Narrator: Scattered across the
globe, Adventist World Aviation
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has mission outposts situated
in extremely remote areas
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that were
established to help minister
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to local indigenous people.
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Most of these locations are so
difficult to reach that aviation
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is the primary
means to reach them.
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Using aircraft, Adventist World
Aviation is able to deliver
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the gospel message, as well
as provide lifesaving med-evac
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flights to thousands by
using the tool of aviation.
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Providing quick and reliable
transportation to many parts
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of the earth, that are
almost impossible to reach
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is the mission of AWA.
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Adventist World Aviation
missionaries use the means
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of aviation to spread the love
of Jesus all around the world.
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Narrator: Adventist World
Aviation has a mission outpost
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situated in north eastern
Nicaragua in a small village
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named Tronquera.
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Here, the Hanley missionary
family works endlessly
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to serve the Miskito people.
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The Hanley's have lived in
Nicaragua for over 10 years now
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and have
established a good relationship
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with the people here.
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Clint is a pilot and
offers med-evac flights to all
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the neighboring villages,
that need to get patients
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to a higher
level of medical care.
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There are no safe road
systems from the thick jungles
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to Puerto Cabezas, which is
the closest hospital equipped
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to handle critical injuries.
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Jud: Here we are in this
remote part of Nicaragua.
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Can you describe where we are,
and how you came to be here?
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Clint: Well the northeast part
of Nicaragua here is an area
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that is completely different
then the Pacific Coast.
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You have the Atlantic and
the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua.
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And the Atlantic coast is on
the Caribbean which most people
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think of as a nice vacation
spot but it's not that way here.
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And it's an area of indigenous
Indians, Miskito Indians.
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The Miskito Indians were
never concurred by the Spanish
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and they don't have the
infrastructure that's been
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developed on the
Pacific side of the country.
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This area has a lot of
needs that are very unique
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to Nicaragua and it's separated
from the rest of Nicaragua
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geographically.
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And it's separated by a
line of mountains and the roads
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that go crossed it are very bad.
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Sometimes they are impassable.
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So we rely on air transport
for virtually everything we do.
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We have the only ambulance for
air travel in all of Nicaragua
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that can carry
oxygen and a stretcher.
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And we're the only airplane
in all of Nicaragua that is able
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to do this and we are the
only airplane that is based
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on the whole Atlantic coast.
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Narrator: Clint stays very
busy flying med-evac flights.
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Very often he will fly
5 or more patients a week.
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But despite this demanding
flight schedule, the Hanley's
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are not satisfied with
only offering aviation services.
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Their ministry here at
Tronquera runs so much deeper,
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than the work
they do with aviation.
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The family keeps very
busy finding new ways to help
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the local Miskito people.
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Jud: You know the
airplane flying, and you know
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the med-evacs is the most
dramatic part of the work,
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that you do here and are
involved with, but that doesn't
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happen all day and constantly
and so I'm sure that there are
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other things that you
look for, that are needs
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in the
communities, that you can help.
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Clint: Yah flying is probably
the most fun thing to do.
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It is the most exciting and
that's one of the things that
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most people focus on the most.
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But that happens a few times
a week and it's not- it doesn't
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cover all of your life.
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There's a lot of mundane,
regular work that needs done.
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Maintaining the
airplane, building the hangar,
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things like that
working on your house.
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But the community work that
we also do, we built a house
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for widows in the
village, a cement house
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for a couple of the
poor people in the village.
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Narrator: Just a few short
miles away from the mission base
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is a newly constructed
concrete block home, that was
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affectionately
nicknamed the "widows' house".
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In this part of Nicaragua
the villagers are very poor.
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Many of them don't have
the means to build a simple
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home for themselves.
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Clint and his wife Marilyn, saw
a great need in their community.
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They contacted their donors,
that faithfully support their
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ministry and told them about
the needs here in the village.
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They were able to raise enough
money to build this simple,
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yet solid home and
donate it to the community.
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Client told the community
that they were free to select
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whomever the community
felt was the most in need
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and offer the home to them.
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The community
gratefully accepted the house
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and gave it to an
elderly widow and her family.
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The Miskito people living in
this region of Nicaragua, sadly
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are very poor and left isolated
from the rest of the country.
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Clint: The Miskito people in
general, are subsistence farmers
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So there's not a big
economic base for them here.
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They don't have a lot of reason
for businesses to come in.
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They don't have a lot of
resources that people need,
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so that's part of the reason
economically that they're,
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they're kind of segregated.
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They're off to the
side in the country.
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The roads could be improved.
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You know that's
not a hard thing to do.
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But in order to improve
the roads, it takes money.
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And you need to have a
reason to access the area.
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And without economic incentive,
businesses don't really care
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to access this
side of the country.
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Because there's not
enough resources here
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to be able to do that.
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The Miskito people aren't big
business people and there's not
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a lot of resources that they
need in the soil or whatever
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they need to access on
this side of the country.
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So economically,
they have kind of left it.
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The church also, it's hard
to reach subsistence farmers,
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you know out in the
middle of the jungle.
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You know, when you go out and
have tiny villages dotted around
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They're hard to access.
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A lot of places you have to
walk to be able to access them.
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But even by truck,
it's by four wheel drive.
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And you've got to
learn another language.
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A lot of them don't know
Spanish, you need to know
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Miskito to be able to
communicate effectively.
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And so even by the Seventh-day
Adventist Church, a lot of them,
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places are very hard to access
and they've been kind of left
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to the side, because
they're out of the beaten track.
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They're not on the
way to or from anywhere.
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And nobody ever
passed through this area
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going to somewhere.
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It's the final
destination, this is it.
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Narrator: Clint and his family
have resolved to do everything
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they can to make
sure the Miskito people
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are not forgotten.
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Even though they're isolated
from the rest of the country,
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having aviation support in
times of emergency has saved
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over 500 lives
within the last 10 years.
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But aviation is just one of
the ways the Hanley family shows
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the love of God to the Miskito
people and insures them that
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they have not been forgotten
by the All Mighty Creator.
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Opportunities for
advancement are rare
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in this part of the world.
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Many who are born in this part
of Nicaragua, do not have many
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opportunities to
better their lives.
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Poverty runs rampant and
villagers suffer from lack
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of opportunities for growth.
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The AWA missionaries
struggle with how to make
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a positive
change in this regard.
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One way Clint and Marilyn have
sought to bring change to the
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community is through education.
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In Puerto Cabezas there is
an Adventist elementary school.
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Through donations from
supporters in North America,
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the Hanley's are able to give
scholarships to young people,
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who want to
drastically change their lives.
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Because the school is so
far away from the mission base,
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Clint flies the young students
to town and then enrolls them
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in the boarding school,
where they can gain knowledge
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they need to better their lives.
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Clint: This is a
Seventh-day Adventist school
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in Puerto Cabezas.
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This is the only Seventh-day
Adventist secondary school
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on the Atlantic Coast.
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They have somewhere in the
range of four to five hundred
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kids here, which is the largest
school in all of Nicaragua
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for secondary school
for Seventh-day Adventists.
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And we help out some with
this school with kids from the
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communities, especially from
our community of La Tronquera.
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We send kids here to this school
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and we help with
some of their tuition.
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And we usually help kids,
who have good grades and who are
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interested in going
on and getting education.
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We try to find those kids
in the communities, who are
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very interested in studying
and then we send them here
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and help them to
further their education,
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so they can go
somewhere in their life.
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Narrator: Adventist World
Aviation seeks to help the poor
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and less fortunate of the
world in a vast variety of ways.
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Sometimes the work is done
through construction projects,
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other times it is accomplished
by aviation support,
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but regardless of the project,
the end goal is always the same:
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to help others
know the love of Jesus.
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Narrator: Ten years ago, when
the Hanley family first moved
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to this area, there
was no communication
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infrastructure available.
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This limited the missionary's
work greatly, because there was
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simply no way of knowing,
when the people might need help.
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They could not communicate
with other villages or provide
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help to outlying areas.
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To solve this deficiency,
Clint devised a plan.
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Jud: Obviously if you go
into remote areas, communication
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is a huge factor.
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Adventist World Aviation is,
you know our policy is to create
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transpiration and
communication infrastructures
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in remote areas.
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And this is a prime example.
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Can you explain a little
bit about how your communication
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has helped with other ministries
other organizations, government,
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health and those things.
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And how you have
been involved in that.
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Clint: Yah, when we first moved
here, there was no cell service
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of any kind. And so, radios
is what everything relied on.
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And we started out with
two meter radios, ham radios,
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and amateur radios is,
what we call them in the states.
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That worked, we would put
a, in a local village where we
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were flying, we'd put a
solar panel in and a battery.
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And put an antenna up and then
they can communicate with us
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when there was an emergency.
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And that worked quite well and
they were able to communicate
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with us and the
hospital saw that and said
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"wow this is
really working good.
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Could we put an antenna up
at your house too and you could
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have a radio from us?"
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And they have their
own communication network.
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And so they gave me
one of their radios.
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There're a Motorola set up on
crystal controlled setup and so
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I put one of their
antennas up on my tower
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and have their system.
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So they can
communicate from Waspam
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when there's emergencies.
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So they communicate directly
with us for that and then they
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also have some of the
minsa radios, it's government,
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it's called minsa radios,
it's government health program.
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Their radios are also in
some of the remote communities.
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So they communicate
directly with us from runways
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that they have
in the communities.
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And the doctor in the
community then can call directly
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to us to schedule
flights and tell us, you know
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that there is a
person here that's coming in.
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Or that somebody is coming
down the river to us right now,
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and we need them
to be transported out.
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Narrator: Due to the remote
nature of this part of Nicaragua
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medical care is not available
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for critically
injured individuals.
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If someone needs a
higher level of medical care,
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they must reach Puerto Cabezas.
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Some of the villages do
not even have road access
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to make this journey.
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For those that do, the badly
injured individual must travel
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over 5 hours on a terribly
rough road or travel by boat
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for 2 days on the
slow flowing Rio Cocoa.
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These means of transportation
often guarantee death
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to a critical patient when time
is of the upmost importance.
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Clint: They take a boat,
because there is no roads.
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And the boats go, sometimes
once a day a boat goes.
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Sometimes they'll
skip a day or two.
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But generally a
boat goes once a day.
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That boat costs about five to
six days wages to take the boat,
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and per person.
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And it takes twelve hours to get
to Waspam which is the nearest
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hospital they can access.
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And that's not the biggest
hospital, that's just the
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very nearest hospital.
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But if it's very major, they
need to go on to Puerto Cabezas,
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which is another
five hour bus ride.
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And the bus goes once a day.
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For me to fly that all of the
way, from the time they call me
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and I start my airplane, I
can have them in Puerto Cabezas
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in an hour and a half.
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So if you have a pregnant lady
who is in labor, even to get to
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the closest hospital at twelve
hours, if the boat was sitting
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right there ready to go it would
be a twelve hour boat ride.
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Generally it's going to
be the next day or so before
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they can get the boat.
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So it's usually a couple
days before they are going
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to get medical help.
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And I can have them
in an hour and a half.
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So there has been a lot
of lives that have been saved
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because they can get it quicker.
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Narrator: This is why Adventist
World Aviation has a mission
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base placed in this part
of Nicaragua; to facilitate
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med-evac flights and save
as many people as possible.
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However, this can only be
accomplished if Clint can be
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made aware of the flight needs.
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Clint set up many radios
around the region to insure
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that he could be reached
when there was an emergency.
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His mission here is to help when
the Miskito people are in need,
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but if there is
no way to communicate
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with the villagers, the
Hanley's cannot do the work
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they are here to do.
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Clint: This radio here is in
a local motel that is in Waspam.
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And Waspam is our
nearest town to our house.
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And this is where a lot of
the medical people first come.
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But their cell
service is often undependable.
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And so this radio, that I
have installed in this place,
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I put an antenna out back
and I put a solar panel on.
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And he manages this radio
here for the hospital to be able
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to communicate with us,
anytime when the power is off
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in the town or when lighting
strikes and they don't have
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their cell service.
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And so this is the backup
radio for all of the emergency
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communication for the hospital,
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for the
government, for anybody else,
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that needs to get a hold of us.
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What we do is we install a solar
panel and a battery and a radio
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in the villages we go to, so
they can communicate with us.
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The doctors or nurses in the
village, or sometimes there is
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no doctors or nurses, but the
people are able to communicate
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with us, when
they have an emergency.
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Then we also have the same
radio installed in our house
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on a communications tower, so
that we are able to communicate.
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So, when you are in an area,
that there is no communication
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and no electricity you
have to be able to know
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how to do all
that stuff yourself.
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Put in the communication,
and install everything
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so that it's ready to use.
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Narrator: The Hanley's never
seem to tire as they continually
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find ways to help
the Miskito people.
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If there is no flight to
be made Clint happily opens up
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his mechanic work shop and helps
villagers with their repairs.
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In this remote area,
finding materials, and tools
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is extremely rare.
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This makes it very
difficult for the local people
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to provide themselves
with a source of income.
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Many have little access to basic
supplies or tools they need
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in order to earn a living.
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For this reason, industry in
this area is almost non-existent
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The Hanley's
seek to change that.
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They want to provide ways
for the Miskito people to become
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entrepreneurs and create
small industries for themselves.
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And the first step in doing
this is by helping them access
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basic supplies.
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Clint: So what we do is buy
our nails in town, and then we
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subsidize them for our local
area around us at half the price
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So they can buy nails
from us at half the price
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that they would in town.
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So they're able to
build on their houses
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and work on that better
with the nails we give them.
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Narrator: Helping to provide
the Miskito people with a source
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of income falls perfectly in
line with the mission of this
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Adventist World Aviation base.
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When there are no emergencies
or flights to make, Clint helps
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locals by welding
repairs on their transportation,
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and even creating new items.
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Clint: To make himself
some extra money in town for his
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family, and he finds old scrap
metal and he builds these things
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Right now it looks like
he's making a thing with a pot.
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He makes anchors
several different things
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that people use.
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And I help him by
welding the stuff together.
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And he pays for my
gas. but I give him a...
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I only charge him for my gas.
And so he brings these things
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to weld and I weld them up and
he goes to town and sells them.
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Narrator: Today Clint will
be helping a local, by welding
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together a grill comprised of
materials that the man collected
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The items for use in
today's project are an old drum,
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metal frames, and a few
fragment pieces of rebar.
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By opening up his shop, Clint
is helping this man provide
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for his family.
00:19:01.44\00:19:02.77
There is no industry in this
area, so any income a family
00:19:03.00\00:19:06.74
generates is all by substance
farming or by small projects
00:19:06.78\00:19:12.38
like this one we see today.
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It will only take Clint a
short time to help this man weld
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together his project, but once
finished, this man will have
00:19:18.49\00:19:22.59
something he can sell
to keep his family fed.
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Although aviation is the primary
work of this mission base,
00:19:28.50\00:19:31.90
ultimately, the end goal is
always to show the Love of God
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and to help the Miskito people
see how important they are
00:19:36.30\00:19:39.84
not only to the missionaries,
but also to their Creator.
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By taking the time out of his
busy schedule to help this man,
00:19:44.68\00:19:48.82
Clint is sharing
the love of Christ.
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He is helping this man
generate an income in a place
00:19:51.55\00:19:55.39
where work is
not easy to come by.
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Clint: They use
this for charcoal.
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They put charcoal in it and
they use it in Puerto Cabezas
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in the big towns. Not
usually in the little towns,
00:20:08.90\00:20:11.64
but in the big towns,
they use it with charcoal.
00:20:11.67\00:20:13.41
And they use it beside the road
usually to cook food for people
00:20:13.44\00:20:18.18
like in the little restaurants.
00:20:18.21\00:20:19.68
Occasionally people use it
in their houses but this type
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is usually used on the edge
of the road in like the market
00:20:21.98\00:20:25.19
areas for people.
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They'll cook
and fry stuff there.
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Narrator: Clint and this
man have created a simple grill.
00:20:37.60\00:20:40.47
By using discarded items,
with the assistance of Clint
00:20:40.50\00:20:44.67
and his tools, this man was able
to create an item for resale.
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The Hanley's want to
promote and encourage
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this type of mentality.
00:20:52.08\00:20:53.68
They want to help the
locals think of ways to help
00:20:53.72\00:20:56.75
bring in income for themselves.
00:20:56.79\00:20:58.85
The Hanley's want to
help promote industry among
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the Miskito people by simply
utilizing items they can find.
00:21:01.66\00:21:06.43
Marilyn Hanley also finds ways
to help the local women create
00:21:06.83\00:21:11.33
items to subsidize their
income and bring in enough money
00:21:11.37\00:21:15.37
to feed their families.
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Marilyn: This is coconut oil.
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It's extracted from the coconut
through a process of cooking it
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to be able to extract
the oil out of the meat.
00:21:24.85\00:21:28.25
The women here do
that. It allows them to have
00:21:29.85\00:21:34.36
a little bit extra cash income.
To help feed their families
00:21:34.39\00:21:38.13
or buy clothes or send
their children to school.
00:21:38.16\00:21:40.90
Another one of the little
projects that the women do
00:21:40.93\00:21:44.87
that they have been
taught is to make little baskets
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out of pine needles.
00:21:48.80\00:21:50.34
And I don't know all the process
that goes into it but they wrap
00:21:50.37\00:21:54.44
these pine needles up with
some thread and they design them
00:21:54.48\00:21:57.81
into all kinds of little baskets
00:21:57.85\00:22:01.25
One of the strong points of
our mission has been to help
00:22:01.28\00:22:04.85
in economic development.
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We help try to provide
work, whenever possible
00:22:06.65\00:22:11.96
to women and men.
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It's much more difficult
to provide women with work
00:22:13.76\00:22:16.67
because they have children
to care for, they have a house
00:22:16.70\00:22:19.87
to take care of.
00:22:19.90\00:22:21.24
So they are not always
available to be able to work.
00:22:21.27\00:22:23.87
There is not always a lot
of work for a woman to do.
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And that's made it more
challenging to develop certain
00:22:27.28\00:22:30.45
programs where women can earn
money to subsidize their family,
00:22:30.48\00:22:36.28
their food and their
children's education.
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Narrator: Through helping
the Miskito people advance their
00:22:39.99\00:22:42.16
lives, the Hanley's are opening
doors to teach them about Jesus.
00:22:42.19\00:22:46.73
The Hanley's enjoy this
aspect of their mission work.
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Helping people find
opportunities to succeed
00:22:50.27\00:22:53.37
and advance their lives
is a rewarding experience.
00:22:53.40\00:22:57.47
The Hanley's feel fortunate,
that they have this opportunity
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to serve the people in this
area in so many diverse ways.
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Clint: You know, in
America, when you go to work,
00:23:05.41\00:23:08.75
8 hours a day
and you go back home,
00:23:08.78\00:23:10.75
you are helping a corporation.
00:23:10.79\00:23:13.62
You are able to
earn a paycheck from it,
00:23:13.66\00:23:18.23
you are able to
put food on the table.
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In this line of work when I walk
down the streets in our local
00:23:19.66\00:23:23.06
village, people come to me and
they say "thank you for saving
00:23:23.10\00:23:27.24
my life, thank
you for helping me."
00:23:27.27\00:23:28.80
We appreciate the fact, that you
know they will come up and say
00:23:28.84\00:23:32.74
"you've helped my brother,
you flew my brother to town,
00:23:32.77\00:23:35.18
or my sister or me and we
want to thank you for that."
00:23:35.21\00:23:38.78
There is very few lines of
work that you can walk down the
00:23:38.81\00:23:42.25
street and you can look at the
people in your local little town
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and know that several of
them that you see right then are
00:23:45.32\00:23:48.16
alive because of the work you
did. So it is very fulfilling.
00:23:48.19\00:23:51.06
But at the same time, the
credit all goes to the tools
00:23:51.09\00:23:53.60
that the Lord has given me.
00:23:53.63\00:23:55.03
I don't have any
extra expertise or anything,
00:23:55.06\00:23:57.97
that anybody else doesn't have.
00:23:58.00\00:23:59.63
All I do is use the tools
that the Lord has given me.
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And I am thankful that He
has blessed me with those and
00:24:02.27\00:24:04.64
that I am able to pass on as a
channel to help the local people
00:24:04.67\00:24:09.24
What He has given me and what
you guys send from the States
00:24:09.28\00:24:11.48
to be able to help them.
00:24:11.51\00:24:12.85
And I am that one who get
the benefit of seeing the smiles
00:24:12.88\00:24:14.48
on their faces and
hears the thank you from them.
00:24:14.52\00:24:16.28
Marilyn: John 10:10 says "I
have come so that they might
00:24:17.32\00:24:21.19
have life and have
it more abundantly."
00:24:21.22\00:24:23.66
And ultimately our mission has
been, that by helping the people
00:24:24.09\00:24:30.87
have a more abundant
life, that it has given them
00:24:30.90\00:24:34.64
opportunity to see Jesus in
us, to reach out in spiritual
00:24:34.67\00:24:41.58
questions and find a
more abundant life through
00:24:41.61\00:24:46.95
the infrastructure, through
health care, through education.
00:24:46.98\00:24:50.85
through saving their lives
and giving them a second chance,
00:24:50.89\00:24:54.76
through the aviation program.
00:24:54.79\00:24:57.06
Narrator: The work of
this mission aviation base runs
00:24:57.99\00:25:00.30
much deeper than just
providing logistical support.
00:25:00.33\00:25:03.90
The Hanley's have
created a work here in Nicaragua
00:25:04.63\00:25:06.94
that addresses a
wide verity of needs.
00:25:06.97\00:25:10.41
Each day, the work here in
Tronquera might be different,
00:25:10.91\00:25:14.41
but the end goal is always the
same, to help the Miskito people
00:25:14.61\00:25:19.45
Whether it's a
construction project, education,
00:25:19.78\00:25:22.58
communications or
developing industries,
00:25:23.28\00:25:26.42
Adventist World Aviation
is honored to be used by God
00:25:26.72\00:25:30.73
to make such a deep
impact here in Nicaragua.
00:25:30.76\00:25:33.40
The villagers can't help but
take note of the missionary's
00:25:33.80\00:25:36.83
dedication to help their people.
00:25:36.87\00:25:39.63
The work that Clint is doing
here is something that I think
00:25:40.04\00:25:43.77
that the whole area appreciates.
00:25:43.81\00:25:46.07
You know, he has done
something wonderful here
00:25:46.11\00:25:49.44
because just to think,
00:25:49.48\00:25:53.31
that someone can use an
airplane and fuel and come
00:25:53.35\00:25:57.09
and pick up sick people
and take them to Puerto Cabezas
00:25:57.12\00:25:59.59
which is four, four to
five hours on the road.
00:25:59.62\00:26:02.92
Bumpy road. Bad road.
And this guy comes and picks
00:26:02.96\00:26:06.53
them up and takes them in
maybe thirty-five minutes.
00:26:06.56\00:26:09.16
For free! I mean this is free.
I mean it's something to be
00:26:09.20\00:26:14.07
really grateful about and
we are grateful about the work
00:26:14.10\00:26:18.04
that you guys have done here.
00:26:18.07\00:26:19.54
I think everyone, everyone
knows about the little airplane
00:26:19.57\00:26:24.41
that is in La
Tronquera. You know.
00:26:24.45\00:26:26.21
That helps people. Helps people.
Because the area is considered
00:26:26.41\00:26:32.62
one of the poor areas.
00:26:32.65\00:26:34.92
Most poor areas of Nicaragua
and to be able to get your sick,
00:26:34.96\00:26:41.16
very sick person all the
way to Puerto Cabezas to get
00:26:41.20\00:26:45.53
a little more help then
in Waspam, it's unbelievable.
00:26:45.57\00:26:49.54
And I am thankful.
00:26:49.57\00:26:51.51
Narrator: The projects
highlighted in today's episodes
00:26:52.21\00:26:55.04
are just the tip of the iceberg
of the work that the Hanley's do
00:26:55.08\00:26:59.25
at this mission.
00:26:59.28\00:27:00.62
The base here in
Tronquera never rests.
00:27:00.65\00:27:03.92
There are always new projects
and work that can be done
00:27:04.42\00:27:07.72
to help the Miskito people.
00:27:07.76\00:27:09.22
The Hanley's work endlessly
to keep up with all the work
00:27:09.76\00:27:12.93
that needs to be done.
00:27:12.96\00:27:14.30
This mission base is thriving
and could use many more hands
00:27:16.10\00:27:19.67
to accomplish all the
work, that could be done here
00:27:19.70\00:27:22.90
among the Miskito
people, God's children.
00:27:23.47\00:27:27.48
Jud: This project has really
grown and it has some very
00:27:28.01\00:27:31.01
significant needs
moving forward for personnel
00:27:31.05\00:27:33.52
and for equipment.
00:27:33.55\00:27:34.88
We have a 192 we are
planning on placing down here
00:27:34.92\00:27:37.65
to improve the resources here.
00:27:37.69\00:27:39.42
We have some families that
are interested in coming down
00:27:40.22\00:27:42.92
and being a part of this team.
00:27:42.96\00:27:44.29
And we always need more
and not just for this project,
00:27:44.33\00:27:46.29
but for others as well.
00:27:46.33\00:27:47.66
And if mission work is
calling you, then you know,
00:27:48.36\00:27:52.83
we should talk about
how you can get involved
00:27:52.87\00:27:54.90
with Adventist World
Aviation in different projects
00:27:54.94\00:27:57.37
here or elsewhere
to fit your skills.
00:27:57.41\00:28:01.14
Clint: Whatever skill you have,
when you go to the mission field
00:28:01.18\00:28:04.88
there is probably an
area in a mission station
00:28:04.91\00:28:08.45
where you can fit.
00:28:08.48\00:28:09.82
Whether it's communication,
you have communication towers,
00:28:09.85\00:28:12.35
radios of all kinds.
00:28:12.39\00:28:13.86
Whether it's electronics,
there are all kinds of computer
00:28:13.89\00:28:17.36
related stuff that
needs done now a days.
00:28:17.39\00:28:19.16
Between the internet, between
that... all of those things.
00:28:19.19\00:28:22.60
And then, the mechanical
skills, of any kind are helpful,
00:28:22.63\00:28:27.04
the construction related skills.
Medical skills of any kind.
00:28:27.07\00:28:30.04
Whatever skills that you have,
00:28:30.07\00:28:31.47
teaching of all
different kinds is helpful.
00:28:31.51\00:28:34.81
Agriculture, to teach the
people how to grow things better
00:28:34.84\00:28:38.45
Whatever skill you
have, the Lord can generally
00:28:38.48\00:28:41.38
use in a field like this.
00:28:41.42\00:28:44.85
Jud: The Lord will
use a willing heart.
00:28:44.89\00:28:46.49
Clint: The Lord
created us to serve.
00:28:46.52\00:28:48.46
That's why we are here on earth.
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And it's the most fulfilling
thing, to be able to have
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the ability to
channel that into a direction
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so you can serve other people.
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