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[sil.]

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Greetings to all the wonderful
new friends I\'ve made

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here on our island I remember you well and hope
with all my heart, you will visit me again.

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[music]

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I feel like they\'re not only my friends but my family.
The long-term plans that I may conclude them.

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[music]

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People thought nothing of stopping by I\'m talking
to you. It\'s just a lot more friendly culture,

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you know, uh… generous
culture that we have here.

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Because we are poor it\'s difficult
to solve many of our problems,

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but then to discover suddenly that there are
people who will help, who love our island,

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it\'s wonderful.

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It\'s a good experience, the learn things
from us and we also learn things from them.

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They grow coffee down there
and Sister Island Association

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sells it up here and the money
that they make goes back down

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and foremost projects. Water
projects, school projects.

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It\'s amazing to think that the first time
I got the coffee bag from Nicaragua,

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they brought back 15 suitcases full of beans.
Oh, no, I was it. Did you see that? Yeah.

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And now look. I think it\'s a
great thing to do. I know that

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uh… most coffee producing countries have
populations that don\'t really receive

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what they should from uh… the work that
they do. This is how we primarily earn

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our income for various
projects that we want to do.

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We get a different crew every week who comes
in and helps us bag and it\'s fun to do that.

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I love the smell of coffee. I went
down to the very small medical team.

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And we were treating the same kids every three months and we went down there
because they were drinking the water that was carried by hand from the lake

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where cows bathe and so forth.
And when we got into

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buying their coffee and showing how to
make potable water systems down there,

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I got totally hooked.

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[music]

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[non-English narration]

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When I was little, I came
up here to help the cook.

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But then one day my dad got very
sick and after a while he died.

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The owners kicked us off the land.
After the (inaudible) Land Reform

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I came back.

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In this cooperative, each member
gets paid according to the work

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he or she does.

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We don\'t operate as if some
of us are boss of others.

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[music]

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[music]

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I sell clothing, rice,

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oil, rum a lot of rum.

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Our kids are very happy
with the Sister Island

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because people come to give us a hand. They
help in many ways, even college scholarships.

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[sil.]

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We serve five communities,
everything from eggs and pin

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to stitches and (inaudible). We receive some
assistance. For them it may not seem like very much,

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but for us it makes a big difference.

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Can you like to buy (inaudible)
to help our Sister Island.

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I did the cover with my friend.

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Last year and the year before, we built a school
and one library because they only have like

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one shelf and only few books.

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This song is for the children

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trying to be heard. We
(inaudible) for justice.

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We hear you everywhere… We were like doing

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the counter project and the money is
going to Nicaragua and that can sort of

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change the world because Nicaragua may

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uh… get a little more develops.
It means a lot because

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I am able to help other
people who are so far away.

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This is a time consuming product where children have
had to deal with five and six and seven and eight

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rough drafts with nothing but a positive attitude
because they know that what they\'re doing

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is making a difference. Oh, this one is
better. Nice. Is that some kind of bee?

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It\'s a hornet. That\'s a hornet.
We\'re doing the butter… butterfly.

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I\'m drawing the honey ant. Yeah, sorry.
But I remember most

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about the calendar Project is uh…
proving all the people wrong

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who said third graders can make a difference. They can\'t
see the bigger picture. They can\'t care about people

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who are so far away. For
the children everywhere,

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we say a little pray and we sing

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this song for you. On behalf of our class

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we would like to present to the Bainbridge
Ometepe Sister Islands Association our check of…

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[sil.]

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$8,744.54.

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Yeah. Wow!

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[sil.]

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A delegation came to visit

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and I was teaching in a palm leaf hut.
There was no floor.

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The funds that our Sister Islands send help to build
the preschool classroom. Its right over there.

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[non-English narration]

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Then, Alice Mendoza came and she
brought a lot of school supplies.

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She was delighted with the
reception the community gave her.

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Alice Mendoza and her third grade class

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together we create the future.

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The money was very well spend because the
community (inaudible) all the labor.

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The porch of the library

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is perfect for our cultural events.
The children perform up here

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and the audience is out there under the trees.
It\'s much better outside than in a classroom.

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All these are textbooks
for the children. Uh-huh.

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Over here are some of the other books.

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These are books for the youngest children.
This is literature, more literature,

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geography. This whole
cabinet is dictionaries

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for both students and teachers.

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[non-English narration]

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This is the old waiting room, this used to be the
bus station here in Managua (inaudible). Uh-huh.

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And a lot of the kids especially the little
kids sleep at night. Uh-huh. (inaudible).

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We started working about five years ago
with kids who are living in the market.

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Our objective is generally to help the
kids to straighten out their life,

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get off the drugs, straighten
out the behavior problems.

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There are orphans and many children
who are neglected or abused.

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They may not have a mother or father.
Sometimes the kids are difficult

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just because they need affection.
We try to help

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raise their self esteem.

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Here\'s where we keep our
clothes, our homework and stuff.

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This is my bed that I got when I
moved over to this side of the room.

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[sil.]

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So here bit by bit they learn other ways of

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relating of socializing and stabilizing and

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reading and writing and etc. Always with the
goal that… that they go back into society

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back with their own
family, so it\'s possible.

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[non-English narration]

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We would like to thank the Bainbridge
children for their generosity

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and affection for our
children here in Nicaragua.

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[music]

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I\'ve a letter for you, from a student.

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[non-English narration]

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Thank Heaven. But the thing
you came all that way.

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All the students we had here were good people.
They were working (inaudible) the school.

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They left money for the community project
and every time I see the streetlights

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I think of them.

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Thanks so much for the donation. We have a streetlight
right outside our house, greetings to everyone.

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[music]

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Did you have a student last year?

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Once coming back

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we would like to see him. Tell
we are expecting him. Okay.

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Tell him, I am sending a thousand
kisses, a thousand hugs.

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[music]

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[non-English narration]

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Melisa. Melisa. Well, we loved

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having such a good people here. He
climbed the mountain with my son.

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[non-English narration]

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They were always dancing…
dancing… dancing all the time.

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You guys (inaudible).

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And it has been adjusted. On the way
down on the airplane I was nervous.

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I\'m like what have I got myself
into, but then the moment that I,

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you know, got off the bus (inaudible)
there\'s my mom giving me

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this huge hug and it was just nice.
Being down there you would think that,

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you know, you would miss feel like luxuries that
we have up here that they don\'t have there.

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But I didn\'t… For two weeks like
I didn\'t think about my friends.

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I rarely thought about my family, never School.
I was just like I never crossed my mind.

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Nothing wrong with the United States, but it
was… it was a welcome change to be down there.

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We\'re trying to explain to my friends and even if they also
tend (inaudible) to be really be patient, so it\'s really hard.

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I think that they have a very good understanding of what life is
like in other places because they watch TV in their soap operas.

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But they\'re very, very content with their life down there.
They were really happy and they didn\'t have a huge desire

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to take their lives and have indoor plumbing and things
like that. Because up here in the States people,

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you know, we have that bigger and better.

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It\'s so amazing to see all the stuff that people have donated
just because they want to help people and to try to improve

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their lives and to take down the step
that\'s going to do, that naturally excited.

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(inaudible), pens, crayons.

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Right now we\'re trying to use all this filler paper that
people have donated to fill up the binders making flat,

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they are easier to pack that way. And since we\'re taking these
down to put paper and anyways we are just throwing them up

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and getting rid of all the excess plastic.
What we do is

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work with the community on projects that help the
whole community rather than help individual families

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and certainly education and good
health help the whole community.

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I\'m gonna be splitting up the bats,
and the gloves and the balls.

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Umm… Put in the bags we\'re going to number them and then just
put them off to different towns. We have a couple of boxes

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full of uniforms and hats and things like
that, so we\'re going to try our best

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to form a couple of teams and, you know, help them play. The people
there have a whole different (inaudible) than they do in America,

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I mean, they… they don\'t take as much for granted
and they\'re more easy living (inaudible).

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The atmosphere is so much better. Yeah.
(inaudible) is really friendly.

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What they lack in money, they make (inaudible).
It\'s just a good quote, good quote.

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[non-English narration]

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The students bring material aid and they help with
work projects. But society doesn\'t just develop

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just through physical work. It also develops
through communication and relationships.

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[non-English narration]

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(inaudible) like to have a
student from the States.

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They are used to the kind of food we
eat here, but we along pretty well

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and I really enjoyed her visit.

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[sil.]

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I treated them like family.
We understand that sometimes

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because they don\'t know our language very
well, they feel embarrassed about talking,

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but we don\'t laugh. Instead, we ask
them questions, are you hungry,

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do you want something to drink and within
a couple of days we\'re talking a lot.

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[non-English narration]

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Sometimes at night we sit out here

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and we talk and laugh. The
culture of the foreigners

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is more sophisticated than the Nicaraguans.
Here we just work in the fields.

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Most older people haven\'t gone to school.

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I didn\'t go to school.

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[non-English narration]

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One of the most important things is to
share our culture and get to know there.

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It was a great experience
to have her in our family.

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She felt right at home.

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We all do the household chores
and she like to work on lunch.

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She helped to clean the rice and
the green, got the meat ready.

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She learned a lot and we
also learned from her.

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[non-English narration]

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When the Sister Project began, I applied to the
Bainbridge in Altagracia Committee for a scholarship

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to attend the university. They
supported me for five years.

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In 1988 I had the opportunity to come
back to my high school to teach.

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[non-English narration]

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Already six scholarships
students have graduated,

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six professionals who contribute
to Nicaraguan society.

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[non-English narration]

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Each year fewer students go on to the
university often because of financial process.

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We believe we won\'t always need help,
but right now we appreciate the support

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to help (inaudible) start
the Nicaraguan economy.

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[music]

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Not only is it important
to produce organic coffee

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but also shade-grown coffee because the
lives of people, birds and animals

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will all benefit from the forest.

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[music]

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About a week, we picked this area again.

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By that time these berries will be ripe.

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All our work here is for our own
benefit, that\'s wasn\'t always true.

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Before we were exploited for
the benefit of (inaudible)

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now we exploit ourselves with the
profits for meeting the (inaudible).

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[music]

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(inaudible) pack freight,

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this will be used on the mules to transport
the coffee from the field to the (inaudible).

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[music]

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We have to remove the pulp

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from the coffee beans and the machine must be
adjusted, just right the beans to come out perfectly.

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[non-English narration]

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Then we wash the coffee three times. When the
pulp is gone, we test it on the wall like this.

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If the beans are clean, they won\'t stick.

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[music]

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So they can have a lot more coffee. They\'d really like to sell
to us because we give them a better price and anybody else.

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Well, uh… we\'re thinking about that

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and looking for new markets. Now to start the
negotiations I would like to offer $1.56 for pound.

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[sil.]

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You haven\'t talked about the
increased cost for the pickups.

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Here, we haul the coffee on mules
all the way down the mountain

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and if we don\'t have the mules, we
have to rent them. In other places,

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truck drives right up to the coffee field and
hauls the coffee to the processing plant.

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When we first started, we started dominated because
our people (inaudible) didn\'t have much experience

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the concept of negotiations and now
it\'s evolved into a discussion

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between the… the two parties. Those people down
there then are able to go negotiate with anybody.

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That\'s $0.05 more upon
that they\'re asking for

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because it increased cost, yeah. We can go by the
formula, when they ask for more. We can go by the formula

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umm… and you don\'t have
to show us anything,

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but if we don\'t go by the formula and you say, well, it costs more
to do, this it costs more to do that, then we want to see the books.

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And they haven\'t shown the books. And we haven\'t seen the
books. It is important that this does get wrapped together

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and it is saleable in terms of the
larger organization, the marketing

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and their life. And… and
I think those are all

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workable sort of thing.

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[music]

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[sil.]

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Greetings from the Sister Islands and all the people
there who have a great interest in your lives,

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we have got some school supplies
as a token of our concern.

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(inaudible).

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The portable water system is a great success, thanks to
the help of my brothers and sisters on the other island

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and also while the work that we put in.

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People are healthier and the project
has inspired us as a community.

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We don\'t have a secondary
school here in Mérida

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and people who want to continue their education, they
have to walk about eight or nine kilometers every day.

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I wonder if we could give you a proposal

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on budget for this project for you to
take to the Sister Island Organization.

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[non-English narration]

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Almost every year we bring high school students
from Bainbridge to spend about 10 days

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with families here (inaudible).

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What\'s the purpose of bringing
students to our community?

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It\'s an opportunity for the
northern students to find out

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something about life of (inaudible) and for you to learn
something about young people from different countries.

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[non-English narration]

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As far as I\'m concerned
they would be welcome here.

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Other people could offer housing
but I can\'t speak for them.

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[non-English narration]

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One student in each house that has a room, I don\'t
think it would me too hard to work that out.

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And they\'ll only be here for 10 days
or so I think we could do it, right?

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Well, then, we\'ve decided
they will be welcomed here.

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When they come, they\'ll take me to beach.

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[music]

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We took struggle, work and sacrifice

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and lot of help to make
this project a success.

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This is a community then in the past
is felt isolated and abandoned,

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but today we have a water system.

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When I used to go to beach to bathe before
we had the water system I would itch so bad

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I\'ve to use kerosene to make it stop.
Who knows what it was?

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Maybe the lake was full of bacteria.

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The community dug the ditch for the
pipes about 15 or 18 days for family.

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Bainbridge provided the pipes
and each house (inaudible)

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all the fitting they wanted
to use inside their house.

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They need to have a system that they
can deal with, they can understand

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uh… that they can fix. Umm… that
they have to install, it\'s theirs.

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[music]

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I want to say hi to
everyone Bainbridge Island

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in Seattle and in the United States.
To finding out we don\'t just have

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blood relatives. We also
have Island relatives.

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I think that I had some experience
with foreign aid in Vietnam

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many years ago and it\'s refreshing to see a project
that is actually responding to a felt need

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from the community, not something imposed
by someone else from the outside.

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Like I have a second family there
and if I wanted to go back,

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I could just be welcomed right away.

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These exchanges are marvelous.
My children are learning a lot

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and above all the friendships because
money can\'t do everything in life.

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Sometimes it better to have friendship.

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[sil.]