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ones who need it the most.
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This is Hope In Motion.
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Hi, my name is Jim Rennie
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and I am the CEO of
Child Impact International
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and as many of you know,
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Operation Child Rescue
is one of our key projects.
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It encompasses the
rescue of trafficked children,
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babies and orphans
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and Operation Child Rescue
also sponsor a rescue home
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and rescue projects in India.
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I'm very excited today that
I've got Anita Kanaiya with us
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who is the director
of the Freedom Project
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and the Freedom
Project is our key partner
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in India for
trafficking and rescuing.
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Anita, it's great
to have you here today,
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welcome.
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Can you just
tell us about the size
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of the
trafficking problem in India?
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I guess it's hard
for us to comprehend.
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Well, I think global
estimates put the figures
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at 40 million across the globe
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and about half
that number in India.
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So we are really talking about
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huge numbers of
women and children
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who are trafficked
every day within India itself.
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Over the last five, six years,
250,000 women and children
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have been missing
and still untraced.
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Over 60% of those trafficked
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are found in
child labor in India,
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and over 70% of those
trafficked across India
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are women and children.
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So we are talking, Jim,
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about huge numbers
of women and children
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who go missing,
who are trafficked,
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and still hidden.
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It's just beyond
comprehension really.
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Now you are based in
the city of Bangalore,
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just tell us about that city
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and what you do
in the city itself?
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Well, Bangalore is one of
the metro cities in India,
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population of about 13 million.
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It's also known
as the IT capital
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or the IT hub of India
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because we've got a lot of
information technology parks
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and most of the multinationals
have offices there.
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And all of these
has happened, Jim,
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over the last,
perhaps about 15 years,
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and this has opened Bangalore up
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to sizeable
population of migrants
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and people looking for jobs,
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which has then created
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this whole issue of women
and children being trafficked
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because there is a
market in Bangalore for them,
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the demand is big.
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Bangalore is also
a cosmopolitan city
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and has a lot
of foreign tourism,
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people who come on
work as well as tourists.
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And we have
seen that even though
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Bangalore does not have a
red light area like Delhi,
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or Bombay, or Calcutta,
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the problem of
human trafficking is huge
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because it's so hidden.
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Right, and just give us an idea
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of what you are
actually doing a rescue?
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Give us an example?
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Like I said, we don't have
a red light area in Bangalore,
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and because the
problem is so hidden,
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we really have to
flush out the information,
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where are these
women and children
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being held against their
will, what are these places.
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Many times when
we've done rescues,
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even I have been surprised at
where these places are located.
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It could be in a
residential neighborhood.
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We've done a
rescue on a farmhouse
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on the outskirts of Bangalore,
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we've done a rescue
in a commercial building
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which was a factory
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which was
manufacturing school bags
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and we rescued 18 children,
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some of whom were
as young as 8 years old
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from the north of India,
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they had been brought
down, worked for 14 hours a day
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and not even paid a salary,
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in hideous conditions of
squalor, and dirt and filth,
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really unhealthy conditions.
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But there are other times
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where we have
done brothel rescues,
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and we have gone in there
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and had to really
search for the girls
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because there was no one there,
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and yet we knew that
the girls were there,
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and we have had
to break places open,
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look for false
ceilings, walls, floors, yeah.
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And so just tell us a
story of a girl or a child
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that you've rescued.
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What's one of
the amazing stories
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of when you've gone
and you found someone,
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what's the story?
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Well, I think every one
of those stories are amazing,
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not so much because
we go in and rescue,
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but because of
the courage of those
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who have been held
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in these terrible
situations of abuse,
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and have been able to still,
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you know, wait for that
day when we do that rescue, so.
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One that really
stands out in my mind
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is when we did
one on a farmhouse
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between Bangalore and Mysore,
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about three
hours out of Bangalore.
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So we had gone there, we knew
that there were girls there.
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But like I said earlier,
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we went in there with the police
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and there was no one there.
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And they had two huge dogs
tied outside, very ferocious,
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so wouldn't allow us
to search the building.
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There were paddy
fields all around
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so the girls
couldn't have disappeared.
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I mean, we had
eyes on that building.
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We searched everywhere for
them and we didn't find them.
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And finally, like I said,
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we looked for
hollow sounds or spaces
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to see if there is
a purpose-built place
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but who would have
thought that along,
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you know, a highway somebody
would build a place like that.
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But yet, we found the
place, and we broke it open,
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and sure enough the girls
were hidden in this space, Jim,
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which was like a 10x10
with absolutely no ventilation,
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and there were 12
girls inside there.
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Some of them even,
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you know, were thrown
in there without clothes.
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So I had to crawl in,
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head-first into
that place to actually,
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you know, bring the girls out.
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So that one really
stands out in my mind
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to what levels people
will go to actually abuse
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not just the girls
but even the system.
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Right, wow.
Well, that's amazing.
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So Child Impact,
and in fact partnering
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with Voice of Prophecy have been
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able to sponsor
the Azadi Rescue home.
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Let's just talk
about that for a moment.
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Why was there a need for
you to have a rescue home?
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Well, every
time we did a rescue,
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we had to take the
girls across to an institution
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which wasn't the best place.
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I mean, we didn't
have access to the girls
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when they went
to the institution,
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they were kind of
languishing there,
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there wasn't a
program, there was no counseling
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and, you know, really the girls
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were almost always trying
to escape from that place.
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So we realized that
if we had to rescue them
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and prevent them
from being re-trafficked,
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we really needed a home
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where we could provide
them with the counseling,
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the trauma counseling,
I mean, it's traumatic
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for what they go
through in those brothels
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but even more traumatic
are the rescues themselves
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when they, you know, have
to sit in the police station
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and then, you
know, are questioned
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like they are
perpetrators instead of victims.
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So we wanted a home
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that would be a
place of healing,
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of restoration,
of future and a hope,
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and that's how Azadi was born.
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It means freedom
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and we wanted them to be
able to experience freedom
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in every sense of the word.
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Now we saw some
pictures of our home,
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but just tell us
about the building
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and tell us about what's inside?
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Well, when we envisioned a home
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for these
survivals of trafficking,
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we thought of a
place that would have,
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you know, an outdoor
space for them to sit,
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some greenery, a
garden, just a nice place, Jim,
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for them to relax.
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A place that they would never
think of running away from,
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a home and that's
how we set Azadi up.
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We have a little garden
space, the girls love to plant.
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They've just planted
watermelon in the garden.
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They have roses
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and it's just a
place of healing for them,
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and inside, we've put
in really nice furniture.
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I know that sometimes
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when we've had
government officials
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visit the home,
they always ask us,
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"Wow, so who has
done this home up?
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I mean, how come
you've got such a nice place?"
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Because most people expect us
to put in secondhand furniture,
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and kind of, you
know, leave it drabbed
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but we wanted the girls to know
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that this is a place
of healing and of hope.
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And I think that's the message
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right across from our decor
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to the way the
house is arranged.
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We have bunk beds, each
girl has a bed to herself.
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We have children
even now, for babies.
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So we have kind of had
to make it child-friendly,
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the home.
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They have a
beautiful kitchen space
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where they can
cook and, you know,
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a dining space as well
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and we've put in a lot
of safety features also.
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Yes, I remember when we...
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When I visited India
on one of my last trips,
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well, in fact, it was...
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No, it's longer than that,
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I think it's
about three years ago
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you found the home.
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I wondered
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how the girls would settle
into a building like that.
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But with the lovely yard
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and the fact that you
have made it comfortable,
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they are given hope,
they feel comfortable,
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they don't want to run away.
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Just tell us a story
about one of the girls,
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there must be a story
that really reflects the hope
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that's given and
the change that is made.
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What's a great story
you'd like to share with us?
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Well, I think every one
of those stories are great.
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There are stories of hope,
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there are
stories of restoration,
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of fighting back.
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I think, and when
I share one story,
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it's really elements
of all their stories.
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Yes.
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Because every one of those girls
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somehow was cheated
because they believed someone,
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they trusted someone,
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and a lot of them
trusted someone for a job.
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They come from
very poor situations.
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We have a girl
who crossed mountains
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to get to a place
which promised a job.
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It was a job which was
going to pay her some money
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and when she landed there,
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she realized that she
has been sold to a brothel,
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and she just had
to service customers.
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I mean, when we go through
trauma counseling with them,
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they will tell us
about the hideous times
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that they have had
with customers with clout,
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with customers who
have paid a lot of money,
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and where they've had no choice.
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And they tell us of
times where they've had to,
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you know, be at
it the whole day,
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some of them have children.
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But just to share
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not the details of
what happened there,
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but why it happened.
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A lot of times,
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their stories are
stories of vulnerability
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where they are single parent
or where their families...
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They come from broken families.
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So they're really looking
for a way out of that situation
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and traffickers know this,
they prey on vulnerabilities.
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And this particular girl
was brought by her own friend
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and her husband, and
they came to sight-seeing,
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you know, to get a job.
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But when she woke
up, she was in a brothel
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and it took a
rescue operation, Jim,
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to get her out of that place.
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I mean, there was a
sense of hopelessness.
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You know, we always ask,
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you know, can you not use
up customer's mobile phones
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and they tell us no,
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they are not allowed
their mobiles inside.
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And even if they are,
on that very rare occasion,
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whenever they
call and ask for help,
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most often,
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if they try and
escape they are brought back.
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Yes.
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Because it's a very
linked, very organized crime.
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And is there a spiritual element
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of what you do?
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Yes, I would love to say
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that I think
the only restoration
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and hope possible
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that brings long
time transformation
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in their lives is Jesus.
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Yes.
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And we give them that hope,
we pray with them, we counsel,
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we tell them
that no matter what,
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they are made in
the image of God,
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and that image however marred
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it may look to
them is God's image.
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It's how He created them
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and that God will
restore that image,
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that's what our home is about.
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And our girls are very
open to experiencing God's love
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because they
have been so cheated,
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so duped of the real love
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that when they come in
here to our Azadi home,
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they just say, this
God who has loved me
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even when I was in
a terrible situation,
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is the one who
has given me hope.
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So a lot of our girls,
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you know, are just so amazed
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that there is a
God who loves them.
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That message is a
message of real hope for them
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because nobody ever
told them that before
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and they have
come to experience God
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and love Jesus at our home.
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Well, Anita, we just
admire the work you do
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to be physically
involved in rescues,
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to have to
coordinate the rehabilitation,
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but then taking the
lead with a spiritual role.
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We are very proud
of our association.
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And Child Impact
is just so excited
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that through
Operation Child Rescue,
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we can give some
hope to these girls
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in just some small way.
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And I want to thank the
donors and the supporters
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and encourage you
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to consider
Operation Child Rescue
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as a project
that you can support
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to make a real difference
in the lives of the girls
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that you've heard about today.
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A couple of years
ago, my daughters and I
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had a wonderful
opportunity to travel to India.
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And while we were there,
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we met yet another
part of our family,
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and that's our
sponsored daughter Sheila.
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We've had the
privilege of sponsoring Sheila
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through Child
Impact International
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for more than three years now.
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And, you know,
while we were there,
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she shared with us
00:16:55.28\00:16:56.61
that her dream
was to become a nurse.
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Now, what a wonderful
privilege it is for us
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now as a family to know
00:17:02.52\00:17:04.82
that she is
fulfilling that dream.
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Sheila is now
studying to be a nurse.
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She's in college
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and we cannot
be happier for her.
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It's been wonderful to be
part of that journey with her.
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And, you know, sponsoring
a child through Child Impact,
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it's made an incredible
difference for our family.
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And I know that for you,
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sponsoring a child can
make a difference for you too.
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And most importantly,
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it can make the difference
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in the life of
a child every day.
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Child Impact International
is all about children,
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impacting children in a positive
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and long-lasting way through
education and sponsorship.
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Over the last couple of years,
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Child Impact has
focused its work in Bangladesh
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by helping the school
system achieve its potential.
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Bangladesh is one of
the poorest countries
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in the world
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and a majority of
students who attend our schools
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come from poor backgrounds
and depend on sponsorship.
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The Seventh-day Adventist
school system in Bangladesh
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has over 10,000 students
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and only 20% of
them are paying students.
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The rest are sponsored
00:18:52.29\00:18:53.63
or seeking some
kind of sponsorship
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to continue their education.
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This situation puts the schools
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in financial distress
and can have direct impact
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on the student's well being
00:19:01.87\00:19:03.34
as well as the
quality of education.
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This is where an organization
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like Child Impact
has a great impact.
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Well, sponsorship, to be honest,
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is one of the most direct ways
00:19:13.35\00:19:15.22
that the donor can get
involved in the mission field.
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And in a
country like Bangladesh,
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it has a massive impact.
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And we are really grateful
to our sponsors and donors
00:19:23.26\00:19:26.93
for the support that
they give Child Impact.
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But it's actually
not about Child Impact,
00:19:30.37\00:19:32.67
it's actually about the children
00:19:32.70\00:19:34.84
who that they
support every month
00:19:34.87\00:19:37.51
and make a real difference.
00:19:37.54\00:19:40.01
Sponsoring children
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in activities like
these mission schools
00:19:42.14\00:19:46.21
and opportunities
is a tremendous way
00:19:46.25\00:19:49.72
to help form the
character of young people
00:19:49.75\00:19:53.62
as they look to the future.
00:19:53.66\00:19:55.12
They will never forget
00:19:55.16\00:19:57.03
their association in
a Christian environment.
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It is absolutely a powerful
witness to sponsor a child
00:20:00.43\00:20:05.97
in Child Impact and so
many other organizations
00:20:06.00\00:20:10.31
that help young
people to find Jesus.
00:20:10.34\00:20:14.28
Child Impact is a
unique organization.
00:20:19.21\00:20:21.82
It is not just a
sponsorship agency
00:20:21.85\00:20:24.32
but as Jim said, it gives
sponsors a unique opportunity
00:20:24.35\00:20:27.86
to be involved in the
mission field every day.
00:20:27.89\00:20:30.83
In mission
fields like Bangladesh,
00:20:30.86\00:20:32.56
the child
depends on the sponsor,
00:20:32.59\00:20:34.46
and so the sponsor is not only
impacting the life of a child
00:20:34.50\00:20:37.73
but making a
significant difference
00:20:37.77\00:20:39.30
in the mission
schools, big and small.
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Just walking in to a
small rural mission school
00:20:42.74\00:20:46.07
here in Bangladesh,
00:20:46.11\00:20:47.98
really allows you
to see the difference
00:20:48.01\00:20:50.81
that sponsorship
in education makes.
00:20:50.85\00:20:53.92
Because these children come
from rural farming communities
00:20:53.95\00:20:58.19
where to be honest,
00:20:58.22\00:20:59.55
there is a
severe shortage of funds
00:20:59.59\00:21:02.36
and food sometimes.
00:21:02.39\00:21:04.26
And so these
children are being given hope
00:21:04.29\00:21:06.76
and these children are
being given an education
00:21:06.80\00:21:09.76
and here we see the difference
that sponsorship is making.
00:21:09.80\00:21:16.07
The Bangladesh Union Mission
00:21:16.10\00:21:17.51
runs many such village
schools in the community.
00:21:17.54\00:21:20.31
These village schools
also act as feeder schools
00:21:20.34\00:21:22.81
for bigger institutions like
Monosapara Adventist Seminary.
00:21:22.84\00:21:26.51
Borsha Mankin came
to Monosapara in 2014
00:21:45.77\00:21:49.20
and is a seventh grade student.
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Borsha is recipient of
Child Impact sponsorship
00:21:51.24\00:21:54.08
that she has been receiving
00:21:54.11\00:21:55.44
from a primary
level at her village.
00:21:55.48\00:21:57.85
Borsha comes
from Shibananda Khila,
00:22:14.46\00:22:16.83
a small village about one
hour drive from Monosapara.
00:22:16.87\00:22:20.74
Visiting her village and
meeting her grandparents,
00:22:20.77\00:22:23.04
it was evident they
were facing hardship
00:22:23.07\00:22:25.31
and it emphasized
the need for sponsorship
00:22:25.34\00:22:27.51
for children like Borsha.
00:22:27.54\00:22:29.44
Borsha's
parents are day laborers
00:22:52.80\00:22:54.67
who worked in the paddy
fields owned by landlords.
00:22:54.70\00:22:57.47
But a severe drought last
year made jobs unavailable
00:22:57.51\00:23:00.24
for them in the village.
00:23:00.28\00:23:01.61
With no daily wages,
00:23:01.64\00:23:03.11
they struggled
to feed the family
00:23:03.14\00:23:04.91
and were forced to borrow money.
00:23:04.95\00:23:06.65
Unable to settle their debt,
they decided to move to Dhaka,
00:23:06.68\00:23:09.58
the capital city,
to earn some money
00:23:09.62\00:23:11.62
and pay back their debt.
00:23:11.65\00:23:13.76
Families facing
such financial hardship
00:23:13.79\00:23:16.29
have only one
thing on their mind,
00:23:16.32\00:23:18.33
feeding their family.
00:23:18.36\00:23:20.06
In such circumstances,
00:23:20.10\00:23:21.43
the thought of
educating their children
00:23:21.46\00:23:23.26
takes the back seat.
00:23:23.30\00:23:24.70
It's not hard to imagine
00:23:24.73\00:23:26.57
what would have
happened to Borsha
00:23:26.60\00:23:28.24
if she didn't go to school.
00:23:28.27\00:23:30.14
If they wouldn't
have the sponsorship
00:23:30.17\00:23:32.34
and continue their education,
00:23:32.37\00:23:34.98
they would remain
the same as their parents
00:23:35.01\00:23:39.45
and they would
be the day laborers
00:23:39.48\00:23:42.02
and especially for girls,
00:23:42.05\00:23:43.82
they would have early marriage
00:23:43.85\00:23:45.85
and they will be
just a day laborer
00:23:45.89\00:23:48.32
and without hope in this world.
00:23:48.36\00:23:51.73
Today, thanks to
Borsha's sponsors,
00:24:19.32\00:24:21.76
she can leave behind
the hardship of her parents,
00:24:21.79\00:24:24.33
break away from
the cycle of poverty
00:24:24.36\00:24:26.29
and focus on her
studies at Monosapara.
00:24:26.33\00:24:28.83
She wants to become a nurse
00:24:28.86\00:24:30.60
and at Monosapara,
she has the opportunity
00:24:30.63\00:24:33.67
to realize her dreams.
00:24:33.70\00:24:36.97
As the in-charge
of sponsorship program
00:24:37.01\00:24:39.24
here in Bangladesh,
00:24:39.27\00:24:41.88
I see the great impact
00:24:41.91\00:24:45.28
on children and their education,
00:24:45.31\00:24:48.65
and if we have more
sponsors coming forward
00:24:48.68\00:24:53.62
to help these kids to
give hope in their life,
00:24:53.66\00:24:58.79
and the impact in
their life would be greater.
00:24:58.83\00:25:04.07
Well, after today,
riding by motorbike
00:25:04.10\00:25:07.30
and coming to the villages,
00:25:07.34\00:25:09.44
coming to where
these children live,
00:25:09.47\00:25:12.04
it's really strengthened
my belief on what we do.
00:25:12.07\00:25:15.61
I've actually seen the
homes these children come from,
00:25:15.64\00:25:19.58
and then I see the
difference that's being made
00:25:19.61\00:25:22.38
at the schools where they go.
00:25:22.42\00:25:25.52
And you really have to come
and see where they come from.
00:25:25.55\00:25:30.13
You have to come and see
00:25:30.16\00:25:31.49
the challenges they
are facing in their homes
00:25:31.53\00:25:34.86
and their
communities with poverty,
00:25:34.90\00:25:38.37
with getting work.
00:25:38.40\00:25:40.20
It just shows me that
by having an education,
00:25:40.24\00:25:43.54
they've got hope,
they've got a little edge
00:25:43.57\00:25:45.71
to do something better.
00:25:45.74\00:25:47.64
Some of them have
got brothers and sisters
00:25:47.68\00:25:49.91
who have gone to
the big cities to work.
00:25:49.94\00:25:52.18
And to be honest,
00:25:52.21\00:25:53.55
all is they are working
is on construction sites
00:25:53.58\00:25:56.75
or low paid jobs.
00:25:56.79\00:25:59.25
But these children when
they have got an education
00:25:59.29\00:26:02.22
and to have to
walk through the fields,
00:26:02.26\00:26:05.23
to have to see the
houses they are living in,
00:26:05.26\00:26:07.96
it's pretty touching,
00:26:08.00\00:26:09.83
and today, I'm strengthened
00:26:09.86\00:26:13.13
that I know that what
we are doing is great.
00:26:13.17\00:26:15.90