Hi, I'm Dustin Comm
with the Maranatha Minute.
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This year
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join Maranatha's
annual convention
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straight from your living room.
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On September 19,
watch Mission Maranatha,
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a two-hour
television broadcast event.
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This special will
feature volunteer testimonies,
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reports from the mission field
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and ways that
you can stay involved
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even from home.
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Our annual gathering inspires
and informs all who attend.
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And we know this year's
event will also bless you.
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Watch as we take you
on a trip around the world
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to see stories of how
people have been changed
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by the mission of Maranatha.
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Despite the unique challenges
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presented by the
COVID-19 pandemic,
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God has
continued to use Maranatha
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to spread the gospel.
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So join us for a
celebration of missions
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as we share what
the Lord has done
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around the globe.
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This broadcast special will
air on a variety of networks
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as well as on demand on our app,
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the Maranatha channel.
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And if you didn't catch
our September 19 broadcast,
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go to
maranatha.org/missionmaranatha
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to watch.
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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 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
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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 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,
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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 both by their fathers
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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
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a common
practice 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
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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
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against the will of your father,
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you're cursed.
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So they are those who still live
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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, and go
to your husband's home,
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or unless I'll curse you.
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Most of the time you find
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that 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 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 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 who's passionate
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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 has come
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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
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and she wants a better
life 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 and rescues them
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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
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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 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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Some companies
spend millions of dollars
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to bring you
these sounds and images.
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I made it.
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These sounds and
images are created
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from the dollars
you give to Maranatha.
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Your support of our
well drilling efforts
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is bringing
clean accessible water
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to communities in
Africa, India and Brazil
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because while this
sells soda, this saves lives.
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Aliza's first
visit back to her village
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did not go well.
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Since then,
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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
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the knowledge she
is gaining in school,
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he realizes the
value of her education.
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A recent visit
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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 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
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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?"
00:15:06.70\00:15:08.27
And I learned she
cannot communicate.
00:15:08.30\00:15:09.90
So I thought she has
never gone to school.
00:15:09.94\00:15:13.27
So after I
followed up, I've realized,
00:15:13.31\00:15:15.44
booking has already been done.
00:15:15.48\00:15:17.15
So she was waiting for FGM
so that she can get married of.
00:15:17.18\00:15:22.85
This girl is here for FGM
00:15:22.88\00:15:24.22
and she's already
been given off for marriage
00:15:24.25\00:15:26.76
and then, you
know, Sarah just, bang,
00:15:26.79\00:15:28.22
went in and said,
00:15:28.26\00:15:29.59
"I'm taking this
girl back with me."
00:15:29.62\00:15:31.76
But when I talked, she told me,
00:15:31.79\00:15:33.43
yes, she's
willing to go to school,
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but nobody is ready
to take her to school.
00:15:35.76\00:15:37.93
Yeah.
00:15:37.97\00:15:39.30
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,
00:15:50.41\00:15:51.75
it was agreed that
Sarah would take the girl
00:15:51.78\00:15:53.58
named Malaton back
to the Kajaido Center.
00:15:53.62\00:15:56.55
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.
00:16:00.99\00:16:03.46
Though the center's
capacity to take more children
00:16:03.49\00:16:05.69
is stretched to its limits,
00:16:05.73\00:16:07.06
Sarah agreed to
take the boy named Edgar.
00:16:07.10\00:16:09.93
The village sent the
children off with a song
00:16:09.96\00:16:12.10
and the two begin a
journey into a new life.
00:16:12.13\00:16:14.74
I was so, so, so happy.
00:16:20.51\00:16:22.74
So happy.
00:16:22.78\00:16:24.21
In fact, that time I saw them
coming to get inside that car
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going to education,
00:16:29.72\00:16:31.05
I felt tears
of, just like water.
00:16:31.09\00:16:34.99
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.
00:16:45.83\00:16:48.80
The children began the
school's intake process
00:16:48.84\00:16:51.17
and transitioning to
life at the Kajiado Center.
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The first thing
00:16:55.11\00:16:56.44
that we need to do
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,
00:17:06.09\00:17:07.42
but you can't
borrow the inner wears.
00:17:07.46\00:17:09.12
So all the time,
I have to make sure
00:17:09.16\00:17:11.13
that I should be able to get
00:17:11.16\00:17:13.23
like the inner
clothes for this girl
00:17:13.26\00:17:15.60
to be able to put on.
00:17:15.63\00:17:17.33
Then at that time,
00:17:17.37\00:17:18.70
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.
00:17:24.41\00:17:25.74
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.
00:17:30.95\00:17:33.21
We also take time,
00:17:36.58\00:17:38.19
visit the
children office department
00:17:38.22\00:17:40.92
because they also need to get us
00:17:40.96\00:17:42.66
some document for us to file
00:17:42.69\00:17:45.19
and to ensure
nobody can threaten us
00:17:45.23\00:17:47.76
of stealing their children
00:17:47.80\00:17:50.03
because the children
office is also aware.
00:17:50.07\00:17:52.57
The other thing we
now want to take them
00:17:52.60\00:17:54.04
for medical checkup,
00:17:54.07\00:17:56.14
which is also a bit expensive.
00:17:56.17\00:17:59.21
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
00:18:04.41\00:18:05.75
what the other
people are paying.
00:18:05.78\00:18:08.82
Some of them
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because they have
never gone to school,
00:18:10.22\00:18:12.12
they are not even
able to communicate
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in another language
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apart from their local language.
00:18:15.49\00:18:17.26
And that is why
we normally need that
00:18:17.29\00:18:19.26
like we have this,
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we have some
women who are volunteers
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who also come in
00:18:22.63\00:18:23.97
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,
00:18:33.11\00:18:36.81
but let me say that
these children are genius,
00:18:36.85\00:18:40.02
for me, that's
what I can call them.
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Because you'll realize
00:18:41.95\00:18:43.35
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.
00:18:49.72\00:18:52.86
Malaton and Edgar went
00:18:52.89\00:18:54.26
through the
school's intake process
00:18:54.30\00:18:56.00
seeing places and things
00:18:56.03\00:18:57.47
they had never
experienced before.
00:18:57.50\00:18:59.30
That evening
00:18:59.33\00:19:00.67
they were
unpacking new belongings
00:19:00.70\00:19:02.30
into a new home
cramped though it is.
00:19:02.34\00:19:04.91
That morning, the
girl's life was just normal,
00:19:04.94\00:19:07.18
you know, get up, milk
the cows, clean the place,
00:19:07.21\00:19:10.91
just a day to day life
that these girls having.
00:19:10.95\00:19:14.12
By afternoon, bang.
00:19:14.15\00:19:15.68
They had their life
had been transformed.
00:19:15.72\00:19:17.29
It is complete U-turn
00:19:17.32\00:19:18.65
where they now
have a better future,
00:19:18.69\00:19:20.02
they have shot at life.
00:19:20.06\00:19:21.39
And who knows, they
could become lawyers
00:19:21.42\00:19:22.76
or doctors or engineers
00:19:22.79\00:19:24.13
and it is so
heartening to see that happening
00:19:24.16\00:19:26.03
in front of your eyes, you know?
00:19:26.06\00:19:27.40
Here you are seeing
them with torn clothes
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and nose leaking and dirty,
00:19:29.50\00:19:31.47
and by evening they
were so smartly dressed
00:19:31.50\00:19:33.10
and so...
00:19:33.13\00:19:34.47
You could not recognize them.
00:19:34.50\00:19:35.84
And you could not recognize them
00:19:35.87\00:19:37.21
that these are the
same kids that we rescued.
00:19:37.24\00:19:39.07
Though they
experienced dramatic changes
00:19:39.11\00:19:41.48
in just a day's time,
00:19:41.51\00:19:42.88
Malaton and Edgar
smiles show they are happy.
00:19:42.91\00:19:45.95
What is love?
00:19:45.98\00:19:48.32
He loves me.
00:19:48.35\00:19:50.29
As they settled into a new home,
00:19:50.32\00:19:51.95
Sarah was again
confronted with the reality
00:19:51.99\00:19:54.06
that they had no
room to house them
00:19:54.09\00:19:56.02
and beyond the
cramped conditions
00:19:56.06\00:19:57.69
for current students,
00:19:57.73\00:19:59.06
this lack of space
prevents the school
00:19:59.09\00:20:00.60
from proactively
rescuing many more children.
00:20:00.63\00:20:03.73
I have cases of 46
girls who wanted to come in,
00:20:03.77\00:20:07.17
but I don't have
the space, honestly.
00:20:07.20\00:20:10.01
I just give promises
00:20:10.04\00:20:11.47
that just give
me some more time.
00:20:11.51\00:20:14.64
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.
00:20:17.98\00:20:21.32
When we get back,
00:20:21.35\00:20:22.68
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.
00:20:26.89\00:20:29.56
This year,
Maranatha's virtual convention
00:20:41.67\00:20:43.91
offers three ways to
engage with the mission.
00:20:43.94\00:20:46.91
On September 19,
watch Mission Maranatha,
00:20:46.94\00:20:49.64
a two-hour
television broadcast event.
00:20:49.68\00:20:52.35
This special will
feature volunteer testimonies,
00:20:52.38\00:20:54.68
reports from the mission field,
00:20:54.72\00:20:56.32
and ways that
you can stay involved
00:20:56.35\00:20:57.85
even from home.
00:20:57.89\00:20:59.39
This broadcast special will
air on a variety of networks
00:20:59.42\00:21:02.09
as well as on demand on our app,
00:21:02.12\00:21:04.13
the Maranatha Channel.
00:21:04.16\00:21:05.99
After the television special,
00:21:06.03\00:21:07.56
join a meet and greet on
Zoom with fellow volunteers
00:21:07.60\00:21:11.07
and Maranatha staff
from around the world.
00:21:11.10\00:21:13.74
This online meeting
will allow you to see
00:21:13.77\00:21:15.57
old friends and
talk with our staff
00:21:15.60\00:21:17.64
about various
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00:21:17.67\00:21:20.51
Register at
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00:21:20.54\00:21:24.41
And finally,
make sure to join us
00:21:24.45\00:21:26.01
for a special
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00:21:26.05\00:21:28.88
the day before the broadcast.
00:21:28.92\00:21:30.52
Our experts will
discuss how you can best plan
00:21:30.55\00:21:32.95
for your financial future
00:21:32.99\00:21:34.32
and support
Maranatha at the same time.
00:21:34.36\00:21:36.76
Go to
maranatha.org/missionmaranatha
00:21:36.79\00:21:39.56
to register.
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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\00:21:48.74
are inadequate,
00:21:48.77\00:21:50.11
it is here that students receive
00:21:50.14\00:21:51.47
a solid foundation upon
which to build a future.
00:21:51.51\00:21:54.84
Some girls learn a
skill trade like tailoring,
00:21:54.88\00:21:58.51
others eventually
pursue a college education.
00:21:58.55\00:22:02.02
Josephine Metian Raita
earned a degree in education
00:22:02.05\00:22:05.42
and now teaches at a
local primary school.
00:22:05.45\00:22:09.42
I spent my life
there never going home.
00:22:09.46\00:22:12.46
All of primary, I finished.
00:22:12.49\00:22:14.30
Secondary I went
without even single day
00:22:14.33\00:22:16.80
going back home.
00:22:16.83\00:22:18.37
We've been given
somewhere to sleep,
00:22:18.40\00:22:20.80
you have been
given education and...
00:22:20.84\00:22:24.54
You have been
given, nurtured spiritually
00:22:24.57\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\00:22:48.96
I think it's the best profession
00:22:49.00\00:22:50.97
because you bring
someone from knowing nothing
00:22:51.00\00:22:55.50
to be someone very
useful in the society.
00:22:55.54\00:22:58.24
So long ago when
I'm in primary school,
00:22:58.27\00:23:01.84
I always admired to be a teacher
00:23:01.88\00:23:03.65
at least to make
someone to be like me
00:23:03.68\00:23:06.35
and let someone know
something that never knew.
00:23:06.38\00:23:09.68
Tracy Risancho is
finishing her journalism degree
00:23:09.72\00:23:12.55
at a university in the
capital city of Nairobi
00:23:12.59\00:23:15.09
and credits her
experience at the Kajiado School
00:23:15.12\00:23:17.69
for setting her
on a path to success.
00:23:17.73\00:23:20.03
I really studied hard
00:23:20.06\00:23:21.76
because in my mind I knew
00:23:21.80\00:23:23.37
that coming from such
a poor weird background,
00:23:23.40\00:23:28.10
and I really have to try my best
00:23:28.14\00:23:30.07
so that I can put myself
in a better level tomorrow.
00:23:30.11\00:23:33.17
So I really tried, it
really raised me up so well.
00:23:33.21\00:23:36.85
As I continued,
I was a head girl,
00:23:36.88\00:23:38.81
an assistant head girl,
00:23:38.85\00:23:40.18
and it really helped me,
00:23:40.22\00:23:41.55
the responsibilities
helped me at least to grow,
00:23:41.58\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\00:23:47.89
know about how I
can control my thoughts
00:23:47.92\00:23:50.13
when I am with other people,
00:23:50.16\00:23:51.49
how I should talk to them.
00:23:51.53\00:23:52.86
Yeah, it's really helped.
00:23:52.89\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
00:24:00.50\00:24:03.34
to Kajiado to high school
I have not been failing...
00:24:03.37\00:24:07.54
I've not been a failure.
00:24:07.58\00:24:09.61
I think I'm chosen.
00:24:09.64\00:24:12.28
And I'm the hope for my home
00:24:12.31\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\00:24:26.19
I know I'll be a
successful person one day.
00:24:26.23\00:24:30.27
And really inspired like
I really want to give back.
00:24:30.30\00:24:35.47
When I'm here in
school, I think about that
00:24:35.50\00:24:37.64
and I struggled so much like
I really tried to study hard
00:24:37.67\00:24:42.04
so that when I get
at least a good job,
00:24:42.08\00:24:44.11
I can help the center.
00:24:44.15\00:24:45.95
Okay like the school
00:24:45.98\00:24:47.32
is maybe a bit
congested they know,
00:24:47.35\00:24:49.52
okay, I've been this
some other these back
00:24:49.55\00:24:51.59
and I saw like, kid,
okay, people are so mean...
00:24:51.62\00:24:55.92
So at least when you build
a dormitory that is so nice.
00:24:55.96\00:24:58.99
They're not
going to be congested
00:24:59.03\00:25:00.80
and it's so beautiful.
00:25:00.83\00:25:03.26
And then what happens is that
00:25:03.30\00:25:05.33
the girls who have graduated
00:25:05.37\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\00:25:11.04
you know, when there is a break,
00:25:11.07\00:25:12.41
they have no home.
00:25:12.44\00:25:13.78
Once these girls
leave their homes,
00:25:13.81\00:25:15.14
they run away from
their home or their rescue,
00:25:15.18\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\00:25:20.15
And all of them come in
00:25:20.18\00:25:21.52
and that time it
really, really gets crowded
00:25:21.55\00:25:22.88
because, you know,
00:25:22.92\00:25:24.25
you have the girls
who are in high school,
00:25:24.29\00:25:25.62
you have the girls
00:25:25.65\00:25:26.99
who are in
college and university,
00:25:27.02\00:25:28.36
plus the kids who are there.
00:25:28.39\00:25:29.72
And at times,
00:25:29.76\00:25:31.09
it's barely you cannot even move
00:25:31.13\00:25:32.46
in the dorm without
banging or bashing to somebody,
00:25:32.49\00:25:33.83
you know,
because it's so crowded,
00:25:33.86\00:25:35.20
there's so many girls.
00:25:35.23\00:25:36.56
You'd normally always,
00:25:36.60\00:25:37.93
you know, touch
somebody or hit somebody
00:25:37.97\00:25:39.30
because there's no space
00:25:39.33\00:25:40.67
and, you know, the
bathrooms are, I mean, bad.
00:25:40.70\00:25:44.21
I mean, there's no bathroom,
you know, there's no showers.
00:25:44.24\00:25:47.41
The showers are all broken down.
00:25:47.44\00:25:48.78
There's no shower,
it's a bucket with scoop
00:25:48.81\00:25:50.15
and, you know, the
conditions are horrible,
00:25:50.18\00:25:51.95
horrible for these girls.
00:25:51.98\00:25:53.78
In 2018,
Maranatha agreed to provide
00:25:53.82\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\00:25:59.39
including two new girl's
dorms with showers and toilets,
00:25:59.42\00:26:02.92
a boy's dorm, and an
administrative office.
00:26:02.96\00:26:05.79
Funding is needed
for these new buildings
00:26:05.83\00:26:07.66
that will not only
improve living conditions
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for current students,
00:26:09.83\00:26:11.17
but allow the
center of the space
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to rescue more girls.
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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.
00:26:29.62\00:26:34.62
You know, no kid
should go to this,
00:26:34.66\00:26:36.02
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, these classrooms,
00:26:40.10\00:26:42.36
these offices, to
interact with them,
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get to know them, guide
them, 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,
00:26:51.54\00:26:53.51
it will definitely
change their lives.
00:26:53.54\00:26:55.14
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.
00:27:00.22\00:27:03.22
Funding is needed
for these new buildings
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that will not only
improve living conditions
00:27:05.32\00:27:07.49
for current students,
00:27:07.52\00:27:08.86
but allow the
center of the space
00:27:08.89\00:27:10.33
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\00:27:18.77
Give a gift to
support Maranatha's work
00:27:18.80\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 the health conditions
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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.
00:27:40.16\00:27:42.36
Make a change
for a better future.
00:27:42.39\00:27:44.09
Make a change
for a better future.
00:27:44.13\00:27:45.86
Make a change
for a better future.
00:27:45.89\00:27:47.63