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My name is Belkis, Belkis Kiros, and I am the teacher

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of the Valle Grande School.

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In this community, there are approximately 110 inhabitants.

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Our principal problem always has been water.

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Water is our vital resource, and we don't have enough of it.

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Over my eight years working in this community, I've gotten to know the organization

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Rotary

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that have made our quality of life better, bringing reserve tanks of water, helping

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us in our small communities that have been forgotten by government organizations

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and

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institutions to bring us the most important resource, which is water, and as such

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reducing

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the incidence of sicknesses, bacteria of the digestive system, malaria, body

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infections.

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So two years ago they brought the tanks.

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We have a tank here now.

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In previous years, other members of the community have benefited not just the

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school but

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in various homes they have installed reserved tanks.

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Our communities feel totally grateful with this benefit, so we are able to improve,

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like I said earlier, our quality of life and have water.

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If I could define the word of gratitude toward you all, it would be the word hope.

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You are our hope, the hope that other people from other places have Jesus in their

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heart.

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You have shown love toward us and your support has been very important for

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improving our quality of life.

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The students have many difficulties to be able to continue studying.

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We don't have books, we don't have chalkboards.

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We don't even have enough chairs to be able to teach our class the way it should

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be.

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Many communities in Boca here in Panama suffer from many problems, especially the

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lack of water.

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Now, I'm going to present to you one of the benefits that the Rotary Organization

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is doing

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in our communities, bringing us from a cruel past to a better quality of life.

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The Rotary gave us a tank of water.

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Many of these communities have been forgotten.

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we aren't able to get enough of the most important resource,

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the fountain of life, which is water.

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In past years, when these organizations did not exist,

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members of our community died from many illnesses.

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Skin infections, amoebas, and many other parasites.

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So thanks to all of you, your collaboration, your faith,

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the love in your heart and your support has brought a drop of hope of happiness to

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our

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lives, improving our quality of life with the most important mineral spring, which

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is water.

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Our community feels very grateful and hopes that wherever all of you are,

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the love and grace of Jesus Christ is reflected through your efforts to help each

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one of these

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communities. If I could define the word of gratitude we have toward all of you,

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would say that you are our hope. The hope reflected in the love in each

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one of your actions and I

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invite you to support us in combating many illnesses, malaria, parasites, and many

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other illnesses.

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We thank you with all our hearts. Thank you.

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Today we are being visited by our friends from the

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Rotary. We're doing health checkups. Let's get closer to see the work

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of our friends.