Dec. 17, 2025

Chickens, Beehives, and Christlike Love: Inside the Light the World Giving Machines

Chickens, Beehives, and Christlike Love: Inside the Light the World Giving Machines

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as well as a focus on health and wellment. Now,

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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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any way that we help somebody in need is wonderful.

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Let's talk about what are some of the items that

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are in the giving machines that you are overseeing in

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the Alamaana shopping center. What are some of the things there?

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an organization called Halekipa that helps homeless youth or foster

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youth or youth that have been in various difficult circumstances.

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that helps the military families, Access Surf Hawaii that helps

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people with disabilities get into the water. And Ronald McDonald

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House Hawaii. And that's many people are familiar with Ronald

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McDonald House from throughout the county tree in their work.

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bus pass so that the youth can get to where

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they need to find a job. They'll find meals for

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the food bank, they'll find Philip Pantry, they'll find childcare.

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beach or meals to help with the people while they

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are enjoying the day at the beach.

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So how okay, let me ask you this, How does

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the donation that's made at the giving machine, how does

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that get transferred to the nonprofit?

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Sure it's recorded in Salt Lake, and so they can

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see the different items, how many which charity it goes to.

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Each tile corresponds to a charity and an item, and

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then once the giving machine ends in January, they just

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run the report and then send the check to the

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nonprofit organizations. The nonprofit organizations need to report back on

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how everything was used.

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And that was how much we got from last week.

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So I wanted to thank Ellen again for her help

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with explaining how this happens. Again, I just want to

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emphasize this looks like a normal vending machine. There are

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cards in all the different slots, and those are cards

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for blankets, for chickens, for beehives, for clean water, for training,

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for medical care. You basically have like a credit card

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swipe thing and when you pick what you're going to do,

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then it draws. Then that card that's in the machine

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drops down to bottom and it's basically a symbolic gift.

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And so I want to emphasize the integrity behind this

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as well. The Church of Jesus Christ the Latter day

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Saints covers all the operating across of this. One hundred

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percent of the donations go to nonprofits.

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Like she was saying, there's a list that goes to

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each one of the nonprofits, and there can be different

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nonprofits and different machines all over the world. Remember, there's

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one hundred and twenty six what did I say, one

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hundred and twenty six cities, So that's going to vary

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by the local nonprofits that are involved in each one

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of those machines. If you're near, here's an idea for you.

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If you're near a giving machine, make it a field trip.

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Bring your kids, bring your grandkids, bring your friends. If

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you're not near one, you can visit light the World

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slash Giving Machines Info online to make a donation, and

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you can give in similar ways through trusted charities. So

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one thing that I've seen people do is adopt a

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yearly giving machine night as part of their Christmas season

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and kind of their family tradition. So let me bring

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up some of I've got a few slides to answer

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some questions around this. Let's bring those slides up now.

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So again, you can go to Givingmachines dot org. She

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had also mentioned that there was some other videos. There's

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actually a whole bunch of stories about different people and

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how this has helped different people in different areas of

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the world. All right, so this is just a slide

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that shows you just a little bit. You know. Obviously,

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the United States has a lot of giving machines all

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the country. You can go and put your you go

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to Givingmachines dot org and you can put your ZIP

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code in and it'll tell you where which one is

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the closest giving machine to you. But you can see

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there's video, there's in South America, there's giving machines, there's

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giving machines around Europe, there's around the Far East, Australia,

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even in Africa. So this is you know that one

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hundred and twenty six cities keeps getting there's twenty one

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countries again, keeps getting bigger and bigger every year. So

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common questions where does my donation go? Again? The church

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covers all operational costs for the Light the World Giving

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Machines initiative. That means that a hundred pcent of your

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donation goes to the participating nonprofit. Occasionally, the nonprofit may

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need to make an items substitution and to me, you know,

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they may have some unexpected needs. So when that occurs,

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replacement products or services stay in the same category as

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the original donation. All right, So what methods of payment

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are accepted? Typically it's going to be a credit card

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or a debit card. That's those giving machine chios, except

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all credit cards and debit cards and mobile payment services.

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to you know, find cash. It's going to be probably

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going to be some kind of credit card. What so

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when this is another question that's been asked a lot.

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What items or charities need the most donations? So every

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participating charity represents a cause that really has pressing, pressing needs.

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And whether you're most passionate about health care or education

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and or feeding the hungry or helping families be self

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sustaining and self reliant, well you're We're confident that you'll

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find an item that resonates with you and your gift

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I can just tell you is going to bless lives

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in countless ways. It really does. So. Also, another thing

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that's that's asked is I'm really feeling inspired about this,

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and you know you might even say, well, how can

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I help light the world?

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Light the world is the initiative that the church has

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been doing for several years now trying to help express

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what is the most important things that we can do

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to be kind, be reaching out to people, be taking

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care of others. So with that, there are another there's

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other ways. If you don't financially have the means to

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make a donation, you can go to just serve dot org.

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I can tell you that here in Hawaii while we're

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on our mission, we have been doing a lot of

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just served dot org opportunities with different nonprofits. Most specifically

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has been the Hawaii Food Bank, a lot of different

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food distribution events around the island. And so that's another way.

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If you don't financially have a way to help, you

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can go out to just serve dot org. And you

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can also again you put your zip code in and

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it'll tell you a whole list of different things that

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you can do to just go out and give up

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your time to those that are in need. So with that,

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I'm going to say thank you so much for joining

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us on the Ask Good Questions podcast a little bit

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shorter today, so that you can go to Giving Machines

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dot org and check it out, find out where your

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local machine is and go there and make a donation

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if you can. If that's not possible, go to just

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serve dot org and see how you might be able

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to help out in some way with some organization that

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is in your community. All right, So with that, I

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just want to we can pull the slides down now.

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So just a quick recap. One one idea turned into

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these vending machines that are now all over the world.

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these are vending machines that are have been turned into

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vehicles of christ like love. Who would have thought so?

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And that you know, you can have Nepaul or Nicaragua

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or Denver, Colorado or any place in the United States,

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so you can say how would you you know, speaking

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you know in your prayers, be saying how could I help?

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So with that, I hope that you have a wonderful Christmas.

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This is meant to be aired during Christmas time and

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I wanted it. I wanted to make the effort to

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make sure that this was happening. And so that's why

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I want you to get out there. This is going

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to be out there until New Year's Day. And so

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with that, thank you so much for joining me today

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and thanks for joining They Ask Good Questions Podcast.

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