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
Asian Aid has invested
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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 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 the work
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it has been doing
in all these years
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with the 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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This is the
place he used to sleep.
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He used to beg all day
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then come and sleep
here on this veranda.
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That's where he slept? Yeah.
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This small boy's name is Rajesh.
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He doesn't know
anything about his parents.
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He lived with his grandfather
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and they just used to
sleep on one of the steps
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beside a shop just
on the concrete there.
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And every day they would beg
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and share the
money that they got.
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Then one day Rajesh had
done quite well with his begging
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he had around 65 rupees.
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But when he reached the spot
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where his
grandfather usually met him,
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the grandfather had died.
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Here in the slums of Hyderabad,
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in the south eastern
state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Rajesh story is not uncommon.
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Thankfully, there's somewhere
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he and other
orphan children can go.
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A police officer found
him wandering in streets
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and he brought Rajesh here.
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He is seven or eight years old
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and no seven or eight years old
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old should have to be on
the streets begging for money.
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And so I was very fortunate
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that the policeman
knew about Elim Home
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and that he
could bring Rajesh here
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and give him a
chance to actually be a kid.
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Asian Aid sponsors
over 60 children like Rajesh
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here at Elim Home.
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Here they study...
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they live...
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and they play.
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One, two, three.
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As we arrive at Elim Home
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we're skeptical of how much good
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one orphanage can
really do in a city like this.
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How are you girl's doing?
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My name is Jashira Yavas
and it's spelled J.A.S.H.I.R.A.
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I am an
elementary education major.
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Here in India I am working
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with the pre-schools/nursery
class that we have here.
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W. W.
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X. X.
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Y. Y.
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Z. Z.
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Very good.
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It's very different
than in the United States
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just walking down
just outside this gate
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we go down and
there's a tent made of tarp.
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And little kids
running with only a shirt on
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and no shoes or no pants.
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There's trash everywhere
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and you just see kids
using a bathroom there
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or trying to look for food.
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Most kids never
escape the slums.
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They remain uneducated,
illiterate and impoverished.
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Rani is one of the
lucky few who made it out
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thanks to a sponsor
who funded her education.
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When we are born, we may be poor
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but with the help of
them I'm not poor now.
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I completed my education
as the rich people has done.
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After receiving the
training to became a nurse,
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she's returned to the
slums to help those in need.
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Many children are there.
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I saw many of them,
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I feel very bad
whenever I saw my community.
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They should-- they
too should become like me.
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If education is
there, there will be change.
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So I used to feel very bad
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because I am the
only one from this area
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from this slum area I came up.
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I want my people
also from where I am born
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like me they should come up.
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When we arrived at Elim Home,
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there were 69
orphans living here already.
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We happened to be
here when the 70th arrived.
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Good evening, sir.
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How are you? Fine.
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Keerthana is a five year old
orphan rescued from the slum.
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She's been taken to Elim Home.
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Keerthana's mother
died when she was two.
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Her father
abandoned her a year later.
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When an orphan gets
dropped off, it's never easy.
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It's hard for them to understand
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that they're one
of the lucky ones.
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You wonder if
kids like Keerthana
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could ever find happiness after
experiencing so much trauma.
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So we talked to Ravi,
one of the first children
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to come to Elim
Home 30 years ago.
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I was just five-and-a-half years
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because I remember I was
asked to follow a stranger.
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I was in tears, I
don't know where I am
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and slowly the pastor said that
I'm going to put in a new home,
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that's Elim Adventist Home.
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When I first came to the home
I was a bit worried, crying.
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Pastor Christopher
served me a bun, bread,
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bread with banana
and it was wonderful,
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it was first time I
ate bread in my life.
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And the next day
I had a breakfast
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then I had a good bath.
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This is the room
where I used to sleep,
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I got my bed here,
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I never thought that I would
get such a nice bed to sleep
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and a blanket
and a mosquito net.
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And as I was going
to school I learned,
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started learning alphabet.
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You know that
alphabet and numbers.
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E, I, G.
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E, I, G.
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H, T, eight.
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It was good and going to school
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it was really a new
experience that I had.
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These are their prized
possessions right here.
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This little
pencil and this eraser
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means the world to them.
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They feel like they're rich
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if they have a pencil
and if they have an eraser.
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I like to thank and I must be
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ever grateful to
Mummy Helen Eager.
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I remember she came
to Hyderabad to see us.
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She grabbed me
and she hugged me.
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And then I felt the real
love of a mother that day.
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That was Mummy Eager was a
first person who hugged me,
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who grabbed me and
hugged me into her arms.
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Today, Ravi is an
Asian Aid field officer
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and one of Ravi's main jobs
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is to check on the wellbeing
of the kids in the schools.
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I've spend so much time
over here in the last 30 years
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with so many people,
they're just like family.
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These two boys are brothers.
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Their names are
Kishore and Rahul.
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This is Rajesh.
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This is Raja.
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And his sister Yamini.
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This beautiful
young lady is named Lilly.
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This young
man's name is Hamadam.
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When you were small,
how old were you then?
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When you first
knew me, he is asking?
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Yeah, 7 years old.
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You were 7 years old.
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Dev grew up in a small village
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where he had no chance of
getting a decent education.
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With sponsorship from Asian Aid,
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he was able to attend
a good boarding school
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which put him on track
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to becoming one of
India's top cancer researchers.
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My life started
from a small village
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where there is no knowledge.
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We don't know
anything about this world.
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What is happening
outside the world?
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The bridge that is
created between the village
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and the present
position was possible
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only through
Asian Aid organization.
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I owe all my sincere thanks
to Asian Aid organization.
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My name is Anand Kumar K.
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I'm a product of
Elim Adventist Home.
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When I was 3 years
old my father and mother
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both of them
died on the same day
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due to family problems.
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In India the elder person
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is to take care of the
next family after his father.
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So me being
born as a handicapped
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because I cannot
care of the family
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and he thought I am
a handicapped person
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and I am useless in the family.
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So one day he drank and came.
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He called me to him
and he said "Sit my son."
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Then he took
kerosene and poured on my body
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and lit me on fire.
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Half of my body is burned
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but this is the only
thing that is left still now.
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And as soon as my
father-- my mother saw that,
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she just came and she
tried to stop the fire.
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And by God's grace I
was alive on that day
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and if not my
father would have killed me
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on that particular day.
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Anand has polio.
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He's taught
himself to get around
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without the use of
crutches or wheel chair.
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I don't know how you do it.
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You are amazing.
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The secret of my
success today is Helen Eager mom
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because whenever I had a
problem she used to tell me,
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"you're not even
less with other persons.
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They may be physically strong,
they may be mentally strong,
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but you're not even--
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you're not at
all less than them."
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And that made
me very courageous.
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And I feel I am not
even less with all my friends
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whatever they do, I will do it.
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Throughout India
there was no person
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with 90% disabilities
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studying M.
Pharmacy or Master's degree.
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And I feel privileged to
study this Master's course
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and it is all by God's grace
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and the help of my
sponsors and everybody.
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There's just
something about them
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that just, they're
just-- they are happy
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and it makes you happy
to see them happy here.
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We leave Elim Home amazed
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at the potential of
these Asian Aid kids
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and the accomplishments of
the ones who have moved on.
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I am here today in
Andhra Pradesh, India,
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at the Vizianagaram School with
my friend Adarsh, 7 years old.
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And my family,
myself sponsored 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
can make the difference
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in the life of a child
everyday through sponsorship.
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Our film team has been
traveling with Asian Aid
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for over a month now.
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Trying to keep up
with them is exhausting.
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We're tired and
weary and ready to go home.
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There is just one
last stop to make.
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We arrive at the Asian Aid
School for the hearing impaired
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and are quickly rejuvenated
by the energy of these kids.
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Just watching these
children interact and learn
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you can't help being inspired.
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We are 100 miles
from the nearest city here
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in the remote town of Kamagiri.
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In a southern part of India
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is a school that
exceeds all expectations.
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These children are talented,
smart and have big hopes.
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And the teachers
don't let them off the hook
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just for being as they
refer to them differently abled.
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In India 4 out of every
1000 children are born deaf.
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And it's estimated that
only 10% of those children
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are getting the
proper education they need.
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In a country that
often discards the disabled.
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This is an institution
that goes far beyond anything
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that was thought possible
in the poorest parts of India,
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parts of India like this one.
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Mercy and Pastor Kumar are here
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and so we just
wanted to speak a little bit
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about how this deaf
school actually started.
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Because it was the
information that they got
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that inspired Asian Aid that
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we should be doing something
for these deaf children.
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We were only in the
beginning trying to teach them
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to learn and repeat
and things like that
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but actually you initiated
that kind of scholastic program
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where children were brought
in to learn the sign language.
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And this would definitely
meet the international standard.
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We know that we have give
them something beyond value,
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even to have given a
young person a literacy
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it's something that is--
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something that I
think you cannot measure,
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because it's so important
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and something I think
may be in the western world
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we don't realize the difference
it makes in the person's life.
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From humble beginnings
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with the few kids being
bust to a small rented building.
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Helen and Asian Aid
built this into a 120 kid home
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and a leading center for
educating the hearing impaired.
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Maheshwari, her brother Govinda
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and their little sister Kamakshi
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have attended Asian Aid
School for the hearing impaired
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since the eldest
was only 4 years old.
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Raj Kumar, a top teacher here
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and an Asian Aid
sponsored child himself
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help us to get to
know the kids a bit better.
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The children when they came,
when we asked about their story
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about her father and all.
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The girl used to tell that
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father used to
come drunken home,
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beat the children
and beat the mother
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and everyday they used
to be crying in the home
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and there was pain
and strife and misery.
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And the father was very mean
to the children and the wife.
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In an act of desperation
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their mother placed
them in this deaf school
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to shield them from
their abusive father.
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And hopes they could have
a chance at a solid education
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and a productive future.
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She's saying the father
doesn't want her to study,
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you just go
house to house to work.
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She was just 4 years old.
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She's going in tears
when you are asking the story.
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What does-- what does she said?
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About the father
when we're asking...
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Living in the schools she
almost seeing the children
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and the care
they were given here,
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she almost forgot the story.
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And again now she's
remembered and she is in tears.
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We know deafness is
partially hereditary.
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But what we don't
know is why it's happening
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in such great numbers
in the poor areas of India.
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One of the main causes
for the hearing impairment
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in this kind of children,
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in this area is
the consanguinity
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or the blood relations,
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one of the uncle is
marrying the nieces and all.
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Sometimes in
the poor communities
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people marry
relatives to keep the money
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from the dowries in the family,
this can come at a high cost.
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This is Padma and this is Jyothi
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and that is Rani
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there are three sisters
and mother is also a deaf.
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They had father but 3
years back he passed away
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because he was having cancer.
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Smallest one, she's
playful and she loves to play.
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She's always running,
she is a good girl too
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and the middle one she is
very good girl, she is helpful.
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She likes to be
with younger ones.
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The big girl is
very responsible.
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She takes care
of these two kids.
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She gives them bath.
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She's always
behind these two children
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to see that they
both are well kept.
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What does she want
to be when she grows up?
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She likes to be a
computer engineer.
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She likes, she
likes to be a tailor.
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She likes to stitch clothes.
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What about the smallest
one, she know what she wants?
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Yeah, she said she
wants to be a teacher now
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but she dances also very well.
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The kids are taught tailoring,
sewing and embroidery work.
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A valuable trade that
can lead to a solid living.
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We have two children who
are working outside in Bangalore
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who learnt tailoring here.
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And was working
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in one of the
garment factory in Bangalore
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earning nearly
4000 rupees a month.
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Both Govinda and Kamakshi
want to be tailors as well
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but their sister Maheshwari
has a different dream.
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So she wants to do go for
web designing and animation
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like part in the
computers-- using computers.
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Yeah, she wants
to do the same thing.
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She saw the
picture 'Avatar' recently.
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And she said, "I
want to do the same thing
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like animation work
since I am creative."
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Many computer
software companies also hire
00:22:00.76\00:22:03.50
hearing impaired workers
for this web designing and all
00:22:03.53\00:22:08.84
because there is
less to talk more to do
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using their hands and
brain using the computer.
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This deaf school
goes beyond teaching
00:22:48.18\00:22:50.31
and creates a family
with values for these kids.
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Children knows
why they've come here
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with the main purpose of
their being here in the campus.
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And one of the thing is
to get a good education.
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The second is to get
a care, the proper care
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where they won't even
get it at their homes.
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When we send the children
homes for their holidays
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after one or two days we can
see the children coming back.
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Yes, they say that we don't
get enough, one meal at home.
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They say we want to
spend holidays here,
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we don't want to go home,
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being with the
sister and the brother here
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right in one campus and
all of them living together
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with the other children makes
them very happy, feel happy.
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Teaching these children
gives us a beautiful feeling
00:23:35.54\00:23:40.94
that we're able to
train these children
00:23:40.97\00:23:42.80
and mold these
children in a right fashion
00:23:42.83\00:23:44.56
so that they could
get a proper education.
00:23:44.59\00:23:47.97
They can't hear
but they can see.
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A picture is worth
more than 100 words.
00:23:49.99\00:23:52.39
So we can show
much to these children
00:23:52.42\00:23:54.80
and educate them in a better way
00:23:54.83\00:23:56.53
so that they could be
a good future citizens,
00:23:56.56\00:23:59.73
a good Christians.
00:23:59.76\00:24:00.82
If there's anything
we've learned on our travels
00:24:16.01\00:24:18.77
it's that
everything with Asian Aid
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seems to come back full circle.
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I had a sponsor
00:24:23.84\00:24:25.11
and he sponsored me
to finish till my college
00:24:25.14\00:24:28.42
and I am standing on my feet.
00:24:28.45\00:24:30.67
It's because of God's
grace and by my sponsors,
00:24:30.70\00:24:33.76
I am expecting the same
thing for these children.
00:24:33.79\00:24:36.09
They're getting a hope that
they can come up in their life.
00:24:36.12\00:24:39.62
You want to write
letter for your sponsor,
00:24:39.65\00:24:45.25
what will you like to write?
00:24:45.28\00:24:46.86
She is saying that
she will ask, How are you?
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I am fine and
thank you for helping me.
00:24:49.90\00:24:52.45
One day I also
like to help others.
00:24:52.48\00:24:55.20
And so when they
come up in one level,
00:24:56.76\00:24:58.74
they can also help others like
how they are getting help now
00:24:58.77\00:25:02.67
like what Rani said,
00:25:02.70\00:25:03.99
she like to help
others when she becomes big.
00:25:04.02\00:25:07.77
I've been involved
now with this program
00:25:07.80\00:25:10.00
and sponsorship
for more than 30 years.
00:25:10.03\00:25:12.67
To me it's just
so wonderful to see
00:25:12.70\00:25:14.50
the changes in
the children's life's
00:25:14.53\00:25:16.83
because I have been
involved now long enough
00:25:16.86\00:25:18.66
to have seen them come
from this size up to adulthood.
00:25:18.69\00:25:23.61
And to every now and again come
across one of these children
00:25:23.64\00:25:27.39
who come to meet me that have
00:25:27.42\00:25:29.55
really done something
special in their lives.
00:25:29.58\00:25:32.34
It just makes it all worthwhile
00:25:32.37\00:25:34.87
From that small start
today to see what's happened is,
00:25:34.90\00:25:38.07
is nothing but the
story of a transformation.
00:25:38.10\00:25:40.74
There are many more
children right in the villages
00:25:40.77\00:25:43.21
where we could pick them up and
give them the right education
00:25:43.24\00:25:46.97
so that they could also feel
00:25:47.00\00:25:48.83
that this is their better homes.
00:25:48.86\00:25:51.64
I think the whole
world should see this.
00:25:51.67\00:25:54.72
The sponsor who sponsored me,
00:25:59.36\00:26:01.53
the sponsor who
sponsors the children,
00:26:01.56\00:26:03.24
we like to say a big thank you.
00:26:03.27\00:26:05.53
Not only that we
would like to urge
00:26:05.56\00:26:06.79
many most
sponsors to come forward
00:26:06.82\00:26:09.29
and to serve and to
help children like us
00:26:09.32\00:26:12.61
so that we could only again,
00:26:12.64\00:26:14.04
they could again serve
many more children like this.
00:26:14.07\00:26:16.70
This is one of the
toughest school we had to leave,
00:26:19.20\00:26:22.33
while it's hard saying good-bye,
00:26:22.36\00:26:24.89
it seems by the look of it
that it's harder for the kids
00:26:24.92\00:26:28.15
to say good-bye to Mommy Eager.
00:26:28.18\00:26:30.72
Well, its breakfast
time at the Sunrise Home
00:27:42.84\00:27:45.68
and these 75
sponsored Asian Aid children
00:27:45.71\00:27:48.57
will shortly be going
to school and down the road
00:27:48.60\00:27:51.51
we're building a new home for
them and they are very excited.
00:27:51.54\00:27:54.88
There is an overwhelming need
with orphans in this country
00:27:54.91\00:27:58.05
and Asian Aid needs your support
00:27:58.08\00:28:00.13
with its
orphanage home projects.
00:28:00.16\00:28:03.01