So you gave us some statistics about premature and low weight infants and the warming problems that are associated with them. But if I recall, Warmilu has a personal connection to your life too. Yes, Warmilu has a significant personal connection, and as a social innovator that helped not just myself as the team lead and CEO, but it helped my team be able to get through the highs and lows of innovation and product development. I was born one month preterm. My mom and dad were terrified. One, it was a winter. I was born December 26th, one month early, I was the first child and it was snowing, and they didn't know if I was going to make it because I couldn't breathe, my lungs were underdeveloped. Thank goodness for the incubator where I spent my early days, it was the only reason that I survived. The incubator, the warmth, and being able to get enough oxygenation and humidity to me in that incubator. I was able to then survive. When I learned about those infants who were passing away from preventable hypothermia, I remember thinking to myself, "How is this happening?" I thought we had a fair amount of warming solution. I remember digging in and really researching because I felt so much shock and I felt chills, that could've been me. If I had been born in one of those resource scarce hospitals I would not have survived. For example here in the US they can resuscitate infants who are born at 22 weeks. They don't resuscitate those infants. They might try and do some preliminary efforts, but in general most resource scarce hospitals are doing 25 to 28 weeks. That's a later gestational age because those babies can be small, they'll literally fit in the two hands or just one hand when they're 22 weeks. As a result that's what powered my team and helped me really want to address warmth, which is a basic need for these infants. What happened was that this professor, Jason Daida, noticed that I had stopped raising my hand, being that annoying student in class asking all the question, s and I had started skipping out on his class. I was doing fine, I had an A and I was just feeling really demotivated, and I was about to fail or go one. Not even kidding. It was this very horrible semester, and he reached out and said, "Grace, what's going on?" Then I just shared everything. I didn't see the impact that I was making in engineering, I wasn't affecting people's lives, and then he's the one who said, "Engineering is all about touching people's lives, and social impact, you can go into medicine, you can go into law to help with IP." Later on Warmilu ended up representing that ideal that engineering can make social impact, that you can make innovation touch people's lives. Well initially I didn't know that it was going to be a water solution. There's a community there called [inaudible] that I worked in initially and I would say probably was the biggest inspiration for wanting to do some project. I went back to school to study art and initially I was wanting to study just ceramics and teach women how to make ceramics and then maybe sell them, sell trinkets. But during that time I came across a news article about these water filters in the Ceramics Monthly, and I was reading an article thinking, "Well, this is so much better than making trinkets. Who needs a trinket? Ceramic water filter is life changing." It turns out that at the time I was at Northern Illinois University and my professor was on the board of this water filter orientation, and I didn't even know he was involved with that. I went in on Monday after reading the article and I said, "You have teach me how to do this. You're not going to believe this. I'm moving to the Dominican Republic and you have to show me this." He thought I was crazy [inaudible] woman. I don't think he ever even believed I would go [inaudible]. That's an amazing story. It's one of those things when you wonder what your future will look like and then all of a sudden it's almost like a letter from God. It's right there. You're like, "Well I can't walk away from this.". Very cool. The gentlemen from Avapure, was he instrumental in you even understand the outset if people wanted a filter, if they would value a filter, if they would use a filter? It would seem like even something like that you couldn't take for granted. It's true. My experience is mainly with Haiti and the Dominican Republic. I can't speak for how it would work in Africa or other places. My experience in Haiti and the Dominican Republic is that there was a level of distrust when a technology came from an American or a foreigner as opposed to a local person, and so [inaudible] was key in talking about how the filter could work. The kids their hair was like wiry and blonde from malnutrition, they had parasite overload that was causing huge malnourishment issues in the children, they were shorter than they should have been, they had trouble focusing at school. There was a lot of issues. But when they got the filter they saw such drastic changes within the first couple of months and so they would become the salesmen for our filters, in the sense that they would promote it to their neighbors. That was the best way to get the project really going. Because then we knew once people started really wanting it that it would start to be a priority to them [inaudible]. There is a level of a lack of understanding of the culture and honestly Americans just really don't understand the water crisis, they really don't. When you can go and get water from a faucet anytime and drink it and you have water fountains. Water fountains for me became like the symbol a wealthy nation and people just don't understand. I had so many issues to try and explain the project in the United States, caught up in first-world issues.
