In today's
episode of Hope in Motion,
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we track the journey
of Sunrise Children's home
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in Bobbili, India.
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It is such a wonderful place
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to go from such a
cramped environment
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to such an
expansive free environment.
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We meet brothers
Rajesh and Durga prasad,
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who were rescued
from the streets,
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and are given a new
home and a promising future.
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Like Rajesh and Durga Prasad,
there are so many children
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who is having very
bad family backgrounds.
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Sunrise home is giving them
good directions in their lives.
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And we learned how
Asian Aid, is helping prepare
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the next generation of
faithful workers for the church.
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I'm proud of this
important organization,
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and they are truly
beneficial to my union here
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in East Central India.
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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,
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Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
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Myanmar and India.
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For the last 40 years
Asian Aid has invested
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in the futures of
people and their investment
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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,
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deaf 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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Bobbili, a small principality
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near the coastal
city of Vizag in India,
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has nothing to
offer to a visitor,
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its streets often
bustling and chaotic
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are typical of
rural towns in India.
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Poverty is widespread
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and people
struggle to meet ends,
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doing menial
jobs and often tending
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to paddy fields
owned by landlords.
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Visits to villages around here
only amplify one's perception
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of abstract poverty
people living on a daily basis.
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But it isn't just the despairing
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and gloomy
environment, we often get to see
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and experience
hopefulness and optimism.
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The Seventh-day Adventist
church through its schools
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and supporting ministries
has brought the love of Christ
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and the promise of
eternity to people in
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and around Bobbili area.
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The supporting
ministries of the church
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have hasten the
mission of the church
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in bringing hope to
this receptive community.
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Asian Aid is in the forefront
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of this mission here in Bobbili.
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Over the last 10 years,
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it has undertaken
numerous developmental work
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in the community,
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supported schools
through its sponsorship programs
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and builds schools
for special needs children
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like Asian Aid's
school for the blind.
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One of its recent
projects is the constructions
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of a brand new
orphanage in Karada village,
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the Sunrise Children's Home.
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Established in 2001
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with just a
handful of orphan children
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and a small
building in Bobbili town,
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the number grew
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and the
children soon had to cope
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with the constraints of
living in a crowded place.
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When I started with Asian
Aid on my first trip to India,
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I visited the Sunrise
orphanage and I've been told
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that there were plans
to build a new orphanage
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and Asian Aid had
actually purchased some land
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and then I
visited the orphanage,
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there were two parts to it.
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First of all they were sleeping
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and living in
atrocious conditions.
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All the boys
would jammed in one room
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and all the girls
would jammed in one room,
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and they were
sleeping on the floor.
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Secondly they were
lovely kids and I fell for them,
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they had beautiful house parents
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that were bringing them up,
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and so because
these kids were special
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and because
there was a true need,
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Asian Aid USA
and its donors see it
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about building the Sunrise home.
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Jim Rennie, CEO
of Asian Aid USA,
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equipped with the
experience of his visit
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and the vision
for a new facility
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for these children
went about raising funds
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for the construction
of a new home for Sunrise.
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With his perseverance
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and the support
of generous donors,
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the new home began to
rise from the ground up.
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And the children got
to come along this journey
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every step of the way.
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How many of you like this room?
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Okay, so you want to sleep here?
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Yes!
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You know, it's taken time
to built the new orphanage,
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and the children have
been brought along the journey,
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so they were given an idea
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that they were going
to have a better home.
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It's like our saying
you're going to go to heaven,
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and we've got a better home,
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so they had this idea
of having a better home.
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And they've
been asking questions
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as this whole
thing was in progress
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and now they have it
and they're just so excited.
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It is such a wonderful place
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to go from such a
cramped environment
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to such an
expansive free environment.
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The children's excitement
grew each step of the way,
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and they finally
moved into their new home
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on November 14th, 2012.
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November 14th is celebrated
as Children's Day in India.
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It was a fitting moment
for these wonderful children
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and those who
cared for these children.
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When we see these both places,
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we have lot of place
here and lot of work to do.
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And children they have
lot of place to play there.
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Lot of place to eat.
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And whatever they want
they got by the Asian Aid.
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So this is the big,
big blessing, isn't it?
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Yeah, it's a great blessing,
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not big blessing,
but great blessing.
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Praise the Lord.
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Only this orphanage is
having 14 acres of land.
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They are also blessed
to have a huge farm area,
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where the children get
to grow their own vegetables
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and reap
truckloads of corn each year.
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But their biggest
blessing is access
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to the river
flowing beside the campus,
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and the children love to
play in the shallow waters
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at every
possible chance they get.
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If you asked the children
in the previous orphanage,
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if they had a
vision of the future
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they could never
have dreamt of this.
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But it gives the space,
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it gives the
place for the children,
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it is really something to behold
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and the work of, you know,
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Varma and Lisa in bringing
this whole thing across,
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bringing the children,
looking after the children
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as if they are
their own children
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is something very special.
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The house parents or the parents
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are totally responsible
for the child's life.
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And at Sunrise
we are very blessed
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to have Lalitha and Varma,
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who are 100%
committed to their children.
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And the children
called them mummy and daddy,
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if they want to
go away for few days,
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it's as if their
parents have gone away,
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the kids say where is mummy?
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Where is daddy?
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And so they have an amazing role
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that they have to carry out
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and we're just so
proud of what they do.
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Lalitha and Raj Varma
care for these orphan children
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as if they were their own,
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and the children
responded them beautifully.
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It is not an easy task
to bring up 80 odd children.
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As loving and
caring as they are,
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Lalitha and Raj
Varma have to reach out
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to each
individual child's needs,
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as these children come
from varied family backgrounds
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and bring their
own emotional baggage
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when they come to Sunrise Home.
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They're different-- I
know this sound strange
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but there are
different types of orphans.
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There are true orphans
whose parents are dead.
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Sometimes they don't
know what's happened to them.
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Sometimes the children are
brought up by grandparents.
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Many a times the mother may die
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and the father may
not be able to cope,
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the father may
simply desert the child.
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So sometimes
they're not a true orphans
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but their life is orphaned.
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They just don't have
parents that are there,
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not dysfunctional
they are not there.
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Prem Baskar Rao was orphaned
at a very early very age
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and grew up at Sunrise Home
ever since he was 5 years old.
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When Prem was 9 months old,
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my daughter was
pregnant with another child,
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those days we only
had home deliveries.
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And my daughter
died during child birth.
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Prem's father
had a heart condition
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and in spite of being
treated at various hospitals,
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his condition worsened
and he finally passed away
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in a hospital in Vizag.
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Having lost both the parents
before he could learn to walk,
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Prem was left under the
care of his grandmother,
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the only immediate
family willing to care for him.
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When he was small,
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I used to leave
him with the neighbors
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and go to the fields to work.
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I used to work for few hours
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and then come
home to care of him.
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Struggling to make a
living working in the fields,
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his grandmother found
it hard to provide for him
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and the prospect of giving him
a good future was unimaginable.
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Fortunately for Prem,
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a newspaper
reporter from his village
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told his
grandmother about Sunrise Home,
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and recommended her
to take him to Bobbili.
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Meeting the basic
criteria of an orphan child,
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he was taking in at
Sunrise Children's Home.
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If I didn't get a chance
to send him to an orphanage,
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I don't know what
I would have done.
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I didn't have
anything to take care of him.
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I would have no
choice but to abandon him.
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Thanks to the
sponsors who supported him
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all throughout
his life at Sunrise,
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Prem can aspire
to pursuing a career
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as a graphic designer.
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When I was young,
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I didn't know
anything about my sponsorship,
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and as I'm growing up
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I know the value
of this sponsorship,
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and I'm feeling that how
the sponsors are helping us
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along with all my
brothers and sisters.
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If it is not for
their support on us,
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we'll not be in this
good education position
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or in good position.
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Please tell the people
who are helping my grandson
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that I'm grateful,
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I will always be
thankful for them.
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Although Prem spent
all of his life growing up
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at Sunrise Home,
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he has not
forgotten his grandmother,
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who is there to give
him unconditional love
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after the death of his parents.
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When I'm growing up
there was nobody to care for,
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only my grandmother was
there with all her struggles
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so, whenever I have free time
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I used to visit her and
spend some time with her.
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I'm illiterate, I don't
know anything about education
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and I don't know anything
about the world outside,
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but you are good people,
I give him in your hands,
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please take care
of him and his future.
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Thanks to Asian
Aid's sponsorship program,
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the sponsors and donors
who support this program
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and the love and care he
receives at Sunrise Home,
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Prem can continue to
pursue his higher studies,
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can dream of a
career of his choice
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and hope for a better future,
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where he can stand on his own.
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The biggest blessing
he has received however
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is the chance to
know Jesus and Prem,
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like many other boys and
girls who go out into the world,
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can spread the love of Christ
to those who don't know him.
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When we come back,
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we meet bothers
Rajesh and Durga Prasad
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who were rescued
from the streets,
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and see how a new
facility at Sunrise Home
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has become a safe
haven for boys like them.
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My wife Angela and I are here
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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
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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, 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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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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that sponsorship
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,
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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 can make a difference
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in the life of a child everyday.
00:15:29.70\00:15:32.28
Asian Aid Sunrise
children's home in Bobbili,
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India was
established to give a home
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to orphan
children in this region.
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And is an important outreach
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for the
Adventist church in India.
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From its humble beginning
in a cramped building in town,
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the orphanage has shifted
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to a spacious
campus in the countryside.
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Situated about 10
miles from Bobbili town,
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the new campus
gives the children
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an ideal place to
live, learn and play.
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The children still attend
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the Seventh-day
Adventist school in town,
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but Sunrise Home has its own bus
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that takes them
to school everyday.
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And the bus ride is
something the children look
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forward to every morning.
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August 2nd, 2014 was a
special day for Asian Aid
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and everyone at Sunrise Home.
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A new boy's dorm was
inaugurated by renowned
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Adventist
violinist, Jaime Jorge.
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It was very
emotional for me to be here
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at the opening of
the boy's dormitory.
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It was just so
great that Jaime Jorge
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could be here to
do the dedication,
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and arguably where we could say,
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it's the end of the
project, but it's not.
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The donors the
build a great facility,
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but the ongoing need
for orphans in this home,
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the ongoing operating needs,
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the ongoing
needs for sponsorship
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simply means it's not over.
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Although there is
ongoing need for sponsorship
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and other needs at Sunrise Home,
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it is encouraging in knowing
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that this
facility has the capacity
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to double the number
of children in the future.
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There is facility
to build another story,
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thereby having the
capacity to facilitate
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the ever
increasing inflow of children
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arriving at
Sunrise Home each year.
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In my union we
have 850,000 members
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and there are
hundreds of needs in this union
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especially there
are orphan children,
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there are semi orphan children
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and therefore we
really face challenge.
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Today expanding and adding this
facility to the boys' hostel
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will really be a great blessing
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because these children
are adjusting somewhere,
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and they don't
have proper facilities.
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They want to feel
with their friends
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as if it is their own home.
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And this will be
a unique identity
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that will build
confidence in them,
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and they'll really
develop in the proper way
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in Adventist atmosphere.
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12-year-old Durga Prasad
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and his
11-year-old brother Rajesh
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came to Sunrise
Home three years ago.
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They were rescued from
the streets by a local NGO
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Child Line after a
newspaper article appeared
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in a local daily with
the title "Mother for sale."
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Child line immediately
followed up the story
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with the concerned
people and rescued the boys
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and took them in their custody.
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After we brought them here,
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we came to know
that their father died
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and the mother found another man
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and she moved in with him
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but he forced
her into prostitution
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and forced the boys
into the streets to beg
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and sell newspaper and fruits.
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He used that money in
drinking and gambling.
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Durga Prasad and
Rajesh woke up every day
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to the blaring of train engines
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where the screeching
halt of its iron wheels.
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The buzz and
hustle of the streets
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near the train station at
Vizianagaram was their domain
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and the rail
platform their shelter.
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The boys were forced
to go and beg or steal
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by the mother's boyfriend,
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and when they
refused they were beaten.
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Fearing the beatings
that awaited them at home,
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they spent most of their time
living on the railway platform
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earning some money
selling fruits or begging.
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After they were rescued
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and taken into
custody by Child Line,
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Durga Prasad and Rajesh
were brought to Sunrise Home.
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I'm from Bobbili town
and I used to live very close
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to where the old
Sunrise Home was,
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then I informed
my superiors about it
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and recommended these
two boys to Sunrise Home.
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Sunrise Home is highly regarded
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throughout the
district for its work
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and the shelter it
provides to orphaned
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and abandoned children
like Durga Prasad and Rajesh.
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Most of the children
are coming to Sunrise Home
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recommended by police department
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and non
governmental organizations
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and the Child Line
and rescued children
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most of them are
here, the rescued children.
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In this whole of the
Vizianagaram district,
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only this home is best home
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and the
government will recommend
00:21:13.27\00:21:14.64
all the children
to stay here only.
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Okay, well.
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At our homes like Sunrise,
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we have children
from varied backgrounds,
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varied stories and honest
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some of them are
hard to comprehend.
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And just like these two boys,
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who were found on
a railway platform
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at the train station
could you imagine it,
00:21:33.78\00:21:36.59
could you imagine living there,
00:21:36.62\00:21:38.46
having to
scrape up an existence,
00:21:38.49\00:21:41.14
they were
exploited by many people
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and they had no hope.
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Now at least they
have come to Sunrise Home
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where they have a new direction
00:21:48.87\00:21:52.41
and now they have
hope of an education,
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they have a hope of a future.
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And the Asian
Aid's sponsorship program
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will have a big
difference in their lives.
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Durga Prasad and
Rajesh are in a place
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where they can leave behind
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the fear of being
beaten and exploited.
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Leave behind the struggles
of growing up in the streets
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and instead are in a
safe and comfortable place.
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A place where
they don't feel like
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they are orphaned or abandoned.
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So by having an orphanage
we can access this children
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who really won't
have the basics in life
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will now can have the
basics in life to go forward.
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So that's what orphanages do,
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they get the
children who really need help
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and don't have
anyone to help them.
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Asian Aid is
giving them that help.
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Asian Aid is
giving them that new life
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through its special need schools
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and an orphanage
like Sunrise Home,
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and is giving
them an opportunity
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to receive a proper education.
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One of the great blessings is,
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that we cannot do
everything by on our own
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because of certain reasons.
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I thank God for special
organization like Asian Aid,
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they are uniquely tuned
to meet exactly our needs.
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Where we really need specially
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we need next
generation to be prepared
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for the church
work and the children
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who are trained up in the homes
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and their help,
with their support
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we educate our poor children.
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They are the next generation
faithful workers for the church
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and it is really transforming,
I really thank God,
00:23:21.48\00:23:24.01
every sponsor that
is supporting this work.
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Every leader in
this organization
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they are really
doing with dedication,
00:23:28.65\00:23:30.18
the work with
dedication and commitment.
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They are reaching to us,
00:23:32.41\00:23:33.48
they openly talk their
ideas and we tell our needs
00:23:33.51\00:23:36.90
and they really fit in.
00:23:36.93\00:23:38.14
I'm proud of this
important organization
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and they are truly
beneficial to my union here
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in East Central India.
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It was painful for us to learn
00:23:45.29\00:23:46.60
that the boy's
mother is still making her
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living through prostitution
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and does not know the
whereabouts of her son.
00:23:49.88\00:23:52.35
Taking the children away
00:23:52.38\00:23:53.58
from the mother may
sound cruel and callous
00:23:53.61\00:23:55.34
but extraordinary
circumstances call
00:23:55.37\00:23:57.89
for extraordinary
measures in intervention
00:23:57.92\00:24:00.29
for the welfare in
future of the children.
00:24:00.32\00:24:03.18
Like Rajesh and Durga Prasad
there are so many children
00:24:03.21\00:24:06.14
who is having very
bad family backgrounds.
00:24:06.17\00:24:10.09
Sunrise Home is giving them
good directions in their lives.
00:24:10.12\00:24:15.81
Today, Asian Aid is
reaching out to children in need
00:24:15.84\00:24:19.62
and Sunrise Home is a
safe haven for this children,
00:24:19.65\00:24:23.39
providing not
just their basic needs
00:24:23.42\00:24:25.68
and an
opportunity for an education,
00:24:25.71\00:24:27.80
but giving them
parental love and affection,
00:24:27.83\00:24:31.00
providing them a
chance to know Jesus,
00:24:31.03\00:24:33.18
and giving them hope
for a brighter future.
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