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>> Hello and thank you for
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joining us on It Is Written
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Canada.
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Today we will be looking at
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the current world hunger
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crisis and share with you some
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statistics on what's actually
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happening on the ground
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because this is one of the
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worst hunger crises the world
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has ever seen.
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>> Fears of a global food
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crisis are growing and it's
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getting worse.
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Close to one billion people
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regularly go to bed hungry and
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one expert told us that soon
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these people will be living on
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one meal a week.
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>> We're gonna be focusing on
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one specific region known as
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the Turkana County in the
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country of Kenya which has an
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estimated population of
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1.4 million people.
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>> Droughts in Turkana in
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recorded history started in
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1952 and would reoccur once
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every ten years or so.
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While these were severe events
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causing the deaths of
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livestock and people and
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significant migration events,
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they would usually only last
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about one year.
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>> But beginning in 2000, the
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droughts began to last longer
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causing more hunger,
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suffering, and death of people
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and livestock.
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>> The current drought has
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lasted for five consecutive
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years.
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Almost all livestock has died
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and a few remaining goats are
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emaciated and are no longer
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producing any milk.
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Today on It Is Written Canada,
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our special guest is Steve
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Matthews who is the Executive
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Director for ADRA Canada.
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Steve, welcome to It Is
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Written Canada.
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>> Thank you so much for
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having me here today.
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>> Steve, you just came back
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from Kenya, Turkana region
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and-- but before we go there,
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let's go to the bigger picture.
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We're facing one of the worst
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or probably the worst crisis,
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food crisis, hunger crisis
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that the world has ever seen.
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Tell us about the statistics,
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let's look at the big picture,
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what's happening in the world.
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>> Yeah, the situation right
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now is very dire.
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Before COVID, we were seeing a
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steady decline in the number
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of people that were suffering
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with hunger, but what we're
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seeing now is a really drastic
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increase in the number of
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people that are struggling
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from hunger.
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About 828 million people as of
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the end of 2021 have been
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estimated to be basically
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going to bed hungry every
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night and 345 million of those
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are at a point of being
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severely food insecure so
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that's, you know, you're
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missing meals right to the
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point of severe malnutrition
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and we're seeing that
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continuing to increase.
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We've, since the end of 2021,
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we believe that the numbers
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are definitely getting worse.
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For example, in Somalia in
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August, there were 300,000
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people that were actually at
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the most extreme end of
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hunger, famine and we were
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starting to see deaths
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occurring from just basically
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hunger.
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Right now they're anticipating
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that we're just entering into
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December and they anticipate
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that number is going to be
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about 2.3 million people in
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famine conditions this month.
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So that just kinda gives an
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idea of how bad things have
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been progressing over
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time here.
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>> So 800 million going to
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bed-- that was the end of 2021
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and it's been steadily
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increasing so we're talking
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end of 2022, things are close
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to a billion people are going
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to bed hungry every night.
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[STEVE] Yeah, that's probably a
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fair estimate of where things
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are going, but it's definitely
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continuing to get worse as
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time goes by.
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[MIKE] This is serious.
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[RENÉ] So, Steve, you just got
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back from one of the hardest
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hit regions in Turkana County
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in Kenya, tell us what was your
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initial impression when you
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arrived there?
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>> Yeah, well, you're-- it's
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almost like landing in a
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desert.
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There's, you know, there are
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pockets of green where really
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resilient plants are able to
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continue, but as we were
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driving, like, everything's
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just so dry.
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We were standing in river beds
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that had been dry for
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two years.
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We, at one point as I was
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travelling with my colleague,
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Frank Spangler, we were
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saying, you know, "This would
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put you in the mind of the
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surface of Mars," you know,
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just completely barren, dry,
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rocks, just a really arid
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landscape.
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>> So you're looking out over
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this landscape, how long has
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it been since it's rained?
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>> They've had little small
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amounts of rain, but
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essentially any sizable
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amounts of rain, it's been
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about five years of continuous
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drought.
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So they normally get, they
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call it the big rains in April
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and they get the small rains
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in December, like, November,
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December, they keep missing,
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so as they come along...
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When we saw the crisis
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happening, we started to
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respond in emergency saying,
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"OK, well, when the rains come
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next season, they'll get out
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of the emergency," but we're
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continuing to get worse and
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worse and further into
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emergency as they lose their
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livestock, as plants no longer
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grow, it's just a very dire
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situation.
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>> So five years, essentially,
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without rain.
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How are they making it?
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>> Yeah, it's-- you know,
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while I was there, I had a
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look at-- they showed me what
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they eat.
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So essentially I visited two
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different regions of Turkana.
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One showed me a wild fruit
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that they survive on so the
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first location, they were,
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these small fruits, probably
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about this big, that they had
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collected, they have to travel
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quite a distance to collect
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these and not in safe
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conditions either, so the
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conditions are, you know,
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there's still bandits in the
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area, women are not safe going
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out for these long distances,
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and they go out and collect
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the fruit, they bring it back,
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but it's not edible in
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that state.
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They wouldn't even let me
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taste it, they said it's--
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they were preparing at the
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time, they said it's so bitter
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that you can't eat it the way
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that it is.
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So what they have to do first
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is boil it down, then they
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have to knock the outer shell
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off of it, then they were
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actually rolling it around in
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dirt to be able to get the
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outer shells off, then they
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boil it again, but they said
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they have to boil it for 12
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hours to get it to a point
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where it's edible, to the point
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where the bitterness is gone
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so that they can consume it.
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But that's the only source of
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food they have.
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Their goats, the few goats
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they still have are so
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malnourished that they no
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longer produce, you know, they
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don't produce milk.
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They used to use them for
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milk, cheese, those sorts of
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products, they don't have that
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anymore because they're quite
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emaciated and they don't
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produce anymore.
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So this wild fruit is the only
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source of food that they have.
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There's so much work to
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collect it that essentially
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they eat about once every
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three days is what was in this
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one region that I was in.
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While I was walking through
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one of the villages, I
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actually saw bones from dead
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animal carcasses that had not
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made it through.
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We were driving along and we
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saw a goat on the side of the
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road and you could tell, like,
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it was almost dead.
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We thought it was dead and
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then it just kind of moved its
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head a little bit, but these
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are the conditions in the area
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right now.
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>> Were you seeing hungry
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people as well?
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>> Everybody's hungry.
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As we were going there, I
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would say there's no such
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thing in that area as a person
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that's not hungry.
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They were, you know, we met
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individuals that-- one
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gentleman that we met, he has,
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he actually has two wives
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which is not uncommon in that
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area, multiple wives is fairly
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common, but his, you know,
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they had lost a child who died
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from hunger, from malnutrition,
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his wife, his oldest wife,
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she's sick now and she's very
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concerned that she doesn't
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have the strength and stamina
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to survive the sickness that
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she's dealing with.
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The whole community have lost
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children and elderly because
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of the hunger that's being
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suffered.
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There was another lady that I
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met who was sharing about her
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husband, he had passed away
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about a year prior to us
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arriving and it was, she said,
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you know, he picked up an
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infection that normally it
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wouldn't have been
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life-threatening, but because
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of the just severely
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compromised immune system,
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having no nourishment in his
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body, he succumbed to that.
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So now she's left to support
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her, two of her children and
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grandchildren as well.
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So we just see so much of that
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in this region.
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>> So, Steve, how do the
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Turkana people make a little
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bit of money in order to feed
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their families?
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>> I would say the people that
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we met, they're industrious,
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they're resilient, they work
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with the limited resources
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that they have.
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For example, one lady that we
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met, her name was Alice, I
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mentioned Alice just recently
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about-- that's the lady that
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took me to show the food, she
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also makes mats.
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So she'll weave mats together
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and she can make about two
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mats per month and she can
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earn about a thousand
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shillings per mat.
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Now a thousand shillings might
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sound a lot, but when you do
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the conversion, that's
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probably about $11 Canadian.
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She makes two of those a month
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so she can make probably about
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$22 Canadian per month which
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is needed to be used to
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purchase foods, supplies for
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the family, education,
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tuition, because education
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isn't free, they normally have
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to have uniforms and they have
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examination fees that they
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need to pay.
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So doesn't go very far when
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you need about $110 a month is
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the estimated amount to be
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able to eat properly
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in that area.
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So she works every day and
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that's what it takes for her
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to be able to do that.
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>> So Alice makes these mats,
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do people make anything else?
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>> Yeah, there's one of her
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neighbours that we visited
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makes, this is Lokamer, her
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name is, and she makes baskets
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so big baskets.
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I wanted to bring one back, I
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thought, "This would be an
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amazing laundry basket to
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bring back," but we weren't
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able to bring them back.
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We did actually buy a couple
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of them from them because, you
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know, for us going in, it's
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$10 for one of these big
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baskets.
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So what we did is we bought
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them, we left them for the
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local office to be able to use
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in the office.
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That's one of their big
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challenges is a market.
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They don't have access to a
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market so they're taking them
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to a market where, because
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these are the only things that
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really are able to earn a lot
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of income, when they go to the
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market, everybody else is
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selling them as well so the
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prices are low.
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Actually, I brought, I did
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bring-- this is a broom that
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one of the ladies made, so
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this one was gifted to me.
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So everywhere we went, they
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had gifts, they wanted to
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provide gifts to us because
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they're just so thankful for
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the help that ADRA has provided
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them so she said, "I don't have
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much, but I want you to have
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this," so this was-- so she
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makes these, this is her broom
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that she--
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Now, René, you mentioned to me
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that you've used these before
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back home as well, so...
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>> They sweep really well,
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Steve, they are amazing.
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>> You were sharing with me
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these are even better than the
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brooms that we get here so
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that was...
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>> They sure are.
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>> Yeah, so-- but this is,
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what she does, she can make
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about 15 of these per day.
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The lady's name was Alugita,
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72 years old, and she makes,
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she'll make about 60 of these
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a week and then she walks into
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the market to take them in.
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She's supporting her children
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and grandchildren with this
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process that she does.
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But for this lady at 72 years
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old, she takes a bundle of 60
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of these on her head and walks
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five hours into the market to
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be able to sell them and for a
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bundle of 60, she makes
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$3 Canadian.
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So she does that four times a
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month where she's able to make
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essentially $12 Canadian
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and remember I mentioned
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recently that it takes about
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$110 to properly feed yourself,
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to be able to buy enough food
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to feed your family.
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So this is the challenge.
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So while I was there, they got
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me to carry these bundles.
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So remember, 60 of these and
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so I was able to pick it up,
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put it on my head by myself...
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[MIKE] Were they impressed?
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>> They were actually
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impressed, they thought I
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wasn't gonna be able to do it,
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but I'm younger and a little
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more well-fed than they are so
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that was-- I was able
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to do that.
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Alugita, she requires having
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someone help her put it up
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onto her head and walk five
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hours into the market.
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She has to stop and rest along
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the way, while she rests-- and
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she can't put it back up onto
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her head so she needs to wait
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for somebody to come along and
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help her to get the bundle
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back onto her head.
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[MIKE] And she's 72 years old.
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[STEVE] Seventy-two years old.
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So walking that distance, she
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said only-- it takes her about
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two hours to come home.
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So that'll give you a level of
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how much effort it takes to
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walk that distance.
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We asked about transportation,
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but if they were to take the
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bundles and put them on a
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motor bike, that's most of the
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transportation there, all of
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her profits are gone.
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So she wouldn't actually earn
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anything by doing that.
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>> So we're not just talking
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about Alugita taking the
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brooms, but we're also talking
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about Alice taking her mats,
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we're talking about the
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baskets, so everything that's
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being transported is really
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being transported by foot.
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>> Absolutely.
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Yeah, because if they hire
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transportation, they lose
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their profits, but Alice, so
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Alice is not in the same
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village as Alugita.
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Alice has to walk 25
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kilometres with her mats on
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her head to get to the market.
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So it's a two-day journey for
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her to get in with her mats.
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So normally, I asked her,
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like, "Where do you stay?" and
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basically as they're going
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along, because of the sense of
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community that they have, she
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can just, wherever she is,
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someone will take her in and
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let her sleep there as well so
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they're all kind of part of
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that same tribe and able to
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do that.
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[RENÉ] So, Steve, what is so sad
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for me is they are putting in
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so many hours of work and
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walking and then just getting
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a mere pittance, like, just a
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little bit, so, like, what
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amount of food, for how long
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can they-- do they get that
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income in order to buy food,
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like, how long does that
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food last?
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>> And it's not just for her,
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right, it's not just for the
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individual, but it's for the
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family so there's people
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dependent on that.
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[STEVE] So for Alugita, for
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example, when she comes home,
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she has four grandchildren
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that she needs to feed as well
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so, all girls and 12-,
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14-year-old, so they're
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growing and she needs to bring
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back food for them so
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typically what they can earn
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in a week is enough food to
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cover them for probably a day
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or two.
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This is the part that-- our
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campaign is called Justice at
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the Table because I believe
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that's such an injustice that
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someone has to work that much,
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that amount of time, travel
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that distance, they work
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harder than we do and to earn
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not even enough to be able to
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purchase enough food
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for a week.
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Like, that's, I find that's
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such an injustice.
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[RENÉ] It is.
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I don't think we can even wrap
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our minds around that, Steve,
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you know?
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>> It's something that if you
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don't go and see it, it just--
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you can't get your head
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wrapped around it so I always
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have to remember that when I'm
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speaking to people about this
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that they haven't experienced
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what I've seen.
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To go there and see it gives
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you a different perspective,
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absolutely.
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[MIKE] Mm, so we're talking
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about a completely different
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world, in a sense, from what
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we live here in Canada.
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[STEVE] Absolutely, yeah.
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>> My decision is, "Do I get
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this pair of shoes or that
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pair of shoes," you know, I'm
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not thinking about how much
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food I'm gonna have because I
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have enough.
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They're living from basically
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one meal to the next which may
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not come today.
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[STEVE] Absolutely, yeah.
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>> Or the next day.
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Or, like, three, four, five
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days without food.
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[STEVE] Some of the people we've
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met didn't remember the last
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time they ate so that'll give
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you an indication of how bad
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things are, yeah.
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>> So, Steve, how has ADRA
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been helping the most
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vulnerable?
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Families, orphans, widows,
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young children...
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>> There's a few different
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ways that we're helping.
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One is-- so one thing I was--
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found very interesting, when
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you go to Kenya, they have a
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system called M-pesa and it's
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mobile money and we were able
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to transfer cash transfers
00:19:00.97\00:19:02.87
directly to the project
00:19:02.87\00:19:05.37
participants that we're
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working with, but the part
00:19:07.44\00:19:09.01
that I like about it is it's
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very secure.
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You don't have, you know,
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somebody just went to a cash
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distribution, now they're
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carrying cash with them,
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nobody knows when they've got
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the money, nobody knows that,
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"Hey, this person has it," so
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it also is very good from a
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dignified perspective, nobody
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knows that they've just been
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handed money as well, so
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that's how we are working in
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one of the areas.
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So then they can take that and
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they can go to the market and
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buy the food that they need.
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What we've been providing is
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typically a cash transfer
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that's enough to cover the
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gaps so that they're able to
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get food for the month.
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Most of our project areas
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though, that money was there
00:19:48.45\00:19:50.32
from January to June, some of
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them we were able to extend a
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couple of additional months,
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but the money does run out,
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unfortunately.
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So we-- we're right now, as
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part of our Justice at the
00:20:02.63\00:20:03.97
Table campaign, we're really
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trying to raise funds to
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extend these projects as the
00:20:07.24\00:20:08.87
droughts aren't ending, these
00:20:08.87\00:20:10.54
people need us to continue
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working there.
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Another area, so that's one
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part, I always like the way we
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approach our projects, we
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don't wanna just basically the
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old proverb of "Give a man a
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fish," we don't wanna just
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give a fish, we wanna teach
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them how to fish.
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And one of the areas I
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visited, it was a great little
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project where we help people
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set up a farm.
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So we brought together a group
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in the community and almost
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like a farming co-op was kinda
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what comes to mind for me, but
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it was interesting to be in
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this very arid, dry area,
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they're growing watermelons,
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they're growing fodder, you
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know, they're growing grass
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for their goats so that they
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can harvest it and have fodder
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for the goats when it's really
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dry, we-- they're growing--
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tomatoes were growing there,
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they were growing different
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types of crops.
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They're able to produce enough
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that they're able to feed the
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community, but they're also
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having extra so that they can
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sell the excess.
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So what they've done is
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they've located land next to a
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river that hasn't completely
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dried up yet and, you know,
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right now there's enough water
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to sustain this garden because
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it's-- the water's actually
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coming from outside of the
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region so even though it's not
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raining there, they're getting
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the rains that flow in from
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areas that are still getting
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some rain.
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But what they've done is
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they've dug canals, they've
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trenched out canals from the
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river into their garden and
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they were showing me how when
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the water fills up, they're
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able to run the water down
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through the canal, then they
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can block of different areas
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so they literally just move
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the dirt to a different area
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which causes the water to back
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up into a different section of
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the garden to water what's
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needed at that given time.
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Very basic technology, but
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life-changing.
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And that's one of the things,
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we've taught them how to do
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that and we've provided them
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with the seeds to be able to
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grow that so the beauty of
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this project is while I was
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there, there were two groups
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that were set up that were
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both growing their farms right
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beside each other so, you
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know, they're all working
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together.
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I got an opportunity to
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discuss with them and see
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what-- how that's gone
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for them.
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But there was another area,
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they were actually clearing
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another area next to the
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farms, but that's not being
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done by ADRA.
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Now they've taken their future
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into their own hands and
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they're saying-- what we teach
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them is make sure you're
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putting some aside so that you
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can invest into expansion and
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growth so that's what they're
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doing now is they're-- they've
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cleared another acre of land
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that they're getting ready to
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trench and build more canals.
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So they're-- now they can set
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aside some money so that once
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the produce is sold, they can
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go buy more seeds to be able
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to continue with their farm.
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So that's just one of the
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interventions that we see.
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The sad part is there's so
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much need in the regions that
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we're working in, there was
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another community that we were
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in that had a small watering
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hole that we would love to be
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able to help in that area as
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well to really transform
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things 'cause if we can teach
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people how to grow their own
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food, even though it's very
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dry, very arid, there are
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water sources that they can
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get to so this one, I actually
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asked the lady, you know, "If
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we were able to help, would
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you be interested in growing
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your own food?" and they said,
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"Absolutely, we'd love to be
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able to do that."
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So there are other areas that
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we don't currently have the
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resources to meet the needs
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for them, but I'm sure that,
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you know, if we were able to
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get these additional
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resources, we can help change
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those communities as well.
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>> So someone's listening to
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this right now,
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how can they help?
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They're not gonna get in a
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plane and go over there to
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Kenya and start farming with
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them and teaching them, what
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can they do?
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>> Right now we're in a
00:24:19.95\00:24:21.19
campaign to try to raise
00:24:21.19\00:24:22.52
$2.4 million.
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By raising that 2.4 million,
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it actually gives us access to
00:24:26.83\00:24:28.36
a total project value of
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$15 million.
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This'll be done in 13
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different countries that we're
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working in.
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That's our Justice at the
00:24:35.60\00:24:36.94
Table campaign.
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People can donate by going to
00:24:38.61\00:24:40.98
our website, adra.ca,
00:24:40.98\00:24:44.35
there's-- they can go in and
00:24:44.35\00:24:46.65
donate to our hunger campaign,
00:24:46.65\00:24:50.39
we're also asking our churches
00:24:50.39\00:24:52.62
to jump on board and make a
00:24:52.62\00:24:54.66
commitment to raise a certain
00:24:54.66\00:24:56.12
amount of money in their local
00:24:56.12\00:24:57.76
church.
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Any church group can go in,
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sign up as a church group, and
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make a commitment to raise
00:25:02.90\00:25:04.60
X-amount of funds and really
00:25:04.60\00:25:07.47
get a campaign going and
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invite your friends, invite
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your family members to
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contribute to that as well.
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So we've got a number of
00:25:13.34\00:25:14.84
different resources that we're
00:25:14.84\00:25:16.38
looking at for ways to raise
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these funds as we continue to
00:25:18.01\00:25:19.55
try to expand and grow the
00:25:19.55\00:25:21.18
work that we're doing in this
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area of the world.
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The needs are gonna be there
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for the long term.
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While I was there speaking
00:25:27.09\00:25:29.62
with our country director in
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Somalia, the country director
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in Kenya, they're saying that
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there's concern that this is
00:25:35.80\00:25:37.37
going to continue for quite
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some time.
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Even if the rains came now, to
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re-establish those herds is
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going to take time.
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They're just not going to
00:25:45.17\00:25:46.88
re-establish right away so
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there's gonna be a lot of
00:25:48.51\00:25:49.91
investment even if the rain
00:25:49.91\00:25:51.08
did come back, it's a
00:25:51.08\00:25:52.95
multi-year recovery right now
00:25:52.95\00:25:55.12
because of the conditions.
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>> Steve, unfortunately we've
00:25:56.89\00:25:58.29
come to the end of our
00:25:58.29\00:25:59.62
program, but I wonder if I
00:25:59.62\00:26:01.39
could ask you to pray for
00:26:01.39\00:26:04.43
those people in Turkana and
00:26:04.43\00:26:07.20
Somalia who are going to bed
00:26:07.20\00:26:10.43
hungry at night and also if
00:26:10.43\00:26:13.34
you could pray for those that
00:26:13.34\00:26:15.17
are viewing our program and
00:26:15.17\00:26:18.14
that God will lead them to
00:26:18.14\00:26:21.11
give so that they can help
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these people.
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>> Sure.
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It would be my pleasure.
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Heavenly Father, Lord, as we
00:26:28.58\00:26:31.69
ponder on the topic we've
00:26:31.69\00:26:34.19
considered here today, as we
00:26:34.19\00:26:36.06
think of those that are
00:26:36.06\00:26:38.16
struggling to find out where
00:26:38.16\00:26:39.79
their next meal is going to
00:26:39.79\00:26:41.40
come from, I pray that You
00:26:41.40\00:26:43.23
will bring relief to those who
00:26:43.23\00:26:46.53
are struggling, I pray that
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You will provide sources
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of food.
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May You use us to reach out to
00:26:51.01\00:26:54.41
those people, to provide the
00:26:54.41\00:26:56.01
resources that are needed for
00:26:56.01\00:26:58.25
providing that life-sustaining
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food to them.
00:27:00.18\00:27:01.95
May You be with our viewers
00:27:01.95\00:27:03.69
today as they consider how
00:27:03.69\00:27:05.95
they may be able to play a
00:27:05.95\00:27:07.76
part and to help in this very
00:27:07.76\00:27:09.92
dire situation.
00:27:09.92\00:27:11.46
May You move us to use our
00:27:11.46\00:27:15.56
resources to support the
00:27:15.56\00:27:18.20
projects that are being done
00:27:18.20\00:27:20.40
to help ease the suffering of
00:27:20.40\00:27:22.07
those who are much less
00:27:22.07\00:27:24.64
fortunate than we are.
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In Jesus' name, I pray, amen.
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[MIKE & RENÉ] Amen.
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[MIKE] Thank you very much,
00:27:30.11\00:27:31.38
Steve, for sharing what you
00:27:31.38\00:27:33.58
saw on the ground there in
00:27:33.58\00:27:35.18
Africa of the hunger crisis that
00:27:35.18\00:27:38.65
people are facing right now.
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[STEVE] Yeah, thanks very much
00:27:40.12\00:27:41.42
for having me and just for
00:27:41.42\00:27:42.89
giving the opportunity to share
00:27:42.89\00:27:44.73
with our fellow Canadians what
00:27:44.73\00:27:48.30
really is happening out there.
00:27:48.30\00:27:50.20
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the words of Jesus when He
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said, "It is written, 'Man
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shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that
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proceeds out of the mouth
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of God.'"
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[singing and clapping]
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