In this episode
of Hope in Motion,
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we take a look at how
your contributions are making
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positive changes in the lives
of so many children in India.
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Sixty to seventy percent we are
dependent on the sponsorship.
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Without the
support of any sponsorship
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those children
would not be here.
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We visit an Adventist school
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that sprung from
one woman's vision
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to a sprawling
beautiful campus today.
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It just sort of amazes me
when I think of, you know,
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what we started from
with absolutely nothing.
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To see what is
there today is just,
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it's just mind boggling, really.
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And meet Devoki, a
science teacher at the school
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who defied all social norms
to pursue a life of her own.
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In villages that is a rule
that when a girl is grown up,
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she should be given
in marriage to someone.
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So in my case also it
would have been like that
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when I would not have been
come to this school and study,
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by this time I would
have been got married,
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having
children, all those things
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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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By 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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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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Srilanka 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 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, 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
one's who needed the most.
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This is Hope in Motion.
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The beautiful
landscapes, its people,
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the colors and customs,
that's India in a nutshell.
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Asian Aid has been
working in this vast land
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since its very beginning which
is nearly 40 years ago now.
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Primarily focused
on child sponsorship
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Asian Aid also
has been instrumental
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in building many
children's homes and schools
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to complement its
sponsorship program.
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The Immanuel
English School in Jeypore
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in the state of Orissa
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is one that has
undergone a transformation.
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In the beginning we just--
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we were sort of
picturing may be,
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you know, just a
small boarding school.
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We were thinking a
lot of the very primitive
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tribal people that
are there in Orissa,
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especially the bonda
tribals was what, you know,
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we had on our minds
when we started the school.
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Jeypore and most parts of Orissa
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come under the so
called "tribal belt" of India,
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where primitive
tribal people live.
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Cut off from the
mainstream societies,
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they live in the
mountains and remote regions
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with no basic amenities,
largely living off of the land.
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Helen Eager,
co-founder of Asian Aid
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has been visiting
these communities,
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especially the bonda tribe.
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Moved by their backwardness
and the plight of the children
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from these communities
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she started a
school for them at Jeypore.
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Starting with around 50 children
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and a few staff
all under one roof
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and without a boundary wall
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to protect them
from wild animals
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it was a testing
time for the children,
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the staff and for
Principal Arun Ponda.
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And once Mrs. Eager
brought Elder Garwin McNeilus
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and his wife to
visit this place.
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So once when he came over
here he was very much impressed
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with the way children
are learning over here
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and he felt that
he will do something,
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he'll take up this project.
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Garwin McNeilus an Adventist
businessman from Minnesota
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impressed by what was
being done at the school
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took up the project of building
a larger facility in 2004.
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Within a year the first phase
of the new campus was ready
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and year later it had
grown to what it is now.
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We just feel surprised
how the things have changed.
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Everything was just like
the hill that you see behind
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full of bushes
and unwanted plants.
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So nobody from town ever thought
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that there can
be something here,
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but God has blessed this place
and we can see a great change.
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It just sort of amazes me
when I think of, you know,
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what we started from
with absolutely nothing.
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To see what is
there today is just,
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it's just mind boggling, really.
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The larger facility
made it possible to bring in
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more children from
the tribal communities
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as well as nearby villages.
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As the news of the
new facility spread,
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many more
children from Adventist
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and non-Adventist families
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desired to be
educated at the new school.
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Many in rural India struggle
to earn even two dollars a day.
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Their only way
of earning a living
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is grazing their livestock
or working in the fields.
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Here, poverty passes
from generation to generation
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and education is not an option.
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I mean some parts of
India really seem to be growing
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and really, you know,
India seems to be really
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coming up as they say
but when you go the villages
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and the slums they have not
improved in all the years that,
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you know, that I
have been coming to India
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which is now more than 30 years.
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You know, when you to
the villages and you see
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and to some of the
slums and you see how bad,
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you know, the
conditions are that the people
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and the children living
under because this often
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its not that they
don't want to work
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but there is just not
enough work available.
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Although the majority
of the people cannot afford
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to send their
children to school,
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they do view education
as a catalyst for change.
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Sixty to seventy percent we
are dependent on the sponsorship
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because majority of
this children are poor
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and they don't have any support.
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Without the
support of any sponsorship
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those children
would not be here.
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Today, over 6,000 children in
India are sponsored by Asian Aid
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and because of their commitment
to the welfare of children
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especially children from
tribal communities and villages,
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these children are
reaping the benefit
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of an Adventist education.
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Devoki Moharia,
a science teacher
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at the Immanuel English School
was a former student here.
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I finished my
B.sc degree in college
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and I'm very much
interested in science
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because I was good at science.
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In this school I teach
mostly eighth, ninth and tenth.
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I teach them
chemistry and biology.
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Devoki was among the
first batch of children
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to be brought to the
school from neighboring villages
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when Helen Eager and some
of the staff from the school
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visited these villages.
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I sent messages
to the church pastors
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if there are any
children from the poverty level
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and wherever
there are no schools.
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So many names came
from different churches.
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Then, first I went
to some orphan children
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then I came to know
there are two girls,
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very small girls
nearby Kotpat town.
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So I went there and I
met with her father Deboki.
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Then her father was not
willing to send the girl here
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because there was
no boundary around
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and there was only one
building built by Asian Aid.
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Then when I went she was
the smallest among the two.
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Then she started
crying not to take photo.
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I carried her, I
gave her a chocolate.
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Then I made her to
stand then I took a photograph
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for mommy Eager and
that's how I found her.
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I was very happy thinking that
I'm going to go to a school,
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a hostel, English medium.
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No one knows in my
school what is English.
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Means they don't know how
to talk in English and all
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so I was very happy
that I will be the person
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to learn English and all.
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So when I came here first
two or three days I was nervous
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means I used to remember
parents all those things
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and only one
single building was there
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and no boundary, it was
like a jungle and jungle means
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I really get very,
very scared of that.
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And no boundary no nothing,
only one building was there
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boys, girls, staff
everyone in the same building
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doing all the activities
eating, sleeping, studying
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everything in the same building.
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With the untiring
efforts of Helen Eager
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and the prayers
of staff and children
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the small school was
transformed into huge campus.
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And like a miracle suddenly
Garwin Papa and Mama came here.
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So we think and we believe that
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God himself has
chosen this people
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and He has sent
to help His children
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so that many more souls
will be added into His kingdom.
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From right at the beginning
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when this school
was just one class room
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then with the
vision of Helen Eager
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and supporters
like Garwin McNeilus
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this school spread
into an institution
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that now has I
think about 700 children
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and of those 600 responsive
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and now we see the
success stories coming through.
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Devoki, who was right at
the school when it started,
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she did her
education at the school
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then she went away to university
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and now she has come
back as a science teacher.
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It's just so
fantastic to see the difference
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that has made with her
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but also with the
children that are here.
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If it weren't for the
timely intervention of Asian Aid
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and people like Helen
Eager, Devoki Maharia's life
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would have seen
the same misfortunes
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of so many young girls
just like her in her village.
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In villages that is a rule
that when a girl is grown up,
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she should be given
in marriage to someone.
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So in my case also it
would have been like that
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when I would not have been
come to this school and study.
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By this time I would
have been got married,
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having children,
all those things.
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My wife Angela and I are
here in Andhra Pradesh, India
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visiting some of the Asian Aid
projects to see for ourselves
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how the work that is being
done here is transforming lives.
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Especially the lives of orphaned
children and abandoned children,
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children from the
tribal communities
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and we have discovered that
because of sponsors like you
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they now have a place
that they can call home,
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they have wonderful
clothing, nutritious food
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and they are being
prepared to propel themselves
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into the future
for a promising career.
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But above all that
because of sponsors like you
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they now have hope,
hope for a better future.
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My name is Sue Smith and
I am an Asian Aid sponsor.
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I am here in India
visiting our sponsored children.
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I have seen the
difference that Asian Aid
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makes in the life of a
child, it's a real change
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and I appreciate the
work that Asian Aid does here.
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Well, I am here in
Sunrise Home with Sheela.
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Now my family and I
have been sponsoring Sheela
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for just about a year now
and I can tell you being here
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and spending time with
her I can see the difference
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the sponsorship is
making in her life.
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She now has plenty of
food, she has a beautiful place
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to sleep each
night, she has clothes,
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she has a school uniform
and an excellent education.
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I can tell you it's
made a difference in her life
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and it's made a
difference in our lives too.
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Now through sponsorship you too
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can make a difference in
the life of a child everyday.
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Life in rural India is simple.
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People live closed
quarters and as a unit.
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During the day they
either go to the field
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or they graze what
little livestock they have.
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There is a clear order of social
precedence based on gender.
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Women have little or
no say in its structure
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often leading to
unjust practices and misery.
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In villages
parents they are uneducated
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and they don't send to the
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children when they
are small to the school.
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So that is the reason
I never went to school.
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In villages that is a rule
that when a girl is grown up,
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she should be given
in marriage to someone.
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So in my case also it
would have been like that
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when I would not have been
come to this school and study.
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By this time I would
have been got married,
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having
children, all those things
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Child marriage is a
common practice in south Asia
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and it's more
prevalent in India.
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According to the United
Nations Children's Agency,
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Unicef, 18 percent of girls
are married by the age of 15.
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Although Indian law has
made child marriage illegal
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and the practice is in
decline in recent years,
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customs and traditions
dictate life in rural India.
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It is like so in
Devoki's village, Basuli.
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At present I don't have
any of my friends to my age.
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Only I'm the girl in my village,
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all are younger to
me, all have got married.
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By now she
would have got married
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if she would not
have studied here.
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By now she would
have got married,
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so by now she would
have been lost in that way.
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But now she is in God's hand.
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She is doing wonderful.
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If my daughter didn't
go to school like others
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and get an education her life
would have been like others.
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Although Devoki grew up in
a boarding school in Jeypore
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and went to
college in bigger cities
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she has not forgotten her roots
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and is always happy to
visit her family in her village.
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Yeah, I feel very happy because
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I'm born and
brought up in this village
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and even though I stay
in a town or something now
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but I still have love for my
village, for my family members.
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I feel very happy when I come
back to my home and see them.
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Devoki is the only
girl from her village
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to have successfully
received a college education
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and in a community where
women have little or no say,
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she is treated with
the utmost of respect.
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We feel very proud whenever
someone comes to visit us
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we always tell tem
about our daughter.
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When she comes here we
are very happy and proud.
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Boys and girls from
under privileged backgrounds
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are today able to
follow in the footsteps
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of someone like Devoki.
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It's because of institutions
like Immanuel English School
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and the people who envisioned
it to make a difference
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in the lives of
so many children.
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Well, as an administrator
who travels to India regularly
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we just faced with so
many challenges and demands
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and it's just so
refreshing to stop
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and think about the
actual blessing that we have.
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We receive the problems but
we lose side of the children,
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the children who
are in the schools,
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the children who we've
made a difference with.
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Ellen White said, Education
is the harmonious development
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of the physical,
mental, spiritual powers
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It prepares the student
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for the joy of
service in this world
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and for the higher joy of wider
service in the world to come.
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The school
campus although situated
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in remote region of one
of India's backward states
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is a fine example of
true Adventist education.
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The local community feels that
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this is the best
campus that we have.
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And no school has such a campus
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and there is peaceful
atmosphere, atmosphere to study.
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There is no disturbance
and everyone feels that
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their child
should be educated here.
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Taking care of such a
large campus requires hard work
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but for principal
Ponda that's not an issue.
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Every child and staff
member living on campus
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has their work cut out and
they do it with enthusiasm.
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I traveled to
many schools in India
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but it's just so delightful
to come to this one at Jeypore
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because when you walk in
the gate the grounds, the trees,
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they always keep it clean,
they repaint from time to time.
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The children are involved
in doing the maintenance
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and doing the gardens and that
just makes a total difference
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not only in the grounds
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but in the development
of the children themselves.
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A harmonious development indeed.
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Education in India
is highly competitive
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and the school is big
and beautiful as it may be
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has to compete
with other institutions
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for it to be influential
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and to continue to
be held in high regard.
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The trend of
education is changing
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and the latest we
have the digital classes.
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And as you know
throughout India there is a
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change in the education system
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and we want to go
with the latest technology
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and that is why we
opted for this digital class.
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It is very user friendly,
students also can operate.
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It's just like a TV remote.
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Even if the teacher is absent
still they have the subjects,
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they have the chapters and
they have the evaluation test.
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The students can themselves take
the test on there by themselves
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and they can know
what score they are getting
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in particular chapter or lesson.
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Whatever the
student need to understand,
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everything is given clearly.
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And whatever the teacher
is teaching in the classroom,
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and what questions they
have finished in the classroom,
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they can, we can access
that in the server room.
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Cutting edge technology
for the changing times.
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Today, they Immanuel
English School at Jeypore,
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is not only a boon for children
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from tribal
communities and villages,
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it is also a
huge draw for children
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from neighboring states.
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Wow, look at
that, just so many kids
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most of them
from poor backgrounds,
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most of them from tribal areas
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and look they are getting an
education, they are disciplined,
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they are
learning to be organized
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and the education is making
a real difference to them.
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I just wish I could
bring some more in there is
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so many out there and
put them in this environment.
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Look at it, it's just fabulous.
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The growing
realization of the need
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to bring in many more
children can be discouraging
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but it's reassuring to
know that with sponsorship
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we can go about making a
difference one day at a time.
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When we are at home,
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sometimes we are not
getting three meals to eat.
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No good place to sleep.
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So when schools are
there, like this school,
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they are providing meals,
education everything sponsors,
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they are struggling hard
to educate some other's life.
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That is something
very great to understand.
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Since sponsorship was there
I studied and I am in this one
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so I am so much
grateful to my sponsor.
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And to me it's really wonderful
just to see then changes.
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You know, when you see
a child come looking dirty
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and unhappy and know
that nobody cares about them
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and then after a very short
time to see the transformation
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and then after few years
to see them really doing well,
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I think that what
makes it worthwhile.
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Devoki, although
having better offers
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to teach outside
in bigger cities,
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has come back to
teach in the place
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that gave her a
new chance in life.
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Actually, my education, my
foundation started from here.
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So I thought first
let me server to my place,
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the place where I belong to,
where I have got my foundation.
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Whatever talent I have let
me show to those people so that
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those students also
will learn about that.
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It's so lovely to see
some of the young people
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with that kind of commitment
and gratitude to Asian Aid
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and for the sponsors
that have helped them to
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get an education and
to be where they are.
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I feel proud because whatever
I did for her, I got the fruit.
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Today, Asian Aid continues
to fulfill its commitment
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to the welfare of
children who are in need
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and to provide them with an
education through sponsorship,
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giving them hope and a
chance for a better life.
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They are building lives.
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That people means
students and children
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they are in the darkness,
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they are receiving
the light in their lives.
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Once if they are at their home
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the lights are
being off or gone away,
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but once they are coming here
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the light of
their life is being on.
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Because since I think that,
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I feel since I
was in this school
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I am blessed to
this position today.
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Girls, you ride is here.
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I love you.
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Have a good day in school.
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Bye.
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See you tonight.
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Give my love to meena.
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I will.
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You can make a big
difference every morning.
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Sponsor a child with Asian Aid.
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