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Hi my name is Emily Talantino. I'm the executive director of GivenSurf and the new

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president

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of our club Rotario de Boca del Toro. I've been able to visit a lot of the smaller

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indigenous

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communities in the Boca Islands and really understand and see first-hand the needs.

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It gives us the opportunity to look at the overall community needs and how Rotary

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can

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help to address them. And those issues are really diverse. Even though Boca's has

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become a booming tourist place with beautiful beaches and surf breaks, you just go

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fifteen

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minutes by taxi or water taxi and you're in very isolated villages with

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limited access to education and medical care, no electricity, no running water.

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I think the most important thing when we're considering needs of what projects

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we want to tackle is first listening to the communities that we're serving so

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that they're invested and willing to also be a partner in the project.

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When we've tackled a project it's been something the community is requested

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and then they're required to participate so whether that's physically

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helping with the construction of a new school or the installation of a water

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system or potentially contributing some funds as well as the maintenance that may

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be required

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after a project is complete, they're completely invested in the project because

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it's something

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they truly understand how it's going to benefit their community.

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Hi my name is Alejandro Jonah, I grew up right here on this island and today I have

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the

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opportunity to be part of the new Rotary Club that we're opening here in

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Boca Seltoro.

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Very excited.

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I have been hearing about rotary in Panama since I was a child.

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I just was never too related to it, you know.

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But no, I have the opportunity and I'm very excited.

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I have been a witness of the great things that they have been doing.

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And well, I think it is a good time to start doing some of that here in Boca.

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having clean drinking water is one of the most important things

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we can think about when we want to grow healthy and strong.

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I mean it's not a place where you can just simply open the faucet, you know, and

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drink fresh water that is healthy.

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You would walk around the community and you would see the children with their big

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tummy, you know,

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and not full of energy as children usually are

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and well once there was

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improvement in their health and once they got fresh and clean

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water to drink I

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mean you could see the difference immediately