exactly. >> So I want
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to give just an idea of what
maybe some of the viewers may --
just to kind of give
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some thoughts as to how they can
use this gift catalog. So our
family, and we've done
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this a couple times now, where
we've actually used the gift
catalog as a way to
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give gifts for family members.
So we've picked some gifts, and
they would get a little --
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an e-mail or a card that says,
"A goat has been donated in your
name to this location."
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>> That's a pretty good gift,
right? >> That's a wonderful
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idea. >> A goat, you can get
here for $100, and it can supply
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so many things. It can supply
food. I mean, it's milk, and the
manure can fertilize crops,
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and it says here that you could
actually sell the kids that come
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from it. So there are many
benefits that come from that. >>
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Absolutely. It really does --
The gifts that are in here
really do make a difference
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in the lives of the people
that receive. Another example
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of what we've done --
Unfortunately, we lost my
mother-in-law last year,
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and so at Christmastime, what
we did -- She was a gardener.
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She loved to garden. We said,
"You know, let's do something in
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memory of her." So we actually
-- We donated seeds, a fruit
tree, and garden tools in her
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memory. >> Mm-hmm. >> A couple
weeks ago, I was able to visit
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a kitchen garden where they had
fruit trees and seeds that had
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been donated from ADRA, and we
were able to see the food that
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was provided for these families
and the difference that it
makes. It actually takes a
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community where growth was
stunted, it was an area where 58
percent of the kids were stunted
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in this area of Rwanda. >>
Mm-hmm. >> And because of the
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food that they've now been able
to grow, their kids are healthy.
You know, they're flourishing.
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So when you're able to look and
say, "This is what a gift from
our gift catalog can do,"
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it just really is so much more
rewarding than some of the other
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gifts that you can give at this
time of year. >> That's very
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rewarding. >> I also think of
the hygiene items gift that is
in there. When I was in
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Venezuela the last time, a young
girl of about maybe 9, 10, she
drew a horse on a paper
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and used cardboard to put
out the frame. I have it in my
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office, very beautiful picture.
The horse has glitter and nice
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colors, and she named the horse
Miracle. >> Miracle. >> She
said, "This Miracle horse
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is ADRA because ADRA brought
a miracle to our lives. Before
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ADRA came, we didn't have
shampoo. We didn't have soap. We
didn't have toothpaste."
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And so the family was beginning
to seclude themselves from the
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community, but everyone in the
community was going through the
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same thing. ADRA brought -- is
distributing hygiene products in
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that community. >> Those
are so taken for granted here in
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Canada. >> Yes. >> I mean, we're
a prosperous country, and now
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you're giving it in a country
like Venezuela that is
suffering. >> Yes, and this,
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to them, is a miracle. >>
Mm-hmm. >> So when they have any
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limited resources, they can
focus on food and other items
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that are needed in the family
if we are providing the hygiene
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that they need. >> So was
Venezuela always like this? >>
No, Venezuela, like Canada,
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was a donor country. People
flourished. The cost of living
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was good. The income was good.
They didn't know what suffering
meant until it came to them.
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>> So you went from a prosperous
country -- This could possibly
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happen here in Canada. >> This
could happen anywhere, anywhere.
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>> So, here in Canada, we
have -- ADRA is working to be
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prepared if there is a disaster
or an emergency so that we are
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prepared to respond to that. >>
Absolutely. Similar to what we
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do around the world as ADRA,
preparation for disaster is a
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big part of being able to
respond in time and effectively
and efficiently. So ADRA is
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working with the different
churches around -- in the
various conferences of Canada to
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make sure that our volunteers
are prepared, our conferences
are prepared, and everyone knows
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what to do when that disaster
happens so that when it happens,
we go into action coordinating
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with the different bodies that
respond to disasters, including
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the government, to do what needs
to be done in a timely manner.
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>> Mm-hmm. >> That's wonderful.
>> And, Steve, is there anything
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else that ADRA is doing here in
Canada for communities here in
Canada? >> Yes, absolutely.
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We're working -- One of the
areas that we're focusing on
through ADRA Canada
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is our First Nations
communities, and it's an area
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that we really are trying to
grow our program in the First
Nations. I visited one of our
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First Nations communities
in Alberta this summer, and I
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couldn't believe that I was
still in Canada. When I visited
this community, as we went down
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the street, the pastor that
was touring through with me, he
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actually pointed, and he said,
"There was a murder in this
home. This home was a murder."
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There were actually eight
murders on one street in this
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community. We have a school
there. There's a school that's
run by the Seventh-Day Adventist
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Church on that community. It's
called Mamawai Atosketan Native
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School. In that school, we have
a feeding program, and ADRA
supports the feeding
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program in that school. >>
That's wonderful. >> It's one
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way that we're trying to make
a difference there. We're also
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working in Sioux Lookout. We've
partnered with the Ontario
Conference of Seventh-Day
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Adventists for that program, and
we've been doing some different
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programming in Sioux Lookout as
well. Sioux Lookout is a hub for
approximately 25 communities
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in the north of Ontario, and
we've been working on diabetes
prevention programs,
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nutrition programs, trying to
teach the importance of
nutrition and also trying
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to teach people how to -- even
on a very cold, relatively harsh
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climate, they can still grow
some of their own produce as
well. >> That's so good to hear.
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>> Is there a Bible text that
either one of you want to share
that is encouraging as we close
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off our program today? >> It's
difficult to pinpoint one, so
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I'm going to give a generality.
When we look through the Bible,
and we look at how many verses
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there are that actually speak to
how we deal with those that are
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poor, in poverty, those that are
dealing with injustice, there
are so many verses that --
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Actually, one search I did said
that there's about 2,000 verses
in the Bible that actually talk
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about how we deal with the poor
and those that are dealing with
injustice and having compassion
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upon those.
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At ADRA, our motto is
"Justice, compassion, love,"
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and that comes from Micah 6:8.
So that would be one that really
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sums up because when you
look at that verse, you can find
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there's a need for justice.
There is need for compassion
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and love, and that's what
we are called to as Christians.
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>> Mm-hmm. >> Amen. >>
So thank you very much,
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Anita and Steve, for coming
in today, and we're just going
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to close off quickly with a
word of prayer. Let's do that.
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Father, in heaven, we thank You
so much for blessing us to be in
a prosperous country
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like Canada. We thank you for
ADRA Canada and the work that
00:26:07.86\00:26:12.30
You are inspiring them to do and
also providing for people around
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the world. Bless us, Lord, that
we will be able to give if we
can of our prayers, of our time,
00:26:17.81\00:26:24.95
and of our resources. We thank
You for hearing and answering
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our prayer. In Jesus' name,
amen. >> Amen. >> Canada, all
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00:26:34.92\00:26:40.10
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and peace for their lives. That
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00:26:49.54\00:26:55.28
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it. >> So, friends, thank you
for joining us again, and I just
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want to leave with you the words
of Jesus where he says, "It is
written: 'Man shall not live
00:28:30.84\00:28:35.68
by bread alone, but by every
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mouth of God.'" い い
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