Child Impact International
is an organization giving help.
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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
and those who are in need,
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serving communities in India,
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Nepal, Bangladesh,
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,
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, Child Impact
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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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Hi, my name is Jaime Jorge,
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and I am excited to
be an Honorary Ambassador
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for Child Impact International.
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I've had the
privilege of visiting
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India and Myanmar
with Child Impact,
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and I am here to share with you
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some very exciting stories
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as well as some
important information.
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Now I have with me Jim,
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the CEO of what
used to be Asian Aid.
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Jim, how long have you been
with this organization and why?
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the change to Child
Impact International?
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Well, Jaime, I've
been in the role of CEO
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for just over 10 years now
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and this was a
big decision for us.
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But the key reasons
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why is a lot of
people don't realize
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that India and
Bangladesh are Asia.
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Yes.
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There's a lot of
confusion as to what Asia is
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and a lot of
the Asian countries,
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oriental countries,
we don't operate in.
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Secondly, we want to show
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a difference
between Asian Aid Australia
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and Child Impact because we are
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two totally
separate organizations.
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We also believe
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that we should
grow outside Asia.
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So the name change
gives us the ability
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that when we're ready to
grow into other countries.
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But most important, the
name reflects what we do.
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Yes.
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The name reflects
that we're impacting
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on the lives of children.
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So we think it's
far more relevant
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and will support
our growth strategy.
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Now I've had the
privilege of knowing you
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and working with you
now for a number of years,
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and I have seen
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how much this organization
has grown in that time.
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Can you tell me where
you're from originally,
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you have kind of
a different accent,
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and what you used to
do before coming to now
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Child Impact International?
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Well, I'm a New Zealander,
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and I married an
American lady from Tennessee,
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and originally she was to move
to New Zealand which she did,
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but just somehow we
ended up back in Tennessee.
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But prior to that for 30
years, I owned the largest
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promotional marketing
company in New Zealand.
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So I had a wee bit to do
with promoting organizations
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and companies
and also marketing.
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So that was my background.
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And then when I
came to the States,
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I got asked to
be put on the board
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of what was then Asian Aid.
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And so I took a
six-month contract
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to restructure
Asian Aid at the time.
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Well, I'm 10 years into
that six-month contract.
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Well, and it's
made a huge difference
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for this organization.
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Can you tell me what
some of your future plans are?
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Well, I think the key plan
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is to grow our
sponsorship program.
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As you know, we sponsor children
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in a number of
countries, very large in India,
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Bangladesh, and now Myanmar,
and Myanmar is the old Burma,
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we're also in
Nepal and Sri Lanka.
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And that sponsorship program
takes a child based on need
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and puts them in an
Adventist mission school.
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And I have to
be honest with you,
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the need is overwhelming.
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Yes.
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The church is continually
coming to us and saying,
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"Can you help us
with more children?"
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And so the growth of
that sponsorship program
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is key for us moving forward.
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Yes.
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Because it not only impacts
on the life of the child,
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it impacts on their
family but it's also key funding
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for these
Adventist mission schools.
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So sponsoring a
child has a big impact
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on the number of
aspects of the child,
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its family, and the school.
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And to be honest,
the need is overwhelming.
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Yes.
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We also support four orphanages,
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school for the blind,
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and a school for
the deaf in India.
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And the other important area
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that we're starting to
get involved in is a program
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that we have called
Operation Child Rescue,
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trafficking of girls,
the use of boys in beggary
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and slave labor.
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Yes.
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To be honest, in
Indian it's so huge,
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it's just overpowering.
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But we are so excited
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that we can be
one of the ministries
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involved in this program.
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So we want to
build that program also.
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Yes.
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Well, I've been
with you to Myanmar
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where I saw that children
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attend the schools there,
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and then they come back
home, and share the gospel
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with their
families, and their families
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are being baptized,
and this is in a country
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where you can't
do public evangelism.
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So this is truly a
number of different
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outreach
opportunities to get people
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to learn about Jesus Christ.
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Now what does this mean,
this change, this growth,
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this vision for
the current donors
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of Child Impact International
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and the prospective new ones
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that may be thinking
about coming on board?
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Well, to begin with,
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for the existing
donors nothing really changes.
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We're still located in Ottawa
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in Tennessee near Chattanooga.
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We still retain the same staff.
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We retain the same
policies, the same board,
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but we want to do things better.
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We want to
represent the children better,
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we want to
increase the communication
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between the
child and the projects
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we do with the donor.
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So the use of
mobile phone technology,
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the use of Facebook,
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and we want to share the stories
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with those people
that are supporting us.
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So we want to step up
how we support the children
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but also deliver
value to the donors.
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Asian Aid is now
Child Impact International
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and what is going to
happen is simply fantastic.
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More young people are going
to come to know Jesus Christ,
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they're going to
have hope and a future,
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and you have the
opportunity to be a part of it.
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Would you join us?
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Imagine with me for a moment
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that you're a small child
living on the streets of India,
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the sandals on your feet
lost their comfort weeks ago,
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your favorite shirt
just got another hole.
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It's sad, mommy died last year
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but what makes
you feel even worse
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is that your dad chose
not to be your dad anymore.
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Hey, I'm Shawn Boonstra,
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Honorary Ambassador for
Child Impact International,
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an organization that
is a supportive ministry
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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You know,
previously called Asian Aid,
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they're making
an exciting change
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to Child Impact
International in order to grow.
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Something like 15 to 25 million
little girls and boys in India
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share similar stories
to the one I just told you.
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Many are orphaned at a young age
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with little food
to eat and no hope.
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Child Impact
serves to bridge the gap
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between hardship and education.
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It's a unique ministry
that serves children in poverty
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in Bangladesh, India,
Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
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Over three and a
half thousand children
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are provided an
Adventist education
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and lives are changed
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through the numerous
development projects.
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Working in these countries,
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Child Impact has
come face to face
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with issues like child
slavery, poor or no education,
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child
trafficking, abandoned babies,
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lack of clean water, and
a high number of orphans.
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This list is not
short on challenges,
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yet the needs are being met.
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You know, my
family sponsors Sheila,
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a young lady
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at the Sunrise
Orphanage in India.
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For the past couple of years,
I'm proud of how my family
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has been able to impact
her life for the better.
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Word has it, she
just started college.
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What I've come to understand
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is that the children
Child Impact supports
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are more than just
names, or faces on a screen,
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or a flyer, they're
people with a story,
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a story whose ending
has not been written,
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instead another
chapter is being composed.
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It reminds me of
something that Jesus once said,
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"Whatever you do for the least
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of these brothers and
sisters of Mine, you do for Me."
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Join me and others
like me throughout the world
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who are
sponsoring a child monthly
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to provide like Jesus did,
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to support like Jesus
did, to love like Jesus did.
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You too can make
a lifelong impact
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on the life of
someone who is waiting for you
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to say yes.
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Yes, today you will
consider sponsorship right now
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with Child Impact or
one of our other projects.
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Yes, to give hope
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to a precious child today.
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Our television
series Hope In Motion
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has been a big success
and we want to continue
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to share with you
some of the field stories
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that we have
filmed over the years.
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So just from time to
time, it may refer to Asian Aid
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as we reflect on
these great stories,
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as we share them with you.
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The beautiful
landscapes, its people,
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the colors and customs,
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,
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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 in building
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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
how the things have changed.
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Everything was just like
the hill 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,
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
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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, you know,
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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
2600 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,
00:13:55.76\00:13:58.67
especially children
from tribal communities
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and villages.
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These children are reaping
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the benefits 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 make her to stand,
00:15:37.13\00:15:39.50
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
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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.
00:15:52.55\00:15:54.65
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,
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first two, three
days, I was nervous, means,
00:15:59.82\00:16:01.72
I used to remember
parents, all this thing.
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And only one single building
was there and no boundary.
00:16:03.76\00:16:07.53
It was like jungle.
00:16:07.56\00:16:08.90
And jungle means I really
get very, very scared of that.
00:16:08.93\00:16:12.70
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.
00:16:21.98\00:16:23.78
From right at the beginning
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when the school
was just one classroom,
00:16:25.18\00:16:27.28
then with the
vision of Helen Eager,
00:16:27.32\00:16:29.48
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.
00:16:35.09\00:16:38.26
And of those 600 are sponsored.
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And now we see the
success stories coming through.
00:16:40.73\00:16:43.57
Devoki, who was right at
the school when it started,
00:16:43.60\00:16:47.50
she did her
education at the school,
00:16:47.54\00:16:49.74
then she went
away to university,
00:16:49.77\00:16:51.81
and now she's come
back as a science teacher.
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It's just so
fantastic to see the difference
00:16:54.51\00:16:57.28
that has made with her,
00:16:57.31\00:16:58.85
but also with the
children that are here.
00:16:58.88\00:17:02.78
If it weren't for
the timely intervention
00:17:02.82\00:17:04.72
of Child Impact International
and people like Helen Eager,
00:17:04.75\00:17:08.16
Devoki Moharia's life
would have seen misfortunes
00:17:08.19\00:17:11.19
of so many young girls
like her in her village.
00:17:11.23\00:17:15.43
Life in rural India is simple.
00:17:15.46\00:17:17.70
People live in close
quarters and as one unit.
00:17:17.73\00:17:20.20
During the day, they
either go to the fields
00:17:24.84\00:17:27.41
or graze what
little livestock they have.
00:17:27.44\00:17:30.11
And there is a clear
order of social precedence
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based on gender
00:17:32.65\00:17:33.98
and women have little
or no say in its structure,
00:17:34.02\00:17:36.82
often leading to
unjust practices and misery.
00:17:36.85\00:17:40.12
In villages
parents are uneducated
00:17:40.16\00:17:42.66
and they don't
send their children
00:17:42.69\00:17:46.29
when they are
small to the school.
00:17:46.33\00:17:48.70
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,
00:17:51.23\00:17:55.14
she should be given
in marriage to someone.
00:17:55.17\00:17:59.07
So in my case also it
would have been like that
00:17:59.11\00:18:01.24
if I had not have been
come to the school and study.
00:18:01.28\00:18:03.45
By this time I
would have got married,
00:18:03.48\00:18:05.61
having children
and all those things.
00:18:05.65\00:18:09.58
Child marriage is a
common practice in South Asia
00:18:09.62\00:18:12.49
and it is more
prevalent in India.
00:18:12.52\00:18:14.52
According to United Nations
Children's Agency, UNICEF,
00:18:14.56\00:18:18.19
18% of the girls are
married by the age of 15.
00:18:18.23\00:18:23.50
Although Indian law has
made child marriage illegal
00:18:23.53\00:18:26.43
and the practice is in
decline in recent years,
00:18:26.47\00:18:28.80
customs and traditions
dictate life in rural India.
00:18:28.84\00:18:31.84
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.
00:18:39.15\00:18:41.28
All are younger to
me. All have got married.
00:18:41.32\00:18:45.05
By now she would
have got married...
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If she would not
have studied here,
00:18:47.22\00:18:49.02
by now she would
have got married.
00:18:49.06\00:18:51.23
So by now she would
have been lost that way.
00:18:51.26\00:18:54.30
But now she is in God's hand.
00:18:54.33\00:18:57.20
She is doing wonderful.
00:18:57.23\00:19:00.77
Although Devoki grew up in
a boarding school at Jeypore
00:19:00.80\00:19:03.84
and went to
college in bigger cities,
00:19:03.87\00:19:05.81
she has not forgotten her roots
00:19:05.84\00:19:07.51
and is always happy to visit
her family and her village.
00:19:07.54\00:19:12.25
Yeah, I feel really happy
00:19:12.28\00:19:13.62
because I'm born and
brought up in this village.
00:19:13.65\00:19:16.42
And even though I stay
in town or something now
00:19:16.45\00:19:19.45
but I still have
love for my village,
00:19:19.49\00:19:21.96
for my family members.
00:19:21.99\00:19:23.32
I feel very
happy when I come back
00:19:23.36\00:19:24.69
to my home and see them.
00:19:24.73\00:19:26.06
Devoki is the only
girl to have successfully
00:19:30.03\00:19:32.63
received a college education
00:19:32.67\00:19:34.20
from her village,
and in a community
00:19:34.24\00:19:36.14
where women have
little or no say,
00:19:36.17\00:19:38.24
she is treated
with utmost respect.
00:19:38.27\00:19:43.14
We feel very proud.
00:19:43.18\00:19:44.55
Whenever someone
comes to visit us,
00:19:44.58\00:19:46.51
we always tell
them about our daughter.
00:19:46.55\00:19:48.45
When she comes here, we
are very happy and proud.
00:19:48.48\00:19:51.62
The realization that there are
00:19:51.65\00:19:53.12
many more children out there
00:19:53.15\00:19:54.49
who yearn for a good
education can be discouraging.
00:19:54.52\00:19:57.56
But it is reassuring to
know that with sponsorship
00:19:57.59\00:20:00.50
we can go about making a
difference one day at a time.
00:20:00.53\00:20:04.10
When we are at home
00:20:04.13\00:20:06.20
sometimes we are not
getting three meals to eat.
00:20:06.23\00:20:09.04
No good place to sleep.
00:20:09.07\00:20:11.07
So when schools are
that like this school,
00:20:11.11\00:20:14.28
they're providing
meals, education, everything.
00:20:14.31\00:20:16.48
Sponsors...
00:20:16.51\00:20:17.85
they are struggling hard
to educate some other's lives.
00:20:17.88\00:20:21.05
That is something
very great to understand.
00:20:21.08\00:20:23.75
Since sponsorship
was there I studied.
00:20:23.79\00:20:28.26
So I'm so much
grateful to my sponsor.
00:20:28.29\00:20:31.33
And to me it's really wonderful
just to see the changes,
00:20:31.36\00:20:34.63
you know, when you see a
child come looking dirty,
00:20:34.66\00:20:38.53
and unhappy, and know
that nobody cares about them,
00:20:38.57\00:20:42.44
and then after a very short time
00:20:42.47\00:20:44.51
to see the transformation,
00:20:44.54\00:20:45.91
and then after a few years
to see them really doing well,
00:20:45.94\00:20:50.18
I think that's what
makes it worthwhile.
00:20:50.21\00:20:52.21
Devoki although
having better offers
00:20:52.25\00:20:54.38
to teach
outside in bigger cities
00:20:54.42\00:20:56.38
has come back to
teach in the place
00:20:56.42\00:20:58.15
that gave her a
new chance in life.
00:20:58.19\00:21:00.32
Actually, my education,
00:21:00.36\00:21:03.32
my foundation started from here.
00:21:03.36\00:21:05.89
So I thought first
let me serve to my place,
00:21:05.93\00:21:09.56
the place where I belong to,
where I have got my foundation.
00:21:09.60\00:21:12.70
Whatever talent I have
let me show to those people
00:21:12.73\00:21:15.17
so that those students
also will learn about that.
00:21:15.20\00:21:18.11
I feel proud because
whatever I did for her,
00:21:18.14\00:21:23.45
I have got the fruit.
00:21:23.48\00:21:24.81
Today Child Impact International
00:21:38.09\00:21:40.36
continues to
fulfill its commitment
00:21:40.40\00:21:42.23
to the welfare of
children who are in need
00:21:42.26\00:21:44.63
and to provide
them with an education
00:21:44.67\00:21:46.43
through
sponsorship, giving them hope
00:21:46.47\00:21:48.80
and a chance for a better life.
00:21:48.84\00:21:52.47
So they're building lives.
00:21:52.51\00:21:55.68
Students and
children they are in darkness.
00:21:55.71\00:21:58.01
They are receiving
the light in their lives.
00:21:58.05\00:22:01.88
If they are at home the
lights are been off or gone away
00:22:01.92\00:22:05.15
but once they come here
00:22:05.19\00:22:06.52
their light of
their lives is being on.
00:22:06.55\00:22:10.43
I think that...
00:22:10.46\00:22:11.79
I feel since I
was in this school,
00:22:11.83\00:22:14.53
I'm blessed to be
in this position today.
00:22:14.56\00:22:17.17
I've been in this
position over eight years now
00:22:21.34\00:22:24.47
and the privilege
that I have in my role
00:22:24.51\00:22:26.88
is being able to
visit the children that you,
00:22:26.91\00:22:29.98
the donors, support.
00:22:30.01\00:22:31.65
And as I meet them,
I see the difference
00:22:31.68\00:22:34.22
that you make in their lives,
00:22:34.25\00:22:36.22
the difference you make in
00:22:36.25\00:22:37.59
where they live
in their village,
00:22:37.62\00:22:39.42
the difference you
make with their education.
00:22:39.45\00:22:41.72
And then finally
when they get a job...
00:22:41.76\00:22:44.19
Just the other day in
India, we met a bank manager.
00:22:44.23\00:22:47.76
He was brought up
as a sponsored child
00:22:47.80\00:22:50.70
from a very poor village
00:22:50.73\00:22:52.63
and now he has a successful job,
00:22:52.67\00:22:54.77
he has a family,
00:22:54.80\00:22:56.40
and he is impacting
the lives of others.
00:22:56.44\00:22:58.81
And, in fact,
the amazing thing is
00:22:58.84\00:23:00.98
he is now
sponsoring two children
00:23:01.01\00:23:03.55
in one of our programs.
00:23:03.58\00:23:05.98
This is an
important time of year,
00:23:06.01\00:23:08.05
it's a time of
year where we share
00:23:08.08\00:23:09.95
and where we give gifts
to our loved ones and friends
00:23:09.98\00:23:13.52
but it's also an
important time of year
00:23:13.56\00:23:15.86
for us here at Child Impact.
00:23:15.89\00:23:18.13
And this year for
our annual appeal,
00:23:18.16\00:23:20.56
we have four projects
that will make a real impact
00:23:20.60\00:23:24.33
with the people that they serve.
00:23:24.37\00:23:27.17
Our first project
00:23:27.20\00:23:28.54
is the Where Needed Most!
00:23:28.57\00:23:29.90
Fund.
00:23:29.94\00:23:31.27
This is a critical
fund for Child Impact
00:23:31.31\00:23:33.98
as it not only
helps with the operating
00:23:34.01\00:23:36.34
that we do in six
countries but it also allows us
00:23:36.38\00:23:40.38
to have a pool of
money for emergencies
00:23:40.42\00:23:43.39
which consistently come along.
00:23:43.42\00:23:45.49
Some are small
just like medical needs,
00:23:45.52\00:23:48.09
but others are major
00:23:48.12\00:23:49.46
when there's a
disaster or a flood.
00:23:49.49\00:23:51.76
We just ask that you
consider the Where Needed Most!
00:23:51.79\00:23:54.83
Fund as one of the ones
00:23:54.86\00:23:56.56
that you can
support this Christmas.
00:23:56.60\00:23:59.23
Our next project is
Operation Child Rescue.
00:23:59.27\00:24:02.60
Operation Child Rescue
is a very dramatic project
00:24:02.64\00:24:06.88
that we are
involved in Bangalore, India.
00:24:06.91\00:24:10.68
We are partner with a lady
00:24:10.71\00:24:12.15
who has a team that rescues girl
00:24:12.18\00:24:15.12
from brothels
and the sex industry.
00:24:15.15\00:24:17.85
It is simply hard to
comprehend how many girls
00:24:17.89\00:24:21.22
and children are
taken to the sex industry.
00:24:21.26\00:24:24.36
In India, it's
thousands every year.
00:24:24.39\00:24:27.53
The same team helps
rescue boys from factories
00:24:27.56\00:24:31.73
where they are poorly
paid or hardly paid anything.
00:24:31.77\00:24:35.10
And the other aspect
of Operation Child Rescue
00:24:35.14\00:24:38.21
is looking after
and rescuing babies
00:24:38.24\00:24:41.31
who have been dropped off
00:24:41.34\00:24:42.68
on the side of
the road or abandoned.
00:24:42.71\00:24:45.15
Operation Child Rescue
is not only saving lives,
00:24:45.18\00:24:49.35
it's giving those children hope.
00:24:49.38\00:24:51.95
Operation Child
Rescue is a key project
00:24:51.99\00:24:55.42
for Child Impact International.
00:24:55.46\00:24:58.09
The next project is
the Unsponsored Child Fund.
00:24:58.13\00:25:01.83
At any time Child
Impact has over 3,500 children
00:25:01.86\00:25:06.90
and we normally have
about 500 unsponsored children.
00:25:06.94\00:25:10.87
These are children
we have had to take
00:25:10.91\00:25:12.84
because of an urgent need.
00:25:12.87\00:25:14.68
We also need a pool of children
available for sponsorship.
00:25:14.71\00:25:18.61
And yes, once a
donor can't support
00:25:18.65\00:25:21.75
a child for some reason,
00:25:21.78\00:25:23.79
they go into
that pool of children.
00:25:23.82\00:25:26.05
Once the child
is in our program,
00:25:26.09\00:25:28.72
we support them
whether they have
00:25:28.76\00:25:30.26
a sponsorship or not.
00:25:30.29\00:25:32.79
Supporting the
Unsponsored Child Fund
00:25:32.83\00:25:35.40
is a unique way of
being involved in sponsorship
00:25:35.43\00:25:39.07
if you don't want
the monthly commitment.
00:25:39.10\00:25:41.57
The Unsponsored Child Fund
00:25:41.60\00:25:43.64
is critical to our
sponsorship program.
00:25:43.67\00:25:47.78
Child Impact is very excited
00:25:47.81\00:25:49.74
that we can partner
with the church in India,
00:25:49.78\00:25:52.71
with a blind
school, a deaf school,
00:25:52.75\00:25:55.05
and four orphanages.
00:25:55.08\00:25:57.15
These special homes and schools
00:25:57.19\00:26:00.02
are just so exciting to visit.
00:26:00.06\00:26:03.12
I had one of the most emotional
moments of my whole work career
00:26:03.16\00:26:07.80
when one day I
visited the blind school
00:26:07.83\00:26:10.40
and a young
girl was just arrived
00:26:10.43\00:26:12.53
at the school that morning,
00:26:12.57\00:26:14.30
they had found her in a village,
00:26:14.34\00:26:16.10
and she had been locked
in the basement of the house
00:26:16.14\00:26:18.91
for over six years.
00:26:18.94\00:26:20.88
She just sat in the corner,
she wouldn't talk to anyone,
00:26:20.91\00:26:24.41
she wouldn't communicate,
and she was just totally lost.
00:26:24.45\00:26:28.02
And I thought is there
any hope for this child,
00:26:28.05\00:26:31.65
totally blind by the way.
00:26:31.69\00:26:33.76
Well, I went
back eight weeks later
00:26:33.79\00:26:36.52
and here she was, I
couldn't believe it,
00:26:36.56\00:26:39.03
she was talking to
the other children,
00:26:39.06\00:26:41.60
she was playing.
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And then in the
evening, it was just so touching
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to see her
singing Jesus Loves Me.
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It really was
just very emotional.
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And so these children
in a country like India
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have a larger need than here
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because when they're
home in their village,
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they are rejected,
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their parents
don't know what to do.
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So supporting the blind
school, the deaf school,
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or the orphanages
is a very real way
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in which you can
impact the life of children
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who have a huge need.
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We're very
grateful at Child Impact
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for the support that
you, the donors, give.
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But December is a
critical month for us
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and a month where you can
give to one of these four funds
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or any of our projects
and have a real impact.
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I just ask that
you give consideration
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to supporting
our year end program
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for one of these four projects.
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You can contact us on our
phone by talking to our staff
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and we've put the
number on the screen.
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Or you can go
online to Childimpact.org.
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That's Childimpact.org
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to see how you can
get further information
00:27:52.37\00:27:55.34
or support us at
Child Impact international.
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I want to thank
you for your support.
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