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, India, Nepal,
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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
full of life and culture.
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There are so many great things
that this country has to offer.
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But in the shadow of
India's magnificent buildings
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are many who are suffering.
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Suffering from a lack of
medical care and education
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that lifts them out of poverty.
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Child Impact International
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is directly
involved in sponsorship
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that provides the
means for an education
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to hundreds of children
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and is now expanding
to help those in India
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who are in desperate
need of medical care.
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It all began
with a man who grew up
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in one of Child
Impact's orphanages Elim Home.
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His name is Dr. Swamidas.
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Dr. Swamidas was
a sponsored orphan
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at Elim Home in Hyderabad.
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After being sponsored
and having a full education.
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He then went on to
get his doctor's degree,
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and that was by
working at night and studying
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during the day.
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He is now a fully
accredited doctor in India.
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He dedicates his
time to serving the poor.
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He came from a
very poor background.
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He was an orphan, and
now he runs his ministry,
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serving the poor, poor woman,
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poor children in
the city of Hyderabad.
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The story begins during
the early days of Elim Home,
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an orphanage that
Child Impact supports.
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Ravi, who was the sixth
child start living there
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remembers meeting Dr.
Swamidas for the first time.
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So and he just came he
was very lean and little boy,
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but then we were about, I would
certainly say I was six plus
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and Swamidas we about three
and a half, I said three years.
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Remember, you know, feeding
him because he was too small.
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So yeah, he was like we
were really good friends,
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we are very much
affectionate to each other.
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And that's how I know
I am very much associated
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with Dr. Swamidas
at that small age.
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At just three years
old Swamidas's father died
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from tuberculosis, his mother
was unable to care for him.
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So Swamidas was
taken to Elim Home.
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When I'm in Elim, I
forgot all those sadness
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and I was happy that I
was received very well.
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And everybody
welcome me with a smile.
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And at that time, I thought
that I was in a right place
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where my life would change.
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And change, it did.
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The spirit of helping
others providing for their needs
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shaped young Swamidas's life
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toward one of service to others.
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And while he had the
desire to serve others,
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it wasn't until a certain moment
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when he realized just
how he was going to do that.
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So when I was
in my fourth grade,
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suddenly I got fever so one
of my team took me to hospital
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or a small clinic which is
available at our Elim Home.
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So seeing the doctor,
the way she approached me
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or the way she talk to me
and the way she treated me,
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that time I fixed my
life, this is a good job
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so that I could serve the people
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who are suffering or who
are in need or even in pain.
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So that's where the doctor
which the way doctor talk to me
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impressed me and put
me a thought in my mind
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that I should do
or become a doctor.
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After leaving Elim
Home, Ravi and Swamidas
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lost touch with one
another for many years.
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Ravi was working for Child
Impact as a Project Manager
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and then a Field Officer.
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While Swamidas was going
to school to become a doctor.
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One day they
ran into each other.
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And then I
started talking to him
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and, you know, I started
asking what exactly he's doing.
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Then he said, like, because
I know him from childhood.
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And then I suddenly
like my memories went back
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when we were kids, and
then I could understand
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that he has his aim.
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I think his goal has become,
his dream has become true.
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His dream has become true.
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And I was so
happy when I started,
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you know, seeing his services,
I was very much impressed.
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And immediately, I told him like
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I have a desire
to work with you.
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And then he said I would be...
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And he said, "Brother
Ravi, I would be very happy
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to have you as an
elder brother to support me
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in the service that he's doing."
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So he left his job and joined me
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doing the
services, helping me out.
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His help is a
great blessing to me.
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Without his help, I cannot...
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Sometimes run because if I
have to go with the patient,
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I have to close
down the hospital
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and take him to the hospital.
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So that need is not with me.
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Ravi used to take the
patient is to follow the patient
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after the discharge
also, and is to be a mediator
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between the
doctor and the patient
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because this rural
patient cannot understand
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the doctor's language.
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So his need is a
great help to me.
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So it will be easy for
me to handle the cases.
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So that is how his help was
are very much in need of time.
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The need that they
are meeting is great.
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Every kind of need is brought
to Dr. Swamidas's clinic.
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Lot of people flow
to my clinic every day,
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mostly the older people,
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the older as
well as the children.
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So most of the cases,
I see from one month baby
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till 60 years old because
I'm an emergency physician.
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So I could handle any
case like in these situations.
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So I could give
them the first aid
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which is necessary for them.
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So a lot of children's, I'd say,
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because they don't have
proper food or balanced diet.
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So I mean to say balance
diet because a lot of them,
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in their diet they lack
some proteins or some vitamins,
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and then due to
that they fall ill.
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So they come and then I
explained to their parents
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like this is how
you need to feed them.
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Or this is how
you need to grow them
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or take care of their health.
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So this is...
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A lot of cases of children
as well as older people.
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When I see the older
people, I'll feel sorry for them
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because if they have sons also,
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they won't take
care of them properly.
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So they come with
the stick, just walking,
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and nobody to
care for their pain.
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So I feel happy when I see them.
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And the next day,
when they get relieved,
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they have a smile on their
face, saying the thank you.
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So that gives me a lot
of satisfaction for me.
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But not everyone is
able to make the trip
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to Dr. Swamidas clinic.
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Some of the patients,
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they cannot come
to me every time.
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So they need a regular
dressing or regular attention
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for their illness.
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So I'll visit their
houses, take care of them
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and do the dressing
if somebody is injured,
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or somebody if they
have met with a snake bite,
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I have to go for the dressing,
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defreeze their leg or the wound
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and clean it thoroughly
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and put a proper dressing.
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So every time they cannot
bring me that patient to me
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because it's a lot
of expense for them
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for travel as well as no...
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If nobody is
along with the patient,
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she alone cannot come
out or he cannot come to me.
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So it's better for me to go
to them than they come into me.
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The work that Dr. Swamidas
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and Ravi are
doing is very important.
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For the people in rural areas,
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medical help is
almost impossible to find.
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But Dr. Swamidas's
passion to help people
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goes beyond
healing them physically.
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Sometimes I go
through easy way to look
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where it is return
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that health and healing
is one of the main ministry
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because our ancestors
are some of the prophets,
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they mainly are missionaries.
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Wherever they are,
they established two things.
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One is church, one is hospital,
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and one is education.
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So these three things.
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So equally, these
three are very important
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in a Christian spirituality.
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So I selected health ministry
where I could treat them
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and tell them
about the love of Jesus,
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how God Jesus
also healed so many
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because Jesus also healed
so many people came to Jesus
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not to hear Him,
but to get healed.
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So this is how which
has a lot of impact on me
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and this is the
thing I chose to do.
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All the amazing work
that Dr. Swamidas is doing
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can be traced
back to sponsorship.
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Like being a sponsored
child which always gives us
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a pleasure to help
someone when we grew up.
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So that is how it has
brought a great impact on me
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because if that
sponsorship was not there,
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or they would
have not helped me,
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I would have been
somewhere in the fields working
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so that is how the
sponsorship had changed,
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really changed my life.
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As sponsors, the
difference you make
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is not in just
one person's life,
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you are empowering a
person who then wants to help
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and empower those around them.
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What you give is not
just an education or a meal,
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it is a gift that grows
exponentially to bless tens,
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hundreds, even
thousands of lives.
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Child Impact is very excited
that we could help Dr. Swamidas
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with an ambulance and
also help fund a driver
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and its
operations for the next year.
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We are happy now
that we have an ambulance
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sponsored by Child
Impact International
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through a Child
Rescue Operations.
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And we feel it is a
big blessing to have
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that because not
only for us to work with,
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but it is helping a
lot of other people,
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you know, when the need as such,
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you know, emergency cases,
it has been a very big help,
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and we want to thank you...
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We especially thank the team
has come forward that donors,
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the sponsors has come
forward to help us to have this
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so that sometimes
we can make patients
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more comfortable taking
them to higher medical centers,
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or to the hospitals into cities.
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So I want to thank, especially
Child Impact International
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for being coming
forward to help somehow
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to continue this
ministry over here.
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Once again, we want to thank
the Child Impact International
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wholeheartedly.
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Thank you.
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Hi, I'm Jean Boonstra,
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Associate Speaker at
the Voice of Prophecy.
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Now I'm sure that you're
aware of the global problem
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of human trafficking.
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And in places in the
world like India and Nepal,
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for example, this
problem of human trafficking,
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well, it's very real.
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Not long ago, I was in India
and I learned a little bit more
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about what happens in that area.
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Young girls are tricked,
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usually girls who
are disadvantaged,
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maybe from a poor
village or community.
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And they're
tricked into becoming part
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of the sex industry
and into prostitution.
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It's extremely sad.
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And, you know, these young
girls, they're caught in a web
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and a lifestyle that they
don't want to be a part of,
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but once they're in it,
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it's very
difficult to find a way out.
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When we think about the
problem of human trafficking,
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we often think
about these girls,
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but it often
affects young boys as well.
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Young boys in
India, for example,
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they're caught and
they're used for child labor.
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They're put into begging rings,
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and they're often
taken advantage of as well.
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And it's not just these
young girls and boys either,
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this affects infants as well.
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Young babies are left
on the side of the road
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abandoned with no
one to care for them.
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Child Impact International's
Operation Child Rescue
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addresses each of
these three issues.
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They have an answer, a
solution, and an opportunity
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to offer hope and a way
out for these people caught
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in human trafficking.
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At Voice of Prophecy, we
are privileged to partner
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with Child Impact's
Operation Child Rescue
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to help these young girls
that are caught in prostitution,
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the young boys doing
labor at a very young age,
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and these young babies
that simply need a home
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and someone to love them.
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It's our privilege to partner
with Child Impact's Operation
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Child Rescue, and
be part of the solution
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to give that hope.
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Now is this
something that appeals to you
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and would you like
to learn more about
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and be a part of this?
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Well, I encourage
you to get in touch
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with Child Impact
International today.
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They would love
to hear from you.
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