Ellie: why children might enjoy visiting Panama
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[0:00] Hi, my name is Ali and I'm 13 years old.

[0:03] The local people need healthy drinking water, safe water to drink.

[0:09] They get sick and they do not know where, sometimes they don't know where the sickness

[0:14] comes from.

[0:15] Lots of stomach issues and they get parasites and worms, so they really need safe drinking

[0:20] water and they also need to know basic hygiene.

[0:24] I think that having these groups come in, it really does help them.

[0:28] I think that they have less medical problems than they did before.

[0:34] The fact that we live on an island is interesting and the way we live and also all the outings

[0:42] you can go on like to the beach, to the back caves, you can go zip lining.

[0:52] There are so many other options to do and you can go snorkeling, you can go on lots

[1:00] of adventures.

[1:01] Here, if you were to get a knock on the door from your neighbor, it would be like for a

[1:07] machete wound, like somebody needs stitches or somebody needs some sort of medical attention.

[1:15] The other day, we were at a clinic and my dad was here and the lady came and she had to

[1:19] get stitches so my dad stitched her up.

[1:22] Before that, I think a guy cut himself in an axe and they stitched him up and, but

[1:28] He was alone in the jungle, chopped his big toe.

[1:32] I think it would be very interesting and educational for a kid from the states to come down and

[1:41] see what the people around here are like, what the climate, what the place is like,

[1:48] like better than what you'd learn at school.