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
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in for many 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
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what is possible.
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By digging wells
in remote villages
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for clean drinking water
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and bringing
much needed healthcare
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to the women of Nepal.
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By providing an
education 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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Where is their room?
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Yeah, this side.
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Okay.
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When I arrived in India,
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I had a lot of things
on my mind as a filmmaker,
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but sponsoring a
orphan was one of them.
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My crew is stuck in the States
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dealing with the
politics of Indian visas.
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Most of my
equipment was with them
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and we only had a
limited time at each place
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Asian Aid wanted us to visit.
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At best I'd get about
half the material we needed
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and at worst the crew
wouldn't make it to India
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before I had to
return back to the States.
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So the last
thing I expected to do
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was the first thing
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you shouldn't do as a filmmaker,
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get involved.
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My first day in India made
my concern seem rather small.
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I found myself in
one of those villages
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that you see on
television, you know the kind.
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Children's faces
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moved in and out of
my frame all day long.
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I had seen these faces before
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distantly on my
television or the internet.
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Like everyone
else I was insulated.
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In India orphanages
number in the thousands
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and I was about to start filming
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at one called the Elim Home
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located on the
outskirts of Hyderabad.
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The kids that I was
photographing at Elim
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seemed well adjusted.
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The stories of their parents'
demise replaced by friends,
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meals, school and play time.
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I found myself
having fun with them.
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They were just like my kids.
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Have you ever wondered
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what an orphan
really goes through
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when they are
rescued off the street?
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I wanted the
chance to film the process
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of a child
transitioning from life outside
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to life inside, the beginning.
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So when Helen
informed me of the new arrival,
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I grabbed the
camera just in time
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to meet a little girl
name Keerthana at the gate.
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Her mother had
died three years ago
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when Keerthana was two.
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Her father left
for Mumbai, India
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to clean commercial
trucks and he never returned.
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A local pastor
familiar with Keerthana's plight
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took her in, planning
to raise her as his own.
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The plans changed, however
when Keerthana's stepmother
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said they couldn't
afford to keep her.
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It's not
uncommon for stepchildren
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to be abandoned
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when the expenses can't be met.
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So at age five
and for the third time
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Keerthana was an
orphan once again.
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How long do you think
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that it will
take her to transition
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or to feel
comfortable you know being here?
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Yeah, it will take one week.
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Really?
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Yeah, one week
to feel comfortable
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because this is a new
place, a new environment.
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Honestly, Rueben
and I didn't believe
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that Keerthana would
adjust to life in an orphanage
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in just one week.
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I was like mortified.
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It was the most
uncomfortable, I mean,
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at one point I
just stopped the camera.
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And then I thought,
you can't stop the camera,
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you got to keep going
and Rueben's looking at me
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as he's snapping
stills and he's--
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we don't want to get too close,
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she's looking at
us like, you know,
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aren't you gonna do something?
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When I saw her, I
remembered my life
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when I first came to Elim.
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You know, I'm just wondering
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because the
pastor dropped me here
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and he was trying to leave.
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And I went all around the campus
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looking for the pastor.
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He, like, I couldn't see
him, and there were other boys
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were running
behind me to hold me back.
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But it really made me worry.
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I could see that
here's a little girl
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who just came recently
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and she faced the same problem.
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So I admit when I saw
her-- the pastor leaving out her
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and trying to hide
somewhere the other
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and trying to be away from her
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and it's the same
experience that I felt.
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I had the same
experience that little girl had
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other day.
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See your bag, oh,
big bag you've got.
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I will put all the books.
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When Keerthana was dropped off,
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she wouldn't stop crying.
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You can tell that it was
something traumatic for her.
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Days afterward she
wouldn't talk to anyone,
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she wouldn't go to school,
she wouldn't go to study hall.
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She would just
be with the cooks,
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cutting vegetables.
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The only father
figure in Keerthana's memory
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had just walked away.
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So here's a
real tough situation.
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This pastor, earning
less than $20 US a month
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has raised this child
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and he just simply
can't afford it anymore.
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Her first night in
the orphanage was rough.
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She didn't sleep well,
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even though the
orphanage gave her a bed.
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She insisted on
sleeping on the floor.
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It's what she was used to.
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When I gave her a
bed, she was so happy.
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But at nighttime
she was falling down.
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And we made her to
sleep again on the bed.
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Then she ate very
little food when she came.
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Then the next thing
that ended up happening
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was that she
doesn't have a sponsor.
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And so all of this
chatter started happening about
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well, how was she
gonna stay here because,
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you know, she has
to have a sponsor.
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There's also questions about
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whether or not
there's space available.
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I find that maybe
the hardest thing to do
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is to refuse
some of the children,
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you know, sponsorship,
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because we don't
have enough sponsors.
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But we try to take all
the blind, all the deaf,
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all the total orphans
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and but of course
there are lot of other
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tragic
situations as well as those.
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The bottom line is
that, I just, that night,
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when we went back to the hotel,
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I skyped my family and
I told Rebecca, I said,
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are you ready to
sponsor a little girl?
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She just like
started crying, she said,
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well, just bring her home.
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In fact, I asked
Helen, I said, Helen,
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can we do something?
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I mean, Rebecca
wants me to bring her home
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and I said, if I
can facilitate that,
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you know, that's
what she wants me to do.
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Helen said, she said no.
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She said, listen,
everything will be okay.
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She's actually, it's
better to have her here
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because she said quite honestly
it's very, very difficult to,
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you can't adopt
these kids out of here.
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Everybody in India gets
a free shot at an orphan,
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which sets them up for
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all kinds of abusive situations.
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I started the
process of becoming
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Keerthana's sponsor,
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but it was time for me to leave.
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There were more places to film
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and more faces to capture.
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In two weeks I would return,
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but I kept thinking
about Malathih's words
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about Keerthana
assimilating within a week.
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A week, a week and a half
after she was dropped off,
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she started
playing with the children,
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she started eating with us.
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At first she ate very little.
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Keerthana was still
a little bit in shock.
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She was--
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you could tell she was
trying to take everything in.
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With 70 kids at Elim
Home, I figured Keerthana
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would quickly
disappear into the crowd.
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By the time I returned,
the rest of my film crew
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had caught up with me in India.
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They brought with
them school supplies,
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some clothes and gifts
that Rebecca and the kids
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had put together
back in the States.
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Given the high level of emotion
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surrounding
Keerthana when I left,
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I wasn't expecting
much of a positive outcome.
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I was wrong.
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When she came first,
I used to be after her,
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but now she's after
me and after all the kids
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and she's very playful,
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and she says
now she's very happy
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to be at Elim.
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She truly has settled in.
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She's settled in to
school, and, you know,
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I've spent some time with her,
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I got her introduced
to my family on skype.
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And I'm looking
forward to and so is my family
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to that day that
investment pays off.
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It's already paying off now,
but I look forward to that day
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when she finishes her degree
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in whatever it is
that she wants to do,
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and that she's able to take
her rightful place in society.
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And she's gonna be able
to live a principled life.
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I think it's great.
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I realized every orphan
success story starts here
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when they're dropped off.
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And all they need is
someone to take them in,
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someone to believe in
them, someone to give them hope.
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Well, I'm here at
Sunrise home with Joshua
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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,
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providing
clothing, 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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I saw everything,
every animals and birds,
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and my parents and my peers
also I saw when I go outside.
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My name is Usha Kumari.
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At the age of seven
years I got brain fever
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and I lose my sight.
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They told me, you
can't get sight again.
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I feel so sad.
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In the darkness we
have to live all the life
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until we die.
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In my family all are normal,
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but I am, have the defect
that's why they feel so bad.
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I only told them, I
want to study like others,
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don't neglect
me, like that I told.
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In poor villages
across India just like Usha's
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blindness is an all
too familiar occurrence.
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Families are
uneducated and poverty stricken,
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and many times intermarriages
are arranged to protect
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what little family
assets are available.
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These intermarriages can
lead to defects like blindness.
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Reality is
children born disabled
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are unwanted burdens,
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because their disabilities
keep them from working
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and bringing in income.
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For many parents they feel
like they have no other option,
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but to discard
their blind children.
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For one young girl name Rajani,
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her story unfortunately sums up
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the despair some are driven to.
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What happened
when you were small?
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They tell when I
was small at that time
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they wanted to throw
me on the train line.
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Really, so what
happened when she was small,
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her parents wanted to
because she was blind,
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they wanted to throw
her on the train line
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she just said,
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but her sister
loved her very much,
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and when the parents
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went to throw her
on the train line,
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her sister tried to save her.
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But what happened
was that Rajani was saved
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and her sister lost her life,
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so really your sister
died for you, didn't she?
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Yes. Because she loved you.
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My big sister loved me.
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It's a hopeless paradox to
be caught in the middle of,
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one that should
be enough to make
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any rejected blind
child like Rajani give up.
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This is Babita, this is Laxmi,
00:17:35.52\00:17:38.26
this is Sravani,
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at the moment she
is the littlest girl
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that we have here
in the blind school.
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This is Shanti, and
she is one of the children
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here at our blind school
00:17:47.99\00:17:49.74
because of her
disability I guess
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the parents don't
really bother about her at all.
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But there is an incredible
resiliency in these students,
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they desire to live
fully, to learn and excel,
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to rise above the circumstances
they were born into,
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rather than be defined by them.
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This school is
giving them that chance,
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a chance for success.
00:18:13.24\00:18:14.77
We now have around 180
children in our blind school,
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half of them are
totally blind approximately,
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and half of them have got
just, just a little sight.
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At least a few are literates
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and it just
gives you I don't know
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how you should take, it
gives you a better life.
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Asian Aid supports one of the
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premier blind
schools all of India.
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Here they are
given a high standard
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value based education.
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Learning everything
from braille to the arts,
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and these kids love it.
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First, we teach them the
oral, the ABCD alphabets,
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after that we
teach them the six dots,
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how to write in correct manner.
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So everything is good in here
00:19:34.52\00:19:37.21
and in class time also
teachers will tell us lessons
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very nicely and clearly.
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But blindness is
not the only issue
00:19:42.90\00:19:44.67
Asian Aid is dealing with here.
00:19:44.70\00:19:46.95
There are various
cases of acute medical care
00:19:46.98\00:19:49.44
that must be addressed.
00:19:49.47\00:19:51.03
One special case is a
young girl named Laxmi.
00:19:51.06\00:19:55.40
Do you like
probably blind school?
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Yes.
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Yes, you have many
friends, many sisters.
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So many. So many.
00:20:01.71\00:20:03.79
Laxmi has an
advanced case of skin cancer.
00:20:03.82\00:20:07.42
By the time she
came to Asian Aid,
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local doctors told her
00:20:09.44\00:20:10.65
there was nothing
that could be done.
00:20:10.68\00:20:12.28
Laxmi has been in our school
for the blind children now
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for quiet sometime a few years,
00:20:15.17\00:20:17.38
and she is a very good
girl and she is a happy girl.
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Aren't you? Yes.
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It's sad to say, it
has now come to this state
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and we feel
very, very sad for her.
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Asian Aid continues
to look for treatment
00:20:32.80\00:20:35.27
as her condition worsens,
00:20:35.30\00:20:37.93
and they are
always trying to expand
00:20:37.96\00:20:39.87
and develop medical partnerships
00:20:39.90\00:20:42.01
to handle such
challenges and needs
00:20:42.04\00:20:45.31
for these kids each with their
own difficult story to tell.
00:20:45.34\00:20:48.97
It's never too late
to start helping them.
00:20:49.00\00:20:53.42
The blind school has
been a passion project
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by Helen Mummy Eager
00:20:55.78\00:20:57.12
and the rest of
Asian Aid for years.
00:20:57.15\00:20:59.69
They built an all
inclusive campus for them.
00:20:59.72\00:21:03.14
Where these kids many abandoned
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can grow and flourish.
00:21:05.24\00:21:08.01
Come little children come to me,
00:21:08.04\00:21:11.85
I will teach you ABC.
00:21:11.88\00:21:14.86
Sammy is one of
the youngest boys
00:21:14.89\00:21:16.81
of the blind school,
00:21:16.84\00:21:18.19
and one of the most promising.
00:21:18.22\00:21:19.79
Sammy is a good
boy, so whatever we teach
00:21:19.82\00:21:22.41
he'll just keep in his
mind faster than anybody else.
00:21:22.44\00:21:26.65
Sammy proves
it's never too early
00:21:26.68\00:21:28.98
to give these kids the
tools they'll need to succeed.
00:21:29.01\00:21:31.80
Though he is small, he'll
take part in all the activities
00:21:31.83\00:21:35.29
so what we ask him to do.
00:21:35.32\00:21:37.27
What are these?
00:21:37.30\00:21:39.01
These are grapes.
00:21:39.04\00:21:40.79
Well Sammy is a
special little guy.
00:21:40.82\00:21:43.10
His mom died when
he was very young,
00:21:43.13\00:21:46.45
and his father remarried
00:21:46.48\00:21:49.65
and there is a cultural
thing with the remarriage
00:21:49.68\00:21:52.00
where sometimes the
children aren't accepted.
00:21:52.03\00:21:54.59
So Sam has come
to the blind school,
00:21:54.62\00:21:57.48
and he doesn't see
a lot of his family,
00:21:57.51\00:21:59.74
so he is effectively an orphan,
00:21:59.77\00:22:01.96
but Sam likes the blind
school and this is now his home,
00:22:01.99\00:22:06.52
and we are very excited
that Sam is an Asian Aid child.
00:22:06.55\00:22:10.39
His family, his friends,
00:22:10.42\00:22:12.56
everything he has
in his whole world
00:22:12.59\00:22:14.88
is right here at
the blind school.
00:22:14.91\00:22:17.06
I think when he become big
00:22:17.09\00:22:18.51
he may become
something in his life.
00:22:18.54\00:22:21.82
But Sammy and the
others are getting more than
00:22:21.85\00:22:23.97
just the tools to
build a bright future.
00:22:24.00\00:22:26.25
What Asian Aid is giving
them is what they really need,
00:22:29.77\00:22:32.89
a sense of family, a home.
00:22:32.92\00:22:35.22
Sometimes they
don't want to go home,
00:22:38.58\00:22:40.08
and I remember there
were two little girls came
00:22:40.11\00:22:42.44
and when these
two little girls came,
00:22:42.47\00:22:44.91
they were just so happy,
there was plenty of food.
00:22:44.94\00:22:47.37
These kids can see
better than most of us.
00:22:55.96\00:22:58.68
They can see hope,
00:22:58.71\00:23:00.03
a hope that leads
00:23:00.06\00:23:01.09
to the important things in life.
00:23:01.12\00:23:04.15
It goes beyond
just food and shelter,
00:23:04.18\00:23:05.48
they're surrounded by
people that love them,
00:23:05.51\00:23:08.97
and because of that
they have the confidence
00:23:09.00\00:23:11.43
to strive for more.
00:23:11.46\00:23:13.37
I want to become
a computer teacher;
00:23:13.40\00:23:16.23
if I got chances or
privileges in other countries
00:23:16.26\00:23:20.23
I will go, sir.
00:23:20.26\00:23:21.42
They can do more
than just get around,
00:23:25.86\00:23:27.93
and they decide to show us that.
00:23:27.96\00:23:29.64
One of their favorite
past time is playing cricket.
00:23:29.67\00:23:32.11
Using a ball with bells in
it, they can hear it coming.
00:23:36.31\00:23:39.53
It's a pretty amazing feat
showing that there isn't much
00:23:42.53\00:23:45.73
they can't do.
00:23:45.76\00:23:46.79
And then you see some of
them on the school campus
00:23:56.07\00:24:00.13
and you sort of
expecting them to fall over
00:24:00.16\00:24:02.37
or bump into
something that they just
00:24:02.40\00:24:04.10
after they have been
there a while I guess
00:24:04.13\00:24:06.27
now that you walk
these many steps this way,
00:24:06.30\00:24:08.81
and then you turn
left or something,
00:24:08.84\00:24:10.38
I don't know how they do it.
00:24:10.41\00:24:11.73
The kids wanted to
put on a show for us.
00:24:20.16\00:24:22.09
We weren't sure what to expect,
00:24:22.12\00:24:24.16
but right away it became obvious
00:24:24.19\00:24:25.85
that they have
the same passions,
00:24:25.88\00:24:27.38
talents and abilities
that any kid would have,
00:24:27.41\00:24:32.34
and they were happy
to express themselves.
00:24:32.37\00:24:34.15
When darkness is everywhere,
Asian Aid provides the light.
00:24:41.99\00:24:46.21
A light that
gives hope to children
00:24:46.24\00:24:48.14
would otherwise not
only get a chance to survive,
00:24:48.17\00:24:51.34
but to thrive
00:24:51.37\00:24:53.02
and contribute in positive
ways to the global community,
00:24:53.05\00:24:56.44
may be darkness is more
about our state of mind.
00:24:56.47\00:24:59.43
I will never
think that I am blind
00:24:59.46\00:25:01.28
because I have every thing,
00:25:01.31\00:25:03.17
instead of seeing
everything we can hear anything
00:25:03.20\00:25:06.96
and we can learn
and we can go anywhere.
00:25:06.99\00:25:10.27
Come little children come to me,
00:25:13.66\00:25:16.98
I will teach you ABC.
00:25:17.01\00:25:20.24
We leave here a share of
that hope is alive and well,
00:25:34.95\00:25:38.61
there is no avoiding,
00:25:38.64\00:25:39.85
it was clear as they are living.
00:25:39.88\00:25:42.70
We could see it
with our own two eyes.
00:25:42.73\00:25:46.81
Where there is hope,
there is no darkness.
00:25:46.84\00:25:49.22
This is Hope in Motion.
00:25:58.98\00:26:00.70
Through my work for Asian Aid,
00:27:38.57\00:27:40.21
I am constantly being
made aware of the need
00:27:40.24\00:27:42.86
and suffering around the globe.
00:27:42.89\00:27:44.93
Currently there is a
desperate need in Nepal
00:27:44.96\00:27:47.69
to put an end to
the sex slave industry
00:27:47.72\00:27:50.08
which is destroying
the lives of so many
00:27:50.11\00:27:52.28
thousands of
children and young women.
00:27:52.31\00:27:54.61
If you would like to support
00:27:54.64\00:27:56.65
Asian Aid Safe
Haven Project in Nepal
00:27:56.68\00:27:59.58
or any of our
other current projects,
00:27:59.61\00:28:01.50
please get in touch
with Asian Aid today.
00:28:01.53\00:28:04.06