- This is the most concentrated
I've been in a classroom my entire life.
(rap music)
- [Gary] I have nothing to say.
I'll let the visual speak but people complaining about dumb
shit, gets compounded when you get different context.
I wish all of you perspective.
That's me as a student. (group laughter)
That was me as a student.
This one, right here.
That's how I rolled.
Eight, little nine little Indians.
(class singing)
- [Teacher and Gary] Four little,
three little, two little Indians.
One little Indian more.
(class singing)
("Sleeper" by Ronak)
- [Man] What can I say, Gary?
And what can I say, Michael?
We are overjoyed to have you here again.
Anytime I see you come here, I ask myself don't you have
anything to do?
Don't you have anything to do with your money?
Sometimes I keep telling them
it's not because you have so much.
It's because of compassion for somebody else.
Let me remind you that you have built more school building in
Adaklu more than government. That is a fact.
You have built more school buildings in Adaklu
even than government.
Nobody have built more than you.
We have the tech team one on site.
And we are pleading for even extra three.
I want to give you an assurance never ever think that whatever
you have done here is just for the sake of it.
Believe me, you are sowing the seed for the new generation that
in other ways would've had no choice and no chance of any
chance in life.
- But that's my man, right there.
That's how I used to roll.
That's exactly right. (DRock laughs)
Anti-establishment. My man.
- [Man] But today, what you have added to what Adaklu have done
have given the opportunity to all these young ones to
have a shot at life.
Because in this world without education your chances are
almost zero of becoming anything.
- Just perspective, man.
It's just perspective.
- [Man 2] It is also a short story.
I wanted to read this out loud.
Do you understand? - Yes.
- [Man 2] Okay, that's good. - [Gary] Okay.
(Gary speaking in another language)
- [Man] We have learned a lot from you.
A common spirit.
It is important that people in this community also played a
role in building this.
- [Gary] Uh-huh.
Okay, okay.
Alright, let's go!
I eat this shit for breakfast.
I would do this eighteen hours a day.
Being dead serious.
- [Man] You didn't just ask them,
you contribute your money and folded your hands between your
legs and then delivered a school building.
They sweated as part of that for vision.
- [Gary] Pickin' up the pace, DRock.
That's how I do it. I finish strong.
I think the working with the dirt was no question
I think my favorite part of the whole trip.
I genuinely think we were on the
high side of enthusiasm of work as a group.
("Sleeper" by Ronak)
- [Man] None of our program run beyond four months.
It's almost always within that period of time.
Government projects would have taken a year-plus and the
quality wouldn't have been any better.
- [Children] Gary, Gary, Gary!
Gary, Gary, Gary!
- [Gary] One life, baby. One life.
- One life. - [Gary] One life.
- One life! - [Gary] One life.
One. One.
- [Man] With (inaudible) saying that yes the roads
in Adaklu are no good.
We don't have water,
in fact we don't have any potable drinking water here.
We don't have any health facility if
anybody gets sick now.
We have to travel seven miles or so to get
to the nearest health center.
But education is the bedrock of everything.
- [Boy] I am a student of Adaklu Avelebe Primary School.
The title of my poem is "Where Is Your Legacy?"
What do you want to be remembered for?
- [Man] It is people that build roads.
It is people that drill well holes so where we give education
to our people we are giving them the key to doing the rest of the
things which is the health care,
which is the road and everything.
- [Boy] Do you want to be remembered as a caring and
responsible parent?
Do you want to be remembered as a committed teacher?
Do you want to be remembered as a hard working student?
Or do you want to be remembered as a patriotic citizen?
What and how do you want to be remembered for?
- [Man] Want to show you that you are not wasting your time.
You are not wasting your investment.
This is the best use of your money and your time.
And I believe that other people the people who sponsor you
should understand.
A little boy from Adaklu saying that was sowing so much
seed in Adaklu.
But what a joy to know that what you have done together with me,
with together with all these people and the community a child
can do better than me in the future.
That is all that is necessary.
(crowd cheers and applause)
- [Group] Hooray! Hooray!
- I want to thank you very much and say to everybody
education has no replacement.
We can not use education as an alternative to anything.
That is the only choice we have in Adaklu.
(audience applause)
- One life.
What an amazing experience.
(group singing "Don't You Worry Child" by Swedish House Mafia)
- [Gary] Michael, this section's for you.
Sorry, Brandon. Sorry, Brandon.
Sorry man.
- Oh, that is so-- (Gary laughs)
- [Gary] DRock, you got a backup shirt?
- [DRock] Nope.
("Can't Knock Me Down" by Anna Mae)
- Me and Celeste walking through.
(Celeste laughs) Memes, memes, memes,
memes on memes on memes.
Celeste, you are the meme queen.
- That's not the first time I've heard that.
- Dang, headed to the,
oh wait, India's still here.
Headed to the airport. Amazing trip from Ghana.
Planet of the Apps just dropped.
I've been up since 4 A.M. destroying it on Twitter.
Brian is finally everybody's height.
He's sitting on the floor. Man's a giant.
Great trip, great crew.
Crew, say hello. - [Group] Yo!
- They don't follow directions really well.
Nobody said hello but amazing trip and can't wait to be home.
And that's that.
About to board, Nick Dio's doing some sort of
who the hell knows what.
Hussain's doing the right thing.
Zoom in on over the shoulder.
Double tasking, Planet of the Apps, pictures.
Obviously Planet of the Apps and looking at pictures from the
Ghana trip.
Who knows what India's doing? - Downloading.
- Great trip.
And thank you, God bless you and God bless this community.