For over thirty years, Kailash Satyarthi, with the support of his wife Sumedha, led a singular and sometimes solitary movement to put an end to the scourge of child labor, human slavery and trafficking.
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Today we are on our way to the city to film what we can of a raid and rescue mission of fifty children enslaved and hidden in a bangle factory.
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Morning starts for the boys at Bal Ashram with exercise, prayer, laughter and yoga practice on a beautiful roof terrace above their dormitory. Yoga is taught by a former student and by Sumedha Kailash who both runs Bal ashram and is the mother figure for all these rescued boys.
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Mending broken souls and bodies is the mission of the child rehabilitation center at Bal Ashram in Viratnagar, Rajasthan. Once child laborers have been found and rescued, a long process begins.
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Len met Noman and his older brother Rizwan at Bal Ashram, while filming at the home for boys rescued from trafficking and slavery in Rajasthan, India. They had just arrived from Delhi and were still in a relative state of shock at their new surroundings.
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Standing outside a police station in Jaipur, Rajasthan, waiting to film a carefully planned raid and rescue of children trafficked from the poorest areas of India to make bangle bracelets for the tourist industry, I am reminded of being offered these just yesterday touring Jaipur’s Amber Fort.
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It is the day Kailash and Sumedha arrive at Bal Ashram. As Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, yesterday Kailash met with world leaders at six different locations and today has flown from Bangladesh to Delhi, driven four hours from Delhi to Viratnagar and Bal Ashram and is now engulfed in boys as the car arrives. No rest for the weary – though “weary” is never a description for Kailash or his wife, Sumedha.
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There is a small boy we have noticed at Bal Ashram from day one. He does not jog around the exercise yard with the others.
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Vikky, a former child slave growing up at Bal Ashram.
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Love is a living force at Bal Ashram.
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This is the face of the future, a young girl we met in a village school for a formerly nomadic tribe, the Banjara, in Rajasthan, a northern province of India where the mountains and the desert join in an ancient landscape. Like all of the children in her Child-Friendly Village, there will be no child labor, trafficking or early marriage to rob her of childhood.
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It's rare in life to meet a person that inspires, mentors, educates and then becomes your friend and colleague. For me that person, for nearly twenty years, has been Kailash Satyarthi.
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