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
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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,
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from remote
villages and empty fields
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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.
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By digging wells
in remote villages
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for clean drinking water
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and bringing
much needed healthcare
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to the women of Nepal.
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By providing an education
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for orphans, deaf
and blind children,
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giving them a
sense a 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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I never heard too much
about Asian Aid before.
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On paper it seem like
they were doing noble work.
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Development organizations
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sponsoring thousands
of kids throughout Asia,
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so when they ask
my film team to come
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and document the
work they do I said, yes.
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My name is Terry
Benedict and I'm a filmmaker
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and this is my film team.
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None of us have any
idea what's in store for us.
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I'm Jordan Ehrlich,
Terry's producing partner.
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Enduring our travels
throughout India and Asia
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you will see us, our
cameras and our microphones.
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Most of all
you'll see what we see
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as you come with
us on our journey.
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Fifteen schools, eight villages,
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five cities and
countless dirt roads
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with the inevitable
traffic jam here and there
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all in under 60 days.
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Our basic premise
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why getting
involved with Asian Aid?
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And with hundreds of
organizations out there
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what sets Asian Aid
apart from the others?
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These seem like
simple enough questions,
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but on our
journey to get answers
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we're getting way
more than we bargain for.
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From Bangalore,
India to Katmandu, Nepal
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we're quickly learning
Asian Aid core mission.
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Help those in need
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get the tools necessary
to make it on their own.
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And from the first
moments of our trip
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we realized that
this isn't just talk.
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Our first stop is the Elim Home.
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How are you girls doing?
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And orphanage on the
outskirts of Hyderabad
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the capital city of
the southeastern state
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Andhra Pradesh.
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Minutes from numerous
slums and some harsh realities
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more questions popup.
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Is sponsoring these kids
just a short term solution
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or is it more like an investment
that will payoff down the road?
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Elim is currently
filled with 69 orphans already.
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We happen to be here
the day the 70th arrives.
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Good evening, sir. How are you?
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Fine.
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Hi.
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We are going to take her
to the home, into the home,
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because she is full orphan.
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Books, so these are your books.
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You like? You like the slate?
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Slate?
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Here.
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Here are your
books. You like books?
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Keys, you want.
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Keys?
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We'll go down?
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In Keerthana we had a feeling
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that we're just
scraping the surface
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of an all too common occurrence
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here in India and South Asia.
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Poverty is pervasive,
abandonment is common,
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step parents not
accepting step kids,
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kids been put to
work at early ages.
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The issues being dealt
with here are enormous.
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The statistics are staggering.
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Less than half
of India's children
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between the ages of
6 and 14 go to school.
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More than 50% of
India's kids are malnourished.
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One out of every six girls
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won't live to see
her 15th birthday.
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With this heartbreaking
scene fresh in our minds
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and these newly acquired facts
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we're now little more aware of
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how massive this
issues really are.
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It's all a bit overwhelming.
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From the slums of Hyderabad
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to the coastal
slums of Vishakhapatnam
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we didn't think it
could get must worse,
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we were wrong.
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Well, we are right here
in the middle of the slums.
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We're in the city of Vizag
which is on the east coast.
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There is about
10,000 people who live
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crammed under this
area in 10x8 rooms.
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Most people are unemployed.
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There is a large
number of prostitution.
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But at the end of this
long dirt and grime path
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there is a narrow
three storey building
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not a beautiful sight,
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but it functions as the
only hope these kids have.
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Amen. Amen.
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Good evening. Good evening.
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Thank you, teacher.
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Thank you, teacher.
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Asian Aid supports over
100 schools throughout Asia.
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They strive to put kids
in the best schools possibly,
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but sometimes the only school
in the area like this one.
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But it seems
they don't stop there,
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they go to each school
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checking the level of
quality being administered.
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If that needs
fixing or something is off
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they do whatever
it takes to remedy it.
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And I just feel we
need a school there,
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but I think that
we should have it
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look something really nice
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and so when the children
feel that they have school
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this is a special place
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and so it looks nice and clean
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and different from
the rest of the slum.
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As we followed Helen in
the Asian Aid team around
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its apparent their goals
are not swayed by convenience.
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It's not about the appearance
of doing the right thing
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and it's not even
about the bottom line.
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If a need is getting
done they'll find a way do it.
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Helen Eager and Asian Aid
have spent the last 40 years
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trying to create
the best environment
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for these kids,
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an environment where they
can have a safe loving home
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and get a high
standard of education.
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They take us to
the town of Jeypore
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in the mountain region of Orissa
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to see what's possible.
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Well, in my dream
I was just thinking
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in a 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
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and this campus
is just so amazing.
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And now there are 750 children
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actually studying
and learning so much
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on this school compound.
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The school of
Jeypore stands as a beckon
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of what can be done
with the powerful vision,
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key partnerships
and real determination.
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Over a 100 miles from
the mountains of Jeypore
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we traveled down a very
long and very bumpy dirt road.
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We head towards a small
fishing village by a lake.
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Here there are about 15
families living day to day
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using the fish they
catch to eat and sell.
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They live a pretty happy
life in their remote village.
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The people here
only have one complaint.
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Is it clean water?
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There is a big
problem here in this village
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so they just simply that digging
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the two, three feet deep.
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No safe drinking water.
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Most of the children
and old people are getting
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diseases like
diarrhea and other malaria.
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So the well need
some help, new well?
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Yeah, actually not
like this well sir,
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hand-pump will be
the safe water for them.
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The water will be clean.
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One major aspect of Asian Aids
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different development
projects throughout Asia
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is providing clean water.
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During our visit
Asian Aid decides
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to install some new
wells for these villages.
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As we take off again
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we wonder how much of
a difference a few wells
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would actually make.
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This time we're
heading to a place
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where not many
people are willing to visit.
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Here in the
Vizianagaram district
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there is a small
colony of leper victims.
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They are
discarded, exiled, ostracized
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or any other cliche
term you can come up with
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that basically means
keep them away from us.
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In this country people
don't really like lepers.
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I mean, lepers are looked
departed, you know, being,
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you know, not worth anything.
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The stigma that's
attached to leprosy
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causes person who
is leprosy affected
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to experience rejection by
their family and by society.
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They need emotional support
as well as physical support.
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We do not have anybody
to address a spiritual need
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of the people in this
leprosy affected place.
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To fill this void
Asian Aid in partnership
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with the Indian
government built a community
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for the leper
victims in this region.
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Otherwise they
are out on the street
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they beg on the
street and they stay there.
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Through the
work of the Asian Aid
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the housing has been provided
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and that has been a
blessing to those people.
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Well, Asian Aid
is primarily known
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for their work with children.
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They always stick
to their core mission
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helping those
who needed the most.
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Near the end of our
trip we circle back around
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to see how those
wells were doing.
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Much to our surprise only
15 days after we have left
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they were installed.
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Is that one of the bad wells?
I think that is a bad well.
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There is the bad well.
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The villagers tell us
that over the past two months
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the water borne diseases here
already starting to disappear.
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Water very cool and clean water.
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Directly we can drink.
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We need to support the villagers
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who have
children in the schools.
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Right.
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Our responsibility
isn't just education,
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its education wealthy.
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There is no point
in them going to school
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and they are coming
out and getting sick.
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We set out to know
more about Asian Aid
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and what sets them apart
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and lot of our
questions were being answered
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but so many new
questions now in.
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What would become of Keerthana,
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the orphan girl who is recently
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dropped off at an Asian Aid home
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and what kind of impact
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were they having
in other countries
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like Bangladesh and Nepal.
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We plan to find all this out
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and take you along for the ride.
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This is Hope in Motion.
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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 and myself sponsor him.
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Everyday he is able
to have 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
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can make the difference
in the life of the child
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everyday through sponsorship.
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Mummy? Tulsi's
grandson got sick.
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Mummy? Yeah, what?
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Don't go, mummy.
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They made me cry.
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I felt bad
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that I couldn't
be there with them.
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Down there they are
very good of lodges.
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Need a bit of time for them,
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big kids that probably
won't be there next year
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when I come.
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The best way to
know Asian Aid cofounder
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Helen Eager is to follow her.
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So from India to Nepal
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we tagged along
with this beloved woman
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they call Mummy Eager.
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She is a great
lady with a big heart.
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And she lives so simply.
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I have been at her home
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and she know she has
nothing the worthily goods,
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but her whole life
has been with Asian Aid
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and these children.
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At age 26 Helen volunteered
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to help a little
ministry called Asian Aid
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making clothes
and packing supplies
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for the needy in Korea,
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soon after Helen was
asked to direct the organization
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when the founder retired.
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With Helen's vision
Asian Aid grew rapidly
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throughout India,
Nepal and Bangladesh.
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Everywhere we went
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we saw the fruits of
her love and compassion.
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All inside the city of Samaria.
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God said, okay.
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Please God now open their
eyes so that they can see.
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I don't know how she does it,
but she travels all over India.
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Those kids from Asian Aid
not just the orphanage kids,
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but all of these schools
they call her Mummy Eager.
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They are looking for you.
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Mummy, how are you, mummy?
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Hi, Mummy. Hi, how are you?
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Fine, thank you, mummy.
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Mummy? How are, Mummy?
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Yeah, I'm fine. How are you?
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If I see mummy--
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don't go mummy, stay here mummy.
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I like your help.
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I don't know
you just get to love
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so many of the children.
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There are so many
of them over there
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they're just like my family.
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And if I just
feel that if I don't--
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no, no they feel that if
I don't come and see them
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at least once a year
well, then they feel bad.
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She is like a angel
who came from heaven
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because she
would have not taken me
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I don't know
where would I have been.
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She keep on travel and walk
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all day and night
she keep in touch.
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Even if I would seen
she must be when I calling
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she will be in night
10 o'clock, 12 o'clock
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she is must be
sitting and typing
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and do a lot of works to
do that she always tell me.
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As our travels
with Helen continue
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each stop added to
the picture of the simple
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Biblical principle
that Helen follows,
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the love and care
for the least of these.
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The stories about these children
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that have put into
houses to be servants
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when they are very small,
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some as young as
about four or five years
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just make me so angry
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because more often
they are not saying of abuse
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and then the children are
just treated like, like dirt
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and they are often
not even fed properly,
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they are just left
to sleep in some corner
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of the laundry floor
or something like that.
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And the work they have
to do is just way beyond
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what a child at that age
should be expected to do.
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And I guess for me
the fact that the children
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are not usually sent to
school that's what maybe
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upsets me almost
more than anything.
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I came from very poor village.
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I ask my father and
mother when I am small
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my parents had some
mistake understanding
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and both are
committed to suicide.
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And of course for orphans
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we have to supply
everything they need.
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You know, there are some they
don't have any homes to go to
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where the parents can contribute
something towards their kids,
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so it's costly but it's special.
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Children have grown up
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in their
orphanages through the years
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most of them have
done really, really well.
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Being brought up in a orphanage
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it wasn't easy but
where I was brought up
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I didn't feel that I was
been brought up in an orphanage
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rather that I thought I
was brought up in a nice home
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with lot of other kids,
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like we call them
brothers and sisters.
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And then we help each
other, we understand each other,
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and it was fun living with this,
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you know,
environment of a big family.
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Originally we thought
the focus of our journey
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would be on the
needs of children in India,
00:20:47.87\00:20:50.49
but Helen informed us
of other pressing issues
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that are close to our heart,
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so close that she
insisted we change our plans
00:20:54.62\00:20:58.26
and go with her to Nepal.
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In developing countries
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anyone of these challenges
would be a life's work,
00:21:07.02\00:21:10.44
but Helen has
found great facilitators
00:21:10.47\00:21:12.86
and partners like Rama
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who is the director of
the orphanage in Katmandu
00:21:14.64\00:21:17.71
where many Asian Aid
children live and go to school.
00:21:17.74\00:21:21.39
But she also spearheads
00:21:21.42\00:21:22.68
the Asian Aid
prolapse team in Nepal.
00:21:22.71\00:21:25.95
The problem primarily
occurs when women give birth
00:21:41.24\00:21:44.43
and instead of resting
00:21:44.46\00:21:46.20
they are
immediately put back to work
00:21:46.23\00:21:48.18
carrying heavy loads.
00:21:48.21\00:21:50.74
And that lady
remember, that young woman
00:21:50.77\00:21:52.97
that she told you
00:21:53.00\00:21:54.03
she delivered the baby
alone on the mountain side.
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And just finishes cutting grass
00:21:56.64\00:21:58.42
and picked up the
baby with one hand,
00:21:58.45\00:22:00.27
she picked up the
grass with the other hand
00:22:00.30\00:22:02.18
and she got the prolapse
right there on the spot.
00:22:02.21\00:22:06.37
But Helen promotes
a two pronged approach
00:22:06.40\00:22:08.93
through educational clinics
and providing medical support
00:22:08.96\00:22:12.09
including surgeries
that transform women's lives.
00:22:12.12\00:22:15.95
Over the last 10 years
00:22:15.98\00:22:17.61
Asian Aid has sponsored
more than 8,000 surgeries.
00:22:17.64\00:22:22.14
The school here now.
Yeah, yeah, the government--
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After showing us what
prolapse was all about
00:22:23.82\00:22:26.49
Helen wanted us to
travel on the Pokhara,
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a five to six hour
drive on a good day.
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And how good is the road?
00:22:31.81\00:22:33.58
Some of its good
00:22:33.61\00:22:34.83
but then you need
knowledge to get there.
00:22:34.86\00:22:36.57
Road is not so bad,
but widening I mean to say.
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Helen sponsored Rajendra
through the Asian Aid program.
00:22:53.78\00:22:57.47
Now he and Asian
Aid are working together
00:22:57.50\00:23:00.07
to make a difference in Pokhara
00:23:00.10\00:23:02.20
a hot spot for human trafficking
00:23:02.23\00:23:05.74
primarily young Nepalese girls.
00:23:05.77\00:23:08.42
Thousands are sent off to India,
the Middle-East and Thailand.
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It's driven primarily by
poverty, lack of education
00:23:13.34\00:23:16.92
and empty promises
of job opportunities.
00:23:16.95\00:23:20.62
Helen has been
working with Rajendra
00:23:20.65\00:23:22.18
to provide a
safe haven for women
00:23:22.21\00:23:24.09
who have been rescued
from the trafficking trade.
00:23:24.12\00:23:27.01
But Helen and Asian Aid see
the need for a larger campus
00:23:27.04\00:23:30.39
that will not only
rescue these women,
00:23:30.42\00:23:32.51
but also educate and train them.
00:23:32.54\00:23:36.64
We also learn that
women who are in prison
00:23:36.67\00:23:39.13
often have their
children with them.
00:23:39.16\00:23:41.37
It can be a dead end
for both mother and child,
00:23:41.40\00:23:44.37
but Helen and
Rajendra have a plan
00:23:44.40\00:23:46.74
that has caught the interest
of the prison officials.
00:23:46.77\00:23:50.15
It's a bold plan
00:23:50.18\00:23:51.21
with the winning
scenario for everyone.
00:23:51.24\00:23:54.91
It offers hope by
caring for the children
00:23:54.94\00:23:57.15
and their mothers
many who have HIV.
00:23:57.18\00:24:01.98
There are other places
that need to be seen in Nepal,
00:24:02.01\00:24:04.98
but Helen must get back to India
00:24:05.01\00:24:06.72
where a new orphanage is
about to become a reality.
00:24:06.75\00:24:10.96
Back in Bobbili, India
00:24:17.20\00:24:19.14
we were here two months
ago and this land was empty
00:24:19.17\00:24:21.96
and now it's
becoming a sustainable campus.
00:24:21.99\00:24:25.54
With the help of Asian Aid
00:24:25.57\00:24:27.25
field officer Raj Varma
is moving the dream forward
00:24:27.28\00:24:30.59
and as support grows
00:24:30.62\00:24:31.90
the
groundbreaking is not far off.
00:24:31.93\00:24:35.02
I really like this land,
00:24:35.05\00:24:36.16
because I grew
up in the country.
00:24:36.19\00:24:37.61
I think this is ideal.
00:24:37.64\00:24:41.77
I've work with
her for over 22 years
00:24:41.80\00:24:44.58
and I can never
keep up with her.
00:24:44.61\00:24:46.40
Sometimes I just feel so lazy
in my office working flat chair,
00:24:46.43\00:24:50.60
but I just can't
keep up with her.
00:24:50.63\00:24:52.00
She is just doing so many things
00:24:52.03\00:24:55.30
and coordinating so many things
00:24:55.33\00:24:57.33
and just has her
finger on the pulse of
00:24:57.36\00:25:00.05
all of the different projects
and the different schools.
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Mother Eager from 30 years
00:25:03.83\00:25:05.87
she is doing the
service for India
00:25:05.90\00:25:08.50
and that she is
sponsoring so many children.
00:25:08.53\00:25:12.00
Five to six thousand
children were sponsored
00:25:12.03\00:25:14.37
because of her help.
00:25:14.40\00:25:16.28
So you're
getting big aren't you?
00:25:16.31\00:25:18.67
So we appreciate her help.
00:25:18.70\00:25:23.84
Helen's passions are diverse
00:25:23.87\00:25:25.44
but focused with
measurable results.
00:25:25.47\00:25:28.82
After all these
years she still struggles
00:25:28.85\00:25:30.73
to make sure new
programs to get started
00:25:30.76\00:25:33.16
so that people are
getting the help they need.
00:25:33.19\00:25:36.26
Well, its breakfast
time at the Sunrise Home
00:27:43.23\00:27:45.83
and these 75
sponsored Asian Aid children
00:27:45.86\00:27:48.57
will shortly be going to school
00:27:48.60\00:27:50.66
and down the road we're
building a new home for them
00:27:50.69\00:27:53.26
and they are very excited.
00:27:53.29\00:27:55.01
There is an overwhelming need
with orphans in this country
00:27:55.04\00:27:58.24
and Asian Aid need your support
00:27:58.27\00:28:00.44
with its orphanage home project.
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