 Hi, I am Hank Pellicier. I'm very sorry that I'm not actually with you. But just pretend that my lips are moving and I am talking to you. I'm not a Mormon, so why am I MTA Manager of Humanitarian Activities? I'd like to explain that. The answer starts in 2012 when I was Managing Director of a Transhumanist Think Tank, IEET, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology. I was a hostile militant atheist then, so I attacked religion in several articles I wrote. I turned the website into a flame war. But then two things happened. First, I decided to throw a transhumanist party at my vacation home in the woods. I invited all transhumanists to this party, but I thought only atheist transhumanists would show up, because that's what I was. Quite aggressively. But then, only 5 transhumanists showed up, and out of the 5, 4 of them were Mormon transhumanists. There I was, a 3-day weekend, I was surrounded by Mormons and their delicious casseroles. And I decided that I very much liked them all, all the Mormons and all the casseroles. The second mind-changing incident was this. IEET asked me to direct a cell phone drive. My job was to collect as many cell phones as I could and send them to Madagascar. I was very excited and convinced that I'd be very successful. I told my boss, James Hughes, I will collect a thousand cell phones. Because transhumanists have old cell phones, I thought. They will all mail them to me enthusiastically. But I didn't get a thousand. I only gathered 90 cell phones, 30 from my Catholic mom, 30 from my junk-collecting brother, and 30 from a Mormon transhumanist, Roger Hansen. I realized after that with depressing shock. I got zero cell phones from atheist transhumanists. Atheist transhumanists fail in charity. This bothered me. Don't transhumanists care about poor people? I grew up Catholic. I wasn't Catholic anymore, but I still regarded charity as the best of all virtues. Charity is goodness. About a year after that, I produced a conference in San Francisco on religion and transhumanism, and I made a presentation where I complained about this lack of charity in transhumanism. I said that to me charity was more important than being an atheist or being religious or not. I talked about this Philippine tribal group that I'd been taking care of for nine years, and I wanted transhumanists to help me. Right when I got off the stage, Lincoln Cannon of the MTA came up and gave me $300 to help my Philippine tribe, and I used that money to sponsor three children at the tribal school for a year and to buy them school lunches. Lincoln was very generous. After that, Lincoln also donated money to my DIY Soylent Drive to the Philippines. What we did was we mailed this powdered replacement food to the Philippines. They put it in bowls like soup and drank it up. After that, Lincoln offered me the opportunity to be the MTA manager of humanitarian activities, and I accepted, and here's a list of what we did. The first thing we did was the Genesis Chicken Farm for Coyser Orphanage in Jinja, Uganda. I launched a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe for this. The plan was to support 28 orphans here. Now the campaign was quite successful. It generated $3,100 in about three weeks, and about 40% of this money, 35 to 40% of this money, came from MTA members. MTA was by far the largest group that donated. Here's some pictures of what we were able to do. This is the secretary of Coyser Orphanage with the handhouse behind her. Here's the 200 chicks they bought to start the handhouse. Here are the orphan boys holding little chicks, and here's the grown-up hands getting ready. Oh, look, there's an egg. What the eggs are going to do is feed the orphans and also provide them with enough finances to support themselves. The next project we did was a carbon re-workshop for AIDS orphanage. AIDS orphans. There are 3.5 million orphans in Uganda. It's 9% of the total population. The Mormon Transhumanist Association was tremendously supportive of this project, especially Carl Hale. The Mormon Transhumanist donated 66% of the funds for this project. What we did with the money was we bought the orphans' tools. Here's some of the tools. And here's one of the instructors. His name is Archangel, and these are the tools that we bought him. And Archangel put up little signs saying thank you to everybody. And here's his sign thanking Carl Hale, who was by far the most generous person for this campaign. The next campaign we did after this was the Kikoi Clothes for Orphans campaign. This raised $1,800. We hired a tailor to sew dresses, shorts, and shirts, which were purchased by charitable donors in the United States for $10 to $12 each. The clothes were all given to orphans. You're going to see pictures of them. And the Mormon Transhumanist donated 20% of the funds for this campaign. Here's our tailor. His name is Mr. Safari. Actually, it is. Now, these are the lovely dresses that our tailor made. And we sold about 90 of these. And this is the shirt for the boys and the short for the boys. We sold about 90 of those also. And like I said, all of these clothes went to orphans. These are the orphans at Coyser, Orphanage, and Ginger. You can see they're all dressed in their nice new clothes. Another project we did was this was initiated by Roger Hansen. He is helping start a computer training school in Masaka, Uganda. So we managed to collect $1,380 in cash and supplies. And the computer training school is going to be in the Mormon Church building in Masaka. Another project that we did was also organized by Roger Hansen. It's to build and install swing sets in rural Uganda. MTA donated $886 to do this. Here's the swing set that we actually put up. You can see Roger in the corner over there. This one was put up in a town called Charumba. It's in Western Uganda. This is in a primary school. It was just set up. And it was a wonderful project to see the kids playing on it immediately. The project that we're doing right now, we're exactly precisely in the middle of it, is we're putting in a Mormon Transhumanist Association Science and Literacy Center in Charumba, Uganda, the same town where the swing set is. We've collected half the money so far. We've gotten enough money to put up the sign. There's the sign. And here's a bunch of local children standing in front of it. What it is is we've rented a building downtown, a room downtown, for a year. And inside, we're setting up a library and a bunch of science equipment. We've got the shelf in. We've got the table in. We've got some books in. We need to get another $560 so we can buy more books and buy more science equipment. Science equipment is going to be a telescope, magnifying glasses, and a lot of science books, a lot of maps. And this is also going to serve as the library and the science room for a local school, which is called Vision Care. Vision Care is a wonderful school. It's acknowledged as the best school in Charumba. Unfortunately, it operates on rented land, so they're not allowed to put up any permanent structure. So we're helping them out by renting a permanent structure in the downtown area that they can use as their library and science meeting room. Thank you all, members of MTA, for your generosity. Our goals in the upcoming year are to continue to support MTA Kiva, the microlending organization. We would like to fully fund the MTA Science and Literacy Center. Another $560 is needed. We'd like to contribute some more money to the computer training school for the one in Masaka. And we would like to buy some more tools for the AIDS orphans at the Carpentry Workshop. Thank you once again, and I'm very sorry that I was not able to actually get there. Thank you. I'd just like to mention that if any of you would like to donate to any of those projects, you can do so with Carl Hale here in the corner. He can take a card or a check or, I think, cash. And he will direct the funds to the projects that you would like to contribute to. Thanks. That can also be done online. We have a link on our website as long as you specify in the PayPal description where you want it to go. Now we have a few minutes that we'd like to ask Roger Hansen, if he would, to just come up and field any questions about the humanitarian projects that he and Hank have been involved with and anything else that you want to ask him. And we've got a mic now. So you can just wait for the mic to get to you. I think I have any questions about where Hank was making a presentation randomly. Please, that's how I am. Hank may have a more organized passion of doing it, but I'm pretty much willing to travel anywhere, anytime. So I've been going to Uganda. I've made 10 trips to Uganda. I've made two to Ethiopia, a couple to South America, one to Southeast Asia. So whatever projects anybody's interested in, we could certainly assist with. Right now, I'm interested in the opportunities of maybe using Mormon churches for more than one day a week. And so far, we've had excellent support from the local branch presidents. They report that Uganda is a mission president. I haven't had an opportunity to talk to him, so I don't know if we're going to be kicked out or not. But so far, it's so good. Right now, we have a high-speed internet connection into the church. And we've installed six Chromebook computers. And we hope to put in, when I'm going back in June, we hope to put in some printers and some additional peripherals when we go back. The word we hear from the branch president is the members love it. And they use it. They've had to schedule time on the computers because they're well used. I think the branch president there is pretty much required to stay there during the daytime. So the reason we like Mormon churches is they're secure. They have backup power. And they have, at least in Misaka, they had available rooms. They had some rooms they weren't using. So we were able to move into two of their rooms. We put in Wi-Fi. And the Wi-Fi is good in about half of the church. So theoretically, people, if they had their own computers or they had their own smartphones with Wi-Fi, they could also hook up to the system. Oh, just one other thing before I answer any more questions. One of the other branch presidents has approached us about extending the service into that area. So I met with somebody who works with Pathway. And Pathway is virtual education. Should be available if there's internet and satellites. They're in Ghana. I don't think they're in Uganda. I'd love to see pairing up. They won't do anything that's not in English. I'm headed to the DR Congo in a little bit and plan on spending a lot of years in the DR Congo. One of my Congolese friends wanted to study computer science and was given textbooks, but no computer. So I'm watching all of this and thinking, I would love to start anything. Well, the official language in Uganda is English. Right, so Pathway could do that. They haven't gone there yet, I don't think, but they could. In Congo, it's French. But we've got return missionaries to speak English. Most of the inhabitants there speak their tribal language first and English second. They pick English as their native language, as their official language, just because it's that way they can talk to each other if they switch from one tribe to another tribe. Well, luckily, they just laid fiber optic cable down the eastern shore of down in the Indian Ocean along the eastern side of Afghanistan, of Africa. And right now, they're laying fiber optic cable all over Uganda. And so I think that is one potential real upside. Usually, there's internet cafes in most of the towns but they charge. I guess the one we set up in Misaka, there's no charge for. There's a problem with that, and how is this going to be sustainable if there's no money coming in? But for the short term, till we can demonstrate to the LDS Church that it's a useful function, I guess we've been willing to go along with paying the expenses for the internet hookup. It's about $120 a month for a fairly high speed internet hookup into the church. I think he was also asking, though, do the people that you're working with have devices that could use a Wi-Fi connection? No. OK. But some do, but it's fairly rare. And it's pretty much the people that have a little money. So that's one of the reasons why we're trying to load up the church with computers provided with internet access. Smartphones are certainly another option that we could use as a tie into the internet. One thing that has a huge upside, I think, for third world countries is 3D printing. And one of the things we'd like to do is hook up a 3D printer to the computer network so they can get some experience with 3D printing. Uganda's landlock, so they pretty much have to import everything so the extent to which they could make some of these things themselves might have a potential a serious upside in reducing transportation costs and other efforts.