Hi there.
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I'm Jim Rennie, CEO of
Child Impact International.
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And I've got some exciting news
about a new project in Zambia.
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It's a unique new
mission school opportunity
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that will expand the Ministry
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of our partner, Riverside Farms
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through an expanded
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Child Impact
sponsorship program.
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The Riverside Farm partnership
with Child Impact International
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allows for a great partnership
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between two strong
Adventist ministries.
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Riverside Farm
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provides a structured and
well managed school project
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with an Adventist
education program.
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While Child Impact
provides poor children
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an education and
sharing key revenue
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for the new school.
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The government
have approved the school
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and it will be run by
Riverside Farm management
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on the same basis
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that they run the
current primary school.
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The school will
cover grades 8-12.
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The school will be a day school
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with lunch
supplied for the students.
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The approximate capacity
will be 40 students per class
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with 2 groups per day
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since the classes are by subject
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and not by grade.
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The school will be located
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300 meters from the
current primary school.
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Housing will be
provided for the headmaster
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and the deputy headmaster.
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The need for
education is strong,
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and there is no
Adventist Secondary School
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in the area.
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The school will allow the
150 primary school students
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to expand their education.
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Within the attendance of
300 students in the future,
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sponsorship will
grow to 150 plus.
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The school will give
the local needy children
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an Adventist education
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and will be a key outreach
for Riverside Farms ministry.
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ASI and donors have provided
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one day buildings for
the schools foundation
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and construction
of the base buildings.
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Child Impact has been
asked to complete the project
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and furnish the
school with furniture
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and educational resources.
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The need is $150,000.
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We have some great
news for this project.
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We can double your donation.
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Child Impact has
matching funds for this project.
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Each dollar given
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will be matched
with $1 to $75,000.
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For each dollar you give
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it will be
matched dollar for dollar.
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Why should you
support Child Impact
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and Riverside
Farms in this project?
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Let me explain.
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It explains the mission average
of Riverside Farms in Zambia.
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It widens Child Impact's mission
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in Zambia.
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It will extend
the sponsorship life
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of the Child Impact children
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already sponsored
at the primary school.
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It insures over 254 children
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sponsored by Child Impact
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will be given an
Adventist education
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through to grade 12 or higher.
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It is valued for
the donors funds,
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as the school has
a construction time
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of less than 12 months.
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There will be no cost overrun
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as Child Impact
on Riverside Farms,
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guarantee the project costs.
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And there's a proven
project management team
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at Riverside Farms
led by Ellen Knowles,
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who is well
known for construction
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of this type of
one day buildings.
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Please go online right now
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for full
information or to donate.
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chidimpact.org is our website.
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That's childimpact.org.
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Or call us at 4239100667.
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That's 4239100667.
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I really want to
thank you if you can join us
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for this exciting project.
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As a child growing up in Zambia,
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more than likely
you would be living
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far below the poverty line.
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Your parents are
probably either copper miners
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or farmers
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and what determines
if you can go to school
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is the current price
of copper or the weather.
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If the crops fail,
your family goes hungry
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and you must focus on surviving.
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All hopes of an
education are gone.
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This economic growth
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hasn't helped their
poverty line however,
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the cities are growing well,
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but the rural
areas are stagnant.
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They have few economic prospects
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and with that, it
limits the ability
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for other works to exist
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when the skills needed
or too difficult to acquire.
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Such skills
require proper education
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a resource that Zambia
is desperately lacking.
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Zambia is very isolated
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and more so in the
underdeveloped areas
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of the country.
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The people are
struggling to make a living
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as well as
having the needed skills
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to break free
from their poverty.
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Zambia's declining economy
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causes about 60% of Zambians
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to live under the
nation's poverty line
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with rural poverty
standing at almost 78%.
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You might be asking,
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why is Child Impact
expanding into Zambia.
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Well, it's very simple.
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We will have a
partner on the ground
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running the school
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that is very, very reliable,
and is mission focused.
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We believe that all
children are precious to God.
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Our goal is to give hope
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by fostering
permanent positive change
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in the lives of the
disadvantaged children
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of Zambia.
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Central to our mission is
building the infrastructure
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of the local school
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empowering it to meet the
needs of its own community.
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We see a need in Zambia
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that can be met with
the help of our sponsors.
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We know that
education is necessary
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for the future of any community
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to grow and
improve their conditions.
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Zambia
desperately needs our help.
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Riverside Farm is
well known in the community
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and will be able
to do a great job
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not only in running the school,
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but administering
the sponsorship program.
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We also know that
no funds will be wasted
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and that they will be
genuinely poor children,
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that will be help.
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Another challenge is
that even existing schools
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suffer from a lack
of scholastic materials.
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The lack of scholastic materials
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is something few
in the US can imagine.
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A class of 50 pupils
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often only have
enough books for 10.
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Drawing charts becoming possible
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without pencil and paper.
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It takes everything you have
dipping into your own pocket,
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knowing your meager income
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you receive at
the end of the month.
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And even then it's never enough,
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especially since
most rural families
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have to spend 60%
of their money on food.
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But there is a glimmer of hope.
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My name is Craig Harding.
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I'm the executive director here
at Riverside Farm Institute.
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And I manage the programs
we do here and run the farm.
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Well, I'm Pauline Knowles
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and we're at Riverside
Farm in Zambia, Africa.
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The school program here
has been really exciting
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for the primary
education program,
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but 20 years ago,
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the school
buildings that are there,
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were built
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and we've been running
the school there since.
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In the district that we're in,
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we get the
highest success grade rate
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for the students
that are graduating on
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to go to secondary
school which is exciting for us.
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Zambia's government
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is struggling to
meet the budget needs
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of the growing population
when it comes to education.
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Schools in rural
areas are suffering
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with a lack of classrooms.
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The main problem
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is students
continuing their education
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past eighth grade.
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Since fees are
due after grade seven,
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they tend to stop
their education early
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so schools can afford
to add more classrooms.
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If there are no
fees in certain schools,
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the children have
to walk really far
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in order to go to schools.
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The families cannot
even afford the basics
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like uniform,
books, and pencils.
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It's hard to tell how many
are and are not going to school.
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We have found a major
need in establishing schools
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for the
children in this country.
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We are going to
focus on the rural area
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south of the capital to
help this deprived region.
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Attaining enough
funding to help these children
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is a vital part of the mission
that still has to be done.
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Funding will go to help
these children attend school,
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purchase academic materials
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and better prepare
them for the future.
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Zambia is
struggling but there is hope
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through educating
the next generation.
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We decided to build a new school
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because not only
do we want to expand
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but it's right in
the middle of campus.
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And with all
these children there
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it can be a little
distracting at times.
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And so now they
have a nice setting
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out in the woods in the wet,
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there's trees and
and it's out in nature.
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And we're just excited
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about having a
different location
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and to add more
students to the school.
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Now the school
looks a little remote
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when I first drove in
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but in fact that's not
far from the local villages
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where the sponsor
children can come from.
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This is a great facility.
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It's going to be well managed.
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And it's a great opportunity
for child sponsorship.
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Riverside Farm
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is a public benefit organization
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here in Zambia,
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we do a number of
different projects,
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including the farm that
helps to promote the program.
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We run a primary school,
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we also do an
adult training program
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for people coming
out of the village,
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doing tailoring, agriculture
and different programs.
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We also run a wellness center,
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helping people
with different wellness
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and health issues.
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And we also run a farm program.
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Well, we've been here
for like 30 years now.
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And how we got here was,
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when my husband
and I got married,
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we thought, "Well,
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if we just have
a house of our own,
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we'll be happy."
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And then after we had a house,
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"Well, if we just
had our children,"
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then we had two boys.
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And then after
that, we started thinking,
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but there's got to be
more to life than this.
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And so we just
started praying about it.
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And we ended up working
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in a self-supporting institution
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in the states and never dreamed
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that we'd be
asked to come to Africa.
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But here we are.
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The life of a
missionary is very different
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and often challenging,
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but the rewards
make it all worthwhile.
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Riverside Farms works tirelessly
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to be the hands
and feet of Jesus.
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Reaching out to the
villages around them
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to provide for their
temporal and eternal needs.
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The farm offers
locals not only work
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but valuable training in
modern agricultural methods,
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while the school
gives their children
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the opportunity to
gain valuable skills
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to not only improve their lives
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but also the lives of
those in their communities.
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God is blessing their efforts
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and the
partnership with Child Impact
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opens great
possibilities for the future.
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On opening day,
the school will have
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about 100 children.
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And then it will be able to grow
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to somewhere around 250 children
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over the next year or two.
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We're excited
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about the Child
Impact involvement
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in the school
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because there's a number of kids
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who would otherwise have
no educational opportunity
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because their parents
are small hold farmers.
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And anytime
there's a crop failure,
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they have no food,
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their families
begin cutting trees
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burning charcoal
doing things just to survive
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with no income for for
them to have an education.
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And then on years
when there is rain,
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they're still going hungry,
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oftentimes coming
up into the periods
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where there's where
there's crop harvest.
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So this is an
opportunity for them
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to be able to better their lives
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so that when
their children come,
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they're able to have a
life that's not so dependent
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on the unpredictability
of rain in this arid region.
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They can't afford to send
them and they just stay home.
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And so we are really excited
that Child Impact has come
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and they're going to help
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some of these
unfortunate children
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be able to attend school.
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Starting out, it would
house around 150 students
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but hopefully
double and keep increasing
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since there is
such a high demand.
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Because of this
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Child Impact saw the
need to go to Zambia,
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the lack of money
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makes this new
school underutilized
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because families can't afford
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to take their
students to school.
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Helping with the
students' financial needs
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will guarantee
they have materials
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so they can focus on learning.
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This will also
alleviate the financial burdens
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that families have,
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which will
allow them to buy food
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and care for the
basic needs of their family.
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But most importantly,
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this will provide the children
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with a Christian
Adventist education,
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an education
that will teach them
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Bible truths that will help
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further spread the
gospel to this nation
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that is poised to
receive the truth.
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Well, it's an exciting day
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because for the first
time I'm sitting in a classroom
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in Africa, here in Zambia,
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and we're at the
Riverside Farms School.
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And shortly they'll be
moving into a new school
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where we'll have over
50 sponsored children.
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And I'm here with Daniel
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and there'll be
many children like him
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that will be able
to enjoy sponsorship.
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You can sponsor a child
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or you could help by
just giving a contribution
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to our unsponsored child fund.
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This is a very
exciting time for Child Impact
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because we're really going to be
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impacting on the real
needy around Riverside Farms.
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Your support will
make a real difference,
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either with sponsorship
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or contributing to
the unsponsored job fund.
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