There are
children across the world
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that are in tremendous
need, stay tuned to meet a woman
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whose team is
doing something about it.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guest today is Shalini David,
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President and CEO
of Christalis Inc.
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Welcome to Urban Report Shalini.
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Thank you.
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So, tell us about
Christalis, what is Christalis?
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Christalis is an Organization
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made up of all volunteers
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and it's our mission to
show children who are victims
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of various injustices, our love
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and we do this by not only
providing for their basic needs
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but we want to give
them emotional support,
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we want to give them security,
we want to give them affection,
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we want to give them
opportunities to succeed
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a strong family
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and most importantly
the knowledge of Christ.
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Amen, and where
are you doing this?
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We're in Uganda right now.
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In Uganda? Yes.
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And what are you providing
specifically for the kids?
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So we have a few
projects in our Home
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which is an orphanage
so it's a physical building
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and our children live
there we have a mother-figure,
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a father-figure,
some aunts that help,
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and there, they get everything
you would give your child
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in your own Home,
they get education,
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they get food,
they get clothing,
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they get healthcare,
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they have morning
and evening worship,
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they go to school,
they have chore time,
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they have play time,
they have study time,
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they get into trouble,
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so everything you would
give them... we give them there
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and then we treat
every child individually,
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sometimes we get
our children at thirteen
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and they've never
learned their ABCs,
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so we give them extra tutoring
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many children come to our Home
without getting any healthcare,
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so, as soon as they come,
we take them for a Physical,
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find out if they have any issues
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and get them any
extra care they might need,
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so that's in our Home,
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and then we also
provide children who are
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outside of our Home-care because
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in our Home we are
able to give them everything
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that we would give our
kids but outside the Home,
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they live in dire
poverty sometimes,
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so they're not
able to stay in school,
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they have to help
to work for their food,
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or they live with their
grandparents who are very old
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and they have to
take care of them,
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so we try to give
them money to go to school,
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money for bedding,
money for healthcare
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just for whatever
their needs might be,
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without taking them out of
their family that they're in,
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and then... on
down the area we found
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our children and Evon,
who is our Director there,
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had found that there
were kids in the area
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who were not eating
every day, and our children too
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would notice... when
they come Home to eat lunch,
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that their kids were
not going Home for lunch
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because they live so far away
so Evon started a Meal Program
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where we give lunch and dinner
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for children who
aren't able to eat every day.
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How beautiful, how
beautiful that you are caring
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for these children who are
not being cared for anywhere.
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I mean, they're really
not... you have the orphanage,
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so they don't have parents,
then you have community children
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whose needs are not being met,
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and so you have children who
are just in dire need in Uganda
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how many
children are in the Home?
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In the Home right
now, we have about 23
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and we can go up 31
but by the grace of God,
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we are getting at a point where
our children are growing up
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and they're graduating out
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so right now we have
three or four of our children
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who graduated out so
we're at about 23 right now
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and then in our
Assistance Program
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we are probably about 60 plus
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and then in our Meal
Program about 15 to 20.
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Whoa! that is such a beautiful,
beautiful undertaking,
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and we have some
pictures that we want to put up
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to show what's
going on there and just...
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so tell us, who
is in the picture
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and give us a
little bit of background.
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Sure, sure, this
picture... ah, makes me so happy
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because these are
two students from the
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Associated Students of
Walla Walla University,
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so they came
Home to our Orphanage,
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that's our Orphanage right now
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and one of our
little babies who was there
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for a little... short time,
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but they came
there last September
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and this Student Group
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actually made one of
our dreams come true,
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we've been renting a
Home for the last ten years
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then... one year
when our lease ran out
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the landlord said, they
wanted to sell the Home,
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so we had to find a
Home to house 30 kids
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in like a short amount of time
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luckily... God... God
is amazing all the time
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Yes. He found us a Home
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down the street
but for a long time
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we kind of knew, "Okay,
we need a Home of our own
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instead of renting" and
so we would pray about it
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and Evon is the one who
lives there most of the year
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so she knew that that
need was really immediate
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but for me...
and we're all nurses,
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all of us
Co-founders are nurses,
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for me it was just such a huge
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like...
undertaking I was thinking,
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"How will we do
this, we're nurses... "
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my father has done a
building project before
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I knew everything
that went into it,
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and it just seemed impossible
so I would just pray every day
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I would pray, "God in heaven,
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please help us get a big house
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that's just
perfect for all of us
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where we don't have
to worry about anything
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raising money
or capital campaign
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or building or engineers
or anything like that,"
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and that's what I
would pray everyday
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and um... but you know our God
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He is not the
God of the possible,
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He's the God of the impossible,
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and last year in May,
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the Associated
students of Walla Walla
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they chose to
help us build our Home,
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I don't know where,
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we didn't know
them, they didn't know us,
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somebody knew about us
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and they were
looking for a project
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and they told them
and within two weeks,
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they chose us
amongst six other groups and
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it was just such a miracle
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and they came with their own
group of architectural students
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and engineers and people
who had built in other countries
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and gave us advice about
building and about our plan
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and everything like
that and they also...
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the student group
committed to raising a $100,000
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towards our project,
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and it was
just... you know it's...
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it was just that little
step of faith or encouragement
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that these students
brought to us, it's like,
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"Okay, we can do this,
God can make it happen for us"
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and also the fact that
God knew what your needs were
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and He met the need,
you didn't even know...
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you didn't know about
them, they found out about you,
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I mean, look at God,
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look at how much
He cares about us
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and what we're doing. Yeah.
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Danny Shelton has
written this book called,
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"The Blessing is on the GO!"
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and when we step out in faith
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and do... and just...
we're available to do God's will
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God makes Himself
responsible for it
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and He honors that,
and He blesses your efforts
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and look at what
happened, these students came,
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architectural
students, engineering students,
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I mean, that is
incredible, that's incredible,
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oh yeah, God took care of it,
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Yeah. He took care of it,
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let's look at
another picture, who is that?
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those are... that is
the whole student group
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the representatives from
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the Associate
Students of Walla Walla.
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Oh, good, good.
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This is Bilaku and he is
from our Assistance Program
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so he is one of our...
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he's our second
child with disabilities,
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he has hearing and
speech disabilities,
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his mom abandoned him
when he was an infant,
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and so his grandma has
been caring for him ever since
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but she doesn't have the money
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you can see...
like where they live,
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it's not great and so
she did not have the money
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to give him special education
so she had come to us for help
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and we had a
sponsor who had contacted me
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actually a few months
before we had his request,
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and she had said that she
was looking to help somebody
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with
disabilities, and so I told her,
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"At this time we don't
have any projects like that"
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I actually referred
her to another Organization
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and then Evon told
us about this child
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and she said, "But the
money is a lot more than normal
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because it's for
special needs and
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we don't know if we'll
get a sponsor for that"
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and then I immediately
thought of her and I called her,
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and she said that
she couldn't afford it
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but she'll see what she can do
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and she rounded up
her friends and family
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and together they sponsored
that child and now he goes
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to a special school
and he's doing really well
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and he's just
such a happy child.
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Oh, that's so great,
that's so great, praise the Lord
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God is good. God is so good.
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Praise the Lord,
let's look at another one.
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Those are our boys...
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those are our boys in the Home,
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I just love this picture
because this makes me happy
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when I see it so
I turned this in,
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and Peter is one of
the boys in that picture,
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and Peter actually lost
his dad when he was young
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and he was not
able to go to school
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the caretaker/guardian
was not able to care for him
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and brought him to
our Home to take care of,
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oh, you know,
it's so... for me...
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as I listen to stories about
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children that have
to live on the streets
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or they have no
one to care for them,
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it's unfathomable to me
that a child would have no one
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around to take care of
them, and what do they do
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and how do they
eat and how do they...
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what do they do to survive?
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You know, I've
heard stories about
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children as young
as three and four,
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just in the garbage heaps and
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I just cannot wrap
my mind around that,
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it's such a painful thought
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and here is Christalis
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and I praise the Lord
for Organizations like yours
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that are reaching out to
these children that are in need
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and filling that need
and God tells us to do that
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and you are meeting that need
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and that's just beautiful
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to know that...
and you're offering
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not just the physical
needs but spiritual as well
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and that is... to
train up these children
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from a young age about Jesus,
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that's tremendous.
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Yeah, and it's a blessing
to just see it come to fruition
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like, you'll see later
in a picture but we have
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our son, Manasi, he
came to us, he was...
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he lost his parents when he was
maybe three- or four-years old,
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he was in Rwanda,
and his parents died
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so his grandma came to
get him and his siblings
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and brought him back but
she wasn't able to care for
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all of them so she put
them in different Homes
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and they would work for
their uncle and get food
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and Manasi would go to school
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but he didn't have
anyone to pay for his education,
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so the principal took him
off the roster so he could study
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and the teachers
would get him old books
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and somehow he would get by
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but he couldn't go to
the next level for school
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and he wasn't
with his grandma and...
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so when we opened up,
they brought him to us
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and so he was with us and
now... last year in November
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he graduated from
Bugema Adventist University
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with a Bachelor's
degree in Secondary Education
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and he's a teacher now, Ohhh...
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and I share this
because you were talking about
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ministering to them
spiritually and where he is now
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he teaches in a local school
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and he meets a lot of
kids who don't know about Jesus
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and he witnesses to them
and he wrote to me one day
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and he said, "You
know, I used to hate it
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when Mama Evon,"
he calls her Mama,
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"used to make them study the
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Scriptures on
Saturday afternoon"
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Now, Evon is the
Headmistress at the school?
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she's the Director of Uganda,
of all our projects in Uganda,
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she's the
Executive Director there
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but she lives
there most of the year
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she's a nurse too, so
she comes and works here
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three months out of the year
and gets her money to go back
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she doesn't want to
take any other money,
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she says, this is her commitment
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and she is the one
who cares for all the kids
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and runs all the projects there.
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So she's there on
a voluntary basis,
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she makes her money here
and then goes and stays there...
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yes and gives away
most of her money too
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she's amazing, she was here
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and when we told
her about the projects
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we had just
started, she gave up Home,
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and she gave up her car,
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and gave up
everything and moved there
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and actually she's the
one who started everything
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and she truly lives by faith.
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Amen, that's
tremendous and I'm sure she has
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miracle story
after miracle story
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because God, again, honors...
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when we do things like
that, He honors those sacrifices
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so I know that, so,
back to Manasi, so...
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Right, so he used to
say he used to hate it
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when she would make him
study Scriptures on Saturday
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but now he's so grateful for
it and he's like asking for tips
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on how to witness to
people of different faiths
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and he's just so
on fire to evangelize
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it's just so nice to
hear that and see that,
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you know back then...
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when you raise
the kids growing up
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you don't really think, "Okay,
they don't want to do stuff"
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but then it makes a
difference, as you grow up
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and it's just amazing.
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How old is he now?
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He's probably
about 23 or 24 right now
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and for our kids, you
know, like I said earlier,
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we sometimes...
we get them at 13
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and they're just
learning so they're not able
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at 18 to take care of themselves
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because they're
not able to reach
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what we would normally, here,
at 18 or their early 20s reach,
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so, it's our desire that we
don't push them out of the Home
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until they're able
to be self-sufficient,
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so, Manasi is our
poster child, happy story
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but then there are other
children who have challenges,
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a lot more challenges,
we had our son, Shibenze,
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his uncle used
to do voodoo on him
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so it affected him way beyond
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even the times
that he used to do it
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it would come to him a lot,
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like during
school times and exams
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so all our children
would pray around him,
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and his teachers
didn't think he would make it
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or if he would
finish, but we made it,
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we prayed him through and
he got a certificate in travel
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and hotel management and
he became a cook in the city
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and he had a certificate course
and now he's trying to earn up
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to get a degree in
it, and for our children,
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that's our...
one of our mission is
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we want to give them every
opportunity that they can have
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to have their dreams come true,
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so we're trying to work and see
if we can get some extra funding
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to help him go for his degree
and Manasi, go for his Master's.
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Oh, that is... that's so awesome
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these are such
great stories really
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because it just makes
you think, "Look at God,
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look at how God is working
on behalf of these children"
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who, if you had not intervened,
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who would care
for these children?
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Where would they be if
Christalis hadn't been there
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where would they be?
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God sent
Christalis into that situation
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to make a difference,
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we have some more pictures,
let's see, let's take a look.
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This is one of our
student missionaries
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Walla Walla University also sent
us three student missionaries,
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and Bryson, he came and
represented the ASWWU Team
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for about three to six months
00:15:16.64\00:15:17.98
to help us with
the building project
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so not only do they come once,
but they send someone to help us
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throughout the whole process.
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Oh nice, so they
didn't just make one visit,
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Yeah. they came...
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they came and visited and then
they kind of saw you through
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the project as well?
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Yes, yes. That is amazing.
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Yes, so amazing. That's amazing.
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I notice that we also
have a video that you sent us
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and I really like for
our Viewers to see that
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to see just what... kind of
the whole picture of the school
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and then you can
comment on it, after the video.
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Christalis,
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Our desire is to
give victimized children
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basic needs love of family,
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knowledge of Christ,
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I heard about the
orphan children in Uganda,
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that there were a lot
of children on the street
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who would benefit
if they were in a Home
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many Homes that I went to,
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very old, old, grandmothers
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with their grandchildren
00:16:18.71\00:16:20.58
and their children
are nowhere to be found
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they have no meals,
their sauce is water with salt
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we could help those
kids, our Home is like a family
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in that, first
physically, it's in one Home,
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initially when
we started the Home,
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the kids were excited
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because they were
going to sleep in a bed
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and a mattress,
they were getting food,
00:16:40.90\00:16:43.10
that they were
getting three times a day
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that was too much
food, is what they felt like.
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Our children are
orphaned due to various reasons
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abandonment,
rebel killings, AIDS,
00:16:50.57\00:16:53.38
Gracie was
abandoned by a trash pile
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when she was an infant,
00:16:56.18\00:16:57.51
we found her
frail and brought to us
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at six months' old but
with the love of our Home
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and constant medical care,
she is a healthy seven-year old
00:17:01.85\00:17:04.72
and we are the only
family that she knows.
00:17:04.75\00:17:06.86
At five-years old, Manasi
had to walk with his bare feet
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with his family
from Congo to Rwanda,
00:17:11.13\00:17:13.36
his parents were
victims of genocide,
00:17:13.40\00:17:15.56
and his grandmother
took him and his siblings
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and put them in different Homes
00:17:17.67\00:17:19.00
to work as
servants for their food,
00:17:19.03\00:17:20.37
he tried to go to school,
but couldn't pay the fees
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so the teachers
brought him to us
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and we are so proud to say
00:17:24.81\00:17:27.04
that he is going to be our
first college graduate next year
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no child should have to suffer
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because they do not
have the love of a parent
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because you see, James
1:27 says, "That's our job"
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now, everyone may not be
able to leave their lives behind
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and help every child,
but we can be your eyes
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and we can be your
hands to care them.
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My reason for
supporting Christalis is
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when I was in 3rd grade,
World Vision paid for my school
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from third grade to tenth grade
00:17:54.64\00:17:56.20
and that was a big
help for me and my family
00:17:56.24\00:17:59.17
they said, "Look at that kid
with long shorts and big ears,"
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and that was me
so, it's only fair that
00:18:03.35\00:18:06.61
now that I can afford it,
00:18:06.68\00:18:08.05
I can pay that
back to some child
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who really needs an education.
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We have children of our
own and it's nice to show them
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how to give to others.
00:18:16.02\00:18:17.69
Through God's blessings
and the love of our parents,
00:18:17.73\00:18:20.83
we didn't lack a lot
of things growing up.
00:18:20.86\00:18:22.63
Christalis
provides us an opportunity
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to give back a little bit,
00:18:24.53\00:18:25.93
the blessings that
we have been given.
00:18:25.97\00:18:27.64
I joined Christalis because...
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I joined Christalis because,
00:18:30.21\00:18:32.57
so I just wanted to, in turn,
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make my little impact
for the world, I guess.
00:18:34.94\00:18:38.91
I see how providing
them with monetary funds
00:18:38.95\00:18:42.62
so that they can
receive education
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or they can receive
food, goes a long way.
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Christalis is a 100
percent volunteer run
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everything that you do
directly affects these kids
00:18:50.53\00:18:54.10
and you could be
a part of something
00:18:54.13\00:18:56.60
that you know
will change the world.
00:18:56.63\00:18:58.90
If you feel like you
want to make a difference,
00:18:58.93\00:19:02.00
you should definitely
join the Christalis family.
00:19:02.04\00:19:05.11
Now, please join us
00:19:05.14\00:19:06.47
in participating
in this great cause.
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www. christalis. org
sponsor, donate, volunteer, pray
00:19:08.08\00:19:16.45
Oh, so
everything is volunteer-run?
00:19:16.48\00:19:18.75
Yes.
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There are no
administrative costs per se?
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So, this year we
started with employing somebody
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just for Admin
for few hours a week
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because as we've grown and
we're helping more children,
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we had to do that
but everything, like,
00:19:32.23\00:19:34.70
we have volunteers
that help us on this side
00:19:34.74\00:19:36.60
with our projects on that side,
00:19:36.64\00:19:38.11
and we have staff in
Uganda, and Evon is a volunteer
00:19:38.17\00:19:42.78
as you said and so but
mostly it's all volunteers
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people give up
their time every week,
00:19:47.45\00:19:49.88
two to four hours,
six hours per week,
00:19:49.95\00:19:52.39
we have five to eight
solid volunteers per week
00:19:52.42\00:19:54.66
but we go up to 20
which is also a blessing
00:19:54.69\00:19:56.66
because we've been
around now... ten years
00:19:56.69\00:19:58.59
and the first five years
it was mostly me and my mom
00:19:58.63\00:20:01.33
and Evon and our Operating Board
00:20:01.36\00:20:03.47
but in the last five
years, God has been so amazing
00:20:03.50\00:20:07.57
it was our desire
to help more children
00:20:07.60\00:20:09.70
and he brought...
00:20:09.74\00:20:11.07
he helped us grow in the
last five years to 20 volunteers
00:20:11.11\00:20:14.14
and it just helped
us, helps us network,
00:20:14.18\00:20:17.05
helps us get more sponsors,
helps us do more things
00:20:17.11\00:20:20.48
to raise more
money for our children
00:20:20.52\00:20:22.15
but we really
couldn't get by without them.
00:20:22.18\00:20:24.45
Oh! that's so incredible,
how can one become a sponsor,
00:20:24.49\00:20:29.36
what do you have to
do and how much is it
00:20:29.39\00:20:31.43
and what do you
get for your money?
00:20:31.46\00:20:34.40
Sure, so can
contact us via our website
00:20:34.46\00:20:37.37
or call us, e-mail us.
00:20:37.40\00:20:38.87
And what's your website?
00:20:38.90\00:20:40.77
It's just: Christalis. org
00:20:40.80\00:20:42.64
so, Christalis. org
00:20:42.67\00:20:46.57
Okay. and you can...
00:20:46.61\00:20:48.71
so it's different
levels of sponsorship,
00:20:48.74\00:20:50.65
because in the Home,
obviously there are more needs
00:20:50.68\00:20:53.08
because we're
taking care of a lot more
00:20:53.11\00:20:54.62
for the children in our home,
00:20:54.65\00:20:56.79
so right now we have our needs
00:20:56.82\00:20:58.95
for children to be
sponsored at $40 per month
00:20:58.99\00:21:02.06
or $80 per month,
00:21:02.09\00:21:03.43
it really takes
about $150 per month,
00:21:03.46\00:21:05.59
but we ask Sponsors
to either do $120 or $60
00:21:05.63\00:21:09.40
or $40 or $80
and together sponsor
00:21:09.43\00:21:12.30
these children,
00:21:12.33\00:21:13.90
and then in the
Assistance Program,
00:21:13.94\00:21:15.90
it costs $40 for kids
who are about high-school age
00:21:15.94\00:21:18.71
and $20 for kids who are
elementary-school age per month
00:21:18.77\00:21:22.14
and then our Meal Program
it really doesn't take a lot,
00:21:22.18\00:21:25.55
if you miss one
meal a month going out,
00:21:25.58\00:21:28.02
you can feed a
child for a month,
00:21:28.05\00:21:29.68
so just $12 a month
for our Meal Program.
00:21:29.72\00:21:32.89
Twelve dollars a
month for the Meal Program
00:21:32.92\00:21:35.99
and what does that get
the person who is sponsoring?
00:21:36.02\00:21:39.43
So for the Sponsors,
00:21:39.46\00:21:41.36
when you sponsor a
child specifically,
00:21:41.40\00:21:43.26
you will get a Report Card,
00:21:43.30\00:21:44.77
you will get a
letter from them every year,
00:21:44.83\00:21:47.04
you'll get their picture,
00:21:47.07\00:21:48.40
and you can
communicate back to them
00:21:48.44\00:21:50.14
our children love it
00:21:50.17\00:21:51.91
when they get
letters from their Sponsors
00:21:51.94\00:21:53.74
when they get pictures
of their Sponsor's family
00:21:53.78\00:21:56.08
it really... it
makes them feel loved,
00:21:56.11\00:21:59.05
it makes them feel motivated,
it's a different thing
00:21:59.08\00:22:02.08
us telling them to study hard,
00:22:02.12\00:22:03.55
and it's a different
thing the Sponsor saying,
00:22:03.59\00:22:05.82
"I believe in
you, I want you to... "
00:22:05.85\00:22:07.59
you just take a few minutes out
of your day to write a letter
00:22:07.62\00:22:10.33
and you can change
the life of a child.
00:22:10.36\00:22:13.16
So, that's
beautiful, so now for the $12
00:22:13.19\00:22:15.93
what does the Sponsor...
00:22:15.96\00:22:18.83
what is the impact on
the child for the $12?
00:22:18.90\00:22:21.47
So for the Meal
Program, you don't necessarily
00:22:21.50\00:22:23.51
sponsor one child
because it's a lot like a
00:22:23.54\00:22:25.47
Soup Kitchen,
where the children come,
00:22:25.51\00:22:28.01
we have Regulars
that we try to transition
00:22:28.04\00:22:30.35
into our Assistance
Program but it's just...
00:22:30.38\00:22:32.55
it feeds them two
meals a day for a month,
00:22:32.58\00:22:34.62
the $12 per month.
00:22:34.65\00:22:36.02
So for... anybody
can do $12 a month,
00:22:36.05\00:22:42.02
I mean, that's really not much
00:22:42.06\00:22:46.03
and for that,
you're giving a child
00:22:46.06\00:22:48.43
two meals a day, for
a month, that's amazing!
00:22:48.46\00:22:52.90
And even in our Home,
because you mentioned that
00:22:52.93\00:22:55.50
we know that
everyone wants to help kids
00:22:55.54\00:22:58.84
and we realize that
not everyone can afford it,
00:22:58.87\00:23:01.31
so for College
Students that are in College,
00:23:01.34\00:23:03.68
or maybe are in Grad
School, or you're in High School
00:23:03.75\00:23:06.08
and you want a part of this,
doesn't mean you can't help,
00:23:06.11\00:23:08.45
so we have a Student Pledge
00:23:08.48\00:23:10.19
where if you're in College
you can pledge $10 per month,
00:23:10.25\00:23:12.82
and if you're in
High school, $5 per month,
00:23:12.85\00:23:15.16
and you can help these
children just wherever you are.
00:23:15.19\00:23:19.63
I think that so
often we don't realize
00:23:19.66\00:23:24.20
how impactful a
few dollars can be
00:23:24.23\00:23:28.67
you know, a lot of
times people will say,
00:23:28.70\00:23:31.07
"Well, I can't give
$50 a month or $100 a month
00:23:31.11\00:23:36.14
I don't have it like that
00:23:36.18\00:23:37.51
so I'm just not
going to give anything,
00:23:37.55\00:23:39.98
no, whatever you
can give means something
00:23:40.02\00:23:42.62
Yes, yes. and I'm sure that also
00:23:42.65\00:23:45.35
somebody just wants to
make a one-time donation,
00:23:45.39\00:23:47.92
you'll be open to
receiving that as well.
00:23:47.96\00:23:50.76
Yes, it's the one-time donations
that really get us through
00:23:50.83\00:23:52.93
because like I said,
sponsorship really doesn't
00:23:52.96\00:23:55.10
cover everything we
try to make it affordable
00:23:55.13\00:23:57.57
so we can have
sponsors for these kids,
00:23:57.60\00:23:59.97
but it's the one-time donations
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that really
carries through the year.
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And no amount is
too small, right?
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because if somebody
sends you $5 or $20, or...
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Or a dime, my
daughter collects change
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and she gives me
ten cents and a penny
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and I deposit
that under her name
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in our Accounting
and it really does help,
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we had a seven-year old,
I think she's seven or eight
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and she collected money
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and she collected
throughout the year
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and collected a $100
or $120 and donated it
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because she
wanted to help these kids
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so anyone can
give whatever they want
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and if you don't
even have a penny to give,
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you can give your
time because like I said,
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my daughter's five,
she volunteers for us
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and even... there
are people in California,
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other places,
if you have an hour
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or half an hour or
two hours of your time,
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you can do that and
even if you don't have that,
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we have prayer partners
and we give you our prayer list
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and prayer is powerful,
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it's how we're
doing what we're doing,
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you can help us pray
so nothing is impossible.
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Yes, yes, so how
would a volunteer
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volunteer their time from here,
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like what would they do to help?
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From here, I know
it's hard to believe
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but there's so much help we need
00:25:08.84\00:25:10.27
just because we're volunteering,
we don't have an office,
00:25:10.31\00:25:12.87
we don't have staff,
everyone goes to work
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so volunteers
actually help with everything,
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they help with Admin,
they help with fundraising,
00:25:17.41\00:25:19.18
they help with
our graphic design,
00:25:19.21\00:25:20.78
and they help
with our development,
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they help with everything
that runs our Organization.
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So you need people to say,
"Look, I might not have money,
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but I can give you a
couple of hours a week or
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an hour a week or a
couple of hours a month
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or... it can really
make a difference for you.
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It can, it's a
child's difference,
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sometimes one volunteer is what
it takes to help another child,
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and there are also
opportunities to volunteer there
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if you're looking for a
commitment of three years
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or six months or a year,
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we are happy to
have volunteers go there
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and help us with
our different projects.
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That's awesome, what's
your biggest need right now?
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Our biggest "one
need" is hard to pick
00:26:02.06\00:26:05.69
but we have our
building project,
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where we're trying to
raise the last $15,000
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that's a huge need.
00:26:11.63\00:26:12.97
Ahh... that's important, we
should talk about that a bit
00:26:13.00\00:26:16.00
because... so this
building project...
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all you need now is
$15,000 to complete the project.
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Yes, yes, and then we could get
in there maybe before Christmas,
00:26:23.14\00:26:25.25
then our kids can
celebrate in the Home,
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that would be great
if we could have that.
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So that's one of our big needs
00:26:29.18\00:26:31.35
the other big need
that's very immediate
00:26:31.42\00:26:33.72
also has just
brought it more immediate
00:26:33.76\00:26:36.02
because we're getting
ready to go into the home is
00:26:36.06\00:26:38.03
we've always needed a
vehicle, we have no vehicle
00:26:38.06\00:26:40.60
for our kids and we
feed... usually feed about...
00:26:40.63\00:26:44.43
like over 60 mouths
per day and then we usually
00:26:44.47\00:26:48.20
go buy groceries and then its...
we used to go on a bicycle
00:26:48.24\00:26:51.17
our father-figure
would go back and forth
00:26:51.21\00:26:53.21
carrying these big
bags of groceries and then
00:26:53.24\00:26:55.21
finally we
employed like a motor bike
00:26:55.24\00:26:56.85
that would take
it back and forth,
00:26:56.88\00:26:58.41
and now that we're
going, we're up in the hills
00:26:58.45\00:27:02.05
and there are no
paved roads, so it gets...
00:27:02.08\00:27:04.72
when it gets
muddy, when it's raining,
00:27:04.75\00:27:06.22
the mud is very slippery,
00:27:06.25\00:27:07.69
Evon has fallen off her
bike many times going up there
00:27:07.72\00:27:10.19
and so we could
really use a vehicle
00:27:10.23\00:27:12.89
to help take the kids to school,
to church, to the clinic,
00:27:12.96\00:27:16.56
get groceries, that is...
00:27:16.60\00:27:19.13
to get a used vehicle,
it's about $15,000 to $20,000
00:27:19.17\00:27:22.50
but that is a need that...
00:27:22.54\00:27:23.94
it was kind of
like in the background
00:27:23.97\00:27:25.54
but now it's
like ahh! we need it.
00:27:25.57\00:27:27.04
Well, our Viewers, I'm sure
00:27:27.08\00:27:30.35
will respond to
that need on some level,
00:27:30.38\00:27:33.08
many of them want to
know what they can do
00:27:33.11\00:27:35.82
and will do it,
and thank you so much
00:27:35.85\00:27:37.82
for your commitment
and all that you're doing
00:27:37.85\00:27:40.16
for the cause of Christ.
00:27:40.19\00:27:41.52
Thank you. Thank you...
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You know in the
new King James Version
00:27:42.92\00:27:45.46
James 1:27 says,
"Pure and undefiled religion
00:27:45.49\00:27:48.76
before God and
the Father is this:
00:27:48.80\00:27:50.43
to visit orphans and
widows in their trouble,
00:27:50.47\00:27:53.03
and to keep oneself
unspotted from the world. "
00:27:53.07\00:27:55.57
Thank you so
much for joining us,
00:27:55.60\00:27:57.74
join us next time, it
wouldn't be the same...
00:27:57.77\00:27:59.57
without you.
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