Movie: Veil of Tears
The documentary "Veil of Tears" introduces viewers to India in its beauty and complexity. The film's special focus is on the women and their plight in a broad range of locales:
More than 50,000 female children are aborted every month in South Asia.Females are often the last to eat and the most likely to be illiterate.Girls are typically the first to work as child laborers and sometimes even sold to become one of 1.2 million child prostitutes.Young girls throughout Asia are ravenously abducted and forced into a life of prostitution with every agonizing day one step closer to an early death from AIDS.Widows in India bear the blame for their husbands’ deaths. They’re shunned by their communities, rejected by their families and forced into an inhumane lifestyle. Tens of thousands take their own lives just to end the pain.Every year in India, more than 7,000 women are doused with kerosene and burned to death—by their husbands. The wife’s crime: an insufficient dowry.Many women cannot be approached by men due to cultural customs, making their slim chance of hearing the Gospel even slimmer.
What can be done?
Trained women are the perfect solution to reach other women. Each female national who receives training already lives in Asia. In preparation for alleviating the plight of the poor, she has gone through three years of intensive training. The following advantages make her ideal to reach women in Asia:
She moves freely in areas restricted to outsiders or men and is accepted in good times and bad.She knows the cultural taboos instinctively.She has already mastered the language or a related dialect.She lives among the community, eating the same food, wearing the same clothes, and sharing the same cultural interests.She has a passion and burden to reach women in Asia.
In many Asian cultures, men and women rarely mix, so traditional male missionaries are severely limited in ministering to women. However, it is possible to send trained, dedicated women to reach the millions. And that's exactly what's happening. In this moving documentary, viewers meet some of them and learn how to have a part in their work.
The film treats the poor with dignity, showing their gorgeous smiling faces and their tears and leaves viewers filled with hope rather than despair.