Adventist World Aviation
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has a mission outpost
in Guyana, South America,
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servicing the
northwestern part of the country
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with Aviation
Services, such as medivacs,
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delivering supplies,
and spreading the gospel.
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This mission outpost
has been in existence
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for well over 10
years now and just thriving.
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They use
airplanes as a vital tool
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to serve the
local Guyanese people
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and share the love
of Jesus with them.
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There is such a great
need for emergency flights
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from deep in the jungle
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that they need two
aircrafts to keep up
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with the flight request demands.
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In Guyana, South America
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the Adventist World
Aviation missionaries
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run a busy aviation ministry.
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But their project is not
just about flying airplanes.
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Oh yes, they use airplanes
as tools to save lives.
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But they're also interested
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in the daily life of
those in their communities.
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They are
interested in helping everyone
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not just those with
medical emergencies.
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There are so many
needs present around them
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that the missionary
simply cannot ignore.
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In Mabaruma there really
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are not a lot of
job opportunities.
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There's not a whole
lot for people to do
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to earn income for their home.
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They live on a
day-to-day understanding,
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what do they have to do
today so they can eat today.
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And then tomorrow
will worry about itself.
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There's no planning or
thought about the future
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and how they might
provide for their families.
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They just live day-to-day.
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So we've really been striving
to develop ideas for industries
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where they can do
things in their home,
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where the materials
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for whatever they're
doing is provided here,
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and they can produce something
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that could earn
an actual income.
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When they
aren't making a flight,
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each of the
missionaries busy themselves
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with projects they've started
to help the local community.
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They want to provide
opportunities for growth
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and a hope for better life.
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Opportunities for employment
in the jungle are very few.
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Because of this,
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many do not have
enough money for food
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or to send their
children to school.
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It's an oppressive cycle.
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And AWA missionaries
want to help these people
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break out by helping
them establish industries
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where they can earn an income.
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The ways that we're
looking at right now,
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one of them is soap.
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Coconuts are
very prevalent here.
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We have coconuts everywhere,
so they can make coconut oil,
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which, when
mixed with caustic soda
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and a couple of
other ingredients,
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some sweet-smelling perfume
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and various things,
makes a lovely soap.
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And so, our team has
been teaching local women
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to how to make
soap for themselves.
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Supplies in this remote
region can be hard to acquire.
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So this means they have
to get creative with items
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that can be found
naturally in the jungle.
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With some experimenting,
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Laura LaBore has come up
with a recipe for coconut soap,
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that the ladies in the village
can make using coconut oil.
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Coconut trees provide
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an abundant
natural resource, oil.
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She visits the small
community around her area
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and offers to teach
them how to make this soap
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and how to set up
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a small business for themselves.
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Today, Laura has arranged
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to hold a class to
teach village ladies
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in a village
just over 20 minutes
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from the air base,
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how to make soap for themselves.
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She travels to their village
and brings all the supplies
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she will need for the class.
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So we are here to
learn how to make soap.
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All right, as you know.
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And then I'm
going to talk to you
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more about soap
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and how you can make money
and that sort of thing, right?
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Right, so the first thing
you're going to need is water.
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And everybody has water.
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We can add a recipe for
sweet soap or salt soap.
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You're going to
make sweet soap today.
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The local ladies are
excited about the possibilities
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of acquiring a new skill
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and hopefully
providing for themselves.
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Many of the local young
ladies come to learn today.
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Even at such a young age,
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they too have babies
and families to provide for.
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They curiously pay attention
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to the
instructions Laura give them.
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The recipe Laura
is teaching today
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was formulated especially
for local jungle households.
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Each of the ingredients
in this recipe was picked
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because they're items
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that are easily
available in this remote area.
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The tiny village marts
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don't carry a
large inventory of items.
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It was very important
when formulating this idea
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that the ladies
be self-sufficient
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and not rely on
the missionaries.
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Laura wants the
women to be independent
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and to be able to continue
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to make soap on their
own long after she leaves.
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You can make just plain soap
and using just a coconut oil
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and, yeah, this is,
there's not much set to it.
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Okay, now I know that Guyanese
like them soap smelly, smelly.
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Okay?
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And, but when you make
it just pure like this,
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it doesn't smell so much,
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and go ahead and just smell
and you can pass it around.
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This is a next
one. This is clove.
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I got a clove oil
that I got in Georgetown
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and then I get a spice.
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And I just mix the two together,
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so it has a
little bit of a smell.
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She shows the class
several different types
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and fragrances of soap
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they can make
using local flowers
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and spices readily
available in their community.
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She encourages them saying,
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there's a market for these soaps
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and this could possibly
be a way to generate income
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for your families.
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This is really good
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and he is
willing to buy from you.
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I have to get people
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who are willing to
make enough soap to make us,
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who can take out
and to sell it to them.
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If you get to where
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you're making batch a
week, two batches a week.
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I'll fight out to
him and get the money.
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I'm not going to make any money
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or bring the money
back for you, right?
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Laura agrees to even help
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deliver the soaps to
different parts of the country
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when she has a
flight to those areas.
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She wants to do all
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she can to
encourage the community
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to think on a larger scale.
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She even helps them create
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a simple business
plan for themselves.
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Most of these people
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have never even
heard of a business plan,
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so Laura must go step by step.
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So the ingredient is oil
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and that's going to
cost nothing, right?
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What's the other
ingredient that you have to use?
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Soda. The caustic soda.
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You will put oil, caustic soda.
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How much is that going to cost?
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Okay, so that turned out
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and what else do we use in here?
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Water. How much does water cost?
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I know this sounds silly,
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but this is called
the business plan, right?
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You need to know
how much each thing
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is going to cost to
know if it's working.
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Okay, so add all
and this doesn't include
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if you have to buy a
glass thing or you know,
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whatever people can bring in.
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This is going to cost
$200 to make one batch of soap.
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Each batch of
soap makes nine bars.
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Nine bars of
soap for each batch.
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Does that make sense?
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Nine bars, okay, for each batch.
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How much do you think
you can sell the soap for,
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for one bar,
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like say
something like this size?
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How much do you think
people would pay for this
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if you're going to sell it?
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In Mabaruma, they're selling it
for $200 to women for one bar.
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Two hundred for one bar.
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So I don't know in this area
if we can get that much or...
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Do you think
people will pay that much?
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How much for shipping?
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You think so?
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I don't know because
this is your community.
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Okay, let's say $200.
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Okay, so if it's $200 a bar,
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and nine bars for each batch,
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that's going to be how much?
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So $1800 for every batch,
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that's how much
you're going to make,
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but then you have to subtract
the $200 for the lot, right?
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You make 18,
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but you always have to calculate
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how much you put into a product
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and how much you
really are going to take home.
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So that's $1600
for every batch of soap
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that will be carrying more money
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that you can take.
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After showing
them how much money
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they could make
with soap making,
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Laura further encourages them
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and she gives ideas of
places to sell the soap.
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Why can't we go to Georgetown
and go to hotels and make,
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you know, in a standard hotel,
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you get a small bar,
yeah, so maybe like a bar
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that's about this size.
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And so it's in the hotels,
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and then each hotel
can put a little sign
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there saying this hotel made
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by the
Amerindians in the jungle,
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whatever, because the
people who come from this,
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from different
countries are like wow,
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100% coconut oil made
from people in the jungle.
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And they can even
sell it more there.
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And there's some
booksellers who would do this,
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but this is something
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that you would have to
be interested in doing.
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And I'm happy to assist
you as much as you want,
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but this is something
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that needs to
come from you, okay?
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You are going to
have to do the work,
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I'm here to assist,
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you have to be
independent doing this, right?
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Why, she even goes through
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the list of items
needed to make soap.
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Again, she selects
items that are free
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and readily
available in the jungle.
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The main ingredient for
this soap is coconut oil.
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The ladies here already
make their own coconut oil
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from fresh coconuts
growing in the forest,
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so there's no
additional cost to them.
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The other
missionary had her husband
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make these just pieces of wood.
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And I like it
because it's all good.
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It's all square.
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Before using this I
was using brake pads.
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You can use brake pads,
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you can use
whatever shape you want on
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but I like the square
and this was easy to make.
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And what I do is you
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have to line it
with plastic first.
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See, you don't
need anything fancy new,
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okay, just any piece of plastic.
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What we'll do is
when after we mix it,
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we're going to
pour it into here that
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just push the bar of soap
out, and I get a big knife
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and then we just cut it
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and you push a little bit more
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until it's at the
end here, cut it again.
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And so by the
time you're finished,
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you have nine bars all
perfectly of the same size.
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Laura continues on
her step by step process.
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She really wants these
women to learn this trade
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so they can better their lives
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by having funds
to meet the needs
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of their families.
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Right, now you're
going to take the lime
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and why don't you come up
and see this, just pour it in.
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I don't want to splash
it into children's eyes.
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See it starts to turn white.
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That's already turning
into like a liquid type soap,
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and then you can
just start stirring it.
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Now this is the part
that takes the longest for do
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and because you need to
stir it until it gets thick.
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Adventist World
Aviation missionaries
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deeply care for the
well-being of their community.
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They want them to prosper
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and have a hope
of a better life.
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Not all their work here
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in Guyana is
focused on aircraft,
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but rather on a larger picture.
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Their primary purpose here
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is to develop
relationships with the people
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and share the
love of God with them
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by showing the people
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that they care about
the quality of their lives.
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They're forming
bonds of Christian love.
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Laura gives them
hands-on training,
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and instructs them
each step of the way.
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She even marks the
lady's water bottles,
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so they can use
them as measuring cups
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since they don't always
have access to kitchen supplies,
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Laura shows them
to use whatever items
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they might find lying around.
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The villagers are excited
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about the soap making potential.
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They crowd around
the table all anxious
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to see every
step of the process.
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It's a simple idea,
yet, they've never had anyone
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teach them how to
generate income for themselves.
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The idea of a small business
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is foreign to these Amerindians.
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This simple class opens
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all kinds of new
opportunities to them.
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The LaBores want to
do all they can to help
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the Guyanese in their area
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to be
self-sufficient and to prosper.
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See then I stir a
little bit longer.
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It is still not, it
leaves kind of marks.
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So you got these kind of a mark,
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but it's even better
than these more in mark two.
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And if it gets a
little more thick,
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you can do a design
on the top like this.
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They've shared the vision
to the local ladies of just
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how much they could better
their lives with soap making.
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They offer to
help get them started
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and even find ways for
them to sell their products.
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Jungle soap is a simple idea,
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which could have
a powerful effect
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for these Amerindian ladies.
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With this
knowledge and some hard work,
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they could
transform their community
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into a flourishing one
where no one goes hungry
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and every child
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has the
opportunity to go to school.
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The LaBores have even found ways
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to make jungle soap
an international product.
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When they return
to the United States,
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they always bring a
batch home with them to sell.
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This ministry in no way benefits
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the missionaries but instead,
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all the profits go
right back to the local ladies
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who make the soap.
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We have a student missionary
at Pacific Union College,
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guy named Brian
Solder Bloom, who's involved
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with the business
club there at PUC.
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And they
actually, their interests
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and their focus is
in developing businesses
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in foreign countries.
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And so he spoke to
them about our work here.
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And they've actually talked
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to a company in
Southern California
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that has an interest
in possibly buying soap
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that we would send to America.
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And so now we have a market.
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And, so we are
working on finding,
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we find that when
we teach in a village,
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usually a couple
people will take it
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and really go with it.
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And we need a few of
those to start producing soap,
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and as we produce a
soap, we'll ship to the States.
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The need for women
to make extra money
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to feed their
families is needed indeed.
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Family structures
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in these small villages
often leave women alone,
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to provide their large
families with finances.
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Often there aren't enough jobs
and sadly the children suffer.
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If there were more opportunities
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for women to make extra money,
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it would alleviate
much of the suffering
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these families have to endure.
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One of the things in
Mabaruma that, you know,
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I'm still shocked
by it frankly is just
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that there are very few examples
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of good families here
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where the husband and wife
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have been
together for many years
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and they've raised
children successfully together.
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There's a lot
of infidelity here,
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and there's a lot of alcoholism.
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Alcohol is very
prevalent all over here.
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And the typical scenario
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is that the husband
will go to work and will work
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and make a small
income for the day.
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And before he gets
home, he'll go to the bar,
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and he'll drink
there until all the money
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that he's made is
gone, and then he goes home
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and expects the wife
to have food on the table
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for him to eat,
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but she's had no
money to buy any food.
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And so he beats her.
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You know, I mean,
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that's not really that uncommon.
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It's not that it
happens everywhere,
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but is common enough.
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There's a lot of broken
homes here due to infidelity.
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There's a lot of
spousal abuse that goes on.
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And, so women don't have
really a lot of options here
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and hope that if
their husband is abusive,
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what do they do?
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How do they
provide for themselves,
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there's nowhere to go.
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So the idea behind
the industries is that
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these industries are
primarily focused around women.
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Not that men can't do it,
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but it seems that
women have bought into
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it more than anybody else.
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And it's an
opportunity for them to develop
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an income where
if they, you know,
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if they need to be on their own,
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they can provide
for their children
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and provide what's
needed for the family.
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And so that's, that's the hope
in way that we're aiming for.
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Almost daily, the LaBore family
00:19:01.10\00:19:03.54
witnesses the reality of
abuse in the family and neglect.
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Broken families
and spousal abuse
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plague their community.
00:19:12.11\00:19:13.92
They desperately need
00:19:13.95\00:19:15.32
the healing power
of the Holy Spirit
00:19:15.35\00:19:17.75
to heal their broken homes.
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The LaBores do all they
can to share the love of God
00:19:20.59\00:19:26.23
with these communities.
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But sadly, the abuse
still continues in many homes.
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When they first moved to Guyana,
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they met a woman named Milly.
00:19:36.74\00:19:38.97
She was a
victim of her husband's
00:19:39.01\00:19:40.54
constant battering.
00:19:40.58\00:19:42.81
The LaBores
couldn't just sit idly by
00:19:42.84\00:19:45.21
and allow the abuse to continue.
00:19:45.25\00:19:48.25
So they offered Milly a job
00:19:48.28\00:19:50.59
and a way to escape
the abuse of her husband.
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By having her own income,
00:19:53.76\00:19:55.26
she could afford to feed herself
00:19:55.29\00:19:57.19
and her children
00:19:57.23\00:19:58.83
and she was able to leave
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the torturous
life she was stuck in.
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Me alone, trying to
do me handicraft work.
00:20:03.80\00:20:06.74
Forget this, for sale also.
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It's lucky, the first time I
make a little one about here,
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while Miss Laura used to sell.
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She throw away
piece, piece in the rubbage,
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and I pick up them,
and I start to make,
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and I make a
little mat about here
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so, big about this.
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Then me carry it and say,
00:20:28.09\00:20:29.42
"Miss Laura, I
bring a mat for you
00:20:29.46\00:20:31.26
to put on your table."
00:20:31.29\00:20:33.50
And she done put
it. She say, "Oh my!
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It's so beautiful!
00:20:35.80\00:20:37.77
You just make
the handicraft work?
00:20:37.80\00:20:39.97
Me say, "Yes, Miss
Laura. I just make that."
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And so I start
to make for she now.
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It's all is me work
here. All me working.
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Why I'm making this handicraft,
00:20:52.75\00:20:55.12
because I need my generator.
00:20:55.15\00:20:59.99
So she telling me she was,
00:21:00.02\00:21:01.79
she said, "Sister
Mill, when you make,
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me going to take it to town
00:21:04.39\00:21:05.73
and then you will
get your generator.
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Miss Laura is a good lady.
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Yeah, that lady is a good woman.
00:21:09.66\00:21:12.37
So me got to do
more handicraft work,
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more me got to do.
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During this time,
Laura encouraged Milly
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to make crafts and crochet items
00:21:19.41\00:21:22.84
to produce extra
income for herself.
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Laura helps Milly sell the craft
00:21:26.78\00:21:29.48
and also procures yarn
for her to continue her work.
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These crafts literally saved
Milly's life from a husband
00:21:34.49\00:21:38.69
that nearly beat her to death.
00:21:38.73\00:21:40.76
Well the working with she a lot.
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A good time now.
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And since me working me...
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me seen me way a little bit now
00:21:46.30\00:21:49.20
because me ain't
getting no work nowhere here.
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Nowhere.
00:21:52.01\00:21:53.61
It's only this handicraft work,
she trying to buy it from me
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and carry it away.
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Over the years, Milly is less
00:22:00.85\00:22:02.52
and less able to
do physical labor.
00:22:02.55\00:22:05.42
She now needs a way
to provide for herself.
00:22:05.45\00:22:09.16
Laura has found a buyer
for her handmade crafts.
00:22:09.19\00:22:12.99
And she takes the craft
to town to sell for Milly.
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Milly's had a very
difficult and painful life.
00:22:17.03\00:22:21.47
She was a victim
of spousal abuse,
00:22:21.50\00:22:24.57
and it almost
cost her, her life.
00:22:24.61\00:22:27.51
I say Lord, what is in my life?
00:22:27.54\00:22:30.01
What really happened to me?
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She was fortunate
00:22:35.62\00:22:36.95
to find a way to
provide for herself,
00:22:36.99\00:22:39.09
so she didn't need
to rely on her husband.
00:22:39.12\00:22:42.29
Milly got married as a teenager.
00:22:42.32\00:22:45.29
She was subject to
an arranged marriage
00:22:45.33\00:22:48.26
to a man she hardly knew.
00:22:48.30\00:22:50.67
I don't know if he's
a good man or a bad man.
00:22:50.70\00:22:54.54
I don't know.
00:22:54.57\00:22:56.14
From the very beginning,
00:22:56.17\00:22:57.51
Milly had a bad
feeling about the man
00:22:57.54\00:23:00.48
she was being forced to marry.
00:23:00.51\00:23:03.11
And me never liked the man.
00:23:03.14\00:23:05.38
But them people tell me
like he put something upon me
00:23:05.41\00:23:08.92
when he must have gone to town.
00:23:08.95\00:23:10.89
And when he come back,
00:23:10.92\00:23:12.25
like I get to like this old man.
00:23:12.29\00:23:15.52
"Mr. How you
getting so ugly old guy?
00:23:15.56\00:23:18.79
And me no want you."
00:23:18.83\00:23:20.16
And you know the man
passed the hands upon me head.
00:23:20.20\00:23:24.27
The abuse started early
in Milly's relationship.
00:23:24.30\00:23:28.27
Milly's husband permanently
handicapped her from his abuse.
00:23:28.30\00:23:33.21
He pushed her so hard,
which fractured her hip.
00:23:33.24\00:23:37.25
She received no medical care.
00:23:37.28\00:23:39.85
And since then
Milly can hardly walk.
00:23:39.88\00:23:42.55
When I fall,
00:23:42.58\00:23:46.25
the iron bed is like this.
00:23:46.29\00:23:49.12
Me must have stood up here,
00:23:49.16\00:23:51.79
and this edge now,
make this bone for slip.
00:23:51.83\00:23:56.97
I fall upon this
iron, me fall side now.
00:23:57.00\00:24:01.44
And when me fall
side, won't get up.
00:24:01.47\00:24:04.21
I don't know
nothing, I lost all away.
00:24:04.24\00:24:07.18
When I get up, all my head,
from my head to me foots soak,
00:24:07.21\00:24:11.78
soak, all me clothes wet.
00:24:11.81\00:24:14.62
Now me down laid up
on the floor, get up,
00:24:14.65\00:24:19.92
when I go for
mash upon this foot.
00:24:19.95\00:24:23.22
So like I fall upon it
again and me know nothing again,
00:24:23.26\00:24:28.83
and they dash water upon me.
00:24:28.86\00:24:30.50
Oh!
00:24:30.53\00:24:31.87
Ah like when he
beat me on Saturday.
00:24:31.90\00:24:35.40
Every Saturday, he just drink.
00:24:35.44\00:24:38.94
And when he drink,
he come home every day
00:24:38.97\00:24:42.18
the man drinking from Monday,
00:24:42.21\00:24:44.75
Saturday, Sunday he got home.
00:24:44.78\00:24:48.35
Monday he gone to work again.
00:24:48.38\00:24:50.49
When he got to work,
00:24:50.52\00:24:51.85
oh his mother going to
come from far from his...
00:24:51.89\00:24:54.69
She house, she left she house
00:24:54.72\00:24:56.66
and she hollering up
00:24:56.69\00:25:00.16
on Brooms Hill top and then now,
00:25:00.20\00:25:03.06
she going to say,
Oh me daughter in law
00:25:03.10\00:25:05.37
must straight put
up all the knives,
00:25:05.40\00:25:07.20
the cutlass and all them
thing yah you put them up
00:25:07.24\00:25:10.21
because my son, he
come drunk he going to want
00:25:10.24\00:25:12.44
to beat you for stupidness.
00:25:12.47\00:25:14.68
Oh, you're not too well,
00:25:14.71\00:25:17.58
you're sick
already with your foot.
00:25:17.61\00:25:20.22
Her husband's abuse
escalated to the point
00:25:20.25\00:25:23.39
that Milly was
fearful for her life.
00:25:23.42\00:25:26.19
In his drunken stupor,
00:25:26.22\00:25:28.46
he would often try to
cut her with a machete.
00:25:28.49\00:25:32.63
If it wasn't for
Milly's daughter's intervention,
00:25:32.66\00:25:36.03
Milly might have been killed.
00:25:36.06\00:25:37.93
Well, he now come and
scramble me hair here.
00:25:37.97\00:25:41.24
Me got a lot of hair,
like how me got this hair now.
00:25:41.27\00:25:44.47
Hold me hair, and
then she pick up a wood,
00:25:44.51\00:25:48.14
a long wood about
here and whip him.
00:25:48.18\00:25:51.48
And she loosed me
hair and she said,
00:25:51.51\00:25:54.38
"Left mommy, why you
want to kill my mother!
00:25:54.42\00:25:58.39
Don't kill me mother!
00:25:58.42\00:26:00.49
And then now he had a
man, he come from Barabeast.
00:26:00.52\00:26:05.26
He tell me, He said, "Miss lady,
00:26:05.29\00:26:08.03
please left you husband.
00:26:08.06\00:26:09.46
He have no interest in you.
00:26:09.50\00:26:11.53
Left him and go along!
00:26:11.57\00:26:14.34
Meanwhile you're looking sick,
00:26:14.37\00:26:15.77
you must get some work and
you must work in the house.
00:26:15.80\00:26:20.21
And so I start to
work. Yes, me work.
00:26:20.24\00:26:24.55
Friends, Milly's story
of abuse is all too common.
00:26:24.58\00:26:28.12
Women feel trapped with no way
00:26:28.15\00:26:29.85
to earn enough
money to feed themselves.
00:26:29.88\00:26:32.62
So they stay with
their abusive husbands.
00:26:32.65\00:26:35.82
Milly was fortunate enough
to have Bill and Laura find her
00:26:35.86\00:26:39.46
and offer her a job and
a way to escape her abuser.
00:26:39.49\00:26:43.77
It isn't long
before her husband tries
00:26:43.80\00:26:46.27
to get Milly to return to him.
00:26:46.30\00:26:48.87
He entices her with
promises of his money.
00:26:48.90\00:26:53.17
He phoning and telling
me that I must go home back.
00:26:53.21\00:26:58.48
He getting
pension money, NIS money,
00:26:58.51\00:27:02.08
time to come so you
can draw on my money.
00:27:02.12\00:27:05.39
I felt my duty to
tell my boss Mr. Bill.
00:27:05.42\00:27:09.82
I said, "Mr. Bill,
my husband who got me
00:27:09.86\00:27:13.50
in this condition today
with my foot and my punishment,
00:27:13.53\00:27:18.33
he tell me that
how I must left my work
00:27:18.37\00:27:21.74
and go and stay with him
00:27:21.77\00:27:23.54
and me ain't go to
do work, make a work.
00:27:23.57\00:27:26.37
And he go work and
give me the money and so.
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Then me tell Mr. Bill,
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"Mr. Bill, no don't
want the money you know,
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I don't need my husband at all."
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This is couple years me
left he and I never go back.
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Because this
time, he might dead.
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And me now want he back no more.
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So Mr. Bill did tell me,
he said, "Don't go with him.
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Left him. Left him alone."
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The last time when
he come by me here,
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I put police upon him.
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Since that time,
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he ain't come
back no more to me.
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No come back again.
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Me no want back atoll.
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Done me mind have
been broken from him
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because today he got me in
this condition with my foot.
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But I just move about
in the house, work and so.
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Today Milly's
conditions have changed.
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She has a new life,
free of abuse and pain.
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She was truly saved from misery
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and given the opportunity
to make a life for herself.
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A large percentage of women
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in this region lead a
life of fear and pain.
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Adventist World Aviation
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wants to be a
changer for these women
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and provide them
with a hope of better life
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and the knowledge of
the love of Jesus Christ.
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By helping to
establish these industries,
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they're opening
doors of opportunity
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and setting captives free.
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Praise God.
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I am so happy.
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Sometime Mr. Bill hug me.
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"Oh, Sister Mill, how you do?"
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I said, "Mr. Bill,
I'm going all right,
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praise the Lord."
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Miss Laura come
and "I hug you also."
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She hug me and then she tell me,
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Miss Laura will say,
"I love you Sister Mill.
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You come!" I say, "Yes me come."
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Me happy with them
and praise the Lord
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and I got a loving boss, a
loving mistress and all too.
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I am happy with them.
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And praise the
Lord for that too.
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I get happy with them.
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