India is a land
full of contrast,
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is a land of great
mystery and beauty.
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It's a land of
unspeakable despair.
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But traveling through
India one thing is for sure,
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it's a land filled
with people who should
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never be underestimated.
For the last 40 years
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Asian Aid has invested
in the futures of people
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who have 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 dedicated
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to helping those
who have the least.
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Asian Aid is an
organization implementing
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diverse
development projects, and
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sponsoring
thousands of children.
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There are
outreached fans from Bangladesh
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to Nepal, Sri Lanka
and beyond from remote
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villages and empty
fields to sprawling
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centers of
education from nothing to the
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unimaginable. Now
Asian Aid decided to
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document the work it
has been doing all these
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years with a desire
to show the world what
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is possible. By
digging wells in remote
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villages for clean
drinking water, and bringing
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much needed healthcare
to the women of Nepal.
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By providing an
education for orphans,
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deaf and blind
children, giving them a sense
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of place, a home but
what we really discovered
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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
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the most. This
is Hope in Motion.
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There are so
many sunny days here
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especially in the
class room it's just so
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amazing, how one kid
can write in a day up.
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And there is 30 of
them in a class room
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saying teacher,
teacher showing me a new pencil
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or showing me new shoes.
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Being able to be
there when they understand
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something I count
that as a sunny day.
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When we arrived at Elim Home,
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a school and
orphanage run by Asian Aid,
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we meet two American
students volunteering
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there Lindsey and Jashira.
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We can tell right away they were
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a big hit with the kids.
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And I just worked at summer camp
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for the first
time this last year,
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this last summer and I loved it,
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and it's just same concept,
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same thing 24/7 kids
that's fine but it's tiring.
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I am helping out
with what they call is LKG
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or lower
kindergarten which in America
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we translate into
nursery/pre-school.
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So since you've been
here do you feel like
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you made an
impact or an influence
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and it's so is it significant?
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We actually haven't
struggled with this idea,
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yes. We came
here wanting to make a
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difference but
there are days that
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we feel like we have
not made any differences
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and we go to the room
and we are frustrated,
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we cry, we
don't know what to do.
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Other days we play
with the kids and we see
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how much love they
give us. I think it's hard
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because we come here,
and we see so many things
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we wanna change and
such a big difference that
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we wanna make,
and we have to realize
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that we can't
change the culture,
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we can't change
the world right away,
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you know it's little things by
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different people
once step at a time.
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As we get ready to
Elim Home, we are pleased
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to find out that
Jashira can come with us
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to see what other
Asian Aid volunteers and
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partners are
accomplishing all across India.
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We are traveling
to Bangalore, India,
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to check out how
the people are living.
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In our out patient clinic 47
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percent of patients are located.
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We get a tour of
this Bangalore slum from
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two doctors that have
partnered with Asian Aid
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to run an
important outreach program.
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Every week they
volunteered their
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time to provide
health education and medical
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services to
families living in these
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poverty stricken areas.
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How many people are
there in this community?
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Close to 8000. 8000
are packed right in here?
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Yes, yes. It's
vicious cycle poverty,
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therefore lack of
education, lack of
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education leading to poverty,
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and this lack of
nutrition leading to infections,
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illnesses and that
causing loss of a job
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and again poverty and
so poverty, ill-health,
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poverty kind of a cycle,
poverty, lack of literacy,
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again poverty, so there are two
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vicious cycles
going side by side.
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Asian Aid's
partnership with the Seventh-day
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Adventist medical
centre helps to make sure
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that essential health
services are available
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to people who
would otherwise have no
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proper medical care.
It's all an effort to try
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to break the cycle of poverty
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that is pervasive
in places like this.
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We go down and there
is a tent made of tarp
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and little kids
running with only a shirt on,
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and no pants.
There is trash everywhere
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and seeing kids
trying to look for food.
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We leave
Bangalore saddened by the
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condition in the
slums, but hopeful about the
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change that people
like Dr. S.K and Dr. Crystal
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and the medical
centre are making in this
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community with
the help of Asian Aid.
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In the village of
Kamagere we visit an
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Asian Aid school
for the hearing and
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speech impaired.
There, we meet Lyle and
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Lloyd from
Australia, two volunteers who
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partnered with the
Asian Aid to provide
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professional
construction and maintenance
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services for
some of their schools
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and development projects.
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Well we just talked
to Helen and we said what
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Asian projects you
have, we're fairly skilled
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people, we're very
careful with funds, and
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we've known each
other for many years.
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I think many people
think we're only in a
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building business
but in actual fact what
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we are in? We are
in the people business
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and we are in the
children business,
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and what we really
about is bringing hope.
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We are giving young
people the opportunity
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to know that
someone cares for them,
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and more than that God really
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does care for them as well.
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The joy of children
you've met four years ago,
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who are now young
men and young women,
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and I just come
running down and hello uncle,
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uncle, uncle hello,
hello and they surround you.
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And you think I feel
like the king of heaven and
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the joy that comes
from is, is unsurpassable.
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I have fallen in
love with these kids,
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and I've only been
here for a day, two days and
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I am very glad that
I have this opportunity
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to come and meet these kids.
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I'm trying
really hard not to cry.
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Leaving the school was
hard, we fell in love with
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these kids instantly,
but Helen and Asian Aid
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have more schools and
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projects they wanted us to see.
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The school and
orphanage in the remote town
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of Jeypore is a
shining example of what happens
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when a key
partner gets involved,
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and a vision becomes reality.
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Businessman and
philanthropist Garwin
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McNeilus funded and oversaw the
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construction of what is now one
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of Asian Aid's top schools.
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There's nothing
greater than you can do and
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you'll never
run out of children.
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You'll never build a
school and after while
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there'll be no children there.
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As long as the school is there,
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the children are there,
then sponsors are there,
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there will be
developments taking place.
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Well in my dream I
was just thinking of the
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small boarding school
with maybe 50 children
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and that of course did
increase to 200 quite fast.
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But now to see these
buildings and this campus
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is just so amazing.
And now there is even
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150 children
actually studying and learning
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so much on this school compound.
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Both Garwin
McNeilus and another American
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businessman Bruce
Farley know what it takes
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to build a home and
a school from scratch,
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but they always keep
the big picture inside.
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During our travels
we saw many ways that
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Asian Aid's volunteers
and partners are making
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a difference in Nepal and India.
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It's obvious that
the biblical principle
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of the least of
these is what drives them
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Helen Mummy Eager and
all the Asian Aid leadership
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and staff. It's a
belief that keeps hope alive
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and gives people a
chance to pass on their
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blessings in ways that
truly change the world.
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Finally we
returned to Elim Home,
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where our journey started.
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Having witnessed
some of these kids'
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transformations is gratifying,
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but it's not
just the kids who were
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transformed by Asian Aid's work.
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There's just
something about them, that just,
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they're just, they're
happy and makes you happy
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to see them happy. Sorry.
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I think that's
gonna make it really hard.
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And I am pretty
sure I am gonna think
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about them a lot when I leave.
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Hopefully like I
said before I'll make a
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difference even if
it's a dent, I know may be a
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passing car, oh
just she like car,
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she was here,
she helped me write
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my ABCs, like
something like that.
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When we arrived
as filmmakers our job
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was to observe the
work Asian Aid is doing.
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But really have
been gotten involved.
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Well we can't do
everything for millions
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of people, but we
can help a few people,
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we can help a few
thousand of them and
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I am thankful that
Asian Aid is doing that.
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And don't care
yourself every child
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that is helped,
helps somebody else.
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They pass it on I don't know any
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of them who do not pass it on.
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Hope can be
described in many ways,
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but there's only one way to
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describe the
Asian Aid's definition.
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This is Hope in Motion.
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