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 in the lives
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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, Sri Lanka,
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Myanmar, and will soon
expand to other countries.
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For the last 50 years,
Child Impact has invested
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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
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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, deaf,
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and the blind
children giving them
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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 need it the most.
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This is Hope in Motion.
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You look out over the
field that will provide
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you and your family
with food for the coming year
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and seed for the next.
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But all you see is
miles of sun-baked ground,
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and withered plants.
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Welcome to Zambia.
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Last year, we had a partial
crop failure here in Zambia.
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And this year, there's
been a complete crop failure.
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If you go and talk
to the oldest people
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in the villages,
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they'll tell you this
is the worst famine drought
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that they've seen
in their lifetime,
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which is saying something
we've had some extraordinary
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famines and to the
period of last 15 years.
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And so we're seeing that need,
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that hunger
translating into people's demand
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for work, just general need.
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Riverside Farms began
with the mission to reach
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the needs of the
people in Zambia,
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located 70
miles south of Lusaka,
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which is the capital of Zambia.
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They started this
mission in the early 70s.
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Greg Harding is
the executive director
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for Riverside Farms.
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Our mission is
to reach the needs
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of people here in Zambia.
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And that encompasses
both their physical needs,
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which are huge in Africa,
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and also the
spiritual and education.
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One of the ways
that Riverside Farms
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is helping the
people of Southern Zambia
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is through farming.
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Food is a resource that
many of us take for granted.
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But for the poor villagers,
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it is something
that they struggle
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to get enough of.
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While Zambia's
economy is growing
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and doing better than
many other African countries,
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it still isn't enough.
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So the farm is something
I personally really love,
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love being on the
farm working on it.
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We grow, bananas
is our primary crop
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through about 34 hectors
just over 80 acres of bananas.
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And those produce about
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170 truckloads of
bananas every year.
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About 60% of Zambians
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live under the
nation's poverty line
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with rural poverty
standing at almost 78%.
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And in 2007 study,
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Zambia was ranked
117th out of 128 countries
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on the global
competitiveness index
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because of many factors
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that have negatively
affected them economically.
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Most Zambians spend 60%
of their income on food,
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which leaves
them with no resources
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to send their
children to school.
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Not only that,
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but when your income
also depends on growing food,
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you are left
with a huge problem.
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Lack of food is
not the only issue.
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More than one
out of six Zambians
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is currently
suffering from HIV or AIDS,
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making it one of the most
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severely impacted countries
from this disease in the world.
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These factors have
had a devastating effect
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on life expectancy,
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which is
currently around 40 years.
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Many children are left orphaned
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and without hope for the future.
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Following Zambia's independence,
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there was a major
focus to build hospitals
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and improve the healthcare
of those in remote rural areas
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through the use of
doctors that would fly in.
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The founder of Riverside
Farms was one of those doctors.
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Zambia is located
in South Central Africa
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and has a population
of over 16 million people.
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First contacted
by European explorers
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in the late 18th century,
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it soon became a British colony.
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A prominent European visitor
came in the 19th century,
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David Livingstone.
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He hoped to end the slave trade
in Africa through the three Cs,
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Christianity,
commerce, and civilization.
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He was the first European
to see the beautiful waterfalls
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on the Zambezi River in 1855.
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He named them Victoria
Falls after Queen Victoria,
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saying that "Scenes so
lovely must have been gazed
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upon by angels in their flight."
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In 1964,
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Zambia gained its
independence from colonial rule.
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And in 1991, it
became a democracy.
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Colonization has a great impact
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on the current issues
that Zambia is facing.
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In 1895,
Frederick Russell Burnham,
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an American scout discovered
rich deposits of copper.
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This discovery led the
British to force native Zambians
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through heavy
taxation to work the mines,
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while Europeans were given
the most fertile farmlands.
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This push some
Zambians to violence,
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though there was
never a large scale revolt.
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Because of the focus on mining,
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Zambia's economy is
heavily dependent on copper,
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which became a
problem in the mid 70s
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when the value of
copper dropped to half.
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This pushed Zambians to
diversify their economy,
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mainly focusing on
increasing agriculture.
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The Zambian government
is promoting agriculture
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through the
development of farm blocks
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in all 10 provinces
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for large and
medium commercial farming,
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fish farming, and
livestock production.
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Agriculture
contributes about 19% to GDP,
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and employs three
quarters of the population.
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Domestic production
is comprised of crops
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such as maize,
sorghum, millet, and cassava.
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Well, exports are driven
by sugar, soybeans, coffee,
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ground nuts, rice, and cotton,
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as well as horticulture produce.
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The people of Zambia
are working hard to improve
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not just their lives,
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but also the lives
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of those around
them through farming.
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Her name is Regina,
and I have got to know her
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because whenever this
piece work at Riverside,
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you see Regina here.
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And she's one of
the hardest workers.
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So each department they
all want to hire Regina,
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because she puts
everything into her work.
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She has nine children
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and five dependent
grandchildren on her.
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And the thing that
I like about Regina,
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you never see her not smiling.
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And she just
takes life as it comes,
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she does the best she
can and she goes forward.
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Regina's hard work ethic
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is shared by a
majority of Zambians,
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but many factors have
kept them from progressing.
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One of those factors is that
only a few areas use irrigation
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while the rest
rely only on rain,
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which is led to many
failed crops due to drought.
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The other issue is
that most of the farmers
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are not able to
afford farm equipment.
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So they have to do
everything by hand.
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This greatly
decreases the amount of land
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that they can farm.
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Even though
there are limitations,
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Zambia is not
lacking usable farmland,
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58% of Zambia is classified
as medium to high potential
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for agricultural production.
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However, only 15% of this land
is currently under cultivation.
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Well, this is pretty tough,
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but I'm right here in
the village near Riverside.
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And this is Regina.
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And this is one of
Regina's three fields.
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Now normally,
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she gets 86 of
maize from this field.
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And that's what
she really lives on.
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That's what she
educates the children with.
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But this year,
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she hasn't got one cob
of corn from this field.
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So this is going to
have a dramatic impact,
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not only on Regina,
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but on her village and
across the whole of Zambia.
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Now I have to say we've
just visited the village.
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And this is going to be very,
very tough on these people.
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So just in one small way,
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the fact that we can help
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sponsor Regina's
children bring some relief.
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But I'm really scared
of what the future holds
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for families like Regina's
in Zambia in the future.
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In Zambia, the people grow
maize during the rainy season
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because that is their
way to get a little bit ahead
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not only with their food
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but with other
needs that they have.
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And since Regina
is such a hard worker,
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she put in three
fields of maize, worked hard,
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you know, got the soil
ready, planted it, weeded it.
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And then the rains came.
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And she usually gets between
80 and 100 bags of maize,
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which keeps them
through the year.
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And she told us as we
went out to see her field,
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it could make you cry.
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She said I did
not get even one cob.
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She says, I don't know
what this year will bring.
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You've just heard the
urgent need of this lady.
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And what you don't know
is that she has nine children
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and five grandchildren
that she is raising.
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So you can see that
this failure of a crop
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is going to have
a dramatic impact
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on families like these.
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This is a lady
that really works hard.
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She goes to Riverside
and gets work when she can.
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And normally,
when there's a crop,
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she does three
fields on her own.
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So this shows the commitment
that this lady has bringing up
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nine children and
five grandchildren.
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It is not just survival
that keeps Regina going,
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it is also the
desire to give her children
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and grandchildren
an Adventist education.
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Religiously, Zambia is almost
entirely a Christian nation,
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with 75% being
Protestant and 20% Catholic.
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church
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has a major presence in Zambia
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with one out of
every 18 Zambians
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being an Adventist.
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This is the highest of
any country in the world.
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To put that in perspective,
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the United States and Zambia
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have nearly the same
amount of Adventist members.
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One of the first
Adventist missionaries
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to Zambia was WH Anderson,
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who began his
work in the late 1800s.
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At one point,
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his family and
two other families
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were living out of an
ox-wagon for five months.
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In spite of their hardships,
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they continue to spread
the gospel and converted many.
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A quote from Anderson shows
why they were so successful
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in spreading the gospel.
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"When a man goes
to the mission field,
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he must have love for the people
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if he is to win them.
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If he does not have
love, he might as well not go.
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Love is the basis of
all missionary work."
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In spite of large
Adventist presence here,
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there are hardly
any Adventist schools
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with only three
secondary schools
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and one university.
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The United
States has approximately
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158 secondary schools
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and 14 colleges
and universities.
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More Adventist
schools in Zambia are needed
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not just to help with
their immediate needs,
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but also the
spiritual needs as well.
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Adventist schools
are an opportunity
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to reach the
children of the community
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who can then
reach their parents.
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This is why Child
Impact is so important
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because it provides children
with the skills for life,
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but also a
relationship with Jesus.
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Wow!
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I'm just here with
Mike the cameraman.
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And we're going to
go back to the village
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and then back to Riverside.
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And this has been
pretty tough, pretty tough.
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I mean, I'm going back
to my air conditioned room,
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and the cafeteria is
going to feed me a meal.
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And these people
here haven't got any food.
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And that's reality.
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And you really have
to come here to feel it.
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And the scary part is
it's on such a huge scale.
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But I'm just so excited.
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We can do some little
things to help these families.
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And maybe we're gonna have
to find a way of helping them
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with food.
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We're expanding
our sponsorship program
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to Zambia.
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And we're very
excited to be partnering
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with Riverside Farms
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who are well-known
Adventist ministry.
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They are opening a
brand new primary school,
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and we're going to be sponsoring
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very needy children to help them
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to come to an
Adventist mission school.
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We're really excited about it.
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And you can
either sponsor a child,
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or if you don't want
that monthly commitment,
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you can make a contribution
to our unsponsored child fund.
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This is an exciting time
for us and our supporters.
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And I just hope
that you'll support
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our new outreach
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and our new
education program in Zambia.
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