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 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
has proven 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,
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deaf, and the blind children,
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giving them a
sense of place, a home.
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But above all,
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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 privileged
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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 are 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,
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who was in charge of
Child Impact's Operation
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Child Rescue program in India.
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Operation Child
Rescue is a program
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that rescues and
rehabilitates girls
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who are trafficked
and sold as prostitutes
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in the sex industry.
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Jean got to talk to
Anita and she shared with her
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the challenges and the dangers
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that she and her team
face in rescuing these girls.
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Anita, it's nice
to see you again.
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We met a little while ago,
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and it's wonderful
to visit with you again.
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You're the director
of Operation Child Rescue
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in India,
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can you tell me a little bit,
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just briefly what that
organization is all about?
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Well, Jean, it's
lovely to meet you again.
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As the name suggests,
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Operation Rescue is
about rescuing women,
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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
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who are being forced
to beg on the streets
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or it could be
children who are being forced
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to work in hazardous industries
like bad 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 traffic 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 doing this work
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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 what were
children being trafficked for
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and we've ended
up now doing rescues
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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
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going missing 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
because you're dealing
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with some really,
really sad situations.
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Children are in danger,
young women are in danger.
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Let's talk for a
minute about the young girls,
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they are recruited
from rural areas typically,
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tell us a little bit
about how did they get recruited
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and what age are these girls?
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Well, when we
first started work,
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and when we first started
rescues, the girls were...
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The average age was about 17.
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But today, the
girls are much younger,
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and the average
age is close to 14.
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So you know, really young girls
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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
of a number of factors,
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poverty being
the number one factor
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that makes them
vulnerable to this.
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So they are very poor.
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They don't know about
the issue of trafficking.
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Usually they don't have a skill
and so they can't get jobs,
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or they're in school
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but drop out for
different reasons,
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either to look after a sibling,
or a parent not being well,
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or the school just not
being important enough for them
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to complete education
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and so they're pulled
out of school to get married.
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And it's at this
time 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 to get out
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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 in,
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you know, fall in love with them
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and promise a
better life to marry them.
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Sometimes they offer them jobs,
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they will come in and
say we will get you a job.
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And because they're 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,
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much worse way than
they would have ever thought.
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And sometimes
when they take babies,
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they kidnap them.
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So the younger children...
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So just snatched
from their mothers
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or their homes?
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Yes, that's from hospitals even.
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You know, they've taken babies,
kidnap babies from hospitals
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or they take
babies from orphanages
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or young children
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and they will sell them
to the begging syndicates.
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Okay.
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That put these
children out on the street.
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And they have to bring
in a certain amount of money
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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 their family
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and or to support themselves,
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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 learned over the years
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not to breakdown to
react in the right ways.
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My first time inside a
brothel, I was terrified
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because I didn't
expect what we saw.
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You know,
usually these places are,
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they select places
that are easy hiding places,
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so you have number of
rooms inside the main entrance.
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If it's a house or a building,
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it will have a number of rooms
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and individual rooms
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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. Okay.
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We usually have a
team of about 10 or 12
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including a few police.
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We run inside the place,
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we're always
looking to grab the girls
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before they're hidden
or before they're forced
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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're
scared, they will cry,
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there's a lot of
drama that happens
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inside 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,
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you know, they're crying,
wondering what's gonna happen.
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At that point, we can't say
that they are happy to see us
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because they
don't know who we are.
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Are they questioning
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that you're there to
help them some often times?
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Yes. Yes. 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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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 that we want to
see them out of this life.
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And many of them will breakdown
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and cry and tell you the
reason why they're there.
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You know, they will
say, we were so poor,
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so naive, we didn't
know, we were promised a job.
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And the story is almost the same
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again and again and again.
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Over and over again.
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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
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they are all
from different places,
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even if they were,
say, from Bangladesh
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and we're seeing
increasing number of girls
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from Bangladesh
and Nepal in Bangalore.
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Brought into Bangalore.
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Yes. Okay.
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They don't know each other
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and they're all
recruited in the same way.
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You know, somebody marries them,
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somebody promises them a job,
brings them across the border,
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puts them on a train,
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tells them they're going
for a job in a massage parlor,
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beauty parlor, as a housemaid,
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and they end up
in this building.
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So the city of Bangalore,
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it's an
absolutely beautiful city.
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It's an IT hub, it's a very,
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what I noticed as a visitor
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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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and 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
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to find out where
these brothels are?
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How do you make those inroads
before you have a rescue?
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We have them working
to develop these contacts.
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Like you said, on the
surface it is a beautiful city.
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We don't have a
red-light district
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unlike, you know,
Mumbai and Calcutta,
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they have areas where, you know,
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these girls are being
taken and where sex is offered,
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but Bangalore doesn't have that.
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It used to be more
of a pensioners paradise
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till it became an IT city.
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Okay.
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So everything is very hidden,
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which makes it
more difficult for us
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because we have to search,
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we really have to look out
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for places where these
girls are being hidden,
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where they're brought 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,
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befriend auto rickshaw drivers
who will transport these girls,
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befriend people
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that work in the
really shady hotels
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where the girls
are pimped often.
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And we sometimes go in
as customers and clients,
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sometimes as pimps ourselves
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to try and
access the information
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as to where these
girls are being held.
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And once we
have that information
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and we know for sure
that in this building
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trafficking is held...
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You know, a
trafficked girl is being held
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or a brothel is being run,
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then we go to the
police with that information.
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Completely
chartered out plan of rescue
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including escape routes, entry,
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number of people
inside the building,
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the number of girls,
their approximate ages,
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as much of...
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As much information as we can.
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Because before we
go into the rescue,
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we're not gonna
get another opportunity
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or the police can't
go in before the rescue
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because there will be an alert.
00:12:15.03\00:12:17.73
So you sort of have
one chance to do it right
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and because there
are no second chances?
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Yes. Yes.
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Current estimates tell us that
more than 1.2 million children
00:12:27.98\00:12:31.91
are caught up in
human trafficking
00:12:31.95\00:12:33.45
in India alone.
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The numbers are
truly staggering,
00:12:34.95\00:12:37.09
but thanks to people like Anita
00:12:37.12\00:12:38.79
and programs like
Operation Child Rescue,
00:12:38.82\00:12:41.69
these young girls and boys
00:12:41.72\00:12:43.12
can be rescued
and rehabilitated.
00:12:43.16\00:12:45.66
You can play a vital role
00:12:45.69\00:12:47.13
in helping Child
Impact International
00:12:47.16\00:12:49.23
in its rescue efforts.
00:12:49.26\00:12:50.77
Voice of Prophecy has
partnered with Child Impact
00:12:50.80\00:12:53.80
to build a rehabilitation
home in Bangalore, India,
00:12:53.84\00:12:56.81
to provide a safe place
00:12:56.84\00:12:58.34
where young girls
can be given hope,
00:12:58.37\00:12:59.91
healing,
00:12:59.94\00:13:01.28
and to learn new skills
all in a Christian environment.
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Please pray for Anita
and her team in India.
00:13:04.38\00:13:07.02
And if you would like to
help or get more information
00:13:07.05\00:13:09.45
on Operation Child Rescue,
00:13:09.48\00:13:11.49
please contact Child
Impact International.
00:13:11.52\00:13:13.99
I just got a letter from
our sponsored daughter Sheila.
00:13:22.23\00:13:25.17
I've got to tell you,
00:13:25.20\00:13:26.53
there is nothing like
getting one of these letters.
00:13:26.57\00:13:28.90
Our family has
been able to sponsor her
00:13:28.94\00:13:30.81
through Child
Impact International.
00:13:30.84\00:13:32.94
Because of that,
00:13:32.97\00:13:34.31
she's got a great place to live.
00:13:34.34\00:13:35.78
She's got good food.
00:13:35.81\00:13:37.15
She's got great clothing.
00:13:37.18\00:13:38.75
Best of all,
00:13:38.78\00:13:40.12
I now found out
she's in college.
00:13:40.15\00:13:41.92
She's in nursing school.
00:13:41.95\00:13:43.72
There's nothing like
getting a letter like this.
00:13:43.75\00:13:46.92
You need to start
getting these letters too.
00:13:46.96\00:13:48.99
Listen, through Child Impact,
00:13:49.02\00:13:50.66
you can make a huge difference
in the life of a child,
00:13:50.69\00:13:54.03
and I promise you,
00:13:54.06\00:13:55.40
it's going to
make a huge difference
00:13:55.43\00:13:57.13
in your life too.
00:13:57.17\00:13:58.50