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miracle it is i was uh... missionary in the country of the libya
and bolivia is a second poorest country in the western hemisphere behind haiti
and so
uh... bullet is landlocked country and so they don't have a lot of commerce
going internationally and so it really is driven into a lot of poverty
and that but the people were just beautiful people especially the children
sometimes work in a mission phil was very very difficult and i would come
home at the end of the day
uh... just uh...
sometimes frustrated
and sometimes very very tired
but when i see their children and they come up and give me a highly my heart
just melted
and
unfortunately a lot of those children were able to get education my heart
really broke for them because the school's even if there was a school in
the in their local area we're just too far for them to go to
so i told myself i said sunday sunday
i am going
to build school
for these children
sunday on the to help these kids get a really good education
and so that night i've sat down and actually drew
a school in my mind's eye i drew it down
and uh... i kept that piece of paper
it became a symbol to me at the promise that makes myself
to eventually build a school for these young children and i never forgot that
promise
when i came home
i was back in nineteen eighty nine i framed that and i put it up in my
kitchen so that every day i would be able to look
at that little picture that i drew and remind myself of the problems are made
to going help these children
in two thousand and uh... at the national convention astha co debate in
the founders and our cards
uh... scheduled a party called back to the future
and
uh... what he wanted to give him a partir believe is to help give us a
vision of where we could be in five years where we should be in
and help us to develop are all the time and statements i decided that mind you i
a m statement would be higham eight third-world school building
but he can even after that party and looked at that uh... thing uh... i my
kitchen wall that drawing
and
i said next year and finally
uh... might pass by a one-night when eden
and i said there's no more next year's
there's only this year
in this year
i am going to become of third world school building
the place where we built the first school is on what's called an i_v_ peak
and i i p stands for nothing for inter displaced people
comes back and uh... two thousand pages can you have these elections that that
resulted in on a lot of tribal warfare and before getting slaughtered and so
the government mood
uh... these people to different parts of the country to keep them safe
there were no schools there were no medical facilities
there was no nothing there and that's where we decided to build our for school
and the school dot we bill
has ten classrooms
it holds about fifty to sixty students in every classroom and into over five
hundred children will now be getting an education
lot of times we do to shift so that that would mean over files and young children
who were getting an education now have an opportunity to make something for
themselves in the country kenya
uh...
and we would over their just recently for the inauguration
it just took my breath away
it was such an amazing experience when we arrived
there were thousands
not hundreds but thousands of canyons arriving celebrate the inauguration of
the school it meant a piece of hope for them
for these refugees that now there is a blow to send their children
to school and get a good education because of the freedom that i have
received this in the cards they are benefiting
and they're receiving freedom through their education is going to be able to
take the shuttle's offer them and be able to make some themselves and be able
to have a home with their own her job
the an education and they'll be able to raise their children not in the poverty
that they grew up in and so the the free in the senate cards give me a i've been
able to pass along to other people and also
to people in in a different country and
what better thing to be is their in life truly what better thing is i had to do