 Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday. Today's video is like the hair of Chris Hemsworth that comes to you in three parts. Part one, groundbreaking. Hank, next week, Partners in Health and the Sierra Leonean government will officially break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence and expansion of Koydu Government Hospital that will be a huge step forward in Sierra Leone's fight to radically reduce maternal mortality. Despite all the challenges of the last 15 months, the Maternal Center of Excellence is on schedule thanks to incredibly hard work by the Ministry of Health, by our friends and colleagues at PIH, and also thanks to the thousands of you who've donated. Hank, when the pandemic first hit, I assumed the MCOE would be put off for months or perhaps years, but what happened instead is that every month donations continued to grow and now together with Partners in Health we have raised over 20 million dollars, which is... it's just overwhelming. You're seeing here where it will be and now what it will look like. This will dramatically change the quality of care available to women and children in a region where one out of every 20 women can expect to die in childbirth. This is a huge deal. And the change is already happening, like just in the last year, neonatal mortality at Koydu Government Hospital has fallen by 50% thanks to a new infant care unit. I really recommend reading PIH Sierra Leone's annual report link below where they talk about this infant care center and also one baby, Neftal, whose parents as thanks for his survival named him after his doctor. The Mental Health Clinic is growing as is a new clinic for adolescent care and the MCOE should dramatically accelerate this progress and because it will serve as a teaching hospital, it will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers. There is a very long way to go when it comes to strengthening the health care system in Sierra Leone, but this is a big milestone and we are gonna celebrate it on April 29th at 6 p.m. Eastern time with a livestream featuring many of our friends from PIH Sierra Leone. I hope you can join us. So many people have worked so hard and been so generous to get to this moment. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm gonna be doing a livestream later this afternoon to go through the financial fundraising side of things in detail if you're interested in that, but there is still a funding gap. So if you are able to donate to this project, please do pih.org slash Hank and John. Part two, audiobooks. Hank, I just finished recording the audiobook for the Anthropocene Review, which was fun and I only came across one typo, which is, you know, infinitely worse than none, but twice as good as two. Here are some questions I have recently received about the book and audiobook. Number one, will there be music? Not very much of it. It will mostly just be my voice playing its only note. Two, will the audiobook be signed? No, I have not yet figured out a way to autograph sound waves, but I am working on it. But every pre-order of the hardcover US and Canadian edition will be signed and there will be some signed copies available in the UK at bookstores and if you can find a way to order the US edition abroad, I think it will be signed, but I can't promise because of the complexity of international copyright and shipping and stuff. Three, are you going on tour? Yes, virtually, but there will be a tour and we will review the Anthropocene together and there will be great special guests and we will talk about love and loss and how it feels to be alive in this weird moment and it's a good opportunity to support independent bookstores and I will announce the tour dates when I have them either this week or next. The book and the audiobook come out on May 18th and are available for pre-order now. Okay, part three, Nerdfighteria is amazing and not only because you've been the driving force behind raising over $20 million to help build and maintain a maternal and infant care center at Coydew Government Hospital, but also because of the stuff y'all make all the time. Like just this week on the Nerdfighter subreddit, I discovered this representation of my positive self-talk as a poem and also Alexander Dailey's excellent website linked below that sends you to a random vlog brother's video out of the 1923 we have so far uploaded. Clicking it a few times has taken me back to some lovely memories as it says on my 2021 vision board I can't thank what a long, strange trip it's been. Here's to much, much more. I will see you on Friday.