Asian Aid is an
organization giving hope,
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an organization fostering
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permanent positive
change in the lives
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of disadvantaged
children 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, Sri Lanka,
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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 to helping those
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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 need it the most.
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This is Hope in Motion.
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Hi, I'm Jean Boonstra.
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A couple of years ago, I
visited India with Asian Aid.
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Now as you know,
Asian Aid is an organization
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that's committed
to making a difference
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in the lives of
children in poverty.
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Asian Aid provides education
to children and young adults
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through its
scholarship programs in India,
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Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Nepal.
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Along with its
sponsorship program,
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Asian Aid also runs orphanages,
a school for slum children,
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and schools for
the deaf and the blind.
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Now together with local
church and school leadership
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Asian Aid is committed
to providing opportunities
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to those in need.
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Shawn and I and our
daughters have been privileged
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to sponsor a girl
through Asian Aid.
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And I must tell you,
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it has been such
a blessing for us
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to be able to make a
difference in her life.
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Now during my trip to
India, I met some amazing people
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who are the driving force
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behind Asian Aid's mission
to reach out to those in need.
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I met Anita, who is in charge
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of Asian Aid's Operation
Child Rescue program in India.
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Now Operation
Child Rescue is a program
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that rescues and
rehabilitates girls
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who are trafficked
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and sold as
prostitutes in the sex industry.
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I got to talk to
Anita and she shared with me
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the challenges and the dangers
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that she and her team
face in rescuing these girls.
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Anita, it's nice
to see you again.
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We met a little while ago,
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and it's wonderful
to visit with you again.
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You are the director
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of Operation
Child Rescue in India.
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Can you tell me a
little bit, just briefly
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what that
organization is all about?
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Well, Jean, it's
lovely to meet you again.
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As the name
suggests, Operation Rescue
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is about rescuing
women, children, babies,
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who have been subjected
to the worst kind of abuse
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and who have been trafficked
for different reasons.
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It could be
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children who are being
forced to beg on the streets
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or it could children
who are being forced to work
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in hazardous industries
like bag manufacturing,
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basically working long
hours and against their will
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or it could girls and women
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who are trafficked to
the worst of the brothels,
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locked inside and
forced to see customers
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every day against their will.
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And this, this
is a global issue,
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but you are headquartered
in Bangalore, India.
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Tell me how long have you
being doing this work yourself
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personally?
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Well, it started
about 10 years ago,
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so 10 years is a
good time to say,
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I have been doing this work.
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We started off basically
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looking at the
whole issue of trafficking
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and whether it
existed in Bangalore
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and what were
children being trafficked for
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and we've ended up now
doing rescues with the police
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and finding
rehabilitation options
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for those whom we rescue.
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We also do a
little bit of prevention
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in areas where we find
more children going missing
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or more girls
being recruited for jobs
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to prevent that from happening.
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You know, it's
hard to hear the stories
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of what you are doing,
because you are dealing
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with some really,
really sad situations.
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Children are in danger,
young women are in danger.
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Let's talk for a
minute about the young girls.
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They are recruited
from rural areas typically.
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Tell us a little bit
about how do they get recruited
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and what age are these girls?
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Well, when we first started work
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and when we first
started rescues the girls were,
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the average age was about 17,
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but today the
girls are much younger
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and the average
age is close to 14.
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So, you know, really
young girls being recruited
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out of schools even.
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You asked me about
why they get recruited.
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Well, it's a combination
of a number of factors,
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poverty being
the number one factor
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that makes them
vulnerable to this.
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So they are very poor,
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they don't know about
the issue of trafficking.
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Usually, they don't have a skill
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and so they can't get
jobs or they're in school,
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but dropout for
different reasons
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either to look after a sibling
or a parent not being well
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or the school just not
being important enough for them
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to complete education.
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And so they're pulled
out of school to get married.
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And it's at this time
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that the traffickers
prey on these vulnerabilities.
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You know, the girl is at home
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or the girl is looking for a job
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or the girl just wants to get
out of this poverty situation.
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And they prey on this
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and will go in and recruit them.
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Sometimes they send in people
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and, you know,
fall in love with them
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and promise a
better life, to marry them.
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Sometimes they offer them jobs.
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They will come in and
say, "We will get you a job. "
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And because they're naive
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and have no
knowledge of what this is,
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they will go with them.
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But of course the job
doesn't exist on the other side
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or it exists in a
much, much worse way
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than they would
have ever thought.
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And sometimes
when they take babies,
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they kidnap them.
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So the younger children-
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So just snatched from
their mothers or their homes?
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Yes, snatched
from hospitals even.
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Wow.
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You know, they've taken babies,
kidnap babies from hospitals
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or they take
babies from orphanages
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or young children
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and they will send them
to the begging syndicates.
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Okay.
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They'll put these
children out on the street
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and they have to bring in
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certain amount
of money every day.
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So these young
girls are willing to take
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sort of a risk
because they're vulnerable,
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they're little
naive to the danger,
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they're looking
to help their family
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or to support
themselves, a number of factors.
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As you go in
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and you actually rescue
girls from these brothels,
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just walk us
through a little bit
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how that process works?
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I have learned over
the years not to breakdown,
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to react in the right ways.
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My first time inside a
brothel, I was terrified
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because I didn't
expect what we saw.
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You know, usually
these places are--
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They select places
that are easy hiding places,
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so you have number of
rooms inside a main entrance.
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If it's a house or a building,
it will have a number of rooms
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and individual rooms that
are used for commercial sex.
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So when we enter these places,
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we often have to
bust the front door
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or we have to enter in
without them knowing it
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so they're not alerted to it.
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Okay.
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We usually have a
team of about 10 or 12
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including a few police.
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We run inside the place,
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we're always
looking to grab the girls
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before they are hidden
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or before they are
forced into some hiding place.
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So surprise is key?
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Surprise is key,
safety for ourselves,
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while looking out
for an escape root
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in case something goes wrong
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and we all are just
stuck inside that place.
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The girls themselves
are taken by surprise.
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Often times they are
scared, they will cry.
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There is a lot of
drama that happens inside,
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that the police are shouting,
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the traffickers are
trying to get out, escape,
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you know, they're trying
to jump out of some place
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and then the girls themselves,
you know, they're crying,
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wondering what's gonna happen.
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At that point, we can't say
that they are happy to see us
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because they
don't know who we are.
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Are they questioning
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that you're there to
help them some often times?
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Yes. Okay.
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But the moment that
initial drama is over,
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then we get some quiet
time to tell them who we are,
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and why we're there,
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and that we
really are interested
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in their long term future.
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So it's not about
now, it's about the future,
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and that we want to
see them out of this life.
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And many of them
will breakdown and cry
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and tell you the
reason why they're there.
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You know, they will
say, we were so poor,
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so naive, we didn't
know, we were promised a job.
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And the story is almost the same
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again and again and again.
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Over and over again. Yeah.
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It's-- you wonder how
could people be like this when--
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But you'd realize that they
are all from different places,
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even if they were,
say, from Bangladesh
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and we're seeing
increasing number of girls
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from Bangladesh
and Nepal in Bangalore.
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Brought into Bangalore. Yes.
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Okay.
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They don't know each other
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and they're all
recruited in the same way.
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You know, somebody marries them,
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somebody promises them a job,
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brings them across the
border, puts them on a train,
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tells them they're going
for a job in a massage parlor,
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beauty parlor, as a housemaid,
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and they end up
in this building.
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So the city of Bangalore,
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it's an
absolutely beautiful city.
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It's an IT hub, it's a very,
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what I noticed
as a visitor anyway
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coming to visit
your city of Bangalore,
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it's got a
beautiful mix of modern,
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with the IT industry,
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and rich history
and a lovely climate.
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It's absolutely
a wonderful place.
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So in that
city, how do you then,
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before you make these raids,
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how do you learn
and work to find out
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where these brothels are?
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How do you make those inroads
before you have a rescue?
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We have them working
to develop these contacts.
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Like you said, on the
surface it is a beautiful city.
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We don't have a
red-light district unlike,
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you know, Mumbai and
Calcutta, they have areas where,
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you know, these
girls are being taken
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and where sex is offered,
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but Bangalore doesn't have that.
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It used to be more
of a pensioners paradise
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till it became an IT city.
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Okay.
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So everything is very hidden,
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which makes it
more difficult for us
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because we have to search,
we really have to look out
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for places where these
girls are being hidden,
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where they're brought.
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So we have a
team of investigators
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whose job is to
befriend the underworld,
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you know, befriend pimps,
befriend auto rickshaw drivers
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who will transport these girls,
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befriend people that work
in the really shady hotels
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where the girls
are pimped often.
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And we sometimes go in
as customers and clients,
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sometimes as pimps ourselves
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to try and
access the information
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as to where these
girls are being held.
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And once we
have that information
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and we know for sure
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that in this
building trafficking is--
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You know, a
trafficked girl is being held
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or a brothel is being run,
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then we go to the
police with that information.
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Completely
chartered out plan of rescue
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including escape routes, entry,
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number of people
inside the building,
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the number of girls,
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their approximate
ages, as much of--
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as much information as we can.
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Because before we
go into the rescue,
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we're not gonna
get another opportunity
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or the police can't
go in before the rescue
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because there will be an alert.
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So you sort of have
one chance to do it right
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and because there
are no second chances?
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Yes. Yes.
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Now as you just
heard Anita share,
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the problem of
trafficking is rampant in India.
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The dangers
involved in this mission
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to save the young girls
from trafficking are many.
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When we come back
we will hear from Anita
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just how Asian
Aid is helping her
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and her team with
the rescue operations.
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And we'll see how
we all can play a role
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in rehabilitating
these girls who are rescued.
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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
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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, 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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So, Anita, after you
go in, you and your team,
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and you actually go in on
these raids yourself personally,
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these girls, you work
with them for little while,
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then what's the next step?
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How do they
transition from that life
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back to somewhat a regular life?
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Once we finish the rescues,
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we take them to
the police station
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for a little bit where
their stories are taken,
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their photos are taken,
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and then we have to take
them to a government shelter
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according to the law.
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The first place
after their rescue
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has to be the
government shelter.
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And these are basically
sets of buildings with staff,
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but they're not
specific to trafficked victims.
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So you can have
abandoned girls there,
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you can have a
pregnant mother there,
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you know, pre-marital,
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you can have someone
who has lost their family,
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you can have
somebody who's lost,
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got off a train
at the wrong stop,
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so just a mixed group
of people inside that place
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and these girls are
taken to that place.
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Usually, we do the
rescues quite late at night--
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For that surprise
factor. Yeah. Yes.
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And so between
about 2 or 3 A.M.,
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we end up in this place.
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So the girls are, you know,
there are about three gates
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before you get inside the place.
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It's almost like a jail.
It looks like that. It's--
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Sounds intimidating. It is.
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Then once there,
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the girl's case has
to come up for hearing
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and we have to find
out their backgrounds.
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Many times, because it's
a government run shelter,
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the traffickers can
end up coming right there.
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Really? Yeah.
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They pose as an aunt, a
mother, a sister, a brother,
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the only relative in that place.
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And because they
have so many cases
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and so many people turning up,
they don't check credentials.
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And so they can turn up
with, you know, a false document
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and we have had many such ones.
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And they can release the girl
or they get to see the girl,
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intimidate her more
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or promise to get
them out of that place
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because by then,
the girls really want
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to get out of that place,
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they don't speak
the local language,
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the food is not
something that they like.
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Government
issued food essentially.
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And then many
times they have told us,
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there are lice in the
food or lice in the coffee.
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Oh, my.
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You know, yeah and the
others are really mean to them
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because they find out that
they have been involved in sex,
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commercial sex,
and they label them,
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the stigma of
being in that place.
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You know, you
just want to get out.
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They are desperate to get out.
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Many times these girls
have tried to cut their wrists
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and we get a call to say,
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"Please come and take the girls
you rescued out of this place
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because they're
disturbing everybody else."
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And you go there and they say
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"We just want to
go out of this place.
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The brothel was
better." You know, so harsh.
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Sounds horrible. So harsh.
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How many days or how much time
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are they in
this place generally?
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Well, it can be anything
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between two months to two years.
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Oh, wow.
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Are they cared for,
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are their
physical needs, I mean--
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Oh, yes.
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I mean, I hate to be
very-- I hate to talk about it,
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but the life they
were living in the brothel,
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they had a lot of
physical injuries I assume.
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Obviously, emotional and mental,
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are those things addressed
at all in the government home?
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The government does provide
a shelter, so there is food.
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There is a sense of--
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They have water and
clothes and people talk to them,
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but they're abused
sometimes in different ways.
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There's a lot of sexual abuse
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that happens
within those shelters
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especially to
the younger children.
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We did a rescue of
boys who had been trafficked
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from Bihar to
Bangalore for labor
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and some of these boys
were aged nine to twelve.
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And when we
visited about a week later,
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a couple of them
said, they didn't like
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what older boys
were doing to them,
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which is implying sexual abuse
inside a government shelter
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that is meant to
be a protective place.
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It sounds like it's
taking them from a bad situation
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and putting them
in a so-so situation
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and in that specific
case, a worse situation.
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It's true.
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So it doesn't sound
like it's an answer,
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but you also
don't have a choice.
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Yes.
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So, Anita, you are Christian,
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what difference would it make
to be able to take these girls
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and put them in a
Christian facility
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where they were nurtured
and cared for specifically?
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Now, Jean, you are
talking about a vision
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that I have for
this, for these girls,
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every girl who is rescued.
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You know, the
sense of hopelessness
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inside that place when
we walk into those brothels
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or when we go into those places
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where they are being
forced to hide or to overwork,
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there is just a
deep sense of despair
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and a darkness that
is so obvious to us.
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And when we get
them out of that place
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what we want to
give them to replace that
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is the sense of hope
that God cares about them,
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that there is a
future that He can build,
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and that He can restore,
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and that no matter
what has happened to them,
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they are still
made in the image of God
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and nobody can destroy that.
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And nothing can,
nothing can mar that.
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But you see they've
never been told that
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they've been so
abused inside that place
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that they, they
couldn't care about themselves.
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So we in our home
will have that opportunity
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right from the start
to just love on them,
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to be able to give
them that sense of hope
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that they need not fear anymore,
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they're not in a,
they're not in a place
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that anyone's gonna abuse them.
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In fact, they're
gonna receive the opposite,
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that there will be a sense
of freedom within that place
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where they can make choices
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and that those
choices will be guided
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by good counseling and
that they will have options
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whether they learn a new trade
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or whether they go
back to visit family.
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It will all be under,
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under careful
observation and supervision
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to ensure that the best
happens for these girls.
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I think part of
the story that you tell
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that really breaks my heart
00:21:26.95\00:21:28.58
is when you
share how these girls
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once they are
rescued some of them,
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a certain percentage of them
do go back to that way of life
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because of the shame, because
they don't feel an option.
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Have you seen the difference
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that Christ makes for the girls?
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Is that the
difference that keeps them
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from going back
to their lifestyle?
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I think it is the
main difference, Jean.
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I mean, to be able
to pray with the girls
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and we do pray with the girls.
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You know that I told
you, we get some private time
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either at the police
station or at the brothel
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before we take them to
the government shelter.
00:22:04.09\00:22:06.72
We almost always talk to them
about God and pray with them
00:22:06.76\00:22:10.96
because that's
the only private time
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we'll get before we
are under supervised visits
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in the government shelter.
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But if we had our home, we
can pray with them every day,
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we can pray with
them and counsel them,
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and tell them about
our God who loves them,
00:22:23.87\00:22:26.51
and help them to
come to terms with that.
00:22:26.54\00:22:28.44
I mean, many of them ask us,
00:22:28.48\00:22:30.71
"Why do you want
to do this for us?
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You know, why
would you be here?"
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Because I always tell
them, "I'm a mother myself.
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You know, I have two daughters,
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I know what it feels
like to be inside this place
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wondering what's
gonna happen next."
00:22:43.26\00:22:45.69
And they always say,
"Why do you take this risk?"
00:22:45.73\00:22:47.96
And I tell them,
00:22:48.00\00:22:49.33
"It's because God has called
some of us to these things
00:22:49.36\00:22:53.07
and because it's for
God who took a risk for us.
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I mean, that He came for us
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that we might have
a life that is free."
00:22:58.17\00:23:00.58
And, you know, they are so
open to listening to the gospel,
00:23:00.61\00:23:05.75
to knowing, but the
most important thing, Jean,
00:23:05.78\00:23:09.05
is for them to see
the gospel in action
00:23:09.08\00:23:12.15
and that's what we
manage to do there.
00:23:12.19\00:23:14.52
Okay.
00:23:14.56\00:23:15.89
But what drives you each
and every day to continue
00:23:15.92\00:23:19.49
to put your own
personal life in danger?
00:23:19.53\00:23:22.30
You're on the
frontlines doing this
00:23:22.33\00:23:24.00
and I imagine
your husband worries.
00:23:24.03\00:23:27.14
What keeps you going to do this?
00:23:27.17\00:23:31.24
I think this, the call
that God had on my life
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and which I
realized about 10 years ago
00:23:34.28\00:23:37.08
when I went out on
my first rescue mission,
00:23:37.11\00:23:40.75
just the thought of
these girls out there and that,
00:23:40.78\00:23:46.29
you know, something
might happen to them,
00:23:46.32\00:23:47.82
that they may
never hear about our God
00:23:47.86\00:23:50.73
who loves them.
00:23:50.76\00:23:52.09
Being an Indian women
myself, a mother of daughters
00:23:52.13\00:23:56.53
just wanting to do the best
that we can for these girls.
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It's funny, I
never, I never was a brave
00:24:01.64\00:24:03.54
or courageous person growing up.
00:24:03.57\00:24:05.44
In fact, I was very
timid. I can't believe it.
00:24:05.47\00:24:07.08
Very timid, very shy.
00:24:07.11\00:24:08.44
Really? Yeah.
00:24:08.48\00:24:10.11
I hated standing up in
front of anything, but--
00:24:10.15\00:24:13.65
And I still am very
afraid before we go on a rescue.
00:24:13.68\00:24:16.48
Everybody knows that
I have my private time,
00:24:16.52\00:24:19.62
but when we finish the prayer
00:24:19.65\00:24:21.72
before the raiding
team is out of the door,
00:24:21.76\00:24:26.19
I know that God
has gone before us
00:24:26.23\00:24:28.33
and He's already there.
00:24:28.36\00:24:29.93
I mean, there are times, Jean,
00:24:29.96\00:24:31.30
that we search the
building for the girls
00:24:31.33\00:24:34.77
and we just don't know
where they've hidden them.
00:24:34.80\00:24:37.51
And somehow God shows us
where that hidden place is,
00:24:37.54\00:24:41.91
whether it's, you
know, a hole in the wall
00:24:41.94\00:24:44.88
that has been sealed up
00:24:44.91\00:24:46.41
and we have to
break through that
00:24:46.45\00:24:47.88
or whether it's a reception,
a hotel reception desk
00:24:47.92\00:24:52.29
and you open the
drawer and it's a staircase.
00:24:52.32\00:24:54.39
Really? Wow.
00:24:54.42\00:24:55.76
Into a cellar where
the girls have been pushed.
00:24:55.79\00:24:58.46
It is God because,
you know, none of us
00:24:58.49\00:25:00.93
have had any kind of
investigative training.
00:25:00.96\00:25:03.67
And when God shows up there,
we know that we keep going on.
00:25:03.70\00:25:08.77
He is going before you. Yes.
00:25:08.80\00:25:10.41
And you are
trusting in Him. Yes.
00:25:10.44\00:25:12.61
Well, I have a
hard time imagining you
00:25:12.64\00:25:14.48
as a timid young girl.
00:25:14.51\00:25:16.38
You're a great
inspiration to myself
00:25:16.41\00:25:19.08
and many who've met
you, I know you are.
00:25:19.11\00:25:22.42
Well, I just praise God
00:25:22.45\00:25:23.79
that you and
Operation Child Rescue are doing
00:25:23.82\00:25:27.09
what you are doing, Anita,
00:25:27.12\00:25:28.46
that you are
facing these problems,
00:25:28.49\00:25:30.39
that you're
there dealing with it.
00:25:30.43\00:25:33.50
You know, it's
really hard for those of us
00:25:33.53\00:25:36.00
who don't see it
with our own eyes
00:25:36.03\00:25:38.53
to really
comprehend the level of danger,
00:25:38.57\00:25:44.17
the horrors that
these children go through,
00:25:44.21\00:25:46.88
but I just thank you
for what you're doing,
00:25:46.91\00:25:49.01
for the ministry that you have.
00:25:49.04\00:25:51.45
And I'm just wondering
if we can pray together?
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Yes, please. Please.
00:25:53.65\00:25:56.32
Dear God in heaven,
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You see what's
happening in India.
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You see into the
lives of the young women
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who are vulnerable
in the rural areas.
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And, Lord, You see the horrors
more than we can even imagine.
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But, Father, we
love You and we know
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that You created each of us
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and that You love
us each individually,
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that You created
each of us for a purpose.
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Father, I ask that You
will go with Anita and her team
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as they continue to
rescue these vulnerable people,
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these children, these young men,
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these young
women from the dangers
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that they find themselves in.
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Father, protect
them and may Your light,
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Lord, change their
lives for eternity.
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Lord, we place Anita
and her team in Your care.
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We ask for Your grace
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and Your hand over this process.
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In Jesus name, amen. Amen.
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Anita, it's always a
please visiting with you.
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Thank you. Thank you, Jean.
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Current estimates tell us
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that more than
1.2 million children
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are caught up in human
trafficking in India alone.
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The numbers are
truly staggering,
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but thanks to people like Anita
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and to programs like
Operation Child Rescue
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these young girls
and boys can be rescued
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and rehabilitated.
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Now you and I
can play a vital role
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in helping Asian Aid
in its rescue efforts.
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We at the Voice of
Prophecy have partnered
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with Asian Aid to
build a rehabilitation home
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in Bangalore, India.
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We are partnering with
Anita to provide a safe place
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where young girls can
be given hope, healing,
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and to learn new skills
all in a Christian environment.
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So please pray for Anita
and for her team in India.
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And if you would like to support
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or to get more information
on Operation Child Rescue
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please contact Asian Aid.
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Thank you for
watching and God bless.
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