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WESSEX FILMS PRESENT

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CRUSADE FOR HEALTH

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THE CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE

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NARRATED BY JEAN MARCHAT

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<i>"Whoever will teach me</i>
<i>the art of healing,</i>

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<i>"with him will I share my substance.</i>

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<i>"His offspring will be my brethren </i>

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<i>"I will impart the knowledge of healing</i>
<i>by all manners of teaching."</i>

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<i>So ran the oath taken by physicians</i>
<i>of ancient Greece.</i>

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<i>The secret</i>

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<i>of all good life lies in good health.</i>

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<i>This they believed,</i>

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<i>here on the slopes of Mount Ida,</i>
<i>2,000 years ago.</i>

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<i>"Whatsoever house I enter,"</i>
<i>the Greek doctor solemnly vowed,</i>

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<i>"I will enter</i>
<i>for the benefit of the sick."</i>

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<i>From ancient Greece,</i>

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<i>this humane teaching</i>
<i>spread throughout Europe.</i>

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<i>Today, Europe returns</i>
<i>her thanks to Greece in kind,</i>

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<i>to help her heal her wounds.</i>

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<i>An automobile</i>

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<i>driving on these dusty roads</i>
<i>is bound to be noticed.</i>

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<i>The news has spread</i>
<i>from village to village.</i>

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<i>The ambulance</i>
<i>brings a Norwegian doctor,</i>

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<i>a Danish nurse,</i>

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<i>and a Greek nurse from Athens,</i>

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<i>with the International TB Campaign.</i>

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<i>The priest and the mayor</i>
<i>are waiting for them.</i>

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<i>The villagers are intrigued.</i>

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<i>The children have stopped playing,</i>

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<i>and are keen to know</i>
<i>what the doctor is saying.</i>

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<i>He's explaining</i>
<i>to the mayor and the priest</i>

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<i>that in Greece, each year,</i>

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<i>thousands of children</i>
<i>die of tuberculosis,</i>

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<i>but they can be protected</i>
<i>through vaccination with BCG.</i>

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<i>He and his team are dedicated</i>

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<i>to preventing and fighting</i>

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<i>tuberculosis.</i>

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<i>"Thousands</i>

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<i>"of children die from TB  every year",</i>

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<i>the loudspeaker proclaims.</i>

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<i>"They can be saved.</i>

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<i>"Vaccinate your children</i>
<i>to protect them."</i>

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<i>The next morning,</i>

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<i> the children are quietly</i>
<i>waiting their turn near the school.</i>

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<i>"Whoever teaches me the art of healing,</i>
<i>with him I will share my substance.</i>

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<i>"His offspring will be my own brethren.</i>

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<i>"I will impart the knowledge of healing</i>
<i>by all manners of teaching."</i>

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<i>It doesn't really hurt,</i>
<i>even if Fanoula is making a face.</i>

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<i>She likes to put on an act.</i>

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<i>And she wouldn't miss the chance</i>

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<i>to show off her scar</i>
<i>and all it would bring her!</i>

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<i>Throughout the old continent,</i>

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<i>we live surrounded by wonders</i>
<i>bequeathed by our ancestors,</i>

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<i>the legacy of our children.</i>

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<i>We mustn't be blinded by our past.</i>

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<i>We must face the hovels</i>

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<i>we have allowed to grow</i>
<i>beneath the aqueducts of Rome.</i>

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<i>Should this be</i>

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<i>the only trace of our presence?</i>

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<i>Have we nothing to hand on but this?</i>

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<i>Some have thought</i>
<i>to leave a worthy legacy,</i>

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<i>so their children inherit the best.</i>

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<i>But what about</i>

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<i>the shoe shiners,</i>

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<i>the beggars,</i>

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<i>wasting their youth</i>
<i>amidst indifference.</i>

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<i>They are without inheritance.</i>

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<i>You can't tell a child:</i>
<i>"Tomorrow you'll feel better."</i>

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<i>For tomorrow is nothing to him.</i>

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<i>We must act today.</i>

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<i>Our own needs,</i>

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<i>our own plans can wait.</i>

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<i>Children can't and mustn't wait.</i>

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<i>Europe's foremost duty</i>
<i>is to set the feet of the young</i>

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<i>on the road to a better life</i>
<i>through better health.</i>

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<i>By Lake Geneva,</i>

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<i>stand the headquarters</i>
<i>of the World Health Organization,</i>

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<i>the body set up by the United Nations,</i>

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<i>to combat sickness worldwide.</i>

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<i>News of an epidemic</i>
<i>from the Middle East.</i>

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<i>Health authorities</i>
<i>around the Mediterranean basin</i>

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<i>must be warned at once.</i>

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<i>Sickness knows no frontiers,</i>

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<i>especially in the years following a war.</i>

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<i>That is why the means to fight it</i>
<i>cannot stop at frontiers either.</i>

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<i>European nations unite</i>
<i>for a crusade for health</i>

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<i>on a continental scale.</i>

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<i>Here, in Sweden,</i>

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<i>nurses are trained</i>
<i>for international service</i>

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<i>with the Red Cross.</i>

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<i>Norway,</i>

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<i>with a health system</i>
<i>second to none in Europe,</i>

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<i>sees assistance to poor countries</i>
<i>as her special duty.</i>

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<i>They send boatloads</i>
<i>of food and medicine</i>

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<i>to remedy the effects</i>

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<i>of malnutrition.</i>

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<i>Few Norwegians</i>

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<i>have ever heard of Delvinakion</i>

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<i>a small, remote village in Greece,</i>

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<i>almost completely vacated</i>
<i>by the Civil War.</i>

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<i>But the Norwegians know</i>
<i>that in hundreds of villages like this,</i>

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<i>children just like their own</i>
<i>are hungry.</i>

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<i>And that's enough.</i>

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<i>Thanks to them,</i>

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<i>and their generosity,</i>
<i>these children can eat.</i>

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<i>TB claims a victim somewhere</i>
<i>once every 7th second.</i>

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<i>Danish laboratories produce</i>
<i>much of the BCG vaccine,</i>

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<i>discovered by French scientists</i>
<i>Calmette and Guérin.</i>

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<i>Help comes from America too.</i>

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<i>This new sanatorium in Lamia, Greece,</i>

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<i>was built as part</i>
<i>of the European recovery program.</i>

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<i>With equipment such as this,</i>
<i>never available before,</i>

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<i>doctors can begin</i>
<i>to get to grips with illness</i>

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<i>which has sapped</i>
<i>people's health for centuries.</i>

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<i>Different setting, same purpose.</i>

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<i>In this Italian hospital,</i>

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<i>cancer can now be detected</i>
<i>at an early stage.</i>

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<i>Treated in time,</i>
<i>cancer patients can be cured.</i>

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<i>Treating a case of cancer of the jaw.</i>

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<i>The equipment</i>

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<i>is Italian</i>
<i>and was bought through American aid</i>

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<i>counterpart funds.</i>

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<i>Radio isotopes come from an English</i>
<i>atomic energy research centre.</i>

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<i>Every nation is contributing</i>

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<i>to a great cause,</i>

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<i>but the task is greater</i>

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<i>than any one nation</i>
<i>could perform alone.</i>

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<i>However, public health and cleanliness</i>

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<i>are not always</i>
<i>a matter of costly buildings</i>

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<i>and ultra modern equipment.</i>

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<i>Elementary precautions</i>

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<i>can be taken without too much effort.</i>

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<i>In Greece,</i>

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<i>in some areas, goats</i>
<i>are still milked as in Homer's day.</i>

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<i>Changing practices isn't easy,</i>

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<i>especially when they're older</i>
<i>than time itself.</i>

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<i>The World Health Organization,</i>
<i>actively addresses these issues.</i>

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<i>It looks prosaic enough,</i>
<i>talking around a table,</i>

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<i>but when words translate into action,</i>

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<i>good results can be brought about.</i>

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<i>Geneva</i>

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<i>takes us to Missolonghi,</i>

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<i>a small town by the Ionian Sea,</i>

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<i>that barely seems to keep its head</i>

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<i>above the putrid waters</i>
<i>of the surrounding marshes.</i>

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<i>A certain Englishman came here once</i>

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<i>to champion the cause</i>
<i>of insurgent Greece.</i>

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<i>He contracted a so-called "ague"</i>
<i>and died of it.</i>

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<i>The Englishman was Byron.</i>

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<i>And the ague that killed him, malaria,</i>

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<i>carried by mosquitoes</i>
<i>breeding in vast amounts in the swamps.</i>

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<i>An extensive</i>
<i>swamp sanitation campaign</i>

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<i>launched a few years ago.</i>

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<i>Mosquito eggs are destroyed</i>
<i>before they hatch,</i>

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<i>by spraying DDT on the water surface.</i>

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<i>And when the DDT has done its work,</i>

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<i>on this land</i>

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<i>ever haunted by misery and death,</i>

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<i>rice will be grown,</i>
<i>and life will flourish again.</i>

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<i>Teams of doctors and technicians</i>

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<i>visit 5,000 villages</i>
<i>in the malarial zone,</i>

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<i>cleansing every house,</i>

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<i>testing the blood of every child</i>

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<i>to prevent the scourge.</i>

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<i>Fighting illness is not</i>
<i>the WHO's only purpose.</i>

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<i>In countries most afflicted by the war,</i>

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<i>it helps refugees,</i>

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<i>and orphans.</i>

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<i>Koula's parents were shot</i>
<i>right before her.</i>

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<i>Haris and Maria never went to school</i>
<i>because a bomb destroyed it.</i>

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<i>Pascalia was left crippled.</i>

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<i>When she needed help,</i>

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<i>the doctor was busy with soldiers.</i>

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<i>Today, these young girls</i>
<i>forget the horrors of civil war.</i>

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<i>They get back</i>
<i>their youth and their hope.</i>

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<i>They're learning a trade now:</i>
<i>cooking or childcare.</i>

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<i>These children</i>
<i>are attending summer camp</i>

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<i>for the first time.</i>

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<i>They've never owned a ball.</i>

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<i>Even if our generation</i>
<i>cannot rid ourselves</i>

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<i>of the sickness and evils of war,</i>

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<i>this does lie within our reach:</i>

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<i>to give youth a good start in life.</i>

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<i>Long ago, in Crete,</i>

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<i>they believed the gods admired</i>

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<i>the harmonious union</i>
<i>of a healthy spirit</i>

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<i>and a healthy body.</i>

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<i>The secret</i>

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<i>of a good life lies in good health.</i>

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<i>This they believed in Greece</i>

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<i>2,000 years ago.</i>

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<i>As to us,</i>
<i>the designers of Europe's destiny,</i>

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<i>we are striving</i>
<i>to provide a better life</i>

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<i>to all people, young and old,</i>

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<i>with the best the present can offer,</i>

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<i>and with lessons of the past</i>
<i>as our inspiration.</i>

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<i>The fulfillment of this great destiny</i>

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<i>lies in the ancient motto:</i>

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<i>"A healthy spirit in a healthy body."</i>

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THE END

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Subtitles:
Ariane Fénart & Élisabeth Fuchs