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145: Creating a Nonprofit in Uganda’s Slums – Jennings Wright

The Expat Money Show - With Mikkel Thorup
The Expat Money Show - With Mikkel Thorup
Episode • Jul 26, 2021 • 1h 24m
Today’s guest on the Expat Money Show is Jennings Wright the Founder & Executive Director of 10Eighteen.org, a nonprofit organization that works with teen moms in the Namuwongo slums in Uganda with a halfway house and a vocational school; a WASH campaign in remote Rwakobo village inside Lake Mburo National Park; and food for children in 3 schools.  

WHAT WE DISCUSSED IN THIS INTERVIEW:

  • How modifying your perspective on something so important will radically change your life.
  • What you feel when you step inside a country like Uganda, how it changes your life and gets in your heart
  • You can’t even imagine what the slums in Uganda are like, the smell, the waste, the garbage yet Jennings has been 13 times to help make a difference for all that live there.
  • Listen to the story of a grandmother who is raising 6 grandchildren from 2 of her children who have died of AIDS...unfathomable.
  • Who really benefits from the normal average non-profit? Jennings describes in detail how different their organization is and how the people she helps learn new skills to take out to the world and make a difference.
  • What happens when you work with a nation that is mostly illiterate? Or that 65% of the population is under 18? What is in store for Ugandans going forward?
  • Here’s how you can really truly make a difference in the lives of others that don’t have access to clean water, clothes or food every day; imagine only eating every other day? 
  • Learn how vitally important schools being open in a country like Uganda so that children can have food to eat every day. 
  • The shocking stories of teen pregnancies in the slums of Kampala and how food is traded for sex

 

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CONCLUSION

This was probably the most difficult episode for me to record. We had to stop several times so that I could get myself composed. Jennings's stories are heartbreaking but true. I know my listeners, and I can only imagine that every one of you who takes the time to listen will be compelled to want to help. I know I am and that is why I have decided to make 10Eighteen the official charity of Expat Money and I will be supporting their initiative going forward. 

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