In this episode
of Hope In Motion,
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Jim Rennie CEO
for Asian Aid USA,
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looks back on the past
year and remembers the moments
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and the faces
that gave him hope.
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I was excited to
go and meet Jyothi
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and to see how she
had learned tailoring
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and how this class
had made a real difference
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for her and her family
both for learning this skill
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to provide for her
family and for her income.
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And a 15-year-old girl
faces unimaginable trauma
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at the hands of sex traffickers.
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I was told until I
earned the money back
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I wasn't allowed to leave.
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I cried for days,
I wanted to runaway
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but there was
security all around.
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When we took her
to the government home
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she discovered that she
was HIV positive and pregnant,
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three months
pregnant the same day.
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Stay tuned for the dramatic
season finale of Hope In Motion.
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India is a land
full of contrast.
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It's a land of
great mystery and beauty.
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It's a land of
unspeakable despair.
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By traveling through
India one thing is for sure,
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it's a land filled with people
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who should never
be underestimated.
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For the last 40 years
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Asian Aid has invested
in the futures of people
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who had never been
given such a chance
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and their investment
has proven infinite returns.
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Driven by the
vision of Helen Eager
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dedicated to helping
those who have the least,
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Asian Aid is an organization
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implementing
diverse development projects
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and sponsoring
thousands of children.
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Their outreach spans
from Bangladesh to Nepal,
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Sri Lanka and
beyond from remote villages
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in empty fields to
sprawling centers of education
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from nothing to
the unimaginable.
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Now, Asian Aid
decided to document
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the work it has been
doing all these years
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with the desire
to show the world
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what is
possible by digging wells
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in remote villages
for clean drinking water
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and bringing
much needed healthcare
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to the woman of Nepal,
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by providing an
education for orphans,
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deaf, and blind children,
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giving them a
sense of place, a home.
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But what we really discovered
was being given was hope.
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Giving hope to
children, giving hope to women,
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giving hope to the
ones who needed the most,
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this is Hope In Motion.
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For the past four years
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Jin Rennie has been serving
the people of India and Nepal
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as the CEO for Asian Aid USA.
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Originally from
Christ Church New Zealand,
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Jim is currently
living in the United States
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but he travels back and forth
to India several times a year.
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He is come to know
first hand the faces
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and personal
stories of the people
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you've met through this series.
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Back in 2010 Asian
Aid made a decision
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that it should share
the word that it is done
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in South East
Asia, especially India.
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Asian Aid has helped thousands
and thousands of children
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through sponsorship.
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It is help a blind and the deaf
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and has
supported many orphanages.
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This series was to show
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how Asian Aid has
given so many children
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and so many
communities real hope.
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Through our
Hope In Motion series
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we have been
able to share with you
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how Asian Aid over the years
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is empowering women in
some of the tribal villages
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of Andhra Pradesh.
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We are teaching
them how to do business
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and coaching them in
schools like tailoring
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and giving them a
dignified livelihood
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so they can really
take care of their families.
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We saw Jyothi
narrate her story of hope
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because she was able to
attend tailoring classes
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and the dream she
has for her family.
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Just a couple of months ago
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I was excited to
go and meet Jyothi
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and to see how she
had learned tailoring
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and how this class
had made a real difference
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for her and her family
both by learning this skill
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to provide for her
family and for income.
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We saw stories coming out
of our deaf school in Kollegal,
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where one of our first
students from the school
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is now working in a good job
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and is supporting his
parents and disable sister.
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We also met Pradeep
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who were
struggling with sign language
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when he arrived at the school.
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But the school, the staff
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and the students made
him really feel at home.
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Staff like Shiny
and her husband Jacob
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are making a real difference.
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We get love it's--
money just comes and goes.
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It comes today it goes tomorrow
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but hundred students love,
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you won't earn
it in your lifetime.
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Volunteers are an integral part
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of our project
work with Asian Aid.
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In the beginning of
the last academic year
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we had a young group
called, Heart Slide group
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come from United States
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and spend sometime with
the children at our school
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for the blind in Bobbili.
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It was a huge placing
both of the blind children
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and the volunteers.
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Bye, Sam. Bye, bye.
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Bye, bye. Bye, bye.
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We miss you. Miss you, bye.
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In the fourth episode we met
Sue Smith an Asian Aid supporter
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who along with
her church members
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is doing their best to
make the school of Vizianagaram
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a better place
for their children.
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One of the schools
that we are really proud of
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is the Emmanuel
Adventist School at Jaipur.
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This school was a
team effort from the start
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that had the vision of
Helen Eager her founder
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with support of
Garwin McNeilus from the USA
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and the building
was built Maranatha.
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This school caters to
the tribal areas in Jaipur,
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including the bonded tribe.
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We also saw had God's
prediction was at Jaipur
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during the riots that occurred.
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I think sometimes God allows
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certain things
to happen for good.
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One of things that
really makes me happy
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is when I see Asian Aid children
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after finishing their education
come back and work for us,
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work for one of the many schools
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where we have children.
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In our episode give
we saw exactly that.
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When I was born I
born like a sighted person,
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when I have
three years that time
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I loosed my eyes
because of eye cancer.
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Some of the most
despairing stories
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come from the school for
the blind here in Bobbili.
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We witness the
tragic story of Shankar,
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who lost both
eyes because of cancer.
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It is amazing to see
how he has lifted himself up
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and has a
courageous outlook in life.
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This is only possible again
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because of the good
leadership of the staff
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at the Bobbili blind school
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who go beyond the call of duty
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to make this place comfortable
for children like Prince.
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The-- whatever Christ
has done on this earth,
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we the teachers have
taken it up as a challenge
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to do our small little part.
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This past year our major project
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has been the
building of the new home
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for the Sunrise
children in Bobbili.
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For a longtime
they had to put out
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with the pooling conditions
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which they all
took on their stride.
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But they deserve
something better.
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We are happy to provide a home
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for someone like
Hannah and Joshua.
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It is also exciting for us
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when these children
take a stand for Jesus
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and want to be baptized.
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Last year I was privileged to
be a part of the baptism service
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with 30 of our children
from Sunrise Home to baptism.
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Who can forget the
story of Keerthana.
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We were at the
home when she arrived.
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We saw the tears and the
pain, and we heard out that's--
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that she would last
no more than a week.
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But within a week she was a
completely different person.
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She was happy and smiling
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and recently our
visit at Elim home
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and saw the
difference that has been made.
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It's so exciting
to see the difference
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what sponsorship is
making with these children.
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A large part of our success
goes to our field workers
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who carry out an important job
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and check to see
if Asian Aid children
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are well and taken care of
in their respective schools.
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Some of our filed workers
have to travel long distances
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to check on a school.
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We are so thankful
for the work they do.
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Asian Aids work in
India began at Sunshine Home.
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Beulah Fernandez has
given many years of service
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to the hundreds of children
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who have come
through Sunshine Home
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and gone on the greater things.
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Her patience and her
love for the children
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not only reflects that
the strong Christian ethic
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but also reflects the work
that Asian Aid is committed to.
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It's encouraging to
look back on the difference
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Asian Aid has made to the love
and support of their donors.
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But looking forward there
is still more work to be done.
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I was told until I
earned the money back
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I wasn't allowed to leave.
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Covers are right here.
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I love you. Happy day in school.
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Bye. Bye.
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See to night.
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Give my love to Meena.
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I will.
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You can make a big
difference every morning.
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Sponsor a child with Asian Aid.
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I'm here today in
Andhra Pradesh, India,
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at the Vizianagaram
school with my friend Adarsh.
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Seven years old and my
family, myself sponsored him.
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Everyday he's
able to accommodation,
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food, clothes
and a good education.
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We want you to know
what a blessing this is
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and that you too
can make the difference
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in the life of a child
everyday through sponsorship.
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Asian Aid's primary focus
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is always been
providing education to poor
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and needy children
through its sponsorship program.
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Especially children
from tribal areas, orphans,
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blind and the speech
and hearing impaired.
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In doing so Asian
Aid was confronted
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with many other pressing issues.
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One of those issues
being human trafficking.
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It's estimated
that human trafficking
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is a 32 billion dollar
industry worldwide, with Nepal
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and India being amongst
the biggest contributors.
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Although women and
girls are the most affected
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boys and men are also
subjected to force to labor
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and sexual exploitation.
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In 2010 Asian Aid partner
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with nonprofit
organization called Oasis.
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Works men in government
agencies in Nepal and India
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to rescue girls who
have been trafficked
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and they also
work with communities
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to prevent
trafficking from happening.
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And they also
work with communities
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to prevent
trafficking from happening.
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We've been working
with the Oasis India
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for two years now,
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on Anti Human
Trafficking Program.
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The reason we work
with Oasis India is
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because we
believe in the mission
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of what they are doing,
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they are impairing young people
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to have opportunities that
have been taken away from them.
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So they're-- they're
restoring those opportunities.
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So Asian Aid is very proud to
be in a partnership with Oasis.
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Anita Kanaiya is the associate
executive director for Oasis
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and has been
with the organization
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for the past several years.
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Asian Aid is funding a lot
of our prevention based work
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which we do in
local communities here
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as the girls are vulnerable,
very vulnerable over here.
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They also fund our rescues.
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So yes, they're very, very
happy to have met Asian Aid
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and to partner
with them in this work.
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Anita works with a
team of dedicated staff
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who conduct dangerous undercover
operations to rescue girls
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who've either been kidnapped
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or coerced into
slave like conditions.
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There is a lot of
nexus between the traffickers
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and the underworld
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and sometimes
its law enforcement
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as well that
supports these traffickers
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because there's a lot of money.
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We have on many
occasions been chased
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or followed as we
return from raids or rescues
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because the
police don't accompany us
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when we finish
the raid or rescue.
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They are there
before it but not after.
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So we have been followed,
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we have received
threatening phone calls,
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we have been
aggressively stopped
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from entering
into establishments
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where girls are being hidden.
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Geetha Prabhu is a
social worker from Oasis
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and is regularly involved
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in these
dangerous rescue missions.
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As a result she often
gets to know the victims
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of human
trafficking first hands.
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There are so many
girls are left vulnerable
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and my heart is there for them,
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that I should do much
more for them and that--
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they should come out
of that vulnerability
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and they should realize even
they can stand on their feet
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and they can lead their life.
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With booming economy
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and growing
population in Indian cities
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human trafficking
has been on the rise
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in the red-light
districts and beyond.
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In recent years the
average age of girls
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being trafficked
has gotten even younger.
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Well, the age group
is getting younger now,
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so I think when I
first started work about
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seven or eight years ago
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the average age of girls being
trafficked was around 17, 18
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but now we have cases of
eight and nine year olds.
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So I would say the average age
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has lowered to
above 12 to 15 now
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of girls being trafficked.
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I think the demand is
more for younger girls.
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Younger girls are
easier prey for traffickers.
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Not really
understanding the outside world
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makes them even more
vulnerable in many ways.
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The majority of victims
come from low income background
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with little or no education.
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Many of them are
lured with the promise
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of getting a better job
or chance to go to school.
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My name is Sushila.
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I'm a
seamstress, I'm 20 years old.
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I was 15 years old
and was in seventh grade
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when my parents married me off.
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The Sushila story is
like many of the others
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that we found at that time.
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She from a village
the Kohler district
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in Kohler district.
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Her parents
tried to marry her off
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as a child bride.
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So she wasn't 15 years
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when her parents
try to get her married
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and they married her
and she runaway from there,
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from her husband's
place and came back home
00:17:08.09\00:17:10.74
and they married her off again
00:17:10.77\00:17:12.61
and the second
time to another person.
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And she ran
back the second time.
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And she was very
interested in study
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so she was good a
student in the local school
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but they wouldn't have
that and the third time
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when they were trying to
get her married is when her--
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a friend from the village
told her about a job here
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and that you
know she was working
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in the garment
industry in Bangalore
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and that she would
help her to find a job.
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We decided to
runaway from the village
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to either work or study.
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When we were at the bus
stop a lady befriended us.
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She said, she would
give us work in the city
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and she would
take us to Bangalore
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but we refused her offer.
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We were about
to leave from there
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when she laid her
hands on her shoulders
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we don't know what happened.
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We started following her.
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It was like she hypnotized us.
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She took us to a hotel
and gave us cool drinks.
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The drinks were spiked
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and we felt all of
our senses going numb.
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We were in a bus and
that's all I remember.
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The next thing I
know we were in Mumbai.
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There was a period of time
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when almost all the girls
who are rescued would say,
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we came looking for a job
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we met this lady
in the bus stand.
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She offered us the drink
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and we don't
remember anything else
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we've turned up in Mumbai.
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So many of them
would have the same story.
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Sushila had been sold to a pimp
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in the red-light
districts of Mumbai
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for hundred and fifty
thousand rupees, or about $3000.
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I was told until I
earned the money back
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I wasn't allowed to leave.
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I cried for days.
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I wanted to run but
there was security all around.
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I was in that
place for 11 months.
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We had no outside communication.
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There were many girls
like me about 50 of them
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and some were much
younger than I was.
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When these village
girls are first taken
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to these places
they're literally broken.
00:19:14.63\00:19:16.76
Their-- their whole
psyche is broken by pimps
00:19:16.79\00:19:22.21
and they take a
long time to recover
00:19:22.24\00:19:24.38
from something like that.
00:19:24.41\00:19:25.44
They're abused, they're
whipped, they're beaten,
00:19:25.47\00:19:27.59
they're bitten and you
know the kind of things
00:19:27.62\00:19:30.54
that they go through there.
00:19:30.57\00:19:32.17
They are not feed properly so
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many of them
you'll see malnutrition,
00:19:34.15\00:19:37.27
very bad dental hygiene.
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You know, all of
these-- they have--
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they suffer with
the lot of health issues
00:19:40.96\00:19:42.78
but a lot of physiological
traumatic issues as well.
00:19:42.81\00:19:47.30
Sushila was subjected to sexual
00:19:47.33\00:19:49.30
and physical
abused for nearly a year.
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I tried been there for 11 months
00:19:54.60\00:19:56.22
and a man from Bangalore
came to me as a client.
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When he came into
my room he told us
00:19:59.66\00:20:01.48
who he really was and
we begged him to help us.
00:20:01.51\00:20:05.16
He had hidden a
mobile phone with him
00:20:05.19\00:20:07.19
and he handed it
over to me and my friend
00:20:07.22\00:20:09.02
so we could call the police.
00:20:09.05\00:20:11.88
She was rescued when
we went on an operation
00:20:11.91\00:20:14.31
to rescue somebody
else and she happened to be
00:20:14.34\00:20:17.87
in that brothel
and pleaded with us
00:20:17.90\00:20:19.72
to take her out and
she was brought out.
00:20:19.75\00:20:24.06
When we took her to
the government home,
00:20:24.09\00:20:26.38
she discovered that she
was HIV positive and pregnant,
00:20:26.41\00:20:30.59
three months
pregnant the same day.
00:20:30.62\00:20:33.41
When I was first heard about it,
I thought I was going to die.
00:20:33.44\00:20:36.47
I didn't have that information
about AIDS at the time
00:20:36.50\00:20:39.71
and I didn't want to live.
00:20:39.74\00:20:41.64
But the people in
the rehabilitation center
00:20:41.67\00:20:43.57
counseled me not
to take drastic steps.
00:20:43.60\00:20:45.91
Once a victim has been rescued
00:20:51.28\00:20:53.23
they face an
onslaught of challenges
00:20:53.26\00:20:55.16
to regain their footing.
00:20:55.19\00:20:56.97
Victims of human trafficking
are more likely to develop
00:20:57.00\00:20:59.82
post traumatic stress disorder,
00:20:59.85\00:21:01.48
drug addictions, depression
00:21:01.51\00:21:03.08
and sexually
transmitted diseases.
00:21:03.11\00:21:06.67
Once the girl has
been raped or spoiled
00:21:06.70\00:21:09.31
or has indulged in any
kind of a sexual contact
00:21:09.34\00:21:14.00
then she is
known as a spoiled good
00:21:14.03\00:21:17.55
and the
traffickers are using that.
00:21:17.58\00:21:20.10
They rape some of the
girls and then because,
00:21:20.13\00:21:23.16
you know, the parents
don't want to show it,
00:21:23.19\00:21:25.31
the girl won't
come out of it she is,
00:21:25.34\00:21:27.80
you know spoiled
good then they come
00:21:27.83\00:21:30.18
and offer
something to the parents
00:21:30.21\00:21:33.71
who any way want
to get rid of the girl
00:21:33.74\00:21:35.14
because it's so
shameful that this happened
00:21:35.17\00:21:37.84
and they send her away.
00:21:37.87\00:21:38.94
So virginity and the importance
00:21:38.97\00:21:41.61
that the Indian
culture has placed on it
00:21:41.64\00:21:43.80
has also placed a huge
burden on the Indian girls
00:21:43.83\00:21:50.20
in terms of what happens to them
and how they come out of it.
00:21:50.23\00:21:54.21
Feeling as if they
have no other options
00:21:54.24\00:21:56.73
some women return to sex
work or resort to suicide.
00:21:56.76\00:22:01.99
This is where Asian Aid
and Oasis worked together
00:22:02.02\00:22:04.55
to provide the
necessary medical care
00:22:04.58\00:22:06.71
as well as counseling services.
00:22:06.74\00:22:09.36
In addition they
teach the women a trade,
00:22:09.39\00:22:11.19
such a sewing which gives them
00:22:11.22\00:22:13.04
an ultimate way of making money.
00:22:13.07\00:22:15.22
We are focused on
creating communities
00:22:15.25\00:22:18.67
that will ensure
that there is trust
00:22:18.70\00:22:21.76
and there is cohesion
00:22:21.79\00:22:23.17
and that people
are loved and accepted
00:22:23.20\00:22:25.25
and that they
have a support group
00:22:25.28\00:22:28.05
when they come out of
situations like trafficking.
00:22:28.08\00:22:33.06
Sushila was put
on retroviral drugs
00:22:33.09\00:22:35.05
to treat her HIV.
00:22:35.08\00:22:36.59
And although it's
been over five years
00:22:36.62\00:22:38.15
since her ordeal in Mumbai,
00:22:38.18\00:22:39.85
she continues to
go on with her life.
00:22:39.88\00:22:42.69
She attended tailoring classes
00:22:42.72\00:22:44.20
and is now earning a
living as seamstress.
00:22:44.23\00:22:48.18
It's not only the Sushila's case
00:22:48.21\00:22:49.83
that we have seen
today and we've gone through
00:22:49.86\00:22:52.41
its like thousands
of girls like Sushila.
00:22:52.44\00:22:54.65
Girls are very
vulnerable, they don't have help
00:22:54.68\00:22:57.25
and we are trying to reach out.
00:22:57.28\00:22:58.31
Like-- I don't know that I can
reach out for thousands of girls
00:22:58.34\00:23:01.09
but at least in a year
I'm sure that I have reached
00:23:01.12\00:23:04.34
on 300 girls in a year.
00:23:04.37\00:23:07.09
I'll make sure that 300 girls
00:23:07.12\00:23:08.54
I will but sill
I'm not satisfied.
00:23:08.57\00:23:11.22
Asian Aid
continues to help children
00:23:11.25\00:23:13.13
through sponsorship
while also expanding
00:23:13.16\00:23:15.51
their reached to
help end human trafficking
00:23:15.54\00:23:17.85
in India and Nepal.
00:23:17.88\00:23:20.67
It is their dream
that you too will join them
00:23:20.70\00:23:22.98
and putting Hope In Motion.
00:23:23.01\00:23:24.77
For over 40 years
Asian Aid is an organization
00:24:03.26\00:24:06.97
giving hope to so many.
00:24:07.00\00:24:09.22
Their outreach spans
from India and Bangladesh
00:24:09.25\00:24:12.16
through Nepal and beyond,
00:24:12.19\00:24:14.85
from remote
villages and empty fields
00:24:14.88\00:24:18.73
to sprawling
centers of education,
00:24:18.76\00:24:21.79
from nothing to
the unimaginable.
00:24:21.82\00:24:23.96
Asian Aid's development projects
provide child's sponsorship,
00:24:28.02\00:24:31.91
fresh water and medical care
for women and lepra victims.
00:24:31.94\00:24:37.04
They provide a high
standard of education
00:24:37.07\00:24:39.10
to empower children.
00:24:39.13\00:24:42.29
Asian Aid has a
vision driven by a woman
00:24:42.32\00:24:45.04
humbly fulfilling
the biblical principle
00:24:45.07\00:24:47.41
that calls for us to
care for the least of these.
00:24:47.44\00:24:52.34
This standard is
still true today,
00:24:52.37\00:24:55.23
the need is still there.
00:24:55.26\00:24:57.31
Less than 50% of India's
children get an education.
00:25:04.36\00:25:08.49
One million women in Nepal
suffer from uterine prolapse
00:25:08.52\00:25:11.60
are in need of
immediate surgery.
00:25:11.63\00:25:14.04
Over 5,000 babies die
everyday due to extreme poverty.
00:25:14.07\00:25:18.81
These are but a few
of the harsh realities.
00:25:18.84\00:25:21.42
Asian Aid is
meeting these challenges
00:25:25.40\00:25:27.41
and transforming the
lives of so many in need,
00:25:27.44\00:25:32.46
always sticking to
their core mission,
00:25:32.49\00:25:34.78
giving hope.
00:25:34.81\00:25:36.34
Asian Aid sponsors
thousands of children
00:25:46.60\00:25:49.01
in slums and destitute villages.
00:25:49.04\00:25:52.97
They support over 100
schools and orphanages
00:25:53.00\00:25:57.96
and give them a
sense of place a home.
00:25:57.99\00:26:02.69
Well, in my dream
I was just thinking
00:26:02.72\00:26:04.41
of a small boarding
school with may be 50 children
00:26:04.44\00:26:07.79
and that of course did
increase to 200 quite fast.
00:26:07.82\00:26:10.46
But now I've to
see these buildings
00:26:10.49\00:26:13.17
and this campus
is just so amazing.
00:26:13.20\00:26:17.09
And now there are 750
children actually studying
00:26:17.12\00:26:21.41
and learning so much
on this school compound.
00:26:21.44\00:26:24.41