"I would pass them in the hallway and they would say,'Hey, the next time you go back to India, here is twenty dollars, here is fifty dollars, here is ten dollars for the children.'" Today,Baal Dan has other financial supporters in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

"It's definitely a relief to us who lives in here because of what's happening, when everything is over we will be able to go back to Haiti without worry, with knowing OK, without nothing bad happening, we'll feel like we're safe over there and then come again back to America safely."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

But we are going to need you, not just here today, but you're going to have to go home and take some of what you've learned here and teach your families and folks -- the other kids in your schools who haven't had a chance to come, and figure out how you guys can get other people in your lives moving."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

"If you go in and say, 'Here's a freebie,' then people are going to say, 'Sure,give it to me.'

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Just let me get you out of here first,all right? It's my dad! We have to go back!

VOA: standard.other

"We are prepared to go to Nigeria. We have been talking about Nigeria since two years ago when I came over here,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Now we don't have to go to South Africa." It's not a walk on the wild side, but there are animals here,sort of.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

"So I urged these institutions here today to go back and take a third and fourth look about how they are operating when it comes to small business and medium sized business lending,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

"The financial cost is a totally separate matter, and I think that as we're starting to feel the economic pinches here at home as the president has to go and ask for more money for Afghanistan, we'll probably see some similar sorts of pushbacks to what we had in Vietnam."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

I played Tennis tournaments all over the place and I met new people and make connections and stuff and something that Tennis helped me with is coming to the United States, as you might already know that it is expensive especially for an international student to go to college here in the United States and with the scholarship that I get through Tennis it helps me a lot, so Tennis has opened up many doors for me for opportunities."

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh,my gosh,there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'" And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him,and here he's a football coach at Cal , so if we go to an athletic event, there would be people painting their signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31