Child Impact International
is an organization giving hope.
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Previously called Asian Aid,
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Child Impact
International is an organization
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fostering
permanent positive change
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in the lives of
disadvantaged children
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and their communities.
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Child Impact is
committed to making a difference
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in the lives of children
and those who are in need.
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Serving communities in
India, Nepal, Bangladesh,
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Sri Lanka, Myanmar,
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and will soon
expand to other countries.
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For the last 50 years,
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Child Impact has invested
in the futures of people
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and their investment
has proven infinite returns,
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driven by the dedication
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to helping those
who have the least.
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Child Impact is an organization
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focused on the
welfare of children,
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implementing
diverse development projects
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and sponsoring
thousands of children.
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Their outreach spans
from child rescue operations
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to providing an
education for orphans,
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deaf and the blind children,
giving them a sense of place,
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a home, but above all,
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Child Impact is an
organization giving hope,
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giving hope to children,
giving hope to communities,
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giving hope to the
ones who needed the most.
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This is Hope in Motion.
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Bangladesh is a
very small country.
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It is 4.6 times
smaller than Texas.
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Even though it is small,
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the population is almost
half that of the United States
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at 168 million.
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Since Bangladesh is very small,
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there are
barely enough resources
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to support that
amount of people.
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That creates a lot of problems
for a country like theirs.
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Poverty is almost inevitable.
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The resources are scarce
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and enforcing laws is difficult.
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Bangladesh has
improved over the years
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like making it
free and mandatory
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for children to go to school.
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But even that positive
change introduces problems.
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Due to it being free,
the education isn't as good.
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Also, the students
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who are in the
greatest need of education
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don't have money for food.
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As a result, they
can't go to school,
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since parents put them to work
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in order to make
money to survive.
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This is where the
great work of sponsorship
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can be seen,
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giving the children a
chance at a better life.
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Today's episode will show
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how sponsorship not only helps
to keep the children in school
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and provide them
with a brighter future,
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but also their perspective
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on what it's
like to be sponsored.
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Sponsorship is
vital for helping kids
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in countries like Bangladesh.
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The amount of help they get
is beyond our understanding.
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Poverty is all they know.
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Parents have to decide
to put their kids to work
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instead of going to school
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because the
alternative is to starve.
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This is unheard of for us.
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For them,
surviving is a daily effort.
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So it's understandable
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why a lot of
children end up working.
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The amount of imploring
that is seen by Child Impact
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has proven just how much
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the parents don't want a future
of poverty for their children.
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So, I enjoy this work
because when I see around,
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I visit around villages.
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So, I know that
people and they are needy,
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and they sometimes
they approach to me
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and they cry to me, and
they ask for sponsorship,
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so I am interested
to work behind them
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so that I can do
something for them.
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With each
sponsorship it's one more child
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that will not need to
experience the hardship
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that is very
common in Bangladesh.
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As stated before,
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more than half the
population is in poverty.
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That means any change
or drop at work or food
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makes it even harder
for a child to go to school.
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You can see former generations
of sponsored children
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feeling blessed as
well as paying it forward
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to help the next generation.
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If I'm not studied
here, maybe I will be lost.
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Maybe my father and my mother
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cannot provide me
the good education.
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Maybe they cannot
provide me a good food,
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good shelter and
it is the basic needs.
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They cannot provide me.
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Even I am, I was
a student over here,
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that time also they cannot,
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they didn't
provide me the good things,
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the basic things.
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It is...
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For me, it is
difficult to explain
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because this is my birthplace.
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And I love that
school from my heart.
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And actually, I love school.
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When I studied the college,
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that time I had a dream
that I will work at KMMS.
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Why did you choose to
do this work as your work?
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Yeah.
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Because when I came
to this boarding school
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first time in 1990, so
I had sponsorship support,
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because my family
background is not good.
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So, as you know
that boarding school fees
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is little
higher than day school.
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So, I know that this studying
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in boarding school is hard.
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And my parents could
not pay my school fees.
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So, if I had not
this sponsorship support,
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so I could not also study
and I could not get education.
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We were able to see first-hand
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how sponsorship
feels for these children,
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and what their lives are like
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with the help of their sponsors.
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We got to
interview many of them.
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But it was only a few
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in comparison to the amount
of sponsored students at KMMS.
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We have around 400
students at present.
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These students come
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from all
districts of Bangladesh.
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And in Bangladesh we have
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around 64 districts.
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Many students are
coming from Hill Tracts.
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Many are coming from
north, south, east and west.
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And we have more
than 10 ethnic groups,
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this school
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and this school is
open for all people.
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Even we have
students from all churches,
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Catholic,
Baptist, Oxford, Methodist,
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Adventist,
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we have also students
from many Hindu backgrounds,
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and we have very few
students from Muslim background.
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Supporting us
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and majority
students have sponsorship
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and there are some students
that do not have sponsorship.
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But whenever the students come,
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they, we need to
provide them education,
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we need to provide them food,
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we need to provide
them accommodation.
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But even the students
sometimes they don't pay
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but still school
bear their expenses,
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and we don't send them home.
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And some student they pay
some but some they cannot pay.
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And the school also
face a lot of challenges,
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but in spite of all this problem
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God blessed us to run the school
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in spite of many
challenges and strategies.
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The school has sponsorship
as part of the day's events.
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The students even have time
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for writing
letters to their sponsors.
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It is a special admiration
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and appreciation
that these students have
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for their position
of being sponsored.
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They honor it
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and have a very
respectful approach
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to how they view sponsorship.
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They resolve to
make it not be in vain.
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The grades are better
than the other school,
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and the students take
it a lot more seriously
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than the
students at other schools.
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KMMS also focuses
on giving the students
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a time for studies
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in order to give
them the best chance
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at future opportunities.
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From an external point of view,
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it might seem
like they don't have
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a life full of joy and health.
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But when you are there,
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and you see things
from their perspective,
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it's understandable
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why so many have a
love for the school.
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When I come in the
school, we, I have a sponsor,
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so that this sponsor,
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this sponsor
helped to study regularly.
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And also, I feel proud of him.
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So, I also thank him to
give this a nice privilege.
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I also give
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my heartful love for him.
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Even years after they leave,
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they value the opportunities
that were given to them.
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When I was a student over
here, that time I thought,
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oh, if I saw my sponsor,
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if I visited my
sponsor or if I hug him,
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then I will feel better.
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But I had no
privilege to saw him,
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even I don't know, now,
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I don't know who
is she or who is he.
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I don't know who is
the person who helping me.
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But I am very
thankful to him or her
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that he or she
supported me from my childhood
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to till my college level.
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For their love
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and for their financial support,
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I'm able to complete my college
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and I'm able to reach my goal.
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It's beautiful to see the impact
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and the effects that
sponsorship is having.
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Knowing that even
one person being helped
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completely changes
their life and future.
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Walking around
and seeing children
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have a childhood,
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and be able to have
friendships and enjoyment.
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Every sponsored
child has a story
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and a challenge
that they had to face
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while making it here.
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But they didn't give up
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and still have
smiles on their faces.
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They are like many
others doing all they can.
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Likewise, your sponsorships
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are giving their
efforts a fighting chance,
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both in their spiritual
lives and their physical ones.
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Thank you to all the
sponsors who are helping,
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the job is large
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and the dent has
barely been made.
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But every small
amount is pushing the change
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to one person's life at a time.
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Thank you, sponsor.
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Thank you, sponsor.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, sponsors. Thank you.
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The Key Mission
School in Bangladesh
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where Child Impact has
many sponsored children
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has an urgent need for
a multipurpose building.
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The old building
which you can see here
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was over 40 years old
and was poorly constructed.
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It was extremely dangerous.
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I'm Jim Rennie,
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CEO of Child
Impact International.
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And last year, I
visited the school
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and was able to
confirm with an engineer,
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the critical state
of that old building,
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it was dangerous.
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The school,
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Kellogg-Mookerjee
Memorial Seminary
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has over 450 students,
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including many
sponsored by Child Impact.
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This school is a
key mission outreach,
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and serves a
very poor community.
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Simply put, this
building was dangerous,
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and we had to pull
it down and we had.
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Workers started in faith
on a new three-story building.
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And then this
building will house
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over eight classrooms,
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a science
laboratory, a school library,
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school administration offices,
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but more important
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right at the front
of joining the road,
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there will be a
multilevel English preschool.
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This will attract
fee paying day students
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and will drive
urgently needed revenue
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for the school.
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The total cost
including the fed out, library,
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science lab and
English training school
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is about 584,000 and to date,
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Child Impact with
his generous supporters
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has raised 430,000.
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The reality is we
still need 150,000.
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Right now, we are
asking you to help,
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any amount would be great.
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In our current TV series,
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you have seen the
poverty in Bangladesh.
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This is a very special school
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that serves a poor community
and has over 50 orphans.
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The needs for the classrooms,
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library and science lab
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are critical to
the kids graduating.
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The English
preschool will be an outreach
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and a critical
revenue for the school.
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I know these
are difficult times,
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but this school will be a
key outreach for the church,
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and these kids need help.
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Please help us in any way
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with the special
Bangladesh boarding appeal.
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You can go to our
website, childimpact.org
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and donate to the
Bangladesh building appeal
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or you can call our office.
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Thanks for your support.
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