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Make a monthly or one-time gift to support the MCOE and its mission to radically reduce maternal and child mortality: pih.org/hankandjohn
More ways to help:
1. If you can donate $2,000 or more, please join the matching fund via this link: www.pih.org/maternal-center-e... Or if you have questions about a major gift, you can email me at sparksflyup at gmail
2. Join the Awesome Coffee Club! awesomecoffeeclub.com or get Sun Basin soap: good.store/pages/sun-basin-soap
3. SPREAD THE WORD. Your attention matters. Keep up to date on what's happening in Sierra Leone via www.pihsierraleone.com/
In which John visits Sierra Leone's Kono District for the first time since Covid and is astonished by the progress, the hope, and how far we still have to go. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone who is working on the MCOE, who is strengthening the healthcare system in Sierra Leone, and also everyone who has donated, or joined the sock club, or bought soap, or spread the word about the ongoing global maternal mortality crisis. Really, thanks to all of you. Look what humans can do together.
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@vlogbrothers Год назад

THANK YOU ALL for being part of this extraordinary project. Here's to more Good News Rooms in Kono and beyond. Ways to help/more info: 1. To learn more about this project, here's a playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLMs_JcuNozJbjCVbqOv2FGS6nOGlRKStK 1. Here is a semisecret video of my entire interview with Hawa, Success, and Marie. They are the best: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zQ7pDNWUuok.html 2. Make a monthly or one-time gift to support the MCOE and its mission to radically reduce maternal and child mortality: pih.org/hankandjohn 3. If you can donate $2,000 or more, please join the matching fund via this link: www.pih.org/maternal-center-excellence?form=match-for-sierra-leone Or if you have questions about a major gift, you can email me at sparksflyup -at- gmail 4. Join the Awesome Coffee Club! awesomecoffeeclub.com or get Sun Basin soap: good.store/pages/sun-basin-soap 5. SPREAD THE WORD. Your attention matters. Keep up to date on what's happening in Sierra Leone via www.pihsierraleone.com/ I am so, so grateful for this community. Thanks for being here with us. -John

@ThousandTimesBefore Год назад

Where can I find the semi-secret video, please? 😊

@larochejaquelein3680 Год назад

Pls release Looking for Alaska Part 2

@dragona1344 Год назад

John, I love that we are seeing the early fruits of this massive endeavor of hope and change! And it is so important that the project is empowering local people and teaching trades so even more things can be built in the future! It’s not about throwing money at a problem or plopping down resources we think they need-it’s about creating and supporting a community-based system that will continue to thrive and change lives. I’m so proud. 💛

@bmo14lax Год назад

@@larochejaquelein3680 please dont bark orders at people just be polite and let them live :) have a good day friend

@arof7605 Год назад

If this was a pin, it got un-pinned on edit. Not like it won't be near the top anyway, but I'm not even sure it shows up properly when this happens when logged in on your own account due to how YT sorts stuff.

@nefrone Год назад

I was a construction worker with a drug problem six years ago when I started studying philosophy by watching Crash course: Philosophy. I've been donating regularly since the sock club started and I had the extra income. I'm now finishing my freshman year as a philosophy major. This really hit me hard. I'm crying. Thank you everyone.

@morganburt2565 Год назад

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ dftba!!!

@SirArthurTheGreat Год назад

that’s awesome to hear. Do you go part time? I also am interested in pursuing philosophy as a degree, but I dropped out after my freshman year pursuing music education, and have trouble visualizing a future where I make it work (especially of course while managing to pay the bills).

@TheOtherDibbler Год назад

Congratulations to you and well done on your amazing achievement. :)

@Laura-kl7vi Год назад

So glad for you! Good for you!

@eligoldman9200 Год назад

Yooooo I had a similar story where I got my life back together after being inspired by scishow and while it’s not run by john I fucking always donate to the socks club. Stay strong bother it’s only up from here. You got a lot to look forward to.

@tylerlivingston8020 Год назад

"It's simply not acceptable. But also, we don't have to accept it." So much of the inequities and injustices of our time are NOT inevitable. They are the result of the choices we collectively make as a society. Thank you John, for showing me hope that things can get better, if we choose to make them so.

@estherkuhn991 Год назад

I work for a development organization in West Africa. Last week a colleague and his wife in Northern Sierra Leone lost their baby three days after birth because of the bad maternal and newborn health situation: the clinic staff didn't react to symptoms of deteriorating health and they didn't have enough resources once the parents managed to alert them. I'm upset but this video gives so much hope. Thanks John and all the supporters!

@vlogbrothers Год назад

That's so heartbreaking. I'm sorry. Thank you for sharing this story and reminding us that better healthcare in SL simply cannot wait. -John

@O2life Год назад

I was a baby who needed specialized care. My parents drove all night through a blizzard to get me to the hospital that kept me alive. That was more than 40 years ago, and I'm so glad the special babies of the Kono district in Sierra Leone can receive the world class care they need, too.

@sexyscientist Год назад

I like your dp. The Moldy Peaches are coming to Europe this month.🎉

@O2life Год назад

@@sexyscientist Up up down down left right left right B A Start

@DarbeeShayne Год назад

As a NICU momma, this hit hard. My baby would've died. We were lucky that she was in the Good News Room. Wishing this for parents everywhere.

@alixila Год назад

Same, NICU momma and severe preeclampsia leading to emergency c-section. We all would have died.

@phatputer Год назад

This hits hard, our first was a NICU baby, 5 weeks early from emergency C-section, change of circumstances and I could have lost both my wife and baby.

@placeholderdoe Год назад

I’m glad you and your baby got the care you deserved, may life give you and your baby the care and love you deserve

@vikramb183 Год назад

As someone who had to get driven to another city at the ripe old age of ten minutes because the hospital we lived next to didn’t have a nicu, this hits hard

@katw2254 Год назад

This made my day. As a NICU baby I am forever grateful for the resources that let me live. Thank you parents for sharing.

@amyberger9559 Год назад

“Hope is NOT crazy!” Thank you to everyone who has a part in actualizing this good news. Onward in hope!

@wonder_platypus8337 Год назад

Hope is crazy, but we should do it anyway.

@inquisitiveterrestrian Год назад

Onward!

@christopherneelyakagoattmo6078 Год назад

Hope is real. It is a force. There is no false hope.

@emmagrace8749 Год назад

I sobbed throughout this whole video. When this project first started, I formed a PIH Engage group on my college campus raising money for this specific goal. I remember telling everyone in my life over and over that one in 17 women in Sierra Leone will die in pregnancy or childbirth. God, I’m so glad that number is changing. COVID killed my little Engage team only a year after I started it, but this project and PIH changed the direction of my life irreversibly. I’m halfway through my master’s degree in public health, and that’s a path that I don’t know if I would have taken if not for the work of Hank and John, PIH, and this community. I’m so proud to be a part of this. DFTBA!

@OneTraveller Год назад

This random internet stranger is very proud of you 💜

@sexyscientist Год назад

It's moving to read your efforts to better health care. What are your plans after MPH?

@elisa.llew-send Год назад

Kudos to you on your current and future efforts! DFTBA!!

@jacquecomposanto3792 Год назад

I love this so much! DFTBA!

@emmagrace8749 Год назад

@@OneTraveller same to you, internet stranger! 💛

@yuvalne Год назад

"this is the good news room" genuinely made me cry. I am just so proud of this community and just so happy to hear how far we came.

@chemistkatie Год назад

I got immediate goosebumps when "this is the good news room" was said

@naiomik6179 Год назад

"All these babies are going to live." Is such a powerful statement and sentiment when you know it will be TRUE, especially after so much hardship for that community in the past, when that couldn't be a guarantee. The way it is not even a question. They WILL live. Absolutely made me sob 💖

@felesnocis 5 месяцев назад

I was doing ok until that part of the video. Now I’m crying too

@ohHeyyyKidd Год назад

Unexpectedly, "this is the good news room" made me burst into tears. I'm so proud of you and Nerdfighteria for making this happen!

@charliespinoza1966 Год назад

I also lost it a “good news room”❤

@bridgetcooney5085 Год назад

I'm not a crier, but I did feel a swell of emotion at that.

@Met54321 Год назад

Yeah that got me too.

@crystaldragon8211 Год назад

me too! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@annitendo Год назад

I'm sobbing like a baby

@MJeanzy Год назад

I am a nurse and a longtime nerdfighter and I am just sitting here SOBBING at what profound and important work this is. I'm so happy and proud to be a part of this community.

@vlogbrothers Год назад

🧡🧡🧡 -John

@bethanmills9802 Год назад

Also a nurse and also shedding a few tears. So grateful that where I work is full of good news rooms and that more and more parents and families will get to experience the joy of taking their babies home 💙

@winstonchiang8666 Год назад

not a nurse but definitely sobbing. Everytime John posts about Sierra Leone, I cry. It's wonderful

@carmillachoate Год назад

I worked in nursing for 15 years before it destroyed my back and yeah, same

@ubemcgrebbiii1923 Год назад

@@vlogbrothers Long time viewer but first time donator, now a monthly sub! Thank you guys for not only the work you show here, but for generally being role models of compassion and curiosity. For so many years, you guys and your team have been inspiring for so many of us to learn and do more for ourselves and those around us, and to make a better world than the one we’re given. Keep rockin!

@amberbydreamsart5467 Год назад

after watching a few videos on the terrible, ineffective 'help' many mission trips provide to the places they go, i needed this. the reminder that helping communities is possible, you just need to listen, and respond to the real needs. I love seeing all these people who have found work they can continue to do for the rest of their lives and who can use it now to create the structures they will need in the future.

@vlogbrothers Год назад

Thanks for the kind words. I agree that it really has to begin with cultural humility--I don't know what the people of Sierra Leone need, and so I had better listen carefully when they tell me--and also the kind of long-term focus that is baked in to Partners in Health's model. No charity is perfect, and lots of mistakes will be made, but I really believe in PIH's model for change-making, long term intervention, and deep partnerships with governments and communities. -John

@AM-rb4ps Год назад

@@vlogbrothers John, having met a lot of people in the humanitarian aid world... Paul and PiH are just as respected and revered as he and they deserve. I think the new generation of humanitarian workers will be following the PiH model very closely.

@HelenRosemarySmith Год назад

@@vlogbrothers well said!!

@TheOneAndOnlyTorford Год назад

When my husband and I started supporting this project, we had no idea that our own journey to parenthood would’ve been deadly had we not been supported by maternal and fetal health specialists. This project has changed our lives and we will continue to support it for as long as we can.

@Gilagr26 Год назад

I'm happy that your story seems to have a good ending :)

@jameshill8493 Год назад

The baby good?

@emthelibrarian Год назад

I'm crying on my break at work over "this is the good news room." So proud to be a part of this community that pays attention.

@imogenwagstaff7053 Год назад

+++

@wanderer117Playlists Год назад

The feels are real

@judlesmeldrum-roy6231 Год назад

Omg same

@Domdrok Год назад

Yep.

@duseylicious Год назад

Yeah, I lost it at “good news room.”

@ryandonnell3382 Год назад

I don’t think we could find a better video to override that 4 minute rule, this video made my day! I’m so glad we helped you and Hank with this, it’s been one of the greatest joys. That’s great to hear, when people do come together change DOES happen.

@vlogbrothers Год назад

One of the greatest joys indeed. And hopefully we're just getting started. -John

@lovermillion Год назад

Educational videos aren't subject to the 4 minute rule! Who else learned a lot from this video? ✋

@jortand Год назад

@@lovermillion I learned that I need a sharpie hat in my life.

@abdullahenani9670 Год назад

@@jortand the awesome sharpie hat club.

@AM-rb4ps Год назад

@@lovermillion idk. I think John should definitely have to *do* something for violating the 4 minute rule, but it should be an especially soft punishment.

@CantPostThis Год назад

My mom died a couple years ago, and my middle daughter was missing her tonight. My mom was a maternity nurse way back, so watching this together and making a donation was a great way to turn sorrow into something positive and hopeful. Thanks for always caring.

@TheStrugglefish Год назад

@4:00 That subtle smile, filled with pride, as Marie says "and now, I'm a welder" is so powerful!

@alexandriaglumb792 Год назад

I just got home from what is hopefully my last prenatal appointment before I have my baby later this week. I am so thrilled and excited that other moms are able to start receiving similar care and that they can start coming to the Drs with confidence that they and their babies will be well. And I’m so glad we’ve been in a position to contribute to this project from the beginning!

@vlogbrothers Год назад

Congrats! Sending you all good wishes and vibes as you enter the last few days of pregnancy! -John

@KoroWerks Год назад

Thank you for reminding us that Good things happen slowly over long periods of time, with incremental progress and collective effort. Thank you.

@vlogbrothers Год назад

Amen!

@melissaeven7354 Год назад

@dawndavy8934 Год назад

@dftbaMATH Год назад

@kashiichan Год назад

@SanAndreas0611 Год назад

‘All these babies are going to live, this is the good news room.’ Not going to lie, this hit in the feels.

@GabrielPettier Год назад

The emotion on Marie's face at 4:17, when Success talks about using the center in the future, is priceless.

@thepianojuggler Год назад

I watched that moment many times. The look of anticipation and hope that comes over her face really encapsulates what an incredible impact this project will have on so many lives.

@estergrant6713 Год назад

“all these babies are going to live” that one got me. this is so great

@meganl8071 Год назад

Seeing the pride these women have in their work (and the pride on John’s face and in his voice) has made my day ❤

@elainebelzDetroit Год назад

I really admire all the women in particular but really everyone in this video doing such important and amazing work! I love that along with the primary goal/purpose of the project - maternal & child health - other goods are being created as well, such as the vocational training that's changing the lives of these workers & their families. And I love that they get to take so much pride in their labor - that's a precious thing.

@jacforswear18 Год назад

@@elainebelzDetroit all of those things contribute to maternal and child health too! This project is such an amazing example of why western-minded charity and neoliberal spot fixing does work and why cresting healthy communities and systems does work! They are creating a space where everyone is set up for success and can set up the next generation for success as well. And how fitting one of those women is named Success ❤

@Nerdnotwashere Год назад

@elainebelzDetroit Год назад

I assume you mean the charity/spot-fixing DOESN"T work. :) A woman I know - brilliant community organizer who grew up unhoused -called it the "charity industrial complex." When I put it in religious terms (as a theologian, I tend to do that) I point out how such systems keep people in poverty so that the more well-off can practice their Christian virtue of charity - the kind that makes the "giver" feel/look good but doesn't help that much in the long run. Short-term fixes are important (e.g., feeding hungry people), but they have to be balanced with or, better, oriented toward this kind of long-term, visionary system- & community-building which in turn has to be led by the people within those communities (i.e., not by an outsider). Like, when we give to PiH, I like to think it's more than charity - we're supplying what we can (money) to help people who actually have the local knowledge & connections, etc., to identify and solve problems in a holistic way. To me, it feels like doing such a tiny part because having money is (from my perspective) an accident of markets, whereas all the work these folks in Sierra Leone are doing - that's the real work, and should be where we assign the greater value. To be fair, though, I really am doing such a tiny part because, well, I'm a theologian. I don't make much money. :D

@justsomeguy5470 Год назад

@@elainebelzDetroit There's a difference between being charitable and giving to charity.

@morganburt2565 Год назад

like, come on. if you told me back in 2013 that these goofy nerds on youtube would help raise $40 million dollars to build a world-class maternal hospital in sierra leon there’s no way i’d believe you. this is the best community and im so damn proud to be a part of it. clearly not forgetting to be awesome

@vlogbrothers Год назад

I also would not have believed you! -John

@shermdar_ Год назад

Sometimes I feel like my monthly donation isn't enough, or like I don't donate enough during the P4A, but then I remember the power of community, and if we all give just a little, it becomes a lot

@jeka8826 Год назад

Yes yes yes

@kothischannel Год назад

"It's simply not acceptable. And also, we don't HAVE to accept it." That had me tearing up. We need to keep reminding ourselves of this: for the climate, for each other, for all living things.

@booksandquestions9135 Год назад

"All these babies are going to live. This is the good news room!" 😭😭😭Thanks for sharing this good news.

@emmafoley8987 Год назад

And that was the exact moment the tears couldn't be held back. I am so grateful that the people of Sierra Leone are letting us share in this joy.

@rruthlessly Год назад

I have two daughters who enjoyed watching big machines and one of them is now at university studying engineering. It is awesome that so many women are involved in the construction of this project and I hope many girls get to watch them do it.

@jeka8826 Год назад

Yes! I love when little kids watch big machines, and I love when they grow up and still love big machines.

@AmeliaBell28 Год назад

The clips of Hawa, Marie, and Success talking about their work were the most moving parts of the video for me- and that's saying something, because this was an incredibly moving video. It's a reminder that this isn't just about a new hospital. It's about community, empowerment, and creating long-term solutions that will sustain this success and foster growth for years to come. When I hear the name "Partners in Health" I tend to hear "health" as being the main idea (probably because it's the last word in the phrase and usually the most emphasized, so it sticks the most) but I think "partners" is actually the key 🧡

@nixiemar8995 Год назад

this is a beautiful thought.

@raetona Год назад

I think you are right. This kind of training and employment can truly change a community. The money being spent here is also getting multiplied by going into the local economy and may be helping prevent some health issues from starting. The ripple effects may be immeasurable. I am studying public health and this is a huge inspiration to me.

@-beee- 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for articulating this. So so resonant. 💖

@coreykeays7249 Год назад

John's sharpie hat is almost as amazing as this project!! Thank you John for the update but most of all thank you nerdfighters!! P.S. the amount of women in this project is incredibly inspiring ❤

@bmo14lax Год назад

Glad to see they will be training the women behind them in the future too and hopefully it can continue so this can sustain itself.n

@hawaldk Год назад

Before Green John even mentioned Chew John’s hat, I thought, “That’s a rad use of hat.”

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад

Between the baller sharpie hat and the work to decrease maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, John Chew must be one of the awesomest people on the planet.

@mars_girl Год назад

I've been feeling a little bogged down by doomscrolling the last couple of weeks. Being reminded of the good people are doing and that I have contributed to by donating gives me a much-needed dose of hope! Thank you❤️

@anaritapovoa5733 Год назад

I'm having a lot of difficulty writing this comment because my feelings are quite confusing. But, as a 5th year medical student who wishes to become a neonatologist, I'm so happy to be part of this community and to have been given the opportinuty to not only pay attention but help build this amazing project. I hope one day to be able to work alongside these healthcare professionals and become part of a good news room.

@Veronika-Zahradnickova Год назад

Thank you for sharing this. I hope your upcoming journey treats you well. Big hugs.

@LibertyMonk Год назад

"This is the Good News room" is such a powerful quote. There are rooms all over the country where bad news breaks, but that room is not one of them. They have the training and support to save every one lucky enough to make it to that room. And from what I understand of earlier in the video, some have had to be turned away at the door. But work is being done to make more Good News rooms.

@mommys-lil-tortlet Год назад

i have never in my life seen a medical setting so filled joy, dignity and compassion. thank you to this community

@averycockburn31 Год назад

It means so much to be a tiny part of a movement like this. Thank you for showing us the good we can do together. Today this channel is the good-news room!

@kieran163 Год назад

one of many things that has me crying here is these women smiling about how much this project has changed their lives. watching these beautiful Black women act so happy that they’ve gained the skills they needed AFTER being admitted to the job is what we need more of here in the US. thank you to you and nerdfighteria for changing so many lives. ❤❤

@Rithene Год назад

I legit cried at "Good News Room." I've had a tough day and really needed some good news. It's amazing that my little donations have helped add up to real-life babies and mommas surviving to go home to their families. What amazing things we can do when we all care about the same thing!

@idycass Год назад

I’m a NICU nurse and knowing that so many babies will be saved because of PIH and Nerdfightaria is so incredible I can’t put it into words

@maggieorr9154 Год назад

2 months ago today my brand new daughter was in a Good News Room. I’m so grateful that parents and babies in Sierra Leone have a Good News Room of their own. This was always an important project, but it hits so much closer to home today than it did before my daughter was born. This community is doing such incredible work. I’m so proud to be a part of it.

@rebeccaweisshaar4913 Год назад

Like others here, I became a NICU and preemie mom last year. I spent 9 weeks on hospital bedrest and my 31 weeker twins spent 6 weeks on yhe NICU. I never had a doubt the entire time that we were receiving the best care possible, and I’m so happy for these women and their families that they will be able to feel the same way.

@modernlacuna Год назад

Knowing that we as a community are helping create "good news rooms" in a place that used to have so few is simply wonderful. It's an honour to be a monthly donor, thank you for sharing with us the importance of ongoing, systemic solutions.

@unagszor Год назад

Hawa, Success, and Marie are such badasses - I love that they get to do this work along with everyone else involved. So cool to not only be contributing to building the MCOE but *also* giving people skills, as Hawa said, that are "not only for today; it's for tomorrow"

@SilverScreenTimeMachine Год назад

My twin and I were born five weeks premature with an emergency C-section, and spent 3 weeks in the NICU. It's sobering that so many births are higher risk than that. I'm so glad that people like John are paying attention to this and the changes it's making to the lives of the people working on the project is also such a force for good in the world.

@avsgriffy Год назад

Thank you John for this update! If I hadn't had an emergency C-section in 2014 my daughter and I wouldn't have made it, and my second daughter would never have had a chance. I'm so happy to see this becoming available to mothers and children in Sierra Leone thanks to you, Hank, and all of nerdfighteria!

@roguevirus Год назад

"We don't have to accept it." Damn straight.

@jillianharringtonperkins Год назад

I was not expecting to be filled with such gratitude and found myself starting to happy cry two minutes in. I am so proud of everything that has been and will continue to be accomplished!

@juliescott4473 Год назад

At a time where I have to watch certain people put so much money and effort into stopping other people from accessing healthcare, it's so joyful to see you guys doing something to improve it. THIS is how you show you care about babies and women. Just a blessing to witness.

@kyrab7914 Год назад

Amen and seconded

@samsmith5947 Год назад

The nurse asking if a certain baby would survive (7:00) mirrors John's encounter in his chaplaincy where a doctor was treating a toddler with severe burns who was not likely to survive. Knowing the effect of that experience on John and the outcome of that particular child's life, together with the response in this video "all of these babies are going to live" is just heartwarming and outstanding.

@95triforce Год назад

…sings the song without the words and NEVER STOPS AT ALL

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад

@jeka8826 Год назад

beautiful hope

@Kamirose. Год назад

I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING I'm totally crying I'm proud of nerdfighteria, thank you John & Hank for becoming involved in this project and for bringing it to all of us.

@imogenwagstaff7053 Год назад

+++

@KyleJMitchell Год назад

I'm definitely crying. It feels so good to see such a beautiful thing happening. I almost can't believe how amazing this is.

@FaerieDust Год назад

I'm crying like a baby. Like a happy, healthy baby about to go home from the Good News Room. This is the good kind of crying. I look for to bawling my eyes out when the new building is officially open, too.

@calliea3336 Год назад

YOU’RE RIGHT, I AM CRYING, but so are you! Pass the Kleenex, please.

@cbpd89 Год назад

We're all crying together.

@cloverhighfive Год назад

In which John succeeds in not crying while narrating the overwhelmingly good news and faith in humanity

@reneedutoit4600 Год назад

I am a health care worker in south africa and i am sobbing at how much better this community has made the world

@ChristophRevis-ox3ft Год назад

Seeing things like this give me the most genuine and profound hope for the future

@nainahasbi1177 Год назад

I am a resident doctor and I hope one day I can work here! So proud of you John!

@Silas_MN Год назад

I'm about to become a father (due date is on Saturday!) and seeing this really makes me emotional. I've been following this since you started talking about it, and I've chipped in a little bit. I'm incredibly privileged to live in a part of the world where the odds my baby starting out life healthy and safe are very high, and seeing that what we've done together is saving real babies who *really* needed it is awesome in the literal sense. I am in awe.

@TarantellistofHeart Год назад

Cultist simulator 👀

@mariannetfinches Год назад

Congratulations! I hope all went well & that the newest nerdfighter is as awesome as their parents

@WildAntiN Год назад

I remember the first time it was brought up on the Dear Hank and John podcast after John's trip to Sierra Leone and how they weren't sure how to raise that amount of money. And now it's a reality. Beautiful

@musiclover2165 Год назад

Weeping at my desk with this one. Thank you for showing us the progress and for being one of many at the helm of this incredible project! I can’t describe what it feels like to see our collective action at work ❤

@heart.9889 Год назад

Same. Was just taking a short break to eat a sandwich, now I am crying.

@laurenstockam2886 Год назад

This public health nerdfighter is crying many happy tears. Thank you for showing us the progress. I am so honored to be a part of this.

@Shermanatorproductions Год назад

I started to tear up when John quoted “All these babies will live, this is the good news room.” Thank you John for your work with PIH and educating us all on it. Cheers!-Sam

@noragardner1629 Год назад

This is just what I needed to see today. Over the last 20 years or so my family has had more than its fair share of tragedy including the stillbirth of my first born son, in spite of having excellent healthcare and midwives and doctors here in the US. Our most recent tragedy was when my father died about a month ago, suddenly and very unexpectedly. It brings me hope while I am grieving and looking back on tragedy and loss to know that the mothers and babies of Sierra Leone will have safer births and that their families will not have to know the tragedy of stillbirth anywhere near so often. No mom should have to go through the pain of losing a child to preventable and curable problems. I’m so glad that this community has such a strong and kind wish to help others in need. That steady, thoughtful kindness is what brought me to vlogbrothers many years ago, and it’s what keeps me coming back to find hope when I am going through difficult times myself.

@OneTraveller Год назад

I'm sorry about your dad. Sending love your way.

@o0superflu0o Год назад

It's wonderful they can have a "good news room". Seeing this building site and those workers, especially the young women creating something that will change peoples' lives so significantly for the better is incredible. Thank you, John, for every time you directed our attention to this. You truly didn't forget to be awesome.

@penname8441 Год назад

Thank you for setting me down the road to being a community activist when I was just 14 and comment spamming during P4A to now working in the nonprofit sector having helped found an lbgtq+ focused housing program. Videos like these remind me that we actually can decrease the amount of worldsuck in our lifetime, if we work together and persist and build the hope we want with our own hands.

@jeka8826 Год назад

Yes!

@Super_Swank Год назад

I can’t believe this is where we are as a community. I never would’ve imagined this, hoped for this, dreamed for this. I’m so proud of us, of John, of the incredible people in Sierra Leone who have the perseverance and tenacity to push this incomparable generational change for their home.

@mommys-lil-tortlet Год назад

"all these babies are going to live. this is the good news room" are words that will bring me to tears

@kayleighfredericks5495 Год назад

To know that my socks helped people is very good indeed. This is a testament to the fact that people coming together can make big changes.

@FirstNameBunchANumbers Год назад

I ultimately got a job at PIH after learning about their work from your videos. I've independently followed PIH and their updates on the MCOE since your first video and although I didn't work much with the team in Sierra Leone, I'm grateful I got to meet so many other incredible people working at different PIH sites. I mostly worked with those in leadership, but briefly got to meet with community health workers, physicians, and other staff at each of the country sites, and I have to say that there are some truly impressive, brilliant, kind, and resilient people behind this kind of work. Thank you John for speaking so strongly and so consistently about this project and for putting PIH in my mind for job applications - I am happy I got the experience to work at PIH when I did, and I want you to know your part in making that happen!

@iunnyrhalldorsdottir8248 Год назад

I'm crying! Thank you for making it easy for us to support such an important cause. I got confronted with my privilege a few months ago when I developed severe preeclampsia early in my pregnancy. Simply because I'm lucky, my country could provide the life saving care I needed. Both my child and I are thriving today, when my husband came so close to losing his entire family. Every family deserves the same chance we got.

@vlogbrothers Год назад

So glad that you and your child are here with us and thriving. -John

@julestheswan Год назад

My beautiful kiddo would have died without her NICU nurses and the facility in which we were cared for. She stayed for two weeks and was very small at 3.5 lbs. I am so proud to be a longtime Nerdfighter and the legacy of kindness and generosity lives on with her now at 6. Much love from me and my Athena and dont forget to be awesome! ❤❤❤ 🖖

@erica9443 Год назад

I am a triplet and as such was a preemie -- my sisters and I were born at 28 weeks and spent months in the NICU. One of them had to have heart surgery at just a week or two old, and I had lung issues and had to be on oxygen. We all would have died without the excellent healthcare we were lucky enough to have. I am so, so happy to be part of Nerdfighteria and to be a small part of helping these mothers and babies get the care they deserve. I'm crying at this video. What a bright light of hope in an increasingly dark world. I love this community so much.

@ginam3524 Год назад

So proud to be a nerdfighter! This project isn’t a bandaid, quick, make the donators feel good kind of thing that all so often happens with foreign aid. It’s so good to see it being done the right way, employing locals and truly listening to them and thinking of the long term issues like supplies and staffing. Thank you for sharing this with us all!

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@agentkurt Год назад

I watch this in tears, as a mother this hits hard. ❤

@cjsparks02 Год назад

This is so beautiful and so, so big. Amazing news indeed. The things this community is able to do are always astonishing to me.

@hopingforsunshine Год назад

Actively crying at my desk at work. I'm so proud of what this community has managed to accomplish

@philippa_m Год назад

I donated money equivalent to about two days of work for me to PIH last year. I'm incredibly lucky to have the privilege to do so. As a woman in a 80% male profession, I was shocked & pleased to see the high proportion of women in the construction team - I know how much of a difference it makes to not be the only one. I'll be thinking of them and this video as I try to donate a few more 'days' this year. It gives me so much hope to be a small part of the chain of women supporting women.

@RowanFallsGames Год назад

"Also, we don't have to accept it." Made me cry. Legit tearing up at that simple sentiment, things are bad and we dont have to sit and take it. ❤ thanks Intern for bringing this story to my attention and giving me this hope

@meghanabhange13 Год назад

Came to the comment section to see if I wasn't the only person sobbing. It's so heartwarming to see nerfighteria going from bunch of kids finding to community which was excited about life to actually making a significant change in the world. This is honestly the best good news I've heard in a while.

@HolaMindy Год назад

Oh John, I so look forward to these updates! As the mama of a little boy who once needed the good news room and who now loves watching construction equipment, I want so badly for these families to get the same care as we did-and now it looks like they do and will continue to.

@xingmei818 Год назад

I am absolutely sobbing. I am thankful for this community and the good that it has brought to this community

@franzferdinand1782 Год назад

I was having a real nihilistic day and struggling to find hope again. Thank you John, thank you to the construction workers and nurses and doctors and students building this hospital together, and thank you to this community.

@Onebadterran Год назад

I remember watching the videos so long ago where they were washing their hands in blood soaked water. This has come so far and I am so proud of what this community has achieved, thank you for sharing John

@ragggen Год назад

I give both a montly sum directy to pih and have an awesome sock subscription and you bet this video made me cry :')

@vlogbrothers Год назад

Thanks so much for your support. Look at the change you're helping make happen! -John

@IrishEv94 Год назад

You know I buy a thing or two during Pizzamas and gave my sister an awesome socks club and it's nice to know the money is going towards this, but it feels so abstract. This made it all feel real and seeing the progress is heart warming in a way I didn't know it would be

@myrinity_ Год назад

crying. so grateful to be able to support PIH through P4A and other awesome nerdfighter projects. thank you for bringing these stories to us

@joeyorofino2944 Год назад

“Look at what humans can do when we come together” really resonated with me. Looking at that hospital being built, Hank and John, made me really think about what humans can do when they are BROUGHT together. Thank you so much for bringing this community together. Thank you for being the avenue and impetus of this change. Thank you for being you :)

@courtney1324 Год назад

I think these are my favorite Vlogbrothers videos. These updates are always beautifully poignant reminders of the good that can be accomplished if people care enough to try.

@wightwitch Год назад

My aunt was a nurse who also trained others in Sierra Leone. She's sadly passed now, but she would be so excited to see what has been done to give people such beautiful chances.

@seanmcnew18 Год назад

not only is the building helping mothers and their babies, but the ladies are acquiring life changing skills. This is an amazing benefit for the entire area. Thank you for being our liaison.

@juliatheotonio1002 Год назад

Que notícia esperançosa e alegre John. Obrigada por dividir as imagens e, junto com nós nerdfighters e doadores, tornar possível salvar tantas vidas. Saúde é dignidade. Saúde é ter um futuro.

@thathobbitlife Год назад

I'm overwhelmed with joy seeing this.. like so many other moms/parents, I also had a baby in NICU for 59 days. Hes 12 now and doing great. I'm blessed we had access, and I'm greatful and humble.

@BookCat18 Год назад

I really loved seeing good news today. My sister could have died as a newborn, so maternity/NICU is in my heart. Thank you for all you do, being the figurehead for a movement of change, hope and perseverance

@elizabethnickle1187 Год назад

This is such a powerful example of what social media, money, and humans can do.

@ariana.cherise Год назад

I cannot believe how much your video title undersold this, John! I, like many others, sobbed my way through this video. THANK YOU John and Hank for being genuinely outstanding humans that CARE. Thank you for bringing things like this to our attention, for all the hard work you’ve done and continue to do to raise not only money, but awareness for the causes that matter to you. Thank you for bringing me joy by feeling like I am able to help this monumental effort in some small way 💖 I’d say DFTBA, but in all the years I’ve been watching, I’ve never seen y’all forget to be awesome for even a moment

@BethanyMidwest Год назад

I'm so proud and so hopeful. Thank you thank you thank you to you, John, and the thousands of other people who made this a reality ❤️

@jazycool Год назад

I was a NICU Premie baby and it brings me to tears knowing that the women and babies the centre serves and will serve can finally get the high quality care my family benefitted from. My mom and I would have died without it and I wouldn’t be here today and doing as well as I am without the doctors and nurses who cared for me. This is so wonderful!

@kayleighmims9073 Год назад

God I am sobbing. I love this community so much. I love having the opportunity to witness this amazing project grow. I have been a nerdfighter for nearly half of my life and getting to see all of the awesome things that this community helps to pull off is just remarkable

@glovaldebenito Год назад

I read the “Good news” title and saw John with the helmet on and immediately started sobbing 😭 I’m so so happy and proud of this community, I feel lucky to have been able to participate - even if minimally- and see this dream we have built together come true.. so so so happy!! 🥰🥰🥰 thank you to everyone and especially Hank and John for creating this bridge for us to connect and decrease world suck.. so so so happy and proud!!!

@cheyannemathis5706 Год назад

Whenever I start to have doubt in humanity, nerdfighteria pops up and reminds me of the beauty and love we are capable of. I am so happy about this progress and future development to improve the lives and outcomes for these mothers and babies.

@kemohdesay8704 Год назад

This is good news for Kono and for Sierra Leone at large. Waiting to give our maximum as a clinician to save more lives of our mothers and our babies.

@alexschindler Год назад

The disproportionate number of women working on the construction project because they are building themselves a safe place to have their children is so beautiful in its empowerment, giving people the opportunity to literally build their own future and the future of their children is absolutely incredible.

@ashleyslaughter8658 Год назад

Guys, I know that we played such a tiny roll in this project. But I can't help but feel so proud. There is a good news room. And more are on the way. 🥰I picked a good day to wear my pizza John shirt.