John's 2026 visit to Koidu Government Hospital and the Maternal Center of Excellence (2026)
story · status: told 3× · last event: retold (2026-05-05)
Part of: Maternal Center of Excellence: the brothers' Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone (2019)
Told alongside: John asks viewers to donate to Partners In Health at pih.org/hankandjohn (2019)
About: Koidu Government Hospital, Maternal Center of Excellence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-24 | told | 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. | The AI Question that No AI Person Asks 00:00:00 |
| 2026-04-28 | told | 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. | What I Can't Show You video description |
| 2026-05-05 | retold | 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. | Noted Brother Hank Green 00:02:44 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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
- 2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank calls the lack of housing people want where they want it one of the big problems underlying many others in America, worse where he lives than elsewhere. — 00:00:36
- 2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank says AI does very poorly on that benchmark, and finds it strange that nobody asks how AI, if it is such a big deal, solves the big problems. — 00:00:36
- 2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank: AI might help a little at the margin (faster permitting, cheaper code review or design), but that is not what blocks US housing; nobody thinks the problem lacks intelligence. — 00:01:09
- 2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank says the lion's share of the housing problem is that landowners have power over their area and many reasons to prevent new, especially denser, housing. — 00:01:09
- 2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank: Their reasons: they don't want more traffic, fear change, expect a few new neighbors they won't like, and their property values benefit from scarcity. — 00:01:38
- 2026-04-24 · The AI Question that No AI Person Asks — Hank: Nobody thinks AI will fix that: it is like saying steam engines will fix hurricanes, problems in different universes. (playful) — 00:01:38
- 2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John says tuberculosis is a disease that shouldn't exist, let alone one slowly malnourishing an already impoverished child. — 00:02:52
- 2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John says the two women sharing their stories helped him bridge the empathy gap: what feels distant collapses when sitting together, invited into their home. — 00:02:59