In this land
locked Himalayan state,
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over half a million
women are living in pain.
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I remember one lady, she told us
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that she had been walking
around with this prolapse
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hanging out of
her body for 50 years.
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In today's
episode of Hope In Motion,
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we look at how
Asian Aid is supporting
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the healing ministry
of the church in Nepal.
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We visit Scheer
Memorial Hospital,
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an Adventist mission
that is providing healthcare
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to women suffering
from uterine prolapse.
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Well, we are partnering
with Scheer Memorial Hospital
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because we truly believe
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they are doing a wonderful
job in their community.
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And meet women whose
lives has been changed,
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because of Asian
Aid's involvement in Nepal.
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Asian Aid is an
organization giving hope,
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an organization fostering
permanent positive change
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in the lives of
disadvantage children
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and their communities.
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An organization
that is committed
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to making a difference
in the lives of children
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and those who are in need.
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Serving communities
in Nepal, Bangladesh,
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Sri Lanka, Myanmar and India.
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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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and their investment
has proven infinite returns.
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Driven by their dedication
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to helping those
who have the least.
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Asian Aid is an organization
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focused on the
welfare of children,
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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 child rescue operations
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to providing an
education for orphans, deaf
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and the blind children.
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Giving them a
sense of place, a home
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but above all Asian Aid is
an organization giving hope,
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giving hope to children,
giving hope to communities,
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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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Nepal is renowned
for its natural beauty
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and enduring culture.
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Having existed as early as
its neighbors India and China,
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Nepal has kept its
cultural heritage intact,
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offering an extraordinary
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travel experience for a visitor.
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With eight of the ten highest
mountain peaks in the world,
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including Mount Everest,
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Nepal's landscape
is truly inspiring.
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Nepal is also one of the
poorest countries in the world
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where one-third
of the population
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live below the poverty line,
earning less than $2 a day.
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For most of our
work is in India,
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but when we come to Nepal,
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we see a
different level of poverty.
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The economy is
certainly worse here,
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the level of poverty,
the level of pollution,
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there's a huge need
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and we want to do more in Nepal.
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With the majority of Nepalese
depending on there daily wages,
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obtaining healthcare is
one of the main challenges
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people face in
this developing country.
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This is where
Scheer Memorial Hospital
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plays a crucial role,
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in serving the medicals
needs of the people of Nepal.
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Scheer Memorial Hospital was
established over 55 years ago
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by Adventist
missionaries serving in Nepal.
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Situated just outside Kathmandu,
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the hospital is an important
institution for the community
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and the
Adventist church in Nepal.
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Well, at the
beginning that hospital,
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after the
establishment of hospital
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is when their
church started to expand.
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So Scheer Memorial
Hospital is basically
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the best of the
Adventist community in Nepal.
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Right now, the
church has been growing.
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Now we have over
around 4,000 members,
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but the main organization
of this Adventist church
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in Nepal is our hospital.
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Although the cost of
the doctor's consultation
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is only 33 cents, some
cannot even afford that.
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People come from miles
around from rural villages
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to hilltop settlements,
seeking medical help.
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The hospital also provides
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ambulance services
to emergency cases,
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often traversing
through inaccessible
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and dangerous roads.
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Asian Aid's focus has
always been about children,
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providing children who
are in need with an education
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and giving them an opportunity
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for a better future
through its sponsorship program.
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Along with the
need to get healthcare
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and access to medical centers,
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the opportunity
to get good education
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is highly important
to the people of Nepal.
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The main thing is education,
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and because in
this part of the world
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if you got no education you,
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your life is
really, you know, you can't,
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you can't earn hardly anything,
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all you can do is
labor and in many places
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what the laborers are
paid is almost nothing.
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So I think education just mean
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make so much difference
in this part of the world,
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more than a dozen
in western countries.
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But in a world
where earning $2 a day
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is a struggle for the
majority of the people,
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sending their children to school
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is a strain on their finances
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and it remains a distant dream.
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Without sponsorship,
it would be very difficult
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for their children
to receive an education.
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I'm here at the
school where Asian Aid USA
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is sponsoring a
number of children
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next to Scheer Memorial Hospital
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in Kathmandu in Nepal.
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We have about 40
children at the school
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and we want to
increase the numbers.
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This school is very
important, Asian Aid USA,
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as we don't have
many schools in Nepal
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where we're involved in,
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and we have chosen the school
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because of its
gross relationship
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to the Scheer Memorial Hospital,
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but also the need in the area.
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Children from
the local community
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and some of the hospital staff
children attend the school.
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Although the church
is trying to develop
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more schools in Nepal,
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without sponsorship
it would be difficult
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to attract
students from the community.
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Suman Pranja is a fourth
grade student at the school.
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Orphaned at a very young age,
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Suman grew up
begging in the streets
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in the town close by
Scheer Memorial Hospital.
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A local church pastor found him
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and brought him
to a small orphanage
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he was running for
abandoned children.
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His church members
supported his work and provided
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funding for their
food and accommodation,
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but he found it difficult
to pay their tuition fees.
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Fortunately for Suman,
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pastor new people
at Scheer Memorial
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and Suman was
enrolled at the school.
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He is now
sponsored by Asian Aid USA.
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I'm very happy that
Suman could go to the school
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and he is getting sponsorship
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and this school at the hospital
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is a Christian school.
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And he could continue
to learn about Jesus there.
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My name is Goma
Paudyal, I teach in play group.
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These kids are lovely
and I enjoy teaching them.
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This is the best
job I enjoy the most
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and I don't even
notice when the time pass,
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when I'm playing with
them and teaching them.
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This is what I
enjoy the most here.
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The school provides
employment to teachers
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who are from
the local community.
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Like Goma Paudyal,
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who otherwise would
have to travel long distances
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or go to Kathmandu to
find the good teaching job.
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The school also provides
one nourishing meal a day
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for all children as
part of its incentive program
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to encourage parents
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to send their
children to school.
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Education is
highly valued in Nepal
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as it is in rest of South Asia.
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Parents perceive
the good education
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as a catalyst for change.
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This perception is not
just for a better future
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for their children,
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but they also
believe it will bring changes
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to their own fortunes.
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In these cultures usually
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the educated children
will care for the parents also
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when they get old.
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Because if a
parent gets to the place
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where they're
too sick and too old
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to work in the field,
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so whatever laboring
work they've been doing.
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Well, what you do?
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You basically begged and starve
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or you know
depending where you live,
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maybe some beggars are--
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you know can make a
little bit, but in remote areas
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specially if
they are in a village
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where everybody is poor.
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You know, they're
lucky to, to get anything.
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So I think a lot of
parents also think about that,
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that you know,
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if my child gets
a good education,
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it will also be a
blessing to me in my old age.
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But she quickly
read. Read quickly.
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Quickly she
started, how you read.
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My name is Andrew Rapp,
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I'm from Walla Walla University.
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I'm studying business,
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marketing in
international business,
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but I took a gap year
to come to Nepal and work
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as a volunteer school
teacher and youth mentor.
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Colorado native Andrew
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is a volunteer
teacher at the school.
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Because of its close
association with the hospital,
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the school has been privileged
to bring in overseas teachers,
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who come here bringing a
new approach to teaching.
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This not only
exposes the students
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to an
international array of teachers,
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but also helps the
missionary teachers
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get a different outlook in life.
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I think for me it
was really important
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just to be able to take a break,
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take a step back
from my life in school
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and being so focused
on what I wanted to do
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and take a step back and
see what other people need,
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that there is more,
more important things
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than just my concerns.
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There is, there is people that
have more immediate needs than,
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than the fickle things
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that I think might be
so important back home.
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No doubt, a good
Christian education
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and schools
providing that opportunity
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is a beacon of hope
for the children here.
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And Asian Aid's
sponsorship program
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is helping them to
see that ray of hope
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in this
impoverished yet idyllic region.
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But all is not what it seems
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underneath its beauty
in the fields and hilltops,
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villages and towns,
women are living in pain.
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When we come back,
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we look at how over
a half a million women
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are suffering
from uterine prolapse
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and discover how Asian Aid
is helping ease their pain.
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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
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and abandoned children,
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children from the
tribal communities.
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And we've 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,
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nutritious food and
they are being prepared
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to propel
themselves into the future
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for a promising career.
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But above all that
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because of sponsors
like you they now have hope,
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hope for a better future.
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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
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and I can tell you being
here and spending time with her,
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I can see the
difference that sponsorship
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is making in her life.
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She now has plenty of food,
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she has a beautiful
place to sleep each night,
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she has clothes,
she has a school uniform
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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 can make a difference
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in the life of a child everyday.
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Nepal, sandwiched between
Asian giants China and India
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is a landlocked sovereign
state in the Himalayas.
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The mountain range in the north
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is home to eight of the
world's tallest mountain peaks
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including the highest
point on earth, Mount Everest,
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thus making it
popular for mountaineering.
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Hinduism is practiced by
over 80% of the population,
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making it the country
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with the highest
percentage of Hindus.
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With the birth place of
Buddha located in this region,
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Nepal is also historically
linked with Buddhism,
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making it culturally very rich.
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However, Nepal is also
economically challenged
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and is home to some of the
poorest people on the planet
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and this economically
backward environment
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and harsh terrain
where infrastructure
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and transport is unavailable,
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women become
the beast of burden.
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Economic difficulties
and cultural perceptions
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have made women of
Nepal suffer silently,
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the condition is
called uterine prolapse.
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Yes, this is
something very interesting
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because this
condition of uterine prolapse
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is not so common in
most of the countries,
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but interestingly in
Nepal it is very common to see
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uterine prolapse in
women and the reason,
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we don't know
exactly the reason,
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but over here the ladies
have to carry a lot weight,
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so weight carrying
also provide the incidents
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of prolapse more high,
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also having more
children also provide
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more incidents of
having this problem,
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so it is multifactorial.
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We cannot say, we cannot point
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to one only one, one thing but,
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well, we know in Nepal
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it is very common
to have this problem.
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Uterine prolapse is
a condition in a woman
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where her uterus
just falls off her body.
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We learned that
one of the main reasons
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women get prolapse
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is because they are
forced to carry heavy loads,
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sometimes around 50 kilos
strapped around their forehead,
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pressing down on their neck.
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Often they have to
continue with this heavy labor
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right after child birth.
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The stress and pressure
this puts on their lower back
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is so dangerous
and their delicate body
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cannot support their uterus.
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We cannot go to
details about the condition,
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but having this
condition affect the women in a,
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in a extreme way,
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to the extreme tough sometime
their husband leave them
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because of their
marital problem then they have,
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So yes, it is a very
incapacitating condition
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for the women and it
affects not only the women,
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but also the entire family.
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In this patriarchal society,
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women suffering from prolapse
are ashamed of their condition
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and they don't
want to come forward
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and suffer in
silence for decades.
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The psychological impact
this has on their wellbeing
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affects their already
battered physical condition.
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Thousands go undetected
and when they are discovered,
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they become outcast,
excluded and deserted
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by their husbands and families.
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Today women suffering from
uterine prolapse have hope.
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Over the last 10 years
Asian Aid has funded a program
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along with
Scheer Memorial Hospital
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to identify these
women wherever they are
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and facilitate surgeries
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and provide much needed
preventative health education.
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Well, we are partnering
with Scheer Memorial Hospital
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because we truly believe
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they are doing a wonderful
job in their community.
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It's the only
Adventist hospital in Nepal.
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It's a critical part
of the church in Nepal
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and they now have the facilities
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to do the prolapse operations
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and so our funding program
is very valuable to them,
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because they have
plenty of capacity.
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And so for us
it's very rewarding
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not only to make the lives--
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the change of
lives for the women,
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but also we are able to help
the institution in gaining work
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and doing work in the community.
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It's here at the hospital,
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we have done a lot
of prolapse operations,
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I think I forget how many years
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we've been doing it
now maybe 10 or 11 years,
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but during that
time we have now operated
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on between 8 and 9,000 ladies.
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And to see the
difference it makes,
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you know, it's some--
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I just can't imagine
have these women like this--
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I remember one lady,
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she told us that she had been
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walking around
with this prolapse
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hanging out of
her body for 50 years.
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Well, as a hospital we can say
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that we are very
grateful for Asian Aid,
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because they have
been providing surgeries
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or support for surgeries
for the last two years.
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And we are grateful in
behalf of all the families
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and the patient that
we have been treating,
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sent thanks to
the help of Asian Aid.
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All throughout its history,
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Scheer Memorial
Hospital has been privileged
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to host a number of medical
professionals from abroad
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who volunteer
their time and expertise,
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conducting camps.
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This has benefited
thousands of people
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from the local
community, especially women.
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This week a group from
Sydney Adventist Hospital
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from Sydney, Australia,
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is here conducting
prolapse operations.
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Just to see these
women have it fixed,
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not have that prolapse any more,
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they're so happy, they hug us,
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they kiss us, they
want to shake our hand,
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they want to touch
us and it is just--
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it's humbling, very humbling
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because with they're grateful,
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you know, in society
that you just don't realize
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how hard it is for
them here to be working
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under the circumstances
they got to work under.
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Karen is part of
a volunteer group
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Open Heart
International from Sydney.
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These are medical professionals
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that go to various
developing countries
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each year
conducting medical camps.
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For Karen and her team,
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camps such as these may
seem just another day's work,
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but it has a
profound impact on these women
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who suffered from prolapse
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and for the volunteers
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it's an opportunity
to make a difference
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in their own humble ways.
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Volunteering to
me, it's emotional.
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You will get very drawn
into what they don't have
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and what we can give them.
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We might be-- we're just doing
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what we do every
day back at home,
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but for them it's life changing
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and even though it might
seem just a drop in the ocean.
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For 80 to 90
women in the 10 days
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that we are here for operating,
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that changes their
changes, and that change of life
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for these people
that makes it emotional.
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Scheer Memorial Hospital
is overwhelmed with the inflow
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of women needing
surgeries for uterine prolapse.
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Without these volunteers
it would be a tough task
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to facilitate them all.
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In the hospital we
have 2 to 300 surgery
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will be there in the year,
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out of 2 to 300
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we have 30 to 40 percentage
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of surgery will be
done the uterine prolapse.
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The only thing that is
stopping us to doing more
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it is basically
the financial aspect.
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If we'll have more, more
funding we can do even more,
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right now we do
have some funding
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some other Adventist station
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that they come and do
the surgery them self,
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but how many we can do
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it is basically
300, 400 is countless,
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because the
incidents are extremely high.
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Over half a
million women are suffering
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from prolapse in Nepal
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and Scheer Memorial Hospital
is a place they can come
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to get it fixed and
ease their suffering.
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It's so apt to say that
Scheer Memorial Hospital
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is truly a
beacon on the hilltop.
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To have an
institution and for Asian Aid
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to provide the
opportunity to these ladies,
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who don't have
to live with this,
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this is
curable, this is fixable,
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you know, that's the benefit.
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Imagine it when a
lady has the operation,
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she goes back, she is
now accepted into the home.
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She can mend relationships.
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She can add value to the family.
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She can add
value to the community,
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to the other ladies,
spread the good news.
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Tell them about
how people love them
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and want to make
things different for them.
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Isn't that a blessing?
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The good news is
spreading among women in Nepal,
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the more women are
identified, educated
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and brought to these camps,
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the more women are
willing to come out
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and seek medical care.
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This one here, her
name is Punyaswari,
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and she actually has--
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because she has been so grateful
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for what has
happened in her life,
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she has now
brought 25 more ladies
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who had operations
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and I think
that's really special
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and so they just
when we tell them
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we were having
the filming today,
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they were just
so thrilled to think
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that they could
come and say how grateful
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they are for the transformation
that's happened in their lives.
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Well, it's changed their lives
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and now that they
can walk comfortably,
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they are able to work
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and help again and
care for their families,
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it's just it's a
totally transforming thing
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that I think we
just couldn't understand
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unless we had actually been
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through the same
experiences they have been.
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And for this lady to bring 25,
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I think that's really something
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because that shows
how grateful she is
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for the
operation that she has had.
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Today Adventist missions
like Scheer Memorial Hospital,
00:24:55.13\00:24:58.52
organizations like Asian Aid
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and the goodwill of
hundreds of volunteers
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and missionaries
is making a difference
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and bringing a healing
touch to women in Nepal,
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transforming their
lives every single day.
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Together it is possible to
facilitate this transformation
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for these grateful women.
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It is possible to put
smiles back on their faces,
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just to hear them say thank you.
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They are a nation who
are so loving and thankful
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and if I can just
help a little bit,
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I'll keep coming back.
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