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
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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, from remote villages
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and empty fields 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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Here in Nepal under
the Himalayan skyline,
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life is quiet.
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It's easy for us to see
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why this place is a
top tourist destination.
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Our film team is
into its second month now
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traveling with Asian Aid.
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We're just outside
the city of Pokhara
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enjoying the serenity
of a Nepalese sunrise.
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We're about to head
into the city to learn about
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the side of Nepal
that isn't so tranquil.
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When night falls,
the dark underbelly
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of this otherwise
majestic place comes to life.
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This is the main
attraction of Pokhara,
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the main
commercial sex business place.
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There are some villages in Nepal
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where there's no girls left
between the ages of 11 and 20,
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they've all been trafficked.
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Traffickers will have them
stay here for one or two days
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and then show them all
fancy things and good things.
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And then ask them to
wait for two more days
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and then finally they
get taken away to India.
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Helen had insisted we come
to Nepal and meet Rajendra,
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an Asian Aid grad who is
trying to make a difference
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by bringing some hope to Nepal.
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It's just such an encouragement
to find these young people
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who are now
blessing others because,
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because they have been blessed.
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When I was 4 years
old, my father died
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and when I was
8, my mother died.
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I feel fortunate in place that
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I could be of
small help to someone,
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when Asian Aid did
a great thing to me.
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Rajendra's main
mission is to help girls
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who have been tricked
into the trafficking business
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to find a way out.
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However, it didn't take
long to see that his care giving
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doesn't stop there
when a young street boy
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catches Rajendra's attention.
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He is from a low cast family.
So it could be a genuine case.
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Could be a what?
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It could be a genuine case
that means the street boy--
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his father and mother died.
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So I'm giving
him my phone number,
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if he is interested to
study then he should call me.
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If he is not interested
then he will not call.
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He said, uncle,
please come on Thursday,
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I'll be right there,
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I'll go to school,
please come, uncle.
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Before we have
time to contemplate
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whether this boy
would really take Rajendra
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up on his offer to
get off the streets,
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we're off to
another part of the city.
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Pokhara is a major crossroads
for the international sex trade
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thousands of
women are trafficked
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through the city each year.
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This is the main
junction place in Pokhara
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for the trafficking of
ladies, girls take place.
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The people who do the
trafficking are very clever
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because they will
go to the families
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at the time when they know
that the people are hungry.
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And then they'll say,
we would take your daughter
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and we will give her a nice job
then she'll be able to help you
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and the families really
have no idea where they--
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where their
girls are really going.
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So they're just
coming to the bus station.
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Bus station, yes.
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Yeah, come on,
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those-- those sort of girls--
those ones to feed babies.
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Where do they keep these
girls when they take them?
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Yeah, are they staying here?
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They stay here.
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The girls are brought here
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and held overnight
while the brokers negotiate
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the best price
for the human goods.
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This beautiful girl of
this age and is physically,
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weight and sexually attractive,
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so they will bargain
and negotiate the price
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with the brokers in India
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and that's how they get tricked.
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We ask Rajendra, how this
happens on such a large scale?
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Unfortunately, even
the police force knows
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and government knows,
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but then very little
have been accomplished.
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They basically get
bribed by the brokers.
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We meet two
sisters caught in this net.
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Srijana has cancer in her leg.
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Her sister Meena
brought her to Pokhara
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to get medical
care on the promise
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there will be work to pay for.
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Their story is like so
many others who get caught
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in the trap with the
sex trafficking trade.
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But Rajendra has pulled them out
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and he is trying to
find them better options.
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And they came with
the big expectation
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as to they will get
good job or something better
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they feel very
bad and embarrassed
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that they didn't get any.
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So, they've been for some
time into the sex slavery work,
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not at all a good thing
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but because she loves
her sister she's doing.
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But the sister--
she spent all her money
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and then the
doctors that Srijana went to
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misused her also
the doctor himself.
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I love my sister so I have
to do anything to save her.
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I'm grateful to her sister
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what she is
offering or doing for her.
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How they should feel
about her leg and her cancer
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and, you know,
does she feel hopeful?
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She says, yeah, I'm hopeful
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that my legs will be
all right with cancer.
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But how?
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The problem is with
money how to get the treatment.
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When they are tricked and
put into this sort of work,
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they don't go back, they
will remain here and say,
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okay, I'm now
lost, I'm now worthless,
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so let me begin
continue this and not come out.
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It's hard to
imagine that a place
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so peaceful like
Nepal could harbor
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the dark underworld
of human trafficking.
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Because they are
shunned by society,
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for most women
there is no escape.
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Some cases I remember
that we helped in the past,
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we helped them to get out,
but then when they went back
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they were not
accepted in their family,
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neither they were accepted
in the whole of community.
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So two of the young girls
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poured kerosene oil
and burn themselves.
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This is where
you're doing your outreach?
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Oh, yes, this is the same place.
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This is the city
prison, the district prison
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and also the central
prison for the Western Nepal.
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If they don't commit
suicide or die from AIDS,
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most of these
women end up in prison.
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And as you see that the child
she has is seven months old.
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Because most of the
women's families disown them
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once they fall
into prostitution.
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There is no one to
care for their children,
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so they live in
prison with their mothers.
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She need sweater, she
need pant, she need socks
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since she has grown out
of the socks, even this is--
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The children here
need basic supplies
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like clothes and tooth paste,
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things the
prison cannot provide.
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I'll raise that money.
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We think that
it's more important
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to be help to ladies, women,
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and to children of
course they are there--
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without there
doing anything wrong.
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Perhaps, this is the
first time in her life,
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you know, somebody
being so kind to her
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and she's grateful about that.
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How many-- to how
many you want to help?
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There are so
many, you may not know--
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will you help to
those who don't know you.
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I said, yes, we will try.
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And then she also asked there
are so many in this problem
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and will you help them?
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I said, yeah, we will try.
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And then she said,
no, it's not possible
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there are so many
that it's not possible.
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We desperately need a really
good school here in Nepal.
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And we are hoping and praying
that we can get enough land
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where we can
also grow some crops
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as well as some the vegetables
for the children to eat,
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have a really
good boarding school.
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Helen and Rajendra's plan
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is an all inclusive first
step to conquering the problem.
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A sustainable campus
would give these women
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a chance to learn
important vocational skills
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as well as the opportunity to
grow and sell their own crops.
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Both of which can help them
start providing for themselves.
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Perhaps more important,
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a school would
give their children hope
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for a safer and brighter future.
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They want to get out
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and then get
married to a proper nice man
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and begin a new life again.
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All she wants is a help
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to have her sister
get proper treatment.
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We have so huge that need
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to take care of these women
who are desperately in need
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and who are crying
with pain and agony.
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And, yes, it is
possible to bring one life
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from that slavery
situation to a better situation.
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Helen, Rajendra and
Asian Aid are working hard
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to make this dream a reality
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and to restore peace
to these women's lives
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even if it's one at a time.
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Rajendra
continues on his mission,
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even though he knows
it's an uphill battle
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because he's giving
them what he was given, hope.
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When I first came to
India, now around 32 years ago,
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there were two
things that really stuck me.
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The first one
was the need for food
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and clothing and accommodation
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for children living
way below the poverty line.
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The second thing was
the amazing potential
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that these boys and girls have
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to make a
difference in the world.
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And the only thing missing
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was the need for
people like you to help.
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With sponsorship,
you can make a difference
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in the life of a child everyday.
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In a small sleepy Nebraska town,
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a long journey
is about to begin.
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This is Naomi Davis,
she is a school teacher.
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Her kids are grown and
living off on their own.
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For the past five years,
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Naomi and her husband have
been sponsoring a young girl
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from a small town
in India, name Dinah.
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Well, she's got
a beautiful smile
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and she's got sparks in her eyes
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and I look back
to the first pictures
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I've gotten of her
and she is growing.
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She is becoming, I think she is
becoming a very fine young lady
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and I see that she is happy,
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in this one her smiles are
more and more all the time.
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Dinah is different
among all the children.
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She do her own work.
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She will not mingle with others,
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she is a shy girl, she
won't talk with anyone.
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Like so many
other children in India,
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Dinah's past was
difficult to say the least.
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She's come from an
impoverish background
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and her father died when
she was only five years old.
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Is this one? This is Dinah.
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This is when she came? Yeah.
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Then some people, they will
bring their certificates also.
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We talked with Lolitha,
the Director of Sunrise,
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a little more about
Dinah and about the benefits
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and bonds created
through sponsorship.
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She shows us the
thorough records that they keep
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and tells us how accountability
is one of their primary goals.
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And this is the
caste certificate of Dinah.
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He says it helps ensure
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that each child
receives the full care
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that the sponsors and Asian Aid
both know that these kids need.
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So often in sponsorship programs
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there is no real connection
between the child and sponsor,
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but Lolitha and
Asian Aid make sure
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it's more than just a donation.
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There is always a
direct line of communication,
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so real relationship can grow.
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We traveled with Naomi
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on our way to visit
Dinah for the first time.
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What are you looking at?
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I'm looking at her
pictures and some of the letters
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I've got from her and I'm
really excited to meet her.
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The only thing is
probably you won't think
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that I'll be in
India, that's the thing.
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You know, now she--
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I've never mentioned
anything to her about coming.
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Miles outside the small town
of Ongole in Southern India,
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we meet up with Bruce Farlow.
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He's embarked on a
hard but noble mission.
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For the last few years
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he's been building a
school for kids in need.
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And we want to
know what motivates him
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to come all this way
and do something like this.
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There is always challenges
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when you try and
build in a foreign country.
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There's always
challenges that take place.
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And-- but the ultimate goal,
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the ultimate victory is
going on here behind us,
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those kids
playing and having fun.
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They've got
community, they've got family,
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they've got home,
they've got security.
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They've got some place they know
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and that's-- that's worth it.
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I could see in your
eyes, you are going nowhere.
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You know, the opportunities
are huge, huge, huge, huge.
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People are so willing,
once they see the need,
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it's hard to see it
when you're at home.
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But when you're
here boots on the ground,
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you have a hard time ignoring.
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Bruce leads a volunteer group
to check out the new school.
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By the time the group arrives,
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the school was already
filled with over 150 orphans
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and kids in need
from the surrounding area.
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Each with their own
tough story to tell.
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Asian Aid has been
connecting children like this
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with sponsors
from all over the world
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for the last 30 years.
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Now they have over 7,000
sponsored children across Asia.
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But the need is
still as great as ever.
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There are according
to government statistics,
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there are 770
million people in India
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who live on less
than 50 cents a day.
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Our purpose is to take children,
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poor children from the villages
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whose families
never had a chance in life
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and give them a chance.
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And so they can go to college,
they can get a profession,
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they can help their families,
they can help their village
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and not only that they
can go anywhere in the world.
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Just because they are born
poor with illiterate parents,
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that has to be their
destiny 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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We sit down with Dinah and ask
her about her sponsor, Naomi.
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She doesn't know that
Naomi is coming today,
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but she definitely knows
that something is going on.
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Would you like
her to come to India?
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Yes, sir.
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You want your sponsor to
come to India to see you?
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Yes, sir.
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Do you like her not?
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I like so much.
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Tell her somebody
special came to visit her.
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My mummy came.
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Yeah, what did you say?
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There.
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Dinah, how are you?
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Fine, Mummy.
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Can I give you a hug?
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It's so good to see you.
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I'm so happy, Mummy.
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I am too. I am too.
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Well, you've made it half
way around the world so...
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And I'll do it again,
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that's all worth
it, it is so worth it.
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She is a very special
girl to our whole family.
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We followed the two around
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as Naomi gets to see firsthand
the day in the life of Dinah.
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From the looks of it,
it isn't just Dinah's life
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that has been transformed
from this relationship.
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Oh boy, I have to
find words for today,
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today it was wonderful.
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Well, she had said
everything she had,
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she's remembered everything
I've ever written in a letter.
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She asked me questions about
everything I'd ever written.
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I did not realize
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that I was this
important in her life as I am,
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I ever think she was asking me.
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It's just you said
my life will be changed
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after I met her
again, it's changed.
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As Naomi enters a new phase
of her relationship with Dinah.
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At Bruce's school in Ongole,
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others are
starting their own journeys.
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My name is Sinia.
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Sinia. Sinia.
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Sinia. Oh, you're so cute.
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Some see that even sponsoring
one child can change the world.
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One of the little girl said,
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the 12 year old that
we were wanting to sponsor
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or that we're gonna sponsor she,
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her dream is to become a doctor.
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And just think of the
people that she can impact
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where giving her just
that little bit of opportunity
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that we'll be able to do
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and she's gonna be able
to reach lot more people
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than we are ever
gonna be able to reach.
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When we first came to India
to film the work of Asian Aid,
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we were struck by the
overwhelming transformation
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that they would bring
in the people's lives.
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Whether supporting schools
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or installing
wells for clean water,
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it was clear that the
hard work of the Asian Aid
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was not only bringing
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the higher
quality of life to people,
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but they were also providing
a powerful sense of hope.
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But hope is a complex word.
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What was Asian
Aid truly giving here?
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What drive sponsors who
live halfway across the world
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to support these children.
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It wasn't until we
saw what was happening
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here in this new school
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where the bond
between Dinah and Naomi
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that it became clear, it
was family, it was a connection,
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it was a sense of belonging
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that permeates all of this hope.
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It's a sense that you
weren't forgotten in this world
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that somewhere,
someone either in your own home
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or half way across the
world has you in their minds,
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someone out there
who cares about you.
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They love their sponsors,
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everyday they
pray for their sponsors
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and they know how they
are working very hard for them
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and they are caring.
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I think most of your sponsors
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have the sense
that they are rewarded
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because the children
have developed and done well.
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And those sponsors have told me
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that there is
happiness in their hearts
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that money cannot buy.
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I now have a new
member of my family
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and she'll--
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she'll be a very
important member of our family.
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I'm sorry it's just-- it's been
a very emotional day for me.
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We're half the world away
from this little girl who--
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now I'm going to love very much
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and it's a difficult
thing to say good bye.
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Throughout our
travels with Asian Aid
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one more thing
was as clear as ever.
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Was that all it
takes is one person,
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one sponsor to
truly change the world.
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Currently at the
Vizianagaram school,
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there are 19 Asian
Aid sponsored students.
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They sleep on the floor
and they share one bathroom
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with all the other
students on the campus.
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When my church family
heard about this need,
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they've raised funds
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to make this campus a
better place for the students.
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There's a constant need
for donations by individuals,
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churches, organizations
to assist Asian Aid
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with these many
special projects.
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Join me would you
in making a difference.
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