It was a very … I feel as a society we’re not taking enough notice of that and focusing too much on adult refugees and economic refugees, whereas my focus is those children who are in that situation because adults have blown their world apart with bolts and bullets. Sue did that through adoption, and Saroo through uncovering his own identity and providing for his families. Take action: Ask world leaders to pledge to the Education Cannot Wait fund for kids in crisis.
As a young adult, he uses Google Earth to retrace his childhood steps and relocate his birth mother. To stand there in front of the woman who’d given me her son by accident, and then with the words she said at that meeting, I was very overcome, because she quite literally gave me her son.

Both Saroo and Sue believe that making a difference in the lives of others begins with taking responsibility for one’s own life and the lives of those around them.

The pair were in New York to promote “Lion,” the true story of Saroo’s quest to find his Indian birth mother, Kamala, using Google Earth, which has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. “I’m proud of Saroo really because he’s looking after his mother and siblings, and to me that’s doing a great thing.”, “I just concentrate on what I need to do,” Saroo said. It was great because right from the get go when the film was mooted, we joked around the family table saying, “Who’s going to play you?,” and I always wanted Nicole and the family laughed about that.

Saroo as a child with Australian adoptive parents Sue and John.Image: Photo courtesy of the Brierley family, Read more: Man Invites 10,000 Homeless People, Orphans, Stray Animals to His Wedding, “When I was a little girl it was a rather sad situation where unmarried mothers were having their children taken away from them,” Sue said. Saroo as a child with Australian adoptive parents Sue and John. Given that John and I didn’t know that Saroo was even searching, just to find his home town was amazing, and then of course to find his family there, well that’s just the ultimate miracle really. He’s sporting a fashionable grey suit and leaning back confidently into a plush couch, shoes kicked off on the floor next to him.

Saroo never ceases to amaze me. It showed a unique identity that seemed to gain extra dimensions as the months went by and before we knew it, there were companies saying, “We want to make a film.” Then the decision was who to go with, but in the end we went with See-Saw (Films) and we’re very happy with how they’ve produced this film.

Sue Brierley was made known globally by the 2017 Oscar-nominated film ‘Lion’ as the Australian adoptive mother of Indian-born Saroo. Thanks for signing up as a global citizen. “It just seems to me like they’re the trash left in the corner, and that really hurts me,” she said.

I was preparing for my biggest role. It’s just the most powerful experience that any mother could have. For one, the adoption process has actually become more laden down with red tape, and the wait length for adoption extended from an average of three years in the late 80s to five years today. When Sue and John Brierley adopted their first son Saroo from an orphanage in Calcutta, India, they couldn’t wait for him to grow up and tell them his story. During this difficult time, she had a wonderful vision come to her and she knew then she did have a future with happiness to come. She has shoulder-length cropped hair and kind eyes. It is a P/L business with two Tasmanian directors – John and Sue Brierley.

Brierley Hose and Handling started in 1986 in Hobart Tasmania. I was getting upset when we met and she wiped away my tears and I thought, “My goodness, with what you’ve been through.” She’s an amazing woman.

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But in actual fact, we couldn’t be happier about all of the cast. Extreme poverty ends with you. To some, the name Saroo Brierley might conjure images of the wiry, long-haired Dev Patel from the Oscar-nominated film “Lion.”. That’s exactly the reason why I’ve got two Indian boys, I’ve always had a soft spot for children in need, I feel that often they’re not valued enough in our society, and especially nowadays when I know that there are millions of children living in tents and on the streets, in war zones, either orphaned or abandoned or totally unaccompanied, and I feel very strongly about that. Let our experience guarantee your success. Not a Global Citizen yet?

That, in the end, is what being a Global Citizen is all about. I was actually very comfortable with her doing it, she’s a wonderful person and a special spirit, I don’t know how it would have been if the part had been allocated to an actor that maybe I didn’t connect with or feel the same way about, it would have been much more challenging for me, but I had faith in her commitment to the role.

Coincidentally, the film Lion, which so beautifully depicted their extraordinary life story, came on.

They could have moved anywhere, that part of India is really tough in the slums, people move endlessly, but his mother, credit to her, just had this utter belief that one day her son would come back.

“I know where I’m going, I understand what I’ve done, and I’ve gone to levels where I never thought I would.”. Sue has embraced this as an opportunity to share her life and family choices with the world after Saroo wrote a best-selling book called A Long Way Home later inspiring the film Lion. We’d talked about it endlessly and discussed it a lot, but I’d never seen the hardship he was going through and to see it in front of my eyes really did rock me. “If we don’t take citizenship back down to a personal level, it’s not going to happen in a political sense,” Sue said. Refugee children, she said, should “get on the first plane out because they’re sitting by the million in camps across war zones, wars that are created and enacted by adults.”. When Sue and John Brierley adopted their first son Saroo from an orphanage in Calcutta, India, they couldn’t wait for him to grow up and tell them his story.

“We just made some footnotes and we tweaked it and we put the crescendos and finessed it really,” Saroo Brierley told Global Citizen. On a brighter note, a report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare indicated that “broader social trends and changing social attitudes...have made it easier for children to stay with their family or in their country of origin,” which means despite rising interest in adoption, there may be less need for it. Saroo and Sue Brierley, with Saroo's birth mother, Kamala.

When even her meagre salary wasn’t enough, the children took to begging at … Man Invites 10,000 Homeless People, Orphans, Stray Animals to His Wedding, report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare indicated.

But despite changing social stigmas about the process, and increasing demand by Australian families to adopt, the number of adoptions in the country are plummeting. Do you feel that the film and the book have changed you as a family?

We’ve always been a very adaptable family.

In 2012 their world changed completely when Saroo found his birth family in India, making global headlines. But given the world’s refugee crisis, with 50 million uprooted children worldwide, Sue sees a continued, and maybe even renewed, need for giving children a second chance.

This practice was called a “forced adoption,” and was common in Australia through the early 1970s, just before Saroo and his brother Mantosh came to Australia. Saroo and his brother, Mantosh, in Australia.Image: Photo courtesy of the Brierley family.

Yes, definitely, because we chose to have two Indian sons, so obviously we wanted to know all about them. We talked a lot about the content of the book, and obviously there’s a lot of fairly personal and private material that had never seen the light of day, and certainly many things that we hadn’t made public before, but we were more than supportive and we decided, as a family, that if Saroo was going to do this it had to have all the material, warts and all. It was a very conscious decision all the way through, sometimes when Saroo would get a bit cranky and say, “other mothers don’t do that,” as a young child, I’d say, “no, I’m a professional parent, it’s got to be the way it’s done.” I spent sixteen years waiting for my boys, so I had plenty of time to research, learn, read, endlessly. The film is based off of the book Saroo wrote (“A Long Way Home”) about reconnecting with his birth mother. But the real Saroo Brierley is tall and clean-cut with a strong build. Level 1, 344 St Kilda RdMelbourne VIC 3004, Suite 5/102-108 Alfred St SouthMilsons Point NSW 2061.

If your Facebook account does not have an attached e-mail address, you'll need to add that before you can sign up. I’m hoping that the film will open up a few minds and allow people to start thinking about adoption rather than IVF or replicating, but in short I still believe what I’ve thought since I was a young girl: there are so many children who need a family, and I’ve never stopped believing that. Brierley was born Sheru Munshi Khan in Ganesh Talai, a suburb in the town of Khandwa in India’s Madhya Pradesh province. You go through your life and there’s a few big events that happen here and there, but for me that one is right up there, second only to meeting Saroo as the airport for the first time. After marrying her husband John, they waited patiently for 16 years before adopting a child named Saroo from India.

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The 2017 Oscar contender “Lion,” based on the book “A Long Way Home,” recounts Saroo’s story in painstaking detail, “warts and all.” In the wake of its six nominations, including in the two best supporting categories for Nicole Kidman who plays Sue and Dev Patel who plays Saroo, Sue Brierley spoke with Variety about seeing her family’s story on the big screen and reliving events from her life through the prism of an Oscar-winning actress’ performance.

People who want to learn about and take action on the world’s biggest challenges. “Lion” follows Saroo from his childhood in India to his time as a young adult in Hobart, Australia. It was quite traumatic for me seeing him play Saroo for the first time, because I hadn’t seen that part of Saroo’s life.

There’s another line when Nicole says, “there are enough people in the world, but to take two boys who are suffering and give them a chance in life, that’s something.” Is that how you feel? His father left when he and his three siblings were young, throwing the family into bitter poverty and leaving his mother to work for long stretches of time at a construction site to provide for the family.

The film was able to make finding someone staring at a computer and searching on Google Earth so cinematic, how do you think it achieved that? “I sat there with Saroo and my dog Louis and watched Lion from beginning to end and I think it’s only the third time I’ve watched it.

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“It’s been fun,” Sue added. I always knew that he had something special about him. He sits next to his adoptive mother Sue, who’s dressed colorfully in a pastel-colored jacket and sits up straight, hands folded in her lap. 2 years later the family welcomed their 2nd son from India, Mantosh. Of course, they sat together and watched it. How did you feel when you heard Nicole Kidman would be playing you in the film?

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