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,
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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 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,
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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
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Hope in Motion
has been a big success
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and we want to
continue to share with you
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some of the field stories
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that we have
filmed over the years.
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So just from time to time,
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it 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 beautiful landscapes,
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its people, the
colors and customs,
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that's India in a nutshell.
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Child Impact International
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has been working
in this vast land
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since its very beginning,
which is over 50 years ago now.
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Primarily focused
on child sponsorship,
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Child Impact also
has been instrumental
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in building many
children's homes and schools
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to complement its
sponsorship program.
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The Immanuel
English School in Jeypore
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in the state of
Orissa is one such school
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that has
undergone a transformation.
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We just feel surprised
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how the things have changed.
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Everything was
just like the hill
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that you see behind,
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full of bushes
and unwanted plants.
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So nobody from
town ever thought that
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there can be something here,
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but God has blessed this place
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and we can see a great change.
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Starting with around
50 children and few staff,
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all under just one building,
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the school has now developed
into an expansive campus.
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The larger
facility made it possible
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to bring in more children
from the tribal communities
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as well as nearby villages.
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As the news of the
new facility spread,
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many more
children from Adventist
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and non-Adventist families
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desire to be
educated at the new school.
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Many in rural India struggle
to earn two dollars a day,
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their only way
of earning a living
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is grazing their livestock
or working in the fields.
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Here poverty passes on
from generation to generation
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and education is not an option.
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I mean some parts of
India really seem to be growing
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and really, you know,
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India seems to be
really coming up as they say.
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But when you go to the
villages and the slums,
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they have not
improved in all the years that,
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you know, that I've
been coming to India
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which is now more than 30 years.
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You know, when
you go to the villages
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and you see,
enter some of the slums
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and you see how bad,
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you know, the
conditions are that the people
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and the
children are living under
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because there's often
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it's not that
they don't want to work
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but there's just not
enough work available.
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Although a majority of them
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cannot afford to send
their children to school,
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they do view education
as a catalyst for change.
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Sixty to seventy percent
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we are dependent
on the sponsorship
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because majority of
this children are poor
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and they don't have any support.
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Without the
support of any sponsorship,
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those children
would not be here.
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Today, about
2,600 children in India
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are sponsored by Child Impact
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and because of their commitment
to the welfare of children,
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especially children
from tribal communities
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and villages.
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These children are
reaping the benefits
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of an Adventist education.
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Devoki Moharia,
a science teacher
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at the Emmanuel English School
was a former student here.
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I finished my
BSc degree in college
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and I'm very much
interested in science
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because I was good at science.
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In this school I
teach mostly 8th, 9th, 10th.
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I teach them
chemistry and biology.
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Devoki was one among
the first batch of children
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to be brought to the
school from neighboring villages
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when Helen Eager
and some of the staff
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from the school
visited these villages.
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I sent messages
to the church pastors
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if there are any
children from poverty level
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and wherever
there are no schools.
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So many names came
from different churches.
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Then first I went to
some orphan children,
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then I came to know
that there are two girls,
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very small girls
nearby Kotpat town.
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So I went there and I met
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with her father of Devoki.
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Then her father was not
willing to send the girl here
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because there was
no boundary around
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and there was only one
building built by Asian Aid.
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Then when I went,
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she was the
smallest among the two.
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Then she started
crying not to take photo.
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I carried her, I
gave her a chocolate.
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Then I made her to stand,
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then I took a
photograph for Mummy Eager,
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and that's how I found her.
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I was very happy thinking that
I'm going to go to a school,
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a hostel, English medium.
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No one knows in my
school what it means,
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they don't know how to
talk in English and all.
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So I was very happy
that I will be the person
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to learn English and all.
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So when I came here,
first two, three days,
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I was nervous, means,
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I used to remember
parents, all this thing.
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And only one single building
was there and no boundary.
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It was like jungle.
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And jungle means I really
get very, very scared of that.
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And no boundary, no, nothing,
only one building was there.
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Boys, girls, staff,
everyone in same building.
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Doing all the activities,
eating, sleeping, studying,
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everything in the same building.
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From right at the beginning
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when the school
was just one classroom,
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then with the
vision of Helen Eager,
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and supporters
like Garwin McNeilus,
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this school
sprouted into an institution
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that now has, I
think about 700 children.
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And of those 600 are sponsored.
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And now we see the
success stories coming through.
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Devoki, who was right at
the school when it started,
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she did her
education at the school,
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then she went
away to university,
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and now she's come
back as a science teacher.
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It's just so
fantastic to see the difference
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that has made with her,
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but also with the
children that are here.
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If it weren't for
the timely intervention
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of Child Impact International
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and people like Helen Eager,
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Devoki Moharia's life
would have seen misfortunes
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of so many young girls
like her in her village.
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Life in rural India is simple.
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People live in close
quarters and as one unit.
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During the day, they
either go to the fields
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or graze what
little livestock they have.
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And there is a clear
order of social precedence
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based on gender
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and women have little
or no say in its structure,
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often leading
to unjust practices
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and misery.
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In villages
parents are uneducated
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and they don't
send their children
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when they are
small to the school.
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So that is the reason
I never went to school.
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In villages that is a rule
that when a girl is grown up,
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she should be given
in marriage to someone.
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So in my case also it
would have been like that
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if I had not have been
come to the school and study.
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By this time I
would have got married,
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having children
and all those things.
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Child marriage is a
common practice in South Asia
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and it is more
prevalent in India.
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According to United
Nations Children's Agency,
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UNICEF, 18% of the girls
are married by the age of 15.
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Although Indian law has
made child marriage illegal
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and the practice is in
decline in recent years,
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customs and traditions
dictate life in rural India.
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It is like so in
Devoki's village, Basuli.
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At present I don't have
any of my friends to my age.
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Only I am the
girl in my village.
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All are younger to me.
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All have got married.
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By now she would
have got married...
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If she would not
have studied here,
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by now she would
have got married.
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So by now she would
have been lost in that way.
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But now she is in God's hand.
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She is doing wonderful.
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Although Devoki grew up in
a boarding school at Jeypore
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and went to
college in bigger cities,
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she has not forgotten
her roots and is always happy
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to visit her
family and her village.
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Yeah, I feel really happy
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because I'm born and
brought up in this village.
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And even though I stay
in town or something now
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but I still have
love for my village,
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for my family members.
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I feel very happy when I come
back to my home and see them.
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Devoki is the only girl
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to have successfully
received a college education
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from her village,
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and in a community where
women have little or no say,
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she is treated
with utmost respect.
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We feel very proud.
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Whenever someone
comes to visit us,
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we always tell
them about our daughter.
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When she comes here, we
are very happy and proud.
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The realization that there
are many more children out there
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who yearn for a good
education can be discouraging.
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But it is reassuring to
know that with sponsorship
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we can go about
making a difference
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one day at a time.
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When we are at home sometimes
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we are not getting
three meals to eat.
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No good place to sleep.
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So when schools are
that like this school,
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they're providing
meals, education, everything.
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Sponsors...
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they are struggling hard
to educate some other's lives.
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That is something
very great to understand.
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Since sponsorship
was there I studied.
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So I'm so much
grateful to my sponsor.
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And to me it's really wonderful
just to see the changes,
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you know, when you see a
child come looking dirty,
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and unhappy,
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and know that
nobody cares about them,
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and then after a very short time
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to see the transformation,
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and then after a few years
to see them really doing well,
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I think that's what
makes it worthwhile.
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Devoki although having
better offers to teach outside
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in bigger cities has come
back to teach in the place
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that gave her a
new chance in life.
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Actually, my education,
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my foundation started from here.
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So I thought first
let me serve to my place,
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the place where I belong to,
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where I have got my foundation.
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Whatever talent I have
let me show to those people
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so that those students
also will learn about that.
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I feel proud because
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whatever I did for her,
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I have got the fruit.
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Today Child Impact International
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continues to
fulfill its commitment
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to the welfare of
children who are in need
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and to provide
them with an education
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through sponsorship,
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giving them hope and a
chance for a better life.
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So they're building lives.
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Students and
children they are in darkness.
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They are receiving
the light in their lives.
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If they are at home
the lights are been off
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or gone away but
once they come here
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their light of
their lives is being on.
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I think that...
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I feel since I
was in this school,
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I'm blessed to be
in this position today.
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