Hi, I'm Jim Rennie,
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CEO of Child
Impact International.
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In the last two weeks,
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we've been telling you
about the rice and health appeal
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where we're going to help
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Adventist
mission schools in India,
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Bangladesh and
Myanmar with rice,
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soap and health
education to help them
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in the current crisis.
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I just want to thank
you for your support.
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Your response has
been a huge blessing.
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Right now schools are shut down,
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but it is also
the school holidays.
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We've still rush
some soap and some rice
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to key schools as the children
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who come from
destitute families,
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orphan and staff
children are still there.
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Our field staff have done
really well to achieve this.
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In these countries,
millions have lost their jobs
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and with no government
assistance are in big trouble.
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And the basics like
rice are increasing in price.
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We now have the supplies
for when the kids return.
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Thanks again, you
have been really great.
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You can still
give it at our website,
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childimpact.org.
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The program that
you're about to watch
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is one in a new series
about our work in Bangladesh.
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So please enjoy it.
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And by the way,
the kids say thanks.
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As of 2015, the most recent
available year for records,
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there are 150
million orphans in the world.
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The South Asia
region where Bangladesh
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is located is home to
over a quarter of them.
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Bangladesh struggles
with child malnourishment
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and child
marriage disproportionately
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affects orphans.
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But on the ground,
the situation can vary.
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Kellogg-Mookerjee
Memorial Seminary,
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an Adventist boarding
school in rural Bangladesh
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has about 400 students.
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Half of those students come
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from financially
difficult backgrounds
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with parents underemployed
or otherwise struggling.
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But the other
half of those students
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face a different challenge.
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They have lost one or
both of their parents.
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Between the boys' and girls'
dormitories on the KMMS campus
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sits a sizable orphanage
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which currently
houses around 100 children.
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This is the
story of these children
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and the hope they
have found at KMMS.
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This story is of Praveen Beroy,
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age eight who has
been at KMMS for two years.
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Praveen is in kindergarten
and sometimes carries himself
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with a very dry,
serious demeanor.
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My name is Praveen Beroy.
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But other times,
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he can be just
like any other kid.
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Praveen seriousness may
stem from his background.
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Yeah, Praveen, he came
from one rural village,
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that village called Kadambari
and his father passed away,
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and now he has only his mother
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and elder sister
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and one elder brother.
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And elder brother living
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with his mother
and elder sister,
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she's studying
here with Praveen.
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And his mother is
so poor, though men,
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they are not
getting the proper jobs
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and many men's they are not,
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give them proper job and
if they're having the job,
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but they're not getting
the proper salary or wages.
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So, for that reason,
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his mother is unable to
pay their education fees.
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If Praveen
could not attend KMMS,
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he would likely follow
the path of his brother.
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Most children in Bangladesh
will leave school by age eight,
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Praveen's age.
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Praveen's brother Tamale is
11 and already seeking work.
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One of his brother,
he's at home with her mother.
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And he is not interested
to come to boarding school.
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But I know that her mother is,
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his mother is
working very hard to...
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and for family
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and she is hopeless.
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As a half orphan,
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Praveen lives in
the on campus orphanage,
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where in contrast to
many of the countries
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millions of
orphans and half orphans,
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he is safe from
human trafficking
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and child labor.
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Child Impact CEO
Jim Rennie took time
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to visit the
orphanage and learn more about
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their care and keeping.
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While it's time to introduce
another sponsored child,
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a child that's
sponsored by Child Impact.
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And I'm still at
KMMS School in Bangladesh,
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and this is Praveen,
and he's eight years of age.
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Now sadly, his father
died and his mother is a cook.
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And actually sometimes she
goes and works on the road.
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Can you imagine it,
doing the heavy lifting?
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She's real desperate for
her son to have a future.
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And she's just so excited
that he can come to the school.
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And she's grateful
for the sponsorship.
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Now he's got a brother
aged 11, and a sister aged 10.
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And I spoke to his teacher,
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and he's really
good at his schoolwork
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and loves reading.
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And that's so important.
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And as you sit here,
you see the difference.
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You look him in the face.
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Look at this young man.
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He's so
grateful for sponsorship.
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And his mother is so
grateful for sponsorship
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because she's
really struggling in life
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to support these three children.
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And you know the exciting thing?
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He wants to be a doctor.
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He wants to have a future
and he will have a future,
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and his sponsor is
having an impact on him,
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having an impact on his
family and giving him a future.
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So sponsorship, when
you look at this young man
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on the face is
making a real difference.
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Oh, is it true,
they're all orphans?
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Orphans.
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Is he an orphan?
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Some are semi. Yeah.
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And some are full.
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And there are a lot of
them that are single mothers.
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Yeah.
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One of the unique
aspects about the school
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is that right in
the center of it,
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it has an orphanage,
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and there are 91 children
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they are either
orphans or semi-orphans.
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And Child Impact is
just so excited that
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it can play a
role in this community,
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supporting these
children with a real need.
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And look at these two guys here.
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It's just so
exciting to see these kids,
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because not only
are they given a chance,
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they're given an education.
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And the mom
simply just can't cope
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with the cost of living or
even bringing the child up.
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Now the unique thing is here
that they're in this building
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for when they're young.
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But when they
get to a certain age,
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they go over to the
boarding part of the school.
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So they're given a future.
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They feel comfortable here.
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They feel secure here.
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And they're given an education.
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And so we're really excited
about the mission happening
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in this school for orphans.
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And we're happy
that we can support it.
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We have the opportunity to
give Praveen and his sister
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a chance to see
their mother again.
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It had been over
a year since Praveen
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and his sister had seen her.
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And when we found out,
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we took the
opportunity to take them with us
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as we were going to
visit other schools.
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Even though
they were camera shy,
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they were very
excited to see their mother,
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and it was great
to see everybody happy
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once the cameras were off.
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They were able to stay
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with each other
for half the day.
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And when we got them back,
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Praveen had even
gotten a haircut.
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The mother later told us
how happy she was to see him.
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With the money the mother makes,
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there's no way of going to
see Praveen and his sister,
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so they have to
stay at the school.
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Like Praveen,
many of these children
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have no other alternative
and struggle to make it
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with their families.
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And if it were not
for the opportunities
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for paid education,
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Praveen would
probably be working
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and helping his mother
make money in order to survive.
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It's difficult to see
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these children
struggling at such a young age,
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having to grow up
fast and deal with hardship
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before they even have a chance
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at living a
normal life as a child.
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So we left the
school this morning
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and have driven
about one and a half hours.
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And we originally
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were going to come
and see his mother,
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but the daughter wanted to come
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and she was very
excited that they could come
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and then meet the mother.
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And this is where their home is.
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The mother is a
laborer and goes out
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and does various cooking jobs.
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And so, it's just
given us an insight.
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I want you to come
and translate for me.
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She's very happy. Very happy.
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And she one of
them, top in the class.
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Yes, last year.
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Everything
serves multiple purposes
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at a school like KMMS,
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and the orphanage
dining hall is no different.
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Rice harvested from
the on campus rice paddy
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is stored there
before being taken into town.
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And that serves
another purpose too,
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entertainment for the kids.
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Many of the
children in the orphanage
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would not be
able to attend school
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of any kind without help.
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Without housing or education,
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orphan children are
the most vulnerable group
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to human trafficking.
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But the
children in the orphanage
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at KMMS are safe.
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Orphans.
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Well, we must
sympathize with orphan students.
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And even the donors
also very much sympathize.
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And we try your best
to take the best care
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within our limitation on means.
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And even our
teachers, they should,
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they must love
and care for them.
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Because most of the
orphans, they come very small.
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So they get, you know,
mother care or even father care
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and they are all cared here,
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and we have a
very old experienced
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mother here, Mrs. Biswas.
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And she is a registered nurse.
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So she takes good
care of these children.
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Even we help our administration,
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we take care even
whenever any donor comes,
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we share our, their needs.
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We pass emphasize their needs,
orphans needs, not other needs.
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Because they are the
more helpless and all.
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And even, whenever thus,
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most of the times orphan student
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they do not have
shoes or no dress.
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Even teachers we try
to help buying for them.
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Teachers buy
from their own pocket.
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Whenever one boy has
no shoes, we buy for them.
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Even during the Christmas time,
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we try to make
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a very special program for them,
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and we try to give
warm clothes also for them.
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So usually they are...
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We do our best.
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Even I as school principal,
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I don't go home
at Christmas time,
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I spent time with them
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because you understand
that they feel they will care.
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Are there a lot of
orphans? Are there many?
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Yeah, there are
many. There are many.
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And we have,
actually there are many
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they want to come
also from village.
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But we look sponsorship for them
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because once they enter,
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we need to be their all wardens
and there are some still,
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they don't have help.
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So we are also looking for them.
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Thanks to sponsorship,
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the colossal undertaking
of housing 91 orphans
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becomes possible.
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Most of the
children in this facility
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have nothing to their name,
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except the clothes they
wear, their school items,
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and sometimes a
brother or sister.
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But they face
each new day at KMMS
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with a once unthinkable
hope for their future.
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And as another day at KMMS ends,
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these children sleep well,
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giving them reprieve
from the difficult questions
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of survival that orphans
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around the world face every day.
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And look at these lovely kids.
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It's just so
exciting to meet them
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and to see the difference
we're making in their lives.
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Education is vital,
but being in a safe place,
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and being a
child with other kids,
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gives them the
opportunity to be happy
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and not worry
about the hardships
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they would have had to face.
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