WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 Adventist Radio London inspiration for the. 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:15.080 Song good evening, Good evening, Good evening, and welcome to 3 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:21.280 Talking Point. It's another Sabbath evening, and hopefully you've had 4 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:25.039 a really good sabbath. Whatever you've been doing in your churches, 5 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.960 out and about hope. Maybe you've taking some walks, maybe 6 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:33.520 you've been enjoying the weather, and we always talk about 7 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.880 the weather, and it's a little bit changing all these days, 8 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.119 but hopefully you've been having a blessed day whatever you've 9 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:41.920 been doing. So thank you very much for joining us 10 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.399 this evening. My name is Angela and I'm joined as 11 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:49.000 usual by my co hosts Zenya and Pedro. 12 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:56.079 How are you both, Good evening, Welcome to Talking Point. 13 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.439 It feels like it's been a while, but yeah, it's 14 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:02.200 good to be back and I'm good. 15 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:02.799 I'm good. 16 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:06.680 Enjoying the weather. As you've said, Angie, always the starting 17 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:10.280 point the weather, isn't it, And I'm hoping that we're 18 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:13.959 on the cusp of summer. There I say it. 19 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:20.640 Yes, I think it's teasing a little bit, you know. 20 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:21.920 Oh my goodness. 21 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:24.640 Sometimes I think God has a sense, a real sense 22 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:25.159 of humor. 23 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:26.760 That's it, that's it. 24 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:32.040 He knows, and it's not been so nice because there's 25 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:33.200 been a bit of a ray. It's been a bit 26 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:34.200 of a mixture. 27 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:39.200 He has from one day to the other. Really, but yes, 28 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:43.000 let's let's go some things and outs that we are 29 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:48.920 heading for uh stretch of good weather, shall we? 30 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:52.760 And you've got a good week. 31 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.319 I certainly have. I mean it's it's been up and down, 32 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:59.000 but you know, that is life. That is life. I 33 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.879 am not going to complain. That's my new motto. I 34 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.760 shall not complain because once his life there's hope. So 35 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:09.560 trying to keep it positive. I like that and keep 36 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:10.319 it moving. 37 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:12.520 Cool. 38 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:17.240 I'm good, good after that, good evening everybody, and welcome 39 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:21.280 to Talking Point. Yeah, I'm good. And it has seemed 40 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:23.680 like a while, hasn't it that we've been on together 41 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:27.280 talking So yeah, it's been it's good to be back 42 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:31.240 talking to you guys and to the folks on Radio 43 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:34.400 Aventures Radio London. Thank you for joining us this evening. 44 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:41.840 Yeah. Sorry you a busy week as usual? 45 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:47.520 Uh yeah, actually I have. Yeah. My well actually for 46 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:52.120 real quick, my job has expanded, so I do a 47 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:54.439 lot of north now from Halifax, so I've been to 48 00:02:54.800 --> 00:03:01.360 like Newcastle and Darlington and Sutherland each day. So yeah, 49 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:05.680 I think last week I did thirteen hundred miles of driving. 50 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:08.680 So yeah, I'm a little busted, but it is what 51 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:13.400 it is. But yeah, besides that, you know, everything else 52 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.879 is good family as well, and we're all hanging in there. 53 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.960 Oh but the weather thing, you guys kill me with that. 54 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:22.719 I like the way. I don't like it to be too. 55 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.000 Hot, but that's just me, that's true. 56 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:27.360 I've said that before. I don't like it to be 57 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:30.439 hot because, like getting it's more for me in the car. 58 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.639 If I'm in and out of the car. You know, 59 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:34.319 you get back to the car, the cars hot and 60 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:36.120 then it takes like five ten minutes for the car 61 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.680 to cool down. So and it don't take long for 62 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:40.080 it to get hot. So like I go in a 63 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:42.039 person's house, I'm in there for thirty minutes, I come 64 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.879 out the car steaming hot. Again. Now I got to 65 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.599 try to cool it down before I go down the road. 66 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:51.360 So it could be a little taxing for me, but I. 67 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.840 Think right here where we atod it's good for me. 68 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.680 I like, if I can set the stat right here, 69 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:00.840 right now, is what it will be all year. Honestly, Yeah, I. 70 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:05.159 Like it when it's sunny, but not like just straight 71 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:08.319 up heat, like little breeze, you know, a little coolness. 72 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:08.840 I like that. 73 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:15.159 We personally, yeah, yeah, the folks saying Brittain, when the 74 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.319 sun comes out, everybody go crazy. But that's a whole 75 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:19.000 other We could do a whole We can do a. 76 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:28.680 Whole really, but we're thankful, thank you so so yeah. 77 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.639 So for anybody chuning in for the first time, we 78 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:35.319 are talking points, this is this is talking point I 79 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:39.120 should say, this is a show about Wow, we're talking 80 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.920 about different We're having conversations and talking about different topics, 81 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:48.199 themes and ideas that maybe sometimes aren't always discussed. And 82 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.720 what we're gonna be talking about today is I'm liking 83 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:53.519 I'm going to kind of coin this kind of part 84 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:57.600 of my change Maker series in the sense of. 85 00:04:58.000 --> 00:04:58.680 The King. 86 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.240 At people who are making a difference in there, whether 87 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:07.120 it's their local community or maybe their global community, and 88 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:10.920 hopefully that will inspire you to try and make a difference, 89 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.800 make a change within your own circles. Sometimes we think 90 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:17.600 it has to be a big, major thing to make 91 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.360 a difference, but it doesn't necessarily have to be. So 92 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:22.399 we want to kind of really highlight some really cool 93 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:24.680 stories and so really cool people who have been doing 94 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:29.480 exactly that. But before we get into that, let's start 95 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:32.160 off our show with a word of prayer. So anyway 96 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:33.000 you mind praying. 97 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:37.600 For us a definitely, Father, thank you for another opportunity 98 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:40.920 to lead and to discuss the topics that are relevant 99 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.319 and law. As we have this conversation today and the 100 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:49.720 interview ahead, may persons listening be blessed, and may there 101 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:53.800 may it be a call for action in Jesus' name. Amen. 102 00:05:55.120 --> 00:06:01.639 Amen. So yes, we're going to be highlighting two ladies today, 103 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:07.879 actually friends of sen years or Zenia knows, who have definitely, 104 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:10.079 you know, been making a big difference in a really 105 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:12.959 really big way. And it's kind of one of those 106 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:18.000 areas that the idea of making a difference is probably 107 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:20.839 something that as Christians we are kind of cool to do. 108 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:24.759 We're all to kind of you know, love our neighbors, 109 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:28.480 love other people. We're supposed to be spreading the Gospels 110 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.639 with the word, et cetera. And there's lots of opportunities 111 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:35.759 potentially to do that during the months, several months throughout 112 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:41.120 the year, especially like June. There's like Volunteers Week, Volunteers Month. 113 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.720 There's also the Big Help Out which is over a 114 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:46.199 weekend in June as well, but really is the opportunity 115 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:51.439 for doing something to make a difference, really highlighting the 116 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:55.160 idea of volunteering and giving in your time. Many of 117 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:57.959 us work really hard, but there is something about maybe 118 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.600 whether it's highlighting you way passions or getting involved in 119 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:04.079 something that you feel really strongly about so really want 120 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:07.560 to help out in different ways, you can definitely do 121 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:11.360 that through volunteering. It's definitely an interesting and really good 122 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.040 thing for your well being as well. So that has 123 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:16.680 a whole other thing as well. But what I found 124 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:19.680 really interesting as well, there was a recent poll this 125 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:23.560 was to do with a Big Help Out that nearly 126 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.279 one in two young people and they were saying eighteen 127 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:29.879 to twenty twenty four year olds want to volunteer, but 128 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:32.399 sometimes they we unable to find ways to get involved. 129 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.240 Now again, there are some different ways you can get 130 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:40.079 involved in stuff, and hopefully with campaigns like these, different 131 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.959 organizations will start to open things out and open opportunities. 132 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:46.560 But there are still things that you can do young 133 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:50.000 old in between. So we're going to be looking at 134 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:53.319 that today. So my first question I think is just 135 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:58.120 thinking about this. What's your thoughts on volunteering generally? Because 136 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:01.560 I guess the idea of doing something, I say, volunteering 137 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:04.319 for nothing, and sometimes as a volunteer you're not getting 138 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:09.079 paid for this. What's your thoughts on that? I know 139 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:13.600 I've done many voluntary roles over the years, and sometimes 140 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:15.680 you put it in a lot of hard work and 141 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:19.759 time and effort. Sometimes it feels like it's worth it, 142 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:23.279 and many times it doesn't. So do we think it's 143 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:28.639 an important thing to volunteer try and do something within 144 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:32.399 your local community? 145 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:35.240 Well you want us to one of us, okay, well, 146 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:42.480 but me volunteering is unnecessary thing that is good if 147 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:44.960 you have the time. Now, everybody has the time to volunteer. 148 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:52.360 I think that you know, if I could volunteer for something, 149 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.519 I would, It's just the time frame doesn't always work 150 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:59.759 out for me to do. So. I think volunteering makes 151 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:02.240 give your sense of accomplishment. Some people a sense of 152 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:06.440 accomplishment of like helping somebody else that needs help, or 153 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:11.840 helping a cause that needs help. And so volunteering for 154 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:15.000 me would be like I get a good feeling just 155 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:16.879 knowing that I can help somebody because you know, so 156 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.840 many less fortunate people than us out there that are 157 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:24.200 struggling and going through things, and even people that are okay, 158 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:27.440 sometimes they need help. I think we always need help 159 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:28.879 and we have to get away from the fact of 160 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:30.759 we always have to get paid for what we do, 161 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:33.879 because I don't think, you know, we should be paid 162 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:35.440 for everything that we do. We do a lot of 163 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.240 things for free that we would just not think, not 164 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:41.240 think twice about doing. But because then when they said, 165 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:42.519 well can you do this, You're like, well, can you 166 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:45.080 pay me? We're like and you're like, well, you do it. 167 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:48.200 You do it for free anyway, so why can't you 168 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:49.639 you know, why can't you do it? I mean, you 169 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:52.080 do it for free when you when it benefits you, 170 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:54.120 so why can't you do it when it benefits somebody else? 171 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.279 So you know, for me, volunteering it's a necessary component 172 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:05.159 for organizations to thrive and to help other people to 173 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:06.559 achieve what they need to achieve. 174 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:15.519 Ahead, No, well, I'm conscious that I'll be talking for 175 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:19.960 another hour, but yeah, and Petu, you talk about time, 176 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:23.840 and I want to highlight that what we're doing now 177 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:28.320 as part of Adventists Radio London is a voluntary initiative, 178 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:33.159 and so I think that generally people can find the 179 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.399 time work it into your schedule. And also organizations do 180 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.240 offer volunteer days. If they don't, then then speak to 181 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:44.080 the persons in charge and see if they can put 182 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:49.840 that onto their agenda and make that a possibility that 183 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:52.440 you can have a day to volunteer at your local 184 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:57.799 or at a charity that is near and dear to you. 185 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.120 There is about fourteen points to at last count in 186 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:05.519 twenty twenty two volunteers in this country, fourteen point two million. 187 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:12.159 And so volunteering informs the backbone of any or any society, 188 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:16.240 the backbone of organizations, because if they don't get people 189 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:18.799 who are willing, then a lot of the work doesn't 190 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.000 get done, particularly organizations who don't get a lot of 191 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:26.080 financial help financial support. And then I'll end by saying, 192 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:30.000 if you can't, if perchance you don't have the time 193 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:34.840 to then give tangibly. Yeah, yeah, that is an excellent 194 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:37.679 way to contribute. If you can't be the hand and 195 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:41.120 the you know, the hands and the feet, then send 196 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.480 someone by providing the finances for others to do what 197 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:45.960 they're doing. 198 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:48.320 Yeah, I was gonna I was listening about I was 199 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.080 gonna say the same thing about that, because sometimes again 200 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:54.559 there are so many different ways you can you can serve, 201 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.039 and you can give and you can give back, you know, 202 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:00.039 and like you said, it doesn't have to be a 203 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:06.080 really physically with your time and in the person you know, philanthrop. 204 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:11.240 That word. 205 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:13.120 Bad. 206 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.480 That's definitely a big way of doing that, and I 207 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:20.919 think that's really I think that in itself was a 208 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:23.879 really good with really good skill could you call it that? 209 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:27.840 Or trait to teach your children as well when we 210 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:30.360 think about the idea we sometimes you know, you're teaching 211 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:35.000 young children about sharing and you know, giving each other 212 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.080 and playing and you know, all those kind of things. 213 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.559 You know, that's definitely something that you could kind of 214 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.120 highlight on that and I think as when we think 215 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.879 about it as Christians, I mean, if we do you've 216 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.000 mentioned obviously about how what we're doing on the radio, 217 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.399 most of us were doing our work at church. If 218 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.639 you're involved in church, that's a voluntary you're doing that 219 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:59.919 voluntarily anyway, you know, and you know you always in 220 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.639 to be part of team, as part of departments, and 221 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:08.360 you know, your contribution to whether it's the service or 222 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:10.960 the programs that are put on or the activities or 223 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:14.120 the initiatives, they're definitely things that you can do as well. 224 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:16.440 There are so many different ways to be able to 225 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:16.720 do that. 226 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:19.240 You just made me think of something when you said 227 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:25.480 children growing up, we always like my parents always taught 228 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:29.080 me to help people, and that's volunteering when you think 229 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:30.759 about it, like you know, like if I saw a 230 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.399 lady needed help, they get help bags or groceries to 231 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:35.799 her house, and I help or take our groceries to 232 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:41.200 our house, that's actually consider volunteering, isn't that? Or is that? Yeah? 233 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:44.039 So you know, just trying to I guess they teaching 234 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:47.279 our children to be self aware of just helping others. 235 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:50.840 I think as they get older then it just carries 236 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:53.519 over where they would then help other people off our 237 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:54.480 thinking about it. 238 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.360 Yeah, I mean when you look at the Pendiction definition 239 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:01.159 would definitely say, you know, volunteering somebody who freely offers 240 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.600 to take part in something or works for an organization 241 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.080 without being paid, or freely offers to do something. 242 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.799 So yeah, you'd rather do it freely than have to 243 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:14.080 have a quite appointed. 244 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:17.240 Yeah, that's true. 245 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.480 I'd rather do community service because I wanted to do it, 246 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.080 not because the court taught me to mm hmm, well, well, 247 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:24.480 you know. 248 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:26.519 What sometimes, but I also, I mean, this could be 249 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:29.440 a whole other discussion. I'm sure that's all idea of 250 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:32.240 actually giving back. It's if you you know, sometimes it's 251 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:35.000 given if people have done something wrong. So in some 252 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.120 ways you're taking, you may be taken from the community 253 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.679 in the wrong way. So now let's give back in 254 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:45.200 the right way or a contribution. So I'm not averse 255 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.960 to that necessarily, but I guess. 256 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:51.080 It shouldn't be the only reason you think what we're 257 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:51.759 saying here. 258 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:57.320 Yeah, definitely, definitely. And you know, when we think about 259 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:02.159 this as well, it's the many it's almost like a 260 00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:06.840 biblical mandate as well. You know, serving God is obviously 261 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:09.519 one of the key principles of our faith, and we're 262 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:13.480 expected to kind of help our church help others, you know, 263 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:16.000 be commanded to love one another, care for one another, 264 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:19.840 pray for one another, encouraged help counsel of those things 265 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.200 and the many verses that will tell you about the 266 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:25.080 sort of things that you could be doing. But said, yeah, 267 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:29.679 because we're going to go into talking you know, your 268 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.120 conversation with our guests and tell us a little bit 269 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:37.600 about and you know, just introduce, you know, what we do, 270 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:41.639 what we've done today with our guests today, who they 271 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:45.759 are and how you know them, and yeah, where we're 272 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:46.120 at with that. 273 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:48.320 Yeah. 274 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:52.960 So the person that I'm interviewing today is Elizabeth Romeo 275 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:56.720 found out of GOHA and GOHA is Good Health Africa. 276 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:02.080 It's a faith based child centered organization or charitable organization 277 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:09.159 that caters to the children and the community in Western Kenya. 278 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:15.440 So the children and their families and how okay cool, yes, 279 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:20.559 in Western Kenya. And so the foundation is based primarily 280 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:26.320 on the pillar of education. So the school, Donald Romeo 281 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:34.320 Community School is named after Elizabeth's husband and my late husband. 282 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:37.679 But it's so much bigger than that, grown so much 283 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:40.679 bigger than that. It now offers food and clean water 284 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:44.919 and pall trees and clothing and medical supplies and especially 285 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:50.639 spiritual support to the community. And that's all through mainly 286 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:57.440 child charitable or through people supporting the ministry. So it's 287 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:00.679 very much pinned on that. And at the end of 288 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:02.879 the conversation, I'd just like to make an appeal on 289 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:08.759 their behalf. Sitting with Elizabeth is her daughter Sharon, Ronio 290 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:12.880 Fidel Demurray and they're going to be talking about Good 291 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.759 Health Africa. How it was buff I think I ended 292 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:19.000 up having an hour long conversation or more, and we 293 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:21.880 just got into it talking very comfortably because she's a 294 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:26.200 family friend and we've known each other three years. But 295 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:33.279 I just am in all all of what she has done, 296 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:36.160 and I maybe have to raise some funds on my 297 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:38.039 own to get there, but one day I would love 298 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:41.880 to go and see this ministry, to be there, to 299 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:47.160 volunteer there, because what she's done is nothing short of amazing. Now, 300 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:50.799 can I first start by asking you both to give 301 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:55.279 a brief introduction. I mentioned that monstrat was where we 302 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:59.519 first heard about Good Health Africa, and that speaks about 303 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:05.559 heritage there. You both man fashions, and tell me a 304 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.400 little bit more about where you're from and a little 305 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:14.240 bit about yourself. Let's start with sister Omia Well. 306 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:23.759 I was born in Salem, Montserrat. I attended Salem Primary 307 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:29.599 School and I also started as a teacher at the 308 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:35.920 age of fifteen, Wow, teaching at Salem School. And after 309 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:42.240 that I went to Teacher's College and to this day 310 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:48.440 still an educator, I should say. And after the volcanic 311 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:54.880 crisis came to England and because I have a disease, 312 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:02.920 and that disease is that I'm addicted to education. Started 313 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:09.160 teaching here, then heard of what was going on in 314 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:12.960 Kenya and decided that and go ahead with the children. 315 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:16.200 And yeah, I'm still continuing. 316 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:18.960 Yes, and looking so youthful, my adam. I mean, our 317 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:21.400 listeners will not be able to see you, but I 318 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:24.039 know that God is blessing you. We can tell, we 319 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:30.799 can tell, bless you, bless you and Sharon you you 320 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.799 are part of the project. This is your mom Missus Romeo, 321 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:37.039 and I know that you're invested as well. Tell us 322 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:42.200 a little bit about you and you're sort of you're 323 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:47.319 making your way into the project as you became more involved. 324 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:56.039 Oh okay, Well, when mommy came to England after everybody 325 00:19:56.079 --> 00:20:01.960 had to leave Montrage in the towards the end of 326 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:06.720 the nineteenth centuris age, she came in thatteen ninety six, 327 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:09.559 and of course we stayed in contact and bit by 328 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:15.079 bit as she started exploring the idea of doing this 329 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:17.480 project in Kenya, she know she talked to us and 330 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:20.480 so on. I knew that at the very beginning when 331 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:30.200 it came to making the first expenditures, on the building 332 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:35.799 and so on that we all agreed among her children 333 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:40.519 to contribute a certain amount of money. We had received some. 334 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:46.720 Money from losses that we'd had through the volcano, and 335 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:49.839 we decided to give a certain percentage of it with 336 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:52.400 her concretely worth with her project. 337 00:20:54.920 --> 00:21:00.640 And then in two thousand and four, my daughter, who 338 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:05.400 was just then turning thirteen at the time, my sister Valerie, 339 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:08.599 and I went along with money because that was the 340 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:12.079 summer after the school had been dedicated. It was dedicated 341 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:15.279 on the third of August two thousand and three, which 342 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:17.960 happened to be the birthday of my dad, for whom 343 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:22.039 the school was named. So the following year, since I 344 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:26.160 was a teacher at the time, in the summer holidays, 345 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:29.039 we went there and that really brought it a life 346 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:31.960 for me. I think had I not gone, there are 347 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:36.839 lots of things that I wouldn't have grasped in a way. 348 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:41.960 So we spent roughly a month there getting to know 349 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:45.119 the people, the place, getting a feel for the culture 350 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:50.960 and so on. And then after that it's been support, 351 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:57.359 practical support, some financial support, and I have been for 352 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:02.119 the past I forget how many years now, trustee, along 353 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:07.160 with the sister film the Gauge, who has been absolutely 354 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:13.000 wonderful in world. She brings a kind of sharp mind 355 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:17.200 and I along with the great compassion to what she does. 356 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.279 We also have been fortunate to have John Elder Dublin, 357 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:29.240 Christian friend, former student of my mother's, who is the 358 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:34.680 person handling administration and finance for the project, without whom 359 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:39.559 we could not manage. Another superb person helping. So and 360 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:41.759 then there's Mummy who was the director. 361 00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:45.480 Yes, so I've just picked a little bit of what 362 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:48.240 you've said that you are an educator as well and 363 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:52.640 you started is that your career to your teacher or 364 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:56.079 it's a sort of fallen in Mummy's footsteps, because I 365 00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:57.160 feel a little bit like that. 366 00:22:58.519 --> 00:23:02.799 I resist, But at the end of the day, yeah, 367 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:10.279 I think my career has been interesting in the sense 368 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:15.839 I started off with Spanish Spanish as my first live 369 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:20.240 Spanish literature and that's what I did my PhD. And 370 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:23.440 I did it in Cuban nineteenth Central Cuban literature. Now 371 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:26.680 and started off teaching at University of London and thought 372 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:31.319 I would just continue as a university teacher lecturer. 373 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:33.720 But then in ninety three. 374 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:40.960 I went, well, my family went to Montserrat to spend 375 00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:44.279 initially a year. The idea was to help a bit 376 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:46.880 of the family business, which it needed a bit of 377 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:51.880 backup at the time, and for my daughter, who was 378 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:55.279 then too to get to know that site of her 379 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:59.079 culture was perhaps I need to say. I met my 380 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:02.839 husband who's friend when we were both students at University 381 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:06.720 of London, and our daughter was born at the Royal 382 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:13.599 Free in London, and so her experience of life to 383 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:17.400 that point was London and English, so we thought it 384 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:18.960 was good for her to get to know that the 385 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.880 Monstert side too, And while we were there, we decided 386 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:26.119 to extend for an extra year or two, and the 387 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:30.559 volcano erupted in ninety five, which is two years after 388 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:34.839 we arrived, and that kind of upset the Apple card 389 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:38.599 as far as plans are concerned, and so we eventually 390 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:41.880 had to come back. My family anyway, my husband and 391 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:45.759 my daughter and I relocated suit to be back to 392 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:50.359 Europe and decided that we would settle in France rather 393 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:54.599 than England. And so when I went to France, I 394 00:24:54.680 --> 00:25:02.480 applied to universities there, just thinking I would continue as 395 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:06.640 I had done before university, teaching Spanish. 396 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:13.880 But the Lord blocked those and how you've put that 397 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:14.960 a series of. 398 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:18.880 So called coincidences and to go into it ended up 399 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:24.200 with me being asked to teaching English at the Adventist 400 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:29.880 High School there on the university campus in College over 401 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:33.720