It is currently 6:45 in the morning,
and for those of you who don't know,
I'm in Guatemala right now
with a group of people who watch these videos.
We invited them to come here.
We're going on an epic trip throughout Guatemala
and then we're spending a few days
repairing a school,
and today is the first day we get to go to that school.
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Look at this, there's mangoes on our walk to breakfast.
What?
On the ground.
Oh my god, it's so ripe.
It's amazingly ripe.
Another mango.
They're all over.
This should be our breakfast, this is our,
another mango, another mango,
they're all over.
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Morning.
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(cheering)
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- [Group] Yeah!
(cheering)
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- [Man] This is Phineas.
- Phineas Arturo.
- [Man] And he was the president of the town
that we're going to build or repair
the school in,
and he was gonna ride his bike up the hill,
but we're gonna give him a ride.
We can't make him ride his bike.
This is a president.
(laughing)
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- So there's a little bit of an emergency,
the last time we were here,
we expanded the project from just the primary school
to a health center.
There's holes in the roof,
which means it's raining during rainy season
into the health center,
so when women are having babies
or getting taken care of in the health center,
there's water everywhere
so they asked us if we'd help with that so,
of course, we said yes and we added onto the project,
so now we have even more impact
that we're all gonna be able to make
and thanks to everybody coming on this trip,
we're able to buy all the materials for this projects,
and so as you guys will see,
look at everyone lining up right now.
This is all to see us right now.
Those banners are for us.
Those little things that they made.
- [Woman] The kids made the banners.
(baby crying)
(speaking foreign language)
- So it looks like a lot of people
are gathering around to thank us,
show their appreciation for what we're doing,
and it's overwhelming.
I'm trying to take it all in
but this is a pretty powerful experience.
This is the roof that's going to be installed
in the health center,
so that there's no more leaks.
Women who are pregnant don't get water
dripping on them,
medicine doesn't get spoiled,
so it's very important.
(speaking foreign language)
- [Man] We're recording, right?
- Yes, yes.
(laughing)
Well... - Can I go like this?
- [Woman] Same humor.
- So I didn't expect there to be all these people
gathered here to show their appreciation
and thank us and show their support.
Because it's more eyeballs on us
and this is a very powerful experience.
It's very, it's overwhelming.
I'm trying to suppress.
(crowd speaking foreign language)
Thank you guys, so much.
This really means a lot.
And we're really gonna help the community here.
Oh.
We did this.
And it's just the beginning.
- It's everybody.
We're here with you, man.
- Yeah. - We're here with you.
- I feel like we should-- - Everybody get in here.
Right now.
Would you try, right, let's do this, guys.
- Group hug. - Get over here.
Bring it in.
(speaking foreign language)
- So sweaty. (laughing)
- Sweaty hug, nice job everyone.
(laughing)
- Thank you, Dylan.
(speaking foreign language)
- So I'm gonna give you a resume of that,
resume, yes. - Sure.
- So she is saying that she really appreciates
all the help that they are gonna get,
and she also wants to give the thanks
to the mayor from Chiquimula
because thanks of him,
Dallas and you are keeping in touch
and this is not the only time
that they're gonna come.
More people from the Vivid Roots Crew
are gonna be coming
and they're gonna be helping all these people,
so everybody is gonna get a benefit,
a huge benefit from you guys
and all the money that you're donating
for the community.
(speaking foreign language)
That was so fast.
So I give you a brief.
He's explaining that all the help
that you're providing for these people
are gonna benefit,
is gonna benefit all these women
who are pregnant and they are about to deliver babies,
because they didn't have a safe place
or enough supplies for them.
The mayor from Chiquimula has the desire
to help but sometimes he doesn't have enough money
to help these people.
- We're just getting a tour of this health center
right now to see the extent of the damage,
and then what it's going to look like
when we fix it.
(crowd chatting in foreign language)
All this is just wrecked from the rain.
You can see this is all molded up here.
(crowd chatting in foreign language)
More mold up there in the ceiling.
(crowd chatting in foreign language)
How would you feel if you were a woman
who had to come here for a medical procedure
or for baby, something, like?
- Like something would happen,
like scared for my life. - Yeah.
- And my child's life, awful.
- [Man] This is a place that would get you sick.
- Right, right.
- The last thing you want from going
to a medical center is to get more sick
going into that zone.
It's just very important that this was
added onto the project.
(crowd chatting in foreign language)
So this whole roof is going to get replaced,
because it breaks and it cracks,
like you can see right here.
You can see right through.
It's all going to be sheet metal now
so that it won't leak.
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(crowd chatting in foreign language)
We're going on a little tour of the school
and see where we can lend a hand.
- This is one of the things, guys,
we are gonna rip the roof off of this bad boy.
This is one of the classrooms
that they have multiple classes in,
so we're gonna build a wall here and a roof here.
(speaking foreign language)
- Yeah.
Hey, hey, hey, yeah.
Half the kids are in class,
half the kids are just running around.
Seems like there's not enough teachers here
to manage all the kids,
and this is their water situation.
(crowd chatting in foreign language)
- A little bit more hygiene,
so that's gonna be something that we're putting in.
You'll see and then we go out back.
- That little water tap you saw
is how they get all their water right now.
The kids wash their hands in it,
they wash their feet, they wash their face,
they cook with it.
Behind me are the washrooms,
and there's no water to the washrooms,
so you literally have to take a bucket of water
and pour it down the bowl
so that everything flushes away.
Part of what we're gonna do
is install plumbing so that water
can be in these toilets and they can have
running water and we're also going to install
a water tower so that in the dry season
it'll contain water
and they can use that water when there's not much rain.
So this right now is their arena for playing soccer.
There's just plastic bottles
and that is making a ring.
(crowd chatting in foreign language)
Boom.
They're like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
(laughing)
(crowd chatting in foreign language)
- There we go. - Okay, hold on.
(speaking foreign language)
- This behind me was one of the classrooms
and they've already removed the roof,
and we're going to reinstall a brand new roof.
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I'm mostly sitting on buckets.
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We're now back at the medical center,
the roof is actually done.
That took half a day.
I don't know how long they've needed a roof,
but just, you know, they have enough hands,
they have the resources,
they just need the funding to do it,
and with the right funding,
in half a day, the roof is now fixed,
so we're here just cleaning up all the mess
that was the old roof, all the old shingles,
and yeah, let's get sweaty.
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I really hope that the camera saw anything
'cause I climbed halfway up a water tower
to get that shot.
Some of the local kids just showed up.
They came running up to us with empty buckets
ready to work and participate
and it's just amazing to see the support
from the community here.
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So before all this was open,
now there's an actual roof,
so no more water in this area.
This looks like the waiting room.
Hola.
- Hello.
- This is Jessica. - Hola, hello.
- [Man] She is incredible, she is a huge part
of why we're here
and this would not have happened without her,
so from everyone watching to you,
a big high five and we love you.
So before that was just open.
Now you can see that the aluminum is in there
so no more water on this side
and that will get replaced.
Guys, how was that?
- Amazing. - It was awesome.
- Awesome. - Yeah, are you tired?
- I wasn't sure what you were asking.
- I'm okay.
(laughing)
- Tired and dirty and ready to shower.
- Awesome. - Oh yeah.
- Actually ready to jump in the pool.
- Very rewarding. - Yes.
- Ready to work. - Yeah.
It was an easy day one,
half easy day one.
- We got to play around with the kids a lot,
which was fun. - Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah. - So...
Yeah, now we're sweaty, dirty, tired.
- We're back after a very hot long day.
We had two people that felt very ill,
one from the altitude,
two from the heat,
and three from not drinking enough water
because we sweat so much.
Today was just kind of seeing
where our funding has gone,
and it's gone to a lot of supplies.
It's gone to paying the locals here
to do some of the work,
because we can't set foundations
and set concrete and cut metal and weld
and all that stuff needs to be done by locals,
so we're bringing jobs to Guatemala,
which is great,
and all the money is being spent here.
The supplies are being spent here,
so it's all staying within Guatemala.
You guys already saw, it was a very emotional day,
and the next few days are gonna be
just as amazing.
Along this journey we have some extra surprises.
- And I can't wait for that reveal
with the kids, I didn't know that they didn't know
about the playground yet,
so that's gonna be so awesome.
- We wanted the kids to have something
that they could have fun on,
so this is sponsored by Hopscotch the Globe.
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