WEBVTT 00:04.040 --> 00:06.950 well what made you want want to start ? 00:07.340 --> 00:10.400 Terror ? Well Lance corporal and I both 00:10.410 --> 00:12.410 being posture linguists . We have a 00:12.410 --> 00:14.280 unique opportunity to learn the 00:14.280 --> 00:16.020 language , the culture and the 00:16.020 --> 00:17.742 lifestyle of all the people in 00:17.742 --> 00:20.850 Afghanistan . And seeing that we saw 00:20.850 --> 00:24.720 the negative impacts to say of a lack 00:24.720 --> 00:27.650 of education . And not only does it 00:27.650 --> 00:29.872 hurt us in the war we're fighting , but 00:29.872 --> 00:31.983 it hurts all the people that can't go 00:31.983 --> 00:34.094 to school , can never learn about the 00:34.094 --> 00:36.206 world that they're missing outside of 00:36.206 --> 00:38.428 what they have on a daily basis . So we 00:38.428 --> 00:38.250 thought that we would use the language 00:38.250 --> 00:40.740 that we have to try to help them and 00:40.750 --> 00:44.670 hopefully help our cause here . Like 00:44.680 --> 00:47.710 just a quick overall view what is uh 00:47.720 --> 00:50.070 your beer cost are cause for Haley 00:50.070 --> 00:53.120 International . Our cause 00:54.740 --> 00:57.050 is to provide alternative educational 00:57.050 --> 00:58.994 needs and educational supplies and 00:58.994 --> 01:02.370 material to especially rural areas in 01:02.370 --> 01:05.350 Afghanistan that don't have access to 01:05.360 --> 01:08.960 schools and solid curriculums . We want 01:08.960 --> 01:10.950 to be able to take educational 01:10.950 --> 01:13.760 materials outside of big city centers 01:13.760 --> 01:15.704 and stuff like that . To the rural 01:15.704 --> 01:18.100 areas where girls can't go to school or 01:18.100 --> 01:20.267 little kids are working on their farms 01:20.267 --> 01:22.378 with their parents instead of getting 01:22.378 --> 01:24.489 the education they need . What's your 01:24.489 --> 01:26.600 family support been like through this 01:26.600 --> 01:28.940 uh this adventure . I couldn't have 01:28.940 --> 01:31.162 asked for more support from my family . 01:31.162 --> 01:34.720 They are wonderful and have been very 01:34.720 --> 01:38.470 positive and just fantastic and helping 01:38.470 --> 01:40.637 us out through this . I know my little 01:40.637 --> 01:44.340 sister , she at her school , they did a 01:44.340 --> 01:46.451 huge or they did a donation drive for 01:46.451 --> 01:48.618 blankets and stuff like that that were 01:48.618 --> 01:51.350 sent out to us . Um and my mom and all 01:51.350 --> 01:53.406 of her friends and all of our family 01:53.406 --> 01:55.680 sent their own care packages of 01:55.690 --> 01:58.240 supplies and blankets . Warm winter 01:58.240 --> 02:02.180 clothing to us . So and how are you 02:02.180 --> 02:05.760 working with tags on this ? We got in 02:05.760 --> 02:07.760 contact with cag because we had all 02:07.760 --> 02:09.816 these donations but we didn't have a 02:09.816 --> 02:12.720 means to which distribute them . So cag 02:12.720 --> 02:14.340 provided the avenue of that 02:14.340 --> 02:16.870 distribution . So they offered 02:16.880 --> 02:19.047 different locations that we could go , 02:19.047 --> 02:21.213 places that we could send them to . Um 02:21.213 --> 02:23.436 the donations to for them to distribute 02:23.436 --> 02:26.010 for us . How are you gonna continue to 02:26.010 --> 02:28.177 work with them once you're gone or are 02:28.177 --> 02:30.420 you ? We do plan to continue working 02:30.420 --> 02:32.650 with Civil affairs . There is a girls 02:32.650 --> 02:34.800 school at the musical , a district 02:34.800 --> 02:36.930 center that cag has been really 02:36.930 --> 02:39.152 sponsoring and trying to build up , its 02:39.152 --> 02:41.319 just being renovated now and they have 02:41.319 --> 02:45.300 asked Haley to um or they 02:45.300 --> 02:47.411 have offered for Hayley to be able to 02:47.411 --> 02:49.522 sponsor the school in the long term . 02:49.522 --> 02:51.744 So as we leave and as they leave , they 02:51.744 --> 02:53.689 leave our contact information with 02:53.689 --> 02:55.522 those that remain there and will 02:55.522 --> 02:57.744 continually be able to provide material 02:57.744 --> 02:59.911 and funding for the school and for the 02:59.911 --> 03:01.911 Children that attended . Okay . And 03:01.911 --> 03:04.380 what's your , your plans to continue to 03:04.390 --> 03:06.446 build up a Hill International . When 03:06.446 --> 03:08.880 you get back to the States , we're 03:08.880 --> 03:11.120 developing a curriculum to teach 03:11.120 --> 03:13.342 afghans how to read and write and pasta 03:13.380 --> 03:15.491 with the language that we have . It's 03:15.491 --> 03:17.602 something that we can provide to them 03:17.602 --> 03:19.602 and we have native afghans that are 03:19.602 --> 03:21.690 willing to voice over the entire 03:21.690 --> 03:23.523 curriculum for us so that we can 03:23.523 --> 03:25.700 provide an audiobook along with a 03:25.710 --> 03:27.990 written text book , Two areas that 03:27.990 --> 03:29.934 don't have access to the schools , 03:29.934 --> 03:31.990 things like that . We have talked to 03:31.990 --> 03:34.212 civil affairs about the distribution of 03:34.212 --> 03:37.910 that . So most 23 year olds uh dream 03:37.910 --> 03:40.780 about having an impact on the world and 03:40.780 --> 03:43.640 this potentially has a huge impact on 03:43.640 --> 03:45.640 Afghanistan . What does that , what 03:45.640 --> 03:49.060 does that mean to you ? It means the 03:49.060 --> 03:50.460 world to me . Um 03:52.940 --> 03:55.107 I would love to come back here one day 03:55.107 --> 03:58.360 and be able to teach kids and this is 03:58.360 --> 04:00.638 my way now to do that , especially now , 04:00.638 --> 04:03.200 it's very sad for me to see little 04:03.200 --> 04:05.410 girls that can't go to school , just 04:05.410 --> 04:09.050 kids that work so hard every day and um 04:09.540 --> 04:11.651 don't get half the opportunities that 04:11.651 --> 04:13.730 we see on a daily basis . And so to 04:13.730 --> 04:16.190 know that something that we're doing is 04:16.190 --> 04:20.090 working for helping those kids just is 04:20.540 --> 04:24.380 wonderful . What would you say your 04:24.390 --> 04:27.520 future goals are for this ? Our future 04:27.520 --> 04:29.800 goals for halo are to develop a teacher 04:29.800 --> 04:32.770 training program that provides courses 04:32.780 --> 04:35.760 for afghans themselves to become 04:35.770 --> 04:37.980 trained and become teachers . What do 04:37.980 --> 04:40.330 you think education is important ? 04:42.050 --> 04:45.820 I think that education is a 04:45.820 --> 04:47.987 building block for countries . If your 04:47.987 --> 04:50.209 country is not educated , it will never 04:50.209 --> 04:51.987 progress at the rate that other 04:51.987 --> 04:54.042 countries around the world are doing 04:54.042 --> 04:53.740 and that's something we see in 04:53.740 --> 04:56.570 Afghanistan now is comparatively to 04:56.570 --> 04:58.792 where we are in America . They are very 04:58.792 --> 05:00.870 far behind us . I also feel like 05:00.880 --> 05:02.936 especially with our hearts and minds 05:02.936 --> 05:05.158 missions , if we as americans come into 05:05.158 --> 05:07.158 Afghanistan and they don't have the 05:07.158 --> 05:09.269 education behind what we're trying to 05:09.269 --> 05:11.324 give them , they'll never understand 05:11.324 --> 05:13.547 the changes we're trying to make or why 05:13.547 --> 05:15.769 we're trying to make them what made you 05:15.769 --> 05:17.880 want to be a linguist . I did want to 05:17.880 --> 05:21.670 be a linguist . Um I was given a very 05:22.640 --> 05:24.807 awesome opportunity when I was in high 05:24.807 --> 05:26.918 school to travel to South America and 05:26.918 --> 05:29.680 teach english and through doing that I 05:29.680 --> 05:31.540 just fell in love with foreign 05:31.540 --> 05:32.160 languages .