38 Gamins (38 Kids)

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Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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When a devastating earthquake strikes Haiti in January 2010, one of the island’s most respected public health experts rushes to the aid of 38 abandoned children who have been left without a home. She decides then and there to take care of them, not knowing that the decision will change their lives — and hers — forever.

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0:00.0	Like nearly every person in Haiti, Lune Vio remembers exactly where she was on the afternoon
0:07.6	of January 12, 2010.
0:11.2	She was attending a meeting of public health experts in the island's capital, Bor O'Prince.
0:16.7	Haiti was experiencing a massive magnitude 7.0 earthquake, a tremblement de terre.
0:43.6	The capital, Bor O'Prince, was right at the epicenter.
1:12.0	Lune wasn't the kind to panic.
1:14.4	She was the kind to take action.
1:16.7	At 44, she was the director of Zemmi Lesante, the Haitian branch of the NGO Partners in
1:22.6	Health.
1:23.6	Zemmi Lesante means friends in health in Haitian Creole, and the organization provides access
1:29.1	the quality healthcare for people in vulnerable communities.
1:33.9	My colleague asked me, what should I do?
1:47.8	Lune's decision to rush to the hospital would change the course of her life.
1:55.4	The earthquake was a terrible tragedy for the people of Haiti, but to Lune, in a strange,
2:01.8	complicated way,
2:03.8	was also a day her life was blast.
2:24.9	Bienvenue and welcome to the Dual-Lingo French podcast.
2:27.9	I'm your fan for Du Bois-L'A.
2:30.4	Every episode, we bring you fascinating true stories to help you improve your French
2:34.0	listening and gain new perspectives on the world.
2:37.6	The storyteller will be using Intermediate French and I'll be timing in for context
2:42.1	in English.
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