Hi there.
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I'm Jim Rennie,
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CEO of Child
Impact International.
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And I've got some exciting news
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about our 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 of our partner,
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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
provides a structured
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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 two 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 300 meters
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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
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have provided one day
buildings for the schools,
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foundation 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
the dollar 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 expands 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
250 poor 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
and 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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Childimpact.org is our website.
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That's childimpact.org.
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Or call us at 423-9100-667.
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That's 423-9100-667.
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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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You look out over the field
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that will provide you
and your family with food
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for the coming year
and seed for the next.
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But all you see is
miles of sunbaked ground
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and withered plants.
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Welcome to Zambia.
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Last year, we had a
partial crop failure
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here in Zambia.
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And this year,
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there's been a
complete crop failure.
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If you go and talk
to the oldest people
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in the villages,
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they'll tell you
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this is the
worst famine, drought
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that they've seen
in their lifetime,
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which is saying something.
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We've had some
extraordinary famines
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in the period of last 15 years,
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and so we're seeing
that need, that hunger,
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translating into
people's demand for work,
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just general need.
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Riverside Farms
began with the mission
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to reach the needs
of the people in Zambia,
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located 70
miles south of Lusaka,
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which is the capital of Zambia.
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They started this
mission in the early 70s.
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Greg Harding is
the executive director
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for Riverside Farms.
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Our mission is to
reach the needs of people
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here in Zambia.
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And that encompasses
both their physical needs,
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which are huge here in Africa,
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and also the
spiritual and educational needs.
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One of the ways
that Riverside Farms
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is helping the
people of Southern Zambia
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is through farming.
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Food is a resource
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that many of us
take for granted.
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But for the poor villagers,
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it is something
that they struggle
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to get enough of.
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While Zambia's economy
is growing and doing better
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than many other
African countries,
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it still isn't enough.
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So the farm is something
I personally really love,
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love being on the
farm working on it.
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We grow bananas
as our primary crop,
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we grew about 34 hectares
just over 80 acres of bananas.
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And those produce
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about 170 truckloads
of bananas every year.
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About 60% of Zambians live
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under the nation's poverty line,
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with rural poverty
standing at almost 78%.
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In a 2007 study,
Zambia was ranked 117
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out of 128 countries
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on the global
competitiveness index,
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because of many factors
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that have negatively
affected them economically.
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Most Zambians spend 60%
of their income on food,
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which leaves
them with no resources
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to send their
children to school.
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Not only that,
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but when your income
also depends on growing food,
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you are left
with a huge problem.
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Her name is Regina.
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And I have got to know her
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because whenever
there's piece work at Riverside,
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you see Regina here,
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and she's one of
the hardest workers.
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So each department,
they all want to hire Regina,
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because she puts
everything into her work.
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She has nine children
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and five dependent grandchildren
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on her.
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And the thing that
I like about Regina,
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you never see her not smiling.
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And she just
takes life as it comes.
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She does the best she
can and she goes forward.
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Regina's hard work ethic
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is shared by a
majority of Zambians,
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but many factors have
kept them from progressing.
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One of those factors
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is that only a few
areas use irrigation
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while the rest
rely only on rain,
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which has led to
many failed crops
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due to drought.
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The other issue is
that most of the farmers
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are not able to
afford farm equipment,
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so they have to do
everything by hand.
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This greatly
decreases the amount of land
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that they can farm.
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Even though
there are limitations,
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Zambia is not
lacking usable farmland.
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Fifty eight percent of Zambia
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is classified as
medium to high potential
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for agricultural production.
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However, only 15% of this land
is currently under cultivation.
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Well, this is pretty tough,
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but I'm right
here in the village
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near Riverside
and this is Regina.
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And this is one of
Regina's three fields.
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Now normally, she gets 80
sects of maize from this field.
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And that's what
she really lives on.
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That's what she
educates her children with.
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But this year,
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she hasn't got one cob
of corn from this field.
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So this is going to
have a dramatic impact
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not only on
Regina, but on her village
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and across the whole of Zambia.
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Now I have to say we've
just visited the village
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and this is going
to be very, very tough
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on these people.
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So just in one small way,
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the fact that we can
help sponsor Regina's children
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bring some relief.
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But I'm really scared
of what the future holds
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for families like Regina's
in Zambia in the future.
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In Zambia, the people grow maize
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during the rainy season
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because that is their
way to get a little bit ahead
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not only with their food
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but with other
needs that they have.
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And since Regina
is such a hard worker,
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she put in
three fields of maize.
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Worked hard, you
know, got the soil ready,
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planted it, weeded it.
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And then no rains came.
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And she usually gets
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between 80 and
100 bags of maize,
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which keeps them
through the year.
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And she told us
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as we went out to see her field,
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it could make you cry.
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She said, "I did
not get even one cob."
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She says, "I don't know
what this year will bring."
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You've just heard the
urgent need of this lady
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and what you don't know
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is that she has nine
children and five grandchildren
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that she is raising.
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So you can see that
this failure of a crop
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is going to have
a dramatic impact
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on families like these.
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This is a lady
that really works hard.
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She goes to Riverside
and gets work when she can.
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And normally
when there's a crop,
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she does three
fields on her own.
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So this shows the commitment
that this lady has bringing up
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nine children and
five grandchildren.
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It is not just survival
that keeps Regina going.
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It is also the
desire to give her children
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and grandchildren
an Adventist education.
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Religiously
Zambia's almost entirely
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a Christian nation
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with 75% being
Protestant and 20% Catholic.
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church
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has a major presence in Zambia,
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with one out of
every 18 Zambians
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being an Adventist.
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This is the highest of
any country in the world.
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To put that in perspective,
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the United States and Zambia
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have nearly the same
amount of Adventist members.
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One of the first
Adventist missionary
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to Zambia was W.H. Anderson,
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who began his
work in the late 1800s.
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At one point, his
family and two other families
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were living out of an
ox wagon for five months.
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In spite of their hardships,
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they continue to
spread the gospel
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and converted many.
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A quote from Anderson shows
why they were so successful
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in spreading the gospel.
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"When a man goes
to the mission field,
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he must have love for the people
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if he is to win them.
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If he does not have
love, he might as well not go.
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Love is the basis of
all missionary work."
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In spite of the large
Adventist presence here,
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there are hardly
any Adventist schools
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with only three
secondary schools
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and one university.
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The United
States has approximately
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158 secondary schools
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and 14 colleges
and universities.
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More Adventist schools in Zambia
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are needed not just to
help with their immediate needs,
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but also the
spiritual needs as well.
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Adventist schools
are an opportunity
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to reach the
children of the community
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who can then
reach their parents.
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This is why Child
Impact is so important
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because it provides children
with the skills for life,
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but also a
relationship with Jesus.
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Well, I'm just here
with Mack the cameraman,
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and we're going to
go back to the village
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and then back to Riverside.
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And this has been
pretty tough, pretty tough.
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I mean, I'm going back
to my air-conditioned room
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and the cafeteria is
going to feed me a meal.
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And these people,
they haven't got any food.
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And that's reality.
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And you really have
to come here to feel it.
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And the scary part is
it's on such a huge scale.
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But I'm just so excited,
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we can do some little
thing to help these families
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and maybe we're
going to have to find
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a way of helping them with food.
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We're expanding
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our sponsorship
program to Zambia,
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and we're very
excited to be partnering
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with Riverside Farms,
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who are well-known
Adventist ministry.
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They are opening a
brand new primary school
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and we're going to be
sponsoring very needy children
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to help them to come to
an Adventist mission school.
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We're really excited about it.
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And you can
either sponsor a child
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or if you don't want
that monthly commitment,
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you can make a contribution
to our unsponsored child fund.
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This is an exciting time
for us and our supporters.
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And I just hope
that you'll support
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our new outreach
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and our new
education program in Zambia.
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