Child Impact International
is an organization giving hope
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previously called Asian Aid.
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Child Impact
International is an organization
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fostering
permanent positive change
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in the lives of
disadvantaged children
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and their communities.
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Child Impact is
committed to making a difference
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in the lives of children
and those who are in need.
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Serving communities in India,
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Nepal, Bangladesh,
Sri Lanka, Myanmar,
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and will soon
expand to other countries.
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For the last 50 years,
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Child Impact has invested
in the futures of people
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and their investment is
proving infinite returns,
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driven by the dedication
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to helping those
who have the least.
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Child Impact 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 expands
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, Child Impact
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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I'm Jim Rennie.
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For over the last eight years,
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I've been CEO of Asian Aid USA.
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Asian Aid was
established over 50 years ago
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and in that time has helped
tens of thousands of children
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in over five countries.
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As a part of a
bold new strategy,
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we're changing our name.
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We are now Child
Impact International.
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We feel our new name
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will better
encompass the work that we do.
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Let me briefly
explain what I mean.
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This exciting new name
Child Impact International
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will give us
momentum as we move forward
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to help thousands
of additional children.
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As we work with
our focus groups,
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we felt Child Impact
International describes
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who we are and what we do
for the following reasons.
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This name
reflects far more clearly
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the critical
work that we're doing
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with very needy students,
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their families
and mission schools.
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Child Impact International
gives momentum and direction
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to a bold growth strategy
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that will impact the lives
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of thousands of
additional children.
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This name avoids any confusion
in regards to where we work
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and what people consider Asia.
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This name gives
a clear distinction
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between this organization
and Asian Aid Australia,
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which are completely separate.
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The name Child
Impact International
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provides us the opportunity
to help more children
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and expand our
activity beyond Asia.
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Internally, nothing will change,
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the board, staff, policies,
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and work we do
will stay the same,
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and at the same
level of excellence
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that we're known for.
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We're staying in
Collegedale, Tennessee.
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Philosophically however,
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the new name Child
Impact International
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will allow our
organization to expand
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and give momentum to help
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thousands of new needy children.
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You have an
opportunity to be involved
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in the mission field every day,
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every morning
with child sponsorship.
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You can impact on
the lives of children
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just like these ones here.
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You can help set
their lives on a new course
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and also give them hope
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that can change
their lives forever.
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Our funds go
directly to support the needs
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of an Adventist mission school,
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which heightens the
quality of education
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just not for the
children who are sponsored,
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but all the
children in the school.
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The reality is that
poverty is very hard to change.
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Child Impact International
sponsorship program
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takes the child based on need
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and puts them in an
Adventist mission school.
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It gives them a
direction, it gives them hope,
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and also has an
impact in the communities
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and with their
families and friends.
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Together, you and I
can have a huge change
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on an entire community just like
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the ones around the school.
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For existing donors,
the only change you'll see
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is an advancement
in the communication
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between your child and projects.
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You'll see a real difference
by using new technologies
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to keep you up-to-date
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on how you support Child Impact.
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The work of Child
Impact International
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will continue to
grow in the countries
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we already operate
in like India, Myanmar,
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Bangladesh,
Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
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And as opportunities arise,
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we will expand
into other countries.
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The poverty which you see
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in communities
like this is real.
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These families struggle to
feed and educate their children.
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You can have an
impact right here,
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right now by
becoming a sponsor of a child
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or partnering with Child Impact.
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Child Impact is a
fully supportive ministry
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of the Adventist church
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and supports
children, and orphans,
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and special needs children
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in Adventist homes
and mission schools.
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Each child's life has changed
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and the mission
school gains unique funds.
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You have an opportunity to
be involved in the mission field
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every day by becoming
a sponsor or a supporter
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of Child Impact International.
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Welcome back to our
program about Child Impact,
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and one of these
projects that you have going
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is called
Operation Child Rescue.
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When I was there,
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I saw a little
bit of this program.
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It is really,
really awesome and exciting
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as well as very important.
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Jim, tell us about
Operation Child Rescue?
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Well, when you operate in India,
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you start to
understand what trafficking is.
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To be honest, it's hard
to comprehend the size of it.
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But it's believed that about
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20% of the trafficked
children are in India.
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Obviously, with young girls
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in the sex traffic and brothels,
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but also with young boys
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in beggary
operations and child labor.
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And so, we just feel
we had to be involved,
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so we've partnered with a lady
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who runs a rescue
operation in Bangalore.
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And she actually
goes in and rescue girls,
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raids these
brothels and rescue girls.
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And to be honest, it takes
a lot of something to do this,
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but she ties them
with the police force
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where she can.
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And we are so excited
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that we can help
fund this rescue work,
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its girls from brothels
but it's also young boys and...
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Young boys from
slave labor operations
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in factories and
that sort of thing.
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We've also
funded a rescue center,
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so we've fully sponsored
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the three years
a home in Bangalore
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where these girls can go,
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they're safe
there, they're secure.
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There's very tight security.
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And we are funding that
rescue home for the girls.
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The second part that we're
involved in is baby rescue.
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Yes.
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We have an Adventist gentleman
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that runs a baby rescue
operation in Bangalore also.
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We have children that
are abandoned on the streets,
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are abandoned
in police stations,
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are abandoned at hospitals
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are taken to the
baby rescue center.
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Very touching to visit there,
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to see little babies
that have been rejected
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or just left somewhere.
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And so, supporting that,
we believe is very important.
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Indeed.
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The next part of the
rescue program is slum rescue.
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And we support
the Vizag slum school.
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A large amount of the children
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come from very
rough backgrounds.
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Now, you've visited
the Vizag slum school
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when we were on the trip.
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What were your impressions
and takeouts from that visit?
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Well, the visit to that slum
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is something that
I will never forget.
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Right in the middle
of this bustling city,
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we walked into this place
and the stench was everywhere,
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the thin, frail bodies
of the people who live there
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who make $2 a day or less,
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truly made an
impression upon me.
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But the thing that
brought me a degree of comfort
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was visiting that
school that is operated
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and supported by Child Impact.
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Dozens of precious
children are going there
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to get an education
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and to have the
opportunity of a better future.
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And an excellent example
was that beautiful young lady
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that you introduced me to.
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She went through that
school, thanks to Child Impact,
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was also sponsored to
go to secondary school.
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And she is now studying to be
a nurse, and when I asked her,
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"Why do you want to be a nurse?
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And where you want to go
when you finish studying?"
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She said, "I want to come
back right here to my slum
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because both of
my parents have AIDS.
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I want to take care of them,
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and I want to take
care of the people here."
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Can you imagine
what would happen
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just in that slum without
the support of Child Impact.
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And that's right, and
that's why our rescue program
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in the slums by
giving a child an education,
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we're actually rescuing them
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from the potential of
being trafficked or sold.
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That's right.
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Now the fourth aspect
of Operation Child Rescue
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is the rescue of orphans.
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Now, yes, quite often orphans
are brought by family members,
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but also we rescue children.
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We rescue them
from railway stations,
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we rescue them from the streets,
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and we take
them to an orphanage.
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Now about six
or seven years ago,
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we built Sunrise Home
which is located in the country
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in Bobbili near
the blind school.
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Yes. Fantastic place.
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Now once again,
you've visited Sunrise,
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what did you think of Sunrise?
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Well, I was really impressed
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because they have
built that place beautifully.
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It is secure, it is large,
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in fact, a dorm was just
dedicated when we were there.
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We had hundreds of people
coming for worship that day,
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do you remember?
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Yes.
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And what I can't forget
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is the smiles of those children.
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Those children who have
been left to die in many cases.
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Their families can't afford them
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or there's something
wrong with their health
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or something else,
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and they're just dumped.
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And every week,
children are brought
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to the gates of Sunrise Home,
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and there they find a place.
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They find love,
they find parents,
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basically their
spiritual parents,
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the sponsors here
and the teachers there.
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But one of the things
that really, really hit me
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the hardest was to
learn that the area
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is surrounded
by venomous snakes.
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Yes.
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And people get bit,
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and they die all
the time around there.
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And yet, the director
of that school told me
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that not one time has
there ever been a snake
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found inside the orphanage.
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And that tells me
that angels are standing
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guarding that orphanage
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so that the children are
not harmed by these snakes.
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That speaks to the power of God
and His blessing over Sunrise.
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Right.
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So you've heard about
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the four aspects to
Operation Child Rescue,
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and the unique thing
about Operation Child Rescue
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is not that
we're giving the kids
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an education which we are,
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it's not that we're
giving the kids a home
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to live which we are,
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but we are rescuing
them, many of them from death.
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We are actually giving
them life and giving them hope.
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And I just hope that
you would give consideration
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to supporting this important
project with Child Impact,
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and its Operation Child Rescue.
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Hi, I'm Jean Boonstra,
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associate speaker at
the Voice of Prophecy.
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Now I'm sure that you're
aware of the global problem
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of human trafficking.
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And in places in the world like
India and Nepal for example,
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this problem of
human trafficking,
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well, it's very real.
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Not long ago, I was in India,
and I learned a little bit more
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about what happens in that area.
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Young girls are tricked,
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usually girls who
are disadvantaged,
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maybe from a poor
village or community,
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and they're
tricked into becoming part
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of the sex industry
and into prostitution.
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It's extremely sad,
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and, you know,
these young girls,
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they're caught in
a web in a lifestyle
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that they don't
want to be a part of.
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But once they're in it,
00:14:30.67\00:14:32.07
it's very
difficult to find a way out.
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When we think about the
problem of human trafficking,
00:14:35.44\00:14:38.14
we often think
about these girls,
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but it often
affects young boys as well.
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Young boys in India,
for example, they're caught,
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and they're
used for child labor.
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They're put into begging rings,
00:14:48.65\00:14:50.49
and they're often
taken advantage of as well.
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And it's not just these
young girls and boys either,
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this affects infants as well.
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Young babies are left
on the side of the road
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abandoned with no
one to care for them.
00:15:01.66\00:15:04.80
Child Impact International's
Operation Child Rescue
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addresses each of
these three issues.
00:15:08.74\00:15:11.57
They have an answer, a solution,
00:15:11.61\00:15:14.01
and an
opportunity to offer hope,
00:15:14.04\00:15:16.58
and a way out for these people
caught in human trafficking.
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At Voice of Prophecy, we
are privileged to partner
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with Child Impact's
Operation Child Rescue
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to help these young girls
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that are caught in prostitution,
00:15:28.39\00:15:30.59
the young boys doing
labor at a very young age,
00:15:30.63\00:15:34.06
and these young babies
that simply need a home
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and someone to love them.
00:15:37.53\00:15:39.23
It's our privilege to partner
00:15:39.27\00:15:40.84
with Child Impact's
Operation Child Rescue
00:15:40.87\00:15:43.81
and be part of the
solution to give that hope.
00:15:43.84\00:15:48.31
Now is this
something that appeals to you,
00:15:48.34\00:15:51.05
and would you like
to learn more about
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and be a part of this.
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Well, I encourage
you to get in touch
00:15:54.48\00:15:56.35
with Child Impact
International today.
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They would love
to hear from you.
00:15:59.35\00:16:02.09
Our television
series Hope in Motion
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has been a big success,
00:16:04.69\00:16:06.49
and we want to
continue to share with you
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some of the field stories
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that we have
filmed over the years.
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So just from time to
time it may refer to Asian Aid
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as we reflect on
these great stories
00:16:17.67\00:16:20.68
as we share them with you.
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With a population
of nearly 1.3 billion
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and a vast
majority of those people
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living off of
less than $2 a day,
00:16:44.57\00:16:46.84
many families in
India struggle to survive.
00:16:46.87\00:16:49.27
The joy of having a baby
can be tainted by the question
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of how they would provide
the basics of food and shelter
00:16:57.08\00:16:59.98
needed for their survival.
00:17:00.02\00:17:01.35
So if a parent loses
their job or passes away,
00:17:05.95\00:17:09.02
children are abandoned
as the surviving parent
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or family members
cannot cope emotionally
00:17:11.39\00:17:13.66
and financially with the burden.
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It is estimated there
are 31 million orphans
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or abandoned children
struggling to survive in India.
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Sai Eshwari is a
seven-year-old girl
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studying in the first grade
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at the
Seventh-day Adventist school
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in the outskirts of
Hyderabad in South India.
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Her home is just a few
feet away from her classroom.
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This is Elim Home, an orphanage
established by the church
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and supported by
Child Impact International.
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Although, not an orphan,
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circumstances forced her
to be brought to Elim Home.
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Malathi, the director and
house mother of Elim Home,
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took Sai Eshwari in after a
chance meeting with her aunt
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after church on the Sabbath day.
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One day, when I went to church,
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one of our church
members by the name Ruthamma,
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she asked me that
she want to talk with me,
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and she said that
she needs some help.
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I told her she can come
any time she wishes to meet me.
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Then the next day, Sunday,
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she came along with
Madhu and her daughter.
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Madhu was married
when she was just 16.
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Although such
practices are unlawful,
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customs and social traditions
dictate life in rural India,
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especially Mangapur.
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After two
months of her marriage,
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her husband and his parents
sent her home to get dowry.
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Madhu's parents were
unable to pay their demands,
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and when her husband's family
found out she was pregnant,
00:19:00.67\00:19:03.44
they refused to take her back.
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The following year, Madhu
gave birth to her daughter,
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Sai Eshwari.
00:19:08.88\00:19:10.98
Soon her situation at
home began to get worse.
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Her mother and her brother
forced her to worship idols
00:19:13.92\00:19:16.58
and began to resent
her presence at home.
00:19:16.62\00:19:19.12
She was becoming a
financial burden to them
00:19:19.15\00:19:21.46
and decided to take
matters in their own hands.
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Without any reason,
my brother and my mother
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asked me to leave the house.
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They told me we
had fed you enough
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and told me I
was a burden on them.
00:19:32.97\00:19:35.64
When I refused
to leave the house,
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my brother hit me on my arm,
00:19:37.77\00:19:39.87
and my mother
punched me on my face.
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Fearing her daughter's
safety and that of her own,
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Madhu came to Hyderabad to
seek refuge at her aunt's place.
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After I heard Madhu's story
and her pathetic condition,
00:19:50.72\00:19:54.89
I decided to take
Sai Eshwari inside
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because though it is an home
for taking desperate children
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and mostly the orphan children,
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but still I took a decision
that I should take Sai Eshwari
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because being a female,
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I felt that I
should help another female,
00:20:09.74\00:20:12.97
small girl who is in need,
00:20:13.01\00:20:15.31
and I also heard
that she is getting
00:20:15.34\00:20:17.58
only one meal a day,
00:20:17.61\00:20:19.31
and I thought that she
should be in this home.
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And it's not just
people who are orphans
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whose parents are dead,
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you might have
people who might have
00:20:28.26\00:20:30.46
one parent or two parents,
00:20:30.49\00:20:31.86
but then, they just
do not earn enough money
00:20:31.89\00:20:36.43
to support a family,
00:20:36.46\00:20:37.83
so they really
abandon kids anyhow.
00:20:37.87\00:20:41.27
So it's extreme poverty
also puts kids into the bracket
00:20:41.30\00:20:46.04
that need help and
need help desperately
00:20:46.07\00:20:48.68
and need help now,
not in 10 years time
00:20:48.71\00:20:51.65
because they
won't survive 10 years,
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so that's what orphanages do,
00:20:53.92\00:20:55.52
they get the
children who really need help
00:20:55.55\00:20:58.59
and don't have
anyone to help them.
00:20:58.62\00:21:02.99
I guess most often we
think that orphanage means
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they have no parents,
00:21:05.43\00:21:07.00
but in the case of some,
there may be a single parent,
00:21:07.03\00:21:11.53
but the driving
force can be poverty.
00:21:11.57\00:21:14.67
The reality is
that the single parent,
00:21:14.70\00:21:17.01
perhaps like
Madhu, simply can't cope
00:21:17.04\00:21:20.04
because of their circumstances
that trapped in poverty.
00:21:20.08\00:21:23.61
And so the orphanage
gives them hope for their child,
00:21:23.65\00:21:28.05
give something that they could
never deliver for their child
00:21:28.08\00:21:32.12
and that makes
a huge difference.
00:21:32.15\00:21:36.12
Madhu with the help
of her aunt, Ruthamma,
00:21:36.16\00:21:38.73
found a job at a local hospital,
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cleaning the hospital floor
and doing other menial jobs.
00:21:40.83\00:21:43.87
She told us she earns
80 to 100 rupees a day,
00:21:43.90\00:21:47.14
less than $2, hardly enough
00:21:47.17\00:21:48.97
to provide her
three meals a day.
00:21:49.00\00:21:51.21
Her hardship was revealed to us
00:21:51.24\00:21:53.27
when we went to
see where she lived.
00:21:53.31\00:21:55.18
One can only imagine a situation
00:21:55.21\00:21:57.05
where Madhu had to take care
of her daughter, Sai Eshwari,
00:21:57.08\00:22:00.48
in a place where there's hardly
a proper roof over the head,
00:22:00.52\00:22:03.59
a vulnerable place for
a vulnerable young woman.
00:22:03.62\00:22:06.92
In spite of all her
hardship and vulnerability,
00:22:06.96\00:22:09.69
Madhu considers
herself fortunate
00:22:09.72\00:22:11.83
because her daughter now
has a safe place to grow up.
00:22:11.86\00:22:15.70
If I would not
have taken the decision,
00:22:15.73\00:22:17.77
the mother would have
recovered from her health,
00:22:17.80\00:22:21.67
then afterwards, she
would have taken this girl
00:22:21.70\00:22:23.87
also as a child
labor here and there
00:22:23.91\00:22:26.24
to some houses as a labor
00:22:26.27\00:22:28.48
because we have
taken her and Sai Eshwari
00:22:28.51\00:22:30.98
is very fortunate and
she's a very bright girl,
00:22:31.01\00:22:33.85
and she always
stands first in the class,
00:22:33.88\00:22:36.38
and she has improved a lot.
00:22:36.42\00:22:40.39
I'm thankful to God
00:22:40.42\00:22:41.76
for the help my
daughter is receiving right now.
00:22:41.79\00:22:44.33
All this is because I
refused to worship idols
00:22:44.36\00:22:47.66
and I worship the true God.
00:22:47.70\00:22:49.56
God has been very
gracious to me and my daughter.
00:22:49.60\00:22:52.50
I'm thankful to the
sponsors who are supporting her.
00:22:52.53\00:22:56.81
Because of the timely
intervention of Malathi,
00:22:56.84\00:22:59.47
Sai Eshwari can now grow up
00:22:59.51\00:23:01.14
in a safe and
loving home at Elim
00:23:01.18\00:23:03.65
and Child Impact
Sponsorship is giving children
00:23:03.68\00:23:06.28
like Sai Eshwari and
the 137 other children
00:23:06.31\00:23:09.72
at Elim Home the
financial support
00:23:09.75\00:23:11.72
to grow up in this environment.
00:23:11.75\00:23:13.96
This support is not just
00:23:13.99\00:23:15.32
getting children out
of desperate situations,
00:23:15.36\00:23:17.69
but it's also having a
wider impact in the community.
00:23:17.73\00:23:20.63
Padma works as a
cook at Elim Home.
00:23:29.60\00:23:31.71
Her children,
Priyanjali and Akash,
00:23:31.74\00:23:34.28
live here and go
to school next door
00:23:34.31\00:23:36.24
just like Sai Eshwari.
00:23:36.28\00:23:37.98
Her eldest son is also
sponsored by Child Impact
00:23:38.01\00:23:41.25
and goes to an Adventist
Boarding School in Nuzvid,
00:23:41.28\00:23:44.35
a few hours from Hyderabad.
00:23:44.39\00:23:46.59
Not long ago, Padma
lived a content life
00:23:46.62\00:23:49.09
in her native
town with her family
00:23:49.12\00:23:50.93
until a tragic incident
brought her crushing down.
00:23:50.96\00:23:55.23
My husband found a job in
the Gulf as a daily laborer,
00:23:55.26\00:23:58.80
and after two years,
he was coming back home.
00:23:58.83\00:24:01.47
We were all waiting for him.
00:24:01.50\00:24:03.17
On the way back
from the airport,
00:24:03.20\00:24:04.81
he met with an accident.
00:24:04.84\00:24:06.68
Padma's husband
died on the spot,
00:24:15.85\00:24:17.79
and his death not only brought
the tag of being called a widow
00:24:17.82\00:24:20.96
but it also brought
her financial difficulties.
00:24:20.99\00:24:23.93
All her relatives and
neighbors who cared for her,
00:24:23.96\00:24:26.19
after her husband's death,
slowly began to desert her.
00:24:26.23\00:24:29.76
She doesn't blame them.
00:24:29.80\00:24:31.13
"How can they help me and
my three children forever?"
00:24:31.17\00:24:33.74
she asks.
00:24:33.77\00:24:35.10
Although her
three children receive
00:24:35.14\00:24:36.47
Child Impact
Sponsorship for their tuition,
00:24:36.50\00:24:39.07
she was finding it hard to
take care of their basic needs
00:24:39.11\00:24:42.04
such as a decent meal a day.
00:24:42.08\00:24:45.45
There were three kids,
00:24:45.48\00:24:48.15
and she has no
one to raise the kids,
00:24:48.18\00:24:50.29
she is all
alone, she was broken,
00:24:50.32\00:24:51.85
because her husband
died in a car accident.
00:24:51.89\00:24:55.19
And immediately,
we thought maybe Asian
00:24:55.22\00:24:57.73
should definitely pick...
00:24:57.76\00:25:00.03
Should come
forward to help such,
00:25:00.06\00:25:01.40
you know, family
was in desperately
00:25:01.43\00:25:02.80
need of educating the children.
00:25:02.83\00:25:05.10
Then that's how
I got to meet her
00:25:05.13\00:25:06.63
and got to know more about her,
00:25:06.67\00:25:08.24
you know, her family
story, how her husband died,
00:25:08.27\00:25:10.54
and what she's
looking for the kids.
00:25:10.57\00:25:14.94
After he heard Padma's story,
00:25:14.98\00:25:16.71
Ravi, field
officer for Child Impact
00:25:16.75\00:25:19.21
brought her to Elim Home
00:25:19.25\00:25:20.75
and her three children
were taken into the orphanage
00:25:20.78\00:25:23.08
and given shelter.
00:25:23.12\00:25:24.65
Fortunately, for Padma,
00:25:24.69\00:25:26.05
she found a job as
a cook in the kitchen.
00:25:26.09\00:25:29.09
In Indian setup,
if the husband dies,
00:25:29.12\00:25:31.46
a female has to
face a lot of problems,
00:25:31.49\00:25:34.53
especially
educating her children
00:25:34.56\00:25:36.77
and providing them meals
00:25:36.80\00:25:38.63
and provide all
their needs is very hard.
00:25:38.67\00:25:42.74
If we would not
have given her job,
00:25:42.77\00:25:45.84
she would have
gone out for fields
00:25:45.87\00:25:48.24
or work somewhere
00:25:48.28\00:25:49.61
or sometime she would have sent
her eldest son for work also.
00:25:49.64\00:25:53.48
And she might not
have any peace of mind,
00:25:53.52\00:25:56.89
and she might also face
00:25:56.92\00:25:58.29
so many problems in the society.
00:25:58.32\00:26:01.82
Yes, we are a
child-focused organization,
00:26:01.86\00:26:04.83
but because we're in the field,
00:26:04.86\00:26:06.36
because we're talking to people,
00:26:06.39\00:26:09.23
we do help the wider community.
00:26:09.26\00:26:12.27
For instance, we gave the widow
hope by working in the kitchen.
00:26:12.30\00:26:16.34
We also have given
00:26:16.37\00:26:18.14
some of our previous orphanage
children responsibilities,
00:26:18.17\00:26:22.74
and they're now field workers.
00:26:22.78\00:26:24.58
So we're making a difference
in the wider community.
00:26:24.61\00:26:28.08
When you travel across India,
00:26:31.19\00:26:32.89
it becomes more evident
that there are so many people
00:26:32.92\00:26:35.52
including lay
members of our church
00:26:35.56\00:26:37.63
struggling to send
their children to school.
00:26:37.66\00:26:40.90
Many of our members not
able to send their children
00:26:40.93\00:26:43.60
to the Christian schools,
00:26:43.63\00:26:45.00
and these member children
are coming into our schools
00:26:45.03\00:26:47.87
because of Asian Aid,
00:26:47.90\00:26:49.24
they are being
supported and they're trained.
00:26:49.27\00:26:51.17
Tomorrow,
definitely, they are our hope
00:26:51.21\00:26:53.58
and workers for the church.
00:26:53.61\00:26:55.04
I'm really thankful to
the philanthropic people
00:26:55.08\00:26:57.41
who are
supporting these children
00:26:57.45\00:26:58.78
to be educated and
get Christian education.
00:26:58.81\00:27:01.02
I'm very thankful for
Elim Home and the sponsors.
00:27:06.45\00:27:10.43
I'm also grateful to Mr. Ravi
who introduced me to Elim Home.
00:27:10.46\00:27:15.46
I'm an Adventist
but before coming here,
00:27:15.50\00:27:18.63
I didn't know that church
had organizations like this
00:27:18.67\00:27:21.60
that helps children
in desperate situations.
00:27:21.64\00:27:25.27
I know about Asian Aid,
00:27:25.31\00:27:27.11
but I didn't know
they supported orphanages.
00:27:27.14\00:27:30.15
God has opened the
doors for me and my children.
00:27:30.18\00:27:33.42
There are so many other widows
like me who are suffering.
00:27:33.45\00:27:37.09
I remember all of
them in my prayers
00:27:37.12\00:27:39.15
because I feel
I'm very fortunate.
00:27:39.19\00:27:42.99
Today, orphanages like Elim Home
00:27:43.02\00:27:45.13
are not only
fulfilling its mission
00:27:45.16\00:27:46.90
to reach out to orphan children,
00:27:46.93\00:27:48.76
but as we found out today
00:27:48.80\00:27:50.37
and thanks to Child
Impact International,
00:27:50.40\00:27:52.73
it is also
reaching out to children
00:27:52.77\00:27:54.60
from impoverished and
unfortunate backgrounds
00:27:54.64\00:27:57.27
by providing them a
safe place to live and learn.
00:27:57.31\00:28:00.51
In turn, these children
00:28:00.54\00:28:01.88
not only receive a
good Christian education,
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but they grow up to be
strong pillars for the church.
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