00:00My name is Vishal Deva and I am 19 years old. I was born in the far west of Nepal. My place is pretty undeveloped and still in poverty. And there are people who haven't seen electricity and buildings and cars and stuff like that. My family is really poor and we do our living by doing farming. When I was five, my father died because he was drinking alcohol. My mom raised me and it was really hard for us to survive. My maternal uncle knew somebody in Apple of God's eyes. Because of that connection, I ended up in Apple and I stayed here for six and a half years. My name is Sumitaman and I am 19 years old. My story is that I was born in the Red Lake District. In the Red Lake District, you can see many women doing bat stops. I didn't know the exact, but now it is called prostitution. My childhood being in Kolkata was very scary because my parents didn't want me to go anywhere. And I was in the same place, same room, doing nothing. When I grew to 14 years old, I came here to Nepal, Kathmandu, through a woman named Anu. On the first day, I felt very nervous because I didn't know anybody. The guys were very happy to see me and they were very pleased to have me as a family. I feel that being here now is very happy and safe around here because we project each other and we help each other a lot. Hi, my name is David Azaf Siniak-Silva from Brazil. And here at Apple, I do communications, work with kids. Apple is an anti-human trafficking organization here. We mainly focus on repatriation and prevention of girls that are being sold into prostitution or labor. In Nepal, men aren't the major victims of human trafficking. Sons are valued more than daughters are. Boys get involved in trafficking a lot of times by just being approached by someone who's in the industry. They'll approach these boys with money, they'll approach these boys with commission. The motive behind it is financial and a lot of the times it's also like the family. So like the uncle will do it, the dad will do it, the brother, the son.
02:56It's kind of like what they do for a living in that sense. You know, if you grew up in that environment, that's what you learn to do and that seems like the norm. Even like Sumit, for example, where his parents were involved. So if he grew up there, if he didn't come to Apple, that would have been very likely something he would have been involved in. So Apple's influence in the boys, not just in our home, but the boys and the men in the community and the villages where we give scholarships, is very educational and we teach them of, you know, what are the consequences, what happens to the lives of the people that they send to India or anywhere else. If I was not in Apple, I would be like one of those, you know, with my friends maybe. We'd be trafficking, you know, and boys are the ones who can bring changes in our society, you know. We cannot always rescue girls, but we can educate boys and educate girls and make a difference. If I were to stay in Kolkata, I would like those guys doing bad stops, I think. Prevention is always better. You always want to be able to get to someone before they've gone through this horrendous experience that they go through. It's easier to go to a village and educate and influence them than it is to go to India and rescue someone. If people know and they're educated and it's ingrained in their tradition or society that it's wrong, they go back, they change the culture, change the tradition, they prevent the story from repeating. Everybody cares about human trafficking, everybody cares about prostitution, but taking action or being involved is different because if it's a lot of people taking a lot of small actions, it can do a lot. Right now, I'm feeling really good and really confident about my life and the work I'm going to do in the future will be great. And then, of course, I'm going to help the cross-trafficking in this area and all the places in Nepal. And I'm very happy. I'm really blessed. For the future, my dream and ambitions is to become in the British Army and to protect those women who are trafficking. there because after being in the army I will be self-protected, independent, and I can teach those guys how to be independent and to lead them in a good way. And coming to Apple taught me many good things, to be a man, and to be a powerful soldier of God.