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yes
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my name is chris and i grew up just
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outside of new york city
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this is zach
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and he's a close friend of mine from
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seattle
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we've grown up with very similar lives
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these are the houses we were born in
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our families
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the awkward middle school phase
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the sports we played
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and these are the things we did for fun
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i met zach during my first year at
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college and we quickly became close
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friends
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our lives are fast-paced and these are
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the things that we're used to seeing
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every day
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this is chino
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he is 12 years old and lives in a rural
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village in guatemala
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he lives in extreme poverty
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on less than one dollar a day
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how can we begin to understand what his
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life is like about what it means to live
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every day with no clean water little
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food and poor shelter
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and just like chino there are over 1.1
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billion people around the world that
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survive on one dollar a day
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zach and i study international
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development in school but there are some
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things that a textbook just can't answer
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so we're creating a plan to spend our
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summer living on only one dollar a day
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in a rural guatemalan village
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in chino's village
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okay bye mom i love you
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why do it
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i mean i think it's just an amazing
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opportunity to
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learn from myself what it really means
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to live under a dollar day
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which
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coming from this reality i
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can't really say i have any idea
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i love you
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we're bringing along two filmmakers
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and setting out to better understand the
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reality of extreme poverty
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firsthand let's do this
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we're beginning our journey in guatemala
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city with a six-hour ride on the back of
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a crowded chicken bus
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we are headed to the village of pena
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blanca that's representative of rural
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poverty in many parts of the world
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in these remote areas of guatemala 7 out
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of 10 people live under the poverty line
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is that you're hitting stuff there well
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i think i think we've got a boundary of
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like a big rock right here so this might
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have to be our edge
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maybe it's just
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can be chipped away
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okay
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why is it going out there are you
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pulling it too hard too high
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no
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sadness
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eight weeks
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oh
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god i cannot believe it came together
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this is so one of those ideas that we
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would talk about and never do
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oh we're here
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filming filming
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we're here in the rural highlands in the
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small village of pena blanca
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there are about 300 people living here
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most of whom are mayan
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most of the people only spoke a mayan
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dialect called kachiko and it was
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impossible to learn
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we want to live as close as possible to
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the reality of poverty so we're
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replicating a few key aspects of it our
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budget for the trip is one dollar a day
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each for 56 days
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but instead of giving ourselves one
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dollar every day
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we're making our income unpredictable
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this way we do not know we'll get paid
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we're doing this because many of our
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neighbors are employed informally as day
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laborers or farmers so they never know
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when they'll get paid or how much
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they'll make
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simulating this by taking our total
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budget of one dollar a day each and
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splitting it into random numbers between
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zero and nine
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then every morning we'll pick a number
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out of a hat
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if we pick a nine we make nine dollars
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that day pull the nine totally you got a
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nine
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where's the six all right that's a nine
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for sure
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that's great
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dude
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he's good
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a second aspect of poverty we want to
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simulate is the process of starting our
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own business
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so we're taking out a loan of 125
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to pay for somewhere to live and for a
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plot of land to grow radishes on
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our small loan is part of a service for
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the poor called microfinance
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zach and i have heard both good and bad
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things about these banks but wanted to
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see firsthand if they were helping in
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pena blanca both from our neighbors and
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by taking out a loan ourselves
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this means that every 15 days we'll have
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to pay back small installments of 6.25
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or else have to default on our loan
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i mean we've got one thousand three
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hundred twelve gonzalez
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that's how much we have left yeah
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so
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get chicken sell some eggs
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um
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yeah i mean out of that we can get
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i mean if we buy a chicken out of that
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that's
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dude we're not buying chicken on that
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i think we should buy a chicken out of
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that no dude like
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it doesn't even like chickens don't like
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automatically lay eggs we don't have
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money for feed
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and we can buy like fruit or anything
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else that's so much better for us okay
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we'll research it we'll research the
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chicken okay but like
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is that really where we're gonna
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get water
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oh dude there's a bug in there
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sean you should check this out that's
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actually how much stuff is in
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there hey we have a water source
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that was the old point and we can't grow
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anything that's gonna
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actually
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but if we can actually grow radishes
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potentially in time does that sort of
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switch our idea back well except for
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that i still don't know how to really
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grow radishes
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i mean like
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radishes completely like anything
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depends on like the soil content which
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we have no idea about like it depends on
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like how much fertilizer we need like
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like you need
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you just need to know how to farm and we
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just like don't i mean we could wing it
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and try and help that it works but like
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one of my questions was were the people
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in living extreme poverty like really
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thinking about how they manage money or
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was it this survival mode and it's like
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just trying to scrape together anything
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they have just to feed their children
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firewood is probably the most expensive
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thing that we were that we were buying
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in our budget
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we are living on the line on the edge
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always of being able to drop into a
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really bad
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bit situation
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it's the best thing i've ever eaten
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one and a half pounds of black beans
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gives us 1600 calories
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one half pounds of yellow rice because
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it's 2 000 roughly
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but still like 3 600
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calories split amongst four people is
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not
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good enough for our daily value
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zach fell flat on his ass after
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every time we stand up for some reason
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like get huge head rushes i've almost
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passed out like
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today probably like three times
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and i don't know if that's a lack of
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nutrition or what the deal is but
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zach actually went for it today we had
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our first
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full-on
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full-on fall and when he came to
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he was only speaking in spanish
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i'm used to eating a lot i'm used to
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being active a lot
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but when you're not eating anything when
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you're eating like 500 calories you
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become incredibly lethargic you have
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zero energy to do anything
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this is only my second week actually in
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pena blanca and i feel like we're
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already showing signs of being worn down
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and dejected
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we all have these pugas
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we all kind of got destroyed on our dirt
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floors
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and you know that was
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that was the point where i was you know
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like you know like i want to go home
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like i need i need to get out of here
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like why am i doing this
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and we were eating better than a lot of
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the people in the community
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jose and rico just brought us a gift and
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he wrote us a letter
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does he want it he wants us from the
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classroom yeah
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professor
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see
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let's uh
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yes
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directory
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okay
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that was absolutely nuts did you see
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that madness
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that was 315 kids playing with like
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six different balls at the same time
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and i don't know
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um
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and i don't know how many games and like
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snacks were distributed but that was
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nuts that was nuts how fun yeah
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we really didn't know who he was
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initially that he was kind of just
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the kid that was always around
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and he was just like so eager to learn
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you know record this como estas
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how
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c perfecto
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it turns out chino's family couldn't
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afford the 25 cost of books and supplies
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for school
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they had a family of eight that lived in
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a single room they no longer had
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electricity because they couldn't pay
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for it you know his father never knew
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when he was going to work or not because
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he worked as a day laborer and chino who
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was 12
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had to work in the fields
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so
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we'd see him coming walking up the
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mountain with this
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thing wrapped around his head and like a
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huge bundle of like logs and sticks
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behind him
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at one point chris asked chino like you
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know if you could do anything what would
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you be and she and chino's response was
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you know i'm going to be a farmer
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and you know chris was like you know
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like what would you be if you could be
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anything
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and i mean he was like i'd be a pro
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soccer player but at 12 years old
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chino had accepted the faith that he was
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going to be a farmer
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chino like most of the people here
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speaks kachikel in only a few words of
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spanish
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is
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yeah i mean i think i completely saw
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myself in a lot of them you know i
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was like eager to learn when you're like
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like so excited about building little
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things outside of our house and you know
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that's what i did for my childhood and
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realizing that it is the situation that
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they're in that's holding them back
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not who they are
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is
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old
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are
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you
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revenues are growing i know
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we're gonna pay off our finance loan
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we'll eat more
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it's gonna happen man i can sense it
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already
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very clumpy though
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they are really clumpy
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that's bad right
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everything about a banana
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just brings me joy here you peel it back
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it's naked some naked fruit it's
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vulnerable
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i just take a bite
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and savor it each time
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like it's the best bite
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a banana i'll ever take every single
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time
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i just make sure like the top of the
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banana is always even after oh yeah you
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know
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your teeth works kind of indented like
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this yeah so then you gotta play the
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game and like reverse the bite
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oh nice yeah
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so that it's even you know like that's
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it slows down your eating too
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um
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as economics majors chris and i were
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really interested in how do the person
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living under a dollar a day manage their
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money so we're asking people questions
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like how much money do you make what are
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your expenses where do you save money do
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you have any outstanding loans and these
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are you know these are really personal
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questions for
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for anyone
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anthony and i think the first week were
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there he was like the first growing up
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from the community to come to our house
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introduce himself
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you know he was so excited to meet us
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with
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just 24 and 20 years old anthony and
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rosa already manage a household of eight
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people
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as a family they survive on 1.25 each
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per day to pay for not only food but
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larger costs of a new baby their kid's
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education and repairs to their house
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like his wife is 20.
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i'm 20.
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she has three children
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younger than me
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i feel like she's 24. i look up to her
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so much
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they're teaching us how to more
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efficiently make fires
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cook more substantive food
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and better bargain in town
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living so close to the edge these small
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changes are having huge impacts on our
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lives
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probably the most important one is lard
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we bought some straight lard today in
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town to try to add to our fat content
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if you could feel this texture right now
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it is one of the fallest things ever
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this lard right here has what was it 208
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grams of fat and 1800 calories which is
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the equivalent more than more than the
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rice or beans that we were eating
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and we started mashing our beans and
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refrying our beans in larp
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feels so good in the stomach
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in our third week they invited us over
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to their home for a small snack
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but when we arrived they were preparing
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the traditional meal of pulik served
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only twice a year for special occasions
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he wants to say a few things to the
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camera
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our desire to repay anthony and rosa not
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only for the expense of the incredible
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food but also their generosity
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is overwhelming
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they have so little yet they're willing
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to give so much
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we all agree that somehow we will save
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the money to cook them a pool leak
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dinner before we go
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we do like 60. it's only three days
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we can just
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decrease our
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the amount we like we can get like
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you know pound and a half
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i mean i don't think we even really need
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to dip into our savings that much
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yeah at all that'd be awesome
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if we can just if we just want to like
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not eat very much
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struggles with how we need to pay
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anthony's family back and
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also pay off our loan which is due in
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three days
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so
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we drew
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really low numbers for four days i
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pulled four numbers in a row and two of
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them were zeros and two of them were
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ones so amongst the four of us we had 12
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cents a person to live on per day and
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you know we woke up and it was market
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day and we literally have no money for
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food
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so this is a big pole
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we need
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at minimum
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two or higher you get a one
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no bananas
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we get a zero
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you're gonna talk to anthony and take
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out a loan
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from him
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it's a knife
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bananas for everyone
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we got lucky and pulled a nine
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but what if you're out of food and you
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don't know the next time money will be
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coming in
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how do you choose between feeding your
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child or keeping them in school
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foreign
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a
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see
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studios
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foreign
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it's
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day 28 right day 28 day 20.
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we had started to do these really
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amazing interviews around the fourth
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week and
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chris and i spoke spanish so we were
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understanding everything that was going
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on and you know we had started to be
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affected by these stories but ryan and
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sean didn't speak spanish
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and they were talking and they're like
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when you finally deal with you know this
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learning how to survive it's not so bad
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no problem this is not that hard you
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know we're halfway through i could do
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this for another you know
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two years
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i just got really angry and upset
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because
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because clearly the people were around
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you know they had learned to survive
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but it wasn't okay and it wasn't easy
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for them and they had to like work so
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hard every single day and they couldn't
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follow their dreams because they
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couldn't go to school because it would
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provide for their family
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and chris and i were so involved with
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this research that we weren't sharing
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what was going on
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what were some of the questions in
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general i mean i guess i don't really
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even know what you guys were asking we
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started getting into um
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where all their income was coming from
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and you know like what skills are they
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use
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to work and like what they really deal
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with to find money in emergencies and
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you know
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there's their lives are so much more
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complicated than our initial interviews
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showed
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even something as simple as what you
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cook with is important
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a broken stove or cooking over an open
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fire can have dramatic effects on the
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health of a family
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especially on the kids
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um
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it's incredibly hard to save up a large
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amount of money for a cooking stove
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but anthony did it with 12 of his
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friends by using an innovative idea
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called a savings club
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together they each decided to save 12
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every month
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and at the end of each month the total
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sum of 144 dollars would be randomly
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distributed to one of the members
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this process then repeats itself until
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each person has benefited from a large
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sum of money at a single time and that
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that large sum of money was much more
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useful to them because they could take
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that money and spend it on a big ticket
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item like a stove or maybe pay for a
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wedding
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and you know that's that's really
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innovative
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and we started talking about how close
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this community was and we hang out with
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chino every day
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and his mom this past year got really
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sick and they don't even have enough
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money to you know to get a car to go to
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the hospital in town and anthony covered
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the entire thing
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esposa
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me
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anthony actually paid for
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them to go to the hospital he paid for
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the doctor's visits and the medicine and
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the medicine
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anthony can afford the loan because he's
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the only one in the village who has a
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formal job
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unlike everyone else he can count on
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getting a regular paycheck
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and
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while anthony did help
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these other people like that's still a
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huge strain on their own finances yeah
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that's where like if there was you know
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institution willing to take on that risk
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and
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and lend to someone like chino's parents
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you know then they don't have to put a
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strain on
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on antonio
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and you know not everyone has that
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community around them or the people they
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can go to
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in times of need
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you know and that was something that
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latina
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and francino
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yeah
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good i am good
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how are you how are you
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good
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i don't know um that yeah not everyone
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has
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you know has such a tight-knit community
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around them so if you have an emergency
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like chino's parents here
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like what are you gonna do if you don't
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you know you don't have that person
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right next to you or you don't have the
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emergency funds
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or that that community to rely on it's
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true
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hydro devil's pretty sick at the moment
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he's got a little bit of a upstep up set
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timing
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this is just
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at one point i had both giardia and e
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coli at the same time and uh you know
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that's no good especially when you only
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have two pairs of boxers
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and
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you're sleeping
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you know on on the same mat sharing a
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blanket with uh with someone next to you
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i uh
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i think chris is really sick
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just doesn't sound like he's doing very
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well
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dude i think it uh
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i have that like sulfuric burp thing
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happening again
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like i can't even push on my stomach
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i can't sleep another night like this
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gonna go get chris tested for some
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bacterial infections and see if he has a
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parasite or
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hopefully it's just a stomach thing
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today in town we found out that chris
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has some parasites in his stomach it's
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called giardia giardia i believe and
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it's like living
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in my small intestine in here
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and it uh causes like excessive bloating
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and stomach pressure
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the medicine is 200 gonzalez so even if
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people could afford to get tested
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it's incredibly expensive to actually
00:39:19
get the medicine
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there's no way we could pay that cost
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i have to use medicine that we brought
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in case of emergency
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if we can't budget for a simple sickness
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what will we do in the case of a more
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serious problem
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just two months before we arrived
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hurricane agatha smashed through
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guatemala disaster workers in guatemala
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say at least a dozen people are dead
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is
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if you've lost everything
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how do you get the money to get back on
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your feet
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how do you begin building a lump sum to
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start a business
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we wanted to see if getting a loan from
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a traditional bank was even an option
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for our neighbors
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okay so you
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have to put the camera down initially i
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think unless you want me just like
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through the door and then put it down
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especially
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are you uh going for the discreet film
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yeah yeah sweet
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uh
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is
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that was highly illegal to be doing so i
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tried to see if we could get a uh a 3
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000 quetzale loan and the problem is we
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need all of these other
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items we need a receipt of our
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electricity bills we need an nit number
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which she said costs a bunch of money to
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get we need a copy of the amount of
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money we're making which i don't think
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we can get if we have a form informal
00:42:25
job bills from the last three months to
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people who will sign for us and then we
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need to be able to sign our name too
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there's no chance we could get a loan
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from from that bank uh there's just no
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way i think we should ask
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i mean i really want to know we visited
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rosa again to see if there are any other
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options
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grameen provides reliable savings
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accounts and loans designed to empower
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the poorest of the poor to improve their
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lives
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is
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with a loan of just 200
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rosso was able to start her own weaving
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business
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it was
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so huge to see the potential
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for what even the simple access to
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credit can do in the lives of
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of our neighbors of our close friends
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i see oh
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studios
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when a germain borrower receives a loan
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they also commit to opening a long-term
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savings account a safe and a convenient
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way to build up a large sum of money
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we found that beyond using a loan or
00:45:16
savings account to start a business our
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neighbors were using them to absorb
00:45:20
shocks and make investments around the
00:45:21
house
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these financial services such as
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microfinance like they go far beyond
00:45:35
just providing extra capital they really
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shape the family and they have these
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side effects of empowering women
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finally
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we have ravenos
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we have grown our ravenos
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instead of selling our radishes we're
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giving them out as gifts to thank the
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people we've interviewed
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these radishes represent a new source of
00:46:16
income for us
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one that can move us closer to two
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dollars a day
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while that still doesn't seem like much
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it would double our livelihood
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and it's kind of those those small
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incremental changes that actually have
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such a profound effect
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on people that are living at that level
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and you know i feel like that will have
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such an impact on the next generation of
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that family that it's really there that
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we'll see progress out of poverty
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after all this research
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we had saved up the whole time for this
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dinner
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it was just this amazing moment and that
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was the last day that we were there
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we wanted to convey just like how
00:47:51
appreciative we were of what they had
00:47:53
done for us and
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not only from you know what they had
00:47:56
shared with us but
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being our friends and you know building
00:48:01
a relationship
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with us and
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in many ways teaching us
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and accepting us as
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as a friend instead of just you know a
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foreigner
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so
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what can i do
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as an individual that's the hardest part
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about it and what we were talking about
00:49:00
last night is
00:49:04
there is no one answer you know that
00:49:07
we've poured
00:49:09
three you know two and a half trillion
00:49:11
dollars in international development
00:49:14
trying to end poverty
00:49:16
and a lot of times it's just made things
00:49:18
worse like that's what we're trying to
00:49:20
prove so much right here is the power of
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partial solutions the like
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you know
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there's more people who are not in
00:49:28
potluck not living in poverty than there
00:49:30
are who and are living in poverty like
00:49:33
each individual
00:49:35
can affect and help
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a single other individual we can
00:49:39
change the world
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hello
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hello
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how are you
00:49:45
good thank you how are you
00:49:47
i'm good thank you
00:49:49
what is your name
00:49:51
my name is carlos
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what's your name
00:49:54
my name is chris
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it's nice to meet you it's nice to meet
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you
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what
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i now have a much deeper respect for
00:50:35
someone living at that level i
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personally i lost 20 pounds in just two
00:50:40
months and i got to go home and
00:50:42
rehabilitate but what if that's
00:50:45
someone's life where they live like that
00:50:47
day in and day out with no nutrition and
00:50:50
and not not an adequate amount of food
00:50:52
it was something that we could never
00:50:54
have
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you know imagined
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is somewhere to live
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do
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completely
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is
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foreign
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do
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do
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oh zach can we have it can we have it
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look at the chicken can we have it
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you