We are back on
Vanuatu on the Island of Gaua
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where Dr. Turnbull and family
are based as part of a project
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with Laymen Ministries.
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It's been nearly two
years since our last visit
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and it was great to
see old friends again.
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For many
changes have taken place
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to the clinic
and medical ministry,
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there was also many exciting
developments with the school,
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the church and life in
general on the island of Gaua.
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While we were gone the
Turnbull's had enlisted
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with the help of
some of the local people
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to lay a cement
slab in the hangar house.
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We talk with Dr. Mark
about what was involved
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to complete a project like
this on the island of Gaua.
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When I was here a
couple of years ago
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this floor was
solid dirt in here
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and you had
this idea of building
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different rooms
inside this area here.
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I see they're
starting to take shape
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and I don't think
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that the people
back in Australia
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or New Zealand or in
United States or Canada
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whoever might watch
this video have any idea
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how much work goes
into pouring cement.
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So, what do you do?
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You're like, you order cement,
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a big cement truck comes in here
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and-- seriously how,
share with us how this slab,
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it's a lot of
cubic feet isn't it?
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We wish we had cement
trucks bringing cement here
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but no, we have to get sand
from halfway down the island
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that's like a
few miles from here,
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shoveling it into flour bag,
putting it on to your shoulder
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and carrying it to the boat,
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putting in the boat
bringing it around to the shore.
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There's no walk, so we're
gonna bring it to the shore
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and then carried up
to from the shore here,
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ready for mixing
and its got salt in it
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so its got to be out
in rain for few months
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and then we have cement
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its got to come
all the way from Santo
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that comes here on the ship
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which has to be
unloaded by hand once again.
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Okay, we'd ship we'll
anchor offshore about 300 meters
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and then a small boat
will bring it to the shore
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and then people will
carry each individual bag,
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put it on the shore
and then put them here.
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I don't how many few
carried the sack of cement,
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but they are heavy.
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Yeah, the
biggest work was involved
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in the actual
lying of the, the slab
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because we didn't have,
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we had a small
cement mixture this thing
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but a lot of
work was done by hand.
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And, and then
pouring these slabs
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and doing all of
this just required
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almost massive
amount of manpower.
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How much cement and sand
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you think is
enough for this size?
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Okay, well this one here
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we calculated it
was about 50 tons all.
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Fifty ton all
carried by hand by people
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from one point to
another to get here.
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Yeah, what the, the
foundations were done
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when we didn't have a roof here.
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So, we didn't have water
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because the water
comes off the roof.
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I remember helping Scott
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with pulling the forms off
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and watching the
guys mix up the cement.
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Yeah, the water--
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we didn't tell
you on that last video
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was the water
for these footings,
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was brought from a river
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which is about, about
six or seven miles away.
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And that to get the water
here to this part of the island,
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we didn't have any big enough,
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we didn't have
big enough containers.
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So, we actually took buckets
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and we filled up
the boat with water.
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You've almost swamped the boat.
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Yeah, filled up
the boat with water
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and then brought
the boat around here
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and then unloaded the
water into rain water tank
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which was down
on the shore. Yeah.
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And then individually brought
up 20 liters at a time up here.
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Now I have the
unfortunate experience
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of doing quite a
bit of cement work
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and I am working at this floor
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and the sky was
really a professional.
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This is really, really squirted
nice and level on its smooth
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and Joel was saying they had
a hard time getting the froth
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because of the
kind of coarseness
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of the sand to
get the nice smooth.
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So, he actually
did it in two layers,
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he did like the lower part
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and then kind of
a bid of skim coat
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on the top to
get the smooth thing.
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Well, praise God,
lessee got a cement
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for here this
makes a big difference.
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Sure that. Yeah.
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Joel Marshall firmly,
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one of Laymen Ministries
Philippines missionaries
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recently joined
our Vanuatu project.
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Joel now divides his time
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between teaching
and construction.
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I checked in with Joel,
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as he was working
on his latest project.
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Hey Joel, what's
you are working on?
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This is a new style
kitchen for Vanuatu.
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So, what you mean
this is a new style kitchen
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for Vanuatu I mean.
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Well, we are
trying to build a kitchen
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that they would
use, they like to,
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normally they cook on the ground
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and their house, the kitchen
just fills up with smoke.
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So we are trying
to build a kitchen
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where we can
cook with the firewood
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just like they
normally do, raised it up a bit.
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So, it's a bit easier
for them more convenient
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and also the smoke
can go out of the building
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through this duct here and--
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This is kind of
like a big chimney
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all way crossed in.
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Yeah, it could be a big chimney.
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For like what they
have in a fancy restaurants
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where they have that
big hood like allover
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where they are
cooking all the food.
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Yeah, it's right.
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This is a kind of
revolutionary for Vanuatu.
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Yeah, we were
trying to think of ideas
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that we can get the
smoke out of the building
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and we are thinking of
like pipes and stuff like this.
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And then this side they came up
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for just why don't we
just make a big, a big chimney.
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And we can just
use the materials
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that are
available because you can't,
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you know, you can't get chimneys
and stuff, pipes and stuff--
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So, you better how long
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before you gonna be
able to test drive this.
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Probably, couple of days.
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Oh good, we'll be
here for the test drive.
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So, before you
started building this
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what were they cooking in?
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Now come out and better look.
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Okay.
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Well, at first they were
just cooking on the grass
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because we didn't
have a kitchen yet.
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We built this patient
house first and they were just,
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they just had basically
made a spot over here open.
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So this is kind of some
of the, some of the places
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they cook in the
villages like this toward this,
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it may be a little better.
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They has--they do have
slightly better than this.
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They have bamboo walls
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and a thatched
roof for their kitchen.
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So, this was just
a temporary kitchen
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we've that just to keep them
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over until we
could better kitchen.
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The school that we started
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a few years ago
has grown tremendously.
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Mark's wife Naomi is
the principal of the school
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and we asked her if
she would give us a tour.
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Okay.
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This was the first,
first class when it was built.
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Yeah that's right.
What grades were in here?
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At the moment we have
got grade seven and eight
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in the side of the classroom.
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We have an office in the middle
and then we grades five and six
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on the other
end of the building.
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And how many years got
it we built this classroom.
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This was built in I
think it was January 2009
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by the team of volunteers
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from Australia that
came to do this one.
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So what is that one
down there, that one was a--
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Yeah that's one just been built
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in the last
year-and-half I guess.
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A group of former
Yugoslavian church members
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that worship
together as group in Australia
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they decided they
wanted to do project
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and they raised the funds
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and then they came as
a team to help build it.
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So we've been using that--
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So it was just kind
of like a fly and build
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or the whole group came here.
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Yeah, here we had
a group of 21 people
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come to help build this along
with the clinic at the same time
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so that they did two
buildings at one time.
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I didn't know that both
built at the same time. Yeah.
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So what grades we have here?
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This one is grade 4
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and over this
side we have grade 3.
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So, are the, did the
teacher share classrooms,
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I mean you have like
two teachers in a classroom.
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In the first building,
yes, we have got two teachers
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and two classes
in each room so--
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And its there something
like earlier part of the day
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one teacher is
teaching something
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and later part of
the day the other one.
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Yeah, or sometimes
they're teaching together
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and that can be
a bit challenging.
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So, if the weather is good
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we take them
outside under the trees.
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You are actually
teaching two different classes
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same time inside the same room.
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Yeah. That can be confusing.
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It can be.
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Alright, so just over here
now we have the staff housing.
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This is all new I think
since you were here last Jeff.
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We got... Few years ago
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when I was here
you guys were just have
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one little house
for the teachers.
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Yeah, because I think we aren't
even to grade 4, at that stage.
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How many actually
houses are this for?
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We got a large family
that's taking up two houses
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and a kitchen area
and then a single teacher
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who lives with his sister
who shares the kitchen area
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and then the
cook house over there
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and then off in the distance
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there's another local style
thatched building at the back
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there for one of the
yeah, teaches and his wife.
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And what is this
classroom? This is class one.
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When you say
class one, what is it?
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Great one, six, seven years old.
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Six and seven. Yeah.
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So, they have a little bit
of rough deal at the moment
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because they don't
have proper walling.
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So, when it's rainy and windy
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sometimes they have to migrate
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to the other
side of the building.
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So it is a cooler building
when the suns out, right.
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It is good in hot weather.
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And I noticed over
here that this school part
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but it was right
down to the ocean, right.
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So you guys have each
front property for the school.
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Yes, very, very
special property this one
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and when the local cooper
boats comes to bring us cargo
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that we need building
supplies or school supplies,
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its dropped
right--right near the classroom.
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So, very convenient
probably worth a lot of money
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in other parts of the world.
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So Jeff, this is our teachers
and students garden here.
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We have students working
different areas of the garden.
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So I think this is
grade 3, they do this area,
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grade 4 over the back here
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and grade 5 and 6 and 7 and 8.
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Do the teachers
actually use this
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for helping feed themselves.
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It helps to
supplement their food supplies.
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What is this stuff here?
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This is manioc,
this is all cassava,
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it is staple part of the diet.
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I know what that stuff is.
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That is... I always
call it jungle cabbage
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but you didn't call is
really supposed to be--
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Island cabbage,
Island cabbage, yeah.
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This is everyday food for us
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here on the island
like a spinach really.
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Not bad.
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They don't normally eat raw
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it they normally cook
this with coconut milk which--
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Don't eat it wet. Raw.
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All raw. Is it poisonous?
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Not. Oh, that's good.
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Yep, yep you're right.
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And then we can
even eat these one here
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if we have had not enough rain
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and this one is not
growing really well.
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We can use the young
shoots of this one here.
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I think this were
totally ornamental
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you can actually eat
it up. You can eat that.
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It looks like dandelion sangria.
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Yeah, it's got a little
bit of a stronger flavor
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than the island cabbage
but its still, its okay--
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It's still like a jungle cabbage
I think that's sounds better.
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It had a jungle
flavor. Yeah, not bad.
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Okay, so some of the teachers
have been planting corn too
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which is almost--
almost ready to harvest.
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They might be yield eat this
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before school
breaks up for the year.
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How big is this
corn get your curiosity?
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The crop a little big
bigger and it's a bit more chewy
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than your sweet corn,
it's a maize, something.
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And so this is not all
this is a maize, something.
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Yeah.
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Because you get
old American corn
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you know like
this, grip big whole.
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Yeah.
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Now, they got nice garden--
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We don't have to spend a
lot of money on food here.
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Good place for survivor. Yeah.
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These guys--
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My name Scott
Stevenson, I am from Australia
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and I am here helping
to start a furniture school
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with students at Matafanga,
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special need school.
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And my name is Kathy Stevenson
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and I am helping
at the same school
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Matafanga, special need school
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and I am helping
the deaf children.
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Well, the length
of our stay here is,
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it well its almost
coming to an end naturally
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because we were
here in April 2013
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and we are just
coming to December
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when we're going
home to Christmas
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but we plan to be
back early next year
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to help with various
things around the school.
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When we come back
next year I totally believe
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I will be involved
with the deaf children again
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and helping out as needed again
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with craft classes
that sort of thing.
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My specific goal is
to work with some boys
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some young men with
the furniture school,
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to help them to learn
some aspects of trade,
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learn how to use
machinery and tools
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and to make some things
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that will be able to
give them some experience
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when they move forward
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whether it's in
the missionary career
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or even a
vocational job for themselves.
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The volcanic soil in Vanuatu
creates a lot of lush vegetation
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you can tell by
looking round this here.
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And there are some
really interesting plants,
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so there's one plant here
it is call the sensitive plant
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and its look kind
of like a fern like
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you would see in some
of the forest in Idaho
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and we touch it, it closes.
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The school isn't
the only thing growing;
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the church near the
school had really taken off too.
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Mark took a moment to tell
us about recent developments
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with the Sabbath school program.
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Yeah, well, what we're
doing is a small group ministry
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which our concept that comes
from the general conference.
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The idea of Sabbath Schools
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breaking up the
small group ministries
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and using each group to
involve every single member
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in Bible study witnessing
prayer life, spirituality.
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See, why don't we take a
look of what they're doing here.
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How many different
groups do you have,
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are they divided up.
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We started with a one group
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and its divided
and its divided again
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and then we have
five different groups.
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Now we're involving
the very small children
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in the same principle.
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What they so is they start
out as the, with sharing time.
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So every group has, has
a builder and a teacher.
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And they start out
with the sharing times
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so they share
experiences from the week.
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And they encourage each
other with their testimonies
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and then they
have a time of prayer
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when they pray for each
other and missing members
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and then they go into the class
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which is just the
normal Sabbath school class
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but the one difference
is they try to involve
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every single person,
every single Sabbath.
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So, it's like the, it's-- a
teacher is not a good teacher
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unless he involves everyone.
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It's not like some
churches were going too
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where the Sabbath
school teacher gets up
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and just
dominates everything up,
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who just preaches in many
sermon and everybody listens,
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everybody actively are involved.
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The idea behind is
every single member must learn
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how to participate
and they get preparation
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and encouragement
during the week to share.
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So, when they
come to Sabbath school
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they actually
some thoughts ready
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on the mind to
share in Sabbath school.
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Yeah, interesting is that? Yeah.
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What kind of--
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This is a youth group,
this is a young people's group
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and Joel is leading this group.
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He is the teacher.
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And yeah,
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and now we are trying to
implement something similar
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for the younger children
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which Kay is
pioneering this one.
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So, Kay is our pioneer for this
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form of Sabbath
school in this age group.
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One thing about Vanuatu is
they get a lot of rain here
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and a the lot of times
people watch our videos
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they see the
beautiful blue skies
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and the boats on the water
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and all that but
about a 4-5 months a year
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we get a lot of
these kind of rainstorm.
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Last night the wind was blowing
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and the rain was
coming down so hard.
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So, it's a pretty common
between November to March here.
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I am making coconut milk.
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What we do is scratch some
flesh from the coconut shell
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and then you squeeze the
coconut that you've scratched
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and then nut
change into coconut milk
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when you boil it.
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And if you boil it long enough
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that will turn
into coconut water.
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My name is Kay
and I am 23 years old
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living in Guava in Vanuatu.
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When I first came to Vanuatu
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I helped dad
quite a bit in clinic,
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just with through basic things
00:17:15.13\00:17:17.26
and I also helped
mom with housework
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and whatever doing a
little bit of advance schooling.
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Recently, last two years
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I have been quite
heavily involved in the clinic.
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We now have a
building which is functional
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and we do require
lot of operations.
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So, I helped
that a lot more now.
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I help with anesthesia,
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we have a very
different system of anesthesia
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to most
operations in big hospitals.
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It's very simple
coming to this academy
00:17:46.33\00:17:50.58
up that's trying
me how to use that.
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So, that's what I
do with the operations.
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Sometimes when
we have other people
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that can do anesthesia
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I assist with the operations,
just depends on who's around.
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Life on the
island is never dull.
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We got a chance to
follow Dr. Mark to other islands
00:18:16.39\00:18:18.71
as he continued to make
in roads to medical ministry.
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Okay, this lady has
a big hole in her tooth
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and I don't do dentistry
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but I do pull
teeth which is surgery.
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Oral surgery so I'm
just gonna pull this tooth
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and we can do that right here.
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(Speaking in foreign language)
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Okay.
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Jeff.
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This is yours.
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So. Oh. Okay.
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It's also called
coconut ice cream.
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Coconut ice cream, this
is the heart of coconut.
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Okay.
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I have eaten one of these up.
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This is where the coconut trees
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already started to
grow inside the shell.
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That's a sprouted coconut.
00:20:01.77\00:20:02.80
That's a sprouted
coconut and I am gonna eat up
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embryonic coconut tree--
00:20:05.09\00:20:07.53
And sprouted seeds are always
00:20:07.56\00:20:10.10
more nutritious
than any other form.
00:20:10.13\00:20:12.65
So, this is
super nutritious food.
00:20:12.68\00:20:16.53
It's a mango balloon.
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That's how you do.
00:20:18.10\00:20:19.30
You keep making the
mango softer and softer
00:20:19.33\00:20:23.06
and collect just
nothing but juice inside.
00:20:23.09\00:20:25.52
This is a conventional method,
00:20:43.94\00:20:45.78
its called get strings
between your teeth method.
00:20:45.81\00:20:48.75
One of the best
experiences about traveling
00:21:06.41\00:21:08.38
to these remote places is
getting to know the people,
00:21:08.41\00:21:11.88
its fun to try to
step into their shoes
00:21:11.91\00:21:13.74
and do the things that
they do on a daily basis.
00:21:13.77\00:21:16.51
It's a great
way to build rapport
00:21:16.54\00:21:18.30
and of course at least
seemed amused by it too.
00:21:18.33\00:21:21.09
The next step for making
this as they have a lop lop fire
00:21:23.84\00:21:26.93
will be put the logs
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then heat up a really big
heap full of firewood like that
00:21:28.65\00:21:32.90
and then when the
coals get right nice hot
00:21:32.93\00:21:34.84
and they put the rocks in there.
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Heat the rocks up and
then they this green stuff
00:21:35.93\00:21:38.88
in between banana leaves
00:21:38.91\00:21:39.97
and cook it
down inside the fire.
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Its kind of a lop lop.
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Joseph is explaining to us
00:22:00.19\00:22:01.41
that in this village
one of the big problems
00:22:01.44\00:22:03.19
they have is
water and they have like
00:22:03.22\00:22:05.77
really old cement tank
and too big fiberglass tanks
00:22:05.80\00:22:08.61
and then one small
tank over the kind of clinic
00:22:08.64\00:22:11.56
they have here.
00:22:11.59\00:22:12.74
And they really
need two more tanks here
00:22:12.77\00:22:14.57
at least try to serve
the community of this size.
00:22:14.60\00:22:17.27
Today is the big day.
00:22:41.98\00:22:44.05
Basically, Mark
and I just sat down
00:22:44.08\00:22:46.36
and discussed how
can we design a kitchen
00:22:46.39\00:22:50.18
local style and that they
would feel comfortable using.
00:22:50.21\00:22:54.64
And they can use
the local materials
00:22:54.67\00:22:58.85
and that will make it
more helpful for them.
00:22:58.88\00:23:02.06
Now we are gonna see the smoke
really goes up the chimney thing
00:23:06.97\00:23:10.62
or its gonna
smoke up the full room.
00:23:10.65\00:23:12.37
You made an
ingenious flap system,
00:23:19.85\00:23:22.10
it closes there up on
the roof is a fixed one.
00:23:22.13\00:23:25.07
Go ahead and close it Joe,
00:23:25.10\00:23:27.41
that's pretty cool.
00:23:27.44\00:23:29.43
All right and you can
see the smoke flows up
00:23:29.46\00:23:31.78
its going this side here.
00:23:31.81\00:23:33.43
It going up around.
00:23:33.46\00:23:36.25
A nice design.
00:23:36.28\00:23:37.58
I think it's gonna work.
00:23:43.04\00:23:44.47
Near the end of our visit
00:24:31.16\00:24:32.31
we sit down and
talk with Mark and Naomi
00:24:32.34\00:24:34.16
about their time here
with this mission project
00:24:34.19\00:24:36.30
and what kind of
needs they still have?
00:24:36.33\00:24:39.67
I think we have been
working for Laymen Ministries,
00:24:39.70\00:24:42.76
it must be nine years now
00:24:42.79\00:24:44.88
because we
started this project 2005.
00:24:44.91\00:24:49.21
When I was first
came I was a housewife
00:24:49.24\00:24:51.10
and just doctors assistant
on occasions when he needed me,
00:24:51.13\00:24:54.60
but now I am full time principal
00:24:54.63\00:24:56.46
of this small school
that we started here.
00:24:56.49\00:24:59.66
It started out very small
with grade 1 in the first year
00:24:59.69\00:25:03.47
and each year we
have added on a year
00:25:03.50\00:25:05.99
up until this year we
currently have grade 8
00:25:06.02\00:25:08.81
and we have a
total of 75 students now.
00:25:08.84\00:25:12.91
We don't know but it
seems like the local community
00:25:12.94\00:25:15.09
want this school
to grow even more
00:25:15.12\00:25:17.12
so that we might go
beyond yeah 8, in the future
00:25:17.15\00:25:20.12
if God leads that way.
00:25:20.15\00:25:21.18
So, definitely we
need of more buildings
00:25:21.21\00:25:24.42
and more
facilities down at the school.
00:25:24.45\00:25:27.02
I am not sure who
might be the best person
00:25:27.05\00:25:30.29
to help with this
project but I just know that
00:25:30.32\00:25:33.20
I am not keeping up
with all the bookwork,
00:25:33.23\00:25:35.34
this is associated with
running a ministry like this.
00:25:35.37\00:25:37.76
This is much more
involved than a human being,
00:25:37.79\00:25:40.21
one human being can do.
00:25:40.24\00:25:42.01
And so I just feel
overwhelmed with all that
00:25:42.04\00:25:45.30
combines with being
doctor, pilot everything else.
00:25:45.33\00:25:47.39
So, if someone is to help
it would be a big blessing.
00:25:47.42\00:25:51.42
The work that
where I am involved
00:25:51.45\00:25:53.17
now I am using every bit
of my ability to the maximum,
00:25:53.20\00:25:56.67
I think God, God is using me
00:25:56.70\00:25:58.57
and I so much appreciate that.
00:25:58.60\00:26:00.92
I enjoy being in this position
00:26:00.95\00:26:03.28
and I feel like
my work is a ministry
00:26:03.31\00:26:07.76
and so I just feel it's
a great privilege for me
00:26:07.79\00:26:12.25
to give my life in-service
in helping a remote people group
00:26:12.28\00:26:16.96
we nee help
00:26:16.99\00:26:18.35
and to me its not a problem,
00:26:18.38\00:26:20.15
the money is not an issue,
00:26:20.18\00:26:22.15
God provides for all
my needs all of our needs
00:26:22.18\00:26:24.52
and we have got
nothing to complain about.
00:26:24.55\00:26:26.61
We have really got
things to thank the Lord for.
00:26:26.64\00:26:28.47
So, I didn't fear for
the future I just believe it
00:26:28.50\00:26:31.04
as we do work for
God he will provide.
00:26:31.07\00:26:34.06
If you would like to
help the project in Vanuatu,
00:28:16.26\00:28:18.83
write or call Laymen Ministries,
00:28:18.86\00:28:21.01
414 Zapada Road,
Saint Maries, Idaho 83861.
00:28:21.04\00:28:25.78
180-0245-1844.
00:28:25.81\00:28:28.91