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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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 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,
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dedicated to helping
those who have the least.
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Asian Aid is an
organization implementing
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diverse development projects
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and sponsoring
thousands of children.
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Their outreach expands
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 in all these years
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with a desire to show
the world 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 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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I shot an arrow into the air
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It fell to
earth, I knew not where
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For, so swiftly
it flew, the sight
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Could not
follow it in its flight
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I breathed a song into the air
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It fell to
earth, I knew not where
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For who has sight
so keen and strong
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That it can follow
the flight of song?
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Long, long afterward, in an oak
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I found the arrow, still unbroke
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And the song,
from beginning to end
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I found again in
the heart of a friend
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H. W. Longfellow.
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We didn't expect
to hear Longfellow
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halfway around the world,
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but there was something
so peaceful about her smile
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then she turned and I
saw the scars on her cheek.
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Her master had put a
cigarette out on her face
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for not working hard enough.
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We sit down with her
to hear about her journey.
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Before I came to
Sunshine I was 4 years old
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and my mom she
couldn't take care of me,
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so she told my
grandmother to take me
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and put me in some other place.
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And so one day this
pastor asked to this grandmother
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whether he can
take me to his house
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and so I went to this pastor's
house and I stayed there.
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And it was so horrible like
this I became like a servant.
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I was very small.
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I didn't know how
things were supposed to
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and I didn't
know how to do work.
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So I always got beatings for it,
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I always used to get banging,
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sometimes I used
to get with wire,
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sometimes with
slippers, sometimes they tie me,
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they tie me fully and
then they put the wire inside
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and they leave one,
like kind of get shocks.
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He would shock you? Yeah.
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Just like this electricity.
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Electricity out of the wall?
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I wanted to tell this
all to my grandmother.
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I wanted to tell
her but some days later
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the news came that she died.
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So after that I
didn't have anybody.
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I lost my mom, I
lost my grandmother,
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now I didn't have
anybody, I was all by myself.
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You were how old?
I was four years old.
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Four years old?
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These children, the
stories about these children
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that are 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 made me so angry
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because more often
than not they involve abuse
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and then the children
are just treated like dirt
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and the work they have
to do is just way beyond
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what a child of 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
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may be upsets me
almost more than anything.
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Unfortunately, Hema's
story is all too common here,
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but for the lucky
ones there is hope.
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Over 30 years ago, in
the city of Bangalore,
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it all started
with one orphanage
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and a woman who
turned to Asian Aid for help.
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I remember in 1980 or it was 81,
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when Helen Eager came
to India from Asian Aid
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and we spent several
days at Sunshine Orphanage
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because I wanted Asian Aid
to get involved with Sunshine.
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At that point we had
been struggling with,
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trying to get
sponsors here and there.
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We knew it was a good work.
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And yes, it grew more rapidly
than we ever anticipated.
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And it was just--
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it was a real
problem in the beginning
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finding a way to
feed the children
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and to care for the children.
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And so I presented it to Helen
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and she took it back
to the Asian Aid board
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and they took on
the Sunshine Orphanage.
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We got sponsors for the children
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and then of course
this building here was built
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and the children were
moved out here out of the city
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which-- that was
such a blessing for them.
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Dorothy was just so
grateful that Asian Aid
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was able to come on
board and provide the money
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that was needed to
keep the orphanage going.
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Of course it was a
blessing to Asian Aid as well.
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That was the first
project that we actually started
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raising funds for
and I guess Asian Aid
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has just sort of
grown from Sunshine.
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It fell to
earth, I know not where.
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For who has a
sight so keen and strong
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That it can follow
the flight of a song?
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This story actually
happened before Beulah
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was put in as
director of Sunshine.
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There was a
family of four children
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and the mother kept
coming to the orphanage
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and pleading and
begging and saying
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please take my children.
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She said, I'm sure my
husband is going to kill me.
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She said, I can't go
anywhere or do anything
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but she said
will you please take
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my children and
save their lives.
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So I took them to the orphanage.
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Jayanthi along with her siblings
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was taken in by Asian Aid
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to start a new life
at the Sunshine Home.
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I didn't feel that I was being
brought up in an orphanage,
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rather than I felt I was
brought up in a nice home
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with lot of other
kids, like we call them
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brothers and sisters.
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I'm happy that I was there
and I always thank my mother
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for putting us there.
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It was a very
short time after that,
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that the father
actually poured fuel on his wife
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and set her alight
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and she actually
grabbed hold of him and she died
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and then a few
hours later he also died.
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And I think she--
before she could die
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she had told
somebody, I think her friend
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not to let her children be
taken away from Sunshine Home
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where she placed us.
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And I think, I
will always be thankful,
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if not for anything
for my mother making
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that great decision for
us and I'm thankful for that.
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So which means my mother
played a very important role.
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I came to America in 2003
and now it's almost 5, 5½ years
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and I'm currently in Baltimore.
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I'm married and
settled and I have a son
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who is 16 months and I work
as a nurse in Washington D.C.
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Over the past 30 years,
the lives of hundreds of kids
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had been transformed,
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much of the thanks goes
to Asian Aid's Beulah Fernan,
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Director of Sunshine Home.
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As soon as you met Miss
Beulah, how did you feel?
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I like was so shocked.
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I saw children going
around her holding her
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sari and they were hugging her,
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they were talking so frankly
to her like I got so scared.
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When she came to Sunshine,
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it didn't look like
she was going to fit here
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because she was kind of
suspicious about everybody
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and she wasn't trusting anyone.
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And then as I stayed
there, they told me about her
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and I became close to her.
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I was very close to her.
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She's like a mother,
like she's like my mom.
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What love I didn't
get, I get from her.
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We've seen her blossom and
she didn't know any English
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or didn't know how to
read and write properly
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but she's put her
heart and soul into studies
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because she know
that she will do well
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if she's an educated person.
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Before I came to
this place Sunshine,
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my father used to always
drink and he used to smoke
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and he used to
come late at night
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and he used to beat my mother.
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The mother was traumatized
by this that she drank poison
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and when the father realized
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that the mother had
drunk poison and died,
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he too drank poison and died
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and that left these
children without parents.
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Do you know what you
want to be when you grow up?
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Pilot.
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What? Pilot.
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A pilot?
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When Moses and his
brothers came to Sunshine,
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we noticed that there
was something really wrong
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with the little
one, that Samuel.
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He was crying and
crying all the time.
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He couldn't imagine his
life without his parents
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and especially his
mother and in his own world
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everything had collapsed.
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What's Beulah like?
She is like a mother.
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She's taking care of us.
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When we ask any thing she gives.
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As of now, I can't see
myself without these children
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and they are part of my family.
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Actually when I
came to Sunshine,
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it was Beulah aunty who
has taken me to Sunshine.
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What I'm today
is because of her,
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because of her support
and because of all that.
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She helped me
throughout my studies.
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I want to do
medicine because Aunty Beulah
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and all my brothers and sisters
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who encouraged me,
okay, you just take nursing,
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whatever it is
God has a plan for you
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and if she was not
there what I'm today,
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I would have not
been what I'm today,
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it's all because of her.
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The most important
thing that churches can do,
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that individuals can do,
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that anybody
else can do for India
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is get the children educated.
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With the right education
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they can go
anywhere on the planet.
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And why should they
not be able to do that?
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Just because they are born
poor with illiterate parents,
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that has to be their destiny?
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I don't believe that.
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That is not what I understand
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is a Christian
philosophy of life.
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One of the things
we need to realize
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that these kids who
come from very poor families,
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they are not stupid,
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there is no lack of
intelligence among them.
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And what a loss to the
world that so much brainpower
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is going to waste in
villages where kids are doing
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manual labor who
could be inventers.
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Well, I'm here at Sunrise home
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with Joshua and
these two lovely girls.
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And every morning their sponsors
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make a big
difference in their lives
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providing accommodation,
providing clothing,
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providing food
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and shortly they are
going to walk down the road
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to the local
Bobbili Adventist School
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and with sponsorship you
can make a big difference
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every morning in
the life of the child.
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One in ten women has prolapse.
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600,000 women
need operation now.
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Undocumented may
be crossing a million.
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It was like a
curse for the women.
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It is still, it is a curse.
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35, 40 years
they suffer, they die.
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So this is the
situation in Nepal.
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When it is Procidentia, a
complete prolapse we call.
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When the whole
uterus and a cervix is lying
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outside the introitus.
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In Nepal, beneath the
beauty of the Himalayans,
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hundreds of thousands of
women are living in pain.
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We are in Katmandu
making the final plans
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to follow Asian Aid's
Helen Eager and Rama Basnet
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into the
foothills of the Himalayans.
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Their mission is to
find and help women suffering
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from a condition
called uterine prolapse.
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How many degrees are
there? Three degrees.
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Three degrees? Yeah.
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The first, it
just becomes loose.
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The second degree it falls down.
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The uterus falls
into the vaginal area
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and then the third degree is
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when it comes
right outside the body.
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You remember that young women
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that she told you she
delivered the baby alone
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on the mountain side
when she was cutting grass.
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She picked up the
baby with one hand,
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she picked up the
grass with the other hand
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and she got the prolapse
right there on the spot.
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So we go to
parkrun on the way there,
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we'll stop at
some of these villages.
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As we wind our way through these
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beautiful mountain passes,
the scenery starts to change.
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We learned that one of the
main ways the women of Nepal
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get prolapse is
because they're forced to carry
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heavy loads,
sometimes as much as 100 kilos
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with a strap
around their forehead
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pressing down on their neck.
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Often they have to
continue with this heavy labor
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right after childbirth.
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The stress and pressure of
this puts on their lower back
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is a dangerous combination.
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Ultimately their muscles
cannot support their uterus.
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As we travel on, we
see this tiny young woman
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on the roadside
and decided to pullover
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and see for
ourselves how difficult
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this hard labor really is.
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Compress my neck.
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So you're gonna try this?
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So he just assigned us 50 kilos.
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This little, she
carries all of this.
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You carry this? Yeah.
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Yeah, come on, let's see.
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It was heavy.
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I could tell it was heavy
and I just tried to pick up,
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it was heavy.
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How does it feel? Not
real good on the neck.
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Oh, that feels good.
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The more we learned
about the Nepalese culture,
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the more questions
we seemed to have about.
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Can you carry
that? Men will not do.
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Why don't the men do it?
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It's becoming clear
that this is a question
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not many people in
Nepal wanted to deal with.
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Men do not work,
they sit by the riverside
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or the roadside and gamble
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but the women are
the ones who lift it,
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work in ethe field,
take care of the families.
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Is that a cultural thing? Yes.
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That's accepted? Yeah.
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It seems like they
don't necessarily appreciate
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the heavy load that
their wives are carrying.
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In remote areas, just they
feel that their life partner,
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their wife are as
like a non-paid servant.
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We have to
educate their husband also
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and so that they will not
force the ladies to work hard.
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It's the men that need to
be educated, don't you think?
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We head farther into
the mountains following
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Rama and Helen to where
they're setting up a clinic
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for these women.
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Helen promotes a
two pronged approach.
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First, is to find the
women suffering with prolapse
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and facilitate their surgeries.
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Second, she makes
sure Asian Aid provides
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much needed
preventative health education.
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Rama and a few other nurses
start to gather information
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from the women to discern
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who maybe good
candidates for surgery.
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It is very important that
we reach, we go to the field,
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we go to the community village
and find out these ladies
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otherwise they are not
going to appear at all.
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As you have seen, 35, 40
years they suffer, they die.
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When you're married
you're totally matured,
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you cannot have any excuses so
at the age of seven and eight,
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you have to carry everything,
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carry heavy load like any adult.
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She's a special case,
married at the age of six.
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Thirteen year old
when she was married.
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Her husband was 29 year
old and she was 13 year old.
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She had first baby
when she was 17 year old
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and she had nine
children all together.
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She suffered about 25
years to 45 years with this.
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Her uterus was falling and
fell out, totally fell out.
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It was rotten.
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Is she going to lay down? Yes.
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She had nobody to take her
so she is still here waiting
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to be taken to
hospital and now you can smell,
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it smells terrible, terrible.
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50 years she's been
suffering like this, 50 years.
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Mainly what happens if the
lady has like this problem,
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the man leaves her alone.
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She is totally
deserted with the children
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and that he
marries another lady.
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Look at the social stigma,
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especially this is
not the fault of a woman
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and in spite of that
also they had been segregated
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from the society
from their own family
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that is an inhuman thing.
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They were totally
excluded, you know,
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like outcast in the society.
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Through the work of
Rama, Helen and others,
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Asian Aid has provided
surgeries for over 8,000 women
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but hundreds of thousands
more still go undetected.
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Maili Tamang, the woman
we met in the hilltop village
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just days earlier is
prepped and ready for surgery,
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a procedure fully funded
through the work of Asian Aid.
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All right, we're getting ready
to head into this operation.
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We're gonna watch
her prolapse surgery.
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A prolapse
surgery takes one hour,
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just one hour to
transform a life forever.
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This surgeon can do up
to ten surgeries a day.
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It costs 17,000
rupees, only $300.
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We saw her, we referred
her, she came willingly,
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now she's been
operated and she feels okay now.
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Asian Aid's plan is to
work with the hospital to fill
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all these empty beds.
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The team is ready and waiting.
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The number of the uterine
prolapse is now till date
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is 600,000 documented.
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Undocumented is we don't know.
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It maybe crossing a
million, you know, a million.
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A million population is
suffering in our country
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with this,
documented is 600,000.
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Prolapse has been
an accepted way of life
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for these women for too long.
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Now through the
work of Asian Aid,
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more and more
women are speaking up,
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coming together, and
finding what they really need...
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hope.
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This, I feel like I am 15
year old now, 16 year old now.
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They get a new life.
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They feel happy of
course and we feel happy too.
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Through my work for Asian Aid,
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I am constantly being made aware
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of the need and
suffering around the globe.
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Currently there is a
desperate need in Nepal
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to put an end to
the sex slave industry
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which is destroying
the lives of so many
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thousands of
children and young women.
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If you would like to support
Asian Aid Safe Haven Project
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in Nepal or any of our
other current projects,
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please get in touch
with Asian Aid today.
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