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Welcome to to Ask Good Questions Podcasts, broadcasting live every Wednesday,
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six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at
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W four cy dot com. This week and every week,
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we will reach for a higher purpose in money and life,
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as well as a focus on health and wellment. Now,
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let's join your host, Anita bell Anderson, as together we
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start with Asking Good Questions.
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Hello, and thank you for joining us today at the
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Ask Good Questions podcast. My name is Benita bell Anderson.
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I am your host, and today's going to be a
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little bit different because today we are doing something specific
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to Christmas. And this has to do actually with something
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called the Giving Machines, which are in areas all over
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the world. I'm going to be explaining that. Also, I
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need to explain to you that I tried to do
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this segment a week ago. We had some massive technological
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issues and it didn't happen. So, because I feel this
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is super important, because I want to make sure that
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you see this, I'm training again this week. So we're
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going to have a couple of segments that were recorded
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last week that we were able to salvage from that attempt.
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And so with that, I'm going to introduce the Giving
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Machines with a video that is from Givingmachines dot org.
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And so we will roll that video right now.
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This is a wonderful, wonderful, meaningful opportunity for people to share.
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It's that time of year when the hustle and bustle
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makes it easy to forget.
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The reason for the season.
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That one, but there's an unlikely place, a big red
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vending machine that promises to brighten your day with the
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true meaning of Christmas.
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You gotta look at you look at the pictures, A
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pick one.
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That's right.
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You can find all sorts of gifts, from a sleeping
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bag to socks and winter boots. There's even a chicken.
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Oh, that's very cool. Heregusies in And here's the twist.
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These are giving machines, meaning every purchase is a donation
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for someone to need.
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It's amazing, but there's so much more. There are so
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much more.
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Each year these gifts bring light to the world by
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helping others through various charitable organizations from Mexico to Africa.
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In western Tanzania and your Casulu, a group of mothers
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is celebrating. They each started with three baby chicks like
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the ones offered at the giving machines. In just three years,
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the chicks have grown to become seven thousand chickens. The
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mothers use the eggs to feed their children and they
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sell the chickens at the market. Church World Service, a
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global nonprofit, is teaching them how to care for their
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animals and grow their small business.
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Naikulosa nasikasi.
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In metuto a parabapo tripo four in a manach nasa
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a toto.
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They offer the opportunity for a family to get animals
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that will bring nutrition but also income for their families,
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and they bring something else. They bring hope.
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It's that same hope that radiates from a nearby community
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where Salmon. Shabani has raised thirty pigs from just two
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piglets since twenty twenty. Salmon, who was once shunned because
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she is unable to have children, has found a place
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with the women of her community.
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It's not just about the pig, not just about the
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two peoples that we bill have, but it's about her
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dignity in the society. It's about having a person in
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this community that is it.
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And neighboring Kenya is Tanner River Delta. It's a new day.
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Three communities of shepherds, farmers and hunter gatherers, once it
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odds with each other over scarce resources, are finding ways
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to peacefully coexist through beekeeping.
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Like you can see, I'm looking like a modern woman
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because of this product.
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Carolyn Cody is involved in her village's beekeeping project.
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With the women groups, we are producing or when we produce,
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we sell, and we have money of our own, so
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I personally don't have to go to the husband and
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ask for money. Is to buy salt, buy mail, buy
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little things.
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With the beehives donated through the Giving Machines Church World Services,
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teaching villagers how to work together to increase their production,
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the bees and their honey hold the promise of a
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sweeter future.
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I didn't think if it had been possible, we do.
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I lost my husband when I was getting desperate. This
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thing came by and it has met a difference.
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In my life.
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In Ukraine, volunteers are shedding light on the needs of
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refugees and providing meals for many, including the elderly. Working
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from donated warehouse base and Leviv. There are assembling food boxes
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that started off as a listing at a giving machine.
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And there's also a shelter.
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The converted space is a refuge for mothers and children.
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Here the displaced.
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Women have access to groceries and they offer a warm,
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cooked meal to anyone hungry. The efforts are coordinated through
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Lifting Hands International. They team up with local nonprofits to
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provide this critical service.
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We realize that one time distributions of aid are a
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short term solution, so we use that as as a
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means to help people with their immediate needs, and then
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once we build that relationship, we can work on helping
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them with their longer term needs.
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On the Yucatan Peninsula is the little town of Sege.
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Here are these women's Hands.
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We've in and out forming an intricate design that will
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unfold to reveal a hammock.
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The women are neighbors.
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And together with funding from the Giving Machines through Mentors International,
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they formed a small co op. Elizabeth ka Wich Pouch
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has opened her doors for the neighbors to gather. She
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says making hammocks offers them the flexibility to work from
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home and connect with their roots. Plus, a well made
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hammock is in big demand.
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Jes Frescas in the afternoons, you can spot Florencia Carrillo Chan.
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She's making her way to meet with the women, where
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she'll teach them this intricate art form.
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She says, their co op has become so much.
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More A mego senla porque aquinos selamos nos dibertimos combersando
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yes untas yes parameo esta a kin san.
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We're here to give, and we hope that you can
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join us.
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The magic behind the Giving Machines is in making donating
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a personalized experience.
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I think one of the feelings that many people have
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is that they want to help and they want to
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do something and they don't know how. And this gives
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just us a small little way to be able to
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help in a simple fashion.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints sponsors
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the Giving Machines and cover the overhead costs as part
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of its Light the World campaign to share the love
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of Jesus Christ.
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This gives you an opportunity to love your neighbor.
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Every single penny that you guys put into these machines
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goes straight to the charities.
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This Christmas, the Giving Machines will be unveiled in sixty
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one cities across seven countries and online at givingmachine dot org.
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It just gives you a good feeling to be able
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to give to people because enabled me to grow better
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than what I was and because of you I had
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because of your donations.
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So that was just a little bit of an intro
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to show you a little bit about what this is about.
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I'm always struck by how ordinary people with simple gifts
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can create extraordinary change. So this is a global reach.
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There are five hundred plus local and local and global
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nonprofits that are involved. And actually the thing that's interesting
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is since that video was created this year, it's in
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one hundred and twenty six cities, twenty one countries and
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six continents. So this idea of giving in this way
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just keeps growing and growing and growing. So the range
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of items can be food, it can be water, it
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can be hygiene kits, it can be education, It can
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be livestock like chickens or goats. One example is something
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that I've been involved in has been something called Days
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for Girls. This is a nonprofit organization of mostly women
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who get together to sew and these kids are hygiene
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kits that go to girls in Africa, Nepal, different areas
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around the world where they do not have hygiene supplies,
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let's say it for their monthly periods. And so these
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are extraordinary little kids that can be washed and re
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used for these girls every month. That is something that
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I've personally helped with. Also another idea is Nicaragraa and
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that is through something called Mentors International. If you can
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just think about how chickens can go and lead into
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a family business, which leads into food plus income, which
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means much more long term stability. So the key takeaway
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is these aren't just one time gifts. There are seeds
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of self reliance and hope. And so with that, I'd
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like to now introduce the segment that I did with
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with one of the volunteer coordinators here in Hawaii. Her
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name is Alin Cow and she was with me last
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week when we tried to do this segment. We were
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able to salvage a little bit, and I wanted to
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play that segment for you because she does give some
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really great information about just this whole thing and the
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whole idea of the giving machine. So let's roll that clip. Aloha,
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So let's chat about this. We are blessed to have.
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How many machine are we? We have three locations? Is
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that right on the on this island, on on a Wahu?
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There are three locations at the Polynesian Cultural Center, Ala
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Juana Center and pro Ridge Center.
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Right, So, my husband and I were volunteering at the
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Alamana Shopping Center, which is pretty close to Waikiki and
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downtown Honolulu. Yes, so Lin, tell me a little bit
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about you being the volunteer coordinator for this project here
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in Hawaii.
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Sure.
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So, I'm actually one of three coordinators for Alamana. So
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there's one in Honolulu that goes all the way east
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to Hawaii Kai, and then my area is Honolulu West,
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and then there's another coordinator in Milanani. So there's three
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of us working to staff the machines as the same
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hours that the shopping center is open, and from let's
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see November. It was November twenty second that we kicked
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off and it'll run through January first. So it's it's
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quite a lengthy period of time and many volunteer shifts
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to fill, but there's three of us that are coordinating.
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Awesome. And what I want to say too is if
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we can bring up I want to tell you where
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you can go find a giving machine in your town.
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There there is I'm hoping to have on the scrolling
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thing that's not the bottom of the screen. To find
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a giving machine near you, go to Givingmachines dot org,
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or if you can just remember that givingmachines dot org,
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then you can go find one, hopefully in your city
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where you are. So, what stands out to you every
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time you you know, I believe you've seen you know
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this video or videos like it. What stands out to
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you about this? What? What what speaks to your heart
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about this type of doing, this type of thing.
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Well, any any type of service. There's so many ways
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that we can help those in need. But what stands
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out to me about the light the world giving machines
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is I think it was even mentioned in the video
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was the aspect of reaching out to the one. And
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so if you make a donation to charity, that's wonderful
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and it's actually gonna do the same as what you
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do see with the giving machine. But I think you know,
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standing in front of the giving machine and choosing what
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way am I going to help? There's actually another video
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if you go to givingmachine dot org. It's called one
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Drop at a Time, and as it highlights a tile
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in the machine, the video then goes to a clip
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of a person utilizing what was in the machine, so
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saying it's a soccer ball, and then it will go
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to a child playing on the dirt with the soccer ball.
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If it's a meal, it'll go to somebody eating that meal.
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And so you know, sometimes if we write a check
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or if we give cash, we're not thinking exactly about the individual.