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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.77,0:00:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Malakal, in a settlement \Nof displaced people in South Sudan,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.19,0:00:16.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met Achuei soon after \Narriving to my mission,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.09,0:00:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was accompanying\None of the nurses in their daily round.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.68,0:00:23.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Achuei was admitted \Nwith acute malnutrition
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.75,0:00:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our field hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.25,0:00:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was 9 years old, but due to her size \NI thought she was 4 or 5.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.53,0:00:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the first time I saw her, \Nshe was almost always alone in her bed,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.42,0:00:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crying but with no tears.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.48,0:00:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her father had recently died in the war.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.18,0:00:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And her mom was admitted \Nwith tuberculosis
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.42,0:00:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the tent-hospital next door.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.84,0:00:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her grandmother took care\Nof her when possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.84,0:00:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We treat kids like Achuei,\Nwith malnutrition,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.34,0:00:57.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a therapeutic food, \Na peanut-based paste
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.12,0:00:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has a lot of calories.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.66,0:01:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing is, even though Achuei \Nhad to get this food
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.70,0:01:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we noticed that her grandmother \Nwas just giving her rice and bread.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.96,0:01:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why weeks went by,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.66,0:01:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which I visited almost every night \Nto wrap her up,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.62,0:01:13.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wait for her to fall asleep,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.62,0:01:15.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Achuei didn't gain weight.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.22,0:01:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her grandmother wasn't giving her \Nthe key food
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.80,0:01:20.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to treat her malnutrition.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.45,0:01:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I found out that her grandmother
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.89,0:01:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was selling this food \Non the field I was outraged.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.77,0:01:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could it be that this lady \Nwas denying her granddaughter
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.46,0:01:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her only chance of recovering?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.100,0:01:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We organized a meeting\Nwith hospital caregivers and patients
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.40,0:01:38.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with a translator,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.78,0:01:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the grandma just talked \NLinka, a local dialect.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.61,0:01:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There she told us she was selling \Nthe food in the fields
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.62,0:01:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to buy rice and bread\Nto feed the whole family.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.91,0:01:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How wrong we were!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.16,0:01:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was doing what she believed \Nwas the best way to feed everyone,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.42,0:02:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rice and bread don't work \Nto mitigate acute malnutrition.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.96,0:02:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we told her why her granddaughter \Nneeded that sticky paste,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.84,0:02:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a therapeutic food.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.46,0:02:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After that, we started to see her\Nvisiting Achuei
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.10,0:02:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a plastic bowl \Nfilled with rice along with peanut paste.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.04,0:02:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apart from South Sudan,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.18,0:02:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been working for several years \Nwith Doctors Without Borders
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.29,0:02:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Democratic Republic of Congo, \Nin Niger, and in Central African Republic.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.12,0:02:32.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost all of them are among\Nthe countries with lesser resources
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.23,0:02:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people are constantly \Naffected by poverty,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.83,0:02:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,malnutrition, malaria, \Namong many other problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.83,0:02:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm an economist,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.73,0:02:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so my main function \Nwas to financially coordinate
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.24,0:02:47.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the missions I was involved with.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.94,0:02:51.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to make sure that all the processes\Nand procedures were fulfilled,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.46,0:02:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the approved budget was respected,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.88,0:02:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that all the bills \Nwere paid in a timely maner.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.98,0:02:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe it would have been\Nmore comfortable,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.33,0:03:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,easier and less weary for me \Nto stay behind the desk,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.54,0:03:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to just fulfill the tasks of my position.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.62,0:03:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I had entered\Nthis humanitarian organization
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.44,0:03:10.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I wanted to be close to people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.39,0:03:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So since my first mission \NI started looking for excuses
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.08,0:03:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get this proximity.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.68,0:03:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still remember like today,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.27,0:03:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those mornings at the clinics \Npacked with people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.70,0:03:23.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the patients' little brothers \Nplaying around,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.17,0:03:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mothers chatting, \Npreparing the food,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.55,0:03:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,part of our staff \Nmaking the round, the tears,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.99,0:03:33.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,snot and other bodily fluids \Neverywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.67,0:03:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I wondered how effective
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.80,0:03:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that piece of soap \Nhung from a rope really was.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.07,0:03:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I see myself lifting a little boy \Ntoo short to be reached,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.80,0:03:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and later ask myself if that \Nwas the only real humanitarian action
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.68,0:03:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had done in the day.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.68,0:03:53.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was in Niger,\Nwe had changed the approach
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.61,0:03:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to malaria in children\Nunder the age of five
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.14,0:03:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the past year which had been tragic\Nfor the population.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.69,0:04:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people had died, \Nespecially boys and girls
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.64,0:04:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,due to malaria combined with malnutrition.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.84,0:04:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we decided to get closer \Nto the communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.96,0:04:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trying to be closer to people \Nand bring them a prevention tool
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.52,0:04:21.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of waiting for them to reach out\Nto our hospitals and health centers,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.55,0:04:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost always collapsing \Nthe health system.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.05,0:04:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We started prevention campaign called
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.07,0:04:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Seasonal malaria chemoprevention"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.70,0:04:35.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consisting of an oral vaccine \Nthat had to be administered to kids
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.65,0:04:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for three days a month \Nfor several months.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.57,0:04:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at first, because\Nthe communities knew nothing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.57,0:04:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was a new tool,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.48,0:04:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they didn't want to be involved \Nwith this new treatment.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.30,0:04:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They preferred to be treated traditionally\Nonce they got infected,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.10,0:04:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which had worked until then.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.23,0:05:01.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we approached the communities,\Nwe talked with them,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.53,0:05:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we told them what this campaign\Nof chemoprevention was about,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.19,0:05:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we answered their questions, their doubts,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.24,0:05:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we talked with the mothers \Nand with the leaders of the villages.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.80,0:05:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That day in the car we were: the driver,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.84,0:05:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the project logistics manager, \NAbdulaziz, and me.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.75,0:05:20.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was mostly going to pay salaries
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.55,0:05:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also to help in any way I can.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.50,0:05:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had to deliver the doses
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.56,0:05:28.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we feared that very few people \Nwould attend the place of vaccination.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.48,0:05:33.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After many hours of traveling \Nroads and dirt roads
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.25,0:05:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until the roads end,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.87,0:05:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we kept going through\Nthe hills with the van
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.20,0:05:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the middle of the Sahel Desert, \Nwe arrived.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.47,0:05:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To our surprise,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.03,0:05:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we saw long lines of mothers,\Nwe didn't get to see where they ended.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.22,0:05:50.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were holding their children tight
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.45,0:05:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to get a shadow \Nunder a burning sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.11,0:05:57.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The kids were scared,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.01,0:05:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or overwhelmed by the heat or impatient.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.81,0:06:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that day of vaccination\Nwas just the end of a long road.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.20,0:06:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It had been possible because \Nwe had approached the communities,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.98,0:06:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had talked to people,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.69,0:06:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had spent long days in the desert.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.84,0:06:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That day I felt that I was part\Nof something larger.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.32,0:06:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our paths had crossed and united.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.13,0:06:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's so much to do \Nin these communities
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.48,0:06:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I often wondered\Nif it was worth it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.37,0:06:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the more than 184,000 \Nchildren in Niger
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.80,0:06:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were able to get the treatment\Nthat year, no doubt it was worth it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.29,0:06:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll never forget the hug with Abdulaziz
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.28,0:06:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the team deliver the last dose.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.79,0:06:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The satisfaction in our eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.20,0:06:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the feeling of joy \Nof a mission accomplished.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.47,0:06:51.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A similar joy I felt again in Kikamba,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.35,0:06:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the east of the \NDemocratic Republic of Congo.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.18,0:06:56.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it rains there, the sky falls.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.14,0:07:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as the roads, if they exist,\Nare dirt roads,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.36,0:07:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,transportation get complicated.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.20,0:07:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to go with one of our nurses
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.93,0:07:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the health center on the periphery.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.46,0:07:14.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had to travel for more than four hours \Njust to cover over the 50 km
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.39,0:07:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that separated them from our base
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.23,0:07:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and get to do\Nthe weekly consultations.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.49,0:07:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People from nearby populations \Nwere waiting for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.66,0:07:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some had walked more than three hours
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.58,0:07:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get to this place \Nin the middle of the jungle.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.19,0:07:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They knew that every Wednesday
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.90,0:07:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our team came by\Nfor consultations of all kinds,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.34,0:07:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that day they would come en masse.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.05,0:07:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the medical team finished \Nto treat all the people of the day,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.52,0:07:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we set out on our way back to base.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.74,0:07:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the middle of the road
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.17,0:07:47.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the van got bogged down \Nin a crater in the road
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.38,0:07:50.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flooded for days and days \Nof constant rain.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.10,0:07:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eastern Congo is one of most\Nconflictive places on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.32,0:07:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Several armed groups \Ndispute the territory,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.95,0:08:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looting and burning villages, \Nchasing after rival groups.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.40,0:08:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it also has one of the highest rates\Nof sexual violence in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.50,0:08:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why it's very dangerous \Nand it's totally discouraged
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.06,0:08:14.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to travel after the sun goes down,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.21,0:08:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was approaching at that moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.15,0:08:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The driver, the nurse and I\Ntried to free the van.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.49,0:08:23.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But such a machine is extremely \Ndifficult to move for three people.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.11,0:08:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before long, we observed\Nseveral people showing up
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.42,0:08:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from both sides of the road.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.06,0:08:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We couldn't see who they were\Nfor the darkness.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.94,0:08:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the first thing I felt was fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.96,0:08:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But right away I realized \Nthat many of them knew us.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.77,0:08:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even I recognized a lot of men,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.70,0:08:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women and children we had been\Nat the office earlier that day.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.70,0:08:48.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't hesitate to get\Ntheir hands in the mud
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.44,0:08:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and help us dig up the van.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.82,0:08:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That day I could really feel \Nwhat it was to be accepted in a community.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.32,0:08:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We weren't just allowed to work there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.88,0:09:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They also helped and valued us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.22,0:09:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And thanks to them I felt safe.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.86,0:09:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today I'm in Argentina\Nworking again behind a desk.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.45,0:09:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't forget all the years\NI spent on the territory.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.96,0:09:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all those experiences,\Nmy experiences,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.96,0:09:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ones that shaped me and the ones\Nthat turned into who I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.60,0:09:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's Achuei's smile at Malakal's hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.74,0:09:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the hug with Abdulaziz\Nat the end of the vaccination campaign.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.58,0:09:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the goodbye smile \Nof that child in Kikamba
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.27,0:09:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after helping us dig up the van.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.96,0:09:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's these memories and hundreds more \Nthat keep pushing me forward,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.49,0:09:49.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,giving me a reason to be and to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.87,0:09:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, being thousands of miles away \Nthose people are still present in me,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.66,0:10:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reminding me that it's not about \Nindividual work,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.33,0:10:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or about imposing our help.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.06,0:10:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's mostly about working \Ntogether with the community.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.96,0:10:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be able to learn from each other \Nand build together
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.83,0:10:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the paths we want to tread.