photography had broken me. In pursuing my passion for photography, it had led me into a pit of despair. How's it? How's it? So to most people, I was living the dream. I was a professional photographer and had been for most of my adult life. I studied photography. Instead of going into an office every day, I went to my own studio doing something creative, something I felt meaningful. I loved the fact that I could use my camera to earn me a living. I enjoyed photography and everything about it. It was pretty much my life. As far as I was concerned, this was going to be my career until I retired. On Sunday the 4th of February 2018, at 11 o'clock in the morning, my wife gave birth to our little son. And with that moment, something fundamental changed within my photography. For a few years, I had been struggling with the idea that what I was doing in the studio, taking photographs of families day in, day out, the same old thing wasn't really what I actually wanted to do as a photographer. Increasingly over the time, I had felt that I wasn't really fulfilling my potential to be the best photographer that I could be. Because I had gone and done something, opened the studio, that I felt was the right thing to do because I thought first and foremost about the money rather than the expressiveness of the creative person inside of me. Like a lot of creative people, I suffer terribly from imposter syndrome. And rather than give voice to my real photography, the photography that came from inside me at the studio, I was creating average work at the risk of being found out, of being told that actually maybe you're not really good enough at this. And couple this with the fact that at the studio, I worked on a kind of a free shoot and then upsell afterwards model, which also troubled me greatly because when somebody sat there and decided they didn't want to purchase anything, I felt like that was a personal stab at me. So when my son was born, it brought into focus that actually I wasn't really happy. By this point, I was so out of love with photography that I just wanted to have nothing to do with it. Every time I thought about photography in and certainly regards to the studio, I got angry and I didn't look at anything. I stopped looking at my monographs, all the books that I used to love looking at. Anything to do with photography, I actively avoided because it just made me sad. It made me angry. It made me bitter. I hated being at this point because photography is everything that I had known. As I said, make a living somehow from taking photographs that I wanted to take to make a living with photography on my own terms. The sound of my footsteps was echoing around the empty studio because of the nature of the way that I ran my business, that getting leads in, then booking them in, then having to shoot, then having to sell after on. It was a never-ending treadmill. It was a beast that needed to be fed constantly because the second that one of those steps stopped, the whole thing came to a grinding halt because it was just me, me alone running the whole business. I'd been feeling that increasing pressure and I had been doubting myself. I'd let those little voices of destructiveness take hold in my mind. I wanted to get out of this, to escape somehow, but what was I supposed to do because photography was all that I have known. It is all that I've studied. I don't have another skill that I could go back on because the studio needed to be fed constantly. I didn't have the time to try something else out. And because I didn't have the time to try something else, I was stuck at the studio. It was a catch 22. On the 23rd of March 2020, Boris Johnson, then Prime Minister, appeared on television sets across the UK and told us all pretty much what had been telegraphed for a few days prior, that all businesses were going to close not just in the UK but around the world in many ways. This was an extremely scary and worrying time. But in retrospect, it was a blessing in disguise because it forced me to stop running on that treadmill. So the agonising choice that had been running around in my head for years to this point had been taken out of my hands. I was desperate to find some way out of this quite frankly horrible place that I found myself in with photography. Despite the fact that I was so anti photography, I wanted to give it another chance to find my passion for it again because I knew that it was actually something deep down I really enjoyed. This was not a flash in the pan thing and the only way that I could see now out of the the the the misery that I was in was to revisit an idea I'd had years and years before about starting well a YouTube channel about photography to create content that I wanted to watch. The first video I put together was a talk about Richard Averton and his autobiography book and it took me two weeks, yes two weeks to film that I'd learned everything step by step how to do the most basic things. It felt like I was going back to photo school and and relearning photography all over. It was really tricky and I looked at this the finished article and I uploaded it. I pressed publish. Today I'm going to be sharing with you an introduction into the life and work of Richard Averton who is one of the world's most famous fashion and portrait photographers. Hi there I'm Alex and this is the photographic eye and if you love the art and history of photography then this is an ideal channel for you. I don't know quite what I expected when I pressed upload I had thought that you know maybe I would get a thousand subscribers in a year become monetized and to be monetized on YouTube you need to have a thousand subscribers and four thousand watch hours. At the end of that first day of that video I think it had like 20 views or something you know five subscribers five whole subscribers um well one of which was me one of which was my wife uh one of which was my father-in-law and uh two other people from Facebook so I was like okay um well at the moment you know a thousand subscribers seems like an awfully long way away and certainly four thousand watch hours was just like unbelievable but at least I was starting to reconnect with the things in photography that I enjoyed and putting it all together being free of the pressures of the studio was was great I actually was I was more relaxed than I'd ever been well certainly as long as I could remember and creating videos and putting them online you know felt nice it felt chill this was fab I was you know talking about photography in a way that I enjoy I was getting starting to get some really great feedback from people you know the 10 views a day that I was getting I you know it to get a comment was like wow this is amazing some random stranger has left me a comment saying I love your video by March in 2021 I'd uploaded I think like 10 15 videos something like that still taking around about two weeks to create a content I thought at this stage it's going to be not happening me getting monetized and then something happened one of my videos about William Eggleston started to get traction instead of being like 10 views 20 views a day it was now 100 200 at the end of March the channel exploded views went through the roof subscribers went through the roof I was monetized I got my first paid from AdSense it was like wow this is this is amazing I can do this this people want to watch what I produce I am going to be a you know free of the of the burden of the studio it'll be fantastic I will never have to worry about imposter syndrome or you know getting feet through the door ever again just at that moment where I thought that everything was coming great everything was ready to to be resolved I discovered that photography on YouTube is all about gear it's all about lenses people don't really know about Avidon and Pen and all the other greats of photography they didn't really go looking for them so you have to work really hard to get views through the door those two weeks that I'd spent previously you know just happy making videos not really worrying about whatever people were going to say because very few people actually saw them had turned into almost like a training camp for for my imposter syndrome that all of a sudden I felt that people were actually looking at me and and starting to maybe talk about me behind my back saying this Alex he doesn't know what he's talking about he's just ruffling on it's all nonsense and rubbish and at the same time thinking oh if I don't get any views through the door then you know views views views then I don't get paid and I found myself back in almost the same place as the studio I wasn't falling out of love with photography but I was struggling to find things to talk about that I thought other people wanted to hear that would get me views rather than being like I wanted back in the studio to photograph things for myself it had become just like like that convey about at the studio rather than surprisingly I fell off that treadmill of creating content day in day out trying to feed not the studio beast now but the youtube beast that summer of 21 I just I couldn't do anymore I collapsed I was doing what I told people in all the workshops I used to do with photography is to not create things just for sake of creating them I felt bad because by this point you know I was starting to rediscover my love for photography by sharing it with other people people like yourself and I felt that I was letting them down that that I was just creating well junkie content after that summer I went okay do you know I'm going to I'm going to do this properly I'm going to commit myself to creating content on a schedule and doing content that is worthy of being watched I know that people seem to love what it is that I do that there is definitely an appetite for it I was close to getting 50,000 subscribers I mean 50,000 the year before at this point I'd had well didn't even have a channel 50,000 was unheard of certainly I thought you know to get monetized puts you in the apparently the first the top 10% of all youtube channels so quite clearly there was people they wanted yearn for this kind of content that I was doing so it was time to to commit myself properly to this business because I was finding within it that I was enjoying the process I was enjoying connecting with people I was enjoying hearing back the you know the the wonderful feedback that I was getting I was discovering more about photography every single day because trying to make videos to encourage other people about photography means that hey you need to kind of go and discover more things yourself about photography as I committed to that schedule the views kept on going up they went up and they went up and they went up and I thought this is this is great once again I was being shown that this could be an actual career that you know that my dream of not having to think about that studio or going back to that studio because at this point the studio was still somewhat open albeit hit and miss given all the other lockdowns and things that we've been having that I was like that albatross that was around my neck was starting to disappear it was starting to fall off that albatross that was around my neck the studio was starting to be released and then of course my old friend imposter syndrome turned up again I had a couple of videos that were a bit of duds some people started making nasty comments on my videos and I thought rather typically like so many creative people do well this is if one person is saying this then then loads of people must think this that they are you know they're just talking about me and I started to doubt myself I started to second guess everything I did about the channel about the videos that I was making I was scrabbling around trying to find an identity trying to find something that worked and it was just the same as being at the studio I thought that I had found the way to release myself and once again I had run into a place where I felt completely out of control with my own well destiny once again I have found myself running into the places that I can see coming from a mile off and yet like a deer in the headlamps I just stand still as that train smacks me in the face in December 2020 I was getting like 500 views a day across the channel and in December 2021 I was getting like 15-20,000 views a radical difference but because I had crashed and given in to those thoughts in my head about the imposter syndrome about maybe people don't actually want to watch videos about the sort of thing that I want to produce talk about in photography then I just kind of gone uh I don't know and I sunk into once again this place of static inability to act by now I knew that I did not want to go back to the studio in fact I had actually closed the studio completely my my lease was up middle of the year previously and I'd sort of I'm denied about it and decided you know what actually I can't go back to the studio I have to commit myself to the channel to the photographic eye and the people who were supporting me I wasn't that far off 100,000 subscribers and I thought this will be my goal I need to get to 100,000 subscribers because that will be somehow validation that what I'm doing is actually meaningful that people are enjoying the photography because I am starting to enjoy the photography as well I found a new passion for it you know I've re-found my love for the for the whole process of of image making not just talking about it but also taking photographs so I went back to the to that treadmill and I stood at it and went look you know much like a new year's resolution I said I am going to get back on you but this time I am not going to let you run away with me and I made some videos and I got back on the horse and the views went up and they went up and and it was it was amazing I was like God this this is great and over that three months period I got so close so close to the 100,000 and then one day it's like it ticked over and it was 100,000 subscribers surely now everything would be happy much like when I uploaded that very first video I don't know what I expected to see or happen when I got to 100,000 subs maybe trumpets from heaven or I don't know something but what happened was I felt just completely deflated and I worried once again that the photography and talking about the kind of photography that I enjoyed that I had refound the passion for was not enough views started dribbling away again as soon as I started doing videos about you know individual photographers all the things that I'd started off with all the things that I loved at the beginning of my journey with photography when I did those that YouTube just kind of went no once again I had to turn to videos to feed the beast that same sometimes occasionally bordered on sensationalist because we are living through the age of the sensationalist YouTube title just to get videos out to get bums on seats views on the screen to keep that counter ticking over it started with a comment on one of the videos that they said Alex you look tired you look mentally broken and they hit the nail on the head my wife had said similar she said you are burning yourself out you are constantly making videos just to keep it going it is no better than when you were at the studio I realized that yes I was actually getting into a worse place and that what I needed to find was some balance and I got tasters of how to create that balance to make videos about the content that I wanted to talk about the photographers the the way that photography has meaning and a depth beyond your lenses and senses right kind of stuff and but also at the same time creating videos that had a wider appeal so we could bring this message to people who don't know who Penn is or Avidon is and say to him look you know you've enjoyed photography now look at how deeper it goes come with us on this rabbit hole of enjoyment into the the pictures because this is this is what photography is all about this is where the love of photography that balance comes in that the the self-imposter self-imposter the imposter syndrome is starting to go away because I am now more at peace with the idea from teaching and talking to people like yourself that you know it doesn't really matter what other people think that making videos to inspire people's passion is where my real where my real passion in photography lies is is passing on the the expertise the knowledge the experiences that I have accumulated through photo school through being a professional photographer through the yes the depth the the the despair that photography had put me into but now it's great to be able to sit here talking to you through this this camera in my lounge you and the other five and a half and eighty six million people who've watched the videos it's it blows my mind I find it crazy that photography broke me it broke me so much that I wanted nothing to do with it and now it has given me a opportunity to talk and connect with people about something that I really love in a way that I could not have imagined all those years ago pacing up and down in that tiny studio feeling like photography was a cage that would keep me trapped there to fulfill your ability totally as a creative person you need to be brave you need to learn those lessons that I had forgotten and to do so click on the video over here thank you all ever so much for watching and I'll see you again soon


Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldoch Way, I'm Jessica. In today's video is going to be a Lakeshore Learning Hall. Now, if you guys follow me on social media, you saw that I posted two huge boxes and I asked if you wanted to see an unboxing or a haul video and 99% of you guys said yes. It is a very large order. This is going to last us all of third grade for sure and hopefully some into fourth as well. And I think I got something for just about every subject as well. I will be sure to link everything that I bought in the description box down below. Most of what I bought was some sort of bundle and so I will link the bundles that I purchased but know that a lot of it is for sale individually as well if you see one thing you like and you don't wanna get it in like the bundle that I purchased. That is also an option for you. Also make sure that you sign up Lakeshore Learning has a ton if you sign up of different coupons and what I did when I purchased is I put in all the different codes and just used whichever code gave me the best deal.  All right, so without further ado, let's just jump in. I'm gonna go ahead and show you all of this amazing things that I'm surrounded by. So the first thing that I have are these match and sort games. I got a few of these because I loved that the work was already done for me. You guys, no cutting, no laminating, no prepping. That's just amazing. So it's a small box and inside this box are all these different envelopes with all of these cards. So you just pull one out. That's a different concept and your child would just sort them. So the concepts in this science match and sort quickies for grade two to three are simple machines, matter, force and motion, adaptation, classifying animals, parts of plants, weather, natural or man-made, and then rocks and minerals. So there's a look at what's in there. Okay, I also got the match and sort quickies for vocabulary. Again, it's the same concept. You have the envelopes and the different things prepared in there and the skills in this one cover compound words, synonyms, suffixes, shades of meaning, multiple meaning words, idioms, root words and prefixes. I'll look at what's in this one. And now yes, Emily's in grade three but I got grade two and three on these because I really wanted it to be something she could do independent. So it's a little bit of review and a little bit of new concepts at the same time. I also got the language skills one and the concepts in this one are pronouns, contractions, plural nouns, adjectives and adverbs, noun, guide words, verbs and alphabetical order. I also got these were in a bundle. It was all five of them and what I believe was a social study grab and play bundle but you can purchase each of them individually if you wanted. So it is just this grab and play game and like I said, there was five. This one is for the world and then the United States, landforms and mapping, explorers and Native Americans. The next thing I grabbed was this pop to win math game. So it looks like it's kind of like similar to like trouble or sorry or something like that. You just pop the dice here and you move around the board and you have lose a turn and things like that jump ahead, go for backwards but depending on the different colors you land on depends on whether you have to answer math questions according to geometry and measurement, operation and algebraic thinking, fractions, base 10, measurement and data, et cetera. So I think it's gonna be a really great way to practice all of those math concepts that we need to be learning this year in a game format, which means that she's not gonna fight me on it. So I'm super excited about that. Okay, the next thing that I got was called the mastering math bundle and it's four games in that bundle. And again, each of these are available individually. So this one is fractions of the pizza game. Each of these little board games, like the boards are so stinking cute. The making sense money game, the place value mystery house game, the read the clock time game. And then the next bundle was called the reading comprehension bundle, I believe. Yes, reading comprehension and it was level one. I do believe there's a level two there may even be a level three. The first one is called the adventure camp sequencing game and it's like this cute little summer camp word. And then pirate island reading for details game. Again, I can't wait to open these and tell you guys these little game boards are adorable. The kooky carnival context clues game, the star power premier following directions game. I think I'm the most excited for this one. When I opened it, Emily was like, I need help following directions. Yes, boo. Yes, you do. Mommy bought it. Extra, extra and informational text game. And then the last and that bundle was skate park rally, a predicting outcomes game. And you guys, I stacked all of these games on top of the last thing I have to show you. Hang on. So the last thing I have to show you is we bought the third grade one to try last year and we really, really liked it. So I went ahead and bought fourth grade and it's, are you ready for fourth grade game show? So at the end of the year, it plays kind of like Jeopardy slash game show and you have all of these cards in math and language arts and then challenge cards and they can earn money by answering all of the different questions. And then what's really cool is you have these score sheets and you can put in their score and based off of what they got wrong, it would tell you like exactly which you need to work on with your child. So we will use this at the end of third grade to at the end of the school year. I think I'm just gonna kind of make it what would be like an exam week and we will just play this every day for a week to review from third grade and see if there's anything that we need to dedicate to work on the summer with. But it was just a really fun way. Like we did it over the summer with the, are you ready for third grade one? And I realized how much fun it was and it reviews, like I said, all math and language arts things that a child should know for that grade. You guys know how I feel about should know things but it was a fun way to review most of the things we had learned from the year. So I did go ahead and get the fourth grade one for what would be the end of this coming school year going into the next. So technically I bought it a year early but I was already placing an order so I figured I might as well just go ahead and get it.


Good morning countrymen and women and good morning to all those who are watching us from beyond the borders of Zambia. Yesterday I did issue a statement advising government to take responsibility and to analyze the whole issue of the killings of Unsaman-Sama and Joseph last week. I did allude to the fact that what we needed was a report indicating to who pulled the trigger, who killed those two deceased colleagues and what is the way forward in terms of our police and policing in this country. I did allude to the fact that the statement that was issued by the police was intimidating, was arrogant and very unreasonable and I did demand that the police must retract that statement and apologize to the people of Zambia. On the other hand, I did go on the president to take a lead in this matter and provide leadership and I did recommend that what has happened indeed requires changes in the police, a leadership and in the leadership at the midst of one affairs. As demanded and as requested the president responded but I want to be very categorical and say that what the president has done is not sorting or resolving this problem. To the contrary, Mr President, we are setting Zambia ablaze by this decision. First and foremost, there is absolutely no way, absolutely no way that when an institution is found wanting, an institution is found wanting to take the blame, who should be responsible for Capeso and Simbotue. Certainly it's the head of the institution who is the inspector general of police but why do you want to leave the inspector general of police continue in his position and then fire to fire the inspector general of police. That could have at least sorted out the problem and to make matters worse, to add sort to the injury, the two individuals that have been promoted after the police force, the police service. For us to resolve this problem, we need to have leadership in the police that are reasonable down to earth who will have recourse to them. Let's take for instance, Madam Katanga. Madam Katanga is the most brutal police officer that we have in this country at the moment. She's the most brutal police officer that we have in this country. She's very unreasonable, she doesn't respect democracy, she doesn't want to see the opposition and she doesn't take any action against PF cadres and PF related individuals. For instance, during the Luansha by election, the run general election, PF brutalized the people, they went with machetes and pangas and everything and killed Obed Kasongo. As we speak today, countrymen and women, Katanga has refused the officer commanding in Luansha and the officer in charge in Patamato to go ahead and defect the arrests in the case of those who killed Obed Kasongo, including Boman Rosamu. She went there and started exhibiting the pangas that were collected from PF and say these pangas were actually collected from NDC. The Kopa Beaud province has recorded the highest number of arrests of opposition members when they meet, even at section level, at work level, under the instruction of Katanga. Do you expect now that she's Deputy Inspector General in charge of operation, where is Zambia going to do? Mr. President, I can rest assure you, you've created more problem than we were in. In fact, this could be described as jumping from a flying pan into the act of fire. Katanga does not deserve to even commandeer, even a police station in a shant compound. She's a lawyer, a trained lawyer, but she's not reasonable. She's too brutal to the extent that when opposition leaders are arrested, countrymen and women, she refuses for them to have access to a mattress and blankets. It happened to me, it happened to Godfrey Muambak, it happened to HH. When I'm arrested in Lusaka, I am allowed for my relatives to bring a small mattress, bed, blanket, and also a pillow. On the Kopa Beaud province, when you're arrested under Katanga, you are not allowed to have access. In fact, what she does, she will sit at the police station until about 01 to make sure that nobody brings a mattress of what kind of a human being is she. Does she really deserve to be promoted, to be in charge of operations in this country? The answer is a big no. My older brother, President Ed Garung, please, yes, you need to take action, but the action that you have taken is not going to resolve this problem, is actually going to create more problems. If you take Kapeso and compare to Katanga, Kapeso is a more reasonable police officer by far in terms of brutality and not following the law than Katanga. This Muene is the one who escorted us under gun with guns chasing us from Chilubi Island. Chasing us from the Chilubi campaign with guns almost escorting us 100 kilometers from Chilubi. That's the person who's going to be in charge of administration. What are we telling the country? What are we telling the nation? What are we trying to achieve? My dear brother, President Ed Garung, I beg with you, leave a legacy. Leave a legacy that will stand the test of time. I fear that you are being misled. The people that are advising you are wrong people. They don't love you.   It is never too late, my brother. It is never too late. Please rescind the decision of these two gentlemen. There are a lot of reasonable people in the police force, well educated who can take up those positions, who can respect the rule of law, who can also respect the people of Zambia and have recourse to the provision in the constitution. Katanga does not allow any meetings on the copper belt when you apply for a permit for security reasons. The PF goes on to have meetings at will and she's very brutal, extremely brutal. It's just that police officers can't speak and new people from the office of the president, you are not helping matters because the job of the people from the office of the president is to pick information and advise the president. Police officers on the copper belt complain against Katanga that this woman doesn't know how to work with people. She doesn't know no administration for her. It is brutality and it is about her and her instructions. My heart bleeds. These two promotions of Mwene and Katanga, I swear one day I will be vindicated. And every time I speak about things, I get to be vindicated. I am convinced beyond reasonable doubts. Very soon we will have more problems, we will have more killings, we will have more people detained in this country than ever before under Katanga. Even if the president did not fire you, my brother do the most reasonable thing. Resign on your own. Resign on your own. Automatically by the president saying I'm giving him six months to try and reorganize and then after six months a decision will be made. Simply means there is no confidence in you. There is no confidence in you. The police needs to have the people's confidence. The police service needs to have people must have trust and you know and confidence in the police service. But at the moment the trust and confidence of people in the police service is at its lowest level. People don't trust the police. Then you go and bring a brutal woman, a brutal woman in the name of Katanga to be in charge of operations. Cry my beloved country. I don't know what legacy we want to leave. You know for me, I speak with passion because I love this country and I have no qualms against anybody. President Ed Galungo I regard him as my brother. H H is my brother. Everybody is my brother. And when I speak to advice like this, please listen where I come from. They say but sometimes I'm misunderstood. It will not be long. You see the true colors of Katanga and Mwene. They will do something bigger than what has happened killing two. We are going to have 20 people killed at a go. It's not long ago Katanga was saying during the gassing when we go to investigate people are turning into cats. Surely how can somebody, police officer even issue that statement. Just that to tell you that this person is not no. How can somebody claim about that? So for me, I've spoken. I've advised and that word is there to take or discard or leave it. But by and large under the circumstances Katanga just should have been fired. Of course, he's two deputies. But we should have found reasonable people, more reasonable people because we need to change the police. There must be police reforms. And police reforms must be to the effect that the people who are running the command must be people with reasonable thinking. And people who should respect the rule of law. And Katanga does not respect the rule of law. When an opposition leader is arrested, he's kept in detention for five days before he's taken to court. Delayments, delayments. No policemen. When a PF cadre is arrested, is given policemen there and then are these the people you want to run the police? Are these the people who should be heading our most important institution in terms of security? Abash Katanga. We cannot allow that. I think we need to start moving away from rhetoric and be real in the way we run this country. It is very painful. It's very painful. I want to buy the fire. Inspector General Polisa. In South Africa, in England, everywhere, when such a thing happened, in fact, the Inspector General Polisa doesn't need to be fired. He should resign himself. Katanga should have resigned that day himself without being fired. What is it that you want, Katanga, Inspector General Polisa? You have failed. Why do you want to continue remaining in office? If this decision is not rescinded on Katanga, I want to warn you, Madam Katanga, that please don't bring your brutality to the entire police force. It was better being confined to the copper belt because we're only in charge of the copper belt.  We are going 50 years backwards. The police is now supposed to be a service, to provide a service, not to be a force, but watch the space. This Katanga woman, watch the space. Thank you very much. I haven't gone to work because there's one more information I'm waiting. We should have been given to me, but I don't comment on issues until I get all the final information. So if I get it this afternoon, I'll call you back. I don't, early in the morning, tomorrow, before I leave, I wish it's


So we're now recording our meeting, and I would like to go ahead and do a short introduction for Midwifery Education. In our lives, we can just unmute your mic for one second about the institution. Our library has been serving women since 1987, when she first began her training as a Midwife. Years of experience in home and hospital care in the Delta Nations, providing care and training, and she's worked with many people all over the world. She's also included developed and correctional and trained healthcare workers in the midst of the Ebola crisis, and earthquakes, and has assisted in the refugee situation in Europe. Our second speaker is Tia Wola. She's a certified professional midwife, licensed midwife and clinical herbalist. She's been working as a women's healthcare provider and educator. She's been working internationally as a midwife for midwife children, and she's been providing care for the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East. Her passion is helping women in low-resourced settings by bringing compassionate care and resources to the most vulnerable in the world. Our third speaker is Cindy Nelly. Cindy Nelly is a certified midwife who was born and raised in Maine, USA. She's a very experienced and diverse midwife. She's served as a coordinator for International Maternal and Child Care Care Projects in the Gambia, Kenya, Rwanda, the ERC, and in Colombia, South America. She's also taught for arts and medicine in Spain in the Morroconas of disaster relief first responder, and she provides relief for us for a week and 80, and posts 16 in Mississippi and Louisiana and the USA. She's currently in the streets and has been working with Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon. And our final speaker is Tia, who's worked to began her career in midwifery in 2016, combining midwifery with her background in foreign politics for years of experience in international work, and the career has led to work in global health and other communities of global reproductive life. She's been providing the different reproductive health care services in several countries and now focusing on the refugee crisis then in Syria. So thank you so much, midwife pilgrim, and I'm going to go ahead and mute my microphone. For moving the slides, and I know you don't know how to do this, as you told me, Laura Lai, if you look to the bottom of your slides, which are called arrows, where you'll be able to move your slides backwards and forwards. Should you have any problems, please let me know. Thank you. Thank you, Jane. So midwife pilgrim is a U.S.-based NGO, and we focus on global reproductive health needs. We are dedicated to responding to global communities in crisis and disaster situations, which in this case means a refugee crisis. Since 2015, when we began, we have sent 30 volunteers on 35 missions, impacting over 10,000 women and their families. Last year alone, we provided care to 3,500 refugee women and children in four countries. In honor of today, three of our volunteer midwives will be sharing their experiences in Turkey, Lebanon, and Greece, though we have worked in other locations. We've worked in Sierra Leone, Nepal, Kenya, Haiti, and Jordan. And actually we are looking into projects in Iraq and Serbia now. So keep posted. By the end of this presentation, we hope the participants will understand more clearly the living conditions and health care needs of refugee women and their families, the barriers to care for women in the humanitarian setting, the role of volunteer midwives in this particular crisis setting, and also ways that you can help on a way forward. So I'd like to turn it over to Kayla Moller, a licensed midwife who worked with us in Greece and Turkey. Okay, hi. My name is Kayla Moller. I'm a CPM in L.M. and I live in Northern California. I have a small home birth practice here, but within the last year and a half or so, I've mostly been focusing on helping to bring care and aid to the women of the refugee crisis. And as Laura Lai said, I've worked in Greece and Turkey. My last two trips over, I've primarily been in Turkey and working with a project that is continuing. So I'll speak a little bit of that in my presentation. But first I just want to talk a little bit about Turkey and what's happening there with the refugee crisis. There's about 3.2 million registered refugees living in Turkey, making it one of the largest host countries of refugees in the world. This includes Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, Iranians, Somalians and other nationalities. But out of this 3.2 million refugees, almost close to 3 million of them are Syrian in the country. And about a little over 200,000 are hosted in camps. But other than that, the people are just displaced and living either in the southern area by the Syrian border around Istanbul or in western Turkey. And that's where I work is in Izmir. I don't know how big the map is for you, but it's over on the AGMC. And we service about a two hour radius there and there's probably at the height of the season in the summer. When I was there this summer we were bringing aid and care to over 5,000 refugees. The camp sizes, conditions, a number of people vary. Sometimes it'll be a camp of 20 to 30 people. Sometimes it'll be a camp of a few hundred people. Most are either in some sort of warehouse setting where they set they inside. They build little kind of homes with tarps for themselves to for their families. Or they do that out in the fields next to where they're working. The unique part about the demographic that I've been working with in Turkey is that they are, most of them are farm workers and we're farm workers in Syria. And so now since the war had started and they've had to flee their homes and leave their land, they've now become migrant farm workers. So they move around Turkey depending on where the food is being grown and what the needs are and things like that. Most of them are paid, but whether or not they get paid is the question. And if they are, it's very little the wages. And the landlords, they're also having to pay rent for these pieces of land that they're living on. And the landlord, sometimes they don't pay them. And like I said, if they do, it's very low wages and they mostly hire women because they're cheaper to hire and averages about seven American dollars a day that these women are making. A few of the things I'm going to talk about today are the living conditions and healthcare needs of refugee women and their families. This includes prenatal and postpartum care, well woman care and primary care and contraception, clean water, basic hygiene and access to resources, shelter, safety and education. And then the two pictures on this slide, this is one of the bigger camps that we worked with in a warehouse and it's kind of both sides of the camps. So you'll see like they, so that's the warehouse they're living in and then inside would be their shelters. As you see, there's a lot of standing water on the ground. And I'm going to talk a little bit about that later in the presentation. So the scope of practice for midwives is a little bit different. We're working overseas, especially for us that are licensed midwives in the States. We do do well women care here in the States but over there it also consists of doing primary care. So midwives, sometimes I would be the only person there and sometimes there would be a doctor or a nurse with me. So depending on that, you're holding the space for everybody, women but also men and children included. But one of my primary focuses being a midwife is of course bringing maternal health care and that includes of course prenatal care. And so it would be like you would imagine like a basic prenatal appointment. You know, I carry a Doppler, we do the vitals, we do urine analysis, you know, distribution of any kind of supplements or prenatals or maybe nutrition kind of help that they need. If we can, we try to get resource, you know, if they need like something for like they're like a belly band or some kind of like clothes or something like that. We do help with that as well, but not quite as much. And we do it within the last six months now, we have access to labs. So we're able to draw blood in the camps and then there's a private lab in Izmir that will run the labs for us. It's been a big thing that's been added to the care. And so most of the women there do give birth in the hospital and the C-section rate is high, but it's not as high as it is in Greece, which is good. But the care in the hospital is still not that great. And depending on where the refugee is registered, they might even be turned away at the hospital. So we bring them to the hospital or they go, but then we usually visit them and also make sure they get home, bar back to their camps. And then that's where we continue on with the postpartum care. And as the same with prenatal care, it would be the same postpartum care that we offer here or that I would offer here. But the follow-up care continues after a six-week period, which would leave my practice in the States. We follow through with babies of all ages. And so, yeah, one of the biggest things is the high need of resource for the people. This can include anything from access to food, shelter, things like that. One of the biggest things that I deal with as a midwife is resource to hygiene and education around that. Because it's not like the women aren't capable of taking care of themselves, but there's just such little resource. And the toilets are really dirty. Most of them are just a hole in the ground where they're all shared, sometimes by hundreds of people, like I was talking about, if the campsite is that. And so there's been a really high, I see a really high rate of vaginal infections in UTIs. So, you know, most of it we treat allopathically. But we also try to get women like clean panties so they at least have a couple changes of panties, access to feminine products. Soap that isn't like chemical soap that's going to aggravate that because, yeah. So a lot of it is about education and just bringing resource. And one of the biggest things that we did is what we've been doing in Turkey is bringing clean water to the camps. And last summer we were given a donation and also paid for part of this water filter system. And we were able to bring in this very simple water filter. They hook it up to the main source in the camp with these five gallon buckets. And they were able to get filtered water, which was huge because we were seeing a really high rate of parasites. And especially in the children, it was bringing a lot of diarrhea and vomiting and bloating and things like that. So we treated almost all the camps at that time, which was about 5,000 people, as I said, with parasite medicine. And we saw great results with it. And that's continued as well, the Clean Water Project, and treating people for parasites. The next thing I want to talk about is contraception needs and distribution and education around that. Personally, that's one of my, especially these last two trips, I've just seen such a need for that.  They're getting pregnant at two months postpartum and having another baby. And they're young and their families are growing and it's not healthy, obviously, for the body, but also they need the contraception care and a lot of them have reached out asking for it. And so we started doing a distribution of oral contraception, IUD placement as well as condoms. And so a lot of that entails like counseling and just like talking to the women to finding what the right choice for them is. And I'm actually currently working on getting some grant money to start a distribution program that can connect just resources with other NGOs that are doing women's health care out in the fields. So realities of maternal outreach care and the barriers to this care. One of those things is continuity of care, lack of access to women's health care due to the nature of migrant life and fear of the system, bridging the gap between health care systems and also meeting challenges due to police presence and coordination with other NGOs. So in these slides, this is the picture with all the people. That's kind of a typical look of inside of a tent in one of the camps. And I took that picture so I was sitting back and we kind of just set up with all of our medicines and our translator and then everybody kind of comes in and we see everybody one by one. And one of the biggest challenges faced here is treatment and follow-up care. Because one, some people won't even take their medicines and then the other is having access to medicines because of the movement with the people. And so about six months ago, one of the ways that we decided was a good way to keep track of people is we thought, oh, we should start charting. So we've developed the system where now we have charts and information on all the people we've been seeing and they're organized by camps. And if there is a phone number or something like that, we are able to do the follow-up care with them. And so that's been huge in kind of jumping over this barrier. And the other problem with this though is that a lot of people have fear of the system because there is such a challenge in bridging the healthcare gap and people fear either deportation back to the Providence in which they were originally registered which is usually the south of Turkey when they crossed over the border or just being deported altogether back to Syria. This last trip when I was there, this was especially present because the police started showing up in the camps and one of the times I was there and we were asked to leave and that if we continued offering care, then we would risk the same thing and that our NGO could be shut down and as well as international volunteers deported, things like that. And they also started to remove the refugees from the camps. And some of it was a little bit brutal but most of it, you know, refugees were asked to go. The buses came, they loaded them up and they were bringing them back down south.  So one of the ways though that we've been able to continue to bring cares to coordinate with other NGOs and we as midwives pilgrim, you know, we place midwives in the situations of crisis and the main NGO that we've been working with in Turkey is called Medvent and it's a European NGO but because of the risk of working as an international NGO in Turkey, we've partnered with some Turkish NGOs that have helped us to kind of bridge those gaps that I was talking about in the healthcare systems and help people get seen in hospital as well as to continue to bring care into the camps. So I'm just going to tell this story about Ayat. This is Ayat and she's the woman in the picture and then the picture next to it is where she lives and she, I met on my last trip and her family, they work in the lettuce field so you'll kind of see where the clothes are hanging and the greenhouses with all the lettuce. They just like stretch on for miles and miles and miles. And to the left there you can kind of see the porch but it's just kind of a shanty kind of shack house, two rooms and there was about 30 people living between the two rooms. Why I want to tell Ayat's story is it's not too crazy of a story but it's just a success story of why what we're doing and bringing care is working and why it's so important. So when I met Ayat she was about 37 weeks pregnant. She was the first time mum and 19 years old and she had no previous prenatal care whatsoever. Being pregnant to her it wasn't even really a reality yet even though she was so close to giving birth. So the first appointment we did we found that she was very hypertensive like 140 over 95 or something like that. And so that day luckily we were able to draw labs and run a liver profile and check kidney function and do a CBC and all those sort of things and they came back mostly normal. Some things were a little bit on the high end but so we started visiting her like every other day checking her blood pressure. We ended up giving her a blood pressure cuff so that she could not have made anyone but like a electronic one or this one that she could use to keep a log and we were able to continue to draw labs to monitor as well as put her on a hypertensive medication for pregnancy or that is safe in pregnancy but over about like a week and a half to two weeks of this of just like back and forth, high blood pressures, all sort of things. It just wasn't going down. We were able to get her an ID where she was able to go to the hospital and she actually was induced and ended up in the C-section but both her and her baby are now well and this is just, I use this as an example because like so many women that I've come across in my work in Greece but especially in Turkey is that they have just been totally lost into the system and they don't even, and there's just no education around even how to do that and there's no one there to help them and so she was just a success story for that because had we not been there and not been able to help monitor her blood pressure and get her to a safe weeks of gestation to deliver her baby that maybe she wouldn't have, you know, I'm not sure what the outcome would have been. So, yeah, thank you. Up next, the next speaker is a colleague of mine, Cindy Neely and she's going to be talking about her work in Lebanon. And actually, Cindy Neely is having some microphone issues. So, this is Lorelai and I will be doing my best to do her presentation. Cindy Neely's worked in a lot of different places and spent some time in Turkey just before prior to Teah last year and has recently been to Lebanon. There are one and a half million refugees in Lebanon and if I'm correct, I believe they are considering a small population. They have the most ratio of refugees to the general population. I believe it's one in four. She worked in the Becca Valley, which is north of Tripoli, and which is an area where a lot of refugees have settled. I will do my best to go through her presentation. I've never been to Lebanon personally, but have spoken with Cindy a lot and she's going to help me as we go along. The living conditions and healthcare needs of refugee women in their families. Very similar to a lot of the other places that you have been hearing about. Teah's discussion of Turkey, the presentation given before by Lillian about MPI in Greece, a lot of areas that have been set up for refugees, but not given the best of living conditions, so tents. In fact, there actually are no official refugee camps in Lebanon at all. They are just areas where people are brought, which is what we found in Turkey as well, because they don't want permanence. A lot of people go to a place, they set up their tents, they get everything set, and then they're given 24 hours, sometimes less notice, that they have to leave. Then they have to find another place, sometimes an even smaller area, try to house these tens of thousands of people who are being moved from this piece of land. Some refugees have actually been there for more than 40 years, the refugees of Palestine, for instance. 70% of the refugees in Lebanon are not registered at all, which is again another typical thing we are finding in a lot of different countries that we work, which makes it very difficult for them to get jobs, to get care, to be considered official, so they're outside of any system at all. Most hospitals are private, so therefore very expensive. Health care is an issue. 47% of the pregnant women that Cindy was seeing in her area were receiving prenatal care, which was very, actually, I think, obviously not a great number. We should be getting 100%, but better than what I expected, and that goes to show the dedication of these volunteers to get out there and to do the work. Cindy is actually trying to send me some information as we go along. There is not a signatory in the human rights for them, so therefore their protections are limited, these refugees. In this case, Cindy worked with the Syrian American Medical Society. They had a program there. They have actually several different programs at different times where they go in and provide health care, primary care, maternal care, things like that. They did a whole week of GYN surgery using private hospitals, and they were able to provide contraception, which is a huge issue of refugees that we have found. I'm trying to change the slide. I don't personally know the story of this child. If Cindy could get on and tell me, that would be great, but you can see an example of the living conditions in some of the situations that these children are facing and the people. Very, very ill sanitation, so water is an issue, hygiene is an issue. Children are often alone in the camps because there's no clean water to drink. There's no clean water for hygiene as well. You can imagine the amount of parasites that are around as well as situations like in this child. Sadly too, because of the number of children. Cindy and Ellie, if you could possibly write in the chat box because the bugging, and I can either text Cindy tomorrow or I is disturbing the course of the conversation. Oh, sorry. That's okay. It's just when we're trying to listen and we keep hearing your phone going off. Oh, and I think you wouldn't mind. Yes, no, I'll comment. Great. Thank you. And I'll just read it from there. So, Cindy, if you'll start writing in the chat box, you can even do a personal one to me if that's easier. And I'm sorry about the buzzing sound. I don't know how to turn that off on my text, even though the volume is turned way down. One of the other issues of the risks to children and to women is there is a lot of sex trafficking, which sadly is typical in these types of situations. So there are a lot of health care risks, a lot of risks on a lot of levels. Here are some other photos that she has been able to... Oh, I'm going to go back one second. She wrote me and said that there are 250,000 children that are not in school right now, which, as you can imagine, is going to lead to some major implications in the future. Barriers. Because it's a diverse cultural, religious, and ethnic population, you have refugees coming in from a lot of different countries. That's going to...  That's going to remain the same, but how you give it can be tricky, as well as language issues. There's a huge country burden in Lebanon.  So that means three out of four people are native Lebanese, but one to four is a huge burden on the resources. Jobs, sources of health care, sources of water, things like that food will be very, very difficult. Movement within the country is restricted to refugees, which makes it very, very difficult. And they have a lot of curfews, so arrests are made, therefore putting the refugees at further risks and making it more difficult for them to receive care that they need. Distance to health care facilities and modes of travel. Transportation is a big issue. A lot of people are afraid to travel because of their fear of deportation, which has happened. In fact, it's happened in a lot of the countries that we have worked in, and something that we are seeing as being a big barrier for people wanting to move, or even to go to try to get health care. They're afraid. It's been mentioned in other sessions that I've seen people are afraid to go to the hospital. They don't trust the health care people, and they don't trust that they're not going to get sent back to their country of origin. There's a lot of abuse within those health care facilities, too. There's a lot of tension within the local culture, so people who are trying to gain access to health care in a facility are not necessarily treated well. And that's why mobile clinics tend to be better. We have found in a lot of places with NGOs or independent volunteers going in and meeting the refugees where they are at so we can see them. They don't have to worry about finding transportation. They don't have to worry about finding a place that will actually give them compassionate and skilled care, and they're able to get the health care that they need. In all of our programs, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, we've had great success with the mobile clinics. Cindy was able to put IUDs in tents. People are more willing to talk more when you're in their space. There's less of that feeling of hierarchy, but you are coming to them. They are welcoming them into your home and therefore them into their home. And therefore you are a guest. And it changes the whole dynamic. They are a partner in their care then. So it changes the way that people view health care and they trust their providers more. There's a lack of pharmaceuticals, a lack of able to get the correct medications and things that are needed. But on the other side, there's often too many different NGOs trying to do the same thing. So there needs to be a way of coordinating. We have found that everywhere we go, you have all these different NGOs going in and doing their thing. And while they're doing great work, it just seems if people could coordinate, you could reach so many more people and be more effective actually with that type of system. But that's a whole different topic on how NGOs need to learn to work better together. Medication was brought into Turkey, as Taya had mentioned, and you're able to get it. But it's less expensive to buy things locally. And it also actually helps local economies. So in places where there is a lack of essential medicines, that can be a problem. Because sometimes bringing those medications in is too costly. Or you have problems at customs, not in general, but we have had issues with that. And so one thing we want to do is try to encourage local economy too by purchasing medicines when they're available. The role of the midwives. So as you can see here, they are in a makeshift tent doing their work. In this case, they're providing emergency response training and trying to train other healthcare workers and how to respond to situations. Mainly because in Syria with the Civil War, there's been no training of a large amount of midwives. There's some programs here and there, but by and far, midwives are not able to be trained. So there is a push to train local people in these different areas who have any skillet all in their interest in how to provide the care for their own population. Which is what we hope to do anyways. It's always better if care is provided among your own community instead of depending on volunteers coming in from different places. And as midwives, we connect people to services. So trying to connect them to social services or psychological services, whether it's contraception or primary care, whatever is needed. We often have that role of education, support, advocate, and just doing those sorts of roles means that you're seeing a lot of people and you're trying to coordinate with a lot of different areas. So in some cases, you may have a situation where you have a baby that you are doing an exam on and realize this baby has some serious health issues. So trying to coordinate with local facilities or to a higher level of care at a hospital, finding funds in places where it is a privately owned and you need to pay.  Make sure that when they're in that facility, they actually are getting the care, as mentioned prior, because refugees are often not given respectful care. They're often not taken seriously. So having somebody advocate for you, having a midwife come up and say, hey, this baby needs this ultrasound and this echo and possibly surgery. So making sure that gets followed through can make a huge difference in the lives of these women, children, and families. Oops, I missed the slide. So if you want, I think there's something. Yep. Okay. So we've talked about most of these. So I'm going to just go on talking about all the different ways that midwives. Marla, I think Jane was letting you know, excuse me, I think Jane was trying to tell you that it is now 20 minutes to the hour. And if you need to have time for questions, you're going to have to wrap up in the next five minutes. Okay. And we're going to, okay, thank you. Sorry about this. I'm going to, we're just going to go on then and go to Gina in Greece, who will be able to tell about her time in Greece. Hi. So with only five minutes, I'm going to have to really skim through this kind of quickly just to touch on the main points. And that's so hard to do. So just really quick, my name is Gina and I am currently in El Paso, Texas working with an established midwifery practice as well as continuing to work internationally in Greece, Lebanon and Mexico. So I had traveled to Greece initially with the intention of volunteering in Lesvos, but by the time I arrived, the situation had shifted further north into the border of Greece and Macedonia. And I ended up working primarily in a camp called Echo Station Camp and Echo Camp held anywhere from 2000 to almost 3000 refugees at any given time and depending on who was counting. The unofficial camps, which was Itomini and Echo, they had a lot of limited resources, leaving countless individuals without basic access to food, adequate shelter, electricity, and of course healthcare services. Several international organizations and smaller NGOs and independent volunteers flocked to the region to assess the crisis and begin to provide some structure and basic services until the larger organizations could come in and establish care and services. As we know, the need for reproductive health is immense and most care in the camp was and continues to be provided by volunteers and smaller NGOs. Some of the biggest barriers to care that I encountered were just simply a lack of providers who were qualified to provide services. In Itomini, I was often one of two midwives available and in that camp we had an unofficial tally of 600 pregnant women. In Echo, I was often the only women's healthcare provider available and we had anywhere from 30 to 60 pregnant women and that doesn't include the postpartum women. There is the issue of birthing in the camp versus birthing in the hospital. Birthing in the camp is considered unauthorized as it was not done with an authorized provider and unfortunately birthing in the hospital was preferable for the sole purpose of establishing registration for the newborn. But even in the hospital setting, we found that this was often difficult to achieve. And as we know, unregistered newborns and refugee children face an increased risk of exposure to violence, abuse, and exploitation. And in Greece alone, almost 77% of newborn refugees were unable to be registered or obtain an official birth certificate. There is a lot of miscommunication about the importance of birth registration and a lot of refugees are frustrated and overwhelmed with the process of it. And in addition to that, the process requires proof of marriage and other identity documents that were often destroyed in Syria or lost and route to Greece. And so that adds to the difficulty of being able to establish birth registration. The inability to establish birth registration makes it more difficult for the families to seek asylum further into Europe and to make forward movement in that capacity. The hospital setting also has a lot of obstetric violence. There were women who were performed, one of the women that I transported to the hospital. She birthed in route and when we arrived in the hospital, the placenta had not been born yet. But the doctor who was attending the delivery cut an apesiautomy after the birth of the baby for no apparent reason. We saw many women that we transported received C-sections without consent for no medical reason. The hospitals are overburdened. They don't have enough staff to handle the volume of the influx of refugees in those areas. And then there's because of that, they don't have the space for appropriate follow-up care. And we had women who received cesarean sections being returned to the camp less than 48 hours post-op. We met women that had not been given any medication for pain management and they were not properly educated on proper hygiene for incision sites, which we saw a significant amount of post-op infections as a result. In ECHO Camp we established a mobile healthcare clinic designed to meet the needs of the women in the camp and provide a spectrum of care ranging from well women to prenatal and postpartum, as well as being able to provide resources for education and contraception. However, many of the women who would come from the camp to the clinic would do so for well women care and the pregnant women and postpartum women were more inclined to stay in their tent. So in order to reach out to the women in the camp, I set up a maternal outreach program and in doing so it turned into a daily routine. I was able to keep the mobile clinic staffed with a rotation of GPs that came through the camp. Every day I would make rounds through ECHO and check in with the pregnant moms that I knew of. In the process I created a registry of all the pregnant and postpartum women in the camp and added to it. It created almost like a follow-up log where we could check in daily and make sure their needs were being met, check in on them and their babies. And as the bigger NGOs like MSF and other groups like NPI established in the camp, then we were able to use that registry to identify women who were good candidates for proper referrals for external resources. In the camps, part of the mobile maternal outreach program included spending the nights in the camps because with such a high-level PTSD there was often a lot of episodes that would occur at night. There were people having severe PTSD attacks, resulting in disassociation, violent outbursts. There was a lot of sexual abuse and assault that occurred at night. And we quickly realized that we needed women health care providers as well as emergency health care providers maintaining a present in the camp 24-7. And so that's part of what I did with the maternal outreach program. And the outreach program also just provided another great form of support for the women who were enduring those difficult situations. Contraception in refugee camps is always a difficult topic to navigate. There's an absolute need for contraception and education. We received tons of donated condoms that found that there was a reluctance from the men to actually use them. And the women in the camp were desperately trying to avoid pregnancy. And on this photo or on the slide you can see a photo of a broken spoon. And the head of the spoon was being used as a makeshift diaphragm type device. And I also removed pieces of kitchen sponges that had been caught up and even saran wrap type plastic from women who were attempting to use these as makeshift barrier contraceptive devices in lieu of condoms and other methods. The pill and IUD and injection are other methods, but it's difficult to maintain consistency with them. It's difficult to maintain follow up. We distributed birth control pills and we had many situations where the men were very upset about that. They took them from their wives and brought them back to us at the mobile clinic and felt as if we were interfering with their families and their family planning. They were very, very upset about this. And so the women would come back to us and ask for the pills. I'm sorry? You'll have to conclude now. You'll have to conclude because you have questions and we need to hear the room for the next few persons. You can conclude and there's a couple of questions, but if you could just take one question from the audience, that would be great. Okay. So just to quickly wrap up, I'm going to flip to the next slide. Establishing a sense of community became an imperative way for us to bridge health care gaps and provide support and networking services for the women and their families in the camp. So, yeah, so now we'll open it up to questions. I will take one question and I think the question is really relevant here. Somebody asked, how could you all get registered to work there? How did that work? So I think that's the question that you came in and then we'll have to finish it. I'll answer that. So it's an interesting situation with the refugees. Most providers are not registered. For example, in Greece, only physicians are registered. We have not been able to find a legal way to register midlife and it hasn't been required. When most of the situation with unlawful, we were working toward that, but then they switched. Everybody was moved to the mainland or most people. And what we have found is that registration occurs depending on where, what location, which camp. It is almost impossible to do. So no, we are not registered as midwives in that situation. The midwives that work with NGOs that are registered in Greece go under their requirements and their rules and regulations and whatever they have set up with the government in that location. The independent midwives are working independently and a lot of the NGOs, in fact, I would say the majority of the NGOs doing the majority of the work are actually not registered. While you will find there are a lot of registered NGOs, our assessments have shown that the NGOs reaching the most people in Greece at least are not registered. In Turkey, it's even more tricky. They're not even allowing NGOs to register right now. In fact, you may have heard in the news recently the arrest of a lot of international medical corps volunteers who were legal and registered. A lot of NGOs are being kicked out. So no, nobody is registered there. So it is an issue and something that we talk about with our midwives that you are potentially exposing yourselves. You are working in an area where you are not licensed. We ask midwives to not practice out of their scope of practice. And yet we also know that that's also not a reality sometime when you have somebody coming to you with a serious health condition and the hospital is absolutely refusing you care. You know, ethically, we do not feel we can turn these people away. So those are the issues. I'm not sure about Lebanon, but I have a feeling it is the same because it is what we are finding everywhere. We are registering as an NGO in Iraq and are very excited about that. And then we will have to see how that works with our midwives. Midwives that work with Midwife Pilgrim or that we send to other NGOs are licensed in their country of origin and have gone through specific trainings that we require. And we're actually going to increase those trainings. We do not send people that are not ready or have the ability or without the licensure. We feel that that is very important. Does that answer your question? I believe it was Joy Kemp who asked that question earlier, but I hope that answers your question. Okay, that's great. You can finish off Midwife Pilgrim. Thank you so much for such a wonderful presentation. It's a very moving and important provision that you're providing there. I really appreciate you. I'm going to go ahead and...


Yeah. Good evening all. I have two parts to talk about actually. My name is Praveen. I'm a web developer. Am I audible? Yeah, good. Okay. So, I'm starting the first part. Second part will start after the video. I'll come to that. So, yeah, I'm not here to talk about HTML, firewall, time, web circuit, code lab. So, how cool would it be if you can present, you can make your presentations using your mobile handheld devices. I'm talking about presentation app. So, let's see how that can be. If at all you are unhappy or frustrated with the time delays that take to set up the presentations. So, I think this app might help us. So, let me show you the app.  So, one second. Yeah. So, here is the app. This app is capable of tossing three types of files. One is PowerPoint. The other one is PDF. And one more is MP4 or YouTube files. So, ideally it could be any web URL which has any of these files actually. So, it could be portal, it could be Dropbox, YouTube or any cloud at such, Google Drive or anything. So, let me pull up some of the, so this is one of the PDF I started slideshow. But that I'm going to present it from this particular app. So, I'll come out of PowerPoint. Just to show you couple of slides here from PowerPoint. I'll come back to, yeah. So, this app can launch this particular presentation to any number of browsers anywhere in the world actually. So, if you are interested you could provide me with your melody, I'll forward you the URL or I can provide you an URL and you'll have to provide me the connect pin. So, let me know. But yeah, let me start the presentation here. So, I'm in Dropbox, my file listings and this is WebSocket workshop, the same PPT which is available on the cloud. So, these are clouds. And point to be noted is it's not streaming media or any data from this device to internet. It's just basically passing the metadata. It's acting as a remote control and it's passing the metadata and indicating web URL that we are at this particular state. So, yeah, thank you. Yeah, so, yeah, okay. So, the road to the ember, I think you are familiar with this particular, please bear with the internet connection. This is my mobile data actually. Sorry for that. It's not so fast. So, it may not render here but I think signal might have passed there. Let's hope for it. Yeah, so, that's the presentation. It's taking time here. But the signal has already passed that we are at this particular slide. It's taking time due to connectivity here. What's up there? So, some delay due to internet and just consider that. So, and one more PDF. So, these are two PDFs that were presented today by Ragu and Choudhury, I think. Yeah, okay. Yeah. So, I think you must be familiar with today's slides. So, I think that's the introduction to presentation app. Probably, as the guys could have a similar remote and all the presentations could be hosted on a single host, a single machine which cannot be shifted all over unless it is necessary to provide demonstration which I have. That's why my laptop is there. So, let me switch to the next part of my talk with this particular video. Please watch it carefully. I hope there is no delay. Thanks to co-browsing, the service agent sees the client's browser window and can provide assistance efficiently over the phone. This provides many advantages for the customer, but the bank benefits too as even complex products and services can now be sold online. Co-browsing makes no compromise when it comes to security. It meets all data protection standards and does not store any user or connection data. Unlike screen sharing, co-browsing provides no remote system access beyond the browser window. Take advantage of personal, live assistance. Fast and secure transactions will make a lasting impression on your clients. And fast, efficient support increases customer satisfaction and reduces costs. Unblue Co-browsing revolutionizes your online business. So, just a practical implementation of real-time communication. I'll just take one or two minutes just to showcase this. Okay, for further details, you can visit TogetherJS.com. Thank you.


وأقول في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكاريم المنزال وأقول قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهدي ولا أتأوله الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن وثناء الجميل وشد الله إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقولوا الحقا وهو يهدي السبيل واشدوا أن محمد العبد هو رسوله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسانين إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى I'm going to go into the second contradiction and in this contradiction إن شاء الله تعالى I want to speak about how people contradict themselves when it comes to the commandments of الله سبحانه وتعالى verse worldly issues let me expand on that if one of us is informed and we're told الله سبحانه وتعالى he prohibited this thing الله made this haram it is not allowed we come to the person who's telling us we say what's your evidence in this issue why did Allah make a haram what's the reason doesn't it seem a bit hard as a ruling do you think it's relevant right now do you why do you I don't want to hear hear that all of those things we argue الجيدة والمراء it turns into a whole debate we even say this is all just hardship it's just complicated make the religion easy why are you telling the halan and haram please itagillah we start the person just told us that it's halan we argue with the person push the person back on the flip side like him we go to a doctor the doctor prescribes a medicine for us he tells us this is the times that you need to take the medicine and this particular tablets you need to take it in the morning before breakfast you need to take this much dose this is this is that and he gives you the other one and he says do this one in the evening make sure you don't take it more than once there has to be this much hours in between each medication والهلومة جالله you need to take it with an empty stomach eat it before breakfast where can that you don't say to the doctor what are you talking about where did you get this from who preceded you from the doctors in this issue you don't argue you take it you go back you even ask the doctor to write it on the on a paper or you ask him to write on the particular medicine you have the box of the medicine and you don't argue you accept it from him and you listen and you adhere why is the religion of الله not like that why don't we not submit to Allah's religion when we hear it straight away and take it and not argue about it دي الله نقصي فلا وربك لا يؤمنون حتى يحكي منك فيما شجر بينهم ثم لا يجدوا في أنفسهم حرجة من ما قضيت ويسأل المتسليمة that they are not true believers they are not true believers until they make you Muhammad their judgment it only disputes and argumentations that happens between them محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم if they don't make you their judgments and then once they've made you their judgment the rulings that you pass and the judgments that you give Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم if they don't feel pleased with it and content and submit to it then they are not true believers سبحان الله أصول الله تبارك وتعالى يسأل وما كان لمؤمنين ولا مؤمنة إذا قضى الله ورسوله أمرًا أن يكون لهم الخير هتم أمرهل if Allah passes a judgment and his messenger passes a judgment a believing male or female have no rights to question the laws and the regulations of Allah no one has the rights to what is upon us is to submit we have no choice after Allah and his messenger have passed the law we have to submit so this is a contradiction that many of us fall into I'm going to stop there إن شاء الله تعالى anything which I have said that was wrong or incorrect is from me and Shaytan and Allah and his messenger are both free from it سبحانك الله ومبيرحمد أشدو الله إله إلا الله أستغفر وقتوب إلي السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته كيف يمكنك أن تفعل مرحباً أشياء الآخر right now that will give you a share of the reward of everything we're doing on this YouTube channel سبب like this video and click subscribe why it will allow YouTube to recommend our videos to other users and imagine the huge amount of reward that could be waiting for you on the day of judgment if you did that with a sincere intention of spreading the Deen of Allah you'll be rewarded for every single person who benefits from one of our videos as a result of your like or subscribe that's an easy two-second action that you definitely don't want to miss out on do it now click like and subscribe and don't forget to make that intention