Hi, I'm Hilary Macias
with the Maranatha Minute.
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While Brazil is
more commonly known
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as the country
of lush rain forests
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and the Amazon River,
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there are regions
that are simply a desert.
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Droughts are common
and water is scarce.
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This means that
clean drinking water
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is even more
difficult to come by.
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People spend much time
and energy collecting water.
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In some cases,
the water is not clean
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and can make people sick.
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Last year Maranatha launched
a water program in Brazil,
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drilling wells in
dry states like Paraiba,
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thanks to the donations
of generous supporters.
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Crews have drilled
34 wells on properties
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where Maranatha
has already constructed
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a church.
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Brazil is one of four countries
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where Maranatha
is drilling wells.
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Teams are also
providing water in India,
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Kenya and Zambia.
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Watch episodes
about our water program
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Agony, agony, agony.
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I agonized at my future.
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For I knew no more
than a potential mother,
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merely at the age of nine.
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I wondered what a
future it will be for me.
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As I grew up, I
looked at my mom,
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an example of the
future that awaited me,
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merely at the age of nine.
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She always toiled
under the hot beating sun
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and in the strong biting cold,
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looking for the
black little gold
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just to earn money for the day.
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Oh, what a painful future.
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I looked at myself
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and wondered
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what a potential
mother I would make
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merely at the age of nine.
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No! I had to escape.
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The journey took long.
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I was walking on foot.
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I started walking at 12 pm
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after 9 at night.
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The rain was flooding all over.
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The rivers, I pass
through, they almost...
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Some water is here,
another one is here.
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And at that
time I was too short,
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not the way I am now.
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I met wild animal there,
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but God is able.
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They have not hurt me.
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I have just passed through them.
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This is Aliza Tianina.
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When she was six years
old, Aliza ran away from home.
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For her she
says that it was good
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that it was raining
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because, you
know, when it's raining,
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everybody's asleep.
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Nobody will think of going out,
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nobody will think
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of someone can run out, you see.
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But when we
arrived, she arrived,
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we saw a miracle
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because imagining of someone
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running in the cold,
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passing through some
rivers and go to Karuah.
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It's God that was I can say.
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The decision to leave
home risked Aliza's life
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but as a Maasai girl in Kenya,
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the consequences of staying home
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would have been worse.
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The Maasai culture
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is one of the very old cultures
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within the Kenyan society.
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And for them,
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what they value
most is their cows
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and the boy child.
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So the girl child is
more or less like a property
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to be disposed off as and when,
you know, they're ready for.
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As Maasai,
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you have to take
care of the cattle.
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You have to give
birth like a chicken,
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you cannot count.
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No, you cannot stay
like the way you do.
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You stay like your
child must be created
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to give birth to another.
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Just give birth
until the end of your life.
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And so these
girls are married off
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at very early age
in exchange of cows.
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So by the time a
girl is being taken off,
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the cows have
already been delivered
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and that is something valued
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both by their
fathers and even the mothers.
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And before that is
done, they go through the FGM.
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FGM or female genital mutilation
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is a painful
and dangerous ritual
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Maasai girls must undergo
to be prepared for marriage.
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It comes with the
risk of infection,
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urination problems,
severe bleeding and even death.
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FGM is illegal in Kenya,
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but continues to
be a common practice
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among the Maasai
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who usually
live in remote areas.
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In Maasai community
when a girl is born,
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she's just seen to be
like a source of wealth,
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a source of
income for the family
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because once
you're born as a girl,
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by the time you grow up
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at the age of seven,
eight, you go through FGM,
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that tells you that now
you have become a woman,
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you need to be responsible.
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At that point,
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they even start
communicating to you,
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"You're not supposed
to be the same compound
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with your mother,
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you are now a grown-up person,
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you need to go and
start your family."
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So as early as nine.
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It is a traumatizing experience
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because some of them
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go through very
difficult situations.
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There are those who after FGM,
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they are not
given even time to heal
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and because these fathers
are eager to get their wealth,
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to get their
animals, and these other men,
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they just want...
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They don't care, they
just want to have women.
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With that
imagination or that culture
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and that believe
in their community
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that once you have gone
against the will of your father,
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you're cursed.
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So they are those
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who still live
with that fear that,
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"Okay, I'm here, but I know,
I've gotten myself curses."
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After some time,
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I heard that my
granddad wanted to curse me
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because of running
away and not to get married.
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But I wasn't even
thinking about cursing.
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I was just
thinking about my education.
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Also, my dad did the same.
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He told her that
he want to get life,
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come back,
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and go to your husband's
home, or unless I'll curse you.
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Most of the time you find that
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automatically the
relationship is broken
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because if it is well-known
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that you need to
obey your father,
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you need to obey your mother,
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the moment you have
gone against their will
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that you are to
get married to this man
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and you want to
get this number of cows
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to get the family moving
and you went against that,
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of course, you
become like an enemy
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to this community
and to the family.
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When my dad first
heard that I have ran away,
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he just wanted to kill my mom.
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Same to my uncle,
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first it was my
uncle that beat mom,
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because he's telling
her that she's the one
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who have showed
me the way to go.
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My mom was not aware.
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Nobody knew
that I could run away
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because I was obedient.
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I was not showing
them that I want to go.
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No, I was just quiet...
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My dad hit her because of me,
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and my mom was
not aware of that,
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I can run away.
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So many people wanted
me to die at that age,
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but I trusted in God.
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And I know God is everything.
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Aliza is now 15 years old
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and has lived
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at the Kajiado Adventist
School and Rescue Center
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for the past nine years
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as she receives a
Christian education.
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It is her home now
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along with 160
other girls and 45 boys
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who helped the girls
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develop healthy
relationships with males.
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Girls must sleep
two to a mattress
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because there
isn't enough space.
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The toilets are
holes in the ground
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and students must
bathe in outdoor stalls
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with a bucket.
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The conditions aren't ideal
but for many of these girls,
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they cannot return home.
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The decision to
run away from FGM
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and child marriage
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means they are not welcome
in their village anymore.
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The first time I went
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I had stayed
here like five years
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without seeing my brothers,
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without seeing anybody, no home.
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And I have to go there...
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And everybody
was happy to see me.
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Everybody was proud of me.
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But it was dad that,
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my dad just came
out of the house.
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And that's it.
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And he wanted to beat me
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while I'm holding
my little brother.
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But everybody was crying,
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"Please don't beat
her, let her stay with us,
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we have missed her a lot."
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For most of the girls
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at the Kajiado Adventist
School and Rescue Center,
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the connection to
their childhood home
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has disappeared.
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They must learn to
live without their family.
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The Kajiado Center
becomes the girl's new home
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and Principal Sarah
Daniel becomes a mother figure.
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Sarah is just amazing.
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I mean, when you meet
her, you interact with her,
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you know that here is a lady
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who's passionate
of what she's doing.
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She actually
cares for the girls.
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She is, you know, hardworking.
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She's always on the go,
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you know, she
cares for the girls
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because you can see the
girls actually love her a lot.
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It is not artificial.
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It's not something
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because volunteers
are here or I'm there
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or somebody from the conferences
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has come that she does this.
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She actually does
this day in and day out.
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And she's very
charismatic, you know?
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She is full of energy
and she wants a better life
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for these girls, you know?
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And when we go...
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As you see her
she actually goes out
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and sees it there are
girls that have been married off
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or, you know, are
going through FGM,
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and she actually goes there
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and rescues them
and brings them back.
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You can see her heart
really feels for these girls.
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She was like a mom to us,
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you know, when we go to Kajiado,
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that's home and
people there are our sisters,
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our brothers, and
our moms, and our dads.
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So Madam Sarah was
just a cool mother.
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Though the Kajiado
students become family,
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Sarah knows that deep down
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children still
want to be accepted
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by their birth family.
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From time to time,
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she attempts to
facilitate a reconciliation
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for certain girls if
the family is agreeable.
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And let me tell
you for these girls,
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when they get that opportunity
to see that their father
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can even just tuck their heads
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because that is
their sign of greetings,
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you could not imagine
the happiness they do have.
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Even if someone who will feel,
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"I'm not still safe to be here
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but at least my
father has shown me
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that I can still continue
to be called his daughter."
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When we come back,
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Aliza returns to the
village she once ran away from.
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Anyone can build a church,
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simply give just $10 each month
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and your donation along
with thousands of others
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will fund a new place of worship
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every month.
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The potential for
change is all around you.
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All you have to do is look.
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Aliza's first visit back to
her village did not go well.
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Since then, Aliza has
tried to keep the relationship
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with her father
alive by visiting again.
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As her father
observes the knowledge
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she is gaining in school,
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he realizes the
value of her education.
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A recent visit showed
that her father has experienced
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a complete change of
heart and he's proud of Aliza.
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While filming in
Aliza's old village,
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the Maranatha
Mission Stories crew
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received word that a young girl,
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a cousin of Aliza
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had been brought to this village
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to undergo FGM.
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She was crying and distraught.
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While we were there,
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Sarah came to know
about this child that was...
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She's only nine
years old, I think,
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and she was sent to her
grandmother's house for FGM
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and Sarah was
asking around that,
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"Why are you not in school?
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Why are you not in school?"
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And I learned she
cannot communicate.
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So I thought she has
never gone to school.
00:15:09.90\00:15:13.34
So after I
followed up, I've realized,
00:15:13.38\00:15:15.44
booking has already been done.
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So she was waiting for FGM
so that she can get married of.
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This girl is here for FGM
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and she's already
been given off for marriage
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and then, you
know, Sarah just, bang,
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went in and said,
00:15:28.19\00:15:29.52
"I'm taking this
girl back with me."
00:15:29.56\00:15:31.73
But when I talked, she told me,
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yes, she's
willing to go to school,
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but nobody is ready
to take her to school.
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Yeah.
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So I've told I
would go with her.
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So it's good we
came on a school day,
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we're able to identify.
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After consulting
with Aliza's father,
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the village elder,
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it was agreed that
Sarah would take the girl
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named Malaton back
to the Kajaido Center.
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Aliza's father also asked
that they take his young son,
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Aliza's brother,
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as they couldn't
afford to send him to school.
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Though the center's
capacity to take more children
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is stretched to its limits,
00:16:05.79\00:16:07.13
Sarah agreed to
take the boy named Edgar.
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The village
sent the children off
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with a song
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and the two begin a
journey into a new life.
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I was so, so, so happy.
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So happy.
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In fact, that time I saw them
coming to get inside that car
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going to
education, I felt tears of,
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just like water.
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I was even just like
that, just really crying.
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The crew drove back to Kajaido
with Aliza's brother Edgar
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and cousin Malaton,
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family, she never
expected to live with again.
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The children began the
school's intake process
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and transitioning to
life at the Kajiado Center.
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The first thing
that we need to do
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with this girl comes in
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when you go to wash,
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you need some clothes to change.
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Maybe there is a girl
who has two or three dresses
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that you can borrow,
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but you can't
borrow the inner wears.
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So all the time,
I have to make sure
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that I should be able to get
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like the inner
clothes for this girl
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to be able to put on.
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Then at that time,
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there's also other
essentials like soap, a basin...
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And sometimes they come
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when we are not able to do that.
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But we have to
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even if I have
to go out and borrow
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because this person
is just looking at me
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as the hope at that point.
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We also take time,
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visit the
children office department
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because they also need
to get us some document
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for us to file
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and to ensure
nobody can threaten us
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of stealing their children
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because the children
office is also aware.
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The other thing we
now want to take them
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for medical checkup,
which is also a bit expensive.
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When we got to the
hospital, they would not say,
00:17:59.24\00:18:00.98
"Oh, this one is a
rescue. It's free."
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We have to pay
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what the other
people are paying.
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Some of them
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because they have
never gone to school,
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they are not even
able to communicate
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in another language
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apart from their local language.
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And that is why
we normally need that
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like we have this,
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we have some
women who are volunteers
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who also come in
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and even our other guys
who have gone through this,
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they're also able
to help us understand.
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Personally, I do
speak the simple ones.
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We can
communicate in a simple way,
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but let me say that
these children are genius,
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for me, that's
what I can call them.
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Because you'll realize
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once they interact with the rest
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even within a month or two,
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they can speak the simple words.
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They can
communicate with others.
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Malaton and Edgar went
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through the
school's intake process
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seeing places and things
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they had never
experienced before.
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That evening
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they were
unpacking new belongings
00:19:00.70\00:19:02.30
into a new home
cramped though it is.
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That morning,
00:19:04.41\00:19:05.74
the girl's life was just normal,
00:19:05.77\00:19:07.18
you know, get up, milk the cows,
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clean the place,
00:19:09.91\00:19:11.25
just a day to day life
that these girls having.
00:19:11.28\00:19:14.08
By afternoon, bang.
00:19:14.12\00:19:15.68
They had their life
had been transformed.
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It is complete U-turn
00:19:17.35\00:19:18.69
where they now
have a better future,
00:19:18.72\00:19:20.06
they have shot at life.
00:19:20.09\00:19:21.42
And who knows, they
could become lawyers
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or doctors or engineers
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and it is so
heartening to see that happening
00:19:24.19\00:19:26.09
in front of your eyes, you know?
00:19:26.13\00:19:27.46
Here you are seeing
them with torn clothes
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and nose leaking and dirty,
00:19:29.50\00:19:30.97
and by evening
00:19:31.00\00:19:32.33
they were so
smartly dressed and so...
00:19:32.37\00:19:34.14
You could not recognize them.
00:19:34.17\00:19:35.50
And you could not recognize them
00:19:35.54\00:19:36.87
that these are the
same kids that we rescued.
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Though they
experienced dramatic changes
00:19:39.11\00:19:41.51
in just a day's time,
00:19:41.54\00:19:42.88
Malaton and Edgar
smiles show they are happy.
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What is love?
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He loves me.
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As they settled into a new home,
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Sarah was again
confronted with the reality
00:19:51.99\00:19:54.06
that they had no
room to house them
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and beyond the
cramped conditions
00:19:55.99\00:19:57.69
for current students,
00:19:57.73\00:19:59.06
this lack of space
prevents the school
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from proactively
rescuing many more children.
00:20:00.63\00:20:03.77
I have cases of 46
girls who wanted to come in,
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but I don't have
the space, honestly.
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I just give promises
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that just give
me some more time.
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But in case of any
danger, please consult us,
00:20:14.68\00:20:17.95
let us know but we
don't have this place.
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When we get back,
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hear the success
stories of three former students
00:20:22.72\00:20:25.15
and learn what
Maranatha is doing
00:20:25.19\00:20:26.86
to help the Kajiado
School's lack of space.
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This summer head over to
Kenya for a special mission trip
00:20:41.60\00:20:44.67
at the Kajiado Adventist
School and Rescue Center.
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From June 11-23,
00:20:47.54\00:20:49.18
we're looking for volunteers
to help construct classrooms
00:20:49.21\00:20:51.75
on campus.
00:20:51.78\00:20:53.11
The classrooms
will serve students
00:20:53.15\00:20:54.62
entering high school.
00:20:54.65\00:20:56.08
Most of the students are girls
00:20:56.12\00:20:57.65
who have escaped
childhood marriage
00:20:57.69\00:20:59.49
and now live at
the rescue center.
00:20:59.52\00:21:01.56
Volunteers will also
coordinate local outreach
00:21:01.59\00:21:03.96
such as health education
and children's programs.
00:21:03.99\00:21:07.16
Also in June,
00:21:07.20\00:21:08.53
give your children the
experience of a lifetime
00:21:08.56\00:21:10.73
by joining us on our
annual family project.
00:21:10.77\00:21:13.60
From June 17-28,
00:21:13.64\00:21:15.30
we're taking a
team to Arequipa, Peru
00:21:15.34\00:21:17.77
where we'll be
building a new church
00:21:17.81\00:21:19.34
for the Los
Portales congregation.
00:21:19.37\00:21:21.51
We'll also organize
plenty of community outreach,
00:21:21.54\00:21:23.75
including medical
and dental clinics
00:21:23.78\00:21:25.38
and health education.
00:21:25.41\00:21:27.18
Family projects
are specially designed
00:21:27.22\00:21:29.22
for people of all ages,
00:21:29.25\00:21:30.72
and even includes
a day camp program
00:21:30.75\00:21:32.59
for volunteers
under 12 years old.
00:21:32.62\00:21:35.19
Learn more about
these mission trips
00:21:35.22\00:21:36.83
and many others on our
website at maranatha.org.
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Though the conditions
00:21:45.20\00:21:46.53
at the Kajiado Adventist
School and Rescue Center
00:21:46.57\00:21:48.70
are inadequate,
00:21:48.74\00:21:50.07
it is here that students receive
00:21:50.11\00:21:51.44
a solid foundation upon
which to build a future.
00:21:51.47\00:21:54.84
Some girls learn a
skill trade like tailoring,
00:21:54.88\00:21:58.45
others eventually
pursue a college education.
00:21:58.48\00:22:02.05
Josephine Metian Raita
earned a degree in education
00:22:02.08\00:22:05.35
and now teaches at a
local primary school.
00:22:05.39\00:22:09.36
I spent my life
there never going home.
00:22:09.39\00:22:12.43
All of primary, I finished.
00:22:12.46\00:22:14.30
Secondary I went
without even single day
00:22:14.33\00:22:16.77
going back home.
00:22:16.80\00:22:18.37
We've been given
somewhere to sleep,
00:22:18.40\00:22:20.77
you have been
given education and...
00:22:20.80\00:22:24.57
You have been
given, nurtured spiritually
00:22:24.61\00:22:27.74
because we always had
good times during the Saturday,
00:22:27.78\00:22:31.21
we go to church, we worship,
00:22:31.25\00:22:32.91
and we learn a
lot about good things.
00:22:32.95\00:22:37.92
I had that passion long time ago
00:22:37.95\00:22:40.06
because I always admire teachers
00:22:40.09\00:22:42.52
when teaching in class
and nurturing those kids
00:22:42.56\00:22:45.86
because I always
see that it's very,
00:22:45.89\00:22:49.26
I think it's the best profession
00:22:49.30\00:22:50.93
because you bring someone
00:22:50.97\00:22:53.17
from knowing nothing
00:22:53.20\00:22:55.50
to be someone very
useful in the society.
00:22:55.54\00:22:58.21
So long ago when
I'm in primary school,
00:22:58.24\00:23:01.84
I always admired to be a teacher
00:23:01.88\00:23:03.71
at least to make
someone to be like me
00:23:03.75\00:23:06.41
and let someone know
something that never knew.
00:23:06.45\00:23:09.72
Tracy Risancho is
finishing her journalism degree
00:23:09.75\00:23:12.55
at a university in the
capital city of Nairobi
00:23:12.59\00:23:15.06
and credits her
experience at the Kajiado School
00:23:15.09\00:23:17.66
for setting her
on a path to success.
00:23:17.69\00:23:20.06
I really studied hard
00:23:20.10\00:23:21.80
because in my mind I knew
00:23:21.83\00:23:23.37
that coming from such
a poor weird background,
00:23:23.40\00:23:28.07
and I really have to try my best
00:23:28.10\00:23:30.04
so that I can put myself
in a better level tomorrow.
00:23:30.07\00:23:33.24
So I really tried, it
really raised me up so well.
00:23:33.27\00:23:36.85
As I continued,
I was a head girl,
00:23:36.88\00:23:38.88
an assistant head girl,
00:23:38.91\00:23:40.25
and it really helped me,
00:23:40.28\00:23:41.62
the responsibilities
helped me at least to grow,
00:23:41.65\00:23:43.55
know myself,
00:23:43.59\00:23:44.92
know how I should handle others,
00:23:44.95\00:23:46.29
know how I
should talk to people,
00:23:46.32\00:23:47.82
know about how I
can control my thoughts
00:23:47.86\00:23:50.13
when I am with other people,
how I should talk to them.
00:23:50.16\00:23:52.73
Yeah, it's really helped.
00:23:52.76\00:23:55.00
Kajiado really helped me
00:23:55.03\00:23:56.36
because if it wasn't for Kajiado
00:23:56.40\00:23:57.73
maybe I wouldn't be here.
00:23:57.77\00:23:59.10
God is everything
00:23:59.13\00:24:00.47
because God brought me
from the village to Kajiado
00:24:00.50\00:24:04.81
to high school I
have not been failing...
00:24:04.84\00:24:07.48
I've not been a failure.
00:24:07.51\00:24:09.54
I think I'm chosen.
00:24:09.58\00:24:12.31
And I'm the hope for my home
00:24:12.35\00:24:14.78
and the village
and Kajiado, yes.
00:24:14.82\00:24:18.55
Because I believe when
maybe I get money later,
00:24:18.59\00:24:21.56
I will still go back to Kajiado
and help the girls there.
00:24:21.59\00:24:26.16
I know
00:24:26.19\00:24:27.76
I'll be a
successful person one day.
00:24:27.80\00:24:30.23
And really inspired like
I really want to give back.
00:24:30.27\00:24:35.50
When I'm here in
school, I think about that
00:24:35.54\00:24:37.67
and I struggled so much
00:24:37.71\00:24:39.51
like I really
tried to study hard
00:24:39.54\00:24:42.08
so that when I get
at least a good job,
00:24:42.11\00:24:44.08
I can help the center.
00:24:44.11\00:24:45.98
Okay like the school is
maybe a bit congested they know,
00:24:46.01\00:24:49.55
okay, I've been this
some other these back
00:24:49.58\00:24:51.65
and I saw like, kid,
okay, people are so mean...
00:24:51.69\00:24:55.89
So at least when you build
a dormitory that is so nice.
00:24:55.92\00:24:58.96
They're not
going to be congested
00:24:58.99\00:25:00.50
and it's so beautiful.
00:25:00.53\00:25:03.30
And then what happens is that
the girls who have graduated
00:25:03.33\00:25:06.80
and gone to high school
or to college or university,
00:25:06.84\00:25:08.70
they all come back
when there is a vacation,
00:25:08.74\00:25:10.97
you know, when there is a break,
00:25:11.01\00:25:12.34
they have no home.
00:25:12.37\00:25:13.71
Once these girls
leave their homes,
00:25:13.74\00:25:15.08
they run away from
their home or their rescue,
00:25:15.11\00:25:16.58
they have no place to go back.
00:25:16.61\00:25:18.08
So the home is
Kajiado Girls Rescue Center.
00:25:18.11\00:25:20.42
And all of them
come in and that time
00:25:20.45\00:25:21.92
it really, really gets
crowded because, you know,
00:25:21.95\00:25:23.75
you have the girls
who are in high school,
00:25:23.79\00:25:25.12
you have the girls
00:25:25.15\00:25:26.49
who are in
college and university,
00:25:26.52\00:25:27.86
plus the kids who are there.
00:25:27.89\00:25:29.22
And at times,
00:25:29.26\00:25:30.59
it's barely you cannot even move
00:25:30.63\00:25:31.96
in the dorm without
banging or bashing to somebody,
00:25:31.99\00:25:33.33
you know,
because it's so crowded,
00:25:33.36\00:25:34.70
there's so many girls.
00:25:34.73\00:25:36.13
You'd normally always,
00:25:36.16\00:25:37.83
you know, touch
somebody or hit somebody
00:25:37.87\00:25:39.20
because there's no space
00:25:39.23\00:25:40.57
and, you know,
the bathrooms are,
00:25:40.60\00:25:42.64
I mean, bad.
00:25:42.67\00:25:44.27
I mean, there's no bathroom,
you know, there's no showers.
00:25:44.31\00:25:47.44
The showers are all broken down.
00:25:47.48\00:25:48.81
There's no shower,
it's a bucket with scoop
00:25:48.84\00:25:50.18
and, you know, the
conditions are horrible,
00:25:50.21\00:25:51.95
horrible for these girls.
00:25:51.98\00:25:53.82
In 2018,
Maranatha agreed to provide
00:25:53.85\00:25:56.52
the Kajiado School
00:25:56.55\00:25:57.89
with a number of new structures,
00:25:57.92\00:25:59.42
including two new girl's
dorms with showers and toilets,
00:25:59.45\00:26:02.92
a boy's dorm, and an
administrative office.
00:26:02.96\00:26:05.76
Funding is needed
for these new buildings
00:26:05.79\00:26:07.66
that will not only
improve living conditions
00:26:07.70\00:26:09.80
for current students,
00:26:09.83\00:26:11.17
but allow the
center of the space
00:26:11.20\00:26:12.53
to rescue more girls.
00:26:12.57\00:26:15.04
We are so excited.
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We really thank God.
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It's a time that we can say
we have seen God in our life
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and in our institution
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because the work they
are doing in our center
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honestly, it
touches so many lives.
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You know, no kid
should go through this,
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you know, no child
should go through this
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and here is an opportunity
as a volunteer you come
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and help build these dorms,
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these classrooms, these offices,
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to interact with them,
get to know them, guide them,
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help them as donors.
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I mean, you know, if
you build these dorms,
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these classrooms, these,
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whatever is
needed on the campus,
00:26:51.57\00:26:53.51
it will definitely
change their lives.
00:26:53.54\00:26:55.11
Maranatha is
beginning the work of providing
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the Kajiado Adventist
School and Rescue Center
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with adequate facilities,
but we need your help.
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Funding is needed
for these new buildings
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that will not only
improve living conditions
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for current students,
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but allow the
center of the space
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to rescue more girls.
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With your help,
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the Kajiado Adventist
School and Rescue Center
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can be a safe haven
for even more children.
00:27:15.96\00:27:18.80
Give a gift to
support Maranatha's work
00:27:18.83\00:27:21.27
on this campus.
00:27:21.30\00:27:22.64
Your support will
provide these children
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with the
opportunity for a bright future.
00:27:24.91\00:27:27.78
I now feel myself
as a potential doctor
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to improve
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the health
conditions of my people.
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A potential lawyer,
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to advocate for the
girl child's education.
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Give us an opportunity.
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Take charge, work diligently.
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Make a change
for a better future.
00:27:42.36\00:27:44.06
Make a change
for a better future.
00:27:44.09\00:27:45.83
Make a change
for a better future.
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