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Marcus and his wife, Amina Evangelista Swanepoel, are in the early stages of founding a new reproductive health NGO in the rural Philippines, Roots of Health. This is one in an occasional series of blogs about their experiences.

"Who can tell me the answer.... Marcus?" I hear the voice of my second grade teacher calling on me to answer a question to which I have no answer. The feeling of humiliation that I'd feel still haunts me today. In class I would always sink into my seat when my teacher uttered those dreaded words. At that point of my life, school was stressful for me, and I didn't like going. My negative experiences regarding school however, pale in comparison to those of the children at Pulang Lupa [in the Philippines].