is Think Tech Hawaii. Community matters here. Aloha and welcome to Out and About on Think Tech live streaming network series broadcasting from our downtown studio, Pioneer Plaza at the core here in Honolulu. I'm your host Winston Welch and I am delighted that you're joining us today where we explore a variety of topics, organizations, events and the people who fuel them in our city, state, country and world. As a disclaimer, any views or opinions expressed by me are strictly my own and not connected with any organization I may be affiliated with. Joining me in the studio today I am delighted to have Phyllis Dendall who is the board chair of marketing and development of Waikiki Health and today we're going to talk about Waikiki Health and it's over 50 years of service to the community and Vital Services indeed it provides lots of programs that it offers in medical care, preventative care and social services so with that I would like to welcome you to our show today Phyllis. Thank you so much for having me. Thanks for being here. Yes, so you're volunteering with this tremendous organization that has a really fundamental impact in our society really here on the islands it's functioning as a basic safety net. We are we are it's we we have been here for 50 years we started as Waikiki drug clinic in 1967 and have since grown to an organization with six locations throughout Oahu providing clinical services and providing services to homeless folks. I started with the board in 2008 right after our executive director Sheila Beckham came on board. Okay. So I've been there for lots of the changes we've had in the last nine years. Okay, so it's almost been 10 years you've been serving on the board. Okay and you've seen this program like the Waikiki Health expand and change in many ways. What would you say are the biggest changes that you've seen? Well we've probably doubled the number of locations that we provide services. We have expanded the population we provide services to. We are while we are Waikiki Health we are not strictly located in Waikiki. We provide services to the broader community on Oahu and we have as a as a federally qualified community health center which is a federal designation for health centers. FQHC is the is the shorthand for it. We are the safety net. We provide services to people regardless of their ability to pay. Any insurance you know no insurance it doesn't make any difference. If you show up at our door we provide care and that's really essential in this community because the only other place you can do that is an emergency room at a hospital and that's that's not the best place to get primary care and it's certainly not the place to get behavioral health or any of the kinds of services that folks need just generally in like you and I would need in regular life so. Wow so this the federally qualified health center designation are there a lot of different agencies on this island that have that there are there are several we're fortunate that we have a number of community health centers located throughout Oahu and on the neighbor islands that are federally qualified health centers this provides us access to some federal funding because we are as I said the safety net the the place that takes everybody regardless of their ability to pay. Our patient population mix the the number of patients that are there or sort of where our patients come from over half our Medicaid patients covered by our Medicaid program in the state of Hawaii but about 20 percent of our patients are uninsured I think I think it's 17 percent of our patients are uninsured which means they just walk in off the street with with nothing and we it's our job to make sure that they get the health care that they need and it's our privilege to make sure they get the health care that they need. Yes thank you for saying that because I think in this day and age we've been almost taught to well a percentage of the population might might believe that health care is a privilege and not a right and when we realize that poor health affects all of us fundamentally I mean at the individual certainly is impacted the the greatest when he or she cannot receive base even basic basic care and then though of course we get a lot of side effects out of that in society that we that we can easily see so I don't I didn't I don't know that most people realize that there was any alternative where they could can walk in and say they don't have insurance because for whatever reason they don't have insurance and certainly cost would be one of those and I read something recently that 40% of people working on this island are working for minimum wage so you can do the math and that save let's just run up to $10 an hour you're working 40 hours a week that's 1600 or so maybe 1800 a month and government's still going to take out a little bit of that and your average rent for a two bedroom apartments probably 2400 so even if you have two full-time jobs and you got a couple kids you know houses it's not the math doesn't work out no it doesn't yeah it doesn't I want to I want to sort of talk about the other side of this as well though in that the health care that we provide through Waikiki health Waikiki health at our Hua clinic and at the Makahiki clinic in Makali Moiliili is is excellent health care this is not second second quality health care in any way the remainder of our patient load are folks with insurance and you got to remember the folks with Medicaid basically have insurance yes lots of the folks choose to come to our clinic because it's conveniently located we have good hours we are small and friendly it is in everywhere as fine a medical clinic as you would find in any of the other clinics throughout the state any of the other larger hospitals that have clinics it's the same kind of clinic setting so I don't want to leave the impression that we only serve right folks that are under privilege we don't we have a number of patients and a pretty good percentage of our patients that come because they want to be there because we provide good care right and you and for the that your your two main offices the Makahiki clinic is in Moiliili Makali area and then the other one is the Ohua clinic which is sort of in the original location pretty close pretty close to the original location we've had a couple of locations on Ohua you know because when we started out we were in spaces that we could were either donated or we got at a very reasonable rate Ohua is right next to Waikiki community center where we're like back to back there so that's an easy spot to to find us it's a it's a nice central location for folks that live in Waikiki and work in Waikiki that's the other thing is that if you work in Waikiki and you want to schedule a doctor's appointment we are a great choice to get your your basic primary medical care behavioral health we have a pharmacy in both of those locations you could get your pharmacy items filled there the whole the whole point is we're very convenient not only for the folks who live there but work there in Waikiki and so we're eager to to be seen as a a a a convenient location for folks a neighborhood clinic exactly yes and it just so happens that you are able to be provide sort of a one-stop shopping for a lot of things so you have x-ray machines and we did ultrasounds and is there an MRI down there I don't think so that's pretty big that's a big hospital I would take quite a bit of space yeah I don't think we have that no no I don't think so but for the rest of it just coming in and getting your flu shot and absolutely so what are there are there other services that are offered at Ahua clinic because I'm seeing some of these down here so you can you go there for dental care in your eyes well we we have a dental we have full service dental at our Makahiki clinic which is about actually about maybe three blocks from the University of Hawaii so we're pretty centrally located for that part of the map on this one so we can see okay great that's great so when this one comes up so the Makahiki clinics about three blocks I was gonna say three three or four blocks from the University close it's close okay and we're on the we're on the the route for the University bus so it's it's a it's a convenient location for that community as well but we have a dental an entire floor of dental services there um it's a it's a relatively new service for us even though it's required by the federal government we we provide uh we've we've only had this for a few years um it is a challenge for us because as we said earlier um over half our patients our Medicaid patients and dental care for adults is not covered by Medicaid right and I bring that up because we bring it up at the state legislature every year we need to remind folks that dental health is every bit as important as any other kind of health care and so that's apologies but I just have to get the plug in there that we need we need to pay attention to providing um as a state appropriate dental care for our adults they there is some coverage under Medicaid for children but there's nothing for adults and um it's expensive but it's not as expensive as the alternative uh in terms of bad health and so yeah let me just put that plug out there that folks need to remember that you know when we when we come to the legislature and ask them to consider funding dental care it really is it really is intended to to make the to fill that real and genuine need for adults on Medicaid but I think when we don't do that it it ends up being Pennywise and pound foolish I I'm afraid so and it's the same with I think basic primary care that when people aren't getting their high blood pressure or their diabetes or whatever it is even basic mental health care or or contraception if they need contraception then later on we have other issues that come down the road where we show up at the emergency room because we have an abscess in our tooth or um you know some other part of us that's our sugars are out of whack or whatever and then we end up costing a fortune by going to the emergency room when in fact it could just be headed off at the pass and provide people with compassionate quality care from the start exactly that's exactly what we're aiming for that's really our desire um you know emergency rooms are exactly that their emergency locations are the places we go when catastrophe has happened it's not the right place to go for an ongoing or chronic illness that needs to be managed in a clinic setting and so um I I encourage folks who have not sought out a clinic to find one of the community house centers in their community if it's if it's you know Waikiki or town we you know we are very convenient but if it's not there's others located throughout the state so um I really encourage folks to consider getting their health care stop in just stop in and have a have a look stop in and say hello and see what's there for you it's cheerful nice people clean you know we absolutely absolutely it's the folks that do this don't do this uh to get rich we do this because this is this is what's important to us health you know having our community healthy is important to us and that's why I sit on the board it's why our doctors provide the services that they provide well actually I would love to talk about that more about some of the specific services that are provided and maybe some specific examples of what's maybe some patient that you that you've known or helped and why you actually do sit on the board because you've got a lot of choices where you're able to spend your time and considerable you know brainpower and charm after that we'll just take a break for a moment and then we'll come back and address some of those topics and 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enriched by Think Tech Hawaii's 30 plus weekly shows Mahalo we're back and we're live I'm Winston Welch and this is out and about on Think Tech Live streaming network series and today we're talking with Phyllis Dendell board chair of marketing and development of Waikiki Health about vital programs and services that it has been offering for over 50 years so thank you for being here today Phyllis it's pleasure to have you my pleasure I was so we've been talking about Waikiki Health and how it started originally as a kind of a drug clinic and to help people that were dealing with those issues and it's morphed into a complete comprehensive care facility that that addresses all kinds of needs you have two major clinics the Makahiki clinic close to UH so I imagine you see probably a few more students there maybe not or it's a mix it's a mix from the community because it's a pretty big mix of the I mean the community is a pretty mixed group so and then the one in Waikiki and as we were saying that it's a really actually you think about Waikiki there are almost no other there's no clinics per se there I mean there's some individual doctor's offices and something but not something like this and I've been down to the clinic it's a very pleasant setting low rise there's a farmers market next door you can get a lot of things done down there but so you've got some other things here which are more of an outreach nature instead of people coming to you you're going to them or you're they're not located in Waikiki so tell us about probably the biggest one that we would hear about would be the the next step shelter I think that's right the next step shelter in Kakako we we took over the management of that it had been in existence for a couple of years and then we took over the management of it it provides shelter to people without homes individuals and couples and it's a it's intended to be a short term homeless shelter with the intent of finding people permanent housing that's our program and we provide a variety of services there to assist people you know when you're that far sort of out of it you can't manage to manage housing there's usually other problems that we can help with as well so we're very we're very pleased to to have to be able to provide those services at the next step shelter homeless programs have been an important part of our work for probably half of the life of the the health center we've been providing homeless services besides the next step shelter which is an actual shelter we also have the caravan which is another medical facility in Kaimuki but it's also a mobile medical clinic that we send out around the island to various locations to provide outreach to folks who are homeless or are in places without easy medical care we try to get out to where they are and bring them what care we can through our mobile medical clinic is that does that go outside of the urban core itself it does it does I can't tell you the locations I don't remember but the but the idea is yeah that we are we are going to where folks are where we know that folks are congregating and where we can you know hopefully provide them um some direct services where they are you understand that that for some of our our friends that are homeless that mental health issues are a problem so we want to be thoughtful about being able to provide services you know in our center for folks with behavioral health but also recognizing that some of the folks that we have to meet in the community that are homeless you know may have mental health issues also and for those folks we have to meet them where they are and provide them what we can we have sort of a similar attitude about our youth outreach youth outreach is specifically for young people 14 to 21 it's a drop-in center for young people that are homeless or are at risk we provide them uh something to eat we provide them a place to get cleaned up to wash their clothes we have a an on-site medical professional that can provide them advice and some basic services but we we do this in a very non-judgmental way it's not our job to police these kids we're just providing them a locate a safe location to get some of the assistance that they need for some of them if we can we will get them into GED programs to help them become more employable so they can get off the street so they can take care of themselves but this is um this is actually how I got involved in this was through youth outreach is uh well they the I I had formerly worked for Kaiser Permanente as their director of government relations and um Waikiki health was looking to make a change in the laws to permit homeless youth to get medical care without parental consent yeah and it's um it's the right thing to do there's no question about it it's it was all in how you do it and so during the legislative process I got to know the the folks from youth outreach and I said well can we do this in a way that doesn't muck up my programs too much and so that's how I got the opportunity to work with them and to create a law that worked perfectly I think for for their needs um so that it's possible to provide medical care to um to homeless youth for them to consent to their own care um but at the same time keep keep appropriate parental consent in other in other areas um but that's how I came to realize that we have a number of youth that are um that are on the street they are not all runaway some some of them have been thrown away which is I can't think of anything more tragic than throwing out a child um but nonetheless that's our that's that's an important to us like I said we it's important to meet them where they are and to provide the services where they are and so let me just tell you about our path clinic which is sort of a similar philosophy it's designed um we took it over from someone who else who had established it it's designed for pregnant women or women who recently um had a child who either have substance abuse problems or have had substance abuse problems to help them we provide um perinatal so pre birth medical care care for their through their after they've had the baby pediatric care and we also help provide services to them um to help them uh deal with their addiction I mean we understand that addiction is an illness it doesn't go away you just deal with it yeah so they're at a really difficult time yeah and it'd be real easy to be real judgmental about moms who take drugs um and we just we just don't do that we just don't do that we just we said we meet them where they are we provide them the services that improve their life improve their children's life we provide them parenting classes um we've had we've seen lots of lovely success with this group that's amazing and that's that's the uh sort of a residential campus yes that is so the young ladies and moms go there with their families it's I mean it's associated with the Salvation Army okay we are in partnership with Salvation Army there that's a terrific program and all of these programs really speak to this basic fundamental need to to address these concerns in society and not judge because judging makes it worse all that does is make me morally superior and and for whatever reason you're not you're not it you're not as good as I am so we don't do that here we just say you're a human being you're worthy of respect and good treatment and compassion and and care and all of these programs the path program the caravan the next up shelter the youth outreach and then of course the regular clinics they have very strong as integrated so case management as it were so you might have a psychologist there and maybe for the moms maybe lactation specialist or absolutely we we interrefer folks you know based on their needs you know the the folks at next step shelter that need medical care we of course match them up with the medical care that we provide through Waikiki health and do you would you hook in people as well to the to the system so that they might be able to you know get into to housing or to get food you know absolutely or absolutely we we are we nothing makes us happier than coordinating with the other programs that are in the state they both the both the community both the the government kinds of programs that are available and other community organizations for example we have a we provide services to a group of folks that have HIV AIDS and we do a pretty good job of that we've got a pretty large population among our among our patients but we we do this also in cooperation with the life foundation and with Gregory house which are both organizations that provide direct services to people with HIV AIDS it's important to us to coordinate where we can not to overlap to try and assure that our care is is really integrated into the community and really provides the best services we can find for the for the our patients and clients and guests yes well and it and it's it's it's great to hear that because you know we we are stretched in society now but there's a lot of great organizations out there doing great work and this is certainly one of them this is the the safety net this is the bedrock there but it's also for all of us to go down there so we it needs our support you're okay for accepting new new patients absolutely absolutely and I encourage folks to to to drop in and have a you know have a peek around our our waiting room and and see how the place feels to you it's you're certainly welcome to come have a look at us and so we can and other people can get involved you can volunteer a time down there or something like that really available at this point or well we have we have different opportunities for example we're very fortunate at the next step shelter that we have a variety of churches and community organizations that provide meals for our guests at the next step shelter who have made a schedule and take turns providing breakfast or dinner to the folks at the shelter so in that way we we have opportunities probably coordinated with other agencies so and if people want to find out more about this they can go to WaikikiHealth.org is that what it is okay WaikikiHealth.org and there's probably I think the best way to get involved is when the community needs our support whether it's through legislation or donations certainly people can donate to the we we are grateful for donations we we we try to explain what we do and get people the opportunity to make a contribution that's how I initially got involved was I was a donor long before I was a board member well if if this organization has people like you on its board it is a reflection of real beauty and compassion and integrity and exactly what we need in our society and you are a person that's making a difference WaikikiHealth is making a difference I thank you for for being on the board for helping our community and for coming on my show today well thank you so much for letting me come and talk about this I'm very passionate about the work that we do and I'm so grateful you gave me the opportunity to talk about it well I would like to invite you back so we can discuss this in depth another day but unfortunately we are out of time today so I'm going to have to wrap this up this is Winston Welch and out and about on think tech live streaming series and I've been delighted to talk with Phyllis Dendell board chair marketing and development volunteer board chair of WaikikiHealth and we certainly appreciated learning about this wonderful organization for more information on today's topic visit WaikikiHealth.org thanks for tuning in we welcome your feedback thanks for a broadcast engineer Ray Sangaling and our floor manager Robert McLean and to J. Fidel our executive producer who puts it all together I'll see you here every other Monday at three for more of out and about on think tech aloha everyone


Russia's Upper House of Parliament voted on December 7 to set the date for Russia's presidential election for March 17, 2024.The decision was passed unanimously by 162 votes in the Federation Council. With this decision, we are effectively launching the start of the election campaign, Valentina Matvienko, head of the Federation Council, said she added that, for the first time residents of the parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kursan regions of Ukraine annexed by Russia would take part in the vote. By choosing ahead of state together, we fully share the common responsibility and common destiny of our Fatherland, Matvienko said, President Vladimir Putin has not yet officially announced his intention to run for a new six-year presidential term. The only right choice is to vote for Russia, for victory, for the future of a strong and sovereign country.


I am delighted to extend best wishes for the festive season to my constituency of Babono and the public servants whom I have the esteemed privilege to lead at the ministry of the public service, home affairs, labour and gender affairs. To you my beloved Babono family, my dear constituents, since my last Christmas message, many of our ideas and projects have born fruit and we through our collective efforts and of course with the help of the Almighty have overcome several hurdles. Resilience and determination have always been the way of life of the people of Babono and this is what will continue to keep us as a family. Over the last year, we have realised many projects and programmes at the constituency level and the ministry that I had. In the new year 2024, there are many other projects in the pipeline that you will be called upon to be part of. After all, as your parliamentary representative, my approach is to ensure that you, my constituents are part and parcel of whatever is happening in the constituency. I applaud our energetic and charismatic youth movement in Babono and you should keep up the good work. As parliamentary representative, I am proud of you young people. With your continued support and involvement, we will continue to make notable strides. I also recognise the mothers and fathers and hardworking farmers who continue to make sacrifices for the children.  I wish you the joy of Christmas. All who work within the walls of the various entities in the Babono constituency are the police station, the fire station, the schools, churches, health centres, post offices and private businesses. My government under the leadership of the Prime Minister Honourable Philip J Pierre and the Cabinet of Ministers who take the welfare and security of the citizens and visitors to our shores very seriously and in the new year you will witness the unfolding of several plans and projects in that regard. Bravo to our law enforcement personnel who have been the recipients of much deserving support from the government and throughout this year in particular law enforcement has been on the front burner. In addition to equipment and vehicles extensive works have been ongoing on several of our police stations and fire stations. Construction of the 35 million dollar northern divisional police headquarters has begun and the southern divisional police headquarters which is about 90% complete should be ready early in the new year. It is not worthy that finally the immigration department will be relocated. This office space should be fully operational within the next two weeks bringing an end to the inordinate delays. I am pleased to announce that the other departments have been holding on to deliver service to the public on gender, labour and public service. We have started the transformation of Babono Central and all the communities in Babono have started receiving support in the form of infrastructure, the farmers, community buildings and employment creation for many constituents. Those are just a few of the initiatives and plans by my government and as parliamentary representative for the Babono constituency. In keeping with our putting you first mantra, the government of the St Lucia Liberal Party will be keeping you informed as partners in the development of this country. In conclusion, I would like to thank my immediate family especially my husband for his encouragement and support. My friends, the constituents of Babono, the Honourable Prime Minister and my colleagues in cabinet, staff of the public service, home affairs, labour and gender affairs, for your commitment to service to country, to all the citizens of St Lucia and those in the diaspora, I want to wish everyone of you a Merry Christmas and prosperous 2024. We have realized some successes this year and I implore you to work with the government as we move forward together to build a new St Lucia. Merry Christmas to all of you. We have worked together for the year 2024. With all the people who have worked with me as a minister, as a minister of public service, as a minister of labour, gender and home affairs. I would like to thank all the people of Babono, all my family, all my friends who have supported me for the year. We have worked together to build a new St Lucia for the year 2021. We have been working with the government for a long time and we have been doing our best to be in good health. We have celebrated the good health for the year 2021. Merry Christmas everyone and Merry Christmas to all of you. Thank you.


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Thank you very much. And also I want to thank our keynote speaker and the previous presenters because you managed to pave the way very nicely for my talk. So this presentation is talking about data and paperwork is already now we have set the stage already, so I would just focus on Central African Republic as a context. This here is a summary how the surveillance data reports come in every week across the whole Central African Republic every health care center has to send a weekly report to the district and This is the focal point of one of the districts in in car. I would use the acronym car Central African Republic And then here this is written in French that he will write either if they arrived late or on time Or if it's blank so you can see kind of a Swiss cheese dataset model here as well so the project the MSF mission is in a district called memory Caddy and they have The whole car has surveillance system that is known by SMI are Integrated surveillance system for diseases and the acronym S. I. M. R. Is in French the technology here is Is a software called Argus developed by W. H. O. And Leon that is very simple that on the Interface of the health care center They have an Android phone that has a Graphical interface where the health care staff will just punch in the data for 20 diseases and It will be sent in form of an SMS So this is a hybrid model between having a graphical interface for an application phone application And it will be sent a form of an SMS So 20 SMS is will be sent per every report because there are 20 diseases and here It's in the district on a district level Where you have the laptop and it acts as a form of a server. It receives all the SMS's and From here, you can have all the outputs either if you want to have it as a data set to have your own data analysis Or also there is an integrated dashboard. So I'm going to show you later a snapshot of this form and MSF here has done a form of a catalyst for this surveillance system So the system has been integrated in places where MSF does not have operations and has operations It has a mission Presence This is a snapshot from The app where you have the report and you have an archive and also the health care staff They can send an alert and They have to fill in all the 20 diseases here And at the end they need to click to send it and then it will be sent in form of SMS's individual SMS's Talking about Technology again, I will refer back to our keynote speaker that you have to work with the people and you have to build a Relationship and you have the technology has to come at the very end. So we started with phase one by having Reinforcement for surveillance concepts working with them first before we introduce the technology. So we took this Project through three phases phase one we had a four days workshop with them talking about surveillance about different concepts and We tested their knowledge Before and after the surveillance and it was an increase and this is the data here showing An increase in the reporting system as well So we show we found also significant increase in the reporting system despite the challenges of the The structure of car where you have to send your reports by a motor to motorbike Motor taxi and It's the clinic that they pay for this transport. There is no budget from the government So it's basically they allocate the budget themselves the staff and Despite this we found really an increase in the reporting system So this was just after this training on the integrated surveillance Information Then we started doing testing for the technology in Among six clinics and In that in a town called berberati, which is the capital of this district memory cadet and It was a fantastic experience to see How the staff started to react around this technology and to start to really think sense of community and Not to only to focus on the trees which are their patients that you see them every day But also to think about the forest about the community around them And of course talking about mobile phones and technology we are talking about electricity So we have also installed Solar panels for the clinics to that the staff they can recharge their mobile phones and we were testing There was a question mark around the connectivity to the cell network and whether this will facilitate the SMS transmission or not So we decided to just have a couple of weeks of Testing so that was phase two now here, this is the map of the whole district The size of this district is almost equivalent to the size of Belgium, so it's a large. It's a large district and we have 21 healthcare centers The car has three major cell networks. We so we have used these cell networks on the Southwestern part of car here. There is no cell network from these Cell coverage, so we have used cell coverage from Cameroon So the SMSes were coming all the way they would be sent from here to Cameroon back to here the server is in Berberati in this capital here and in this Clinic in this one called Amada Gaza and in this one called Bambia and here these two Jomo and Gezi The staff they need to travel around 20 kilometers 20 to 35 kilometers by motorbike to find also cell coverage So then they can send the report and come back to the clinic and the rest Connectivity is is relatively good And all the SMSes will be sent on a weekly basis and the server is here Plus these clinic these health care centers are also inside Berberati on this blue dot This is the data from the pilot. So the pilot was done here and the project called PAP project alert precoce This is the French acronym We looked at the completeness of the reports WHO sets a cutoff point of 80 percent that of completeness of free ports and This is here the beginning of 2016. These are the weeks. This is the percentage of completeness This is the red zone that everything below 80 is a red zone and it has to be here above 80 as a green zone. So historically car has never reached even above 50. So Here in the end of 2015 we had the phase one intervention to train the staff on the Concepts of surveillance and since then we start to see an increase and then here we have a reduction This is the paper-based surveillance the reason of this reduction. There was a vaccination campaign so here again, we are talking about individuals that are in the limited resource settings where If there is a vaccination campaign, they are the one they will leave their clinics and health care centers to go and help in this vaccination campaign So what happened here? They were away from their clinics So there was no one to fill in the reports to send it by papers to the to the district office But when they come home on the weekends or at night, they can actually fill in on their mobile phones and send it in as an SMS So there was a lot so this is the qualitative Aspect of the study that everyone was questioning. Oh, is it because of the mobile phones? This is increasing the sorry Decreasing the the paper-based surveillance. The answer is no because the staff was away one of the health care centers Also, there was no vaccination in the area, but we haven't received an SMS or a paper Form from them and we did some investigation. What's happening? so the the health care Leader he was away for three days because his son was having a surgery and Then everyone everything kind of stopped and MSF doesn't have a presence there as well So all these little details we can see that how much the role of individuals are really important here It's about really people much more than about technology and of course we have the This is the distribution of diseases that showed up during the piloting and I will not go much into the details here But there are many sites or health care centers that have been silent all these years And now they start to show up and to be to send in the data about the diseases that are available there So we have identified areas that The Minister of Health didn't know about what's happening there MSF didn't know and the staff also They became more and more active in this because they could see that they can help on a larger scale And not only by treating their patients on a day-to-day basis So as a conclusion We have really found a significant improvement in the reporting system We have extended the pilot until the end of the year Because we want to really see on long-term and not only short-term effect how it's going to be The software has been updated Because we have also as also the nature of softwares we always see bugs in softwares So we have updated the software and then in June There will be a new version installed and We have developed GIS component as well to the software So I will show you now a peak on a snapshot of the GIS component That will be installed in a couple of weeks in the field So here you see the map of the district and then here you see the epidemiological week Here you can see the summary of cases By we on a weekly basis on this axis and then here the number of mortality the deaths as well and This red dot it's a dot that you can slide it so over the weeks So you can see over weeks how the changes visual changes happening in these areas so the this circle light blue it represents number of cases and dark blue it represents number of mortality And Finally I want to acknowledge everyone has been involved on this project because Technology alone without really the will of people will die. It has no value So that's why I want to end with this citation that it's really it's about us as individuals to make a difference. Thank you


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Okay, good morning everyone and welcome back to class before we look at first Timothy and study it verse by verse. Can one of you quickly lead us in prayer please? Yeah sure, thank you Kiran. Father we just come before once again you're thrown father God, father God, thank you for the all semester father God, thank you the subject father, thank you what we are learning father God and help us to apply to your kingdom for the God. Give your wisdom and knowledge for the God that we can receive your subject that that that heart for the God that we can apply the upcoming timing for the coming future for the God taking you the upcoming time just submitting to your hand for the God take care of every single thank you father thank you almighty Jesus name we pray amen. Amen. Thank you Kiran um so anyone remembers what we studied or learned last Wednesday not two classes just one or two points at least you can tell us what we studied about which books are we studying is the books which books are we studying oh sorry you've written it in the chat okay Timothy okay are we studying Timothy first and second Timothy okay who writes this letter to Timothy who's writing this letter to Timothy okay Apostle Paul okay thank you um okay so anyone can give us a background why he's writing this letter you can unmute your mics and speak please why is he writing this letter to Timothy what is the need anyone remembers the background okay nobody wants to answer okay we see that during Paul's okay thank you Kanan guidelines for new leadership okay thank you so we see that when Paul you know was imprisoned his first imprisonment in Rome he writes four letters and one of those letters he writes to uh the church at Ephesus and this is a book a letter of Ephesians and after he was imprisoned he was for two years he was you know released he was free and then he travels to Crete and he leaves Titus there to oversee the church at Crete and then he and Timothy travel on to Ephesus and since there's a great need at Ephesus because of what the problems the church was going through there were false teachings within the church and teachings from outside that were kind of impacting the doctrine and the teachings and the faith of the believers false teachers there's a lot of confusion things that had to be put in order at the church at Ephesus and also it since it was very important a strategic city and you know the seven churches surrounding that in Asia Minor also came under Timothy's jurisdiction or under his purview he was to oversee all of those churches so there was a great responsibility and Paul knew that Timothy is a right person because you know Timothy had been traveling with Paul alongside with him in the ministry for 17 years and it's a good time of training and Paul sense or felt that Timothy was a right person that he need to leave at Ephesus to oversee and to bring in order and teach the right doctrines to the churches at Ephesus and in the surrounding churches as well okay and then Paul moves on to Macedonia and then he senses a need to write to Timothy just to encourage him to reiterate a few things and to help him deal with the certain issues and concerns with the church at Ephesus okay so we looked at chapter one what is a key takeaway verse in chapter one anyone remembers that what's the key takeaway verse it was five and was 19 where Paul is saying that we must live and must love out of a pure heart a good conscience and a sincere faith thank you Dave so if I do away with a good conscience and do things that my conscience says that are wrong what will ultimately happen is my faith will be shifted and you know I will destroy my own faith and my relationship with God okay now we'll move on to chapter two we read chapter two right last week and we also said a few things that really stood out for us we shared a few things so we're not be reading chapter two entirely but we will be reading it worse by worse and we will study each verse in its historical cultural context and its meaning and significance for us today okay so first Timothy chapter two can somebody read verse one please can read it out quickly please without wasting any time somebody can read first Timothy chapter two verse one verse one therefore I exert first of all their supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men okay thank you so I request you all to keep your bibles open and to follow through and when I ask you to read if you can quickly read it will just help and it will be a good class participation as well now when we are looking at it in our bibles it's like chapter one chapter two chapter three and so on and so forth but when it was written by Paul it was just a letter okay there's no chapter and there is no word so everything is in continuity and in connection with what was written before so in chapter one we see in the last few verses when Paul says you know and begins chapter two was therefore I exhort you is basically connecting it to what he has written you know the last few lines it says in chapter one we read that in the last few verses that there are men who are wandering away from the truth and he mentions few men there and they're wandering away from the truth they're not maintaining a good conscience and hence they are destroying their faith now in continuity with that in line with that Paul is saying therefore I exhort you that means therefore I encourage you exhort means encourage that you know first of all which means the indication that you know it's important that we pray before you do anything to correct or teach you know first of all what you need to do is pray so we see the importance of prayer here and then Paul goes on to say you know pray with supplication prayers intercessions and giving thanks you know that that needs to be made to all men okay now these are all not different these are essentially you know parts of our prayer but you know for and all have to do with praying and they are essentially different parts of prayer but for our purpose of our understanding you know we can look at each one what is supplication supplication is a prayer made from a very weak position you know not from a strong position but something somebody is making from a very weak position they're not in a place of strength it's basically making a plea from a very disadvantageous position and basically praying or petition petitioning or asking for mercy and protection the the picture here is of a beggar okay basically begging or asking for mercy so when we're making supplication it's like you know we're just pleading to God we're not in a very strong position a place of strength we're in a weak position in a disadvantageous position and hence from that position we are pleading God for His mercy and for His protection the second thing is prayer prayer is a request or a petition made for the needs wants or things that we lack that we need that we require the next is intercessions intercession we all know is praying for somebody else or on behalf of somebody else and primarily is you know interceding on behalf of them for their salvation and then giving thanks okay giving thanks for them so all these are basically different aspects of prayer or have to do with praying and so he's saying you know when you pray you know bring forth your supplications your prayer your intercessions and give thanks and he says you know your prayer supplications intercessions giving thanks should be made for all men now the word men here in the greek is anthropos which is gender neutral it does not mean just men okay but it means people so people means men and women um and we see this in some versions we see the word people not men but when we look at this word men in the greek it means anthropos which is a gender neutral which is inclusive of women as well children also okay so he says you know when you pray pray for every one okay and then what does he say about prayer he said you know make this prayer an intercession is to be made for all men okay so how do we practice this praying for people is you know making our supplications intercessions prayer thanks for all men as we do it everywhere anytime whenever it's required and wherever we are so even if you're going in the bus so we're going in the car or we are in a restaurant or you know we are just at home we see something we hear something we see something while we're looking on reading the news the newspaper or listening to the news on tv or looking at it on our mobile phones you know wherever whether you're walking down the street or you're in your house in your locality or in the mall you're driving anywhere when you see something quickly you know make your petitions your supplications your thanksgiving be known to god okay let prayer arise from your heart anytime every time wherever you are you know according to the need that you see around us just let your you know a prayer be made to god take up your prayer request to god or intercede for people so even if you're driving or riding and you hear the ambulance just buzzing pass you know you don't know who's there in the ambulance but you can just pray for that person you see a poor beggar on the street you can just pray for them you see somebody you know not able to walk an elderly person just you know pray you're just looking at all these things but just keep you know sending up your prayer request to god at all times okay so he says pray for all men or pray for all people let's look at verse 2 can somebody read first Timothy chapter 2 verse 2 please for kings and and all others who are in authority that we may live a quiet and peaceful life a peaceful life with all reverence towards god and with proper conduct thank you so here he is instructing us to pray for all people and here pray even for those in civil authority for those who are kings for rulers for leaders and he said why should we pray for kings rulers leaders of our land is so that we can lead you know quiet and peaceful lives and live in all godliness and reverence towards god okay so we are instructed to pray and our prayers do matter and our prayers effect both of these aspects that you know it affects us in a way that we can live quiet and peaceful lives and also that we can live in all godliness and reverence towards god now when paul is asking the church at Ephesus to pray for kings and you know those in authority it was not something very very easy for him to say himself and also for the church to pray for leaders it was not easy for the christians at the paul's time to pray for leaders because the christians were severely persecuted and when paul is writing this the king or the emperor the ruler was nero who was the emperor at rome and now he came into power by murdering two people okay and he was known to be a very wicked and a very terrible man and in 87 in 8064 nero burned down 70 percent of rome okay why did he burn it down so that he could build a palace a bigger palace for himself now when this was not taken well by the people he turned the blame on the christians and hence the christians were severely persecuted you know in that place and nero was also known for entertaining people by throwing christians to animals he made an entertainment about like about christians by throwing them to animals making a sport of them burning christians at as torches for his life of indulgence and extravagance okay so he did all of these wicked things and we see that paul was also in prison he was in prison in sicilia filipi and and he appeared to caesar and hence he was bought to rome and he was waiting for you know caesar to hear his case and we see that you know paul was released from his two years of house arrest of imprisonment when nero heard his case he let him go free but you know we eventually he was again in prison and he was martyred there okay so we see that in spite of them having such a terrible leader paul is still encouraging the church at emphasis and telling them that they need to pray so it was not something very easy that he was asking them to do or easy for himself you know but he asked them to pray for leaders so we too you know we have no excuse scripture tells us that we need to pray for our leaders whoever they are whatever they do you know we are to hold them in prayer and why should we pray for them if we want to live quiet and peaceful lives if we want to live in all godliness and reverence towards god you know then we need to uphold our leaders in prayer okay we'll move on to verses three and four can somebody read verses three and four please both this is good and acceptable in the sight of god our savior who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth thank you so paul is saying it's good and pleasing in god's sight that we pray for all people especially for those in civil authority and leaders so that we can live quiet peaceful lives and live in godliness and reverence towards god and this praying is also going to lead into fulfilling god's desire what is god's desire that everyone be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth okay so here in verse four we see the desire of god's heart and what is the desire of god's heart that everyone be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth so all that we do are praying are working when it is directed towards fulfilling god's desire under his guidance then we know it is pleasing towards god so this is the truth that we can learn today that it's god's will his good pleasing will that we pray for all men pray for our leaders and pray for people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth okay verses five and two seven can somebody read verses five to seven please can somebody read verses five to seven okay for there is one god and one mediator between god and men the man christ jesus who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time for which i was appointed a preacher and an apostle i am speaking the truth in christ and not lying a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth okay so paul is saying here that you know there is one god and one mediator between god and man there is only one provision that was made for salvation and that salvation is only through jesus christ and you know jesus christ is the only one who gave himself as a ransom for all now the greek word for this word ransom is anti-luteron okay anti-luteron which means redemptive price the price that is made for redemption or the redemption price for freedom this price is paid for a setting a captive that is a slave or a prisoner free and we know that we were all slaves to sin we are slaves and prisoners of satan and jesus gave his life the only life the one life that he had for the redemption of all mankind he gave his life he paid the price for the redemption of all our lives so every person therefore you know can walk in freedom since the price has been made and the devil has no authority over us no holding over us no claim over our lives because jesus has offered the price that the father required for the sins of mankind or for our personal sins so now satan has no legal claim over every individual all of his legal claims have been has been cancelled and you know a satan's claim over us is considered as invalid why it is because the ransom price the price for our freedom that the father required was paid in full was the full sufficient perfect sacrifice was made for the sins of all mankind once for all and it was only through the man jesus christ and then paul goes on to say that he was appointed a preacher and an apostle and so he's saying that we are now here to pray this into effect and to announce or to preach this news to the people who will come to know this truth and embrace jesus and we say what is the truth that it's only jesus christ who made the redemption paid the redemptive price for our sins that there is only one god and one mediator between god and man that is jesus christ so he says pray about this pray this into effect and announce it that means preach this news to the people so that they will come to this knowledge of this truth and they will embrace this truth and they too will be saved and they will be free from slavery of sin and slavery of the devil okay and paul is saying that he is appointed as a preacher as an apostle as a teacher okay so we all know that paul you know was an apostle because he and as he was also a pastor he pastor various churches he planted various churches you know he teaches his thought in various places he writes his letter where he's teaching people through his letters and we also see that he walked in the prophetic office and how do we know that because much of what he wrote was the prophetic new testament scripture so much of the prophetic new testament scripture was written by paul okay and he was he also served in a pastoral capacity where he pastored many churches a apostle he pioneered and planted many churches as well and so we see that an individual can flow in one or more ministry offices or one or more ministry gifts as the lord jesus determines and so here we see that paul was a prophet a pastor a preacher a teacher and an apostle he you know he flowed in more than one ministry office and more than one gift and this is determined by the lord jesus himself and so we see that people and you and i can also flow in more than one ministry gifts and in more than one function in more than one ministry office and paul says that he's a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth okay so we know that paul was primarily a minister to the gentiles he was taking god's word he was teaching god's word and taking the gospel to the gentiles so we see that you know god can call us to specific people groups this can be a small community a large community he can call us to certain geographical locations to a nation as a whole to different people groups people from different races you know and we need to be willing to go where god is calling us leading us and you know where he's trying to position us so we see that god can call us into various or into more than one office and give us more than one gifts and also send us to different communities different races different geographical locations to preach his word to teach to pastor or to be an apostle okay so we'll move on to verses eight to ten can somebody read verses eight to ten please i desire therefore that the men pray everywhere lifting up holy hands without rug and doubting in like manner also that the women under themselves in the modest apparel with the properly and moderation not with the braided hair or gold pearls or costly clothing but which is proper for godliness with good works let's thank you thomas with all submission thank you okay in the light of all that has been said now paul gets back to his main point about prayer and he's saying here that men pray everywhere now the word here men as used previously in the previous verses we saw he where he uses the word men it means the greek word there is anthropos which is meaning people okay men women children people but here when he's saying men he's using the greek word ana which means specifically male gender specifically men so he's saying that he wants men you know to pray everywhere okay so men are to pray everywhere and it's god's desire for them to pray for everyone so all you men in the class you know god's desire is that you pray for everyone pray everywhere pray anytime with all kinds of supplications intercessions prayer requests and make known your thanks to god and then he just don't just you know talk to men but he's also writing about women and he's saying that likewise women are also to pray and he wants women to adorn themselves in modest apparel with propriety and moderation not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing now some people have taken this verse and interpreted saying that you know scripture says that women should not you know dress with good clothes you know should not prayed or put you know good hairstyle put some nice fancy hairstyles or they should not wear gold or pearls or any costly clothing now what is your view on this people are taking this verse and they have interpreted it like women should not wear costly clothing pearls gold they should not braid their hair should be very simple attire what is your thoughts or views on this can we have some of your views and thoughts please here uh go ahead no you go okay go ahead and okay tom is go ahead you speak yes yeah and actually paul is saying that the focus the interest and the devotion supposed to be in god not on the dress or personal things more than that we should give the importance that's what it means according to me absolutely right thank you tom is yeah the focus should not be on what you're wearing or your clothes or your hairstyle or your jewelry but it should be more on god and godliness and you know focus mainly on god yes yes kiran yeah we cannot take any verse any one single verse and apply to like our some some thought that it here is paul is saying to entire the passage for in that moment on that day yeah okay we can't just take this verse in isolation and kind of you know interpret it we need to see it in its historical cultural setting and in light of the rest of other scripture yes so dav is saying that it was strictly for the woman in that timeline not for women now okay very gracious thank you okay so you know here what like paul say sorry like tom has just mentioned you know paul is also say meaning that women must join in prayer just like men do okay so how should men pray paul says that their prayer should be coupled with surrender when he means lifting up of hands it means totally surrender submitting to god he says when you pray you should pray with the holy hands that means pray in holiness in reverence in total submission and surrender to god and he's saying that you know pray without wrath or doubting which means don't pray in anger and don't pray and pray without quarreling so he's telling men that when they pray their prayer must be coupled with surrender that is lifting up of their hands holiness that is holy hands without anger and without quarreling when he says that you know they should not argue or pray without doubting so he says in the likewise women should also join in prayer just like men you know they should do it in holiness in total surrender and do it without quarreling you know not in anger and also he's mentioning here that women should dress modestly he's not saying that you should not you know actually not wear any gold or pearls or a costly clothing but he's saying you know dress modestly you know and engage in good works so that you're the way you dress shows godliness it demonstrates godliness your good works can also demonstrate godliness your good works are in line with your character the way you dress the way you appear the way you act and all should be to demonstrate godliness so your focus should be basically on godliness and in good works and not just in you know dressing and not just in your outward attire and your outward looks and hence when we look at this passage we cannot say this passage means that women should not wear jewelry you know when we make statements like this that women should not wear jewelry should not you know come with fancy hairstyles braided hair or a costly clothing we must always when we when we try to interpret or understand scripture or we make statements that you know women should not wear jewelry it we should always make it or interpret it in the light of other scripture or the rest of scripture so now does the rest of scripture strictly prohibit women from wearing gold pearls braiding their hair and wearing costly clothing now we're looking at this not because Paul is saying that they should not wear he does not mean that they should not wear he's saying you know focus more on godliness and not meaning to say they should not be wearing all of these things but we are looking at in the light of what how people have interpreted this line saying that women should not braid their hair or wear costly clothing or jewelry so in the light of that let's look at other scripture passages does other scripture passages strictly prohibit women from doing all this the answer is yes or no what is the answer come on there's a rest of scripture prohibit people from women from wearing costly clothing gold I don't see any answers in the chat section nobody wants to say anything I don't think so yes you're right Dave it's the scripture does not you know mention this it's a no okay so we let's look at an example about Abraham's wife Sarah now in 1st Peter chapter 3 verses 1 to 6 you know Sarah is pointed as an example to follow as a godly woman who is in submission to her husband so we see that you know we have to follow in her steps that's what Peter's writing in 1st Peter chapter 3 verses 1 to 6 but did Sarah wear good clothes and gold yes because you know when Eliezer was sent to look for a wife for Abraham's son he takes gold with him clothing with him he takes gold bangles and he also gives a nose ring and gold bangles to Rachel and so we see you know when he goes to find a bride for Abraham's son he presents all of these things as skips so we see that people in in those times in the Old Testament times they did wear ornaments and jewelry so when Paul is saying that women should dress modestly he's saying it you know because they need to be conscious of the men that are there the men that are looking at them to dress in a modest way that will not kind of tempt men or will not kind of distract men in a church service or in a prayer meeting so he's asking them to dress modestly okay because men are watching them and he's asking Paul is asking the women to be considered with the men and you know what they face and what they will go through when they see women dress very beautifully with all their fancy things okay any questions so far any doubts any comments okay so it's clear okay so we women when we dress you know we can dress well but dress in a modest ways that we are not kind of distracting others during the church service or in church and being a distraction to men and you know be considered to men okay we'll move on to verses 11 to 15 can somebody read verses 11 to 15 please let a woman learn in silence with all submission and I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man but to be in silence for Adam was formed first then Eve and Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived fell into transgression nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith love and holiness with self-control okay thank you Kannan okay so here you know again people have taken these verses and misinterpreted that and said that women should not preach should not teach they cannot be leaders in the church they can teach in children's church it's okay but not you know in the adult larger gathering of the church they cannot be leaders deacons pastors bishops because of what Paul said that women should learn in silence with all submission and he does not permit women to teach or have authority over man but to be in silence okay so what do you think what do you think is Paul really saying that women should not preach teach they should be silent they cannot be leaders in the church do you agree with people who are polled this kind of thought this trend and make this as a rule what is your ideas can we have some of you sharing your thoughts please yeah my woman can teach and preach and share the gospel to the Gentiles this contains on that moment when Paul was sharing on that that time okay so Kiran is saying yes women can preach teach be leaders but again as Paul is writing here it's to a specific context a historical cultural setting that he's he's writing to anyone else how many of you think that women should not preach teach and be leaders I know if you would want to say so all of you agree that women can preach teach and um no one okay okay fine so what is uh Paul really trying to uh uh you know mean when he what does he mean yes Thomas no I said I I I agree women can preach and teach but there's kind of denomination there but uh yes you can accept because God doesn't have the partiality or God sees as a move yes you're right because we see a scripture so we we need to understand what Paul is writing firstly saying here okay and we need to interpret these verses in the light of Paul's own ministry practice the context in which Paul is writing this episode to Timothy and we need to also interpret this in the light of other scripture okay and as Thomas rightly said you know we there are scripture passages that attest that you know for God God is not a partial God for him there's no June or Greek male nor female all are one in Christ Jesus he loves everyone the same okay and we also see the work of the Holy Spirit being manifested through you know some women leaders Deborah got choosing them as heard as a judge okay and as well you know Philip whose his daughters I think seven daughters Philip had were all prophetists okay so we see that you know God choosing women into prophetic ministry into different offices and empowering them with different gifts for the building of his kingdom so let's look at these verses in the light of Paul's own ministry practice us and then we look in the context in which Paul is writing this episode to Timothy and then we look at it in the light of the rest of scripture okay so in in the light of Paul's own ministry practice we see that he does not keep away women from being involved in ministry but we see that women were part of his team ministry team he also points them as leaders bishops deacons in various places now we see that Paul had Priscilla and Aquila and Priscilla now Aquila and Priscilla were husband and wife who were part of his ministry team and he recognized them as a part of his ministry team and also as his co-workers he mentions them Paul mentions Aquila and Priscilla as his co-workers in Romans chapter 16 verses three to four if he if he acknowledged only men then he could have mentioned only Aquila and not the woman Priscilla but he mentions Aquila and Priscilla in also the same chapter of Romans chapter 16 verses one and two Paul recognizes a woman called Phoebe as a leader and as a deacon and in the same chapter verse seven he recognizes Junia a woman leader and a fellow prisoner and also somebody who is respected by other apostles and possibly was an apostle herself okay and so we see that women were part of the ministry team of Paul he appointed them as leaders in various places he did write about them and he also acknowledged that they were apostles or deacons or leaders okay we also see when Paul is writing in Romans chapter 12 where he's talking about the membership functional gifts membership gifts of teaching prophecy leadership he does not mention one specific gender there it doesn't just mention male but it's distributed across all believers without being gender specific and Paul here in Romans chapter 12 he mentions you know now the gifts are given to each one okay if he had to say that it's mentioned he was only for men then he would have mentioned it but he says it's his gifts are given to each one when he's talking about the gifts of the spirit in 1 Corinthians 12 there also you know it's he's writing to the church at Corinth about the the gifts of the spirit and there it's also without mentioning any specific gender and he says in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 26 Paul is saying that he encourages that all that is men and women prophesy and he teach and teach so he says he encourages all to prophesy and teach and this all can is inclusive of men and women and in verse 26 of that of chapter 14 of 1 Corinthians Paul is saying what then shall we say brothers and sisters when you come together each of you has a hymn or a word of instruction a revelation a tongue or an interpretation everything must be done so that the church may be built up so he says you know it's so wonderful whether the church at Corinth when they all came to meet men women each one of them had a word of you know a wisdom word of knowledge or they had a prophecy an instruction a revelation a tongue you know a hymn and somebody was wanting to interpret the tongues so everybody were eager to do it and so he says very good all of you can speak but you know it must be done in a way that there is a perfect order okay not in chaos not in confusion everyone talking at the same time you know take turns but do it in order and do it so that the church can be built up okay we'll stop here and come back after the break and continue


15. We will count them. Free tools to help you grow. All the links are down there in the description below. Let's get started. Tool 1. Online-convert.com lets you convert any video format, any audio format, between each other for free, online, no software required. Look behind me. I use this tool to convert AVIs to MP4s, GIFs to PNGs, and different audio formats to MP3. Have you used this tool before? Tell us in the comments below. Tool 2. The Google Nick collection used to cost hundreds of dollars and is now completely free. Thank you Google. Look behind me. It is hundreds of megabytes of professional plugins for Photoshop to help you get amazing effects to your graphics. The link is down there in the description below. Do you use the Google Nick collection? Tell us in the comments below. Tool 3 is Canva.com that has amazing templates for creating your YouTube banners for your Facebook banners, Twitter banners, YouTube thumbnails, you name it, it's got it, and it's free. Send us links down there in the comments below so we can all see how you've used Canva. Tool 4 is PickMonkey.com. Many of you told us you use this tool to edit your images. It has a mobile app. Tell us down there in the comments below if you use PickMonkey and how you use it. Tool 5 is ipicky.com. It is a free online photo editor that many of you told us you love. Have you created any tutorial videos for ipicky.com? Send us links to those down there in the comments below or for any of the tools that we are covering today. Tool 6 is panzoid.com which has an amazing suite of tools including an intro maker. Here is the intro maker where you can choose from a variety of different fonts for 3D effects that you can use to make awesome video intros. Tool 7 is bfunkey.com slash create. It has an amazing library of visual effects for your graphics. Tell us down there in the comments below if you use bfunkey. Tool 8 is cooltext.com that has a ton of fonts that you can use to create your perfect logo. Tool 9 is flamingtext.com. Very similar concept. You get to choose a ton of different fonts to really spice up your branding. Tool 10 is pixler.com which has an amazing suite of photo editing tools all for free. Tool 11 is subtlepatterns.com that has a lot of different background images for you website designers who want to create some nice background imagery. Tool 12 is hitfilm4express that lets you do full 1080p 60 frames per second renders with no watermarks. You just have to adjust the level on the rendering screen to the maximum if you're getting an error. It is also a compositor for creating amazing sequences for multiple input sources which is different from video editing. In my opinion it is the best free video editor out there. Tool 13, for those of you who didn't agree with me, Lightworks is the other free video editor that has a ton of features but it only does 720p in the free version. Tool 14 is opera38developer which is a free web browser that integrates a VPN that lets you change your IP to browse anonymously to get past government censorships to hide your IP if you're a streamer so people cannot DDoS you while you're streaming and many other practical reasons why you'd want to try a VPN. Tool 15 is cyber ghost VPN also a completely free standalone VPN but there are paid versions to get even faster performance. Bonus tool 16 is blender.org this is a completely free 3d rendering tool that you can use to create awesome intros. Send us links down there in the comments below to any videos you've created using blender and do that for any of the tools that we've mentioned in today's episode. We'd love to see how you've created better videos or branding using any of these 16 tools. Did I miss any amazing tools that you use to help you grow? Send us links to them down there in the comments below and include videos of how you use the tools so we can all learn from each other because that is the spirit of freedom. We all help each other grow together as a family and click that I to partner with freedom if you haven't already to join this beautiful family. I am George some call me George Sunpai or Papa George just don't call me late for dinner. I am George CEO and founder of freedom and if you like this video click the like button down there so I know what kind of content you enjoy and subscribe to freedom central youtube.com slash freedom the home of the George show. I am George and you've been watching and we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family you are part of it we are all part of it and we're all growing together. So grow with us and partner with freedom that play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started.