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John Noel

Founder of Travel Guard International and former president of Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection, philanthropist from Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Oct 8, 2026

3:03
And I just wanna capture it because people that will be impacted while you're alive is gonna be huge, but this is gonna live on forever, and that's really significant to me.
3:14
Well, I'll tell you a story.
3:16
This happened in Kenya, and I was on a trip with Richard Holbrooke, and Richard was a former United Nations ambassador and chief peace negotiator for the Paris Peace Accords with North and South Vietnam.
3:29
And we were going there for World AIDS Day.
3:31
But w- what interfered with it was my dear friend and colleague in the work that I do in Kenya, Father Angelo D'Agostino, passed away.
3:40
And he passed away just before we were opening the huge project that we started in Kenya to take care of 1,000 babies and children that were homeless due to HIV/AIDS.
3:52
I was standing in the receiving line in Nairobi at the cathedral, and all of a sudden, three black cars came up, big black bulletproof cars, and here was the president of Kenya, President Kibaki, and his wife, Lucy.

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53:39
Yes.

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