I am Jim Rennie,
CEO of Asian Aid USA.
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As you have heard by now,
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the country of Nepal has been
hit by a massive earthquake.
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Thousands are dead and
tens of thousands are injured.
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Scheer Adventist
Memorial Hospital
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is the only church
institution in Nepal
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and it's very important to
the outreach of the church,
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but also the massive
community that it serves.
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Right now Scheer
Adventist Memorial Hospital
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is overwhelmed with the
injured that are coming through
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its hospital gates every hour.
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Scheer Hospital
have asked Asian Aid
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to establish an emergency
fund to help the hospital
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cope with this
massive emergency.
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The program we're
showing this evening is the one
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from our Hope In Motion
series that shows the work
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that Scheer has done.
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And during this
program we will share with you
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some
information about the appeal
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and how you can help
this emergency situation.
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Asian Aid is an
organization giving hope,
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an organization fostering
permanent positive change
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in the lives of disadvantaged
children and their communities.
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An organization
that is committed
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to making a difference
in the lives of children
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and those who were in need.
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Serving communities in
Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
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Myanmar and India.
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For the last 40
years, Asian Aid 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 their dedication
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to helping those
who have the least.
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Asian Aid 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 but above all,
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Asian Aid 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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Nepal is renowned
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for its natural
beauty and enduring culture.
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Having existed as
early as its neighbors
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India and China,
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Nepal has kept its
cultural heritage intact,
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offering an extraordinary
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travel experience for a visitor.
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With eight of the ten highest
mountain peaks in the world,
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including Mount Everest,
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Nepal's landscape
is truly inspiring.
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Nepal is also
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one of the poorest
countries in the world
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where one-third of
the population live
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below the poverty line,
earning less than $2 a day.
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For most of our
work is in India,
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but when we come to Nepal,
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we see a
different level of poverty.
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The economy is
certainly worse here,
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the level of poverty,
the level of pollution,
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there's a huge need
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and we want to do more in Nepal.
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With the majority of Nepalese
depending on their daily wages,
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obtaining healthcare is
one of the main challenges
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people face in
this developing country.
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This is where Scheer
Memorial Hospital plays
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a crucial role in serving
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the medical needs
of the people of Nepal.
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Scheer Memorial Hospital
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was established
over 55 years ago
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by Adventist
missionaries serving in Nepal.
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Situated just outside Kathmandu,
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the hospital is an important
institution for the community
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and the
Adventist church in Nepal.
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Well, at the
beginning the hospital,
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after the
establishment of hospital
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is when their
church started to expand.
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So Scheer Memorial
Hospital is basically the best
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of the Adventist
community in Nepal.
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Right now, the
church has been growing.
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Now we have over
around 4,000 members,
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but the main organization
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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in Nepal is our hospital.
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Although the cost of
the doctor's consultation
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is only 33 cents, some
cannot even afford that.
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People come from miles
around from rural villages
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to hilltop settlements,
seeking medical help.
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The hospital also provides
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ambulance services
to emergency cases,
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often traversing
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through inaccessible
and dangerous roads.
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Asian Aid's focus has
always been about children,
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providing children
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who are in need
with an education
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and giving them an
opportunity for a better future
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through its sponsorship program.
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Along with the
need to get healthcare
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and access to medical centers,
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the opportunity
to get good education
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is highly important
to the people of Nepal.
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The main thing is education,
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and because in
this part of the world
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if you got no education
you, your life is really,
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you know, you can't, you
can't earn hardly anything,
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all you can do is labor
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and in many places
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what the laborers are
paid is almost nothing.
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So I think education just
mean make so much difference
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in this part of the world,
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more than a dozen
in western countries.
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But in a world where
earning $2 a day is a struggle
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for the majority of the people,
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sending their children to school
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is a strain on their finances
and it remains a distant dream.
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Without sponsorship,
it would be very difficult
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for their children
to receive an education.
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I'm here at the
school where Asian Aid USA
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is sponsoring a
number of children
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next to Scheer Memorial
Hospital in Kathmandu in Nepal.
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We have about 40
children at the school
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and we want to
increase the numbers.
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This school is very
important, Asian Aid USA,
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as we don't have
many schools in Nepal
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where we're involved in,
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and we have chosen the school
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because of its
gross relationship
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to the Scheer Memorial Hospital,
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but also the need in the area.
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Children from
the local community
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and some of the
hospital staff's children
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attend the school.
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Although the church is trying
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to develop more
schools in Nepal,
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without sponsorship
it would be difficult
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to attract
students from the community.
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Suman Pranja is a fourth
grade student at the school.
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Orphaned at a very young
age, Suman grew up begging
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in the streets in the town
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close by Scheer
Memorial Hospital.
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A local church pastor found him
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and brought him
to a small orphanage
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he was running for
abandoned children.
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His church
members supported his work
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and provided funding
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for their food
and accommodation.
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But he found it difficult
to pay their tuition fees.
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Fortunately for Suman,
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pastor knew
people at Scheer Memorial
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and Suman was
enrolled at the school.
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He is now
sponsored by Asian Aid USA.
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I'm very happy that
Suman could go to the school
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and he is getting sponsorship
and this school at the hospital
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is a Christian school.
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And he could continue
to learn about Jesus there.
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My name is Goma
Paudyal, I teach in play group.
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These kids are lovely
and I enjoy teaching them.
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This is the best
job I enjoy the most
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and I don't even
notice when the time pass,
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when I'm playing with
them and teaching them.
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This is what I
enjoy the most here.
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The school provides
employment to teachers
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who are from
the local community.
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Like Goma Paudyal,
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who otherwise would
have to travel long distances
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or go to Kathmandu to
find a good teaching job.
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The school also provides
one nourishing meal a day
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for all children as
part of its incentive program
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to encourage parents to
send their children to school.
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Education is
highly valued in Nepal
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as it is in rest of South Asia.
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Parents
perceive a good education
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as a catalyst for change.
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This perception is not
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just for a better
future for their children,
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but they also believe
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it will bring changes
to their own fortunes.
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In these cultures
usually the educated children
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will care for the
parents also when they get old.
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Because if a
parent gets to the place
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where they're
too sick and too old
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to work in the field,
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so whatever laboring
work they've been doing.
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Well, what you do?
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You basically beg
and starve or you know,
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depending where you
live, maybe some beggars are,
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you know, can make a little bit,
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but in remote areas especially
if they are in a village
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where everybody is poor.
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You know, they're
lucky to, to get anything.
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So I think a lot of
parents also think about that,
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that you know,
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if my child gets
a good education,
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it will also be a
blessing to me in my old age.
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But she quickly read.
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Read quickly.
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Quickly describes, how you read.
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My name is Andrew Rapp,
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I'm from Walla Walla University.
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I'm studying business,
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marketing in
international business,
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but I took a gap
year to come to Nepal
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and work as a
volunteer school teacher
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and youth mentor.
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Colorado native Andrew
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is a volunteer
teacher at the school.
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Because of its close
association with the hospital,
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the school has been privileged
to bring in overseas teachers,
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who come here bringing a
new approach to teaching.
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This not only
exposes the students
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to an
international array of teachers,
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but also helps the
missionary teachers
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get a different outlook in life.
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I think for me it
was really important
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just to be able to take a break,
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take a step back
from my life in school
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and being so focused
on what I wanted to do
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and take a step back and
see what other people need,
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that there is more,
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more important things
than just my concerns.
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There is, there is people
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that have more
immediate needs than,
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than the fickle things
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that I think might be
so important back home.
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No doubt, a good
Christian education
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and schools
providing that opportunity
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is a beacon of hope
for the children here.
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And Asian Aid's sponsorship
program is helping them
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see that ray of
hope in this impoverished
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yet idyllic region.
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But all is not what it seems.
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Underneath its beauty
in the fields and hilltops,
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villages and towns,
women are living in pain.
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When we come
back, we look at how
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over a half a
million women are suffering
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from Uterine
prolapse and discover
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how Asian Aid is
helping ease their pain.
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As you can see from this program
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Scheer Memorial
Hospital does some amazing work
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in its
partnership with Asian Aid.
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But right now Scheer
Memorial Hospital is overwhelmed
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with injured people
from this massive earthquake.
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Every hour more people
are coming through the gate
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and patients are
even been treated outside.
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The damage is huge
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and people are
still coming in the gate.
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This appeal will help
Scheer Memorial Hospital
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in treating these people
and helping the community.
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We ask for your help.
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Please contact Asian Aid
to help this urgent appeal.
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Well, I am here in
Sunrise Home with Sheela.
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Now my family and I
have been sponsoring Sheela
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for just about a year now
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and I can tell you being
here and spending time with her,
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I can see the difference
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that sponsorship
is making in her life.
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She now has plenty of food,
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she has a beautiful
place to sleep each night,
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she has clothes,
she has a school uniform
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and an excellent education.
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I can tell you
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it's made a
difference in her life
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and it's made a
difference in our lives too.
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Now through sponsorship
you too can make a difference
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in the life of a child everyday.
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Nepal, sandwiched between
Asian giants China and India
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is a landlocked sovereign
state in the Himalayas.
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The mountain range
in the north is home
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to eight of the
world's tallest mountain peaks
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including the
highest point on earth,
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Mount Everest,
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thus making it
popular for mountaineering.
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Hinduism is practiced by
over 80% of the population,
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making it the country
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with the highest
percentage of Hindus.
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With the birth place of
Buddha located in this region,
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Nepal is also historically
linked with Buddhism,
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making it culturally very rich.
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However, Nepal is also
economically challenged
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and is home
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to some of the
poorest people on the planet
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and this economically
backward environment
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and harsh terrain
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where infrastructure and
transport is unavailable,
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women become
the beast of burden.
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Economic difficulties
and cultural perceptions
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have made women of
Nepal suffer silently,
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the condition is
called Uterine prolapse.
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Yes, this is
something very interesting
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because this
condition of Uterine prolapse
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is not so common in
most of the countries.
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But interestingly in
Nepal it is very common
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to see Uterine
prolapse in women.
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And the reason, we
don't know exactly the reason,
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but over here the ladies
have to carry a lot weight,
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so weight carrying
also provide the incidents
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of prolapse more high,
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also having more children
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also provide more incidents
of having this problem,
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so it is multifactorial.
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We cannot say,
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we cannot point to one only one,
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one thing but,
well, we know in Nepal
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it is very common
to have this problem.
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Uterine prolapse is
a condition in a woman
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where her uterus
just falls off her body.
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We learned that one of the
main reasons women get prolapse
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is because they are
forced to carry heavy loads.
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Sometimes around 50 kilos
strapped around their forehead,
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pressing down on their neck.
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Often they have to
continue with this heavy labor
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right after child birth.
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The stress and pressure
this puts on their lower back
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is so dangerous
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and their delicate body
cannot support their uterus.
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We cannot go to detail
of what is the condition,
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but having this
condition affect the women in a,
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in a extreme way, to the extreme
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that sometime
their husbands leave them
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because of
their marital problems
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that they may have.
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So yes, it is
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a very incapacitating
condition for the women
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and that effects
not only the women,
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but also the entire family.
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In this patriarchal society,
women suffering from prolapse
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are ashamed of their condition
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and they don't
want to come forward
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and suffer in
silence for decades.
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The psychological impact
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this has on their well-being
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affects their already
battered physical condition.
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Thousands go undetected
and when they are discovered,
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they become outcast,
excluded and deserted
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by their husbands and families.
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Today women suffering from
Uterine prolapse have hope.
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Over the last 10 years
Asian Aid has funded a program
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along with
Scheer Memorial Hospital
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to identify these women
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wherever they are and
to facilitate surgeries
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and provide much needed
preventative health education.
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Well, we are partnering
with Scheer Memorial Hospital
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because we truly believe
they are doing a wonderful job
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in their community.
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It's the only
Adventist hospital in Nepal.
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It's a critical part
of the church in Nepal,
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and they now have the facilities
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to do the prolapse operations.
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And so our funding program
is very valuable to them,
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because they have
plenty of capacity.
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And so for us
it's very rewarding
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not only to make the lives--
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the change of
lives for the women,
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but also we are able to help
the institution in gaining work
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and doing work in the community.
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Here at the hospital,
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we have done a lot
of prolapse operations.
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I think I forget how many
years we've been doing it now
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maybe 10 or 11 years,
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but during that time
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we have now operated on
between 8,000 and 9,000 ladies.
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And to see the
difference it makes,
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you know, it's some--
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I just can't imagine
have these women like this--
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I remember one
lady, she told us that
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she had been walking
around with this prolapse
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hanging out of
her body for 50 years.
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Well, as a hospital we can say
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that we are very
grateful for Asian Aid,
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because they have been
providing surgeries or support
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for surgeries for
the last two years.
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And we are grateful in
behalf of all the families
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and the patient that
we have been treating,
00:19:52.75\00:19:54.76
send thanks to
the help of Asian Aid.
00:19:54.79\00:19:56.99
All throughout its history,
Scheer Memorial Hospital
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has been privileged
00:20:11.21\00:20:12.54
to host a number of medical
professionals from abroad
00:20:12.57\00:20:15.21
who volunteer
their time and expertise,
00:20:15.24\00:20:17.58
conducting camps.
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This has benefited
thousands of people
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from the local
community, especially women.
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This week a group from
Sydney Adventist Hospital
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from Sydney, Australia,
00:20:27.19\00:20:28.52
is here conducting
prolapse operations.
00:20:28.56\00:20:31.43
Just to see these
women have it fixed,
00:20:31.46\00:20:33.83
not have that prolapse
anymore, they're so happy,
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they hug us, they kiss us,
they want to shake our hand,
00:20:37.13\00:20:40.50
they want to touch us and
it is just-- it's humbling,
00:20:40.54\00:20:44.94
very humbling because we
are so grateful, you know,
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in our society that
you just don't realize
00:20:48.54\00:20:52.75
how hard it is for
them here to be working
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under the circumstances
they've got to work under.
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Karen is part of
a volunteer group
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Open Heart
International from Sydney.
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These are medical professionals
00:21:03.89\00:21:05.56
that go to various
developing countries
00:21:05.59\00:21:07.36
each year
conducting medical camps.
00:21:07.40\00:21:09.83
For Karen and her team,
00:21:09.86\00:21:11.27
camps such as these may
seem just another day's work.
00:21:11.30\00:21:14.14
But it has a
profound impact on these women
00:21:14.17\00:21:16.67
who suffered from prolapse
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and for the
volunteers it's an opportunity
00:21:18.31\00:21:20.84
to make a difference
in their own humble ways.
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Volunteering to
me, it's emotional.
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You will get very drawn
into what they don't have
00:21:28.12\00:21:31.29
and what we can do to them.
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We might think we're just doing
00:21:33.02\00:21:34.46
what we do every
day back at home,
00:21:34.49\00:21:36.96
but for them it's life changing
and even though it might seem
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just a drop in the ocean.
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For 80 to 90
women in the 10 days
00:21:44.70\00:21:47.80
that we are here operating,
that changes their lives,
00:21:47.84\00:21:50.67
and that change of
life for those people
00:21:50.71\00:21:53.48
that makes it emotional.
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Scheer Memorial
Hospital is overwhelmed
00:21:56.88\00:21:59.21
with the inflow of women
00:21:59.25\00:22:00.58
needing surgeries
for Uterine prolapse.
00:22:00.62\00:22:02.68
Without these volunteers
it would be a tough task
00:22:02.72\00:22:05.65
to facilitate them all.
00:22:05.69\00:22:07.66
In the hospital we
have 200 to 300 surgery
00:22:07.69\00:22:10.19
will be there in the year,
00:22:10.23\00:22:11.63
out of 200 to 300 we
have 30% to 40% of surgery
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will be done the
Uterine prolapse.
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The only thing that is
stopping us to doing more
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it is basically
the financial aspect.
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If we'll have more, more funding
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we can do even more.
00:22:27.31\00:22:29.01
Right now we do
have some funding
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some organization that they come
00:22:30.68\00:22:32.51
and do the surgery themself,
but how many we can do?
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It is basically
300, 400, it's countless,
00:22:36.32\00:22:41.96
because the
incidents are extremely high.
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Over half a million women
00:22:48.60\00:22:49.93
are suffering
from prolapse in Nepal
00:22:49.96\00:22:52.13
and Scheer Memorial Hospital
00:22:52.17\00:22:53.50
is a place they can
come to get it fixed
00:22:53.54\00:22:55.74
and ease their suffering.
00:22:55.77\00:22:57.51
It's so apt to say that
Scheer Memorial Hospital
00:22:57.54\00:23:00.78
is truly a
beacon on the hilltop.
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To have an
institution and for Asian Aid
00:23:04.21\00:23:07.35
to provide the
opportunity to these ladies,
00:23:07.38\00:23:10.82
who don't have
to live with this,
00:23:10.85\00:23:12.59
this is
curable, this is fixable,
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you know, that's the benefit.
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Imagine it, when a lady has
the operation, she goes back,
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she is now
accepted into the home.
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She can mend relationships.
00:23:25.77\00:23:28.14
She can add value to the family.
00:23:28.17\00:23:30.44
She can add
value to the community,
00:23:30.47\00:23:32.47
to the other ladies,
spread the good news.
00:23:32.51\00:23:36.04
Tell them about
how people love them
00:23:36.08\00:23:38.05
and want to make
things different for them.
00:23:38.08\00:23:40.82
Isn't that a blessing?
00:23:40.85\00:23:42.18
The good news is
spreading among women in Nepal.
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The more women are
identified, educated
00:23:47.76\00:23:50.29
and brought to these camps,
00:23:50.33\00:23:51.69
the more women are
willing to come out
00:23:51.73\00:23:53.36
and seek medical care.
00:23:53.40\00:23:55.30
This one here, her
name is Punyaswari,
00:23:55.33\00:23:58.07
and she actually has--
00:23:58.10\00:24:00.24
because she has been so grateful
00:24:00.27\00:24:02.00
for what has
happened in her life,
00:24:02.04\00:24:03.74
she has now
brought 25 more ladies
00:24:03.77\00:24:07.11
who had operations.
00:24:07.14\00:24:09.01
And I think
that's really special.
00:24:09.04\00:24:11.05
And so they
just-- when we tell them
00:24:11.08\00:24:13.25
we were having
the filming today,
00:24:13.28\00:24:14.78
they were just
so thrilled to think
00:24:14.82\00:24:16.18
that they could come and say
00:24:16.22\00:24:17.75
how grateful they are
for the transformation
00:24:17.79\00:24:20.16
that's happened in their lives.
00:24:20.19\00:24:24.83
Well, it's changed their lives
00:24:24.86\00:24:26.19
and now that they
can walk comfortably,
00:24:26.23\00:24:28.23
they are able to work
and helps that you know,
00:24:28.26\00:24:30.70
care for their families.
00:24:30.73\00:24:32.07
It's just-- it's a
totally transforming thing
00:24:32.10\00:24:35.60
that I think we
just couldn't understand
00:24:35.64\00:24:38.64
unless we had actually been
00:24:38.67\00:24:40.04
through the same
experiences they have been.
00:24:40.08\00:24:42.64
And for this lady to bring 25,
I think that's really something
00:24:42.68\00:24:45.85
because that shows
00:24:45.88\00:24:47.62
how grateful she
is for the operation
00:24:47.65\00:24:50.75
that she has had.
00:24:50.79\00:24:52.12
Today Adventist Missions
like Scheer Memorial Hospital,
00:24:56.52\00:24:59.89
organizations like
Asian Aid and the goodwill
00:24:59.93\00:25:02.76
of hundreds of
volunteers and missionaries
00:25:02.80\00:25:05.07
is making a difference
00:25:05.10\00:25:06.84
and bringing a healing
touch to women in Nepal,
00:25:06.87\00:25:09.57
transforming their
lives every single day.
00:25:09.60\00:25:13.27
As you can see
from this program,
00:25:13.31\00:25:15.01
Asian Aid is proud
of the support but you,
00:25:15.04\00:25:17.75
the donors have given to
helping the women of Nepal.
00:25:17.78\00:25:21.55
But right now there are hundreds
00:25:21.58\00:25:23.52
and hundreds of people
00:25:23.55\00:25:25.22
who have been injured in
this terrible earthquake.
00:25:25.25\00:25:28.76
We need to give
Scheer Memorial Hospital
00:25:28.79\00:25:31.79
some urgent funds
to help these people.
00:25:31.83\00:25:35.40
We would ask that you contact
Asian Aid or go to our website
00:25:35.43\00:25:40.04
so that we can get
this emergency appeal,
00:25:40.07\00:25:42.94
some strong support.
00:25:42.97\00:25:44.97
Please help the Scheer
Memorial Adventist Hospital
00:25:45.01\00:25:48.64
in treating patients
from this tragic earthquake.
00:25:48.68\00:25:52.05