Child Impact
International is an organization
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that gives hope
and fosters permanent
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positive change in the
lives of disadvantaged children
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and their communities.
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Countries include Zambia, Kenya,
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India, Nepal, Bangladesh,
Sri Lanka, and Myanmar.
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Child Impact's
investment in the lives
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of more than 3,500 children
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continues to
yield infinite returns.
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Outreach spans from
child rescue operations
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to providing an
education and a home
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for deaf and blind
children, and orphans.
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Above all, Child
Impact's sponsors
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give hope to the
ones who need it the most.
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India is a large country
that is full of potential,
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but that potential is
held back by crippling poverty.
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Asian Aid, which is now
Child Impact International
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started working in India
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to address the very needs there.
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Beginning with
schools and orphanages,
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the work quickly
expanded with God's blessing
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to schools for
the blind and deaf
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and the critical
work of addressing
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human trafficking
through operation child rescue.
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Many of the
children that are trafficked
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are orphans.
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Seeing the great need
that orphans have in India,
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Child Impact began work on
one of their biggest projects
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at that time, Sunrise Home.
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This orphanage is the first
that Child Impact would fund
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and run from
construction to final operation.
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Sunrise Home
faced many challenges
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before it became the
success that it is today.
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Starting from humble beginnings,
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where the need
strained the resources
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to the breaking point,
see how God used Child Impact
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to meet the
needs of Sunrise Home
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and expand it to the
point that it is today.
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Well, I'm here at
Sunrise Home in India,
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and many of you
have been involved
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in the
construction and raising funds
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for this home, which
now has over 120 children.
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Could you imagine
having 120 children?
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Well Raj and Lalitha Varma do
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and they are the
leaders of this home.
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And we're just
so proud of you guys
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and the work that you do
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for the children that
we have at Sunrise Home.
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Sunrise
Children's Home stands today
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as a fully operating
orphanage that provides food,
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shelter and loving
care to over 100 children.
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But it did not start
on this large of a scale.
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Sunrise Home actually started
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after Lalitha and
Varma left the Elim Home.
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They were very
involved with Elim
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and then they were
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living up in the Bobbili area.
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And, you know, they
were experienced really
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in helping orphans and in,
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you know, running the Elim Home.
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And so, we decided
that that would be good
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for them to start a new
one up in the Bobbili area.
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And so that is
how they started it.
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Starting out with
just a one bedroom house
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and three children in
2001, they quickly grew.
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Local people noticed the
love that Raj and Lalitha
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had for the
children in their care
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and began to bring
more children to them.
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Soon, three
children turned to seven
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and then 17, they
were running out of space.
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Government officials,
welfare committee members,
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and pastors also
sent children to them.
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By 2004 in just three years,
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the number of
children had grown to 35
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and by 2006, it
had increased to 60.
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As more children came
the need for increased space,
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pushed the Varmas to
find a new place to rent
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with more room.
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Jim Rennie, the
current CEO of Child Impact
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visited Sunrise Home
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and saw the great
need that they had.
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About 13 years ago
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when I visited
India for the first time
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I was taken by car
to the town of Bobbili,
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which is in the
state of Andhra Pradesh
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in India.
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I was taken to
visit Sunrise Home,
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which was a home with
about 50 or 60 children in it.
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And when I got there, I
was nothing but shocked.
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Here were these
smiling, happy children,
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but they were
crammed into a building
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that would barely
house 20 children.
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And in the evening I
saw them lying on the floor,
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uptight against
each other sleeping.
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And I just had to change things.
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Having seen the need, Jim Rennie
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started work
right away to help them.
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It took a while to find
the right spot for the campus,
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but they succeeded in finding
a beautiful piece of property
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located in a rural area
about 20 minutes from Bobbili.
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Construction soon began
on the 10 acre piece of land.
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Many volunteers
helped with the construction.
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The foundational
mission of Sunrise Home
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can best be shown by
one of the first things
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they did as a
community on that property.
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Many of the children
gave their lives to God
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by being baptized.
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It's a great day
that God had given me
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because from 11 years,
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I struggled a lot to
take care of these children.
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When they're small, I
faced so many problems.
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Now they are grown up.
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So now we can see the
world with lot of pleasures.
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But because of that
reason, I want to divert them
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not to divert to
the worldly pleasures,
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but I want to divert
them what is the Christianity
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and why God came to this earth,
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why He shed the blood for us.
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So, because of that reason,
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I told whatever I
learned in my life
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because my mother, she taught me
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what is
Christianity and she's the one
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who took me to the
church, and she's the one
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taught me whatever she learned.
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So whatever my mother taught me,
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then I want to teach
for these children also.
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Under the supervision
of Jim Rennie and Raj Varma
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progress on
building the new Sunrise Home
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went quickly.
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The buildings were
constructed from 2011 to 2012,
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with the new
home being inaugurated
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on November 4th, 2012.
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The children were so
excited to have more room
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where they could run and play.
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But most importantly,
where they could learn skills
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that would help them
for the rest of their lives.
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The first day I came very sad,
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because I don't
like this hostel,
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but when I entered the hostel,
I see friends and all the,
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all them, they are very happy.
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Then like this I
also get very happy
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and I started studying here,
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and I felt very happy I
came to the Sunrise Home.
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Since its humble
beginnings in a one-room house
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with three children in 2001,
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Sunrise Home has
grown to now support
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over a hundred children.
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Each of these
children have a bright future,
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but not all are so lucky.
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If the children
are in the village,
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they're like vagabonds
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because parents,
both the parents are dead.
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If father dies,
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mother will take
away another man.
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If a mother dies,
father will marry another woman
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and no one is there to
take care of the children
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and they are neglected.
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And they are neglected
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and they are
becoming like vagabonds
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going here and there.
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Most of the time
they'll spend their
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time in going around the trees
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here and there
plucking all the fruits
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and they don't know the manners
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and they don't know how to live.
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And they don't know how to talk.
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They know only the
language what they are learning
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in the...from the parents.
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So after they're
coming from that place,
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after they're coming
here, they're learning
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this local language and
they're learning English,
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they're learning
manners and they're...
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I'm molding their characters.
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And the way of the
living is entirely different
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when they live at their home.
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And now in Sunrise,
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we have the living
is entirely different
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and they are
learning so many things
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after they come here to Sunrise.
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While the need
seems overwhelming,
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every child that is
taken off the streets
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is another life saved.
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And more than that
is another future adult
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like Pintu who grew in Sunrise's
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sister orphanage, Sunshine.
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He now works to help
nurture and empower children.
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Well, music, music is
sign code of Sunshine.
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Every kid who
comes here that amazes me
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is every one of us
love music so passionate.
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And for me, I go one step ahead.
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I know, I just love music.
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I'm so passionate
about music and I have
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taken special
interest in conducting.
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I love conducting and
I love to teach children.
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I have created my talent.
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I have developed my
talent in Spicer College,
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where I had a
choir of 80 children
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and then Laurie
where I used to go
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part-time and help the children.
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Sponsoring children
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does more than
just give them food,
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shelter and an education.
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It empowers them to
effect real positive change
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in their communities.
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Sponsoring a child is
an investment that pays off
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not only in the short
term, but also in the long-term
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and most
importantly, for eternity.
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Child
sponsorship has many facets.
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We might sponsor
a child in a school,
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but that's not all
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because what if the
school has some needs?
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What if they need a
laboratory that needs upgrading?
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What if they need
the teaching aids,
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they need upgrading.
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So we also go in and
look at the facilities,
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the environment, the
teaching qualifications,
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and we want to build
capacity, so that by doing that
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our children benefit
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and all of the children benefit.
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So we are
benefiting many more children.
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Our investments are
benefiting many more people.
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It's a multiplying
effect because we look at
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how we can better influence
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the whole
community in the school.
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So we ensure better education
for our sponsored children
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and everyone else, too.
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Child Impact plans
to expand Sunrise Home,
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to work with
Operation Child Rescue,
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to provide a home for
children who make their living
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at the railroad stations
and are begging on the streets.
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They will be
able to do this soon
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since they are
licensed by the government
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and are able to work
with local authorities.
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If it wasn't for dedicated
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self-sacrificing
people like the Varmas
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and all the faithful
sponsors of Child Impact,
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places like Sunrise
Home would not exist.
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It has come so far
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from when it was
just a one bedroom house
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with three children
to now being the home
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to over a hundred
children and many buildings.
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I love going to
Sunrise orphanage.
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It really delights
my soul to go there.
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I was involved with
Sunrise from day one.
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And now when you
walk through the gate,
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you see happy children,
you see healthy children.
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And not only
that, they love Jesus.
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They're singing
hymns, they're praying.
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They're involved with
the community and outreach.
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And that's the
difference about Sunrise.
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There are other orphanages
that care for the orphans.
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There are other orphanages
that make a difference,
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but our children have
an added spark to them
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that they love
Jesus, they're singing songs
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and that they're
involved in outreach
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in their own simple way
to children in the community.
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It's just so exciting.
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Each one of
these lives is sacred
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and has a purpose.
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As sponsors and donors
you enable these children
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to develop into
their full potential.
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Thank you for your
sacrificial investment.
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It means so much.
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Sponsoring
children in activities like
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these mission
schools and opportunities
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is a tremendous way to help form
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the character of young people.
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As they look to the
future, they will never forget
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their association in
a Christian environment.
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And by God's grace,
many of them will become
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members of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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It is absolutely
a powerful witness
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to sponsor a
child in Child Impact
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and so many other
organizations that help
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young people to find Jesus.
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Sponsoring a child,
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not only has short term effects,
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but it has a long-term effect.
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Sponsoring a child is
investing in the character
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of a young person for eternity
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that we're
taping this right here
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in Myanmar at the Myanmar
Union Adventist Seminary.
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And about one
third of the students
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or one quarter of the students
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are being
sponsored by Child Impact.
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People who become
workers in God's church,
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people who make an
impact in the community
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have been people
who have been sponsored.
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Your sponsorship is
absolutely an investment
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in the future of the church.
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