John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014)
story · status: told 4×, last update 2014 · last event: retold (2014-09-30)
In July 2014 John travelled to Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation, landing in Addis Ababa, visiting a hospital and a rural health centre, and filming conversations with Bill Gates. Back home that autumn he called it an amazing trip he was grateful for.
Parts: John: make a bunch of videos from his East Africa trip with Bill Gates (2014) · John: tell Hank about his helicopter ride with Bill Gates (2014) · John's helicopter trip with Bill Gates to World Food Programme maize farmers in Ethiopia (2014) · John visits Dr. Mulualem Gessesse's neonatal intensive care unit at Yekatit 12 Hospital, Addis Ababa (2014) · John keeps looking away while filming sick children and worried mothers in Ethiopia (2014)
Told alongside: John's Tuesday bonus videos: conversations with Bill Gates filmed in Ethiopia (2014)
About: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-15 | told | John announces he is going to East Africa with Bill Gates to meet people doing important work in health and agriculture. | Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses 00:00:45 |
| 2014-07-22 | update | John says that as the video airs he is in East Africa learning about work done there with the Gates Foundation's help. | Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers 00:02:03 |
| 2014-07-29 | update | John reports landing in Addis Ababa after a 30-hour journey, meeting a Gates Foundation staffer and visiting Yekatit 12 Hospital. | Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 00:00:01 |
| 2014-08-12 | update | Ten days before falling ill with what turned out to be viral meningitis, John was in Ethiopia, on the same continent as Guinea and Sierra Leone, where Ebola is spreading. | EBOLA! (...meningitis) 00:00:31 |
| 2014-08-19 | told | John tells of his visit to Ethiopia's rural health tiers with Bill Gates and Sue Desmond-Hellmann of the Gates Foundation. | Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia 00:00:01 |
| 2014-09-09 | update | John says that while in Ethiopia he filmed several conversations with Bill Gates. | Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health 00:00:02 |
| 2014-09-09 | retold | In Ethiopia John met a group of the university's students with Bill Gates, including Meheret, who started an anti-domestic-violence initiative. | Going to College (in Ethiopia) 00:00:48 |
| 2014-09-30 | retold | John recalls his amazing trip to Ethiopia in the last couple of months and says he is grateful to have gone. | Keeping it EVEN REALER 00:00:27 |
What is said about it
13 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — John says he hopes to learn a lot on the trip and make a bunch of videos. (hedged) — 00:00:57
- 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — John says East Africa has dramatically improved health care and reduced infant mortality over the last twenty years; he is going to see this and how much work remains and where to help. — 00:02:21
- 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — announcement: John says he will make a bunch of videos from the trip, but they probably won't be uploaded while he is travelling. (hedged) — 00:02:31
- 2014-07-22 · Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John says that as Hank watches, he is in East Africa learning about work people there are doing with the help of the Gates Foundation. — 00:02:03
- 2014-07-22 · Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John hopes to learn and listen a lot on this week's (week of 21 July 2014) trip, and says if he comes home with straightforward answers and simple solutions he is probably doing it wrong. (hedged) — 00:03:31
- 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John landed in Addis Ababa after a thirty-hour journey, met a Gates Foundation staffer, had Ethiopian coffee, bought Henry an Ethiopia soccer jersey and went to Yekatit 12 Hospital. — 00:00:01
- 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — John: There John met Bill Gates and Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann; he assumed a photo op, but they asked detailed questions about diagnosis, vaccine stocks and staffing. — 00:01:03
- 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — John: Seeing them gravitate away from cameras toward health workers convinced John that the Foundation's principle that all human lives have equal value isn't just rhetoric. — 00:01:26
- 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — John: A health extension worker showed John her records, delivery room and vaccination charts; a boy tested positive for malaria with a pinprick test that has dramatically improved diagnosis and began treatment at once. — 00:01:43
- 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — John credits the Gates Foundation's work and technologies such as the easy-to-read malaria test and a thermos that keeps vaccines cold for 50 days without electricity. — 00:02:44
- 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — announcement: John then rode in a helicopter with Bill Gates, which was terrifying and hilarious, and will tell Hank about it next week (week of 25 August 2014) unless he gets meningitis again. (playful) — 00:03:49
- 2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — announcement: John says he filmed several conversations with Bill Gates in Ethiopia and will upload them every Tuesday for about a month, a couple of hours before his regular Vlogbrothers video. — 00:00:08
- 2014-09-30 · Keeping it EVEN REALER — John recalls his amazing trip to Ethiopia in the last couple of months, for which he is grateful, and then getting meningitis. — 00:00:27