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And then the education, well, but the house you're talking about, that's our

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shining white of success, you know.

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It's more than that.

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Yeah, well, it's getting there, but that's the one that they're going to the

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university.

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And it's such a paradigm to me in my mind because one of them is becoming a nurse,

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an RN.

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So she's gone to the big city to go into the university to become an RN, you know.

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And so she works with the latest greatest technology. She's in a boarding house,

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you know, it's it's electricity. It's internet

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It's you know everything that everyone would have you know in Western society

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And then when she comes here to meet us or come home, you know on our vacations and

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stuff

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She goes into a shock that has no running water. No electricity is literally

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falling into the sea the roof leaks

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You know, I mean most of us wouldn't use it as a tool shed back home because it's

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such bad shape

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You know what the family is there, so it's just and in that family

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I believe the success is so good because

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They grasp the fact that this is their only way out of this poverty

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You know is through their kids. It started as relationship based

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and I guess now in the last year or two

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we have expanded it to anyone can can apply for this

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you know and we'll look

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at them and as long as they follow the rules and the stipulations we have

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and

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how's it different than everyone else is I haven't a clue you know we we do

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it

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as nobody gets paid here for doing this and everyone that comes here pays their

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way and then they work their tails off. You know, it's not a way of making money.

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People are doing it from their hearts, you know, and I think that's the biggest

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thing. I like to keep things as simple as possible, you know,

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not interested in a

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lot of paperwork or overhead or things like that. We took on our first

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overhead ten years. We now have our first overhead and that's a hundred

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dollars a month for the people who actually have to drive around the island

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and distribute the funds each month you know so we had to pay that because we

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no longer live here yeah but I think that's pretty good you know for ten

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years and now this is our first overhead yeah

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I honestly don't know what

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everyone else does and I don't mean to be arrogant I guess I am

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I'm just running

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with a ball that's I've been passed so how

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do you expand the system that anyway

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that requires handling the cash because it's not like you're gonna connect to the

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internet

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well yeah I mean it works I mean it started out it you know I mean Joellen

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came to me she says wow there's some really smart kids we need to keep in

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school ten years ago and it was like three to five hundred dollars for that

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year you know and that was doable you know and then a few years later you

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It was like $2,000 or $3,000, and well, that was doable, and this year it was

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$17,000.

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And that actually became doable too.

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I mean, it just amazes me, and there has been no big, giant grant.

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I mean, it would be fun, but what it really comes through is individuals, $100

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here, $200

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there, people who just want to kind of support these kids and

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buy into the education of

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you know, and it's actually pretty moving, you know,

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when you have so many people involved.

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A little more complicated, I'm sure.

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There's a lot more work for us, but every year it happens.

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It's truly a miracle that it happens.

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Every single year the funds are met,

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and we've never had to say no to a kid

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because there's no money.

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We've said no because they haven't met up,

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kept up their end of the bargain

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because we're pretty strict about that.

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We're very strict about that actually because we're actually dealing with so many

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other people's money, you know

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We have an accountability to do