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0: Several years ago, as an event planner and family reunion planner for both
on my maternal and paternal side, I was looking for sort of activity that the family
members would be interested in. And I searched the web, and ran across your website. So I
said oh, this is interesting. Because at that point we were working on our health and health
issues within the family. At that time I didn't that know so many family members was having
issues related to the kidney. Well I ordered just an aboundance of materials. And so for
that following reunion in 2004, I set up a booth. And I was surprised at how many family
members was drawn to that booth not only the adults, but the children too.So from that
point, after we did our evaluation, I asked the family members what did they like about
that particular reunion that was different from previous reunions. They said the information
that you gave us about the kidneys--kidney problems and kidney failure.And I said wow.
So in my post reunion meeting, we took another evaluation, and they said the same thing.
It prompted me into starting workshops with the family.And one particular family branch
had a total of eleven children. All eleven children were effected some kind of way, health
wise. So we asked them to give us a workshop on diabetes and other illnesses that that
family had. And what they did was, they used some of the materials to incorporate in their
presentation. Not only that, they fed us a meal and the meal consisted of foods that
we werent used to eating at a reunion. It was all healthy foods. And to this day, out
of the eleven children, we only lost one. And that's because he decided that he was
going to stick with his previous regiment.The rest of the children changed their eating
habits. And not only that family branch, but all the family branches on both my maternal
side and my paternal side. because the following year, we had another reunion and I repeated the activity and it was awesome. So I stopped by to say thank you, thank you so much for saving my family.0:02:46