Today on my show, we have a power couple who are the founders of Kaika Maoloa Youth Foundation. Together, Kaleo and Misty Padela mentor the youth of the Big Island. The title of our talk today is Kaika Maoloa Forever Strong. Today, I would like to introduce to you what a difference this young couple has made as they mentor our youth of Hawaii. Welcome, Kaleo and Misty. Aloha. So let's get started. I know that you have a beautiful blended family, Kaleo. Let's start and by sharing with a little bit about your family. Well, my family, I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, grew up in Waimanalo, Hawaii. You know, my mom, my dad and three sisters. And as we got older after high school, my mom and dad transitioned to Kona. And I was actually going to school in Arizona and my sisters, they all came, followed my mom and dad. And after I was done school and I came back, actually, I went back to Hawaii, lived with my grandmother for a few years then decided to come to Kona. Wow. So when you got to Kona, I know that you, I know you started a family. So did you share a little bit about your family?  You know, when I got to Kona, my thing was, I didn't know what I was going to do here and stuff. And then that's how I ended up going to the boxing gym.  And then when I was at these, the bathroom, so I walked to the bathroom at Old Airport and that's when I ran into the Kylo Kona boxing club. Oh, the humble beginnings of walking into your career, you didn't even know it. Wow. Don't I know that you had a great career in boxing, please share with us a little bit about your boxing career. Yeah, when my boxing went, like I said, you know, I walked into the gym and, you know, met the coaches and that's when basically my career started from boxing, you know, coaches started training me and then, you know, I just started competing, competing and I just got good at it. And then next thing I didn't know I was in the Golden Gloves and I had a state championships and I wanted to go on the Golden Gloves in 2000. I always take Golden Gloves and then I won the state championships in 2001 and went to the Nationals from there. And after that, then I got into the mixed martial arts training MMA and started doing that with with sunny Westbrook, cold sunny Westbrook. And I just kept doing it, doing it as a, you know, just fighting, fighting, fighting and not realizing, you know, what the end goal and result was going to be. But I just did it because I liked it and I just got pretty good at it. Oh, so the lesson there is Missy, every time he wants to go to the bathroom, you better be careful, you don't come out with a career. Oh, so Missy, I know you had a beautiful career also before you got into what we're going to talk about. I have a photo of you, a beautiful hula dancer. Tell us about Missy and what that was all about for you. Thank you. So yes, I was born and raised here in Kailua, Kona.  So, you know, that just pretty much was instilled in me from a very, very young age, never ever imagining that dancing would be a career in my life. Definitely blessed and super grateful for the opportunities that was able to take me, you know, worldwide to travel.  So I'm just really grateful for that. And with that, it's just opened many, many doors and the opportunities never seem to amaze us. Wow. And I know that you met, you both met, and I don't know the duration of the courtship or what transpired, but I know I have a photo of a very big celebration for you both. And just share with us a little bit about that. And then maybe you can just point out that there's a famous dude in the background there with you all. Kaleel and I have been together for a little over a decade now, and we chose to get married on Halloween. Prior to all of this, we've always done events together. And so we're pretty much known in the community for all the community events we've done. But Halloween has been our jam from a Halloween block party that I used to put on before in the community. And then Kaleel just thrives on our community haunted house. So that's been ongoing for many years. And we figured, you know what, we might as well get married on Halloween because that's pretty much been our family thing. So we did. Here I was trying to plan a wedding in Kona, figuring it's going to be here in Kona. And Kaleel had it all planned out already. He said, no, we're going to do it in Vegas. Dog the Body Hunter is going to marry us. And that's what we did. And it was amazing. Wow. What a story. And so how is it that you were able to get Dog the Body Hunter to preside over your wedding, your marriage? How did you get it, Manny? Well, actually, I worked for Dog. I mean, his personal security, him and his wife. I'm one of their personal bodyguards. So I worked with them on the TV show too. Like, I started working with them on Dog the Body Hunter season eight. And I worked for two seasons or three seasons, right? I'll get bet on the hunt. And then we had our last season on, it was called Dog's Most Wanted. So I've been on all those shows with them. So me and Dog was really close. Wow. No wonder you look so famous. I knew I knew you from somewhere. And how best that he was able to preside over your wedding as you serve him.  Yeah. That's beautiful. They're super great. Yeah. And so now I know there's a photo and this is a beautiful photo because it's the blessed Ohana. And I know that this right here is a full time job. So people are wondering, why is the full time job? Well, these are all their kids. So please share with us a little bit about your family. I go first. Okay. So our family, we say is a big blended family of 10 children. So I'll go ahead and start with my first three. I was from a previous marriage and my oldest is now 22.  And that's Mahiae, Ola and Makana. And then I was blessed to be able to have three more boys with Kaleo. And that was one baby Samson. And then Kanan is our eight year old and Ethan is our five year old. Yeah. Blended with his blessings. Yeah, I had my oldest daughter, Angel, and then I had my son, Noah, and then my other son, Seth. And we just blend it all together. And then we have Lacy. Oh, and Lacy. In California. And yeah, so like I said, we have 10 kids. We're done.  And I know you mentioned, and this story is pretty much. I think we're going into baby Samson or baby, do we call him baby Samson or Kaikama Loa? What? Everyone's known him as baby Samson. Our boys all have names from the Bible. And so yeah, everyone knows him as baby Samson. And Kaikama Loa was his Hawaiian name that was given to him by Uncle Danny Akaka. And it means forever strong. Beautiful. So please explain to our audience. Why is baby Samson so special? So baby Samson, he was our firstborn son. And he passed within 24 hours due to undetected pneumonia. He was very, very unfortunate circumstance, but through the power of prayer and the love of God, you know, I do believe with all my heart that by this act that occurred, you know, a huge blessing came out of it. And that was birth the Kaikama Loa Youth Foundation. It was my desire on my heart to start a youth foundation that just really help educate on health and wellness awareness. Little did we know, I believe that this was also the pathway to allow Khalil to use all of his God given talents to something that he's clearly, I don't want to say ignored, but something that he just never received to take on the responsibility of what he was called to do, which is teaching, you know, health and wellness awareness through boxing, which is his talent. So many people even prior to me, you know, have always reached out to him that, you know, you've got to do this, but he's always brushed it away. No, no, no, he never, ever wanted to do this. But through this, you know, the sacrifice that we had to give up of, you know, not having Samson in our life. With that, I believe came multiple blessings, physically, spiritually, every area you could possibly think of professionally with us as well. So we're just able to experience so many blessings because of that through this heart-wrenching moment, we've embraced the blessings that came out of it. Wow.   But in your case, God just called you directly to the restroom.  And so it's amazing that you were able to, that you had eyes to see what God had in store for you. And yes, Misty, by opening this gym, it allowed Khalil to really max out who he was created to be. And he didn't, he may not have known it then, but through his joy of boxing and all the values that he got out of boxing, it was now able to take it and utilize it to help others who are in need. And so yes, this gym is a birthplace of many opportunities. And there's going to be a lot more. And I'm just, I can't wait to hear more of the stories down the line and in your future. So opening a gym in Samson's honor naturally was the best and the next step for you all. So just please share with us more about the purpose of this gym. So with the gym, the Kaikomalo Youth Foundation, we're able to obtain our 501C free nonprofit status. And with that, we wanted to have a place where the youth can come and just be empowered, you know, physically, mentally, spiritually, just be empowered, but also incorporating the health and wellness aspect to all of this. Because we did lose a son due to undetected pneumonia, and we've lost many, many family members all related to health and wellness. And, you know, we figure, you know what, we need to start these kids from when they're very young, just with being able to encourage and empower them and educate them. And we figure we might as well utilize, you know, the God given talent that Kaleo has with boxing because he has such a huge following. This was just another door that opened for us, and we just took advantage of it. Well, I applaud you both, because your purpose that you're fulfilling is so great, and the need is so there. Our children are keiki of Hawaii are not being as blessed from this blessed land as we would want it to be as we want them to be. Because you think Hawaii is a land of paradise, everyone should be healthy with the great air, the great ocean we can serve, we can run in the sunshine filled lands and the island is just in our system in our souls, but it's not so. Our children are not so healthy as one would be in first thinking about Hawaii. And so yes, you have a big role, a big responsibility ahead of you, as you take on this, this, this role to create health awareness. Mentally, so it's mental health, spiritual health, nutritional health, emotional health. And I believe I truly believe that when I walked into your gym yesterday, I felt that it can be done. And so, I was just grateful that I was able to have that opportunity to walk in and feel the mana that I felt when I was there and so I thank you for allowing me and opening the doors to me, and to many more that are yet to come.  Your focus when I walked into that gym was not just the ring. It was more than that. Can you tell me and share with me what your focus is when other members come walking into your gym. You know, with this, a lot as I mentioned to you earlier is this has all been a big spiritual journey for us. So people that walk through the doors. We've noticed a lot of them are broken, you know, and they see our place as a place of refuge, where many of them, they have a hard time leaving and they just come, you know, like the floodgates have opened and we're just so grateful but at the same time it is overwhelming. Because we're like, Oh my gosh, what do we do now, you know, but with the faith that we have like we just have to trust in God that he's going to equip us for everything that comes our way. But that's really what's happening here is, you know, people have broken the loss. They just come through they want to learn they want to talk, they just want to be heard at the same time, you know, they're learning. The art of boxing and jujitsu. And then even with that we've had others that want to come and teach here as well. We're also incorporating hula for health. We've incorporated some step classes because people just want to dance and move. And we just get so many requests we wish we could accommodate them all. We're really still trying to pray to see what what what's God's plan right now is we've just this was just beyond us far beyond us.  As long as your doors are open, and your arms are outstretched, you know the need is there for just a hug, even though they said we cannot hug.  I know that your doors have opened about three months ago. And just in the perfect time when people are still wondering should can I come out with what's out there. What is that a safe place to be and as I said when I walked into your gym. I felt that it was a very, very safe place. So please tell me who can come to your doors to be a part of this Ohana that you are creating. For me when this started, my main focus was for kids. You know, that's that's all I really cared about as long as the kids the only place for training, you know, my mentality was, you know, I grew up with a corner boxing club and like a lot of kids couldn't afford, you know, to pay membership and stuff.   Right. So what you're saying is money should not be a factor on giving them what they so rightly deserve as Kiki to grow up in a helpful environment. And what you're doing is even further than the Ohana is you're the extended, and you're able to mentor them through the nutritional training that you're bringing. I mean, I love the step class, the hula classes and that's exactly that's the best exercise ever for both men and women to, you know, to just be utilizing their body in any which way they can. It doesn't mean that they have to be so physical with boxing, but I could certainly movement, just movement and that's so basically what we need is just movement, and then one cares and that we all care and we all love each other around us. And that right there is so healing Kaleo and so what you both have both have and are creating, it's just, it's just immeasurable and I'm just applauding you all the time for what you're doing here. Yeah. So Kaleo there's another next slide. I'm asking you to talk about it because there are men and then I think they're a product of what you created there. So what's happening in this slide. There we have our head coach Sunny Westbrook from the corner boxing club. And then we have the two brothers and sisters, Ariana and Gio Ramos. Gio, he was the 2017 national champion, first, first kid ever from corner to ever win a national championship in boxing. Mr. was ranked number two in the nation. Yeah, we've been training training training with them they've been training with us since they were six, seven years old and stuff. Wow. Can you and you know what this is just the beginning for for this amazing gym. You're going to change so many lives positively great creating greater futures for all and that's so so very important.  So, so tell me, tell me about some events or competitions that you prepare for besides, you know, just title holders and championships. What's this photo all about. Well, this is actually when I first started in Kona. This was our, when I walked to the gym. This was probably like a couple weeks after that. That was the coaches at the time that's coach on the left on the right hand side behind that's coach him from over off. And then on the left is coach Peter even is so they was like my first mentors here in Kona. And then, you know, they kind of stepped away and that's when Sunny Westbrook got involved and he took over the gym but this was back in 1995. And that's when I started here. Yeah. Wow. And so that was your first experience with your career that's leading you to open all these doors for so many people who would imagine right Clale. Oh yeah. Well, you know what he had the plan he just needed to show you the right door to open to go and find it. Well, bless you both are. I'm just amazed. Such obedience. So together we can buy so together we can buy putting our best foot forward. I love this, but putting your best foot for that's so important. You know, and it may not be the wrong foot it just need to be the best foot. So what are the goals for the next half of this year for your gym. That's a lot. So putting our best foot forward, we definitely want to grow our membership and our staffing you know that's always the ultimate goal. We can always have large numbers but at the same time if we're not fulfilling our main purpose of instilling and empowering and educating, you know numbers won't seem to matter. So with the numbers that come with the goal, you know we want to be able to provide quality quality education and quality performing. Of course the competitiveness of Clale, you know he wants to race champion. So that's definitely the goal is you know to be able to build the youth from ground up and just being able to empower them and you know make them feel like they are the champion of the world, be able to walk away, you know, knowing in their heart that they fulfilled their goal physically. But as well you know we want to make sure that the emotional side, the spiritual side, everything all aligns in one. So, do you just wait for that child on that person to walk into your doors or do you go and outreach in any way or do you take referrals, how would you know how do you get them to to work with you. Right now, you know, because Clale had such a huge following already from his career, we have not had to go out and advertise and like solicit it really just happened, fortunately. So we've just been all word of mouth right now and it's just been so amazing. It's been amazing, overwhelming but all in a good way. But we are we're on media, we're on Instagram, we're on Facebook, we have our website, and we can only continue to grow from here.  I think I heard you say something about you have a upcoming fundraiser on Father's Day. Is that correct? Can you tell us a little bit about that maybe if I'm in town I can come back and enjoy when you have to offer. So share with us please. Yes, so how that stemmed up was we had a grant opening a few months ago and it was very successful. So the owners of Palikui Plaza, you know would like to continue seeing events such as that providing that we can work within COVID regulations. So we decided to put on a Father's Day fundraising event, and we have two beneficiaries for that event to very prominent fathers that are very well known in the community through sports as well they're battling cancer. So we do want to utilize this opportunity as a fundraiser to help the families, and we're going to have vendors entertainment it's going to be on Father's Day here at Palikui Plaza and of course we have to have boxing excitement. So we're going to be including that as well in our Father's Day event here. Yeah, that sounds exciting. Right. And then other people who are looking for the bathroom, Cleo. And you know what just bring them in embrace them and give them a hug and say hey come on my, and welcome to our club and just embrace them. And that's how you'll continue to read out and grow. I'm so excited for that so I want to hear the results of that. So I just want to ask you both, you know, you're for you, Cleo your career. Do you have one most memorable or outstanding moment that you want to share with us in regards to your career in boxing? What honestly, like it was all such a blur, you know, because I used to fight so much. The only thing that that is really like stands out to me now is like right now what happened with the whole how we established this gym and, you know, with the whole COVID, you know, all the kids who started to come to train at my house and that's what is standing out to me was, because I never wanted to do this. Hell no, I didn't. Not one bit want to train kids and everything and how the whole thing played out it just all fell into place and then now it's like, oh, that's all I want to do is train the kids like great. Wow. And it didn't take you very long to get to this point, you know.  So the more you say no, no, no, the more he says yes, yes, yes. And then what happens is you're doing it. So you know what just continuing to continue to say yes, yes, yes. I'm here to serve and I'm going to do whatever it takes that you need to do. And that's your purpose. And that's the blessing that you both have is that you're fulfilling purpose. And money can't buy that, you know, so don't ever let that that part take you down where it's like, oh my Lord, what are we going to do now. No, don't ask him he knows. Okay, and you should know because you have trusted him. That's right. So now I know we had some information about your contact. Share with us please. How can we get in touch with you. So you can go ahead and tune in to ikaiqamalua.com. That's on the web. We also have Facebook and Instagram right now. But yeah, ikaiqamalua.com we are definitely enhancing it as well so bear with us but in the meantime that's your go to. And is there a Facebook page that you have. Yes, it's also Ikaiqamalua Youth Foundation. And is it you that is managing it or do you have someone who walked into your door who's very techie that may need out to do that for you and then you need to find that heart and give them. We're putting it out there right now it is just me but I am praying and believing that someone will be able to come and take it all and I will be able to release that wholeheartedly. Well just pray because you know that young man that young woman is sitting there saying oh I wish I wish I could do more for this club. I want to do more. Lord use me so you need to find that heart and then you need to share with them that you need them. And I tell you that door will be open like how Kaleo's door was open. This amazing career, this amazing gym and finding purpose in both your lives. So I wish you continued success this is only just the beginning and I know that you know that too because you're being obedient and that to me and of course you're putting your best foot forward. And that's how. Right. So we've come to the end of our show.  So I want to say mahalo to Kaleo and Misty Padilla of Ikaika Maoloa Youth Foundation as they changed the lives of many people by me. So thank you for participating and thank you to our viewers for watching. I'm Wendy Lowe and we'll be back in two more weeks with another edition of Taking Your Health Back. Aloha and mahalo to the Padilla youth. Aloha.


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Hi there, I'm just in the background kind of keeping an eye on things, so those of you have been here forever, my apologies, but for the rest of you, we would like to do a very quick summary of where you are from. So if I could ask you please, once I just clearly answer here, to put in your place of origin, we can see how the democracy of everybody is changing, because we're having fewer from Australia, et cetera, now, although I think we've got England and Australia there now, still, but people are coming in now from the States and such like, so I'd be delighted if you could all pop your place of origin into this box. There's about 30 people, alright? I think people are getting set up with this idea just now, so I will not labour the point, just a couple of seconds more, especially if you're from somewhere unusual, right? Okay, I shall end that one just now, okay? Another quick couple please, and if you didn't mind to get that in time, feel free to pop it into the chat box. Second poll, what is your main occupation? I'll just clearly ask if you're there already, and reopen it again if you'd be so kind as to pop it, oh gosh, some people have clicked off on that there, pop your profession or role in there, if you would, that'd be fabulous. Yes, I know, that's our opening speaker who has been there here from just about the beginning, I think Chris, you are here then, but you've got some seats in the room. Anybody else going to pop in there as well? Could you tell us what the other is to that other person is, if you'd like to hear what the other is? Okay, I'm not going to labour the point. Final poll then, I'm going to open the last one, which says, where are you joining the IDM from? I'll just clear those answers and reopen the poll, and could you please share where you are from or listening to this one? Ah, Chris, you are the other, fair enough. Okay, so just a couple of minutes, this one doesn't tell me how many people have answered, so I don't really know, and I don't want to hold back from the solo, so I'm going to end the poll now. Fabulous. Okay, let's move on then, that's Chris. Thank you very much Linda. I'd like to introduce our speaker and say a few words about her. We're delighted to have Odubaluza, I sure won't pronounce this properly, Adik Benjo, who was trained as a midwife in Nigeria and works in Nigeria, although currently she lives in Montreal in Canada. The presentation is around African concerns. Maternal and child morbidity and mortality rate remain a major global concern, especially in developing countries. Home delivery is one of the safe methods of delivery in the developed world, while it is one of the major causes of maternal and child morbidity and mortality rate in developing countries like Nigeria and Africa. Hence there was a need to study factors affecting and influencing the attitude of pregnant women and mothers towards home delivery. The study was carried out among 200 pregnant women and mothers at Ilialfi in Osin State in Nigeria in West Africa. Semi-structured questionnaires were distributed and the results showed that the high cost of the hospital bills, unfriendly attitude of health workers, lack of access to the hospital during labour, are the factors affecting pregnant women from going to the hospital for delivery. And the study showed the need for more effective community midwives to work among traditional birth patients. I'd now like to hand over to our presenter. Thank you, please. Good day, everyone. And I'll be presenting a piece of study carried out in the west side part of Nigeria. And the topic is factors affecting the attitude of pregnant women and mothers towards home delivery. I realize that there are many women that will come to the hospital over the years with complications. And this really brought up a concern within my heart that why with the hospitals that are, we have hospitals, tertiary, the teaching hospital is there, the state is there, the local, the local centers are there, but people will still come down with different complications. And this took me down to really see why are people still going to the homes. And in this home delivery to my concept here is the delivery of a child outside healthcare facility, which includes wish on houses, homes, traditional back attendants and the TBs. And I know it will be a surprise to some developed world that home delivery is a plant work. Even they will plant it, they prepare it and people always like even to deliver home, I mean at home, even in developed world, but we cannot encourage it even in developing country, like a country. And because it's one of the major cause of maternal and child death, even in this developed and developed world. And why? Home delivery is really discouraged due to the lack of facilities that are needed at home. For the delivery of qualified workers are not many, if they are not present, no ready made ambulance vehicles to transfer this client even to the hospitals and they come back with many complications, as I mentioned here. Talking about postpartum hemorrhoids due to assertion, prolonged obstructed labor, ruptured uterus, eclampsia, safety simia, superior sepsis, fitter dates and maternal dates. And after going through this prolonged labor at home, both in mission homes, traditional back attendants and other places where new qualified hands are present with good referral system, it ended up increasing the mobility and the mortality rates, even of the women and even both the children. And I realize that maternal and child mobility and mortality rates remains a global concern, especially in this developing country. And according to the Minister of Health in Nigeria, I said 36,000 women died during pregnancy and child birth, but each year in Nigeria. And I think percent of global maternal death rates, and which is very, very, is not really encouraging. And that is why we have to really look at the reason for this study, to really understand the factors that is affecting them, that is influencing the attitudes of this pregnant woman and mothers, even towards home delivery. And the objective of this study is to examine the risk that has been involved as a result of mismanagement from home deliveries, to identify the various complications that have resulted from home delivery, to identify factors influencing the pregnant mothers and their attitude towards this home delivery. You know, like many, maternal health has a high priority on the global agenda. Mentioned under the Millennium Development Goals 5, which came out improving on maternal health. But many developed countries encouraged home births because they have this facility. They have paramedics that are available in case of emergency. They have ambulance, but all these are not really made available, even in the developing countries. So, this study was carried out among pregnant women and mothers in this town, in Leifei, where we have many hospitals. We have the Teaching Hospital, where I worked, Obafemahulo University Teaching Hospital. We have the State Hospital, which is the secondary, at the secondary level. We have local governments, the health centers, they are there. We have good private demissioned hospitals, but despite that, people still deliver at home. And we look at it as, oh, why all this? And they will come back with complications. And so, after distributing this questionnaire to ask the question to really explore why are these people really delivering at home and so I'm coming back even with complications. You know, this research was an explorative one to really explore the factors really affecting their attitude. And I realized that with the results, looking at the factors influencing their choice of home delivery, the 69.1% of them agreed that the time of labor affects their choice of home delivery, the longest time between the home and hospital, 66.7% agreed that the high hospital bill, which is 61.4%, really agreed that high hospital bill is really affecting it. In family tradition, 35% believe that that is the norm in the home. That's the way they practice it. Oh, you must not go and deliver outside. You must deliver within the home. Then that 9.1% believe that in their religion, their faith does not allow you, especially if they said, oh, we have to have this reception. Oh, they reject it and said their faith will not take it. And at the end, we lose the mother or lose the child. Then 58.8% believe that ignorance is one of the causes, cause the lack of access to the hospital, 61% believe that. And 46.3% agree that unfriendly attitude of health workers make them to run away even from this home delivery. And during this study, I realized the majority of them have good antinatal clinics. They are good at antinatal clinic very well. But when it comes for them to come and deliver, they won't come to the hospital. But when it got complicated, they would be rushed back and few would survive even the pain. And I also look at the risks that are associated with this home delivery. Infection, bleeding, eclampsia, tearing of homes like those that were under uterine rupture, bladder rupture, vesicolo, VVF, vesco, vagina fistula. Then the baby also, they are at risk. There are injuries even to this baby, tetanus injury to the mother. The death of the mother, death of the baby, we have a template center and poor outcome even of delivery. And in application of my findings, this study revealed that there are many well-reformed, many of them they are well-reformed about home deliveries and the dangers involved if care is not taken. But still, some would deliver at home against their wish maybe because of the time of the delivery or not having access even to go to the hospital when they are in labor. This study also revealed that there is need for more effective community midwives who will not contain the TB, both supervise and train them within the community because no matter how few will still prefer home delivery and the skill professional also needs to be present even in order to recognize the risk factor for prompt refirer if need be but how many of them are we really having? And also many still believe in their traditional but attendants from elderly women. So, but we need to train them. We need to have the volunteers workers. We need to train the community midwives who will work with this TDA and the volunteers workers so that they'll be able to recognize the risk on time and be able to refer them even to the hospital. And looking at the study, I realized that home delivery can be encouraged as in developed world if the following provisions can be in place if we have good health workers like midwives community midwives if they can be trained if we have more and also their availability of necessary equipment like delivery kits if there can be good transportation like having ambulance then good referral system with this home delivery can be encouraged if not hospital delivery needs to be emphasized and if you have to do that no many complain of the eye hospital bill hospital bill must be affordable and health insurance system also must be made that will really make this health care accessible and affordable and also workers need to change their attitude and many really complain about this that most of the health workers the midwife will shout on them and they will not really they don't feel comfortable but when they are at home they will feel with them they will feel their pain so health workers also needs to change their attitude and also the government policy that will promote this patient-worker relationship the law have to really be enforced so that people will really know that patients also have their rights so my recommendations in patterns of home delivery should be emphasized if all those things will not be in place that will really encourage even the hospital and mid-home delivery the medical services should be free and should be affordable then also the health workers attitude they need to be checked and necessary disciplinary action needs to be taken against any misbehavior and government policy also helps should facilitate provision of community midwives for this safe home delivery thank you thank you very much Brusola yes, if there are any questions okay are there any questions for Brusola please either raise your hands or put the question in the chat box we'll need the questions in the chat box anyway and it looks like a couple of people are chatting before you so there will be some questions so Gloria asks are hospitals ready if all women wanted to go to hospital for delivery the question again please Gloria asks are all the hospitals in Nigeria ready for all women to deliver in them many hospitals are available if I during this study I went to some of the hospitals they were empty virtually empty especially the state hospital they were virtually empty the staffs are not doing anything some of them are etubed but some are not because of maybe government or mismanagement or lack of maintenance of the property okay there are a couple more questions there that you might be able to see there Brusola do you have access to distance midwifery training I presume by that means that distance training and perhaps online or something like that well in Nigeria I don't think so we don't have access but they started this community midwifery but it was more in the northern part of the country in order to encourage the community midwifery but there is no distance midwifery training presently I saw that Gloria also was saying that why are the hospitals empty these are the reasons that I am talking about here people are talking about the high hospital bill the unfriendly attitude of health workers also even though some will still prefer to be at home I mean because of their religion or the family practice they want to pray they believe in their religion that they want to go so have you uncovered two main problems which is if I think I've understood you correctly there are not enough midwife and related workers community midwives and related birth attendants to help with home births and you've got very poor hospital service for delivery as well so in fact it's very difficult for people whether they have home births or hospital deliveries have I understood that correctly if we have to look at this hospital delivery hospital is still acute you can imagine if the hospital I realize that some of these hospitals are not well acute but if you have to compare the two if hospital is not well acute can you now talk about a home unlike in developed world where they have everything made available you can even call the paramedics and they will come right away and deliver the baby if the hospital is partially acute or not well acute which will still be better or preferred than having to a home where nothing will be used even to save this both mother and child hospital delivery will have been very good if we can have all those things in place okay thank you for that Layla has raised a hand and I've given her the microphones I think she may have wanted to ask a question verbally Layla you have the microphone your microphone is enabled if you want to ask your question I quite agree with Elena that was talking about the reports of disrespect and abuse in the hospital and I think that one also is under this unfairly attitude of health workers also and which we need to the policy government have to really make this policy and our association also needs to enforce this though people are getting to know their right now so because of that disrespect and abuse many are running away from getting to know you from coming to the hospital to deliver Layla is saying to the majority of home deliveries go well well some but most women are dying even from this home delivery are coming with complications even so though some will tell you no one woman that said he had all her babies at home and she's doing fine but the last one she had got complicated that the baby had tetanus maybe due to now using I mean using an hygienic equipment using something like non-sponsored sterilized to cut the umbilical cord so but if we have well trained community midwives like the presentation of gloria that was well if we can have more people to be trained if we can have the community midwives if they are well trained definitely it will really help this and we can encourage home delivery okay thank you thank you for that answer any more questions on fashota's presentation we'll wait a few minutes in case anyone has any more questions for you okay so gloria has a question that's a good question from gloria um if you have the resources would you advocate more community deliveries or for home births or would you advocate that women should go to hospital if you resolve the problems in hospitals well if we have good community we have resources both in terms of material personnel why home delivery home birth is very reliable advocate for home birth if we can have because it will be good everybody has their opinion which has to be respected to be amid the family if somebody was complained that the hospital would not allow his relations to be with him I mean with her so definitely home birth should be I will really advocate for it if we can have this community I mean the resources made available in the community but we don't have it so before we will get to that point and that's why I'm saying that we have to just encourage and emphasize hospital delivery but as soon as we can get all this in place fine home birth should be encouraged because it will reduce the maternal and child immobility and mortality rate do you know anything about how many of these women your study have assessed to or receive pinata who recommended I realize that in the study most of the women that I carried I mean that were in this study they attended they have good and pinata clinic in fact the WHOD for pinata checkup we are not really doing if they come regularly even more than for pinata checkup most of them have more than that because some people even the TB as well then go to the hospital go and get your injection go and do this they have to go to the hospital to deliver so they go to the hospital to have they have assessed to the hospital to the state to the local to the private hospitals or to the traditional hospitals they have assessed they have good pinata care but they will see end up even in home delivery they are working on soup any more questions who sold that on very interesting presentation I think I was very fast I'm sorry that's okay it was a very interesting subject and we still have 10-15 minutes if people have any more questions for you on the other hand if no one has I'm not going to tie you to the chair for the next 10 minutes soup typing again and in case you have people to share their own experience about the especially people in the developing developing countries their experience is like apart from Nigeria we have people coming to the hospitals even with complications from home delivery but we have experienced that only in those of you who are easy for you to read no problem I think this the slide will be made available or do you want to have the you can send your email or mail me if you need anything more on this that's for me I think the best chance we want to work out is to have a genitalia yeah do you realize that many also have this fear of caesarean section and that is why they are running away from the hospital the fear of oh I don't want to be sectioned that is where the ignorance also comes in you know about a light percentage for ignorance at all if you do caesarean section you are going to die so they run away from me I lost a friend recently in fact he is a master degree holder and she was asked to have this that means that she will have caesarean section because she has CPD but she rejected it and she said no she will not and she went home she was trying to label praying and all the rest and at the end we lost her and we lost the baby it was very painful and they have told us he will have elective caesarean but she said no she rejected it yeah concerning the caesarean sections in the with the hospital delivery I am worried the reason is I realized and I think that is another topic entirely that many of the doctors are taking over the gynecology they are taking over the midwives job I don't know maybe that is out of context that they are really taking it over the midwives there are some things that we were trained we can still manage and use our techniques our experience even to manage but before you know it the doctor would just say oh especially the resident doctors the next thing is caesarean section so I am worried about the increase of this caesarean section with the hospital delivery and that is why many also are running the with the body learning it doesn't matter they can't go even with it well Linda are you saying that in the UK do you have people delivering at all with complications we don't have people delivering at home with complications if we can help it it's all about risk assessment trying to encourage those with low risk people to have babies at home whilst only those that need to go into hospital because we well know that with absolutely nothing wrong with them and end up with caesarean sections purely because they have been interfered with and it's getting a balance right and I imagine that getting the balance right in Africa must be even harder because to me I would be less concerned now I am ignorant because I have never worked there I would be less concerned with getting skilled attendants to the birth of a woman at home than I would be talking about taking her into hospital where she is more likely to end up with caesarean section anyway so most women can give birth quite happily without any help so I would be maybe being a bit naive really but that's my kind of feeling you know it's a different situation in your country than it is to mine yeah in your country easily you can call the paramedics that will come immediately but in this situation you can't have the asset even if the risk factor you see a client with ebema and they will still be managing your patient with previous caesarean and these tbs they will still be managing even in the home and by the time they come back it's complicated with ruptured uterus because of the previous caesarean it's a very difficult thing getting things balanced so do we have any further questions for basola it's a very interesting topic oh I think Chris is back now anyway that's point sorry thank you that you were doing well lindas I didn't want to interrupt while you were in full flow well that's alright especially as I don't know the content I'm getting to learn more I know you're an honorary midwife Chris Chris is not a midwife or anything of a medical nature whatsoever so he does really well I think he quite enjoys working with us midwives he does he does it's true any more questions for basola perhaps we'll enter and give people a chance to stretch their legs and so on it's really really interesting to hear stuff from the developing world because so much of our attention especially in the developed world is on the developed world so it's really useful and timely I think to be reminded that there's an awful lot of the human population doesn't live in the developed world so hearing the challenges and experiences from the developing world is really really valuable thank you very much for your presentation let me just flick through to the end great photo great photo thank you thank you please I know we keep saying this and we'll keep saying it until the end but if you do have any photos of yourself and all your friends taking part in this year's conference please do click away and send them in the address is admin.vidm.org and we'd love to see those photos one of our fellow committee members will be is putting together a photo show that we'll show at the end of the conference we've done this for the last couple of years it's great fun it will make it available on YouTube as well recordings of the session will be posted so you'll see that on our web page and the Facebook page and again they'll also be available via our YouTube channel don't forget to download your certificate of attendance for your portfolio please also please please please do fill out our online feedback survey and Linda's kindly posted the link there so please do that that's the only way we can make what we hope is a good conference even better is by getting your feedback on what we can do also for those of you who are students in a few hours time in session 21 so just over three hours time we'll have the third of our student cafes I was at the second one and it was really really interesting lots of brilliant conversations from student myth-wide so if you are a student midwife and you can bear to take yourself away from the main conference for an hour please go over to the student cafe Linda's just posted the link for you there and I think that's it so thank you ever so much everybody those of you who have got the real stamina are in for the next session you're in for yet another treat we've got a wonderful set of sessions again this year so look forward to seeing you in a few minutes time and our next speaker will be Anna Lee Reed and so a great session to look forward to there okay thanks Chris if anybody got any other questions before I clear the chat box and prepare it for our next speaker shall we stop recording let's stop recording shall we


Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. And good morning. And our model is role management. Actually, the motivation behind implementing this role management means, in our TQ model, the one which we are using this software, there are many roles, like RCC, WCC, and participant admin and principal delivery manager, principal course manager. These many fields are there. Actually, while coming to the normal software, there will be only two users, normally, user and admin. And while coming to admin, suppose when a person log-ins, if you want to show the admin panel or according to that, if you want to show user panel, we will hard-code the values, like if user ID is this one, show admin panel. If it fails, we will show user panel. That is the normal thing which will happen in this one. But in that role management, which is a dynamic one, we will give role-based permission to all the pages which are existing in the software. When a person log-ins, we will get the role ID. And suppose if a user can extend from, suppose if a participant is already attended, he can be promoted to another role, like assistant faculty. So, based on that, it will be a dynamic thing. That's why we implement this role management. And while coming to the role management, here, when in the dashboard, there are only five views. But that is roles, modules, pages, tags, and modify-axing roles. While coming to the roles, I want to show the live demo. And this role management has high authority to power over all the softwares. See, this is our dashboard. And while coming to the roles, these are the current roles which are existing in the software. There are 10 roles, like a normal user business and all these things. And if you want any new role, you can add those. And we created another feature in that that you can deactivate one particular role from axing this complete software. And you can make them active. This is one feature. And while coming to the modules... Let me ask few questions over here. Now, if I have to create one role, the role will be given certain rights. The role is basically defined by the rights. So, where are the rights? I will come in the axing roles while coming to the last one. You show the role, you show the rights. You show the combination of the rights and that makes the role. Otherwise, role is a label for me. Actually, the combination means, here the combination is roles and modules. We have to make them combination. So, first I will explain roles, then modules, then I will explain the combination of them. That is the flow. Actually, that's why I am going. Okay, okay. Continue. These are the modules which they are working. Like, attendance module, certificate module, course creation module, all these things are they are working. And in the pages, for every particular module, they have separate individual pages. These are the things. Unlike tags only. For a particular tag, there are individual tags. And this is the one which is a dynamic one, axing roles. This is the main part of this role management. Here, it will show all the list of the modules which are existing in that. While going into that, a particular module, it will show the list of the pages in that attendance module, which is a dynamic one. And here, going to the last one here, this is the roles accessible to this module. Here, you can delete this one or you can add any role who can access this one. What do you mean by dynamic? Suppose in that attendance module, there will be a button, update attendance button will be there. This can be presently the participant who is attending the workshop. He can only view that button that particular day. Suppose in the previous day, he cannot modify the attendance in the previous day. But while coming to the RCC, who is conducting that workshop, he can also be visible to see in that day only. He cannot see the previous one. While coming to the admin, he has the complete privileges to access any date and anything. You mean the visibility is time-restricted, correct? Role-based restricted. You are saying time. Yesterday, today, that is what I am saying there. It is time-restricted? No, there we use it. The time is today under role-based also, sir. Okay, okay, continue. The session is expiring? No, no, sir. Actually, I am using in this incognito mode. Why the port number is 9000? For our tester, we are normally using 9000. We can use 8000 or anything. Why somebody has to put a port number? Why should not it go as a normal HTTP? Actually, it is a test server, sir. While testing, we have created 9000. Otherwise, we can directly host in the website and with the port 8-0. Just normally, for the test server, we are using 9000. While running the server, we can port 8-0 also. I don't know. Okay, okay, sir. Actually, I logged in as participant. When a person log-ins, he can apply for a feedback form. We will be there, sir. In the feedback form, a participant can only see the feedback form. In the role-based one, faculty pool feedback. Here, I am showing that the role is accessible only for normal user. Now, I am dealing with that user. Now, nobody can access this page. Now, I am going to this. See, the page is automatically redirected back. He can access that page. That is fine. The basic questions are whether you can add on the roles. Can I have two roles? Yes, sir. See, new page role. I am again adding participant feedback. Normal user can access a new page role. Participant feedback page. And he can also... Principal course delivery manager can also add. No, no, no. You are adding the access to the pages to me. Right? What I am saying is that I have got two roles. For example, your remote center controller is one role with certain kind of rights. Your participant is some role having some rights. Now, can I have two roles? No, no. No. But it is many times needed. Do you say that Dr. Fartuck cannot attend any course given by this? It is needed many times. Sir, then... No, no. Give me the simple question. Dr. Fartuck is a faculty. Can he attend a course or not? Yes, sir. How? This can be solved by this role management. No, no, no. There should be a provision that you can have multiple roles. For example, suppose somebody is doing some job and his assistant or somebody else goes on leave. He has to give the charge to some other person for limited time. So he should have an add-on role. Somebody is a cameraman and somebody has got some other jobs to do. But that fellow has gone out for some time. He has given his responsibility to him. So he should have the access to all the rights what he have. Sir, let me explain. So there should be the possibility of having multiple roles in any role management system. Let me explain in this view, sir. Suppose that person has to access this cameraman. In that particular time, I will give this camera access to that person. No, no, no. That is not allowed. You can't do that because you want to give that access only to him. Not to everybody. No other cameraman. Then I will create a new role in that system. Not possible. How come your role management work? That for every case, you have to create one role. There should be the possibility that you can add on the role. That is not available. Actually, in that our test server, there is for a particular role. No, no.  Actually, in the database, try to accept some things. There is a mandatory field which is with the good role management system that you can have add on roles. Okay. If it is not available, say it is not available, you will develop. Okay. Don't argue unnecessarily. Thank you. Second thing, whenever you are controlling roles, you are showing me the list of pages.  Actually, I am controlling the things. Actually, when the... He is hiding. He is hiding. So, hiding... Good hiding example. That is what I am saying. Hiding is not the basic trick by which people were doing it from ages. But it is not the basic technique by which the role management can be done. Whether you are using any MVC architecture? It is not hiding, sir. Actually, let me explain. Here the thing is making inactive means I am just showing their names here. While coming to the page, before the rendering the page itself, it will check the ID with the user ID and then only it will enter the page. Otherwise, it will redirect to homepage itself. You are using MVC architecture? No, no, sir. In the view... See it. Do you know? So, whether you are controlling the view at the level of controller, what I am saying that this is visualization. So, in MVC architecture, if the view is being controlled at the controller level, not allowed to pass ahead, then it is a secure way. Otherwise, hide and seek is not allowed. We are using that is the one. So, you have intercepted the interview. Before the loading itself, we achieved. There is an intercept. They don't know. MVC and other thing, they don't know. Okay. The architecture was given to them. The design was given to them. You gave them the design. Record. Okay, continue. I will hand over the session to Pooja. The email content module basically has all the templates which is used by admin and sent to the users. If the users face several issues like change password, edit profile and all, the admin uses these templates and sends it to them. The admin can upload only the HTML files. He is not able to upload any other files. The download link is there. He can even change the template, upload button is there and submit. The template will be automatically changed. This is the download thing. Whether you have referred any standard mailing template-based solutions available in the market, very popular. I think that MonkeyChamp or ChamMonkey. MonkeyChamp. What exactly have you done then? You have just created a file and just push it into the SMTP server. That's all. Actually, according to the users need to do several things. Dispatch, slip, forgot password and all. They are just sent a mail. These mail templates are over there. The admin can use them. This is auto reply kind of thing. Event. Event driven auto reply. Okay. While coming to my another module, this is assistant faculty pooling. The faculty who has cleared an instance of a workshop, who has already cleared an instance, he can desire a wish to apply for an assistant faculty position in that workshop. Actually, the participant who has cleared that workshop, he can be an assistant faculty. He can be a monitor in that workshop. That is the one he can apply for in this interface. When a person login, he can apply for this one. Like he will show the selection criteria. There will be a selection criteria for each workshop by seeing that he can apply. And while coming to the principal faculty, principal faculty take this role to accept or reject that particular assistant faculty based on his grades in that course which he has cleared. And here we are showing those grades fetching from ID bomb X. And based on his feedback also, he can do accept or reject. While if the participant has become assistant faculty, if he approved, then he can go into the assistant faculty for that workshop. After the workshop is conducting, we will take feedback from the participant on that particular assistant faculty based on that feedback, he can remove in the future also. This is the thing we have done in assistant faculty. Page management basically consists of a file, globals.data. It has dictionary, key value pairs. Like in HTML pages we hardcore the things, not title and all. So we don't need to do it anymore. We can use this file and in front of the corresponding key, we can give the title and update it on the HTML page. It will get updated. It is done dynamically.


Mr. President, this is Ernie Harwell. Mr. President, it's an honor. Well... Great to see you. Well, good to see you. I come from a different era of baseball than we were. Right, that's right. But we're both announcers. Yep, yep. And I just thought that maybe... As long as you were coming in here, maybe you'd like to autograph this book. Oh, beautiful. I'd love to. Thank you, sir. I've got one. Yeah, I'm saying best wishes, Mr. President, to overcame being a sports announcer. Well... God bless you. It led to everything else being a sports announcer. Thank you, sir. Well, I remember you used to work for Wheaties. And I worked for Wheaties. I worked in Atlanta first when we used to have that whole baseball paper. Bases and cases. Remember that? That Wheaty got out at all the announcements. At the time of home run, you had to say there's another case of Wheaties. That's right. And in Atlanta, the ball players were all single, and they gave me their cases of Wheaties. Well, for heaven's sakes. And my dog got to love Wheaties. Ha, ha, ha. Oh. Well, I hope you enjoy that. Well, now let me see. Here's the... Is it simulcast, or are you doing just TV? No, I do radio. I do radio. That's George Kell and Alan Cigland do our TV. I wouldn't like it so different. Radio's a lot more fun. Sure is.  That's right. Incidentally, have you ever gotten caught and did what I did on one occasion? They all break creations. Yeah, but you... Foul off a few. Yeah. Right? This is the place where I think I set a world record. Yeah, I'll foul off a few in my day. Then when the wire started again, and the first message, I started a ball on the way to the plate, thought here it was. He popped out on the first ball pitch. Right. I remember when I wanted to get home, we had him hit the first ball all the time. Well, it's good to see you. Well, thank you for your audience, sir. Appreciate that. Thank you for this. My pleasure. Mr. President, while Erning's here, maybe it'd be nice if you sign a copy for Erning if you want to put your autograph on it. Well, I'd be honest. If you do that for me, turn tables on him, shall we? I love that ceremony this morning. That's really colorful and beautiful. Yeah, we've got to keep seeing the young men of ours. Isn't that something? Thank you, sir. No. Appreciate it. Good to see you. God bless you. Thank you, Mr. President. You know why? Why?  I know. And I'm writing all the time and just an emotion of writing all of a sudden. So I kind of jam them on like that. I figured. Thank you. Good to see you all again. I don't want to pursue. Yes, sir. Pleasure. How are you? How are you? Nice to see you. Good to see you. How are you? Let me see your game. I don't want to pursue. Pleasure. I don't want to pursue. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It looks like my... I live in our own place. It looks like maybe it's next week that we... We don't have a time on the boat yet as to whether we've caught up with those men or those folks that we need. So your help and support is my work here. We've been working very hard to continue to do that. I don't have to tell you how important it is. What do you want? We have met with three commanders of three fronts. We suppress both of the operative ones that operate in the northern part of Nicaragua. Great. Good to meet you. How are you? Good. Thank you very much. Nice to see you. Yes? Pardon the laws, I'm a little wondered. Tea out in the deshalb stand. You just got back. My English is maybe more poor not my country. But to save time, I prefer to speak in English. It's necessary that I have the help of the public. We are very concerned about the problem of Central America, the problem of the human rights, and the problem of the church, the freedom of the church. I think the strength of the church, in that case, and in other cases, is the strength of democracy. In general, I think about taking money from the bishops. I agree with the ideas I am supposed to make. Very few bishops, very few in the band. We are for peace. We are against violence. I am Bill Taylor, who is standing right up here on my left, and who has done so much for the better business bureaus, the independent sector, the National Association of Manufacturers, the round of applause for these organizations, and their representatives who are here with us tonight. The President will join us shortly. Thank you, John. And again, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Congratulations to each of you recipients for your dedication to Yemen. One of today's award winners. Their annual We Care program raises thousands of dollars at Christmastime for families who have written for man-hours to airtime. And it's a genuine community project with full support for both local businesses and government. CNN's Missing Children's program extends beyond the pictures and the television screen. It also belongs to the note producers and the grocery stores who are keeping a watchful eye to make this campaign work. That is what the private sector initiative program is all about. These are just two examples of more than 1,500 entries and literally hundreds of... Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, and the Vice President. Welcome to the Rose Garden. And I want to thank the advance team for arranging such pleasant weather for the day. Usually, in this season of the year, there will be summer events in the Rose Gardener, a little like that. He obviously hadn't been here long because humility is not in great supply in this town. I want to extend special thanks to John Phelan, who is very actively taken on the chairmanship of... My vice chairman of the board is mobilizing the communications industry to recognize modeled private sector initiatives around the country and help give credit where credit is due. And I also want to thank Bill. Thinking earlier about this sea flag ceremony and the spirit of kindness and caring it represents, I couldn't help but remember an old story. When you get to be my age, most stories you remember are old and a few kind words. She said, don't eat the eggs. The truth is, when we first get conditioned to always look to government first, to steal a phrase from the private sector, they were using it more but enjoying it less. What had been forgotten in all those times affected him from the wind, but it also restricted his arm movement somewhat, and he hit a patch of ice skidded into a tree. When the ambulance got there and the Tenzitz elbowed their way through the crowd that had gathered and they said, what happened? One of the people that was there first said, well, we don't know. When we got here, he seemed to be all right and his head turned around straight and he was dead. That story comes to mind when I think sometimes I've got four. 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The Director of Promotions, Accepting. Mr. Earl P. Bassett, Vice President of Government Affairs, Accepting. Transamerica Corporation, Mr. William A. Simpson, President, Accepting. West Station, Dr. Sally Newman, Executive Director, Generations Together, Accepting. WWKI Radio of Kokomo, Indiana, Dr. rather Mr. Donald R. Rice, Accepting. Xerox Corporation, Mr. Robert... Mr. President, are you thinking of granting diplomatic recognition to the Afghan resistance? No, no. I know I can't say no questions, no answers. You can say the answers if you want. Any response yet from Gorbachev, Mr. President? You get back in your own door. They can give you a key. Your own key.


The blood on this Karachi street shows the risks that polio vaccinators take in Pakistan, where radical clerics have condemned vaccination campaigns as a western plot to sterilize Muslims. Here, on January 21st, three young polio workers were gunned down by unidentified men on motorcycles. The killings were just the latest in a vaccinator-directed campaign. There are two sets of victims here, the vaccinators who paid with their lives for refusing to be cowed, and the less obvious victims, the children of Pakistan, one of only three countries where this crippling and sometimes deadly disease is still endemic. In Pakistan, polio cases surged by nearly 60% in 2013, in parallel with the vaccinator-directed violence.  We have the CIA in part to thank for this. The sham vaccine campaign against hepatitis B that was an ill-advised part of the hunt for Osama bin Laden has poisoned trust, not only in radicals, but among many ordinary Pakistanis.


The civil society coalition in those states has asked the state House of Assembly not to ascend to a close seed in 20% of the state's farmable lands to ranch in. They have demanded the passage of the anti-open grazing bill to end all speculations raised by the delays. Now the bill which is still in consideration and now are the second reading of the state House of Assembly has generated tension over the stance of the legislature. We are going to a solution that is typical of the situation. We have seen a news item where it's like government was planning to seed surpassable lands to expanse. So we are going to remind them that we don't have any land in the country. No land in the country should be seeded to expanse, but after a while it can grow and grow. How do we receive private business? Anybody that is interested in capital-carrying business should know how to change the portion of land. The government should not use this land to grab our land and give it to the public. The man has honestly said to us that they will look after our land and we have to do that. We have to do that. If that didn't happen, we would be here for them to be part of the committee, to oversee everything and see the law in terms of just to mend the press. We rest assured that we occupy the space again and even the next time we start to figure out a form and a mattress to sleep in this house of a second. The same rights you have as a doleman, same rights I have, I am only privileged to be here today to preside over this great institution on behalf of the people. And I join you to say that not an inch of the land will be seeded to expanse. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Is there any time you hear about Africa, what do you hear? You're negative. Mostly they show a negative thing of Africa. At the TV, at the world news, but the good thing of Africa, we don't see it. If you want to see it, you must go to YouTube and Google it or what. Then you will see how Africa is rising. Ghana is a rising country. Albania, Nigeria, South Africa, most countries of Africa are very positive now. And that is why it's very important for Africans to start telling their own stories. So that Africans at the other side of the world can also get to see Africa. We need to connect the dots. Yeah, and I believe in the young ones that they will accomplish that. Because I don't believe that a white man can do more than a black man. We are just humans. Exactly. The one gets the opportunity, the other one next. Not like here in Suriname. When I say something, people don't tend to believe it yet. But the white man says something. They believe? Good morning. It's five o'clock a.m. in Suriname. And we are awake and struck. We are awake at this time because we are embarking on a journey. I call it the spiritual journey, a journey of bridging the garb, a journey of connecting to our own people, a journey of getting to meet our people that found themselves in the new world. And if you're excited to come along with us on this journey, why not just like this video? Now, please, like it. And if you are new here, do me a favor and subscribe to this YouTube channel. I feel like this is very fulfilling. The car is ready. We are about to hit the road to go find our people. They live in the interior. That's how they call it. But another way I would say the inland. So I don't want to talk too much because I don't know how long it's going to take us to get there. But we're going to come along with you guys. So, yeah, let's just go together. This is the car we're using. And this trip is actually more expensive than I thought because our people live far away. But anyway, we've got to do it for you because we need to let you know that you got your fellow Africans living in South America. And we are here in Suriname to bridge the gap and nothing will stop that. So this is our first stop. You're here to pick. Oh, okay. We met him yesterday. Are you the chef? Yes. How are you? I'm good. How do you say hello? Waking up. Waking up? Waking up. Waking up. I'm waking up. Waking up. Waking up. Waking up. I'm so lost. Hi. How are you, man? I'm fine. Good. My name is Lionel. Lionel. Lionel. Lionel. Lionel. Lionel. Not messy. But we call him Chefibia. Chefibia means a small bear. The bear is a goat. He will be your guide. Oh, you'll be our guide for today, eh? For the whole trip. The whole trip. From today until Sunday. Sunday. Yes. Okay.  All right. Thank you. Hi. Hi. Who are we? Milly. Ah, nice to see you. Nice to see you, too. Welcome to Suriname. Thank you. Wow. This is my mom. And all the traditional dishes I will be making, I learned from her. And she learned from her grandmother. And we are going now to the place where her grandmother lived. Oh, wow. Yes. So you are Maroon. Yes. Who are the Maroons? So the Maroons are an enslaved people from Africa who ran away from the plantations and created their own community in the interior of Suriname. So when they brought the Africans in Suriname, there was a few of them in between who said, I will look for my freedom. I will try to escape the seers if there is life out of this. Because the life they had in the plantation was a life or death. So they knew for sure that if they stayed at the plantation, one day they would die. Or maybe they will be treated or you never know. So they took the chance and ran away from the plantations. And they didn't took a bus or a boat or something. They just went into the jungle. So we are representing the Maroon traditional dishes here in town. That's amazing. Yeah. I can't wait to try all the Maroon dishes. You can't wait. We have one there. But that's... Oh my goodness. Like you guys have this. This one. So what's up? Oh my god. But the fruits in here are so huge. The water... They come a bit... Oh my goodness, no. Look at that. Like... This is Africa, man. Did you sleep well? Very well. So you're dad? Yeah, me, my dad. Oh, hey. My name is Maya. Hi. Hey. What do you say? What's your Maya? That's my name, Maya. From Maya? Yeah, from Ghana. You're from Ghana? Yeah. If you didn't say that, we don't know. Just like us. That's a good one. Definitely. I didn't understand what is this trip about. The trip is all about coming in here to connect our people. You know, just like you said, if I didn't speak, you wouldn't know that I'm from Ghana. So... But you're from an organization? No. Just a young man who decided to travel to see and meet my people. That's it. We have a lot of ethnic groups here. Okay. We have people from India, from Indonesia, and they tend to look back from where their ancestors came from. But we, from the African slaves, we don't have the, how you say it, the same feeling like all the people from India and Indonesia have, looking back from... For us? Yes. We need the information and all about Africa where my ancestors came from. We don't have that connection. That connection. Have you ever been to Africa? No. No. No. Is that that's one of the things? We travel to Europe, not to Africa. Now I'm going to change that since I'm here. We also don't have a direct flight. Yeah. That's maybe one of the... Challenges. Sure is. Yeah. And people like them don't need a visa to come to Africa. Or us coming to Suriname, we shouldn't have to apply for a visa. It should be direct for us to connect to... I mean, I'm going to make that dream come true. No, but... That's the goal. Because there's a lot of things going on. One of the things is that our forefathers were tricked and sold to the white man to bring it. So there is an issue there that needs to be solved. Before. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I understand. Because our history was not written by us. But us exactly. It was written by the white man. So they gave us their version. And that's not always the good version, the right version. But we need to work on that. Yeah. You know, one of the things that we don't have is the organizations to help the black people decides on coming together. But helping develop the black people. Yeah. I know in America there are a lot of organizations but it's not known here. And we keep believing that we black people, we cannot accomplish big things. And that's not true. It's a matter of time. Just spoke to your dad and he's telling me that African people from Suriname will go to Europe rather than going to Africa. Yeah. But then I just want to find out, like even countries around, which are also black countries, do you guys visit those countries? Yeah. So, you know, next to the mindset of one thing, to go to other black countries, there's also the logistics about it. Because even like Suriname's in South America, it's even hard to travel in South America because you cannot travel visa-free. It's not that easy. It's a bit more expensive. And also, you cannot just go to the border, for example, you know, it's not that easy. So, all those things hold you back from doing that type of traveling. It's not just the way we think or the way we've been brought up or the system. But it's also just... Do you have to apply for visa to go to, like, let's say Guyana? For Guyana, no, because of the Karikom. But if you want to go to other Latin American, other South American countries, because we are part of the Caribbean community but you are in South America. So, Suriname and Guyana, they are the Caribbean community so we can easily travel within the two countries. But to the other countries in South America, not that easy. I checked something and it's crazy. I don't know if it's exactly the same in here. My ticket that I wanted to buy from here to Jamaica is costing me $700 per person. Caribbean is as expensive as flying to New York. In Africa? Yeah. Traveling from Guyana to Togo, which shares a border with Guyana, is more expensive than me traveling from Guyana to Amsterdam. Wow. Why? All different countries and it's even more expensive than the neighboring. Exactly. So that's another thing that's actually holding us back to connect, to experience each other, to understand each other more and to eventually unify as well. I guess that is intentional. It makes sense now because if you guys, logistics is difficult and it's also difficult for Africans, then they're just preventing us from uniting. I've met people and they ask me, where are you from? It's like, I'm from Suriname. Where is that? It's in South America. They're like, what? I travel all over South America. I've never heard of the countries in the country. I'm like, it's right there on the map. So you are really helping us, not just people from Africa, not just Africans, but the rest of the world to realize that we exist, who we are. So a lot of people don't know Suriname. Yes, we have a small population but we're very diverse and something else that's very important for the world, next to culture and stuff, we are the greenest country in the world. So we have to skip breakfast. Oh wow. So let's have breakfast. The moment that you know that you made it to life is when you travel with a personal chef, man. Whoa. A traditional personal chef. A traditional personal chef from Suriname. Okay. Okay, for breakfast, we will have coconut papa. Huh? Coconut porridge. Coconut? Yes. Coconut porridge. Okay. Our language, we call it coconut papa. What is that language? Samaka language. So coconut papa is made out of coconut and rice. Not much but you can taste it yourself and let us know what you think about it. Coconut and rice. Yes. And it is vegetarian. No meat stuff in it. It's not on the day. A snake. I'll try to catch it. Yay. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yes. He just stepped out just because he saw a snake and he wants to catch it. How? Why you guys live with snakes? We are afraid of snakes. So we stopped by at Brocopondo and whenever you see me in places like that I just want to take photos. You know, for people to know that I was also here. And all of those stuff what I will give you is from like the Surinamese people to you. Wow. And it's handmade. So we don't use machines here. We took maybe two, three months to fix this. What? Yes.  So we will put this one here. Ooh. We will take that off. This one? Yeah, let me do it the right way, the correct way. This is called a banja koto. Yes. Okay. If you translate it, it's like to keep it warm. Okay. Yes. So you put one hand here and the one goes. No, no, no, no, no. Just like this. Oh. Yeah. We have this. And then we tie it here. I hope I do it the correct way. Because okay. When you have a wife, one side stay open. And when you don't have a wife, one stay side close. So when you're going to the village, people will look at you. Oh, is it open? That means he don't have a wife. And you have a wife, so we are protecting you. Oh, please don't protect me. Oh, we are protecting you. I didn't ask you to protect me. Dad, we have this. And that's the upper part. And we also have a camisa. Do you want to wear the camisa right away? Or do you want to? Maybe when I'm going to the village. Yes. Because tomorrow morning, when you're going to visit the the grandma, then you can put the camisa on. But you can take a look at it. My people, and this is the way we are showing love to people who visit us. The love in Surinam has been amazing. Like I said, I feel so emotional whenever I see my people showing me this kind of love that I never expected from the airport to my room to where we are right now. You know, it makes me feel like I cannot give up on what I do, you know. No, I cannot give up. Because this is a journey that I'm on. And I can't believe that all these people are coming along with me on this journey. See, these are our own people. I think I need to give a hug on behalf of all Africans watching me. Hey! Can I just? Sure! I do. That's what we say when we have people. Really? I do. And we say, I too. Oh, I believe it. Oh my God! I want my economy. Yes. We say I do means like the hook is connected. Oh my goodness. That's true. No. You see that this is a part of Ghana, right? Exactly. We say I too. And they say I do. Yes. Oh my God. I think the Ghanaian people copy it from us. I think so. You know, most of our language, we make the sounds.  You know, if you want to, if you want to express it, how do you say it? We add the sounds to it. And do it like, so obama sum chai!  Like, you people say, I can't go. Oh, okay. I can't go. Yay! It's just like that. So it all depends on how you express it. You just have to add a sound to it. Yes. That's, it's the same here. It's the same here. Yeah, the same here. Like, running and jumping the water, I can't do it. I can't do it. No. We don't do it, right? No, we say the same thing. Okay. And that's why you are at the right place right now, because we will show you a lot more. This is the start from Brocopondo. We are going to the area of... Cipaliveni. Maroon people, let's say that. Start from Brocopondo. We are going back to the interior and our people lived around here, to Cipaliveni. Did you just say gidi gidi? Yeah. Kule gidi gidi gidi. Jumbo kai jufu. I think we should just go. We say gidi gidi.   Just chill. Man ye, that's what we just meant. Yeah, but gidi gidi is like you're faster now. Yes man. As we continue the journey, we stop by at another village that feels so much like home. Like everything in here feels like home. I think I can live here for the rest of my life because, you know, we have this. We eat it in Ghana. How do you guys call this here? Spenancy. We eat this. We have the okra. See, everything, you know, it's more like a backyard kind of farming that we do most of the times in our various homes in Africa. And it's exciting to see that it's exactly the same thing in here. You see, they say you can take an African out of Africa but you cannot take the African in him out of him. That's sugarcane, backyard. This is, see, the same tap. If I had my way, I would have just look this up and put it on me. That's what you do. Look at that. Just look at that. She's doing the same thing. She's shining out there. A few minutes later. You know, it's so hot out here that even the water is hot. You feel at home? I feel like I'm home. I will look for a house for you somewhere here. No, please, don't do it. Don't do it. I don't want to go back. I found myself somewhere in Bronzeware. I'm seeing so many similarities in terms of things I would do in Ghana. Let me use Ghana. I don't know if in your country, in Africa, you do the same thing. But I'm talking to someone coming from Ghana and I cannot see this water right here and just let it go again. Am I going to pay for the water? No, no, no. Where's your money? Have you guys been to Africa before? No, no. Maybe you can bring me. No, I would take you to Africa if you want me to. Yeah, I would. What I'm trying to do, if they go to Africa, they will definitely understand what I'm doing more because I am from Africa. But we see Africa on your page, so we don't have anything about Africa. No, it's different. Because it's like, oh my goodness, I feel like I'm in Africa. You guys brought Africa with you guys. Oh, you feel like you're in Africa now? No, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, it's good. The fiber of Africa is also here. Africa's best kept second. Surrender. We finally made it to Achoni, which is the last stop of the bus. It means that there is no road from Achoni to our final destination. So in order for us to get there, we have to be on a boat. And I couldn't believe that even here, I've got people that watch my YouTube channel. I look at the mic. You know when I start to look at you, when you are in China, you talk, you speak Chinese. Yeah. I say to myself, one time, man, I'm going to learn Chinese. And you know what I do when I come back in Suriname? I'm from here, I live in Huala. Okay. And now I have 20 hectares of, I'm going to start my own ticket. Just to look at you while you talk, do that, do that, do that. Really? I can't believe I see you now, my brother. I have to make a picture. Oh my goodness. I see your face. I say, hey, that's what I'm looking at. Wow. Hey, I'm happy to see you, my brother. Thank you. You see, I see the, I know this direct. This is wonderful. Every time when I go to YouTube, man, I look at you. I swear for my father, my brother. Wow. And it's good that we're meeting in your country. So are you going to take the boat? I'm going to take the boat. I have it with my nephew. Okay. I'm going to take one of the boats. So we're just going to, we're buying the fish and I will see you soon. Okay, my brother. Thank you. I have to see you. There's a lot of, I don't know if you want to use the word similarities, but I want to use the word the same, because this is exactly what we sell. This is cocoa yam, right? Yeah. But what animal is that? Corvissi. Huh? Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. Corvissi. The boat is so busy. I, I really don't know what happens over there, but I'm seeing so many people in here about to take the boat. Hi. How are you? I'm good. You were in a bus yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. I made a punch for you the melon man. Exactly, the melon, yeah? And what are you doing here? I'm going to the village, going to visit for a few days. But why so many people? Is that a huge village right there? Well, it's, yeah, this is the interior, so there are a lot of villages. Ah! This what you see here, it's nothing. There are certain times of the year where it's very packed with boats, a lot of people come here and go away. How long will it take you to get to your village? With a boat ride approximately maybe two hours. Oh my goodness. But if you look at the water level, Mike maybe take even longer. Ah! Of course, at certain points maybe we'll have to get out of the boat. And walk by feet? Yeah, or we can't go any further. Oh, okay. Yeah. Alright. He's saying at certain days it's even more packed. And, yeah. I hope it doesn't take us two hours though. I forgot to buy something. She's always forgetting to buy something. I think she's always forgetting to buy something. Interesting. Maybe it's going to take us roughly. We have to get out from the boat at this moment. Yes. To walk. Yes, we'll walk through the Sula, and then the boat will take us to the other side of the boat. Why? Because the water is very low, and the boat needs to be light, so that they can pass through the Sula. When we have a lot of people, it will be very heavy, so they will get stuck. We'll get out of the boat again for the second time, and then we're going to pass through. Huh? This way. That's a jungle, man. The jungle. It gives me a vibe of going to the farm with my parent. Now, the same way. Just walking in the forest, so you get to your farm. In the jungle, the mighty jungle. The lion sleeps tonight. Eat the jungle, the mighty jungle. The lion sleeps tonight. I'll eat. I'll eat. I'll eat. I'll eat. The fox in the jungle doesn't have a good voice, man. This is how a typical farm in Ghana looks like. I mean, if you have farms, if you're born in the village, it's exactly the same way. We cut down the trees. We then bend the trees before we start planting. It's exactly the same way, man. When I saw it, I'm like, it's a new farm. And they said, yeah! All of a sudden, it started raining. So, yeah. We just have to sit in the rain. We can't wait to dance the Adua, you know Adua. You know what that means? It means that the whole place belongs to me. I'm sure it'll happen. So, give me the dance, give me the dance. Good. We're jumping to the rocks, man. So, we have to... Hey, hey, don't leave me! Hey, why are you leaving me? Nobody will leave you. Okay. 1, 2, 3. There it is. What about me? Hit you where. Just worth. Just like. Hold, hold. Hold the, hold. The pressure is too much. The pressure is getting worse. So, I'm done. Let's go. You know, I'm the best Olympic swimmer, but you know that my feet does not touch the water, so it was a strange experience for me. No, it was a strange experience for me. It was a crazy rapid, so we got stuck. At some point, we had to just step out to make sure that everything is okay. Look at that. Just look at that. We've got a trend right there. People are pulling. Make sure that we get out of here. It's crazy. It's getting dark and we're still on the boat. More than six hours already. Oh my goodness. We made it. And as you can see, you can't even see me, right? It means we arrived late in the evening. It's almost seven o'clock and we made it to our final destination. So I don't know if you guys can see, they are packing our bags. At the moment, because right behind me, there's water, so we can't cross because the boats cannot come in here. And the tall guy is trying to find the exact place that we're supposed to pass, and he's struggling to find it. So we just, on top of rocks, we don't know where exactly, waiting for a miracle to happen. This is crazy. I don't know if you guys can see. That's the village right there. Just right behind me. But in here, there's water. And we are standing on one of the rocks behind the water. So we just need to figure out how to cross. Look at the spirit of Moses. Oh wow. They are crossing. Just like that. Dude, let me go for my bag and also carry and cross the water. Just like that, man. Cheese.