Hello, and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood and I have
my husband Jon with me today.
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Hi, darling. Hello, love.
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How're you
doing? I'm doing great.
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You know, we've got
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a really wonderful
project to share today.
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Oh, yeah. This is
one of our favorites.
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Yep.
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You know, we talk a
lot here at Jesus for Asia
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about what God is doing in
Asia and what needs to be done.
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Yeah.
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And this is one of those things
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where God showed us
that there was a need.
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Yeah.
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And then He enabled
us to be a part of it.
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That's right.
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Part of the
solution I should say.
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That's right, when we
first started Jesus for Asia,
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we were nothing
but Bible workers.
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We did local Bible
worker sponsorship.
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That year after
we started, Israel,
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our JFA director in India
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had a heart for the
children in the villages
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that he was seeing that were
of a lot high illiteracy rate,
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high malnourishment
rate, and he was like,
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"We got to do
something for these kids."
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And I'm like, "No, we
can't, we can't diversify,
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we just got to focus."
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And then I went out and prayed
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and the Lord made it very
clear through His Holy Spirit,
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warmed my heart
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and then did
miracles right after that,
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and we started our
first evening school.
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Okay, so we're talking
about the evening schools.
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Yeah.
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All right, we've got
some statistics about India.
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Yeah, this is a big
reason why in statistics,
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in numbers that, you know,
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when you go over
there you see it,
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it's not just statistics.
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But this is the big reason
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why we're doing this
type of ministry in India.
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Okay, so what is the
statistic of malnourished?
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India unfortunately is home to
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almost 200 million
undernourished people.
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Okay, so that's
not just children.
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That's the whole
population. Right.
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That's a lot of
people. That's a lot of people.
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That's a huge amount of people.
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200 million,
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that's two-thirds of the
United States' population.
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So another statistic is that
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over 7,000 people
die every day in India.
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Yeah.
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From
malnutrition and starvation.
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That's correct.
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And in all the, the whole world
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one third of the entire
world's hungry live in India.
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Wow.
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So India is home to
one-third of the world's
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undernourished people.
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Wow.
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That's a lot of people.
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That's a lot of people,
that's endemic, it's a...
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Doesn't need to happen.
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It's overwhelming
in some, you know,
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just hearing the
numbers it's overwhelming.
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Yeah.
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About one person at a
time we can make a difference.
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And that's the
challenge that we face
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that I faced on
a personal level,
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it's like why even
begin, why even start.
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There's no way that I
as just one person could,
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could change
those kind of numbers,
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200 million
people, there's no way.
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And so I'm like why even try?
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Why start?
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What kind of impact
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you gonna have on
those kind of numbers?
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It's impossible but
then the Lord reminded me,
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you know, what about the one.
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Yeah.
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You know, if you
change the life of one.
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You know, Christ was
willing to come to this earth
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and live 33 years
in pain and misery
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and die for one soul, for me.
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Then okay, I can, I can
make a difference in one.
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We've got to show some video.
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Okay.
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And I want to start
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because I know we have
a lot more to talk about.
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But I want to
start sharing this video
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because it's an introduction
to these beautiful children
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and I, I would
like our viewers to see.
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This is at a couple
of different locations,
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just kind of our
overview introductory.
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This is an evening
school type of video.
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So you can see that
there's different locations,
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different styles, some
are actually in the town.
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That first one that you saw
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was on the edge
of town right on...
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kind in and of the
edge of a big open field
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so it's a beautiful location.
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That school was moved
there when one of the churches
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where we were having the school,
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the roof got so
bad that it was leaking
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and they were afraid
it's going to fall in.
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So even the people
weren't having church there,
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they would have
church in the courtyard,
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and so we instead of
just shutting it down,
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we moved it not the people
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because it's
like 45 minute drive.
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So we just moved the finances,
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the support to another place,
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another church
their in Barathy Nagar.
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But then when we
reopened and in the next show
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we'll talk about the
reopening of that one,
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reopened the original
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the people up
here at Barathy Nagar,
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they're like "Please
don't take away our school."
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Yeah.
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So some amazing
people came forward
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and with much
patience and perseverance
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provided the funds
to reopen the second
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and so instead of,
instead of shifting it back
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we now have one in each location
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Right, that's really exciting.
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And you know our
viewers probably noticed
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that both of those are churches.
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And we do them in churches a lot
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because of the fact
that it's an outreach tool
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and it's a blessing
to the community around,
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and it causes the
church to be a gathering place.
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Right, the church body
gets involved with that also...
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Right.
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And so they're providing
a service to the community
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and it really
takes down some barriers.
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Yeah.
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We've seen that
over and over again.
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Yeah.
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The next thing we
want to talk about
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is the actual study that goes on
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because these are schools.
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Yes.
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But they're not
traditional schools
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where we give out assignments
and the teachers do lecturing.
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This is the kind of school
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where they're
tutored in the class work
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that they receive at
the government school.
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Right.
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This is like extra
help, encouragement
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and somebody to go over
their homework with them.
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A lot of these
kids what we found out,
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there's a lot of
these kids even though
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they go to the school
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that the free
school that's provided,
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they're not learning.
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Right, and some of that's
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because there's too
many kids in the classroom.
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Some of it's
because the teachers
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aren't paid enough to care.
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Some of it's because
they're outcast children.
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The teachers are
of different caste
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and so there
with the caste system
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even though it's been outlawed,
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it still affects a lot of things
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that happen in India.
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Right, so these kids get ignored
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and they're not learning.
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Right.
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And so we provide this
extra school in the evening
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where they can really learn
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and they can get the individual
attention that they need.
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Right.
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You know, 12 out of the 60 kids
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that came to our
first evening school
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when we opened it
could read and write 12.
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Yeah, that means like almost
50 of them could not read.
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Right.
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And Tamil is not
an easy language.
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He got that right, my goodness.
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It's over 288 characters
or at least 288 characters,
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we've been told
several different numbers
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but that's the smallest one.
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And they're alphabet.
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Providing the studies
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is a very important thing to do.
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Right, and we want to show
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a little video of them studying.
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Yep. Does this
one have narration?
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No narration,
it's just a collage
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so you can kind of watch
and see how they do this.
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Okay, here we go.
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The studies are really important
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because a lot of these kids
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are not able to
change what their fate is.
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In other words, what they are
destined to do in their lives,
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because of their
caste, because of their,
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you know, who they were born to
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and what
privileges that affords them.
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The religion and
tradition teaches that
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if they're born to a
certain type of family
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then they cannot change
what they do for a living.
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In other words, their
caste is tied to their career.
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If they're born
in a certain caste,
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they have caste
that sweep the floor.
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They have cast
that take out the waste.
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They have different caste
doing the different things.
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Some of them catch snakes.
You know, that's that caste.
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That's what they do.
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So the three
things that they need
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to better their lives.
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Number one is
they need nutrition
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so they can survive and
grow, and learn and retain.
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Number two is they
need training, learning.
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Number three is they need,
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they need
delivery from that idea
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of this is all you can be.
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You know, they need,
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they need value
added into their lives.
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And so that's what I
believe the school does,
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it hits all three of those.
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Right, and which is it
makes such a huge difference.
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And we've heard so many
stories from the schools
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about kids whose
lives, you know, were changed,
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families whose
lives were changed
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because of the schools.
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Yeah.
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So next, we get to see
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what happens
during the worship time.
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Yeah.
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They have a singing time
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which is when the
song that we just heard
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was during the singing time,
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and they learn memory
verses from the Bible,
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and they hear stories
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from the Bible
character building stories,
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moral stories because there is,
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in the Hindu religion
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the Gods have all sorts of
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interesting character traits
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and they're very
selfish many times,
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and so the
attributes of the Gods
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that are there in
Hinduism are not positive,
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not things we
want these children to
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replicate in their lives.
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That's correct.
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So this encourages
them to choose a better way.
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Right.
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For instance one
story is you've seen the God
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with the elephant head.
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Well, the story there is that
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the wife of the
creator God wanted a son
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so she got all the
dirt off of her body
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and formed a little statue
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and then out of
that statue came her son.
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Well, one day she
want to go take a bath
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so she told her son to
stay in this one location,
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I'm going to go bathe
and nobody should see me.
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So she went and took a bath
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and while she was
bathing her husband,
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the creator God came
along and the son said,
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"You can't go there."
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He said, "What do you
mean I can't go there?"
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"No, she's bathing,
you can't go there."
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The father got very angry,
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took out his sword and
cut off the son's head.
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So the mother, the wife,
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the mother and wife
comes back and says,
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"Oh, you killed my
son, make him alive again."
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And so he said,
"We'll go into the forest
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and whatever head you find,
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grab that one and bring it back,
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and she went in the
forest found an elephant,
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brought the head back
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and that's how we have that son,
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and so you can see
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the father got
angry, cut off his head.
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In vengeance... Vengeance.
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Yeah.
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So it's like human traits human
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and you see this in
Greek mythology as well.
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Same type of idea
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that the gods have the
same kind of tendencies
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and human reactions
that we do and so...
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So we want these
kids to see a better way.
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Right, and the religion
is taught through stories.
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Right.
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And so bringing
these stories in,
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they start to see, yeah,
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different ways we don't
have to obey our passions
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that there's a better way.
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Correct.
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And the fact that there
is a God that is loving,
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that is not
vengeful, that is not angry,
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that wants good things,
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and provides good
things for his children.
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Right, right.
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And then they learn all of this,
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they hear all of
this, and then once a week
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they get to have what
we call a talent night.
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Yeah, Friday night
instead of doing regular studies
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because it's
after sundown, right?
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Right.
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They get up and...
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And they share
their memory verses
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and they sing songs.
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And so that's the
next video we have.
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Yeah.
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We have a bunch of
little clips of the children
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during talent night.
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Yep. Here we go.
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The kids over there
like action songs too.
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Yes, just like
they do it here. Right.
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And they're so beautiful
and it's so neat to see them,
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the little ones
and the bigger ones
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as they grow...
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Yeah. Doing, sharing that way.
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And those, those seeds
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that are planted
in the scripture,
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you never know when
they're going to sprout.
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Right.
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And you know
we've been told that
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it makes a big
difference to the families
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because the
parents are like what?
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My child gets to get up
and say something up in front,
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you know, that's unthinkable
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for that lower
caste or the outcast,
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and so it's been a blessing to,
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to give them an opportunity
to have a part in something.
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Yes, absolutely, I love it.
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I used to have sports cars.
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Now we have evening
schools and they're better.
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That's why this is one
of our favorite programs
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because of the children,
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they're so beautiful,
and they're so energetic.
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You say it about
all the programs, honey.
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Every program is
your favorite program.
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I know but the kids'
smiles and I don't know,
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they're just,
it's just so special.
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Yeah.
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And I have to hold back tears
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just seeing
their beautiful faces
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and their energy and their joy,
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and when we're there
it's just so, so amazing.
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Yeah.
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So someday I hope some of
our viewers can go with us.
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Yeah, that will be
good. That will be good.
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For our next clip
we're going to share
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about the eating part
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that we talked
about a little bit,
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the nutrition,
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and nutrition is
very important...
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Yeah.
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Because for many of these kids,
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it's their
second meal of the day.
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Yeah, and a lot of them
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don't get
vegetables with their meal.
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Lot of times it's rice with...
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In fact in the next episode
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we're going to go to one
of our children's homes...
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Are you going to...
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Are you going to do
a spoiler right now?
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Yeah, I guess I did.
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Okay, go ahead.
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And all she had was rice
and onions, little onions.
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And so our evening schools
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we have vegetables
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and different
kinds of vegetables,
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and so they get the nutrition
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that they wouldn't normally get.
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More variety.
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Yeah, and you can tell
the difference with the kids
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that are able to get
this meal and that don't.
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You can see it in
their skin and their hair,
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it makes a difference.
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Okay.
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They're so precious.
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Why does it make me so
happy to see kids eating?
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Maybe because it
makes them smile.
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Yeah.
00:19:32.37\00:19:33.40
It makes them happy, it
makes their parents happy.
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Yeah, that's precious.
00:19:35.64\00:19:36.67
And I think it
makes God happy too.
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Absolutely.
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That why he's having us do this.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I just wanted to point
out that sometimes we...
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The really poor or
elderly ladies are,
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you know,
really destitute people
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we allow them to eat there too.
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Yeah.
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So it's not just the kids
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but whoever
really, really needs it.
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Right.
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So you noticed they had to wash
their hands at the beginning
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and then they eat
with their hands...
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Yes.
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Which is normal in all of India.
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And my kids do that
too when we go there.
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And we do too. Yeah.
00:20:05.27\00:20:06.33
Admit it, you eat with
your hands when you're there.
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Okay, yep.
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And then afterward they
have to wash their dish.
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Right.
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And be a part of clean up
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but they're also required
to eat their vegetables.
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When they first started
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the kids weren't
used to eating vegetables
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and so they would
set the vegetables aside
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and try not to eat
them, just eat the sauces
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and, and he said no, no
you have to eat the vegetables
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because it's part of why
we're giving you the food.
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That's right, that's
where the nutrition is.
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Right. Okay, so
what's our next video?
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Well, this is really cool
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because you know even
though we have several schools.
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There's always room for more,
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so what does it look
like to open a school.
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Okay, to the glory of God.
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There we go.
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Anna, please come inside.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise him.
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We are here at
Kathe Swami Palayam,
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it's the village in south
India and there's a church here
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and we have
just opened a church,
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this grand opening
tonight, big celebration,
00:23:02.21\00:23:04.58
wonderful
presentations and talks.
00:23:04.61\00:23:07.92
We had the president of
the North Tamil Conference
00:23:07.95\00:23:10.22
come all the way over here,
00:23:10.25\00:23:11.25
it's about four
hour drive to get here
00:23:11.29\00:23:13.22
just for this opening tonight.
00:23:13.25\00:23:14.62
And the kids are eating.
00:23:14.66\00:23:15.86
They're just getting done
with eating and cleaning up,
00:23:15.89\00:23:18.13
just wanted to
introduce you to the teacher.
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This is Nithi
and she is studying.
00:23:20.63\00:23:24.30
B.Ed., Bachelor of Education.
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Bachelor of Education
in the local university.
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Yeah, in the local
university. Yes. And she is...
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No university. College?
00:23:30.71\00:23:33.38
It's a college. College.
00:23:33.41\00:23:34.61
Okay, and she has been
00:23:34.64\00:23:36.44
a Seventh-day Adventist
church member in this church
00:23:36.48\00:23:39.48
since the day she was born
00:23:39.51\00:23:41.68
so great tradition,
00:23:41.72\00:23:43.55
I've seen her
working with the kids,
00:23:43.59\00:23:44.89
loves the kids,
00:23:44.92\00:23:45.95
the kids respond
to her very orderly,
00:23:45.99\00:23:48.32
and we're really
excited about this school
00:23:48.36\00:23:50.96
being in good hands.
00:23:50.99\00:23:52.06
So thank you so much
00:23:52.09\00:23:53.40
for making this school possible,
00:23:53.43\00:23:55.13
there's a lot of
widows in this village,
00:23:55.16\00:23:57.27
lot of very needy people.
00:23:57.30\00:23:58.50
There's one lady that
00:23:58.53\00:23:59.90
her husband is
completely paralyzed
00:23:59.93\00:24:02.07
and they have two kids
00:24:02.10\00:24:03.61
and she gets like
a 1000 rupees a month
00:24:03.64\00:24:06.21
which is like $15
a month to live on
00:24:06.24\00:24:09.71
so some really
hurting people here,
00:24:09.74\00:24:11.71
so pray for Kathe Swami Palayam.
00:24:11.75\00:24:16.58
Pray for the church
here at Kathe Swami Palayam.
00:24:16.62\00:24:19.09
And thank you for
helping teach these kids.
00:24:19.12\00:24:23.12
Thank you, welcome.
00:24:23.16\00:24:25.13
And God bless.
00:24:25.16\00:24:26.16
They've eaten, they've studied,
00:24:26.19\00:24:27.86
they've enjoyed
the opening ceremony
00:24:27.93\00:24:30.40
and now they're
getting ready to go home,
00:24:30.43\00:24:31.97
they kind of sleepy,
00:24:32.00\00:24:33.07
but they all
wanted to say thank you
00:24:33.10\00:24:35.44
to those that make
this school possible.
00:24:35.47\00:24:37.64
Thank you.
00:24:37.67\00:24:38.71
Thank you. Thank you.
00:24:38.74\00:24:41.31
So it's such a
blessing to have a good teacher
00:24:41.34\00:24:44.01
that's learning
education, you know,
00:24:44.05\00:24:45.78
so she wants to be
a teacher and she is,
00:24:45.81\00:24:48.68
is actually using
her skills already.
00:24:48.72\00:24:51.29
Yeah. And
that's such a blessing.
00:24:51.32\00:24:52.59
Yeah, and a little
sad note in her life,
00:24:52.62\00:24:54.62
about a year ago
her father passed away,
00:24:54.66\00:24:57.89
and so she and her
mother are alone in the world,
00:24:57.93\00:25:00.93
and so pray for
Nithi and her mother
00:25:00.96\00:25:03.83
that they can get through this
00:25:03.87\00:25:05.13
and even spite
of it she's smiling
00:25:05.17\00:25:08.10
and she's encouraging the kids
00:25:08.14\00:25:09.87
and she's, she's
serious about her work so...
00:25:09.90\00:25:13.17
That's really, really...
00:25:13.21\00:25:14.24
Really appreciate her. Yeah.
00:25:14.28\00:25:16.04
The next thing we want
to talk about is the cost
00:25:16.08\00:25:18.45
of actually opening and
running one of these schools.
00:25:18.48\00:25:21.85
So how much does
it cost per child
00:25:21.88\00:25:24.95
to go to one of these schools?
00:25:24.99\00:25:26.32
It costs about $7
per child per month,
00:25:26.35\00:25:29.79
anywhere between 7 to 10
00:25:29.82\00:25:31.66
depending on
whether we can use a church,
00:25:31.69\00:25:33.86
we have to rent a building,
00:25:33.90\00:25:35.00
and who we rented through
and different things like that,
00:25:35.03\00:25:37.90
but 7 to $10
per month, per child
00:25:37.93\00:25:40.84
will provide this opportunity
for a child in India.
00:25:40.87\00:25:44.64
Right, so that's
about a quarter a day.
00:25:44.67\00:25:46.81
That's a big impact.
00:25:46.84\00:25:48.11
I mean that's a lot
of bang for the buck...
00:25:48.14\00:25:49.74
Right.
00:25:49.78\00:25:50.81
To use it. That's true.
00:25:50.85\00:25:51.88
Western colloquialism.
00:25:51.91\00:25:53.31
Yes, and to open the schools.
00:25:55.58\00:25:57.69
How much does it
cost to open a new school?
00:25:57.72\00:25:59.62
Generally it costs between
250 and $600 to open the school
00:25:59.65\00:26:03.53
because and a
lot of that depends
00:26:03.56\00:26:05.23
on whether we can use a church
00:26:05.26\00:26:06.83
or if we have to rent
and how much that rent is.
00:26:06.86\00:26:09.86
A lot of it
depends on, you know,
00:26:09.90\00:26:11.43
how many kids are going to come.
00:26:11.47\00:26:12.80
Do they need to buy plates,
00:26:12.83\00:26:15.27
the school that
we showed tonight
00:26:15.30\00:26:17.11
that Kathe Swami Palayam,
00:26:17.14\00:26:18.91
we were able to cook the food
00:26:18.94\00:26:20.71
in one of the neighbors' houses,
00:26:20.74\00:26:22.04
one the church
member's houses right next door.
00:26:22.08\00:26:24.08
So we didn't
have to buy the stove
00:26:24.11\00:26:25.98
and things like that,
00:26:26.01\00:26:27.25
that was already provided so,
00:26:27.28\00:26:28.95
but sometimes we have
to buy all that plus...
00:26:28.98\00:26:32.09
Sometimes we have
to build a kitchen.
00:26:32.12\00:26:34.26
Right or a toilet
facility or something.
00:26:34.29\00:26:36.93
Yeah.
00:26:36.96\00:26:37.96
And so that's
why it vary so widely
00:26:37.99\00:26:40.10
because a lot of
people would say,
00:26:40.13\00:26:42.33
well that's like $350 difference
00:26:42.36\00:26:45.20
but it's because
in some situations
00:26:45.23\00:26:47.74
we have to do extra.
00:26:47.77\00:26:49.64
Yeah, a lot of times
that cost even more than that
00:26:49.67\00:26:51.77
building a kitchen and a latrine
00:26:51.81\00:26:54.54
then you're talking
probably about a $1000
00:26:54.58\00:26:57.21
for both of those things,
00:26:57.25\00:26:58.31
but these churches just
come just a square building.
00:26:58.35\00:27:01.65
You know no fellowship hall,
00:27:01.68\00:27:04.92
no toilet, no classroom,
00:27:04.95\00:27:08.02
you know, Sabbath
school classroom, nothing.
00:27:08.06\00:27:09.59
It's just a square
building and that's it.
00:27:09.62\00:27:12.33
And so where are they
going to cook the food?
00:27:12.36\00:27:13.96
Right.
00:27:14.00\00:27:15.00
So a lot of these places
00:27:15.03\00:27:16.40
we have to add in
a kitchen, latrine.
00:27:16.43\00:27:19.57
One of our schools that you saw,
00:27:19.60\00:27:21.04
she was in there,
the cook was in there
00:27:21.07\00:27:22.37
praying over the
food that's his house...
00:27:22.40\00:27:24.31
That was in the
earlier video, yeah.
00:27:24.34\00:27:25.84
That just has a little
wall in the back of the church
00:27:25.87\00:27:29.21
where they're supposed
to and that's a latrine
00:27:29.24\00:27:31.78
but there is no
toilet facilities,
00:27:31.81\00:27:33.65
there is no flushing,
it's just the ground there.
00:27:33.68\00:27:36.12
So would love to
build something there
00:27:36.15\00:27:38.25
that's a little
bit more civilized.
00:27:38.29\00:27:40.06
Hygienic.
00:27:40.09\00:27:41.59
Yeah, exactly.
00:27:41.62\00:27:43.69
Well, I would like
to thank our viewers
00:27:43.73\00:27:45.33
for joining us tonight.
00:27:45.36\00:27:46.43
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