Our Inaction Today Will Haunt Our Grandchildren Tomorrow—Jason Jones on Helping the World’s Most Vulnerable, From Afghanistan to China
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Today I sit down with Jason Jones, a film producer and human rights worker who has devoted himself to serving the world’s most vulnerable people, from China to Afghanistan.
“Through what we call Operation Noble Brother, we’re seeking to identify every widow and all of the orphans of our Afghan allies who were killed in action, and make sure we give them the support they need to live,” he says.
Jones is the president of the Human-Rights Education and Relief Organization (H.E.R.O.) and founder of the Vulnerable People Project.
Last winter, his team delivered coal to thousands of families of former Afghan allies, Christians, Hazaras, and other minorities in Afghanistan, so they could survive the bitter winter.
His organization is maintaining safe houses for persecuted peoples under the Taliban, delivering food and medicine across Ukraine, and working to free bishops imprisoned in China.
“We always say … what did the Germans know? And when did they know it? … But the question we need to ask ourselves is what did we know about the Uyghur genocide? What did we know about the Falun Gong? When did we know it?”
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| 0:00.0 | I couldn't protect my own child, and when I saw the look in this father's eyes, he could |
| 0:04.0 | not save his child. |
| 0:05.5 | It was that minute I knew I want to spend the rest of my life just helping fathers protect |
| 0:10.8 | their children when they're in impossible situations. |
| 0:13.9 | Today's hit down with Jason Jones, a film producer and human rights worker, was devoted |
| 0:19.2 | his life to defending the world's most vulnerable, from persecuted religious communities in China |
| 0:25.3 | to the families of America's Afghan allies. |
| 0:28.6 | He is the president of the human rights education and relief organization, Hero, and founder |
| 0:33.7 | of the Vulnerable People Project. |
| 0:35.6 | We always say, what did the Germans know and when did they know it? |
| 0:38.2 | But the question we need to ask ourselves is what did we know about the Uyghur genocide? |
| 0:44.2 | What did we know about the full and gone? |
| 0:46.8 | When did we know it? |
| 0:48.6 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janja Kellek. |
| 0:53.9 | Jason Jones, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. |
| 0:57.2 | Jan, it's a pleasure to be with you. |
| 0:58.8 | Jason, you have an organization that works in many parts of the world helping what you |
| 1:06.2 | call Vulnerable People. |
| 1:09.5 | Examples that come to mind in Afghanistan, you actually are able to work in Afghanistan |
| 1:15.1 | right now supporting some of the hardest hit folks, people of lost family members. |
| 1:20.2 | It's just kind of an amazing story to me. |
| 1:22.1 | We're also working with Vulnerable People in a number of other parts of the world, notably |
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