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My name's Bobby Wood and I'm here on Isla Bastimentos in Panama.

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So the tribe of Indians here is the Nobe, the Nobe Bugle, and they typically live

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in huts

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that are elevated with thatch roofs and in pretty simple conditions.

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Many of them live in mangrove mud and they don't have access to clean water

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typically

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and so they do a lot of drinking at the creek.

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And so one of the things that we've been trying really hard is to work with them

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explaining why they have vomiting and diarrhea chronically and a lot of that

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comes from drinking unsafe water and also bringing them other sources of

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clean water through wells through rainwater collection and and we're so

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blessed to have this team here with us a lift in his team from Washington State

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really working with a lot of the communities here to bring about rain

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water collection and drilling wells for them so we're now seeing with with

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this latest team, being able to reach villages that we could have never done on our

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own because

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there are so many resources and a plan and also the ability to teach the local

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people.

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What helps in that department is the fact that they're getting involved now.

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They're helping their neighbor.

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We're seeing the excitement.

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When you have a whole community that's lived with chronic diarrhea and vomiting

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and then

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When you come in with a team, and the team provides all of this information, not

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only

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information about resources and materials, in order to make it happen so that these

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people

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can now have clean water.