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284 statements about Maternal Center of Excellence in 79 videos, by upload date.

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2019

2019-04-05 · TOO MANY MILKS — announcement: Hank says John is in Sierra Leone with Partners In Health, seeing how individuals and the whole community might help make life easier there, especially for pregnant people and babies. — 00:00:31
2019-04-05 · TOO MANY MILKS — Hank says John had poor internet and little free time for a video, and Hank looks forward to hearing what happened in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:58
2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — ask: The description asks viewers to donate to Partners In Health at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2019-10-15 · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings — announcement: John says the announcement of the brothers' big project with Partners In Health Sierra Leone is forthcoming: many moving parts, very exciting and very overwhelming. — 00:01:27
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John announces that over the next five years the brothers' families are donating $6.5 million to Partners In Health Sierra Leone. — 00:00:01
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John says the plan includes building and supporting a Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, with a NICU, more C-section operating rooms and a teaching hospital. — 00:03:54
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John says they are committed to following the project's successes and challenges over the next five years and beyond, through video, photo and audio updates and interviews with Sierra Leonean health workers. — 00:04:43
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — ask: John asks viewers to donate $5 or $10 a month or more at pih.org/hankandjohn, saying it will make a huge difference. — 00:06:25
2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — ask: John asks people able to donate $2,000 or more who want to join the matching team to email him at sparksflyup@gmail.com. — 00:08:24
2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — Hank says they have already raised more than half of their initial goal of $240,000 at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:00:29
2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — ask: Hank says advising donors is a little what he and John try to do, and invites people to email hankandjohn@gmail.com so they can help them make the most of their dollars. — 00:02:11
2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — ask: Hank closes by asking viewers to give to Partners In Health or check out the pilots. — 00:03:33
2019-11-07 · I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. — John: What John misses most is promoting his work: the Partners In Health Sierra Leone fundraising is going amazingly, but he knows there would be more donors and Pizzamas shirt buyers if he posted. — 00:00:40
2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John says over 3,000 viewers have joined the brothers in donating to strengthen Sierra Leone's healthcare system, and they are grateful and excited to watch the progress. — 00:02:08

2020

2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John says Partners In Health needs $20 million to break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence, which will dramatically improve healthcare for women and children in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:48
2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John says thousands of viewers have become monthly donors to the project at pih.org/hankandjohn; he is grateful, as are people in Sierra Leone, one of whom made him an artwork. — 00:01:02
2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John says they still need to raise a few million dollars, which he realizes is a lot of money. — 00:01:13
2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — announcement: John's most important 2020 goal is to finish raising the money, though maybe 2020 isn't realistic for it. (hedged) — 00:01:17
2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — ask: John asks people who can make a big donation to Partners In Health to email him at sparksflyup@gmail.com or donate directly to the matching fund. — 00:01:21
2020-01-17 · It's Like Shark Tank, but for Charity — announcement: Hank says that is part of why DFTBA now gives all of his and John's profit to the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:01:06
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says PIH now employs over 450 people, 96% Sierra Leonean; local nutritional supplements are reducing malnutrition; the hospital's maternal team is hiring nine nurses and four midwives. — 00:04:17
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — announcement: John says PIH and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health are building a Maternal Center of Excellence and a NICU at the hospital, more than tripling maternal beds. — 00:04:46
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says total commitments are now close to $13 million, which is amazing, but there is still a ways to go. — 00:05:16
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — ask: John asks viewers to make a monthly or one-time donation at pih.org/hankandjohn, each dollar matched by generous people within Nerdfighteria. — 00:05:16
2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — ask: John points those able to give $2,000 or more to a link to join the matching fund. — 00:05:16
2020-02-11 · 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update — In a comment, John says they just passed 5,000 total donors at pih.org/hankandjohn and thanks them. — creator comment
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — ask: The description asks those able to donate $2,000 or more to the Sierra Leone maternal health effort to join the matching fund. — video description
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John explains that the brothers are helping Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health in a multi-year project to strengthen the healthcare system, focused on maternal mortality. — 00:01:28
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: The pandemic challenges health systems everywhere: Koidu Government Hospital's emergency department closed for a time after health workers caught the virus and others had to self-isolate, leaving no replacements. — 00:01:28
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: The emergency department is running again; PIH has been deeply involved in contact tracing and screening across Sierra Leone, and cases are down 18% from their peak. — 00:01:56
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — announcement: John: Later this month (July 2020) a special baby care unit opens at Koidu Government Hospital, which John calls a huge milestone for infant care. — 00:01:56
2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: The community's response has been incredible: donations have kept going up every month despite everything; John thanks donors and points to pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:02:52
2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John says they are in one of their most ambitious projects yet: supporting PIH and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health to staff, supply and build a maternal care center, a NICU and a new pediatric ward at Koidu Government Hospital. — 00:02:26
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John recalls that a year ago they announced a project supporting PIH and Sierra Leone's government in radically reducing maternal mortality, raising $25 million over five years to strengthen Kono's health system. — 00:00:00
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John: The Maternal Center of Excellence will include a child health clinic, a neonatal intensive care unit, family planning clinics, labor and delivery and operating rooms. — 00:00:29
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: The change is happening, but John and PIH believe a high-quality teaching hospital must accelerate it. — 00:01:56
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John: Despite COVID, groundbreaking on the Maternal Center of Excellence is still planned for April 2021, the original date, a credit to PIH and Sierra Leone's government. — 00:01:56
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John reports that Isata Dumbuya, the nurse leading Koidu Government Hospital's maternal and child health teams, told him the next big step for the community is the Maternal Center of Excellence. — 00:02:26
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — Isata Dumbuya says results in the new space the babies moved to are already phenomenal after three months, but it was full yesterday, so the MCOE cannot come soon enough. — 00:02:48
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — Isata Dumbuya says the MCOE will be a place where Sierra Leonean women know for the first time they deserve the same care, treatment and equipment as anyone else. — 00:02:48
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John: The MCOE design, made with hospital staff and the community, uses locally sourced materials, including stones cast off from the nearby diamond mine. — 00:03:16
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: The MCOE will almost triple the region's maternal hospital beds, expects over 4,000 deliveries a year and a five-fold rise in family planning visits, and will greatly increase necessary C-sections. — 00:03:45
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John: As a teaching hospital, the MCOE will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health workers, from doctors and nurses to community health workers. — 00:04:14
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: Thanks to thousands of monthly donors at pih.org/hankandjohn, matched by donors within Nerdfighteria, current rates will raise over $15 million over five years. — 00:04:43
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — ask: John asks people able to give about $5,000 or more to use a separate link in the description or email him at sparksflyup@gmail.com. — 00:06:11
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: The MCOE, like the whole hospital, will be owned by Sierra Leoneans through their government, staffed almost entirely by Sierra Leonean health workers and largely funded by the government. — 00:06:40
2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — ask: John asks viewers who can to join in donating at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:07:39
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — ask: The description asks viewers to become monthly or one-time donors to Partners In Health's work building a stronger healthcare system in Sierra Leone. — video description
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — John: Despite all the unforeseen events of the year, the goal of raising the money for the Maternal Center of Excellence was reached. — 00:02:50
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — announcement: John: Thanks to the monthly donors, at current donation levels Partners In Health has the money to break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence next spring (2021), hopefully. (hedged) — 00:02:55

2021

2021-02-12 · Doing Better — Hank: When John asked him a few years ago to give a significant share of his current money and promise much of his future earnings to people seeking the best solutions, Hank swallowed hard and said yes. — 00:02:35
2021-04-09 · A Thought is Not an Idea — Hank: Thoughts are not ideas: Hank's sample thoughts (raising money for a maternal center in Sierra Leone, socks selling well at DFTBA.com, many good independent artists) are unconnected and point in no direction. — 00:00:58
2021-04-09 · A Thought is Not an Idea — Hank: The Awesome Socks Club has now donated over $200,000 to the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:01:27
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: Next week (week of 26 April 2021) Partners In Health and the Sierra Leonean government will officially break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence and the expansion of Koidu Government Hospital, a huge step against maternal mortality. — 00:00:00
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: Despite the challenges of the last 15 months, the Maternal Center of Excellence is on schedule thanks to the Ministry of Health, colleagues at PIH and thousands of donors. — 00:00:00
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — ask: The description asks those able to donate $2,000 or more to the PIH project to join the matching fund. — video description
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John assumed the pandemic would delay the MCOE for months or years, but donations grew every month and, with Partners In Health, over $20 million has been raised. — 00:00:29
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John says the MCOE will dramatically change the quality of care available to women and children in the region. — 00:00:29
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John says the MCOE should dramatically accelerate this progress. (hedged) — 00:01:16
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John: As a teaching hospital, the MCOE will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers. — 00:01:16
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: The groundbreaking will be celebrated on April 29 at 6 p.m. Eastern with a livestream featuring friends from PIH Sierra Leone; John hopes viewers join. — 00:01:16
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John will do a livestream later that afternoon going through the financial and fundraising side in detail. — 00:01:46
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — ask: John: There is still a funding gap, so John asks those able to donate to the project at PIH.org/hankandjohn. — 00:01:46
2021-07-23 · The Last 25 Questions I Asked Google — announcement: The description says the Awesome Socks Club is open for two weeks, sign-ups get their first pair in August, and 100% of profits go to Partners in Health to build the Maternal Center of Excellence. — video description
2021-10-01 · A Lie I Heard this Week — Hank says that because John did that work, they have raised tens of millions of dollars for Partners In Health, and donors, Awesome Socks Club members, Pizzamas buyers and community members were all part of it. — 00:02:53
2021-10-05 · Why the Heck am I on TikTok??? — Hank also uses TikTok to promote the Awesome Socks Club and Pizzamas shirts, both of which help build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:49
2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — recommendation: John recommends reading Partners In Health Sierra Leone's new annual report, or watching a video on improved maternal and child care at Koidu Government Hospital and what the Maternal Center of Excellence will mean. — 00:02:26
2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John reports big reductions in child and maternal mortality at Koidu Government Hospital over the last year, and far more people using the health system because they feel they can get care. — 00:02:26
2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John hopes the progress at Koidu will be accelerated by the Maternal Center of Excellence opening in 2023. (hedged) — 00:02:26
2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — ask: John asks those able, at year's end, to join the thousands of nerdfighters making monthly or one-time donations to PIH's work to reduce maternal mortality, at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:02:55

2022

2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — ask: The description asks those able to give $2,000 or more in one gift to join the matching fund. — video description
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: Since then thousands of viewers have become monthly donors, and hundreds more formed a matching fund so every monthly dollar is matched. — 00:00:58
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — announcement: John: With PIH's own fundraising and support from Life's Library and the Awesome Socks Club, ground has broken on the Maternal Center of Excellence. — 00:00:58
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — announcement: John says the Maternal Center of Excellence is on track to open in 2023. — 00:00:58
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — announcement: John announces the project is on track to raise over $25 million, meaning if monthly donations continue at about their current level. (hedged) — 00:01:27
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: Nerdfighteria is large but not that large, and reaching such an ambitious target faster than even the rosiest projections shows what such communities can accomplish. — 00:01:27
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — John: With support from PIH donors and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health, the Kombayendeh clinic now has a stocked pharmacy, running water, a laboratory, clinician training, and patients. — 00:05:04
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — announcement: John: Asked what else they needed, PIH Sierra Leone named teaching classrooms and a 100-bed dormitory, an outpatient department with maternal HIV support and family planning, a medicine warehouse, and support for the Kayima clinic. — 00:06:03
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — announcement: John: They hope to raise another $4 million in that time, taking the project from $25 million to $31 million to support the Kayima clinic and expand the MCOE; some will come from Pizzamas. (hedged) — 00:08:00
2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — ask: John says the most efficient way to support Kono's health system is to become a monthly or one-time donor at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:08:00
2022-01-18 · The Miracle of the Leone Stars — ask: In a channel comment John wishes the Leone Stars luck on Thursday and invites viewers to join the thousands who donate monthly to strengthen Sierra Leone's health system at pih.org/hankandjohn. — creator comment
2022-02-08 · How Much Money Vlogbrothers Makes from YouTube (...and where it goes) — announcement: John says half the money went to the brothers' Partners In Health project to reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone; the rest was split between a Complexly educational fund and a fund for emerging educational creators. — 00:00:58
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — ask: The description asks viewers to support PIH's project in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn and says the P4A donation page goes live at midnight. — video description
2022-02-22 · On the Death of My Hero — John: Told nothing could be done about one in 17 Sierra Leonean women dying in pregnancy or childbirth, Farmer said otherwise; so the community came to support PIH's maternal and child care center at Koidu. — 00:02:26
2022-04-19 · How do you cross the Sad Gap? — John: Dr. Mukherjee asked them to stay too, and John says that request changed his life. — 00:02:26
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John: System strengthening can radically reduce maternal mortality: as Sierra Leone's health system grows stronger, partly through the community's investments, maternal mortality there fell over 10% in five years. — 00:02:26
2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — ask: John asks viewers who want to donate to the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone to give at pih.org/hankandjohn, and thanks everyone for caring. — 00:03:24
2022-07-12 · Nauseous Puddle Water — announcement: John hopes the club, like the Awesome Socks Club before it, will give ongoing support to charities building stronger health systems, starting with the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. (hedged) — 00:02:44
2022-07-19 · Why Do Things Exist? — John: In a channel comment answering a viewer who called the video stealth sponsored content, John says the brothers are paid nothing for the coffee club; it is one path to fund the Maternal Center of Excellence. — creator comment
2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — ask: The description invites viewers to join the thousands of nerdfighters who donate monthly to the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. — video description
2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — John says the community is on track to raise over $30 million over the first five years of this decade for a stronger health system in Kono District, Sierra Leone. — 00:02:04
2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — announcement: John: Most of the money goes to building, staffing, maintaining and supplying the Maternal Center of Excellence, a teaching hospital in Koidu; some supports primary health care, especially in Kayima. — 00:02:34
2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — announcement: John: Thanks to increased support, the Kayima clinic is being renovated and is hiring and training staff to become a safe place to deliver babies and refer complicated cases to the hospital. — 00:03:03
2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — John thanks donors at pih.org/hankandjohn, subscribers to the Awesome clubs, and everyone who gives the crisis their attention. — 00:03:32
2022-10-11 · Most People Have Never Been 20 — ask: John says that is what the brothers are trying to do at pih.org/hankandjohn; the description invites one-time or monthly donations for maternal and child health in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:24
2022-10-25 · Instantly Debateable — ask: The description congratulates Kissy and PIH Sierra Leone and invites viewers to join thousands of monthly donors or give once at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says the community, working with Partners In Health, is now on pace to raise over $35 million in the first five years of the project to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John explains that PIH and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health planned the Maternal Center of Excellence, a maternal and infant wing of Koidu Government Hospital with a blood bank, surgical suites for safe C-sections and a teaching role. — 00:00:29
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — announcement: John reports that despite supply-chain challenges the Maternal Center of Excellence has begun construction, though it is a long way from finished. — 00:00:58
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — announcement: John says Koidu Government Hospital is already becoming a teaching hospital: its first cohort of nurses and midwives recently finished rotations there, opening those careers to more people in the region. — 00:00:58
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says thousands donate monthly at pih.org/hankandjohn, thousands more have given once, and around a hundred Nerdfighters give $2,000 to $100,000 a year so every dollar is matched. — 00:02:55
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — ask: John says the most efficient way to donate is pih.org/hankandjohn, but if viewers buy socks and coffee anyway, why not for charity. — 00:03:53
2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — John says the project's biggest hope was that work in one region of one country could prove maternal and child mortality can be radically reduced everywhere and inspire other partners, which is starting to happen. — 00:04:22

2023

2023-03-14 · The Seduction of Despair — John says destruction is fast, loud and dramatic, reparative work slow and quiet; that's where his hope is, in big projects (a maternal hospital in Sierra Leone, US voting rights) and quiet human moments. — 00:03:10
2023-03-28 · My Tuberculosis Reading List — ask: John asks viewers who can to donate to Partners In Health or other organizations working to make TB history. — 00:03:24
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — The description says John visits Sierra Leone's Kono District for the first time since Covid and is astonished by the progress, the hope, and how far is still to go. — video description
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: Greeting Hank from the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, John shows his crying, sweaty face as it sinks in how many lives the community is helping. — 00:00:00
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: The Maternal Center of Excellence is a 48,000-square-foot maternal and infant care center being built in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — In a comment John says maintaining the hospital will be a long-term challenge, which is why they are building ongoing revenue like the Awesome Socks Club for open-ended MCOE support. — creator comment
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — In a comment John says sexual health and reproductive planning are a major MCOE focus, with units offering family planning to adolescents and adults. — creator comment
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: Helped by the nearly $40 million Nerdfighteria and PIH raised over three and a half years, the MCOE will be the world-class center Kono's mothers and children deserve. — 00:01:27
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John says the MCOE's scale can't be shown on camera, but footers are being poured, structures welded, and plumbing and wiring installed. — 00:01:56
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — announcement: John says the MCOE's first wards will hopefully open next year (2024). (hedged) — 00:01:56
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: The MCOE will have two NICUs, for babies born inside and outside the hospital, and theaters and supplies for up to 10 emergency C-sections a day. — 00:02:26
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: The MCOE will also be a teaching hospital where a new generation of midwives, nurses and doctors will train. — 00:02:26
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: 65% of the construction workers on the MCOE site are women. — 00:02:55
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John tells the thousands of monthly donors, the one-time givers and those who shared the project that this is the change they are making. — 00:05:21
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — announcement: John: To support the MCOE and strengthen Kono's health system over the next few years, the project still needs to raise just over $10 million (a 'paltry sum', he jokes). — 00:05:50
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — ask: John asks viewers who can to join the monthly donors or make a one-time gift at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:06:19
2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — ask: John asks those considering a large gift (past gifts ranged from $2,000 to $500,000) to give via the special link or email him with questions. — 00:06:19
2023-08-01 · Three Mornings — John says the Awesome Coffee Club donates 100% of profit to charity; Awesome Coffee, Awesome Socks and Sun Basin Soap have donated over $5 million in three years to fight maternal and infant mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:05:20
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John shows Hank a picture of the Maternal Center of Excellence, a massive extension to Sierra Leone's Koidu Government Hospital funded primarily by Nerdfighteria. — 00:00:20
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — announcement: John says the building at the top left of the picture is a maternity ward that will open this year (2023). — 00:00:20
2023-08-22 · The Panera Phenomenon — John says the MCOE is not a symbol of hope but an activation of hope; English lacks a word for hope realized, which is telling, but that is how he feels. — 00:00:29
2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: Over the last five years the community has raised over $40 million to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, which John says is coming along great. — 00:01:27
2023-12-01 · It's OK if you think less of me after this! — Hank says John gave him a motivation: promise to raise $25 million for a hospital in Sierra Leone without knowing how, which excites him in a way making money for himself did not. — 00:03:15

2024

2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: In 2019 the community began supporting Partners In Health's efforts to radically reduce maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone's Kono District. — 00:00:25
2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John says the maternal and infant care center at Koidu Government Hospital is nearly finished: they are painting it right now. — 00:00:32
2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John says some of the maternal and infant care center's wards will open this year (2024). — 00:00:40
2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John used to think completing the project meant finishing Brotherhood 2.0 on December 31, 2007, or finishing the Maternal Center of Excellence, but he didn't feel finished then and doesn't now. — 00:03:05
2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — In a channel comment Hank says the Maternal Center of Excellence is not exactly fully supported, but commitments should support it fully, though things can change. (hedged) — creator comment
2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — Hank recalls that John convinced him to help raise $25 million to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone with Partners In Health, which was scary and motivating. — 00:00:29
2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — Hank says the goal of raising $25 million for the Maternal Center of Excellence caused many of their ideas, like the Awesome Socks Club and the Awesome Coffee Club, and many asks of individuals and the community. — 00:00:58
2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — announcement: Hank: For the first time in a long time, P4A money will not go to the Maternal Center of Excellence, now pretty well supported, but to the global fight against tuberculosis. — 00:05:05
2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says that work is hard, as seen in the fight against maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, but results are huge: maternal mortality there has halved since 2019. — 00:03:50
2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says that on maternal mortality in Sierra Leone or the global TB crisis, he is astonished by what Nerdfighteria has done by orienting attention and resources in the same direction, and is grateful. — 00:04:23
2024-06-18 · The Tea — ask: The description and John's channel comment invite viewers to join the thousands of monthly donors to the Sierra Leone project at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: For PIH and the Ministry of Health, radically reducing maternal mortality meant everything from hiring many community health workers to building a teaching maternal and infant care center at Koidu Government Hospital. — 00:00:29
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says PIH needed to raise over $25 million before breaking ground, and building and running the hospital for a few years costs around $50 million. — 00:00:29
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: Thousands of people became monthly donors at pih.org/hankandjohn, giving $5 to $50 a month; they raised several million dollars over five years, all matched by a Nerdfighteria matching fund. — 00:00:58
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: The Awesome Socks Club became an explosive hit; with its sibling coffee and soap clubs it has raised over $8 million for the Maternal Center of Excellence project. — 00:01:27
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: Altogether they helped raise over $40 million for the project, and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone has already fallen by more than 50% since 2019, saving thousands of lives. — 00:01:27
2024-06-18 · The Tea — announcement: John says the hospital will not fully open until next year (2025). — 00:01:27
2024-06-18 · The Tea — John: The hospital's opening next year (2025) will be a beginning, not an ending, with ongoing funding needs for years or even decades. — 00:01:56
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: In 2019 the brothers committed to raising $25 million to help build a maternal and infant care center in the Kono District of Sierra Leone. — 00:00:26
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: Building a hospital is not simple, and the brothers knew they would eventually need far more than $25 million for its ongoing costs, such as hiring community health workers to find at-risk pregnancies. — 00:00:40
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: To do right by the project in a long-term, open-ended way, thousands of people donate every month at pih.org/hankandjohn and dozens more fund a monthly match; John calls this the financial backbone of the maternal and infant care project. — 00:01:00
2024-11-26 · Good News — ask: The description asks viewers to donate at pih.org/hankandjohn for better maternal care in Kono, or to shop at Good Store. — video description
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: Since 2019 the community has made a long-term, open-ended commitment to pay attention to and raise funds for Sierra Leone's maternal and child health care system. — 00:01:24
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: In Kono, the district where Partners In Health began working in 2019, maternal mortality has fallen further: Koidu Government Hospital has seen a reduction close to 80% since 2019. — 00:02:40
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: Vicky Reed told John that although the Maternal Center of Excellence is still under construction, its fruits already show: more community health workers, more specially trained obstetric nurses, and better-supported, safer clinics. — 00:02:52
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: There are more OB/GYNs in the region, with more being trained all the time, because Koidu Government Hospital serves as a teaching hospital. — 00:03:09
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: About 2,000 more mothers survive childbirth every year in Sierra Leone than in 2019, when the brothers' project with Partners In Health began. — 00:03:16
2024-11-26 · Good News — John: At the Sierra Leonean government's invitation, Partners In Health's model is being recreated in five districts, with hopes of eventually covering all 16 districts. — 00:03:40
2024-11-26 · Good News — John thanks those who donated at pih.org/hankandjohn, bought from Good Store, or, just as vitally, gave their attention and interest over the last five years. — 00:04:14

2025

2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — John says Hank's ideas the Awesome Socks Club and Sun Basin Soap have raised millions of dollars for a Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:49
2025-04-18 · I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared) — Hank: Reading the bundle's postcard, Hank says Sun Basin Soap donates 100% of its profit to the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, in a region with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates. — 00:05:48
2025-04-18 · This one's for your mom — announcement: Hank shows the bundle: unscented hand balm, a citrus candle whose profit all goes to the Maternal Center of Excellence, Garden Party soap and Evensong Chai. — 00:13:07
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John recalls that in a 2019 video he announced his family's $6.5 million donation to build and maintain a maternal and infant care center at Koidu Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says the $6.5 million was far from enough to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Kono district: $20 million was needed just to break ground. — 00:00:29
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says dozens of viewers came together to build a matching fund so every dollar donated monthly could be matched. — 00:00:58
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says Good.Store's Awesome Socks Club and Sun Basin Soap together have raised $10 million for the Maternal Center of Excellence project. — 00:00:58
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says all those efforts combined raised the needed $20 million and then some. — 00:01:27
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says, thanks to the government and groups like PIH, Sierra Leone's lifetime maternal death risk fell from 1 in 17 to around 1 in 74, an over 60% reduction, though still too high. — 00:01:27
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says the reduction is not simple: serving babies and new moms needs a stronger whole health system, with ambulances, primary care clinics, community health workers and the Maternal Center of Excellence. — 00:02:00
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John describes the Maternal Center of Excellence as the capstone: 120 hospital beds, operating rooms for emergency C-sections, a huge blood bank and a NICU. — 00:02:30
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — announcement: John announces that the long-dreamed-of Maternal Center of Excellence will complete construction in October and, after intensive training and protocol refinement, begin opening to patients in January. — 00:02:59
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — announcement: John says it will start with inpatient care, phase in outpatients, and as a teaching facility dramatically improve care for babies and moms in eastern Sierra Leone. — 00:02:59
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says the facility would not exist without Nerdfighteria, which raised the literal majority of the funds needed. — 00:03:33
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — ask: John says the MCOE needs ongoing support because its funding needs do not end when construction is complete. — 00:04:02
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says the MCOE will be a world-class training facility that strengthens and supports Sierra Leone's health care workforce. — 00:04:02
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says the MCOE will care for thousands or tens of thousands of people a year and radically reduce maternal and infant mortality in Kono and beyond. — 00:04:32
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John: Repeating what he said in 2019, John says long-term systemic problems demand long-term systemic responses, so ongoing support is needed. — 00:04:32
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — John says the MCOE's opening is not the end but the beginning of people in Kono accessing the high-quality, dignified care every human being deserves. — 00:05:01
2025-05-13 · I Have the BEST News — ask: John says support is needed more than ever: donating at pih.org/hankandjohn, buying socks or soap, and also donating attention. — 00:05:01
2025-05-16 · No One Knows When They Don't Die — Hank says the community's work in Sierra Leone means fewer women are already dying in childbirth, a very quiet victory. — 00:02:26
2025-06-13 · Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) — announcement: Hank: After a call with Partners In Health, Hank announces they have raised the $50 million it takes to build the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone and get it running. — 00:06:49
2025-06-13 · Moving to Hope from Hopelessness (3 ways) — Hank says about a third of the money was raised by Partners In Health, a third donated directly by the community, one-time or recurring, and the final third mostly Good Store profits. — 00:07:18
2025-06-24 · Am I Cigarettes? — John notes their little community is building a hospital, which he calls the opposite of cigarettes. — 00:03:00
2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says the community realized early that the internet responds well to sudden disasters but not to ongoing ones, such as very high maternal mortality in parts of Sierra Leone. — 00:02:55
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says that in Sierra Leone over the same period maternal mortality has dropped by over 60%. — 00:03:24
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John: A decade ago Koidu Government Hospital in Kono had no 24-hour electricity, running water, blood bank or working x-ray machine, few medicines, little or no paid staff, and so very few patients. — 00:03:24
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says the hospital now has all of that and much more, and as a result maternal mortality there has declined precipitously. — 00:03:53
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — announcement: John says maternal mortality at the hospital will decline further with the opening next month (November 2025) of the Maternal Center of Excellence there. — 00:03:53
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John says this is primarily the result of the Sierra Leonean government investing in health and health workers, but private philanthropy, including all viewers, played an important role. — 00:03:53
2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John tells viewers who bought a Pizzamas shirt, donated monthly to Partners In Health or encouraged others to care about maternal mortality that they played a role in this story. — 00:03:53
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — ask: The description invites viewers to learn about the Maternal Center of Excellence and support Partners In Health in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank recalls that shortly after John's first video from Sierra Leone six years ago, the brothers pledged to raise $25 million for a hospital without knowing how, and exceeded the goal. — 00:05:47
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the money came from hundreds of thousands of sock sales, dozens of major gifts, a store that donates its profit, and many Nerdfighters giving once or monthly. — 00:05:47
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — announcement: Hank announces that the ribbon has just been cut at the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, thanking the community, Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health. — 00:06:16
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the MCOE, built and staffed by Sierra Leoneans, invests not only in community health but in the economy, medical education and health infrastructure of Sierra Leone and Kono District. — 00:06:45
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the MCOE expands the maternity ward and special care baby unit from 48 to 120 beds, including the nation's first neonatal ICU, with reliable electricity, piped oxygen and surgical suites. — 00:07:14
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — announcement: Hank says when the MCOE's doors open in early 2026, lives will be saved immediately. — 00:07:14
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the MCOE's real impact, healthier mothers, stronger families and a more resilient health system, will grow over years. — 00:07:14
2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the real work is done on the ground by wonderful people, and he is grateful to them and to everyone who supported the project, even by watching. — 00:07:43
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — ask: The description and John's channel comment point viewers to good.store, or to donate to the Maternal Center of Excellence directly at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John reminds himself that, as Hank noted last week (week of 3 November 2025), the ribbon has been cut on the completed Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:58
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says the MCOE brings Sierra Leone its first NICU, over a hundred new maternal beds, safe operating suites for emergency C-sections and a blood bank, all owned by Sierra Leoneans through their government. — 00:01:37
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John calls the MCOE a statement of intent: the long-term, open-ended problems of maternal and child mortality in Kono are being met by long-term, open-ended support from the community. — 00:01:37
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says the MCOE took six years of fundraising and four years of construction. — 00:01:37
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — ask: John: Asked how best to support Partners In Health, John says by far the best way is a monthly or one-time donation at pih.org, or pih.org/hankandjohn for the MCOE specifically. — 00:02:35
2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — announcement: John presents Good Store's holiday bundles in three categories: socks and Sun Basin soap, candles and bath bombs fund the MCOE; coffee and tea fight TB; EcoGeek products fund the Coral Reef Alliance. — 00:03:34
2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — announcement: John explains where purchases go: Keats & Co. coffee and tea supports TB care in Lesotho; socks, underwear and Sun Basin Soap support the Maternal Center of Excellence; EcoGeek supports the Coral Reef Alliance. — 00:24:21
2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says Hank helped fund the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu's government hospital, which triples the region's maternal beds and gives Sierra Leone its first ever NICU. — 00:02:26

2026

2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John: In 2019 Partners In Health told John that $25 million was needed even to break ground on the maternal hospital in Sierra Leone, and he almost had a panic attack. — 00:03:54
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John says that in the end Nerdfighteria raised $32 million of the $50 million needed to get the Maternal Center of Excellence off the ground. — 00:04:18
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John announces that a couple of hours earlier the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital in Kono District, Sierra Leone, delivered its first baby. — 00:04:18
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John says the Maternal Center of Excellence offers safe emergency C-sections, potentially for 5,000 births a year, and has the first neonatal intensive care unit in Sierra Leone's history. (hedged) — 00:05:41
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John calls the first birth at the Maternal Center of Excellence a testament to what people can do when they work together and take a long-term focus on a long-term problem. — 00:05:41
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John: Thanking donors, John says Nerdfighteria is not the hero of the Maternal Center of Excellence: the heroes are the Ministry of Health staff and the builders, mostly women, many of whom will give birth there. — 00:06:55
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John says the Maternal Center of Excellence will also be a teaching hospital training the next generation of Sierra Leonean physicians. — 00:07:36
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John finds it metaphorically resonant that the first birth came during the Project for Awesome, since the hospital would not exist without the P4A and the community pushing the brothers toward charity. — 00:07:36
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John calls the 19th Project for Awesome a really special one because the Maternal Center of Excellence delivered its first baby that day. — 00:55:02
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John: When John got the message from Peyton (as heard) that the first baby had been delivered by emergency C-section, with the mother safe and the baby in the NICU, he burst into tears. — 00:58:53
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John says thousands of people had to come together to make the Maternal Center of Excellence happen, as is usually the case with things that truly transform a community. — 00:59:33
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: John made an Instagram video about the first birth at the Maternal Center of Excellence and says he may make a Vlogbrothers video about it. (hedged) — 01:00:24
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank: After John dates the Maternal Center of Excellence idea to February 2019, Hank says change is slow: things do not just happen and you cannot just pull levers, but it is glorious when it does. — 01:51:44
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank gives a shout-out to the first baby born at the Maternal Center of Excellence, after a lot of hard work by a lot of people. — 07:16:35
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the Project for Awesome and the Maternal Center of Excellence are separate projects, but without the P4A the hospital could never have existed, since Nerdfighteria would never have grown as it has or had its values. — 02:15:23
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John: Asked how to volunteer at the Maternal Center of Excellence, John says he does not know; he thinks the focus now is training local people, and suggests asking Partners In Health. (unsure) — 02:40:17
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John tells new viewers that the Maternal Center of Excellence, largely funded by Vlogbrothers viewers and Nerdfighteria, delivered its first baby yesterday and will deliver many more, 5,000 babies a year. — 04:08:35
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John says people can now get safe emergency C-sections at the Maternal Center of Excellence, which has a functioning NICU for the first time in the history of Sierra Leone, a game-changing difference in maternal and infant health care in the Kono region and beyond. — 04:08:59
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank recalls that when John first emailed him about the Maternal Center of Excellence project, John said people are good at responding to events that feel like disasters, but not to disasters that don't feel like events. — 04:08:59
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says the problems that are just the way things are right now are real and the biggest, and need not be accepted: attention can be sustained on one thing for a long time, as with the Maternal Center of Excellence, which took six years of fundraising. — 04:09:34
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the Maternal Center of Excellence also took six years of work with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and of training health workers, midwives, nurses and traditional birth attendants; many lives were saved along the way, and it will now be a teaching hospital. — 04:10:00
2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says the work in Sierra Leone is a blueprint for the rest of the world: if better maternal care is possible in the epicenter of the maternal death crisis, it is possible anywhere. — 04:10:59
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — ask: The description asks viewers for a one-time or monthly donation to keep the MCOE funded, staffed and training healthcare workers, at act.pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank recalls that a few years later John told him of a big idea: responding not to a sudden disaster but to a long-term one that was just the way things had been. — 00:00:29
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says they started the Awesome Socks Club and then Good Store, which gives all its profit to charity, much of it to the Maternal Center of Excellence. — 00:02:26
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says a huge amount of the money came from asking people to become small monthly donors to Partners In Health, which thousands did. — 00:02:55
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — announcement: Hank announces that this weekend, during P4A, which was instrumental in building the Paul E. Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, the first baby was born in Sierra Leone's first NICU. — 00:03:49
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says 34 minutes after the center opened a woman arrived with dangerously spiking blood pressure, risking stroke, seizures and organ damage. — 00:03:49
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank lists other first-day patients: a mother with chest pains who drove five hours, one past her due date who had the second C-section, and one rushed from a nearby clinic. — 00:04:18
2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says by the end of the first day the center had its first ambulance referral and first vaginal birth, 27 mothers admitted and 13 babies born. — 00:04:47
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — announcement: John says the Paul Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence finally opened at Koidu Government Hospital, radically transforming infant and maternal care in eastern Sierra Leone. — 00:00:00
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the MCOE contains Sierra Leone's first NICU. — 00:00:00
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the MCOE will see the birth of some 5,000 babies every year, hopefully for decades. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John calls the MCOE a real game changer for maternal and child health in the region. — 00:00:29
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the MCOE was a different risk: their own money was the smallest part; they risked the money of thousands of people who trusted them. — 00:02:26
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the man meant the only upside was distant people's lives improving while failure would make him look a fool, and on that level the MCOE did have an unfavorable risk profile. — 00:03:53
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says that as a community they made that bet, and so far it has worked. — 00:03:53
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says the bet might still go sideways: this is not the end of the MCOE's story but the very beginning. (hedged) — 00:04:22
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — ask: John says they need viewers' support at pih.org/hankandjohn, just as five years ago. — 00:04:22
2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John: Thanking Hank and everyone who took the risk, John says 13 babies were born on the MCOE's very first day. — 00:04:52
2026-03-06 · How Do You Create When You Don't Feel Safe — Hank reminds viewers that the Maternal Center of Excellence has opened and was funded in part by Good.Store. — 00:06:18
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John announces the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital has passed its first major milestone: its 500th baby delivered, in just a few months. — 00:00:00
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John tells of Sia Jamisa, 33, a pregnant mother of three two hours from Koidu, who went to her local clinic to give birth but developed complications needing an emergency C-section. — 00:00:58
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says the MCOE holds Sierra Leone's first NICU, already a critical site of care for premature infants: over 130 babies have received care there. — 00:02:55
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says that as a teaching facility the MCOE is training nurses, midwives and doctors to spread what they learn across the country. — 00:02:55
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John is reminded that long-term problems demand long-term solutions: after seven years with Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health, they are seeing the transformation. — 00:03:24
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says mothers and children who could have died now survive every week in Kono, and the community has played a small but significant role. — 00:03:24
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says the single biggest donor to the Maternal Center of Excellence has been Good Store. — 00:03:24
2026-04-14 · Babies. Babies. Babies. — John says that without Good Store the Maternal Center of Excellence might still be under construction and those 500 babies might have fared very differently. (hedged) — 00:04:52
2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank says John is in Sierra Leone visiting the Maternal Center of Excellence; they were just texting, and Hank can't wait to see more of it. — 00:00:00
2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank hopes John is having a good trip and asks him to tell everyone at the Maternal Center of Excellence that their work really matters. — 00:07:58
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — The description says John visits Koidu Government Hospital and sees the Maternal Center of Excellence for the first time, thanks everyone who made it possible, and calls it the proudest day of his 19 years as a vlogbrother. — video description
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — ask: The description asks viewers to support the project directly at pih.org/hankandjohn or through Good Store. — video description
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John can show parts of the MCOE because it has gloriously adequate, brilliantly designed space: outdoor laboring space, many delivery beds, C-section recovery and ambulance space. — 00:02:26
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John confesses that visiting the MCOE he wept with gratitude and astonishment. — 00:02:55
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John lists the MCOE's piped oxygen, a laundry still under construction, 120 maternal beds and the nation's first NICU, and says it has transformed the care possible in Kono and Sierra Leone. — 00:02:55
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John: In the NICU John saw babies who months ago would have had a very low chance of survival and will now lead long, productive lives. — 00:02:55
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John says that after seven long years of fundraising and building, the MCOE is the kind of long-term response that transforms not just its patients' lives but its community's. — 00:03:24
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John says the facility is training the next generation of Sierra Leonean nurses, midwives and doctors. — 00:03:24
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John calls the MCOE a tremendous accomplishment and is most impressed that no corners were cut in building it: it is not an excellent center for Kono, Sierra Leone or an impoverished country, but an excellent maternal and infant care center, full stop. — 00:03:53
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John: In the MCOE's prenatal ward John met Rebecca, who, asked how many children she had, said four children, one living. — 00:04:14
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John says Rebecca's loss was not necessary or inevitable but, as the MCOE's entrance says, came from the idea that some lives matter less, the root of all that is wrong with the world. — 00:04:14
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John says 500 babies were born at the MCOE in its first six weeks of operation, including over 200 C-sections, many of them emergencies that might otherwise have meant maternal and child death. — 00:05:37
2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You — John says there is much more work to do, miles to go before he sleeps as Robert Frost put it: we need more centers of excellence. — 00:06:05
2026-05-01 · Despair is Not Wisdom — Hank says it is less true in one place because of the work of this community, the people at DFTBA.com and the Good Store partners. — 00:01:27
2026-05-01 · Despair is Not Wisdom — Hank says that if we thought despair was wisdom, a hospital in Sierra Leone would not exist and babies would be dead; instead they can be tickled. — 00:05:11
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John: In Sierra Leone last week (week of 27 April 2026) John kept thinking of Hank and the thousands who donate monthly at pih.org/hankandjohn, most of whom have never been there. — 00:02:14
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John: Last week (week of 27 April 2026) John met two 20-year-old best friends who live together; one is being treated for tuberculosis alongside her one-year-old child. — 00:02:44
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John says most of those, Hank and Katherine included, who raised over $30 million for the MCOE and other efforts against maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone have never been there. — 00:03:24
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John: Asked what he wanted for his birthday, Hank told John he wanted a video raising money for the Maternal Center of Excellence. — 00:03:53
2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — ask: John: For Hank's birthday John offers the year's best deal on Sun Basin Soap, all profit going to the Maternal Center of Excellence, with deals linked in the description. — 00:04:02
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — ask: The description asks viewers to support the Maternal Center of Excellence at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease — announcement: John: The 2,000th baby has been born at the Nerdfighteria-supported the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone since it opened in February; all will have access to vaccination at Koidu Government Hospital or local clinics. — 00:05:21
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — ask: The description invites viewers to learn about the brothers' project to help Partners In Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone at pih.org/hankandjohn. — video description
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — Hank thanks everyone who has supported Partners In Health or Save the Children over the years; much good has been done. — 00:09:44
2026-09-01 · You Can't Go Home Again, but I Tried — John says Sun Basin Soap has donated millions of dollars to support the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:15
2026-09-30 · The Point of Life — John says what is interesting is not the project but what built up around it, from Pizzamas to the Maternal Center of Excellence, because Nerdfighteria commits to bits better than almost any online community. — 00:04:30
2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — Hank says his artwork is not video but the channel, the brotherhood, the whole thing: from people unsure which brother is which to people making Hollywood, Ending cakes, fonts and hospitals in Sierra Leone. — 00:06:57
2026-10-27 · Should I Salinger… — John: Looking at the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, John is sure it is worth whatever the minor cost of a public life is. — 00:03:02
2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year — ask: Hank asks viewers who want socks in the mail or as a gift to mark their calendars for the Awesome Socks Club window, which helps fund the Maternal Center of Excellence, since all Good Store profit goes to charity. — 00:08:55