Child Impact International
is an organization giving hope,
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previously called Asian Aid.
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Child Impact
International is an organization
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fostering
permanent positive change
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in the lives of
disadvantaged children
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and their communities.
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Child Impact is
committed to making a difference
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in the lives of children
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and those who are in need.
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Serving communities in India,
Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
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Myanmar, 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
has proven infinite returns.
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Driven by the
dedication to helping those
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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,
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giving them a
sense of place, a home.
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But above all, Child Impact
is an organization giving hope,
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giving hope to children,
giving hope to communities,
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giving hope to the
ones who needed the most.
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This is Hope In Motion.
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Our television
series Hope In Motion
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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, it may 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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The medical ministry
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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not only attends
to the medical needs,
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but also shows the love of Jesus
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to those who
come to its facilities
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seeking medical treatment.
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In this episode
of Hope in Motion,
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we go to Giffard
Memorial Hospital
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and the College of
Nursing in Nuzvid, India,
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and see how Child
Impact International
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is helping this
pioneering institution
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in training young
people in God's service.
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I guess, we traditionally
think of sponsorship of children
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sitting in a classroom.
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But here, at
Giffard Memorial Hospital,
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we see the end result,
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we see the success of girls,
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especially who are now
doing full nursing courses,
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who are making a
real contribution
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to the medical
work of the church.
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Usha Rani is a
second year nursing student
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at the College of
Nursing in Nuzvid, India.
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As part of
Giffard Memorial Hospital,
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the College of Nursing brings
in aspiring nursing students
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from Adventist
backgrounds like Usha.
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Child Impact
International over the years
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has helped many young women
like Usha through sponsorship.
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Because of the Asian Aid
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many, many, many students
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could educate
themselves in our college.
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It's a tremendous
opportunity for the students
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to grab that and to
excel in their studies
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and then educate themselves
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and then have a bright future.
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Usha Rani is looking
forward to this bright future.
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Having born into a
poor Adventist family,
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Usha has been supported
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by Child Impact
sponsorship program
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from kindergarten.
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She is the youngest of
four girls in the family,
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and Usha's parents
had to constantly worry
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about their
financial instability.
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This led to marital
issues between her parents
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and they separated when
Usha was still a young girl.
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Her mother took care of
her and her three older sisters
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by selling
vegetables in the village.
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Their hardship was compounded
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when her mother was
hospitalized with jaundice.
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By the time they realized
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that she is
suffering from jaundice
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and take her for
treatment it became worse.
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They couldn't treat her.
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Doctors said no
hope and she was like
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one week in the hospital
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but no improvement
in the health status.
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Like that she passed
away in the hospital only.
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That time I was in hostel only,
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I didn't know anything about
my mother's health condition.
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Then by the time I came here
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she is no more, she passed away.
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When our mother passed away,
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I wanted to
bring my husband here
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and take care of my sister
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because she was still
very young at that time.
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But my husband was not willing,
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he said, "When your father
is not taking care of you all,
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why should I take care of her?"
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So my husband left me
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and I came here
to take care of them.
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Usha's mother
died five years ago
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and legal
requirements forced her father
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to be her guardian.
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After my mother died
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it's compulsory I
should stay with my father
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because no source for me.
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Nobody used to take care of us
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because already
my three sisters,
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they got married.
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They went to stay
with their husbands.
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After that when I was
staying with my father,
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he also became sick
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because he also
become old, he couldn't work.
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He is diabetic patient.
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Then due to some family problems
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my elder sister,
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she had some
problem with her husband.
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She came home
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and now she is taking
care of my father and me.
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Poverty passes on from
generation to generation.
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Without any
education, people in rural India
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are forced to
follow their parents
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into working in the
fields or doing manual labor,
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sometimes as domestic help.
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Usha's father,
although old and diabetic,
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is forced to work
in the fields nearby
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just so he can earn
something to support himself
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and his eldest
daughter who is caring for him.
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Usha's sister, Rathnakumari
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owns a petty shop
selling vegetables.
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Fortunately for Usha
she has the opportunity
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to break the
shackles of poverty.
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Child Impact sponsorship
has given her that opportunity
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to uplift herself
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and help her support her family
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in the future.
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If you help the family,
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that help may not
be for longer time.
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But if you help
a child in a family
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and educate the child
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and that child
when he gets into job,
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he can take care
of the entire family
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and it can be a big
blessing to the entire family.
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So therefore,
Seventh-day Adventist,
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wherever we have our colleges,
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wherever we have a school,
wherever we have our hospitals,
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we take it like a
privilege to invite students
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from all
backgrounds and to educate them
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so that they
would become workers,
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come back to our institutions
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and serve in our institutions.
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So what we do,
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it will not go waste
but they will come back
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and then help taking
care of responsibilities,
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taking care of various
jobs that we entrust to them.
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I would say if
there is no sponsorship,
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I think majority of them
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will not be
having this education
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that they are
actually going through.
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And if you actually
take the financial background
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of many of our students,
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they come from
very poor backgrounds.
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And some of them have a
really pathetic background,
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and this sponsorship
that they are getting
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from very kind donors,
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I mean, God has, I pray
that God will bless them
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because they're really
doing a lot of services.
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And by helping
these poor students
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in getting some education,
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they are really going a long way
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to build a bright
future for these students.
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Without this sponsorship,
I'm sure they will not be able
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to get this education
and they will not be able
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to do what they're
doing and their future
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we do not know what it could be
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given the financial
conditions from which they come.
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So I really pray, we
always remember these sponsors
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because we do not
know whether they have seen
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these children or not,
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but with kindness they've
been helping our students,
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and we really appreciate them,
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and we pray that God
will bless those sponsors
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who have been
helping our students.
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I wouldn't have
got that sponsorship
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from Asian Aid,
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definitely, I'm not sure
that I would have studied
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in such Adventist institutions.
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Sponsorship is like
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they are
supporting me financially.
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Everything they are
giving books and all...
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From LKG I was supported
by Asian Aid help only.
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Usha Rani has gone through
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Child Impact sponsorship program
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since kindergarten,
and it is continuing
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to support Usha
through her nursing program
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at the College of
Nursing in Nuzvid.
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Nurses are in high
demand, and no doubt,
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Usha would be
employed almost immediately
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upon her completing
her nursing program.
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Thanks to Child
Impact sponsorship,
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she will not
only stand on her own
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as a working professional,
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but also be of
service to her family,
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and above all, to
the community as a whole.
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I guess we traditionally
think of sponsorship of children
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sitting in a classroom.
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But here at
Giffard Memorial hospital,
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we see the end result,
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we see the success of girls,
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especially who are now
doing full nursing courses,
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who are making a
real contribution
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to the medical
work of the church,
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even to community hospitals.
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My father cannot support us
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and we don't have any
brothers to support us.
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I'm so thankful to Asian
Aid and my sister's sponsors.
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If Asian Aid is not there,
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I would not make
her to study this much.
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We would have gotten
her married in the village
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and she may be
doing some manual labor
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in the fields.
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Because of Asian Aid,
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my sister is able to
receive an education,
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and I want to thank the sponsor.
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These are people
who do not know us,
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they have not met us
and we have not seen them,
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but still they are
sponsoring my sister.
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I'm able to give my
emotional support to her
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only because of these sponsors.
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I'm praying for them,
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I pray that God
will prosper them
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and give them good health.
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I thank them with all my heart.
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The healing ministry
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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is in the
forefront of its mission
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to spread the good
news and the love of Jesus
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through its
clinics and hospitals.
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At Giffard Memorial,
young people are being trained
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in God's service.
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And at School of Nursing,
they are not only trained
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to give manual nursing care,
but also show Christian love
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and to share
God's love with those
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who come seeking medical help.
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I think it's a great
blessing being sponsored.
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I'm thankful for
what they did for my life,
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for bringing me to the stage.
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And I hope one day
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that I would do
something for them.
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Imagine with me for a
moment that you're a small child
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living on the streets of
India, the sandals on your feet
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lost their comfort weeks ago,
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your favorite shirt
just got another hole.
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It's sad, mommy died last year
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but what makes
you feel even worse
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is that your dad
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chose not to be
your dad anymore.
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Hey, I'm Shawn Boonstra,
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Honorary Ambassador for
Child Impact International,
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an organization that
is a supportive ministry
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Something like 15 to 25 million
little girls and boys in India
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share similar stories
to the one I just told you.
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Many are orphaned at a young age
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with little food to eat
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and no hope.
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Child Impact
serves to bridge the gap
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between hardship and education.
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It's a unique ministry
that serves children in poverty
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in Bangladesh, India,
Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
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Over three and a
half thousand children
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are provided an
Adventist education
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and lives are changed
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through the numerous
development projects.
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Working in these countries,
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Child Impact has
come face to face
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with issues like child slavery,
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poor or no
education, child trafficking,
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abandoned babies,
lack of clean water,
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and a high number of orphans.
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This list is not
short on challenges,
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yet the needs are being met.
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You know, my
family sponsors Sheila,
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a young lady at
the Sunrise Orphanage
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in India.
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For the past couple of years,
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I'm proud of how my family
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has been able to impact her life
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for the better.
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Word has it, she
just started college.
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What I've come to understand
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is that the children
Child Impact supports
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are more than just
names, or faces on a screen,
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or a flyer,
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they're people with a story,
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a story whose ending
has not been written,
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instead another
chapter is being composed.
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It reminds me of
something that Jesus once said,
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"Whatever you do for the least
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of these brothers
and sisters of Mine,
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you do for Me."
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Join me and others
like me throughout the world
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who are
sponsoring a child monthly
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to provide like Jesus
did, to support like Jesus did,
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to love like Jesus did.
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You too can make
a lifelong impact
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on the life of someone
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who is waiting
for you to say yes.
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Yes, today you will
consider sponsorship
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right now with Child Impact
or one of our other projects.
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Yes, to give hope to
a precious child today.
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