Child Of The Dump To Star Student
BALDWIN: The CNN film "Girl Rising" challenged writers from all around the world to tell the stories of girls trying to get an education. In Cambodia, for example, many, many girls drop out of school early to work or to care for family. But today a writer and activist introduces us to a girl orphaned at 9 years of age who scavenged in a garbage dump just to make some money.</s>LOUNG UNG, WRITER/ACTIVIST: I think Westerners know of Cambodia primarily through the movie "The Killing Fields." People don't understand this is 30 years later. We have really resilient, strong people that if given an opportunity will succeed. This is a new Cambodia.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello, everybody. My name is Sokha.</s>UNG: Hi. I'm Luong Ung. I'm the writer of Sokha's story. Sokha, your story for me is a narrative of resiliency or toughness. If you're poor and the family needs you to work in the garbage dumps, you don't get to go to school.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have no choice. I had to decide to work the dump. It is a bad place.</s>UNG: Sokha has been given an opportunity to go to school. For a lot of girls in Cambodia, the one way we can have a better future is through studies.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My dream is to be a teacher and also run a school by myself to help other girls.</s>BALDWIN: CNN film "Girl Rising" premieres this Sunday at 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. As we go to break, I just want to show you live pictures. As we promised, top of the hour, we are watching this Senate Appropriations hearing under way. Specifically you're looking at the director of National Security Agency, in which has really been in the midst of this mega, mega story we've been following. As it has been leaked that they have been surveilling Americans, specifically Verizon phone calls in the U.S. and surveilling internet among foreigners overseas, we knew this would come up in this hearing. We have just heard, according to Dana Bash who's watching this very, very closely, that this General Alexander, the head of the NSA, has said that the phone surveillance specifically stopped dozens of terrorist attacks. We're going to get more from Capitol Hill on this very important hearing, coming up.