A television series Open
Motion has been a big success.
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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,
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it might refer to Asian Aid
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as we reflect on
these great stories
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as we share them with you.
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Child Impact International
is an organization giving help,
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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, Nepal, Bangladesh,
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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 spans
from child rescue operations
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to providing an
education for orphans, deaf,
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and the blind children,
giving them a sense of place,
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a home, but above all,
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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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A couple of years
ago, Jean Boonstra,
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Associate Speaker
of Voice of Prophecy,
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visited India with
Child Impact International.
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Jean and her family have been
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privileged to sponsor a
girl through Child impact.
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It has been a blessing
for Jean and her family
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to be able to make a
difference in her life.
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During her trip to India,
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Jean met some amazing people
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who were the driving force
behind Child Impact's mission
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to reach out to those in need.
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She met with
Anita, who was in charge
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of Child Impact's Operation
Child Rescue program in India.
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Operation Child Rescue
is a program that rescues
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and rehabilitates
girls who are trafficked
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and sold as
prostitutes in the sex industry.
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Jean got to talk to Anita,
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and she shared
with her the challenges
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and the dangers that
she and her team face
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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're 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's 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
children who have been
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forced to beg on the streets
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or it could be 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 be 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 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 been
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doing this work
yourself 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 where 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're doing
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because you're dealing with some
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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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Oh, my!
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You know, really young girls
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being recruited
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
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of a different
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're very poor,
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they don't know about
the issue of trafficking.
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Usually, they
don't have the scaling,
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so they can't get jobs,
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or they're in
school but drop out
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for different reasons,
either to look after a sibling
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or a parent not being well
or the school just not being
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important enough for
them to complete education,
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and so they are pulled
out of school to get married.
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And it's at this
time that the traffickers
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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
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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 and,
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you know, fall in love with them
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and promise a better
life and 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 so 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
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on the other side or it
exists in a much, much worse way
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than they would've ever thought.
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And sometimes
when they take babies,
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they kidnap them, 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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Even they've taken babies,
kidnap babies from hospitals.
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They take
babies from orphanages,
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or young children
and they will sell them
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to the begging syndicates.
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Okay.
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That put these
children out on the streets,
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and they have to bring in
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a certain amount
of money every day.
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So these young girls
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are willing to
take sort of a risk
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because they're vulnerable,
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they're a little
bit naive to the danger,
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they're looking to
help to their family
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and or to support
themselves, a number of factors.
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As you go in, and
you actually rescue girls
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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 learnt over the years
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not to break down 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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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, we're always looking
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to grab the girls
before they're hidden
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or before they're
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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we're looking out
for an escape route
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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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Oftentimes they are
scared, they will cry,
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there's 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,
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escape, you know,
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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 going to 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 that
you're there to help them?
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Yes. Yes.
Some... Oftentimes? Okay.
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But the moment that
initial drama is over,
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then we get some quiet time.
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Good.
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To tell them who we
are, 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 then we want to
see them out of this life
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and many of them will break down
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and cry and tell you the
reason why they're there.
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You know, they will say,
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"We were so poor, so naive,
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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, it's...
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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 form 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, yes.
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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,
brings them across the border,
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puts them on a train,
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tells them they're going
for 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
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anyway 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 and rich history,
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a lovely climate,
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it's absolutely
a wonderful place.
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So in that city,
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how do you then
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 been 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
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unlike in Mumbai and Calcutta,
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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 pensioner's 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.
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We really have to
look out for places
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where these
girls are being hidden,
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where they're brought in.
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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 the people
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that work in the
really sidey 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
that in this building,
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trafficking is...
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we know
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
charted 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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and the number of
girls, the approximate ages,
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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 going to
get another opportunity
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or the police can't go in...
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Right.
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Before the rescue
because there will be an alert.
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So you sort of have to
one chance to do it right.
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Because there are
no second chances.
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Yes, yes.
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As you just
heard a need of 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 these young girls
from trafficking are many.
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When we come back,
we will hear from Anita
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how Child Impact International
is helping her and her team
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with the rescue operations.
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I just got a letter from
our sponsored daughter Sheela.
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I've got to tell you,
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there is nothing like
getting one of these letters.
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Our family has
been able to sponsor her
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through Child
Impact International.
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And because of that,
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she's got a great place to live.
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She's got good food,
she's got great clothing,
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best of all, I now
found out she's in college.
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She's in nursing school.
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There's nothing like
getting a letter like this.
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You need to start
getting these letters too.
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Listen, through Child Impact,
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you can make a huge difference
in the life of a child.
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And I promise you,
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it's going to
make a huge difference
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in your life too.
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At every one of
these mission schools,
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like this one on Bangladesh,
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Child Impact International
sponsors hundreds of children.
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We often think that
sponsorship only impacts
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on the life of the child,
but it's much wider than that.
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It impacts on the
parents and on the community.
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But more important,
it impacts on the school.
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It becomes valuable
income for this school
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and then in turn it impacts
on hundreds of other children.
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I just ask that
you would consider
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sponsoring a
child with Child Impact
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or supporting one of
its valuable projects
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that will improve education
00:14:48.58\00:14:50.45
and had been in
these mission schools
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like this one right here.
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So, Anita, after you
go in, you and your team,
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and you actually go in
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on these raids
yourself personally,
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these girls, you work
with them for a 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,
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where their stories are
taken, their photos are taken,
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and then we have to take them
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to a government
shelter 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, premarital.
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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 the train
at the wrong stop.
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So it's just a
mixed group of people
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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. Yes.
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And so between
about 2 am or 3 am,
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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?
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Yeah, they pose as an aunt,
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a mother, a sister, a brother...
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Okay.
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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
come, turn up with,
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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
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really want 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, yeah.
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Yes. And then many
times they've told us
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that they 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
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that they have been
involved in sex, commercial sex,
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and they label them the
stigma of being in that place.
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You know, you
just want to get out.
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They're 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."
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That's so harsh, so
harsh. Sounds horrible.
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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 their
physical needs, I mean...
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Oh, yes. I mean,
I hate to be very...
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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, it's
emotional, 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,
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so there is food,
there is a sense of...
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they have water and clothes
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and people talk to them,
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but the abuse is
sometimes is 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
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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 9 to 12.
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And when we visited
them about a week later,
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a couple of them said,
00:19:14.62\00:19:16.18
they didn't like what all
the boys were doing to them
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which is implying sexual abuse
00:19:19.19\00:19:21.52
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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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're a 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're
talking about a vision
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that I have for these
girls, every girl who's rescued.
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You know, the
sense of hopelessness
00:20:05.73\00:20:07.07
inside that place
00:20:07.10\00:20:08.44
when we walk into those brothels
00:20:08.47\00:20:09.80
or when we go into those places
00:20:09.84\00:20:12.37
where they are being
forced to hide or to overwork,
00:20:12.41\00:20:17.35
there is just a
deep sense of despair
00:20:17.38\00:20:20.82
and a darkness that
is so obvious to us.
00:20:20.85\00:20:24.19
And when we get
them out of that place,
00:20:24.22\00:20:26.69
what we want to
give them to replace that
00:20:26.72\00:20:28.96
is the sense of hope
that God cares about them,
00:20:28.99\00:20:32.26
that there is a
future that He can build
00:20:32.29\00:20:35.23
and that He can restore
00:20:35.26\00:20:36.60
and that no matter
what has happened to them,
00:20:36.63\00:20:39.40
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 mar that.
00:20:43.77\00:20:47.81
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 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 all them,
00:21:00.96\00:21:04.26
to be able to give
them that sense of hope
00:21:04.29\00:21:08.43
that they need not fear anymore,
00:21:08.46\00:21:10.23
they're not in a place
00:21:10.27\00:21:12.63
that anyone's
going to abuse them.
00:21:12.67\00:21:14.64
In fact, they're going
to receive the opposite
00:21:14.67\00:21:16.67
that there will
be a sense of freedom
00:21:16.71\00:21:18.97
within that place
00:21:19.01\00:21:20.84
where they can make choices
00:21:20.88\00:21:22.81
and that those choices will
be guided by good counseling
00:21:22.84\00:21:26.98
and that they will have options
00:21:27.02\00:21:29.42
whether they learn a new trade
00:21:29.45\00:21:30.99
or whether they go
back to visit family.
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It will all be under careful
observation and supervision
00:21:33.89\00:21:38.59
to ensure that the best
happens for these girls.
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I think part of the story
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that you tell that
really breaks my heart
00:21:44.67\00:21:47.44
is when you
share how these girls
00:21:47.47\00:21:49.74
once they're rescued,
00:21:49.77\00:21:51.11
some of them, a
certain percentage of them,
00:21:51.14\00:21:54.18
do go back to that way of life
00:21:54.21\00:21:56.11
because of the shame
00:21:56.14\00:21:57.48
because they
don't feel an option.
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Have you seen the difference
00:22:00.48\00:22:03.25
that Christ makes for the girls?
00:22:03.28\00:22:05.45
Is that the
difference that keeps them
00:22:05.49\00:22:07.82
from going back
to their lifestyle?
00:22:07.86\00:22:10.43
I think it is
the main difference.
00:22:10.46\00:22:13.56
Jean, I mean, to be
able to pray with the girls
00:22:13.60\00:22:16.26
and we do pray with the girls.
00:22:16.30\00:22:18.17
You know that I told
you we get some private time
00:22:18.20\00:22:20.94
either at the police
station or at the brothel
00:22:20.97\00:22:22.87
before we take them to
the government shelter.
00:22:22.90\00:22:25.54
We almost always talk to them
about God and pray with them
00:22:25.57\00:22:29.84
because that's the
only private time we'll get
00:22:29.88\00:22:32.81
before we are
under supervised visits
00:22:32.85\00:22:36.02
in the government shelter.
00:22:36.05\00:22:37.52
But if we had a home,
00:22:37.55\00:22:39.25
we can pray with them every day,
00:22:39.29\00:22:40.79
we can pray with
them and counsel them,
00:22:40.82\00:22:42.72
and tell them about
our God who loves them,
00:22:42.76\00:22:45.39
and help them to
come to terms with that.
00:22:45.43\00:22:47.30
I mean, many of
them ask us, "Why?
00:22:47.33\00:22:50.07
Why do you want
to do this for us?
00:22:50.10\00:22:52.13
You know, why
would you be here?"
00:22:52.17\00:22:53.60
Because I always tell them,
00:22:53.64\00:22:55.14
I'm a mother myself
and I have two daughters,
00:22:55.17\00:22:58.07
I know what it feels
like to be inside this place
00:22:58.11\00:23:02.08
wondering what's
going to happen next.
00:23:02.11\00:23:04.41
And they always say,
"Why do you take this risk?"
00:23:04.45\00:23:07.18
And I tell them,
"It's because God has called
00:23:07.22\00:23:10.52
some of us to these things
00:23:10.55\00:23:11.92
and because of God
who took the risk for us,
00:23:11.95\00:23:14.96
I mean, that He came for us
00:23:14.99\00:23:16.99
that we might have
a life that is free."
00:23:17.03\00:23:19.43
And, you know, they're so open
00:23:19.46\00:23:22.86
to listening to
the Gospel, to knowing,
00:23:22.90\00:23:26.23
but the most
important thing, Jean,
00:23:26.27\00:23:27.84
is for them to see
the Gospel in action,
00:23:27.87\00:23:30.97
and that's what we
managed to do that.
00:23:31.01\00:23:33.21
Okay.
00:23:33.24\00:23:34.68
What drives you
each and every day
00:23:34.71\00:23:37.21
to continue to put
your own life in danger?
00:23:37.25\00:23:41.08
You're on the
frontlines doing this,
00:23:41.12\00:23:42.85
and I imagine
your husband worries.
00:23:42.88\00:23:45.92
What keeps you going to do this?
00:23:45.95\00:23:50.06
I think the call
that God had on my life
00:23:50.09\00:23:53.06
and which I
realized about 10 years ago
00:23:53.09\00:23:55.86
when I went out on
my first rescue mission,
00:23:55.90\00:23:58.97
and just the thought
of these girls out there
00:23:59.00\00:24:04.14
and that, you know,
something might happen to them
00:24:04.17\00:24:06.64
that they may never hear
about our God who loves them.
00:24:06.68\00:24:10.65
Being an Indian woman
myself, a mother of daughters,
00:24:10.68\00:24:15.32
just wanting to do the best
that we can for these girls.
00:24:15.35\00:24:20.49
It's funny I never
00:24:20.52\00:24:21.86
was a brave or
courageous person growing up.
00:24:21.89\00:24:24.26
In fact, I was very
timid. I don't believe it.
00:24:24.29\00:24:26.03
Very timid, very shy. Really?
00:24:26.06\00:24:27.96
Yeah, I hated standing
up in front anything but...
00:24:28.00\00:24:32.53
And I still am very
afraid before we go on a rescue.
00:24:32.57\00:24:35.30
Everybody knows that
I have my private time.
00:24:35.34\00:24:38.47
But when we finish the prayer,
00:24:38.51\00:24:40.61
before the raiding
team is out of the door,
00:24:40.64\00:24:45.11
I know that God
has gone before us
00:24:45.15\00:24:47.12
and He's already there.
00:24:47.15\00:24:48.72
I mean, there are times, Jean,
00:24:48.75\00:24:50.09
that we search the
building for the girls
00:24:50.12\00:24:53.52
and we just don't know
where they've hidden them.
00:24:53.56\00:24:56.29
And somehow God shows us
where that hidden place is
00:24:56.32\00:25:00.73
whether it's, you know,
whether it's a hole in the wall
00:25:00.76\00:25:03.67
that has been sealed up
00:25:03.70\00:25:05.23
and we have to
break through that
00:25:05.27\00:25:06.74
or whether it's a
hotel reception desk,
00:25:06.77\00:25:11.17
and you open draw
and it's a staircase...
00:25:11.21\00:25:13.27
Really?
00:25:13.31\00:25:14.64
Into a cellar where
the girls have been pushed.
00:25:14.68\00:25:17.15
It is God because, you
know, none of us have had
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any kind of
investigative training.
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And when God shows up there,
we know that we keep going on.
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He's going before you. Yes.
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And you're trusting in Him. Yes.
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Well, I have a hard time
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imagining you as
timid young girl.
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You're a great
inspiration to myself
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and many who have
met you, I know you are.
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Well, I just praise that
you and Operation Child Rescue
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are doing what
you're doing, Anita,
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that you are
facing these problems
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that you're
there dealing with it.
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You know, it's
really hard for those of us
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who don't see it
with our own eyes
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to really
comprehend the level of danger,
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the horrors that
these children go through,
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but I just thank you
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for what you're
doing for the ministry
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that you have,
and I'm just wondering
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if we can pray together.
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Yes, please. Please.
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Dear God in heaven, 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 that we can even imagine.
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But Father, we love You,
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and we know 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'll
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.
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Anita, it's always a
pleasure visiting 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
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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 programs like
Operation Child Rescue.
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These young girls and boys
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can be rescued
and rehabilitated.
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You can play a
vital role in helping
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Child Impact International
in its rescue efforts.
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Voice of Prophecy has
partnered with Child Impact
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to build a rehabilitation
home in Bangalore, India,
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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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Please pray for Anita
and her team in India.
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And if you would like to help
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or get more information
on Operation Child Rescue,
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please contact Child
Impact International.
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