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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.56,0:00:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Letter to the President
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.70,0:00:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Iqbal
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.87,0:00:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm now aged 25
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.98,0:00:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father is a peasant
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.58,0:00:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He worked on land which belongs to the head of our village
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.95,0:00:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother stays at home
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.41,0:00:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have 8 brothers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.42,0:00:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After I graduated from junior high school, I dropped out
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.66,0:00:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I have to help my mother and father with work on the farm
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.08,0:01:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to support my 8 other brothers
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.15,0:01:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I come from a small village
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.82,0:01:15.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(The lights went off again!)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.02,0:01:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It needs more attention from the president
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.38,0:01:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our village is so poor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.58,0:01:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the electricity often goes out of service
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.58,0:01:52.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Presidential candidates, I can only see you from a TV in my neighbour's house
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.25,0:01:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in an old newspaper which was used to wrap rice
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.25,0:02:08.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really hope that someday, I can meet Mr. President
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.13,0:02:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I can tell him about everything we are going though in our village
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.09,0:02:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This letter is one of the many letters that I have sent to the candidates
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.88,0:02:40.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well actually I don't know about all of those other letters, whether they reached them or not
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.37,0:02:46.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I only gave them to my friends
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.77,0:02:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe they lost them, or maybe they already reached Mr. President
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.95,0:03:07.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't know, up until now I've never seen or met Mr. President in real life
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.12,0:03:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the next elected president, this letter represents our voices
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.04,0:03:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do hope that the next president-to-be will pay more attention to the voices of the farmers and peasants, of the fishermen
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.28,0:03:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And others who have the same fate as us
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.12,0:03:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope that the next president can come down and visit us, can feel what we've been feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.01,0:03:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And can listen to our misery and problems
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.08,0:04:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.29,0:04:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Regards, Iqbal