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
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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
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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 an education
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and sharing key
revenue 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 that
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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
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for the headmaster
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 will be matched
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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 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 Alan 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
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if you can join us
for this exciting project.
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Riverside Farms
give us good management.
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They operate a good school
so that we can be confident
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that our
sponsorship on the ground
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is very effective.
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When I went to ASI,
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I used to go by
this Asian aid booth.
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And I said,
"Oh, wouldn't that be
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something if this
could come to Africa?"
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It was just,
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and I just would dream about it.
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And then last year,
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I stopped by and I
talked to Jim Rennie.
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And he says, "You know,
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we're thinking of
moving into Africa."
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And you know, of course,
it got me a little excited.
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But I thought
Africa, Africa is huge.
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And so last spring,
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when I heard that Jim
Rennie with Child Impact
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was coming not only to
Africa, not only to Zambia,
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but to Riverside
Farms, I was so excited.
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And so he came over and
just it went from there.
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When I visited Riverside Farms,
I was really taken by the need,
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I mean, we operate
in six other countries,
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and I've seen a lot of need.
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But here I saw
families that were
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really, really struggling.
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I was actually very touched
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by the commitment of the parents
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who are fighting a
drought, a real drought.
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And so not only did they
ever a need for their children
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to go to school
for an education,
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they actually have a need
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for their children to
have a meal every day.
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And so I know that
in the Zambian school,
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the kids that are going
there are of very genuine need.
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A very few inches of
rain in the last two years,
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so they already had a drought.
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And then we had almost a
complete drought this year,
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I'd say 20 years,
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we haven't seen
a drought this bad.
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I mean, people are
straight up starving to death.
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And so when kids come to school,
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one of the
things that Farms done
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is provided each
of them with bananas,
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because they grow bananas.
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But that's not a complete meal.
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And they need one
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because they're
not getting much.
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And so being able to be
involved with Child Impact,
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or some of the
hungry money project
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that got involved,
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they're going to be able to get
a full, a full meal, one meal
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when they're there.
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And that's an impact
that we couldn't do otherwise.
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And just, it's
gonna allow the school
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to have better books
than to have a uniform,
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these kids might
have more coming in rags,
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I mean, just straight up.
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And so that's
something for them,
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you know, they come to school,
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they're all in uniform,
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they're all equal in
the ability to learn,
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and have God impact
their life that way.
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The thing that impresses
me with these children,
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though, from a very young age,
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they have to haul water,
they have to carry firewood,
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watch the goats,
and the cows herd them.
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And they have to do
with these home chores
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from when they're
just young children.
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There's not one
family that we're sponsoring,
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that has running water or
electricity in their home.
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It's very important for us
to find a partner on the ground
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that supports our mission.
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And so they need to be
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a strong
Adventist mission partner,
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and Riverside's the ideal
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because not only do
they have strong management,
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they operate a well-run school,
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and then in turn their job
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is that they're
serving the community.
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And so Riverside for us
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is a very unique
partner in that they ensure
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that the schools well
run, but then in turn,
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we're helping them
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with their mission
in the local community.
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Well, I feel it's
our responsibility
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to help the areas near you.
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As Christians, we need
to look out for the widows,
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the orphans, the
people within our vicinities.
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And I feel a
real burden for that.
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And so the thing is,
once you start helping them
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with this school,
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it's going to open
up a huge opportunity
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for many more ways to help them
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like you're going to
find out that they need food,
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they need many
things in their homes
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that we're going to,
it's going to come to us
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and we're going to
have to be ready for this.
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And so it's just a
like little opening wedge,
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and maybe that'll give us
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an opportunity to
share Jesus with them.
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I feel like these children,
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it's like a brand
plucked out of the fire.
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There was this
one boy growing up,
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his mother died.
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And his father was a drunkard
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and his older
brothers all drank.
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And he came to me one day
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and asked if he
could go to school.
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And I, you know, I wasn't sure
if I could take another one.
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But I took him and I put him
all the way through grade 12.
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He didn't have any
discipline in his life,
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he didn't know
about responsibility,
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but he learned those things.
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And then my
husband put him to work
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and working on
the One-Day Church.
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And then after that
we were able to get funds
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and we put him in college.
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And now he's just
completing his teaching,
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and he's going to be a teacher.
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And he's, and not only that,
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I gave him Bible studies
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while he was in
school, and he was baptized.
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And so I'm just so excited,
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I feel like what
would it become of him
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if we hadn't reached out to him?
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And not far from us is
a big hydroelectric dam.
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And pulled up,
they're looking for someone
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who had a meeting
with a government official,
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and the guy pulls where he says,
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Hey, where's the bananas,
and we're known for bananas,
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because everybody
likes nice bananas.
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And I said, "Oh, we don't
have any here with us today."
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And he goes, you know.
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And then he went
on to tell us that,
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that Alan Pauline,
the ones who helped
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with a school project
had put him in school,
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he'd gone through the school.
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And he was now
working for the power company,
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generating the power
for the whole country.
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So it's cool to see that
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full circle there.
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I just see so
many positive effects
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of when these kids go to school.
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So I'm so excited that
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we're going to be able
to even double in one time
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through Child Impact
the amount of children
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that were going
to put in school.
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It was because they could
see the educational impact
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on the community
because the parents
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will come to work.
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And those kids go to
school, and then the people
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who can't get an
education, because they can't,
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obviously we
can't employ everyone.
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If they're going
to school as well,
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more kids are getting impacted,
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and they're going
to secondary school,
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many of them are
going to college.
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And they're
becoming part of that,
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part of the community.
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Now there one of
the big doctors in town
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went to Loma Linda,
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we put him all the
way through, came back.
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And now he runs
the Adventist clinic,
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a big part of running
the Adventist clinic in town.
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And, yeah, my kids,
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that's where we
take them, you know.
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They have a major problem.
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Or if I had, I had got
sick, you're going to someone
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who went to, went to
the school right there.
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So it's cool to see that...
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that impact and that's
from someone who, you know,
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education changed your life.
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Children grow up in the
village with nothing to do.
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And so their
peers start drinking,
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they start drinking,
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and they just live
this useless, listless life.
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And the women will
not desert their children,
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and they will do
whatever they can
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to provide for them.
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And so you can see
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how education is going
to make a big difference.
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Because they'll
have a purpose now.
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They won't be just
hanging out and doing nothing
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and getting
involved and drinking
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and whatever other vices around.
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The education, I
mean, when you have people
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who are
completely without education,
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what hope do they have.
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I mean, they have no
hope outside of, you know,
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either become criminals,
or try to survive on a smaller
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and smaller share of
maize that only grows, you know,
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three out of five years
successfully at any level
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and even that successes,
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they don't know
much about farming,
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they're good farmers
and that they work hard,
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but you know, growing corn,
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or the maize
that they use there,
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I mean, you know,
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you have the ability
to get 12 tons a hectare,
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maybe 13 tons of
hectare, maybe even more.
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And they get on average,
you know, 2 tons a hectare.
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So you have all this potential,
but it's not happening
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some practices.
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So without that, you
look at that, and you say,
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"Oh, you know,
they're not going to make it
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without education."
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We really appreciate that Craig
and Pauline made themselves
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available for our TV program.
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You can see the
confidence they have.
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You can see the
passion that they have
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and for us to
have them on the ground
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involved in our program
is very, very important.
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And I just want to thank
Riverside Farms management,
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I want to thank Craig,
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I want to thank Pauline and Alan
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for what they've done
in getting us established
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on the ground in Zambia,
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and our partnership
with Riverside Farms.
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So there's a number of ways
that you can help us in Zambia.
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First of all, obviously,
you can sponsor a child,
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and for just $25 a month,
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you'll be
sponsoring a day student.
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They come from a nearby village,
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and we give them a
lunch every day, a uniform,
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we supply shoes, and
they get a total education.
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So for just $25 a
month, you can sponsor a child.
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You may just want to
sponsor a child for a year.
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And so you may want to send us
12 months sponsorship at once.
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And we're very,
very happy with that.
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But if you don't
want to sponsor a child,
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we understand that
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and so you could send a donation
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to our unsponsored child fund
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because we always have
children that are unsponsored.
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Or simply give us your prayers
so that we can move forward
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and make a difference.
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