Adventist World Aviation
is an aviation based ministry.
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It's a mission of
reaching the unreached people
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all around the world.
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currently they have mission
outposts in Guyana, Alaska
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and the Philippines.
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today we travel to the
Philippine island of Palawan.
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Adventist World
Aviation has an airbase
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Adventist World Aviation
primarily focuses their efforts
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on aviation
operations and support,
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however they also do much more
to minister to the local people.
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Evangelism is an
important component of what
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Adventist World Aviation
does both internationally
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and domestically. That is
building the kingdom of God in
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the hearts of people is always
the first and foremost objective
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That is just what they're
doing here in Palawan today.
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Today on Off The Grid, we
travel to the Philippine island
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of Palawan where Adventist
World Aviation has an airbase.
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This airbase was started 8 years
ago to help service the Palawan
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island with med-evac flights,
airdrops and ministry projects.
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Today Jud Wickwire
AWA's director of operations
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has traveled from North
America to Palawan to do some
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field research about
the possibility of expanding
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Palawan's airbase by placing
a new aircraft in this area.
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Adventist World Aviation
historically has solely focused
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it's efforts on using
fixed-winged aircraft to fly
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to remote parts of the world
and deliver life saving supplies
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and services.
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However this new
opportunity here in Palawan
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calls for something different.
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I am the director of operations
for Adventist World Aviation
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I am really interested in
the logistics and the mechanics
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of the work that we do.
And of course with the emphasis
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on the use of aviation. There
are other things that we use
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to reach people. Vehicles
and boats and variety of things,
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but aviation is
what we are about most.
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Of course I am a pilot. I
fly helicopters and airplanes.
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Flown in the mission field and
I just have really seen the need
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myself first hand. And I've seen
the difference that aviation
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can make reaching people in the
most remote places. on the earth
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I just want to do my
best to find ways to support
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those missionaries, those
workers that are in places
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that aviation can help
them do more and do it better
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and do it more safely.
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Adventist World Aviation was
founded as an aviation ministry
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to support the work of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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and humanitarian work as
well in the course of that.
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So, what we really want to do,
is do aviation well, we want to
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do it safely, we want to do
it effectively and efficiently.
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We have other ministries
that are on the ground and doing
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close in work like the AFM
missionaries are doing here,
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on the island of Palawan.
And for us to be able to come in
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and support the work that
they are already doing, and make
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what they do better. Make what
they do more effective and safer
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is what we really
want to try to do best.
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Stationed at Brooke's point our
Adventist Frontier Missionaries
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Kent and Leonda George.
They have been working here
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in Palawan for over 18 years.
They live amongst the Palawano
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people in the mountains. However
there is a large challenge
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that greatly hinders
the George's ministry.
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There are no roads to get into
the mountains. The only way in
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and out of the mountains is by
foot. Adventist World Aviation
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has a great interest
in providing air support
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to Kent and Leonda.
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However airplanes cannot be used
here, since there is no flat
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place to use as a runway. The
only option here is a helicopter
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I am Kent George,
and I am a missionary
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living in the Philippines.
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On the island of Palawan.
Deep in the jungles of Palawan.
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3 hours hike into the mountains.
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And we work with the Palawano
native people here at clinics,
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at schools, churches, all
those kind of things here.
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Our tribe or group predominantly
live in the mountains.
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They live in very rugged terrain
Accessible mostly only by foot.
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The Palawano
people, who are the natives
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the original
inhabitants of Palawan.
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live in the mountains,
they are very, very poor.
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They are animal and
devil worshippers and basically
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we are coming here and work
with them. We provide education
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we provide medical
help, we provide teaching.
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We share the gospel with
them, so they don't have to live
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in fear of the spirits, which
are very very prevalent here.
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It's sort of like
they become our family.
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And of course when
somebody becomes family,
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you want to do your best
for them. So our objective is
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do all in our power to aid and
help them and to just allow God
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to become real to them to
know Him and to live in the joy.
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and the happiness of being
Christians and to leave all this
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fearful things in the
past. The devil worship
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and everything
behind. To know that
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God is stronger than the devil.
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The Georges have had an enormous
impact in the mountain village
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they worked in Cabigaan.
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The George's ministry
has grown tremendously
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over the past 18 years.
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They operate a clinic that sees
well over 7,000 patients a year.
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They also have an elementary
school, a high school,
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and an adult literacy program,
that teaches adults to read
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and do simple math.
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There is also a
Seventh-day Adventist church
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that meets weekly.
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The George's ministry has
completely transformed Cabigaan.
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They have shared the love
of God with these Palawanos
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and that love has infiltrated
and transformed the village.
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The Georges would like to
expend to neighboring villages
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However they physically
can't. Without aviation support
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they cannot continue to expand
into neighboring villages.
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The terrain of the area
they work is extremely limiting.
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In order to reach the
next village, which may only be
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a few miles away, it takes
them hours and hours of hiking.
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It is for this reason
that Jud has come to see
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if Adventist World
Aviation might be able help
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expand this ministry.
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The hike up the mountain is a
very strenuous and challenging
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climb, ranging from 3 to 6
hours The trail covers dramatic
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inclines over
muddy slippery terrain.
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All food, medical supplies
and building supplies must be
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carried into Cabigaan.
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Today, Jud will be
making the climb with Kent.
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So he can get a better
understanding of the topography.
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Before they leave, everything
they carry must first be
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packaged and wrapped in plastic.
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Rain is also a
very real possibility.
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After packing they
drive to the trail head.
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OK, we are here at
the trail head to Komatian
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Kent is going to
guide us in. How far is it?
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Well, it all depends, anywhere
from 2 hours to 6 hours.
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Depends on your physical
ability If you are a marathon
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who does ballet, you're
going to do it real quick.
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And it's all uphill,
that we have to commute
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I go in and I work
there until there is a crisis
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then I hike out.
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I work there until there
is a crisis in the mountains
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and then I hike back
in. That's how it works.
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Let's go and see
how this trail is today.
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What I want to tell
you is, 1 hour on foot,
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if you're in
ship-shape, that's equal to
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1 minute in a helicopter
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I've tried it both
ways, so I know it's true.
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One is a little
faster than the other.
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The terrain here is
just it's incredibly rugged.
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Now it's not like straight up
and down cliffs, rocky cliffs,
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but it's all, it's vegetated
mountains, heavily tree-d
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But it just goes straight
up, and it goes straight down
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to a river at the bottom
and you're up on the other side
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again. It's up hill,
down hill and side hill.
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There is no flatland what so
ever and it's like that for the
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entire center of the island.
You have a flat part where the
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majority of the population
lives and then just suddenly
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the mountains begin then
you just crossed this barrier
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into the areas where indigenous
people lived and have had
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very little outside
support and infrastructure.
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They are not building roads
in these areas. They're living
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very much the way that they
may have lived 100 years ago,
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or longer. Just the logistics
of reaching these areas
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is so - so difficult.
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You know when I tell people that
you have to walk for 3 hours
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they sort of have this
idea of these paths they have
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in the national parks in the US,
they look like freeways to us.
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If I were to describe
the terrain here, I'd say
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the terrain here is
like this and like this.
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There is very little...
where I am standing right now,
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is one of the flat
places in the mountains here.
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And when you walk on trails,
that are at their best maybe
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6 inches wide, many times almost
nonexistent. You just walk
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in the side of the hill.
it's just common for us when
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we are hiking here. Whether it's
a Palawano, or somebody else
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could be hiking along and
suddenly the trail gives out
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You find yourself sliding down
the hill grabbing onto trees
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trying too stop and then
when you finally do stop,
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trying to figure out how
you are going to get back up
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on that trail up above
you, where you fell off.
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It is a challenge and I
tell people, if you want to hike
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these trails, you need
to be a marathon runner
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and a ballet dancer and
that works out pretty well,
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because it's a challenge and
it's a lot of work some times.
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Just coming in to where we live
on this trail in here we've had
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Oh I guess, it's hard
to say 3 or 4 broken bones
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just from walking into here.
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Various people broken an arm,
broken a leg, broken an ankle
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broken a rib, you know.
It's always a challenge.
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When ever you get out of the
mountains and you haven't fallen
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and you don't have any blood
to show for it, you always feel
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as if you've... really
that was a successful day.
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You did really well.
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The trail is very dangerous,
but the missionaries have
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no other option. They must make
the hike despite the dangers
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if they want to
reach the Palawano people.
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This has become a
regular commute for Kent.
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He makes this climb once,
sometimes even twice a week.
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Back and forth between the
mountains and the lowlands.
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Because he makes the trip so
often, Kent has become friends
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with the people living along
the path. He stops in to say hi
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and talks to the people
on a very regular basis.
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Not too far into the
climb, Jud has a realization.
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As you come up the mountain as
you leave the flat lands behind.
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With the productive rice fields
and you come up and you just
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suddenly realize that you
just abruptly left that behind.
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You've come into an area
that is pristine, it's protected
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Just by that physical
barrier, that mountain.
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The hike up the mountains takes
the men a few hours to complete.
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Their path leads
through thick jungles and rivers
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It begins to rain, making
the path even more difficult
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to manage, but
finally they have reached
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Cabigaan without incident.
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The clinic here has had a
profound impact on the community
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When the Georges first
arrived 18 years previous,
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the people here didn't
even have a basic understanding
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of cleanliness and
how it relates to health.
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They were sickly and initially
resistant to the clinic.
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But over time the Georges have
been able to bring education
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and basic health
principles to the community.
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Now they see over
7,000 patience a year.
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Big things, malaria,
typhoid, TB, of course worms,
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that's a really common one.
Even up here one of the killers
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is alcoholism. Those are some
of the major things we run into.
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And of course maternity is a...
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Absolutely, that's a big
problem these young women dying
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in child birth, because we
just can't get them to where
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they need to go. We can't
get the medical attention and
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by the time they realize
there is a problem, by the time
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somebody walks all the way here
and tells us there is a problem.
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By the time we hiked all the way
back there, it is just too late.
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Nothing you can do.
So jah we keep busy.
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There is no doubt about it.
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That's an astounding number
of patience to see in a year.
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A clinic is a major operation
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so one of the things
we thought of, if we had
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the capabilities like a
helicopter would be to have
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certain spots where we hold
clinic, like on a weekly basis.
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or something like that.
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AFM has been here for many years
and the work that they are doing
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is transforming the
communities over the long term.
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It's not something that happens
quickly. It takes years to
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make the changes that
they see in the community here.
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The difference that they
can make in the lifestyle
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of the people they help.
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The clinic is another large
part of what we do and gives us
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an impact in many many
communities where people that
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come from miles and miles
around even from the lowlands.
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Palawanos from the lowlands will
come in to avail them selves of
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the care that they get there.
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One of the reasons that
they really like the clinic is
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we all speak palawano, so
they're easily understood.
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We respect them.
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When we first came, people
would hardly come to the clinic
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Because they wanted to go
to what you'd call I guess
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in English you call them
the shaman or the which doctor
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or something like that. So
they didn't want to come to us.
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They wanted some demonic
thing to, some demonic ritual
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to cure them of this sickness.
So it was very very hard
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for people to come. The witch
doctors didn't like us here.
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We were a threat
to their authority.
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All this kind of stuff and
to a great extend a lot of that
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has just totally disappeared.
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Currently there is no way
to transport emergency patients
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in these mountains.
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If someone is injured, in order
to get help, they must walk
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to the clinic with their injury,
or be carried over dangerous
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terrain on a stretcher. It
is not uncommon for patients
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to die in route to the clinic.
Or as they are being carried
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out of the mountains.
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they simply cannot
get to help fast enough.
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Transportation of
patients are several ways
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One is, they go on foot. I've
seen patience that are almost
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incapable of walking, but they
very slowly staggering their way
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down the trail,
somebody supporting them.
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That's pretty tuff on
the patience, pretty tuff
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on everybody and unfortunately
we have some of those kind of
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people, who never make
it, who die on the trail.
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Another one is carrying them out
We have backpacks made out of
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rattan and we can
carry patients in that.
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The other one is to
carry them on a stretcher.
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And we do that some
of the time, but they
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have to be really gone to
do that, because it's rather
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terrifying to travel on a
stretcher, on these trails
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because you're bounced on
this stretcher and looking
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over the edge realizing that
if somebody stumbles or falls
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you're going to be pitched over
the edge and who knows where
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you'll stop. So usually
if a patient is really gone,
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they're unconscious or really
so sick they don't even care
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then we just strap them on
really tight on the stretcher
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and try to get
them out that way.
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Early the next morning
the clinic begins to buzz.
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the student missionary nurses
receive a phone call about
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an emergency patient, that needs
to be brought to the clinic
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from the neighboring village.
It seems a pregnant mother has
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gone into labor. And she is
having extreme complications
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with the birth. At this
point the mother can no longer
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walk the dangerous trail. So
the nurses send out a stretcher
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to bring her to the clinic.
Transporting patients this way
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is less than ideal. The
terrain is very dangerous
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narrow and difficult to
climb empty handed, let alone
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with a patient and
stretcher to carry.
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In the past patients
being carried have been dropped
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or fallen off the stretcher.
Since it is so difficult
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to maneuver.
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The neighboring village
where this woman lives, is only
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a few miles away. However
it will take hours to reach her
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and bring her back to the clinic
It is an uncomfortable journey
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and it is clear that the woman
is in a great deal of pain.
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She holds unto the stretcher
as she is bounced through
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the thick jungle. Although the
solution seems less than ideal.
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Currently it is the only
option to save the woman's baby.
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Traveling the few
miles of steep mountain side
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takes over 3 hours to cross.
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Thankfully she
reaches the clinic in time.
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She is quickly
taken in by the nurses,
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as they assess the situation.
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Once the woman is safe in
the clinic the nurses and birth
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attendants quickly
situate her in the clinic.
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It was a long bumpy
journey to the clinic
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and the woman is
very uncomfortable.
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There are many harmful
old wife's tales that are
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customary
practices during childbirth,
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very often these
traditions result in death.
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Traditionally, births are
done at home. with a traditional
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birth attendant, if they are
available, or with the husband
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or one of the older members
of the family in attendance.
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It usually takes number
of people to take care of
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a pregnant mom, because their
belief is that if you're not
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putting significant pressure
on the upper part of the abdomen
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the baby inside they call it can
come up and choke the mother.
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They believe that -
that's what the baby could do.
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They don't understand about the
organs and all, that's actually
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a physiological impossibility.
Again through education many
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of them started to believe
that really really can't happen,
00:21:07.55\00:21:11.30
but still many of the woman
find it to be a comforting thing
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is to have pretty
extreme pressure put
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on their upper abdomen.
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They live in very remote
villages and usually within
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a couple of months of delivery
they pretty much staying close
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to home they don't come to
the clinic, they don't come
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on the market days. They
just pretty much stop hiking
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around very much. So it is
an uncommon thing unless they
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are having problems.
To come to the clinic
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is pretty unusual thing.
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Typically the native women
prefer to have their children
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at home and sadly,
very often a death occurs.
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Over the next 6 hours,
the patient is well cared for
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in the clinic.
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Just before evening she finally
gives birth to a healthy baby.
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The baby and mother
are both healthy and well.
00:22:07.37\00:22:10.63
Thanks to the nurses
and the clinic, this patient
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and her child are very
lucky, they were able to reach
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the clinic in time.
00:22:16.99\00:22:18.20
Unfortunately this is
too often not the case.
00:22:18.23\00:22:22.02
and patients die along
the path to the clinic.
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Well, I can only estimate, but
before AFM came here, I would
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guess that child mortality
rate children being born
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the mortality rate is at
least 50%. Either they died in
00:22:35.51\00:22:40.56
child birth, or they
died shortly afterwards.
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It's amazing to me that anybody
survives because to have a place
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rampant with malaria
and no medical help at all.
00:22:49.20\00:22:52.78
And it's just seems
incredible that anybody lived.
00:22:52.81\00:22:55.57
But obviously this was a place
of the survival of the fittest.
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Now that the clinic is
here we've really changed that.
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Even at that we still have
kids die, we have mothers die.
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Just because, very
often because we can't get
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the medical help quickly enough.
00:23:12.34\00:23:14.31
Most all of the problems
if they were able to get
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to medical help on time.
Most of them could be resolved.
00:23:17.92\00:23:21.39
Invariably if people die,
it's almost always because
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they get to
medical help too late.
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Adventist World Aviation would
like to greatly assist the work
00:23:27.94\00:23:31.47
currently being done here.
By supplying the Palawano people
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with life saving med-evac
flights, hundreds of lives
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can be saved. The tool of
aviation can greatly impact
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this area, that is so hard to
reach and so hard to travel in.
00:23:43.66\00:23:47.41
Within just a few minutes flight
patients can be airlifted to
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a higher level of medical
care. And essentially save
00:23:52.11\00:23:55.54
many, many lives.
00:23:55.57\00:23:57.03
The need is clear. A
helicopter would open many doors
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of opportunity here in
the mountains. As Jud sees all
00:24:01.12\00:24:05.08
that has transpired today. He
is without a doubt certain that
00:24:05.11\00:24:08.87
Adventist World Aviation
needs to do everything they can
00:24:08.90\00:24:11.98
to provide this
mission base with air support.
00:24:12.01\00:24:15.24
The unique circumstances
of their location require
00:24:15.27\00:24:18.36
air operations.
00:24:18.39\00:24:20.13
As a result of my own
field survey here, just seeing
00:24:20.30\00:24:25.22
first hand, just really
how rugged the mountains are.
00:24:25.25\00:24:28.32
And the fact is
getting in here is
00:24:28.35\00:24:34.47
uphill, down hill, or side hill.
00:24:34.50\00:24:36.22
There is virtually no
flat ground what so ever.
00:24:36.25\00:24:40.46
Which just leaves no
place for our planes to land
00:24:42.08\00:24:44.19
The only solution to reach
these communities to support the
00:24:44.22\00:24:48.83
AFM missionaries
here is with a helicopter.
00:24:48.86\00:24:51.13
What makes a helicopter
particularly effective
00:24:51.16\00:24:53.43
in this area is that
the distances are so short.
00:24:53.46\00:24:57.64
The time to walk between the
communities is hours and hours,
00:24:57.67\00:25:02.12
but the distance in a straight
line, straight across the valley
00:25:02.15\00:25:05.66
around the mountain is just a
very few miles and it just takes
00:25:05.69\00:25:10.24
a few minutes in a helicopter.
00:25:10.27\00:25:11.55
Helicopters are
designed for close end support.
00:25:11.58\00:25:14.64
They're not designed
for flying long distances.
00:25:14.67\00:25:16.65
We have airplanes to
fly hundreds of miles,
00:25:16.68\00:25:18.51
We have helicopters to fly
in this case 5, 10, 20 miles.
00:25:18.54\00:25:23.74
It's kind of the
distance that we are looking at.
00:25:23.77\00:25:26.98
Which is really the close
end support that helicopters are
00:25:27.01\00:25:29.16
best designed for.
00:25:29.19\00:25:30.22
The opportunity to save lives
deliver life giving supplies
00:25:30.25\00:25:34.08
and help bring the gospel
message is the goal of every
00:25:34.11\00:25:37.76
Adventist World
Aviation operation.
00:25:37.79\00:25:40.11
This is no
different here in Palawan.
00:25:40.14\00:25:42.89
The needs here are great.
00:25:42.92\00:25:44.82
The need for aviation
support is unarguable.
00:25:44.85\00:25:50.02
I believe that God has told each
of us as believers as Christians
00:25:58.94\00:26:05.94
to spread the gospel to all
the world. That's our mandate.
00:26:05.97\00:26:13.25
From Matthew. But I believe
that God has given each of us
00:26:13.28\00:26:18.68
different gifts and different
talents and different resources.
00:26:18.71\00:26:23.02
It takes all of us in
all the various ways that
00:26:23.05\00:26:26.47
we can work for the Lord.
Working together we'll be able
00:26:26.50\00:26:29.73
to eventually realize
gospel to all the world.
00:26:29.76\00:26:33.25
We know that not everyone can go
into remote tribe like we have.
00:26:33.28\00:26:40.34
And live there, but we do know
that God has many more people
00:26:40.37\00:26:46.94
on His heart that He
would love to send people to.
00:26:46.97\00:26:49.56
And we just trust that God
will impress your hearts on how
00:26:49.59\00:26:55.25
you can be a part of this work
or you be part of God's work
00:26:55.28\00:26:58.26
no matter where it is.
00:26:58.29\00:26:59.49
So Adventist World
Aviation is proud to support
00:26:59.52\00:27:02.25
Adventist Frontier Missionaries.
You know we are not just about
00:27:02.28\00:27:04.90
Adventist World
Aviation, we don't have to be
00:27:04.93\00:27:06.68
the star of the program,
or the show, if you will.
00:27:06.71\00:27:09.17
We are happy to support
AFM and ministries like AFM.
00:27:09.20\00:27:13.52
They have been here in the main
island of southern Palawan for
00:27:13.55\00:27:18.59
I guess over 20 years now and
we've been scratching our heads
00:27:18.62\00:27:22.73
wondering, how can we help them?
Well, just recently we sent
00:27:22.76\00:27:26.57
our director of operations up
on the mountains to look and see
00:27:26.60\00:27:29.79
what we could do. The
answer comes back - helicopters.
00:27:29.82\00:27:32.88
And so we are happy to
be able to support them.
00:27:32.91\00:27:35.66
Again, we are about
logistics. We're about
00:27:35.69\00:27:37.47
getting the work done.
Sometimes we're involved
00:27:37.50\00:27:40.19
in getting the
work done. Sometimes
00:27:40.22\00:27:41.52
we're about helping
others get the work done.
00:27:41.55\00:27:44.75
The important thing is
that this work gets done.
00:27:44.78\00:27:47.73
The message of Jesus
Christ, the Gospel message
00:27:47.76\00:27:50.78
of Matthew 28:19-20. The three
angels message of Revelation 14
00:27:50.81\00:27:54.83
chapters 6 through 12.
How do we get that out?
00:27:54.86\00:27:58.03
Unless we deliver a
messenger to do just that.
00:27:58.06\00:28:01.24
Jesus said in the great Gospel
Commission of Matthew 28:19-20
00:28:03.68\00:28:09.32
That we are to go
into all the world.
00:28:09.35\00:28:11.47
Well, Adventist World Aviation
is dedicated to doing just that.
00:28:11.50\00:28:15.93
They are now over seven billion
people that live on planet earth
00:28:15.96\00:28:20.32
2 billion of them have
never heard of Jesus Christ.
00:28:20.35\00:28:24.69
Out of that 2 billion,
800 million of them are only
00:28:24.72\00:28:29.02
accessible by
means like aircraft,
00:28:29.05\00:28:31.15
or through aviation support.
Adventist World Aviation goes
00:28:31.18\00:28:35.58
into those
unreached areas of the world,
00:28:35.61\00:28:37.85
bringing the good
news of Jesus Christ.
00:28:37.88\00:28:40.28
Through aviation we are
able to bring health, hope
00:28:40.31\00:28:45.30
and life eternal.
00:28:45.33\00:28:46.66
Through aviation we can
spread the gospel message
00:28:46.69\00:28:50.47
to the far corners of the world,
and show them the love of Jesus
00:28:50.50\00:28:54.06
The message that we
bring them is absolute hope.
00:28:55.07\00:28:57.88
We do not do this alone. Jesus
calls every one of us to be
00:28:57.91\00:29:02.55
a part of this great
work of reaching the unreached
00:29:02.58\00:29:05.25
of this world. We
desperately need your prayers!
00:29:05.28\00:29:08.73
If you would like to get
involved or find out more
00:29:08.76\00:29:11.97
information about Adventist
World Aviation, please call
00:29:12.00\00:29:16.02
Three Angels
Broadcasting Network and ask for
00:29:16.05\00:29:18.95
Adventist World Aviation.
00:29:18.98\00:29:21.17