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Case 208: John Chau

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The Joshua Project - A Missionary Journey

The joshua project is a christian organization that collates information on ethnic groups around the world to provide data for missionaries. Users can search by language, country or religion to find more than six thousand societies that are deemed in need of saving. John didn't want to go to a destination where others had already been. He wanted to reach people far away, in the kind of remote locations he'd only ever read about. In january 18 80, john arrived on an island known as north sentinel, a forested land mass roughly the size of manhattan. After days of searching, portman discovered the island's inhabitants, the sentinelse people.

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