We Helped Save Kids From Toxic Landfills

for 2 million people in India this is their home this is one of many dump sites throughout the country where people have to scour through literal mountains of trash which often contains sharp objects toxic waste and causes many diseases that are often fatal only to make $3 a day and because it is the country with the highest global population India generates 1.3 billion pounds of trash every year and the increasing wealth disparity between the rich and poor means that millions of people rely on sorting and selling this wayte in order to simply survive forcing them

to stay trapped in this cycle this is simply devastating I knew when we picked this project that this was going to be difficult but I had no idea how heartbreaking it was going to be here and witnessing this firsthand this is just unlike anything I've ever seen being a new father and having to see children working in environment like this just absolutely destroys me and I don't really know how to describe it it's not okay as human beings we can do better than to all stuff like this to happen but the dump sites aren't the

only problem a large amount of the population live in these Urban [Music] slums the poverty and the living conditions here are extremely harsh people have been forced to build their houses right next to a railway track we just met a woman baharan that lost her legs because she got hit by a train on a misty winter morning if I'm being honest this is one of the most heart-wrenching videos we've ever had to make and although this problem seems almost impossible to overcome there is an organization making a difference meet shka in a country like India

the way poor people are treated they face a social taboo because they're dealing with and garbage so people considered them as a dirt and garbage shafkat is the managing director of till Jala shed an organization started 36 years ago by his father Alum gear who worked in these slums as a wasti picker for many years but he was one of the first and very few people who could read and write in the community he became a school teacher and quickly realized how many opportunities opened up for him with literacy and so in 1987 he made

it his mission to put every vulnerable child in a classroom any human being they have their birth rights to get right to work right to food right to education poverty has no time they are struggling each and every day because they did not have education young students going to Crime we have to bring those opportunities at the doorstep for these children one of these children is akar a boy born into a society of waste growing up he had no choice but to scavenge trash alongside his family just to earn enough money to live that meant

a life with no education no security and most sad of all no prospects for a brighter future 6 months ago roughly his father passed away and that created a lot of pressure on the family now his mother is on her own and it is very very difficult for the entire family now with all those children Akbar didn't choose this life of child labor of poverty of pressure no child should ever have to endure he has seen the schools from outside the gate but never had a opportunity to go inside and sit in the classrooms he

was 12 years old but he never went to school he never knew uh anything to write or read properly what do you want to become engineer engineer he says I have I have seen a lot of things on the roads people car breaking down people asking for help nobody comes for help so I want to help these people yet despite his circumstances he never gave up on his dream of getting an education so shafa took Akbar off the streets and enrolled him into school and in only 2 years he's already caught up to the eighth

grade exactly where he should be it's my hopes and dreams for him that he can now get an education he can go to university and he can become an engineer like he always dreamed of to make sure that you have every opportunity we're going to give your family some money so that you can buy food and you don't don't have to worry if you promise me that you're going to study hard I'm going to pay for you to go to school and I'm going to pay for you to go and get your engineering degree okay

promise deal deal but Akbar is only one of the tens of thousands of children that till Jala shed has taken out of the waist dumps and given an education safe home and financial aid and Darren was about to meet all the kids at the school for the first time I can't wait for you to experience that Joy when the kids come running to that door because I can't put that into [Music] words ched has put 20,000 children on a path to a better life that's one organization making a huge difference and it's not just those

20,000 lives it's the families of all of those 20,000 people who will be born into a society that's more open and gives them much more opportunity when you open a school door you close the jail [Music] door education is the only way ahead is the only way forward which can only transform the society in addition to the education that tala shed is providing they offer multiple extracurricular activities so that the kids can discover their passions they have artistic talent hidden so always we try to explore their Talent we have included Sports we have included tauno

classes we have included computer learning guitar classes piano classes and a lot [Music] more thank you the older kids then showed Darren some of their science experiments oh wow look at that it's 3D how did you do that can you tell me how you made this is water dispenser that's I think it's really important to recognize how Innovative and resourceful these kids are they have so little to work with and yet they are putting the materials that are at their disposal over here to build these experiments and educate themselves and learn there is so much

potential that is untapped in these kids that don't even get a chance at an education despite the tremendous impact till Jala shed is making in their Community the problem is too large to solve alone there is so much need in the community and so much struggle we need to expand our operations so and there is always very difficulty for organizations like us to mobilize resources and to ensure that we can make a longlasting stamp on this problem in India we have decided to fund the entire program at tiala shed for an entire year to help

them expand to more areas in kolata and eventually throughout India because of each and every one of you your viewership has helped get the support for B philanthropy and we as a recipient can tell you we have received the support and the commitment from V fanthropy thanks so much for your blessings but we have one more surprise shafa told us that a lot of the kids were interested in Computer Learning but the local library doesn't have enough computers to facilitate all the children so we decided to help we also wanted to do a little more

so we bought you some computers there are hard days there are challenges but this is the job of the social activist to find the strategies to find the ways to overcome them that whatever difficulties and challenges come that will be removed but we're not done just yet earlier at the dump shafa introduced Darren to Moes and adir two brothers who had been working as trash Pickers since they were 13 years old they start very early in the morning so it's like 12 13 hours work and they have very big [Music] families Moes told Daren how

he has to sift through garbage for hours every day and he does this with the dream that eventually he will finally have enough to send his children to school $5 $6 is very difficult for a rack picker family to run in on just a small amount moash then invited Darren to his home to meet his family and learn more about the struggles he faces at home it's unbearable hot in here and it's not even the hottest part of the summer it's actually the end of the winter and it's already stifling hot in here the heat

makes it extremely challenging for mesh to prevent the food from spoiling sometimes leaving him and AD deer with no other choice but to work without eating making it nearly impossible to keep up with this demanding work you know to see how hard you work so that you can take care of your family we want to help you a little bit we're going to buy you a fridge that works what I want to do as well when your child is a little older we want to put them in a proper school we'll pay for it's okay

you're welcome my [Music] brother when Beast philanthropy first started taking donations we had not done a single International project nor had we ever announced that we'd be doing any but in the first week the country that made the most donations to Beast philanthropy was from India this demonstrates the extraordinary kindness and generosity of the Indian people and ever since then it's been a high priority for me to come here with Beast philanthropy and reciprocate the extraordinary generosity that they have shown to us I want to give a massive shout out to the Smith Brother Family

Foundation when Darren found out that many of the kids in the program don't eat every day he reached out to some old friends of his and they made a very generous contribution that will help us feed over 80 families for 2 years thank you guys for being awesome [Music]