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in your various groups now before

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we go into another segment i want to ask how are

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your group sessions and divisions moving thus far anyone

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to give feedback you can get to unmute and just see how

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it's working because remember those questions that you are being asked during

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the interviews are you able to work under under

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pressure or maybe are you able to work in a group setting

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This is what's happening right now.

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So anyone to give feedback on how the group settings are moving.

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You

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can get to raise your hand.

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Anyone?

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Fellows?

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Bevan.

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Bevan, over to you.

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Okay, I think it's been going well so far.

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We've all understood each other.

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We've been able to pick a team and we've all assigned our

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rules to each other.

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And we've all been sending ourselves

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some documents for us to read on how we think we should tackle the plan.

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So everything has been running so far.

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Thank you so much,

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Bevan, for that feedback.

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Anyone else?

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Guys,

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even if you're experiencing challenges,

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you can bring them out.

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This is a very interactive session that we're having.

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It's going to set a tone of the workshops that we're having ahead.

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We're going to speak out the nitty gritties and what is required of

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us. Anyone else?

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So it's not just all about speaking about the things that are happening

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perfectly.

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You speak out your mind.

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I'm going to allow one

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hand. Yes, Lucy.

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lucy over to you um hi can you hear me yes

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loud and clear i can hear you okay okay yeah so uh the

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group sessions have been really good i think before anything before you

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know we began speaking about the challenge and our project and everything we just like um

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try to form this like um

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atmosphere like this friendly atmosphere so we've kind of like gotten to know each other on

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some sort of personal level first you know just so that we can establish that familiarity

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Yeah, so it's been good.

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And then like after that,

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you know, we've been discussing and like all bringing ideas to the table and what we

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think will work best.

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And it's been good because everybody is excited for this.

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Nobody is like being silent.

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Everyone is putting in their thoughts.

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Everyone is sharing ideas.

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And yeah,

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when we when we discuss like

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group meetings and everything,

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for the most part,

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we're all there to attend.

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And it's really good because everybody.

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gives their feedback.

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Even when people cannot join the call,

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everybody just like gives their feedback.

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And yeah, so it's been really good.

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Nobody's working in isolation.

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Thank

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you, Luce, for that feedback.

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No one is working in isolation.

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Now,

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to speak of something that I feel obviously maybe it's

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been a challenge for some,

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anyone to give their feedback on how it's been to manage time

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management, looking at different time zones.

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and setting up meetings.

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Anyone with the feedback on that one?

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How are you figuring it out around with time?

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Hi,

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can I go again?

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Yes,

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yes, yes, yes, Luce.

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Guys,

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I'm expecting everyone to be participating.

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Very important.

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Yes, Luce can go on.

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I'm expecting a hand from people on

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the meeting.

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Yes, Luce,

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over to you.

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Okay, cool.

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So we've already established our leads in our team,

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right? So what happens is usually when we have to discuss something,

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our team lead would put in like a poll of certain

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times, just different times during the day.

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So he'd do this in advance.

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Let's say we wanted to have a call tomorrow.

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So he put in a poll of different time slots that everybody

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could choose from.

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And then the rest of us,

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so he'll vote himself the times that he's free.

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so it's a wide range and then the rest of us are going to vote and then you know if

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for example there's one person like let's say majority is free at a certain time and the other person

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isn't we try to talk about it see uh where we can you know compromise

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or what we can do to accommodate the other person but usually that's what we do

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we like to plan in advance like a day in advance uh for a

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group call and yeah we add we add the polls and everybody votes

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in

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and we get the responses and then we have our call the next day yeah so that's how we manage

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our time and also we're just honest about like uh and transparent

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about what

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we have going on during the day and everything so that we can assign properly yes thank

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you Kelvin

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over to you all right thank

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you okay so uh so far we haven't really had

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any issue relating to the different time zones and usually

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it's uh it's come so because uh when

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our team lead which is me anytime we share a

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time like anytime we come up with a time and we share it

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usually try to state maybe the

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time like I'll convert it into the various times and

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my team only have about three different yeah

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So I'll just convert it into the various time zones for the specific kind

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of person for sure

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so that they can clearly see without anyone having to.

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Now I'm going to confirm that.

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So that's how we deal with it.

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And so far, I've not had any issues with the difference in time zones when communicating.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much,

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Kelvin, for that great feedback.

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Turbo to you.

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Over to you,

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Turbo.

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Okay, thank you, Marshall.

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So far,

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we haven't really had issues on the fact that we have different

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time zones,

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especially because we're fortunate enough that two of us are

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in the same time zone and the other two are also in the same time zone.

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And then we know that there's a two hour difference.

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Me and JP,

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who's in Mozambique,

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are two hours ahead of our teammates who

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are in Senegal and Ghana.

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So whenever we're setting a meeting,

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we know to say that two hours behind and then we ask what

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time in the evening,

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because mostly we say we'll have in the evening.

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Then we do it two hours behind for them and then two hours ahead

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for us.

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And then we haven't really had any issues in line with time zones.

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It's just maybe sometimes somebody has a commitment at a particular time,

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but managing the different time zones hasn't been an issue really.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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Anyone else?

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Okay.

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So without further ado,

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since there's no one,

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we are going to get to the next

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segment.

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I'm going to call upon Danji,

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who is going just to explain on how,

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what is required of you.

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And because there has been some challenges here and there,

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and he's also going to come and break down about the Green

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Valley Challenge more in the depth.

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Danji,

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are you on the call?

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Yes, I'm available,

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Marshall.

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Thank you.

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Yes, over to you.

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Although, Marshall,

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I think it's very unfair.

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You didn't emphasize on our time challenges here.

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You know,

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between me and Florence,

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the time difference,

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working together,

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it becomes very difficult sometimes.

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We have to send

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messages.

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Sometimes the message arrives 30 seconds later than it was supposed

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to. It's very,

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very painstaking.

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But yeah,

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we get through.

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Okay,

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so guys,

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I wish we had a full

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room, but we're very close to it.

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We're,

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what, 21 out of 24,

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which is not bad.

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Hopefully as time goes on,

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we're going to increase with that.

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First and foremost,

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before we get into anything else,

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I wanted to go over some clarity of certain things.

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so that moving forward in the entire fellowship,

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we're not doing a back and forth in communication.

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So for everyone

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that is here,

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could you please

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give me a show of hands if the

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email address that I have for you is the correct one.

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I'm going to share this in the group right now,

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all the emails.

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I'm assuming everyone already has everybody's email,

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so I'm not...

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reaching any sort of confidentiality,

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unless of course you would rather I don't share emails.

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But what I would like to understand

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is, I think I've mentioned this maybe to individuals or

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on a smaller scale,

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but all communication is easier handled when it runs

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through a single channel.

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So yeah,

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so first and foremost,

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just confirm the email that I have for you.

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If it's the right one,

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if it's the one you want to be communicated.

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through. If you'd prefer,

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I change it to another one.

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That's not a problem that can always be done.

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So yeah,

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just have a look at this and then let me know in

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a moment.

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Sorry.

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I realize that the time of

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technology is much easier ways to do some of these things.

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Right.

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Then also following your bank

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accounts.

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I know some people have bank accounts,

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others don't have bank accounts.

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You're still working at opening bank accounts.

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Yeah,

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sending you the money has been a bit of a back and forth because we

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have not been able to access some,

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others we have been able to.

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Several people have been fortunate to receive outside their bank

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accounts, which was good,

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but it is not good for the long run.

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What I require is that every single one of you have bank

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accounts that do have international fund access.

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And preferably,

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if you can start working on this as soon as possible,

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I will say,

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give you the deadline of end of next month.

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Next month is,

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this is what,

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May, June.

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So by the end of June,

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I'm hoping that every single one

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of you can have a bank account in your name.

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That is accessible or rather that can

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receive funds from international or foreign funds or

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whatever it is.

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Okay.

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And this being because.

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First of all,

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it's a good thing to have.

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And secondly,

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you're putting yourselves in the world that way.

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You're putting yourselves in place where you never know the person you'll

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meet tomorrow.

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You may be sitting in a room,

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and if you speak to Florence and Marsha,

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they can attest to this.

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We found ourselves sitting in rooms countless times,

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brushing shoulders with people you least expect.

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And this person may turn to you and listen to your story and be very impressed

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by what you have to say.

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And before you know it,

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they'll be talking about,

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oh, sure, we can facilitate a transaction with you for the

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$10 ,000 you're asking for and make this a reality

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and not just a dream.

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But then you don't have a bank account that can support

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or rather receive said $10 ,000.

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Even during the pitch in Abidjan,

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there's a very,

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very, very high potential that people are going

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to be walking away with more funding on said pitch day.

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So if you would like,

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or rather not if you would like,

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how do I put it in a more subtle but earnest

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way?

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You have to have a bank account.

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Yeah.

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Let me just put it that way.

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So let me add on this.

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Yes,

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go ahead for us.

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Yeah.

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Thank you so much,

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Nanji.

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So let me hear from one person

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who doesn't have a bank account.

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I just want to understand the reason why people

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don't have bank accounts.

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Like just one person randomly.

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Anybody who can share with me why they don't have a bank account?

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Oh, Ndanji,

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can you remember who doesn't have a bank account so they can just point at anyone?

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Currently,

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if I remember correctly,

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you know,

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Taco opened hers recently.

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Not

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off the top of my head.

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Okay,

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fair thing.

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No problem.

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This is very important,

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as Ndanji has said.

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it's not only a once -off payment that you're receiving.

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You're not just receiving payment for your first $500.

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You have your second payment of the other $500 that's

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coming.

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And we can't afford to keep having money bouncing back.

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And we can't afford to have people

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saying that,

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no, I'm not able.

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to receive this amount of money because you

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are part of this program,

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which is called Yango Fellowship.

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And part of the reasons you're part of this program is because you are the next

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generation or other,

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you're not even the next generation,

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you're the current generation that's going to make Africa great.

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You're going to make Africa great and you're going to take it to the next level.

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And in order to make Africa great,

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you have to have money,

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right, to make Africa great.

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But then if you can't even receive this money to make Africa great,

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then what are we doing here?

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You know, this is very,

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very important and really delaying a lot of things.

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I wish I could really emphasize on this.

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They're very,

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it's very,

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very important because.

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What's going to be happening is that other people will be receiving their money

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and others will not.

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And we have a situation in Ethiopia,

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which I'd like to highlight,

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that went really terribly wrong because

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people didn't have bank accounts that could receive money.

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And that wasn't supposed to happen.

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So people need to have bank accounts because it's very professional.

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It puts you as a professional person out there.

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the people that don't have bank accounts will be disadvantaged because they won't be able to

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receive funds.

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And if you don't receive your money,

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you're going to be out there saying that Yangon and STEM Foundation never sent me money.

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Meanwhile, you're the one who's not prepared for an opportunity.

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So we really need you to take this very seriously.

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And Ndanji,

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I think it should be something that should be put on the criteria of...

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or scoring in terms of performance of the

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student, because this is also a task when it's on.

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Florence,

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I'll be on something I actually did want to touch on to.

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Yeah.

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When we had started this fellowship,

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we had spoken about there being individual scoring criteria,

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there being a group scoring criteria.

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The one thing that I never mentioned is when the

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scoring would start.

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I don't know if I would say it's fortunate or unfortunate,

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but that had long started from the moment every single one of you acknowledged

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to say you want to be part of this fellowship.

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Everything that happens,

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everything that moves,

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everything that goes on in this fellowship,

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it's,

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for lack of a better phrase,

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it's like a test,

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okay?

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There are certain things that we'll say or do because we need

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to understand how you respond to the situation.

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Because look,

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ours is to prepare you for the corporate world,

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for a world where there's very little preparation going

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into it.

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There are things I have learned leaving university and working with people

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that I'd never thought I'd work with.

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And no one would have told me this or no one told me

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these things, the things that I had to figure out and learn on my own.

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And there are certain things that I've been informed about,

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things I've been given a heads up,

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so to say,

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you know.

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And this is where we want to put ourselves.

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But in order for us to help you,

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we need to be able to help you.

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You know, we're not here to...

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Sorry,

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words sometimes leave my mind.

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We're not here to guide you like you're blind sheep.

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No, no,

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no. We're very hopeful that you're the sheep that know what to do.

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We're just here to give you that,

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you know, extra bit of a bump so that you can get there.

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as opposed to just wishing you could get there.

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Yeah,

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I think that's...

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Flores,

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do you still have anything else to add in regard to the bank accounts?

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People

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have taken this a bit more seriously because this was a very big issue for us

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and we really don't want to experience it again.

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You people will be traveling and when you're

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traveling, you really need a place where you can receive money.

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So yeah,

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it's something to take note of.

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Fantastico.

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So I hope everybody understands that.

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Look,

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I'll speak

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very frankly here.

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We're not here

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to be your parents.

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We're not here to scold you.

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We're not here to shout at you.

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We're not here to make fools of you.

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We're not here to make your life difficult.

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No.

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Equally,

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myself,

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Florence,

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Marshall,

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we...

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We have lives we need.

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There's a lot that we do on a daily basis outside of

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this as well.

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So we do keep ourselves busy.

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But what I'm trying to emphasize on is

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we are here to help you more than anything.

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So during the course of the project,

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during the course of the fellowship,

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At any given moment,

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you feel you want to communicate,

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you want to ask,

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you want to talk,

20:04

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you want to understand,

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you want to clarify,

20:06

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you want to take something to the next level beyond what you feel is

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necessary.

20:10

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We are more than happy to guide on that.

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We're more than open to

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be able to do so.

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And I think if anything,

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that's all we ask.

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We just ask that every single one of you be able to take the participation

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in this fellowship as something that is not just,

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it's not a by the way thing.

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Okay.

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It's something that you're actually going to take on for,

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for your own personal reasons.

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But we just ask that you do take on,

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on a serious note,

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you know, and this is why I say like,

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look,

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As much as we want to grade,

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grading you is,

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for me personally,

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it sounds a bit silly,

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but it must happen because we must know the people who are putting forward and

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the people who are not.

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At the end of this,

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we will know.

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It'll be very evident to see,

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right?

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But anyway,

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speak too much and I digress.

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Following that,

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the bank accounts,

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passports.

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We've spoken about passports.

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If you haven't shared your passport with me already,

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please do share your passport with me.

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Passports will be necessary.

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I understand for the Ivory Coast students,

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you don't need to have your passports.

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But regardless,

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what I would suggest is if you are in Ivory Coast and you don't have a passport yet,

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it would be very wise of you to get your hands on a passport.

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I'm very certain most of the African countries have the same jurisdiction

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with passports.

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Once you get a passport,

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it's valid for the next 10 years.

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You always have that.

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It's just good to have on you so that,

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you know, when such opportunities arise,

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you don't have to then start running around trying to figure out how to get a

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passport.

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If any of you guys as institutions

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behave like ours here in Zambia,

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sometimes they may be very painstaking to deal with,

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