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No Longer a Slumdog Slightly above Dalits on the caste ladder is another huge group of people, an estimated 500 million more. 9 They belong to the Other Backward Castes. They also suffer abuse and injustice at the hands of the upper-caste minority. The two groups combined represent a population that is well over twice that of the United States. In fact, more than one out of every 10 people alive on planet earth today is either a Dalit or an OBC. Can you think of any system in history that has so adversely affected such a large percentage of the world’s population as this scourge of the caste system has I can’t. These masses of people grow up without hearing about the love of Jesus. They live without peace, suspecting there is something fundamentally wrong but not knowing how to change things. These are the “harassed and helpless” Jesus talked about (Matthew 9:36). One woman among these masses is Indrani. She grew up in a Dalit Gypsy family, traveling from place to place. Her parents taught her how to drink when she was a girl, and also how to smoke, gamble and beg. She thought her ways were normal. Later she lived in a small hut the government granted to her clan. She made maybe Rs. 50 per day (US$1.10) through her begging, and her husband made about Rs. 100 per day (US$2.20) working on fences. They had eight children, all of them girls. Indrani did not want her girls to be raised the same way she was but didn’t know how she could make a difference in their lives. Thankfully, Indrani met a missionary named Joseph, who told her about GFA Bridge of Hope. Her girls were soon enrolled. They learned about Christ, hygiene, discipline and manners, reading, respect and general self-control. But their learning didn’t 56
Once A Slumdog, Always a Slumdog stop with them. The girls took these lessons home. Indrani marveled at how they were maturing, wishing that she had such an opportunity when she was young. But then she thought, If my children are able to change, why can’t I So she started to pray to the Lord and go to church. She gave up her drinking, her gambling and her tobacco use. Learn about Aruni, Indrani’s daughter. Now the whole family prays together every day. They have all become a Eight Sisters Change Family Legacy www.nolongeraslumdog.org part of a local congregation and are growing in the Lord. Our work to rescue the suffering does not end with just one child’s bright future and newfound hope in Christ, but hope is carried on to their family, relatives and community. Although the caste in which they were born dictated that this family would never be able to change, they were completely transformed. I hate to think about what the life of Indrani’s eight girls would be like if they too grew up believing they were only good enough to be slumdogs and beg for a living. Hope at Last God has always been in the business of redemption—just think of the Israelites. He saw their affliction. He heard their cries. He knew their sufferings. And so He came down to deliver them. This is the story we read in the book of Exodus when some 600,000 Israelites were finally freed after 400 years of captivity. Likewise, God has seen the 250 million people who have been living in perpetual servitude for the past 3,000 years. He knows the plight of the 50 million child laborers in India. 10 57
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Notes Front Matter 1. Shane Claibor
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After 2,000 years of Christianity,
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Give HOPE to a child in need today!
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Share Their Hope in Your Hometown H
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DISCOURAGEMENT: REASONS AND ANSWERS
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