Hi, there.
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This is another program
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in the Child Impact series
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about our work in Bangladesh.
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The virus pandemic
is affecting countries
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in different ways.
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In countries like
Bangladesh, India and Myanmar,
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millions of low wage workers
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have no work and
get no assistance.
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They were on the
poverty line to start with.
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So the result is that
people are going hungry.
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It's school holidays so
Child Impact is planning
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for when school
starts again to ensure that
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there is adequate
food and health training.
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Parents will be happy
to have their children
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at school so they get fed.
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Thanks for your support.
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It's been amazing and
we still have huge needs.
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I hope you enjoy this program
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about a special
sponsored girl in Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh is a country
filled with mostly young people.
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Over half the population
is at or under the age of 15,
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that's around 70 million kids.
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Bangladesh is struggling to deal
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with the amount of
children that suffer
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from the death of a
parent or both parents.
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Life expectancy is
better compared to before,
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but even so,
there are many children
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who grew up without
one or both parents.
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Most of these children end up
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living on the streets
or working at a young age.
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The hardest part for a child
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in this
situation is having to deal
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with it in a healthy
way and not ending up worse.
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KMMS strives to
make their school a place
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that can help children cope
with hardships in Bangladesh.
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Sajuti is 11 years old
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and has just begun
the fifth grade at KMMS.
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Though this is her
first year in attendance,
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she has three
sisters and a brother
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in what she describes to
people as a happy family.
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We have the opportunity to both,
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talk to her and see
how she lives at KMMS.
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When did you come to KMMS?
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How do you like
the school so far?
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What is your
favorite thing about school?
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What do you want to do
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when you are
finished with school?
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Nurse.
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Sadly her mother
passed away not too long
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before we got there.
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She was very sad
and noticeably reserved.
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Millions of
children in Bangladesh
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go through this and
usually have no choice
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but to work and move on
without a safe environment.
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Death of a parent
usually ruins a family
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because income is
really hard to come by.
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The average salary is $1 a day
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and most of that money
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goes to buying
food and little more.
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That family lives 25 miles away,
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a long distance for Bangladesh,
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in a hut
constructed from earth and tin.
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Sajuti has been
able to come to KMMS,
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thanks to the sponsorship
she got from Child Impact.
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And now she's been
able to live a better life
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here at the school.
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She had a sponsor
and one sad news that,
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last month she lost her mother.
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And his father, he's
not getting enough money
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for surviving or
operating their families.
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And their elder sisters,
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they're studying in
the other boarding schools.
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So they have to pay
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their education fees over there.
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So it is
impossible for her father
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to give the basic needs
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of their children.
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Yeah, it is a
great help, you know,
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to study in
Adventist school and college,
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because at Adventist
school show their love and care
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beyond any other institution,
beyond expectation even.
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And by the grace of God
even there are some students,
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they're never free, but
they are faithful in study,
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faithful in
work, faithful to God,
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and school take care of them,
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and by the grace of God
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even some help
comes from here and there.
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Students, they like
the school environment.
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And they like also
education, Christian education.
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And they can also
develop their talents, you know,
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joining many school program,
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prophecy class, and
also Sabbath school class,
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also in song
service, and different thing,
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and the worship,
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and they learn
also leadership work.
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So our school environment
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is much better
than government school,
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public school.
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So they like this
school environment very much.
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Even guardian also
like this environment.
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We have a government school
but their school environment
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is not good, not well secure,
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and usually government school,
the students are irregular.
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But boarding school,
students are regular.
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If a simple...
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If the environment is
like, if it is little rain,
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outside public
school, they don't go to...
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students, they
don't go home, don't...
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They don't go to school.
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But in our boarding school,
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even though there are
some natural calamities,
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but still school go regularly,
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so easily they can
maintain regular class
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but government school,
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they cannot
maintain regular class.
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KMMS helps students grow
and develop their education
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and habits through
their planned routines.
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Since children live here,
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they need to
follow some instructions
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and have certain
responsibilities.
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Students help
keep the school clean
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and even help cook.
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Students alter what
they are assigned to do
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in order to gain other skills
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like cooking,
cleaning and farming.
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We have seven days in a week.
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Usually our class starts
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from Sunday to Thursday,
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Fridays is a work day,
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and Saturdays is our worship day
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and our 5.30 is our rising bell,
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then half an hour cleaning,
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then after that
they go for worship.
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After worship,
they go for breakfast,
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7 o'clock, after breakfast,
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most of the
student they go to class
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and maybe two classes
they have work program,
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cleaning, and all.
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we have a morning session.
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Then another session starts
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1 o'clock so
that lasts up to 4.30.
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And work program
actually afternoon,
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3 to 5, then 5
to 6, sports time.
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6.00 to 6.30 cleaning,
then they do the worship
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and they have their dinner.
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Then they go to study
hall 7 o'clock, 7 to 9 o'clock.
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Then 9.30, they
have silent bell.
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So this is our
everyday's program.
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They get up early
and go to worship,
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each in their own dorm,
and start the day with God.
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They all gather
and have breakfast
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which is prepared very early
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since breakfast starts
at 6.30 in the morning.
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They later have
a combined worship
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where
announcements are also made.
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Then classes begin
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for the rest of the day at 8 am.
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Once classes end for the day,
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students get free time
to have fun with friends.
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They get to play
games and sports together.
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Throughout the day
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is where students
get assigned work.
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Sajuti had to clean
the leaves off the grass
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and sidewalks for the
day we interviewed her.
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So a great part of my job
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traveling for
Child Impact at the field
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is that we actually get to
meet the sponsored children.
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And here in Bangladesh,
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sometimes the language
is a bit of a challenge.
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But at the end of the day,
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we all seem to communicate well.
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Now this is Sajuti,
and she's 11 years of age.
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Now sadly, her mother died
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and her father is a day laborer.
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And so his
income is not reliable,
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and she has four
brothers and a sister.
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And sponsorship
really not only gives her
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an education,
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but it is bringing
relief to her father
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because he is struggling to cope
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with the loss of their mother
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and also generate an
income for the family.
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Now she wants to
grow up to be a nurse
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and is doing very,
very well at school.
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And the father is so
grateful for sponsorship
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because it gives him hope.
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It gives his children hope.
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And Sajuti is a
excellent example of sponsorship
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and the impact that it's
having not only on her life,
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but on her family's life.
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It shows that
sponsorship is effective.
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Sajuti's father
works as a day laborer,
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and with no mother at home,
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the family
struggles to sustain itself.
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Sponsorship is crucial
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to Sajuti's
continued attendance at KMMS,
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which can board and feed her
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and reduce the
strain on her single father.
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When students or children
are in the boarding school,
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they are safe from
various kind of problems
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like if they are
in village school,
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or in village, so
there are many students
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or many children,
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they are free and
they don't obey the time,
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they don't follow the
time, even they are free...
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Since they are free
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so they can walk here and there.
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They don't care
about their punctuality,
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even they don't...
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They are not serious in studies,
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but when they are
in boarding school,
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so all of them, they
are serious in studies,
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like, if somebody...
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One of his classmates
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is studying hard
to get good results,
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so he is encouraged to be study
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and also in the
good environment,
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they are happy.
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Outside, in public school,
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teachers are not
punctual, always.
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But they come for a moment
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and they teach the
students and they go out.
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But in the boarding schools,
there are some difference like,
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they are caring,
teachers are caring.
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And they're also punctual.
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Every day there should be class.
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They must come to the
class and also teachers
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and students must
attend to the class
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and they cannot go
around here and there.
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So they should obey the
system, boarding school system,
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so this is the
difference between
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village schools and
the boarding school.
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At KMMS, Sajuti has
decided to become a nurse,
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and her favorite
subject is English,
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a subject she would not have
become acquainted with at home.
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She's seen how
much KMMS has helped her
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and she really
wants to get her siblings
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to go to KMMS as well.
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She has three elder
sisters and one brother,
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and they are
studying in the other schools.
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But when I talked with her,
that time she shared with me,
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"Sir, I am trying my level best
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to bring my sisters
and my brothers over here
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so they may get
the proper education."
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Within one year, she feels that
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she is getting
the proper education
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and good education here.
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So for that reason,
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she is trying her level
best to motivate her father
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to bring their
brother and sisters over here.
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But his father is very poor.
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Due to the money
her father makes,
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it's unlikely that they will be
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able to get the same
opportunities as her.
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The only way would
be through sponsorship.
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Sajuti managed
to get sponsorship
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and that alone is giving her
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a healthy environment to
grow and have a bright future.
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Even then, she depends on
the continual sponsorship.
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In my role, it's a privilege
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to be able to come
and see the schools
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where we have sponsorship
like this one in Bangladesh.
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Sponsorship gives
hope for education,
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it gives hope for families
and it really has an impact.
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Standing here, I
can see the difference
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that sponsorship is making.
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And if you
don't sponsor a child,
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I'd invite you
to sponsor a child
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or make a donation to
our unsponsored child fund,
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as there are many children
here waiting for sponsorship.
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A couple of years
ago, my daughters and I
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had a wonderful
opportunity to travel to India.
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And while we were there,
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we met yet another
part of our family.
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And that's our
sponsored daughter,
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Sheila.
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We've had the
privilege of sponsoring Sheila
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through Child
Impact International
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for more than three years now.
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And, you know,
while we were there,
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she shared with
us that her dream
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was to become a nurse.
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Now, what a wonderful
privilege it is for us
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now as a family to know that
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she is fulfilling that dream.
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Sheila is now
studying to be a nurse.
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She's in college
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and we cannot
be happier for her.
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It's been wonderful
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to be part of
that journey with her,
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and, you know,
sponsoring a child
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through Child Impact,
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it's made an
incredible difference
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for our family.
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And I know that for
you, sponsoring a child
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can make a
difference for you too,
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and most importantly,
it can make the difference
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in the life of
a child every day.
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