Participants: Jordan Ehrlich
Series Code: HIM
Program Code: HIM000016
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00:20 India is a land full of contrast,
00:25 is a land of great mystery and beauty. 00:28 It's a land of unspeakable despair, 00:32 but traveling through India one thing 00:33 is for sure, it's a land filled with 00:36 people who should never be underestimated. 00:40 For the last 40 years Asian Aid has invested in 00:43 the futures of people would never been given 00:45 such a chance, and their investment 00:48 has proven infinite returns. 00:52 Driven by the vision of Helen Eager dedicated 00:54 to helping those who have the least. 00:56 Asian Aid is an organization implementing 00:59 diverse development projects and sponsoring 01:01 thousands of children. There are outreach fans 01:05 from Bangladesh, to Nepal, Sri Lanka and beyond, 01:09 from remote villages and empty fields to 01:12 sprawling centers of education from nothing 01:15 to the unimaginable. Now Asian Aid decided 01:20 to document the work it has been doing all 01:22 these years with a desire to show the world 01:24 what is possible. By digging wells in remote 01:28 villages for clean drinking water, 01:30 and bringing much needed healthcare to the 01:32 women of Nepal. By providing an education 01:35 for orphans, deaf and blind children, 01:38 giving them a sense of place, 01:39 a home but what we really discovered was being 01:42 given was hope. Giving hope to children, 01:47 giving hope to women, giving hope to the ones 01:51 who needed the most. This is Hope in Motion. 02:03 Our film team has traveled from India to Nepal 02:05 documenting the work of Asian Aid. 02:08 We've spoken with officials, Asian Aid staff, 02:10 school principals and teachers, 02:13 but we really wanted to hear directly from 02:15 the kids to know their stories from their 02:17 point of view. So we sit down with 02:19 the kids of the Sunrise Orphanage Home. 02:21 One of the first children we're doing an 02:23 extended interview with is named Hannah. 02:26 That before sunrise, they will run away 02:29 before sunrise. Foreign language . 02:43 She says she comes from a very below poverty 02:46 family background, and she says her father 02:50 is a drunkard and he drinks and then comes home 02:53 and beats his mother. And father once he drunk 02:55 and came home, there was some 02:57 argument and his father got angry and he took 03:00 a metal rod and hit her on the head and mother 03:03 died on the spot. And she saw that you know 03:06 father killing her mother, and that man that 03:09 has killed, she has no words and 03:11 she is gonna need to run. And the police came and 03:13 they asked her to be a witness and she said she 03:16 saw her father killing her mother. 03:49 At that time she was helpless, hopeless, 03:52 no one is there to take care of and grandmother 03:55 is there. At that time they 03:57 came to know about this Sunrise Home. 04:02 And she says somehow God grace has brought 04:07 her here to Sunrise Home and she says she 04:08 is happy here, and she says she is 04:10 enjoying her life in Sunrise Home. 04:27 With the inspiration of Mummy Eager and 04:29 inspiration of Asian Aid, USA, 04:31 inspiration of Asian Aid, Australia who started 04:33 the orphanage, a small orphanage 04:35 with three children. That 3 children went 04:38 up to the 7 children, 7 children went to, 04:40 that it slowly it's going big, 04:42 big and big and big. 04:45 We've been to many orphanages for Asian Aid, 04:47 but much of our time is been spent here with 04:49 these kids. We were lucky 04:51 enough to share a lot of nice moments with them, 04:55 but we wanted to know more about their lives 04:57 before Sunrise Home. We wanted to know how 05:00 being sponsored through Asian Aid has since 05:02 changed their lives. 05:08 As we talk with them we were amazed, 05:11 we got an unexpected lesson in humility, 05:13 a lesson in being hopeful for the 05:15 future despite the obstacles. 05:32 This is mainly this area is the most backward 05:35 place in Andhra Pradesh. With this reason most of 05:40 the people are migrating from here to the 05:41 other places, they are leaving the children at 05:44 home and going to the towns, working there for 05:46 few months coming back by this time that some 05:50 children are disappearing from the homes, 05:52 and some children are loosing their parents. 06:04 So all these years we are struggling a lot, 06:07 but the most need in this area is to provide the 06:11 proper education and proper 06:13 facilities for the children. 06:35 Like Hannah each kid has their own difficult 06:38 story to tell about their lives before 06:40 they arrived at Sunrise Home. 06:43 My parents died with HIVAIDS, 06:45 I have one younger brother, 06:46 so she took both of us to the hospital, 06:51 in the hospital they told that 06:53 my brother has AIDS. 06:55 My father was a drunkard, he died first he was 06:58 doctor but he died. My mother poured kerosene, 07:05 burned herself and died. 07:08 Then my father killed my mother, 07:10 then my father sent to jail. 07:13 There is nobody to look after me, 07:16 my mother died without because of lack 07:20 of medicines. My father got heart attack, 07:25 nobody have me, I am alone, nobody can care me. 07:32 I wanted to die, why my life is like this? 07:40 Nobody can care me. 07:59 I also came from very poor family, 08:01 I know all the problems what I faced when 08:05 I was small. So I also know the 08:07 children's problem, I'll be like friend 08:10 with them, I'll be like mother, 08:12 I'll be like dean all the works I'll do 08:15 with them, so they love me, 08:17 and I too love them. 08:19 And she know the people's difficulties and 08:22 children how the children are struggle 08:24 without parents, without proper food, 08:28 and the shelter. So she shows good love 08:34 to the children, and she will try to 08:36 provide all their needs. She may not provide all 08:39 they want or what they want, 08:42 but she try all their needs. 08:49 At Sunrise home Lalitha and Brahma work hard 08:51 to make sure they are eating well, 08:53 staying healthy, and getting good education. 09:01 And she said she is so fortunate to be here, 09:04 she is getting 3 meals per day, 09:06 new clothes and she is going to school. 09:09 And she said she is happy 09:10 staying in Sunrise Home. 09:34 And now here at Sunrise and what is your 09:37 life right now, how has it changed? 09:40 Yeah, now I am feeling so happy because like we 09:43 stay like friends with all of them, 09:47 we are staying nicely only. 10:22 Hannah and the rest of the kids don't take one 10:24 second for granted, they're very aware of 10:27 the fact that they are getting a high standard 10:28 value based education that will 10:31 help them in the future. 10:45 I want to do social work because this mummy and 10:49 daddy are taking care of the children very nice 10:54 that's why I want to be a Social Worker. 10:59 I want to become teacher. 11:01 I want to become doctor because I 11:04 want to help the other people. 11:10 Foreign Language 11:20 And for Prem he has a new dream, 11:23 he wants to be a film maker. 11:25 His dreams are not far off and they are well on 11:28 the road to achieving them, 11:29 and Asian Aid is doing whatever they can to 11:32 ensure that they do. The current home is now 11:35 too small, many of the kids 11:37 sleep on the floor and it's a adjacent to 11:39 excess pores, sewage and trash. 11:48 Asian Aid is already in the process of building 11:50 them a new self sustaining facility 11:52 outside of town. Where they will have 11:58 the room to grow and flourish. 12:19 Sometimes they feel they are hopeless, 12:21 they are helpless, but when they come 12:23 to our place they feel that they are helpful, 12:27 and they are hopeful also. 12:37 It was impossible not to fell in love with 12:39 these kids, whether he is racing 12:41 us to the finish line or wanting to just sit with 12:44 us and ask us what life was like back in 12:46 our world. They left little doubt 12:48 that given the ray of hope from Asian Aid, 12:51 they would definitely succeed in life. |
Revised 2014-12-17