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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During her trip to India,
Jean met some amazing people
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who are the driving force
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behind Child Impact's mission
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 that rescues
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and rehabilitates
girls who are trafficked
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and sold as
prostitutes in the sex industry.
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Jean got to talk to
Anita 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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So, Anita, after you go in,
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you and your team,
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and you actually
go in on these raids
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yourself
personally, these girls,
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you work with
them for little while,
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then what's the next step?
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How do they
transition from that life
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back to somewhat a regular life?
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Once we finish the rescues,
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we take them to
the police station
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for a little bit
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where their stories are
taken, their photos are taken,
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and then we have to take them
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to a government
shelter according to the law.
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The first place
after their rescue
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has to be the
government shelter.
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And these are basically
sets of buildings with staff,
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but they're not
specific to trafficked victims.
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So you can have
abandoned girls there,
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you can have a
pregnant mother there,
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you know, pre-marital,
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you can have someone
who has lost their family,
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you can have
somebody who's lost,
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got off a train
at the wrong stop,
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so just a mixed group
of people inside that place
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and these girls are
taken to that place.
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Usually,
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we do the rescues
quite late at night.
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For that surprise factor.
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Yes. Yeah.
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And so between
about 2 or 3 A.M.,
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we end up in this place.
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So the girls are, you know,
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there are about three gates
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before you get inside the place.
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It's almost like a jail.
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It looks like that. It's...
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Sounds intimidating. It is.
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And then once there,
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the girl's case has
to come up for hearing
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and we have to find
out their backgrounds.
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Many times, because it's
a government run shelter,
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the traffickers can
end up coming right there.
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Really? Yeah.
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They pose as an aunt,
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a mother, a sister, a brother,
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the only relative in that place.
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And because they
have so many cases
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and so many people turning up,
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they don't check credentials.
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And so they can turn up
with, you know, a false document
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and we have had many such ones.
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And they can release the girl
or they get to see the girl,
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intimidate her more
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or promise to get
them out of that place
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because by then,
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the girls really want
to get out of that place,
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they don't speak
the local language,
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the food is not
something that they like.
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Government issued
food essentially, yeah.
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And then many
times they have told us,
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there are lice in the
food or lice in the coffee.
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Oh, my.
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You know, yeah
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and the others are
really mean to them
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because they find out that
they have been involved in sex,
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commercial sex,
and they label them,
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the stigma of
being in that place.
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You know, you
just want to get out.
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They are desperate to get out.
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Many times these girls
have tried to cut their wrists
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and we get a call to say,
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"Please come and take the girls
you rescued out of this place
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because they're
disturbing everybody else."
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And you go there and they say,
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"We just want to
go out of this place.
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The brothel was better."
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You know, so
harsh. Sounds horrible.
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So harsh.
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How many days or
how much time are they
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in this place generally?
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Well, it can be
anything between two months
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to two years.
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Oh, wow.
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Are they cared for,
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are their
physical needs, I mean...
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Oh, yes. I mean,
I hate to be very...
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I hate to talk about it,
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but the life they
were living in the brothel,
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they had a lot of
physical injuries I assume.
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Obviously, it's
emotional and mental,
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are those things addressed
at all in the government home?
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The government
does provide a shelter,
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so there is food.
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There is a sense of...
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They have water and clothes
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and people talk to them,
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but they're abused
sometimes in different ways.
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There's a lot of sexual abuse
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that happens
within those shelters
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especially to
the younger children.
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We did a rescue of boys
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who had been trafficked
from Bihar to Bangalore
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for labor
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and some of these
boys were aged 9 to 12.
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And when we visited
them about a week later,
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a couple of them said,
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they didn't like what
older boys were doing to them,
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which is implying sexual abuse
inside a government shelter
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that is meant to
be a protective place.
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It sounds like it's
taking them from a bad situation
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and putting them
in a so-so situation
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and in that specific
case, a worse situation.
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It's true.
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So it doesn't sound
like it's an answer,
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but you also
don't have a choice.
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Yes.
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So, Anita, you are Christian,
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what difference would it make
to be able to take these girls
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and put them in a
Christian facility
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where they were nurtured
and cared for specifically?
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Now, Jean, you are
talking about a vision that
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I have for
this, for these girls,
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every girl who is rescued.
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You know, the
sense of hopelessness
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inside that place
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when we walk into those brothels
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or when we go into those places
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where they are being
forced to hide or to overwork,
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there is just a
deep sense of despair
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and a darkness that
is so obvious to us.
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And when we get
them out of that place
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what we want to
give them to replace
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that is the sense of hope
that God cares about them,
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that there is a
future that He can build,
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and that He can restore,
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and that no matter
what has happened to them,
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they are still
made in the image of God
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and nobody can destroy that.
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And nothing can,
nothing can mar that.
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But you see they've
never been told that,
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they've been so abused
inside that place that they,
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they couldn't
care about themselves.
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So we in our home
will have that opportunity
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right from the start
to just love on them,
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to be able to give
them that sense of hope
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that they need not fear anymore,
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they're not in a...
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They're not in a place
that anyone's gonna abuse them.
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In fact, they're
gonna receive the opposite,
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that there will
be a sense of freedom
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within that place
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where they can make choices
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and that those
choices will be guided
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by good counseling and
that they will have options
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whether they learn a new trade
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or whether they go
back to visit family.
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It will all be under,
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under careful
observation and supervision
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to ensure that the best
happens for these girls.
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I think part of the story
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that you tell that
really breaks my heart
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is when you
share how these girls
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once they are
rescued some of them,
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a certain percentage of them
do go back to that way of life
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because of the shame,
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because they
don't feel an option.
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Have you seen the difference
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that Christ makes for the girls?
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Is that the
difference that keeps them
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from going back
to their lifestyle?
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I think it is the
main difference, Jean.
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I mean, to be able
to pray with the girls
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and we do pray with the girls.
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You know that I told
you, we get some private time
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either at the police
station or at the brothel
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before we take them to
the government shelter.
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We almost always talk to them
about God and pray with them
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because that's the
only private time we'll get
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before we are
under supervised visits
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in the government shelter.
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But if we had our home,
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we can pray with them every day,
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we can pray with
them and counsel them,
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and tell them about
a God who loves them,
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and help them to
come to terms with that.
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I mean, many of them ask us,
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"Why do you want
to do this for us?
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You know, why
would you be here?"
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Because I always tell
them, "I'm a mother myself.
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You know, I have two daughters,
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I know what it feels
like to be inside this place
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wondering what's
gonna happen next."
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And they always say,
"Why do you take this risk?"
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And I tell them, "It's because
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God has called some
of us to these things
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and because it's for
God who took a risk for us.
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I mean, that He came for us
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that we might have
a life that is free."
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And, you know,
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they are so open to
listening to the gospel,
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to knowing,
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but the most
important thing, Jean,
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is for them to see
the gospel in action
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and that's what we
manage to do there.
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Okay.
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But what drives
you each and every day
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to continue to put your
own personal life in danger?
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You're on the
frontlines doing this
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and I imagine
your husband worries.
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What keeps you going to do this?
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I think this, the call
that God had on my life
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and which I
realized about 10 years ago
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when I went out on
my first rescue mission,
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just the thought of
these girls out there and that,
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you know, something
might happen to them,
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that they may
never hear about a God
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who loves them.
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Being an Indian women myself,
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a mother of daughters
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just wanting to do the best
that we can for these girls.
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It's funny, I
never, I never was a brave
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or courageous person growing up.
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In fact, I was very
timid. I can't believe it.
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Very timid, very shy.
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Really? Yeah.
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I hated standing up in
front of anything, but...
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And I still am very
afraid before we go on a rescue.
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Everybody knows that
I have my private time,
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but when we finish the prayer
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before the raiding
team is out of the door,
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I know that God
has gone before us
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and He's already there.
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I mean, there are times, Jean,
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that we search the
building for the girls
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and we just don't know
where they've hidden them.
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And somehow God shows us
where that hidden place is,
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whether it's, you
know, a hole in the wall
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that has been sealed up
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and we have to
break through that
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or whether it's a reception,
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a hotel reception desk
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and you open the
drawer and it's a staircase.
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Really? Wow.
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Into a cellar where
the girls have been pushed.
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Oh, my.
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It is God because, you know,
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none of us have had any
kind of investigative training.
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And when God shows up there,
we know that we keep going on.
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He is going before you. Yes.
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And you are
trusting in Him. Yes.
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Well, I have a hard time
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imagining you as
a timid young girl.
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You're a great
inspiration to myself
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and many who've met
you, I know you are.
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Well, I just praise God that you
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and Operation
Child Rescue are doing
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what you are doing, Anita,
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that you are
facing these problems,
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that you're
there dealing with it.
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You know, it's
really hard for those of us
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who don't see it
with our own eyes
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to really
comprehend the level of danger,
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the horrors that
these children go through,
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but I just thank you
for what you're doing,
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for the ministry that you have.
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Anita, it's always a
pleasure visiting with you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Jean.
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Current estimates tell us that
more than 1.2 million children
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are caught up in human
trafficking in India alone.
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The numbers are
truly staggering,
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but thanks to people like Anita
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and programs like
Operation Child Rescue,
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these young girls and boys
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can be rescued
and rehabilitated.
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You can play a vital role
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in helping Child
Impact International
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in its rescue efforts.
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Voice of Prophecy has
partnered with Child Impact
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to build a rehabilitation
home in Bangalore, India,
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to provide a safe place
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where young girls
can be given hope,
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healing, and to learn new skills
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all in a Christian environment.
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Please pray for Anita
and her team in India.
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And if you would like to
help or get more information
00:13:52.63\00:13:55.03
on Operation Child Rescue,
00:13:55.06\00:13:57.03
please contact Child
Impact International.
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