>> Hello, and welcome to It Is
Written Canada. You know, social
scientists and psychologists
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tell us that we are happiest
when we have the opportunity to
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serve others. >> And that's
Biblical, too. Ephesians 2 verse
10 says that we are "created in
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Christ Jesus for good works". So
we are created to do good works.
>> Yeah, actually, God's design
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for you and for me is that we
help others. And so when I think
of that, I think of ADRA Canada
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and how they help people, not
just here in Canada, but
throughout the world. And so
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before we talk to our guests
today, we're going to look at
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this message. In
remote, rural areas of Africa
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and Southeast Asia, many people
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have lived their entire lives
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never having visited a doctor
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or healthcare professional.
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With clinics and hospitals being
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so far from the village, the
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cost for transportation and fees
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for healthcare were considered
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too great. As a
result, mortality
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statistics were high, especially
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for mothers, babies, and
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children under 5.
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Through the EBRACE project, ADRA
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Canada, in partnership with
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Global Affairs Canada, is
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bringing important health
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messages to women of
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reproductive age, living in
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remote regions of Rwanda,
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Myanmar, Cambodia, and the
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Philippines.
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EMBRACE is partnering with local
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health systems to make
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improvements in prenatal care.
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A big emphasis of the program
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is the communicate the
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importance of prenatal visits
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to a doctor, nurse, or midwife.
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If transportation costs are an
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issue, they are covered.
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With regular visits to the
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clinic, women can be assessed
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and monitored for any potential
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problems with the pregnancy.
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If complications are anticipated
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patients can be quickly referred
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to hospitals for specialized
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care, possibly saving the life
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of mother and baby.
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Coming into the clinic also
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gives healthcare workers a
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chance to do further education,
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emphasizing the importance of
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a nutritious diet and healthy
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living during pregnancy.
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Once they understand the
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importance of regular prenatal
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visits, women are making the
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trip to the clinic.
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Wherever this practice has
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increased, mortality rates have
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steadily dropped.
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We invite you to join ADRA
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Canada and the government of
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Canada in building awareness
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of this important work.
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Visit heartformaternalhealth.ca
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today.
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>> So, today we are honoured to
have two guests with us. We have
Steve Matthews who is
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the Executive Director of
ADRA Canada. >> And we also have
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Annalyn Bruce who's the
Development Program Director for
ADRA Canada. Welcome, Analynn
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and Steve. >> Thank you very
much. >> Yeah, and, Steve, so
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you're the Executive Director.
Tell us about ADRA Canada
because I had it wrong. I
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thought that ADRA stood for
Adventist Disaster and Relief
Agency and it's not. You told me
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something different. Tell us
what ADRA stands for. >> And
you're definitely not
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the first person that I've
encountered that's had that
understanding. So ADRA stands
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for the Adventist Development
and Relief Agency. >> Ok.
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>> So, development is what we're
going to be talking about in
this episode today. And Annalyn
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being the director for
development program. We are the
official humanitarian arm of
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the Seventh-day Adventist
Church. We work world wide in
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approximately 130 countries
around the world. So we do have
quite a reach. Our office in
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Canada supported programs in 26
different countries around the
world last year alone. And we
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provided direct support to over
814 thousand people. >> Wow, so
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you're meeting people's needs in
Canada, throughout the world,
and just reaching where people
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need help. So, yeah. Analynn,
tell us about your side, from
development. >> Yeah, as Steve
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mentioned, so I look after the
development portfolio of ADRA
Canada so another collegue of
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mine looks after the "R", the
Relief portion of ADRA. So, what
does that really mean? So, I
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think in very simple terms: the
"development" is looking at
really helping people to learn
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how to fish, while the "R" side,
the relief or emergency side of
things is like giving them fish.
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So I think that's the most basic
distinction between the work
that we do at ADRA.
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>> That's a good explanation. So
you're there before they get --
you don't want them to
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get into trouble. >> Exactly.
>> You don't want them to get
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to the place where they need
relief. You want them to be able
to feed themselves and to be
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self-sustaining. >> Exactly,
yeah. We don't want things to
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escalate, that it would turn
into an emergency. So we're
there to really strengthen them
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and to make sure that even in
the poorest communities where we
usually are, for them to
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recognize that they have
intrinsic capacities and to
build the confidence in what
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they can do themselves and not
just to rely on external
assistance. Which is usually the
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case once you get into emergency
programming where things have
really been turned upside down
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and you have to get help from
outside in order to bounce back.
>> So, Annalyn, we just learned
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about the EMBRACE project or the
EMBRACE program. Can you tell us
what EMBRACE stands for? >> Ok,
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sure. The EMBRACE project stands
for enhancing mothers, children,
and newborn health in remote
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areas through healthcare and
community engagement. I know
it's a mouthfull, but -- >> That
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is a mouthful, yeah. >> Actually
we're there to make sure that
less children die and less
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mothers die. So, in a nutshell
that's what we're trying to do.
>> Ok, tell us some experiences,
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perhaps, that you've had with
the EMBRACE program. >> Yeah,
there has been a number
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of very uplifting experiences
that we've had with EMBRACE,
especially at this point. We're
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looking at wrapping up the
project. It's going to end by
the middle of this year and
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we're seeing success of the
program and particularly we're
looking at the savings program
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that is happening which is a
component of EMBRACE. So what's
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happening is that we recognize
that health has many, many
factors that could influence it
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so we're looking at -- ok, if
you have this many factors that
you're looking at, what's the
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best way to address this. So our
women have said that it's
actually livelihoods that will
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help us to overcome challenges
that we have in health and other
aspects of life. So what we've
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done is we've helped them come
up with a savings and loans
scheme -- a community-based
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savings and loan program where
they themselves are actually
doing the saving without any
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seed money coming from us, but
from the very small resources
that they have they are taught
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the discipline of saving and how
to budget and many other things
that come with financial
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management. And it's amazing how
really that has expanded to not
just healthcare but to other
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positive components. So, in in
particular, there's a number of
stories that we could share
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with you and I think that Steve
can talk about a very, very
successful situation in Rwanda.
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>> Yes, there's one lady that I
met who -- she was an
entrepreneur. She had been
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identified as part of the
community that we were working
in as someone who had those
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entrepreneurial skills. When we
met her, she had a roadside
data-selling system.
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It was a very small hut on the
side of the road, but -- >> So,
for selling time for
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cell phones. >> Exactly. So,
unlike in Canada where you buy a
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mobile data plan and your phone
automatically gets loaded with
your data every month, you
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actually have to go and purchase
data as your data runs down. So
at her roadside stand
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she would earn about 20 thousand
Rwandan franc. >> Sounds like a
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lot of money. >> Yeah, it sounds
like a lot of money. The
exchange rate is a little bit
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better than one per thousand
when it comes to US dollars, so
really it works out to be 20 US
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dollars a month is what she was
making. >> Twenty dollars a
month? >> Yes, so --
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>> And she was living off of
that. >> She was living off of
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that with her two children. When
we met her, she expressed
interest in wanting to do more,
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wanting to start a new business.
In this area, the chickens would
come in from Kigali. So Kigali
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is about an hour and a half to
two-hour drive from this
location. That's where they
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would bring the chicks in and
sell them to -- that's their
source of protein and eggs and
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that sort of thing in the
community. She set up -- we put
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her in contact with the supplier
so she would be the local
distributer. She built an
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incubator and now she's getting
a thousand chicks per month. Out
of that thousand chicks,
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she is now able to make an
income of 650 thousand Rwandan
franc per month, so now
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650 US dollars. Well, when you
think about if your income --
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>> Was 20 dollars a month
up to 600 -- >> Went up by over
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thirty-fold in ten months.
That's a pretty good increase on
your income. >> So she's pretty
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happy about the chicken
industry. I mean, she was into
cell phones before, but now it's
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the chicken industry -- >> Yeah,
the chicken industry is doing
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well for her. So she gets the
chicks out about two days old
and she raises them to 30 days.
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Then she sells them in the
community at a profit. And
that's how it works, but the
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nice part about it is that she
has hired three of her
neighbours to work for her. So
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now they make 50 thousand
Rwandan franc per month. >>
That's like 500 dollars? >>
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Fifty. Fifty dollars. Fifty US a
month. But when you think about
it, she was running her own
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business making 20 and now
they're making 50 and working
for her. So when we visited her,
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she had built an expansion on
her house already. Ten months,
she had already built an
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expansion on her house, it was
getting more modern, but now the
nice part about it is she's also
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looking to expand the business.
So she's looking to build
another incubator on her
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property so it was in
construction when we were there
to double the business. And then
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she was going to hire three more
people as well. So she'll have
six people working for her in
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this very rural area and making
1.3 million Rwandan franc per
month so it works out to
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13 hundred US dollars per month.
So in that community, in a
country where if you're making
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two thousand US a year, you're
doing pretty good. If you're
making 13 hundred a
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month, you're doing quite well.
>> So, yeah they -- >> I think
it's so amazing that
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she's given job opportunities to
six other people, six other
women. You know, and lifting
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them up and encouraging them and
giving them an income and
helping them with their health
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and also savings which they
never had before. >> And we find
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this story and many other
stories that we don't have time
to talk about here --
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particularly inspiring because
while we know that this is a
project, it has a beginning and
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it has an end, yet the impact is
going to stay far beyond the end
of the project. It's there. It's
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there to stay and not only --
it's not contained within the
project areas. We've had many
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reports and we've actually seen
it even in our monitoring trips
that this is being taken up by
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other communities outside of the
project area because they see
the good things that it's giving
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to those who are directly
involved in the project. So even
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on their own it's organically
growing, that they're doing it
themselves outside of the
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project initiative. So we feel
that this is really something
that we should celebrate about
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because it's really something
that outlives the project. >>
Right. So your development
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program is making people
independent and giving them a
lot of confidence that they can
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go forward. That they're not
just dependent upon other people
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to take care of them. >> Yeah,
and you speak about confidence;
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I think that's actually one of
the key issues that we're
feeling that actually makes a
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difference because if you feel
it's in your head, if you know
that I can do this and I just
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need to do my part, and, you
know, everything will fall
nicely together. Because if you
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come with an attitude of defeat
right from the start, you don't
have self-esteem, you don't have
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confidence, you are done. I
think no matter how well
designed the project is,
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if you don't have that belief
and confidence in yourself,
nothing's going to happen.
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>> So something else that you
do, also, is to help people to
-- within their marriages.
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That you have a program that
helps people see that there's
gender equalities, I guess, that
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will encourage their marriages.
And so you showed me how you're
doing that and so I'd
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like to give the viewers an
opportunity to see that program.
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>> So, Steve, we take, in
Canada, gender equality as just
for granted that men can do
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what is "traditional" women's
work and women traditional men's
work. And so how are you
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finding that as you're teaching
that in countries like the
Philippines, Rwanda, other
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places in the world? Is it
helping them? >> Absolutely. One
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thing that I keep getting are
stories about how the men will
say, "My marriage is happier now
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because I've taken in some of
these things from what we've
learned and embraced".
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So we have men's groups set up
in many of the communities that
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we're working in. The nice part
about the men's group is, you
know, the men come together and
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it's kind of just getting a
group of guys together to have a
chat about some things, but
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we're teaching them different
roles and responsibilites and
how they can help out around the
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house, that they can have a role
in raising the children rather
than than just going out to
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work. Many of the areas that we
work in, as well, the men -- the
traditional thing to do would be
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to go out and help in the fields
for a couple hours with the wife
in the morning and then they
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go drinking for the rest of the
day. So the challenge with that
is not only are they not being
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of much help around the house,
there's violence in the home,
they're spending all the money
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that could be spent on food on
drinking. So now what we have is
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malnourishment and the kids
aren't getting the food they
need because Dad just drank all
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the money away. So we're
teaching the benefits of not
doing that, the benefits
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of why you need to have a good,
healthy, balanced diet, why the
woman should have some
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help and say in where the money
is being spent and the
importance of making sure that
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the man helps with the
livelihood, providing for the
family. So there's a lot of
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different aspects about that,
but one thing I really like
about the men's groups is that
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now the men are going out and
telling people who aren't direct
beneficiaries of our projects
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about the benefits in their
lives and they're bringing in
other guys that we didn't target
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as part of our project. . So
that kind of goes to that
sustainability piece again.
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And Analynn mentioned about
teaching how to fish, well, this
is a similar concept where when
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we leave, that's what we always
aim for, when we leave, the
benefits don't stop. That's
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what we look for in projects. >>
So this isn't just theoretically
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teaching them about gender
equality, this is is living it.
So they're living it in their
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lives and they're finding
they're happier -- >>
Absolutely. >> When they do
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that. >> I had one gentleman, he
stood up with his wife and he
was smiling, he said, "My life
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at home is so much better. My
wife is happier" and then he's
saying, "We even go to
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church now, we're happy that
we're part of a church
community, my family's happier,
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I no longer lash out at my wife"
and these sorts of stories are
just very good to hear, very
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positive. >> Wow, that is
encouraging. >> And also so good
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for the children to see Mommy
and Daddy working together and
sharing, you know, the different
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tasks and they can all work
together as a team. They can
teach their children how to
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work, how to do chores, you
know, so it's not just little
boys do this, little girls do
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that, but they're working
together as a family team. >>
Amazing, amazing. You know,
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the scriptures say that two are
better than one, right? They
have a greater reward for
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their labour. And so we work
together, we have this synergy
that occurs there. Yeah.
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So any other experiences that
you've had along these lines in
other areas of the world or
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other communities where you're
helping? >> Yeah, one of the
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things that we've seen, really,
as I said earlier, EMBRACE is
all about, you know, making sure
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that less mothers die and less
children die and we've had
first-hand experiences as to how
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exactly EMBRACE has contributed
to that and I think Steve can
share with you a recent
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experience that he encountered.
>> Yeah, we do focus our
projects, especially for this
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project, we looked at what are
some of the most malnourished
areas in the countries we're
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working in. So in Philippines,
for example, I didn't know this
until recently, I only joined
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ADRA a little less than two
years ago, and coming in finding
out that the Philippines is the
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11th most malnourished country
in the world really shocked me
to hear that. We pick areas
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where, even though it's in the
11th most malnourished country,
we also pick the most
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malnourished parts of that
country. And we do the same
thing in Rwanda. There was a
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lady I met in Rwanda. Her
name was Godence. She had eight
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children and when we found her
she was virtually homeless. She
was kind of bouncing around from
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place to place and trying to
survive. She didn't have any
food really and her kids were
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really significantly
malnourished. She had twins. One
of the twins was born already
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small and the twin wasn't doing
very well. And she told us that
"If ADRA hadn't come in my life
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when you did, my child would be
dead". So to stand there and
look in the face of a healthy,
00:20:30.96\00:20:38.83
well-nourished child, knowing
that if it wasn't for the work
that your organization is doing,
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that child would be dead, it is
a very, very touching emotion to
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have. >> Absolutely. So we don't
think of, yeah, we don't think
of that kind of an experience
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here in Canada, people, you
know, we would die if we didn't
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have enough food. We do have
plenty. We kind of hit the
genetic lottery in being born
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here and living in this wealth
and abundance. But the blessing
that you experience by going and
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helping these people, that is
a wonderful blessing. >> And for
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this lady, what we did is we
helped -- we worked with the
local government to find a piece
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of land for her so now she has a
piece of land. So she's growing
her own food. So we're not
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giving her food. At first, when
we found the children we put
them on an emergency nourishent
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diet to give them really rich,
nourished foods to get the child
back to a healthy status, but
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now we're teaching them how to
grow -- they have a kitchen
garden which is all around her
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house with different varieties
of of vegetables and trees and
fruits and these sorts of
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things. She has a cow, has a
goat, all things that came from
the EMBRACE project. So you have
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that variety and -- >> She can
take care of herself. So it's
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self-sustaining. >> Absolutely.
We provided a water source and
also provided a latrine for her,
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as well, so really helped
to put them on a good footing.
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>> So, scripture: how does that
help you personally? What do you
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get from scripture that helps
you? God's word, you know, when
we feed on God's word, it feeds
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us. How does it feed you? >>
There are so many scriptures
that teach us about how we're
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supposed to deal with the
less-fortunate, how we're
supposed to approach injustice
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in the world. So I do have one
that I'm going to read here and
it's from Proverbs chapter 22
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verse 9. It says, "The generous
will themselves be blessed for
they share their food with the
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poor". I think that's such an
important thing. When we have --
00:22:47.50\00:22:51.30
when we're so fortunate to have
so much, why would we want to
hoard all of that for ourselves?
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Why not share it with those who
are less fortunate? >> Right,
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right. So we can't outgive God.
He just keeps giving and giving
and giving and as He gives, we
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give to others. There's this
beautiful verse that I looked
at, it's in II Corinthians
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chapter 9 and verse 8 and it
says that "God is able to bless
you abundantly" and now look at
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how much He gives to us: He
says, "So that in all things, at
all times, having all that you
00:23:18.19\00:23:25.73
need", look at all the "all's",
"you will abound in every good
work". So God just gives us all
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that we need so that we can do
good works for others. >>
Absolutely. Amazing.
00:23:31.21\00:23:36.41
>> And then when we do good
works and we give, we ourselves
are blessed and we feel so much
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happier when we live to give. >>
True. >> And I think one of the
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principles/ideas behind this is
to have our eyes open, really,
to have our eyes open to
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what are the needs. What are the
needs in the world around us and
00:23:54.83\00:23:58.47
then what are the needs in the
bigger picture. And that's what
ADRA has an oportunity, the
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priviledge of being able to do.
And so we're going to listen to
a song called "Open Our Eyes
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that I May See". い Open my eyes
that I may see い Glimpses of
truth Thou hast い for me
00:24:13.31\00:24:22.12
い Place in my hands the い
the wonderful key い That shall
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unclasp and set い me free い
Silently now I wait for Thee い
Ready, my God, Thy will
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い to see い Open my eyes,
illumine me い Spirit divine
00:24:40.44\00:24:52.02
い Open my ears that I may hear
い Voices of truth Thou sendest
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い clear い And while the
wave-notes い fall on my ear い
Everything false will
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い disappear い Silently now I
wait for Thee い Ready, my God,
00:25:08.10\00:25:19.48
Thy will い to see い Open
my ears, illumine me い Spirit
00:25:19.48\00:25:31.59
divine い Open my mouth and let
い me bear い Gladly the warm
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truth い everywhere い Open
my heart and let い me prepare
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い Love with Thy children い
thus to share い Silently now I
00:25:45.07\00:25:55.82
wait for Thee い Ready, my God,
Thy will い to see い Open my
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heart, illumine
me い Spirit divine
00:26:05.23\00:26:11.47
>> So God wants to open our eyes
so that we can see glimpses of
truth that He has for us.
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So, Analynn, we gave Steve a
chance to share with us a
favourite verse from the Bible,
00:26:19.51\00:26:24.15
from the Word of Truth, can you
share a favourite verse from the
00:26:24.15\00:26:29.25
Word of God? >> Yes, yeah. Every
now and then I would really try
to check myself as to what's my
00:26:29.25\00:26:34.36
motivation for working at ADRA.
And I'd like to share with you a
Bible verse in I Corinthians 13
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verse 3 where it says, "If I
give all I have to the poor and
give over my body for
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hardship, but I have no love,
it means nothing". >> And it is
00:26:48.74\00:26:55.11
really a work of love. >> Yes.
So definitely it's not just good
works but what is it
00:26:55.11\00:26:59.68
that is prompting you, driving
you to do good works. So God is
calling us to higher order
00:26:59.68\00:27:05.25
where we should be motivated by
love in doing good works. >> And
that's what ADRA's all
00:27:05.25\00:27:09.56
about, really. >> And if you
look at the purpose of ADRA, it
00:27:09.56\00:27:14.23
really is that our world would
be somewhere where we all may
live as God intended. And so
00:27:14.23\00:27:19.70
I've brought a book today about
the founder of ADRA Canada. So
this tells about how ADRA
00:27:19.70\00:27:26.61
Canada became. And it's called
Faith to Change the World. It's
about our founder, John
00:27:26.61\00:27:32.28
Howard. And John wanted to see a
world where people would live as
God intended. So, if your
00:27:32.28\00:27:40.96
viewers are interested in
learning more about ADRA, or
more stories, there's plenty
00:27:40.96\00:27:45.73
of stories in here along the
lines of the ones we had told
00:27:45.73\00:27:49.10
here today. I'd like to invite
-- >> Yeah. So this is a free
offer that we're making
00:27:49.10\00:27:56.24
available and the information is
on the screen if you're
interested in getting this book
00:27:56.24\00:28:01.01
by John Howard, he's the founder
of ADRA Canada. And stories of
faith to change the world and
00:28:01.01\00:28:09.28
we've been sharing some stories
from ADRA Canada and he's just
filled with all kinds of stories
00:28:09.28\00:28:14.59
about how God led him and how he
has led the work of ADRA Canada.
So, thank you very much for
00:28:14.59\00:28:21.13
coming in, Steve. Thank you for
making this offer available for
00:28:21.13\00:28:25.53
our viewers. And thank you,
Analynn, for sharing your
stories and your experiences.
00:28:25.53\00:28:30.57
>> Thank you for having us. >>
Thank you very much. >> So,
friends, we just want to
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leave you with the words of
Jesus once again where He says
that, "It is written, man shall
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not live by bread alone but by
by every word that proceeds out
of the mouth of God".
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