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Finding Musana

March 21, 2025 | 53:59

Finding Musana
A young Ugandan and a Colorado intern discover first-hand how charity models in Africa can create exploitation and dependence. Together with unexpected partners, they develop a model of local-ownership and micro-enterprise that could forever shift how the West views poverty relief.
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| Finding Musana | March 21, 2025
  • ♪♪
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  • Uganda became independent from the british in 1962
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  • When my father was just a boy.
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  • ♪♪
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  • When i was a boy, i saw the extreme poverty in
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  • Uganda had its way of keeping us dependent on
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  • Foreign aid. in that area,
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  • Our journey to independence was not
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  • Nearly complete. to become self reliant, there were
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  • Things i knew i needed that i was determined to
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  • Find, and thankfully there were things and
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  • People that i did not know i needed, which it
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  • Would later feel like had been determined
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  • To find me.
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  • ♪♪
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  • A courageous and kind of a reckless girl from
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  • Someplace called colorado was one of those.
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  • Our story is a bit about adventure and pain and a
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  • Team of unlikely friends fighting unlikely odds.
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  • And i would say it is also about what gaining
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  • Independence actually means, but mostly a lot
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  • Of african stories,
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  • It is about family and it's about more than just us.
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  • ♪♪
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  • About my childhood,
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  • I'm a born of one of 18 children from my dad.
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  • My mom only had three of us.
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  • My dad was muslim and he was a polygamist, so he
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  • Had three wives.
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  • ♪♪
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  • My mom grew up in a family of probably 15 or so.
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  • She was one of the oldest.
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  • Their parents died when they're still young, so
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  • She carried her burden raising up her siblings.
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  • I remember one time it was a big storm of rain
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  • That came and opened the roof.
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  • Our bedroom was like where we keep all the
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  • Utensils, all the kitchen supplies.
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  • I mean we had chickens and stuff.
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  • They were sleeping in our bedroom, so i had to
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  • Climb up and pull the roof down, pulling it
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  • Down and holding it, getting wet that whole
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  • Night and that day i told my mom, when i grow up,
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  • The first thing i'm going to do is to change
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  • This house.
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  • We're not going to live like this forever.
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  • ♪♪
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  • I grew up in the suburbs in denver. all through
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  • High school,
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  • I loved coffee shops and i worked at coffee shops.
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  • I loved the community aspect.
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  • I loved the idea of people coming together.
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  • We had a group of old men that would come in every
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  • Day and they would just sit and have community
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  • With each other, and i always felt like that was
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  • Lacking in the life i was living.
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  • There wasn't a lot of that kind of community.
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  • And so that was my dream, was to start a coffee shop.
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  • So i applied to the lead school of business at
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  • University of colorado.
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  • I had a major identity crisis.
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  • I just really struggled to understand who i was,
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  • Why i was there.
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  • I felt really out of place in the
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  • Business school.
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  • If you make making money the purpose of life, you
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  • Will spend your whole life wanting more,
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  • Wanting more, never feeling content, never
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  • Feeling satisfied, and so many people never find
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  • Purpose in that.
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  • And then some point in my sophomore year and my
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  • Professor put on the screen muhammad yunus and
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  • Explained the concept of micro finance.
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  • I literally googled cheapest way to go to
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  • Africa and learn micro finance. an opportunity.
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  • Popped up, micro finance internship in iganga, uganda.
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  • I told my sister leah, so she's like, you can't go
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  • To uganda without me.
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  • And then we had another friend, sally, who was
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  • Also a student at the university of colorado.
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  • And she found an internship working at the
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  • Main hospital in iganga.
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  • It was june of 2008.
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  • They were just living across the street from
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  • The house we were living in.
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  • At one point we just walked down there and
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  • Said hi to them,
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  • And by that time andrea was bald.
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  • She didn't have any hair on her head.
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  • A woman had wanted to put braids in my hair and it
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  • Was so uncomfortable.
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  • So when we were taking the braids out, sally was
  • 00:06:02.418 --> 00:06:05.254
  • Like, you should just shave your head.
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  • And i was like, i don't know why would i shave it?
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  • She's like, you would just be so fun.
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  • You should totally shave it.
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  • They get scissors and literally a local razor
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  • Blade and i had a white, white head. everywhere i
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  • Went in town,
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  • I was then known as [speaks swahili] which means
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  • Bald mzungu. every white person is mzungu.
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  • It's not a negative term at all, it's just a
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  • Descriptive term.
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  • Andrea took me to this orphanage where she was
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  • Volunteering and providing food.
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  • The whole town would bring their trash and
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  • Dump it there.
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  • It was a really total mess, very dirty.
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  • There were reasons that the kids were kept living like that.
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  • I mean, you can't go to a place like this orphanage
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  • And not feel like you have to do something
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  • Because of the conditions.
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  • The more i went there, the more the kids just
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  • Became so special.
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  • It stopped being just this mob of kids and it
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  • Started to be dely and rebecca and solomon and
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  • Joseph and joshua.
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  • I got to know them.
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  • [kids singing you are my sunshine]
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  • The head of the local government said, you have
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  • Two days, we'll come and we'll kick all these kids out.
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  • What do you mean? you're going to send them--
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  • They're going to just go where? we were praying and
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  • We were crying and we're like, oh my gosh, how do
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  • We rescue them?
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  • How do we make sure these kids don't end up
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  • On the street?
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  • What if we start our own children's home?
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  • I mean, honestly, i don't think we had any idea how
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  • We were going to do it.
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  • We just knew it had to happen.
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  • One of the most powerful thing for me was
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  • The conversation
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  • Andrea lee and sally really had, the passion
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  • And how intrigued they are.
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  • Part of me, i was like, of course they just don't
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  • Understand africa.
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  • They don't understand the situation, but it
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  • Was extreme.
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  • ♪♪
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  • They loved the song, you are my sunshine.
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  • So i remember asking, what is sunshine in the
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  • Local language?
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  • And they said musana.
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  • So we named it musana.
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  • At that point, it was an idea.
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  • Sally and leah both left and we needed them to go
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  • And share the stories and raise money.
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  • So i told them, i'm going to stay
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  • And take these kids.
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  • You're going to stay in africa in this situation
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  • For these kids?
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  • I will never forget calling my parents and
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  • Telling them, especially my dad, i have to stay.
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  • I have to do this.
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  • And literally my dad said, andrea, get your
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  • Butt home.
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  • The government officials, everyone was looking at
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  • Me like, you're crazy.
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  • Go home.
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  • You can go back. everyone--
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  • And that's honestly most people were like, you can
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  • Go back after you graduate, get a little
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  • Older, get a little wiser.
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  • ♪♪
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  • I got home one day and there was a burnt frog on
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  • A stick sticking out of my window seal.
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  • What does this mean?
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  • And they're like, oh, that's a death curse.
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  • They told me, you can't stay here anymore because
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  • You're too much of a risk.
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  • I didn't see myself in the future dream of musana.
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  • At this point,
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  • I'm like, i just want to help these kids to get
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  • Out of this place.
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  • And i did not catch that in my heart very quickly
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  • That i was falling in love with the kids.
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  • ♪♪
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  • I will never forget walking into the
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  • Government official's office and the director
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  • Of the orphanage is sitting there and he says
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  • To the orphanage director, you are going
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  • To give 80 kids to andrea.
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  • You can keep 80 kids, but you give 80 kids,
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  • It'll help you.
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  • You'll be less burdened.
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  • So let andrea take the 80 kids and let's see what
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  • She can do.
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  • Somehow the district officials, again, i would
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  • Say mostly trusted andrea because they looked at us
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  • As young.
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  • We were just 20 years old.
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  • I think they had a lot of trust in andrea mostly
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  • Especially seeing that she was representing aid.
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  • So there was trust there.
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  • If we give her the kids, she could do something to
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  • Support them.
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  • But also me with that, i was like, yeah, she
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  • Is responsible.
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  • I don't have the resources to take care of
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  • These kids.
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  • And at this point we didn't know where we were
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  • Taking them.
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  • We had no money, we had nothing.
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  • But i confidently was telling government
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  • Officials and everyone i have support, i have all
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  • These people back home that are going to send
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  • Money and we're going to be able to take care of
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  • These kids and give them a good life.
  • 00:14:09.471 --> 00:14:12.374
  • After hearing, we just trying to raise money,
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  • I didn't know how that works because what if you
  • 00:14:15.110 --> 00:14:17.146
  • Don't get it?
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  • What happens?
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  • Sally and leah were back in colorado and they were
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  • Sharing photos and telling the story.
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  • We're back at nine and 10.
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  • We introduced you to cu boulder students,
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  • Leah, sally, and andrea.
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  • The girls have looked for help wherever they can
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  • To keep musana going.
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  • That my mom was so essential in the
  • 00:14:34.997 --> 00:14:38.934
  • Beginning of musana before even being here,
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  • She's calling her friends and being like, my
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  • Daughter is in africa and she's trying to take
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  • These 80 kids.
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  • Please help.
  • 00:14:48.043 --> 00:14:49.311
  • And so people were just, started giving money.
  • 00:14:49.311 --> 00:14:51.847
  • I had grown up being told to be the hands and feet
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  • Of jesus. i saw that, if i was willing, god
  • 00:14:57.953 --> 00:15:02.424
  • Would take care of the rest.
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  • And so sometimes we just have to be willing,
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  • Especially when it's something that is so
  • 00:15:08.931 --> 00:15:12.401
  • Clearly what god wants for us.
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  • I mean, biblically, god talks over and over again
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  • About taking care of the orphans and the widows.
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  • So how can you go into an environment where you're
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  • Seeing so many children abandoned and neglected
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  • And abused and walk away from that?
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  • September 16th, 2008 will always be the best day of
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  • My life.
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  • ♪♪
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  • Driving with the kids from the other orphanage
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  • Into the compound of musana and the excitement
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  • And then getting out of the car and just
  • 00:16:03.886 --> 00:16:06.455
  • Screaming in joy.
  • 00:16:06.455 --> 00:16:16.265
  • Watching them line up and saying, ready? go!
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  • I remember actually going through and thinking this
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  • Kid would-- these bedsheets, most of these
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  • Kids had never slept on a bed before.
  • 00:16:27.709 --> 00:16:30.946
  • And them coming in, i'm like, okay, look for your
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  • Name on your bed and the noise and the voices of
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  • Joy, them running and jumping and you could
  • 00:16:38.187 --> 00:16:42.291
  • See tears.
  • 00:16:42.291 --> 00:16:43.592
  • I was just standing there with chills.
  • 00:16:43.592 --> 00:16:54.570
  • And i gave them a hug and i gave them a kiss and i
  • 00:16:55.604 --> 00:16:59.308
  • Said, you're home and you're safe.
  • 00:16:59.308 --> 00:17:26.235
  • And at that point i thought, okay, job done. good.
  • 00:17:27.269 --> 00:17:30.639
  • So i came home to my mom and my dad.
  • 00:17:30.639 --> 00:17:32.274
  • I just told them, and you cannot believe this,
  • 00:17:32.274 --> 00:17:34.510
  • There is this orphanage.
  • 00:17:34.510 --> 00:17:36.178
  • There is all these kids that were living like
  • 00:17:36.178 --> 00:17:38.013
  • This and so on, and there is these white people
  • 00:17:38.013 --> 00:17:40.115
  • From america and then they wanted to move these
  • 00:17:40.115 --> 00:17:44.052
  • Kids and have a home.
  • 00:17:44.052 --> 00:17:47.289
  • And i was like, but i'm going to go back because
  • 00:17:47.289 --> 00:17:49.291
  • I just need to make sure everything is fine.
  • 00:17:49.291 --> 00:17:53.228
  • So i go back and the way the kids welcomed me
  • 00:17:53.228 --> 00:17:56.398
  • Back, they ran to me and they're so excited.
  • 00:17:56.398 --> 00:18:00.669
  • I mean, it was two days of being away and they're
  • 00:18:00.669 --> 00:18:03.772
  • Like, oh uncle, uncle, we missed you.
  • 00:18:03.772 --> 00:18:06.642
  • Welcome!
  • 00:18:06.642 --> 00:18:07.776
  • Came out-- and it was, i was like just felt home.
  • 00:18:07.776 --> 00:18:13.148
  • I felt home.
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  • ♪♪
  • 00:18:19.521 --> 00:18:25.027
  • It was --, morris, myself.
  • 00:18:25.027 --> 00:18:27.462
  • And then i think we had two women and a
  • 00:18:27.462 --> 00:18:29.565
  • Security guard.
  • 00:18:29.565 --> 00:18:31.633
  • That was it.
  • 00:18:31.633 --> 00:18:33.268
  • That was musana.
  • 00:18:33.268 --> 00:18:43.245
  • Hiril didn't understand how these kids
  • 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:46.982
  • Had no relatives or had no parents.
  • 00:18:46.982 --> 00:18:49.818
  • He was always very doubtful of that.
  • 00:18:49.818 --> 00:18:52.654
  • So the first thing we did when we had these kids
  • 00:18:52.654 --> 00:18:55.224
  • Was we went to every single one of their villages.
  • 00:18:55.224 --> 00:18:59.861
  • And then we started learning more about
  • 00:18:59.861 --> 00:19:00.996
  • These children.
  • 00:19:00.996 --> 00:19:02.631
  • Some of these children were not opened.
  • 00:19:02.631 --> 00:19:05.667
  • Some of these children actually had parents.
  • 00:19:05.667 --> 00:19:10.906
  • We actually hired a social worker and the iganga
  • 00:19:10.906 --> 00:19:12.541
  • Probation officer moved with us.
  • 00:19:12.541 --> 00:19:16.144
  • We did our best to find out the truth about these
  • 00:19:16.144 --> 00:19:18.513
  • Kids. learning that they had changed their names.
  • 00:19:18.513 --> 00:19:26.755
  • They had told them to lie they're orphans.
  • 00:19:26.755 --> 00:19:30.425
  • And this was quite heartbreaking.
  • 00:19:30.425 --> 00:19:32.661
  • And this took me into another journey of why?
  • 00:19:32.661 --> 00:19:40.335
  • The kids were trained to say that they had no mom,
  • 00:19:41.370 --> 00:19:43.405
  • No dad, because they were told, if you admit who
  • 00:19:43.405 --> 00:19:45.807
  • You are, that you won't get the opportunity. in a
  • 00:19:45.807 --> 00:19:51.280
  • Way, that's on us, that's on the donors.
  • 00:19:51.280 --> 00:19:54.449
  • By wanting to support only the orphans, were in
  • 00:19:54.449 --> 00:19:56.585
  • Fact creating orphans.
  • 00:19:56.585 --> 00:20:01.623
  • This orphanage was built on lies.
  • 00:20:01.623 --> 00:20:05.761
  • Most of the kids like moses, when we went to
  • 00:20:05.761 --> 00:20:08.497
  • The home, we were told that his mom was
  • 00:20:08.497 --> 00:20:10.532
  • His grandmother.
  • 00:20:10.532 --> 00:21:21.937
  • Like watching them watch us discover that no,
  • 00:21:22.838 --> 00:21:25.040
  • These were in fact their parents,
  • 00:21:25.040 --> 00:21:27.509
  • The burden that they felt was lifted because they
  • 00:21:27.509 --> 00:21:31.313
  • Didn't have to hide anymore. come into the
  • 00:21:31.313 --> 00:21:35.083
  • Light and have a true and honest and authentic
  • 00:21:35.083 --> 00:21:37.285
  • Relationship with god and a true and authentic
  • 00:21:37.285 --> 00:21:39.788
  • Relationship with musana.
  • 00:21:39.788 --> 00:21:51.266
  • ♪♪
  • 00:21:51.500 --> 00:22:08.116
  • The reality is it all comes down to poverty.
  • 00:22:08.116 --> 00:22:11.019
  • All these kids were vulnerable and the
  • 00:22:11.019 --> 00:22:16.625
  • Reality is they all wanted their kids to have
  • 00:22:16.625 --> 00:22:19.327
  • A better opportunity.
  • 00:22:19.327 --> 00:22:23.131
  • ♪♪
  • 00:22:23.131 --> 00:22:24.003
  • ♪♪
  • 00:22:24.003 --> 00:22:34.075
  • If you could write a book on how not to run
  • 00:22:34.075 --> 00:22:37.946
  • Organization in uganda, you could do a study on
  • 00:22:37.946 --> 00:22:41.683
  • Those first two and a half years.
  • 00:22:41.683 --> 00:22:43.518
  • I mean, it was a very typical, whoever has the
  • 00:22:43.518 --> 00:22:47.556
  • Money has the power.
  • 00:22:47.556 --> 00:22:52.027
  • ♪♪
  • 00:22:52.027 --> 00:22:55.664
  • Even when we had 18 year olds from the us come,
  • 00:22:55.664 --> 00:22:57.532
  • They came with authority because they were
  • 00:22:57.532 --> 00:23:00.235
  • Representatives of the money.
  • 00:23:00.235 --> 00:23:06.174
  • It was hard because i knew deep down it wasn't
  • 00:23:06.174 --> 00:23:08.410
  • Right. from the beginning,
  • 00:23:08.410 --> 00:23:11.112
  • We wanted local ownership,
  • 00:23:11.112 --> 00:23:12.447
  • We wanted sustainability.
  • 00:23:12.447 --> 00:23:14.249
  • It wasn't like these were new concepts.
  • 00:23:14.249 --> 00:23:16.685
  • I think trusting was a huge piece.
  • 00:23:16.685 --> 00:23:21.490
  • I mean, i had missionaries that had
  • 00:23:21.490 --> 00:23:23.758
  • Been here 20 years who were mentors to me, who
  • 00:23:23.758 --> 00:23:26.795
  • Tell me, never give up power, never give up control.
  • 00:23:26.795 --> 00:23:33.201
  • And so i was living in that, afraid, afraid of
  • 00:23:33.201 --> 00:23:39.808
  • Letting go.
  • 00:23:39.808 --> 00:23:43.879
  • ♪♪
  • 00:23:43.879 --> 00:23:51.887
  • I carried a huge burden, a huge burden.
  • 00:23:51.887 --> 00:23:55.624
  • And the pressure, i mean i would say 95% of the
  • 00:23:55.624 --> 00:24:00.061
  • Time i wanted to rip my hair out.
  • 00:24:00.061 --> 00:24:03.765
  • I hadn't really gone home other than a few short,
  • 00:24:03.765 --> 00:24:06.801
  • Short trips.
  • 00:24:06.801 --> 00:24:10.939
  • I mean, i had lost so much weight i couldn't eat.
  • 00:24:10.939 --> 00:24:15.944
  • Hair was falling out.
  • 00:24:15.944 --> 00:24:19.648
  • Andrea was so burnt out.
  • 00:24:20.148 --> 00:24:31.459
  • Being at the forefront, it was a big risk for me.
  • 00:24:32.460 --> 00:24:36.031
  • And i would say for the most part, i never
  • 00:24:36.031 --> 00:24:37.532
  • Related so much with people who were already
  • 00:24:37.532 --> 00:24:40.468
  • Doing organizations or aid because my
  • 00:24:40.468 --> 00:24:43.572
  • Perspective about that was very different.
  • 00:24:43.572 --> 00:24:48.577
  • This is an opportunity for us locals to
  • 00:24:49.377 --> 00:24:51.079
  • Transform the lives of our children.
  • 00:24:51.079 --> 00:24:56.518
  • I told them, let's look at ourselves.
  • 00:24:56.518 --> 00:25:02.257
  • If we do not have jobs, if we do not have
  • 00:25:02.257 --> 00:25:06.761
  • Education, if we do not have healthcare, it is
  • 00:25:06.761 --> 00:25:12.634
  • Like we are stripped naked.
  • 00:25:12.634 --> 00:25:14.803
  • It's like we don't have value, and that means we
  • 00:25:14.803 --> 00:25:21.142
  • Have no dignity.
  • 00:25:21.142 --> 00:25:26.014
  • So how do we revive our dignity? in our culture,
  • 00:25:26.014 --> 00:25:32.687
  • It's not a nuclear family, it's an
  • 00:25:32.687 --> 00:25:34.322
  • Extended family.
  • 00:25:34.322 --> 00:25:36.458
  • The community raises a child. in so many ways,
  • 00:25:36.458 --> 00:25:42.364
  • We have seen whether americans or europeans
  • 00:25:42.364 --> 00:25:45.300
  • Coming and investing their time, resources,
  • 00:25:45.300 --> 00:25:48.169
  • And energy into solving problems here and they
  • 00:25:48.169 --> 00:25:52.374
  • End up breaking down and regretting, what did they do?
  • 00:25:52.374 --> 00:26:00.048
  • People say africa is a basket with holes.
  • 00:26:00.048 --> 00:26:04.586
  • You pour in, but it doesn't hold.
  • 00:26:04.586 --> 00:26:08.757
  • But the biggest problem has been the approach.
  • 00:26:08.757 --> 00:26:14.696
  • To coming into a community like uganda, to come with
  • 00:26:14.696 --> 00:26:16.698
  • A mindset that i'm not going to be able to be
  • 00:26:16.698 --> 00:26:19.901
  • The one to solve the problems that people have.
  • 00:26:19.901 --> 00:26:24.773
  • What they lack is the resources, but they know
  • 00:26:24.773 --> 00:26:27.175
  • It, that they can be the solution for
  • 00:26:27.175 --> 00:26:29.678
  • Their community.
  • 00:26:29.678 --> 00:26:31.579
  • So even when they had the solutions, they didn't
  • 00:26:31.579 --> 00:26:34.449
  • Know that they can have a voice.
  • 00:26:34.449 --> 00:26:36.451
  • And i think that was something that is
  • 00:26:36.451 --> 00:26:40.155
  • Reawakening to the local people.
  • 00:26:40.155 --> 00:26:44.059
  • We have seen that when people are given value
  • 00:26:44.993 --> 00:26:47.962
  • And honor, they're going to be able to think
  • 00:26:47.962 --> 00:26:50.732
  • With you.
  • 00:26:50.732 --> 00:26:53.768
  • They're going to learn from you, you're going to
  • 00:26:53.768 --> 00:26:56.071
  • Learn from them, and at the end of the day,
  • 00:26:56.071 --> 00:26:58.339
  • You'll be able to work with them to solve the
  • 00:26:58.339 --> 00:27:00.475
  • Problems within their community.
  • 00:27:00.475 --> 00:27:04.412
  • I would say majority of people in uganda are
  • 00:27:04.412 --> 00:27:07.348
  • Religious people.
  • 00:27:07.348 --> 00:27:09.851
  • They rely on jesus mostly.
  • 00:27:09.851 --> 00:27:12.587
  • This is where their hope is.
  • 00:27:12.587 --> 00:27:15.290
  • People believe all their abilities, all their life
  • 00:27:15.290 --> 00:27:17.759
  • Belongs to god.
  • 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:24.899
  • So you would see people now sacrificing their
  • 00:27:25.834 --> 00:27:28.369
  • Time, their energy and everything, and they
  • 00:27:28.369 --> 00:27:32.674
  • Became invested.
  • 00:27:32.674 --> 00:27:35.744
  • Once that is there, it uplifts people more than
  • 00:27:35.744 --> 00:27:39.147
  • You can imagine.
  • 00:27:39.147 --> 00:27:46.121
  • Going back to school after two and a half
  • 00:27:46.988 --> 00:27:48.590
  • Years living here, all the responsibility i had,
  • 00:27:48.590 --> 00:27:52.093
  • It was so healthy for me.
  • 00:27:52.093 --> 00:27:56.931
  • When i came back after five months, i couldn't
  • 00:27:56.931 --> 00:28:00.235
  • Believe how things had changed.
  • 00:28:00.235 --> 00:28:06.374
  • It was humbling to know that musana could run
  • 00:28:06.374 --> 00:28:08.777
  • Without me.
  • 00:28:08.777 --> 00:28:10.211
  • It was a huge relief.
  • 00:28:10.211 --> 00:28:11.813
  • It was humbling and it was a relief.
  • 00:28:11.813 --> 00:28:16.751
  • The only thing that is going to make an impact
  • 00:28:16.751 --> 00:28:18.486
  • Is something that is coming out of us because
  • 00:28:18.486 --> 00:28:22.957
  • It starts from inside.
  • 00:28:22.957 --> 00:28:24.692
  • And what's inside me is like, no, we need to own
  • 00:28:24.692 --> 00:28:27.862
  • This as the community so that it becomes our
  • 00:28:27.862 --> 00:28:30.698
  • Responsibility to change.
  • 00:28:30.698 --> 00:28:37.005
  • To be honest, no white person should ever start
  • 00:28:37.005 --> 00:28:38.740
  • Anything in africa unless it is in partnership.
  • 00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:42.844
  • But that's where i think the miracle of
  • 00:28:42.844 --> 00:28:44.279
  • Musana comes in.
  • 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:48.383
  • In most charity models, you have a direct
  • 00:28:48.383 --> 00:28:50.819
  • Relationship between the donor and the
  • 00:28:50.819 --> 00:28:52.954
  • Beneficiary.
  • 00:28:52.954 --> 00:28:56.891
  • The donor supports a sponsored child
  • 00:28:56.891 --> 00:29:00.028
  • To go to school.
  • 00:29:00.028 --> 00:29:01.462
  • The donor supports a meal for somebody.
  • 00:29:01.462 --> 00:29:05.233
  • What ends up happening is it leaves the rest of the
  • 00:29:05.233 --> 00:29:08.002
  • Community out, so the community is not engaged
  • 00:29:08.002 --> 00:29:14.909
  • And they're not actively involved in caring for
  • 00:29:14.909 --> 00:29:17.579
  • That beneficiary.
  • 00:29:17.579 --> 00:29:24.052
  • How can the donor, instead of give directly
  • 00:29:24.052 --> 00:29:27.555
  • To the beneficiary, really empower the
  • 00:29:27.555 --> 00:29:29.557
  • Community to be lifted up so that they can be the
  • 00:29:29.557 --> 00:29:31.059
  • Ones that support the most vulnerabl?
  • 00:29:31.059 --> 00:29:37.498
  • Under these hopes and principles,
  • 00:29:38.233 --> 00:29:40.068
  • In 2011, musana children's home reorganized
  • 00:29:40.068 --> 00:29:44.172
  • As musana community development organization.
  • 00:29:44.172 --> 00:29:55.950
  • We wanted musana to be owned, not just owned on
  • 00:29:56.885 --> 00:30:00.555
  • Paper, but owned in the heart, owned in the mind
  • 00:30:00.555 --> 00:30:03.424
  • By the community.
  • 00:30:03.424 --> 00:30:06.294
  • And so musana was registered as a local ngo.
  • 00:30:06.294 --> 00:30:13.468
  • And what that meant is we built a local board made
  • 00:30:13.468 --> 00:30:16.104
  • Up of ugandans.
  • 00:30:16.104 --> 00:30:17.372
  • I was the only non- ugandan on the board.
  • 00:30:17.372 --> 00:30:23.311
  • From then on, i would say we started working on
  • 00:30:23.311 --> 00:30:25.713
  • Figuring out ways of how to address the ultimate
  • 00:30:25.713 --> 00:30:31.920
  • Problem of poverty.
  • 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:34.822
  • ♪♪
  • 00:30:34.822 --> 00:30:42.931
  • What has really helped musana create more
  • 00:30:42.931 --> 00:30:45.900
  • Ownership is the model of sustainability
  • 00:30:45.900 --> 00:30:50.405
  • And enterprise
  • 00:30:50.405 --> 00:30:52.106
  • Instead of charity. micro enterprise kicks in.
  • 00:30:52.106 --> 00:30:57.412
  • We run all of our projects as enterprises and we
  • 00:30:57.412 --> 00:31:04.419
  • Have to raise whatever money we need to operate
  • 00:31:04.419 --> 00:31:08.222
  • With local income.
  • 00:31:08.222 --> 00:31:14.362
  • Musana's model unfolded like this: education,
  • 00:31:15.296 --> 00:31:21.536
  • Healthcare, and vocational training.
  • 00:31:21.536 --> 00:31:30.311
  • Our community needed to build an economy and we
  • 00:31:31.245 --> 00:31:35.783
  • Saw social enterprise as the most sustainable
  • 00:31:35.783 --> 00:31:38.486
  • Economic model.
  • 00:31:38.486 --> 00:31:41.923
  • In 2009, musana started its first school.
  • 00:31:41.923 --> 00:31:47.762
  • We had all these kids and we had to educate them.
  • 00:31:47.762 --> 00:31:50.932
  • So we literally started just by hiring
  • 00:31:50.932 --> 00:31:52.700
  • Some teachers.
  • 00:31:52.700 --> 00:32:31.939
  • In 2009, we're known as a children's home and moms
  • 00:32:32.974 --> 00:32:38.079
  • Were just coming to our gates with their kids and
  • 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:43.084
  • Begging us to take their kids.
  • 00:32:43.084 --> 00:32:49.490
  • By the end of 2009, musana began to develop
  • 00:32:50.391 --> 00:32:54.028
  • An empowerment center.
  • 00:32:54.028 --> 00:33:02.804
  • An example is lydia.
  • 00:33:03.271 --> 00:33:04.772
  • She had a little girl with her and she was
  • 00:33:04.772 --> 00:33:06.674
  • Holding a baby and the baby was basically dying.
  • 00:33:06.674 --> 00:33:10.878
  • I mean, so sick.
  • 00:33:10.878 --> 00:33:13.014
  • I mean, she said that she was two the baby, and she
  • 00:33:13.014 --> 00:33:16.084
  • Looked like she was six months.
  • 00:33:16.084 --> 00:33:19.253
  • So lydia was like, please take my kids.
  • 00:33:19.253 --> 00:33:21.456
  • I don't have any way of providing for them.
  • 00:33:21.456 --> 00:33:24.592
  • Their dad's not in their life, and this is just
  • 00:33:24.592 --> 00:33:30.498
  • One story of many.
  • 00:33:30.498 --> 00:33:32.366
  • But we were like, we're not just going to take
  • 00:33:32.366 --> 00:33:33.734
  • Your kids.
  • 00:33:33.734 --> 00:33:37.705
  • All these women that were coming to us wanting us
  • 00:33:37.705 --> 00:33:39.807
  • To take their kids, we just started training.
  • 00:33:39.807 --> 00:34:30.892
  • So right now, all musana's uniforms are made by women at --
  • 00:34:32.026 --> 00:34:44.839
  • In 2010, musana hired a head teacher and began
  • 00:34:44.839 --> 00:34:46.974
  • Opening up the school to the rest
  • 00:34:46.974 --> 00:34:49.544
  • Of the community.
  • 00:34:49.544 --> 00:35:28.049
  • By 2011, boarding was added to musana schools.
  • 00:35:28.983 --> 00:35:52.940
  • In 2010, musana opened sol cafe.
  • 00:35:53.641 --> 00:36:00.781
  • Remember i said i always wanted to have a
  • 00:36:01.582 --> 00:36:03.050
  • Coffee shop?
  • 00:36:03.050 --> 00:36:04.652
  • So we started sol cafe.
  • 00:36:04.652 --> 00:36:11.892
  • It transformed into a small little restaurant,
  • 00:36:12.827 --> 00:36:17.732
  • Just an income generator, a place to train locals
  • 00:36:17.732 --> 00:36:20.701
  • On hospitality and how to run a restaurant.
  • 00:36:20.701 --> 00:36:25.873
  • ♪♪
  • 00:36:25.873 --> 00:36:46.427
  • I didn't even see it coming for us.
  • 00:36:46.427 --> 00:36:49.864
  • How the chemistry happened for us, how we
  • 00:36:49.864 --> 00:36:51.632
  • Became more feeling, having feelings
  • 00:36:51.632 --> 00:36:54.135
  • For each other.
  • 00:36:54.135 --> 00:36:55.803
  • I came to my mom and dad, and you know what mom and dad?
  • 00:36:55.803 --> 00:36:59.974
  • I think there is something going on with andrea, but
  • 00:36:59.974 --> 00:37:06.847
  • This is a problem.
  • 00:37:06.847 --> 00:37:07.982
  • We work together.
  • 00:37:07.982 --> 00:37:09.917
  • I don't know if it's the right thing.
  • 00:37:09.917 --> 00:37:13.154
  • So i planned a trip to go meet a friend in kenya.
  • 00:37:14.155 --> 00:37:19.026
  • So she was like, oh, can i come along?
  • 00:37:19.026 --> 00:37:25.366
  • And we had our first kiss on the back of the bus
  • 00:37:26.334 --> 00:37:29.970
  • Going to nairobi.
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  • Wait a minute, did we really just do that?
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  • For us,
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  • A kiss was more than a kiss.
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  • Most of her family was coming to uganda.
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  • So like, okay, why don't we invite everyone?
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  • Because it was hard to bring my family to the us
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  • For the wedding.
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  • It could not happen.
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  • We planned it for a couple of weeks.
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  • It was a very small wedding.
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  • When i approached my family with that, that
  • 00:38:03.270 --> 00:38:06.273
  • Was very hard for them.
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  • They're like, that's not how we do weddings here.
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  • We plan for some time.
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  • We contribute money together.
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  • We do this.
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  • You have to invite everybody.
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  • And i mean there's like a thousand people i know,
  • 00:38:16.650 --> 00:38:22.356
  • And that was already a cultural crash, and all
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  • The things at that moment just made us closer to
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  • Each other, but they made us closer to each other
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  • Because we are the ones that knew each other the best.
  • 00:38:34.735 --> 00:38:46.002
  • Because we are the ones that knew each other the best.
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  • One thing about taking care of a lot of kids is
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  • You make constant trips to the hospital and you
  • 00:38:59.728 --> 00:39:03.732
  • See a lot about quality of care, the standards of
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  • Care, the lines, the waiting.
  • 00:39:06.968 --> 00:39:14.810
  • I gave birth to our first daughter in 2014 and had
  • 00:39:15.844 --> 00:39:20.348
  • A really difficult delivery in uganda, and i
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  • Will never forget the morning after she was born.
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  • And i mean, it is like a miracle that she lived
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  • And that i lived.
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  • And just thinking we women deserve a better
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  • Place to give birth.
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  • Every woman deserves a chance to give birth in a
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  • Safe environment where they have access to a
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  • Nicu if their baby-- like our baby needed oxygen.
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  • Andrea and i had been married for three years
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  • When musana opened his first hospital in iganga.
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  • ♪♪
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  • In the same year that we opened the hospital, sol
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  • Cafe transitioned to sol view restaurant and
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  • Convention center.
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  • ♪♪
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  • Musana began building its first high school in 2016
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  • And it opened in 2017.
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  • ♪♪
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  • [children singing]
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  • We are trying to raise our kids to be
  • 00:42:36.611 --> 00:42:38.079
  • Well-rounded, but it's also emphasizing on
  • 00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:41.216
  • Vocational skills.
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  • So every graduate is trained in electrical or
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  • Plumbing or brick laying and construction
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  • And tailoring.
  • 00:42:48.156 --> 00:42:54.763
  • In traditional charity, you would have maybe a
  • 00:42:55.664 --> 00:42:57.432
  • Missions team for example, come and build a home for
  • 00:42:57.432 --> 00:43:01.603
  • A vulnerable family, and instead you see these
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  • Students going into the deep villages and
  • 00:43:09.044 --> 00:43:11.880
  • Building these homes and the pride that they feel,
  • 00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:15.684
  • Not just because they're practicing their skill
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  • And they're creating a beautiful home, but
  • 00:43:17.786 --> 00:43:19.654
  • Because they know the family that
  • 00:43:19.654 --> 00:43:24.092
  • It's benefiting.
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  • ♪♪
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  • A year later, we opened a nursery and primary
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  • School in bokona, another village in iganga district.
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  • ♪♪
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  • From the beginning, people would tell us, you
  • 00:44:03.031 --> 00:44:05.533
  • Cannot run a school sustainably in uganda.
  • 00:44:05.533 --> 00:44:10.205
  • You cannot run a hospital sustainably in uganda
  • 00:44:10.205 --> 00:44:13.808
  • Because people won't pay for it.
  • 00:44:13.808 --> 00:44:16.878
  • People are too poor, and we've proven people want
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  • Quality education for their kids.
  • 00:44:25.720 --> 00:44:28.857
  • People want quality healthcare and they are
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  • Willing to pay for it.
  • 00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:32.193
  • How do we know they're willing to pay for it?
  • 00:44:32.193 --> 00:44:33.461
  • Because they're paying for it.
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  • By 2018, 10 years from founding musana, our
  • 00:44:41.236 --> 00:44:43.972
  • Social enterprises covered a hundred percent
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  • Of musana's operational costs.
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  • [children's voices]
  • 00:44:53.281 --> 00:45:01.689
  • The donor builds the infrastructure.
  • 00:45:01.689 --> 00:45:04.626
  • The local community owns it, sustains it, and
  • 00:45:04.626 --> 00:45:15.203
  • Right now, if musana never received another dollar
  • 00:45:15.203 --> 00:45:18.940
  • From a donor, everything that is happening in
  • 00:45:18.940 --> 00:45:22.210
  • Iganga would continue.
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  • ♪♪
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  • Social enterprises are developing the community,
  • 00:45:31.486 --> 00:45:34.956
  • Schools and hospitals and empowerment centers and
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  • Guest houses and restaurants that are
  • 00:45:38.092 --> 00:45:39.661
  • Creating jobs.
  • 00:45:39.661 --> 00:45:41.596
  • Those enterprises are profitable and those
  • 00:45:41.596 --> 00:45:44.766
  • Profits support the charity component of musana.
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  • 30% of the kids in our schools are
  • 00:45:52.040 --> 00:45:54.075
  • On scholarship.
  • 00:45:54.075 --> 00:45:56.845
  • They can't afford the full tuition or any
  • 00:45:56.845 --> 00:46:00.949
  • Tuition, some of 'em, any tuition at our schools,
  • 00:46:00.949 --> 00:46:04.018
  • And so they're being supported by the income
  • 00:46:04.018 --> 00:46:06.788
  • Raised locally.
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  • ♪♪
  • 00:46:10.625 --> 00:46:14.395
  • In 2020, we expanded musana's model to kairo district.
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  • ♪♪
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  • Since covid, we've actually made it a huge
  • 00:46:45.193 --> 00:46:48.563
  • Focus to involve teenage moms.
  • 00:46:48.563 --> 00:47:24.632
  • We have many teenage moms, hundreds of teenage
  • 00:47:25.600 --> 00:47:28.269
  • Moms that have come through.
  • 00:47:28.269 --> 00:47:55.697
  • These are moms that would give their kids up to
  • 00:47:56.698 --> 00:47:58.666
  • Orphanages if they aren't given the opportunity to
  • 00:47:58.666 --> 00:48:02.503
  • Be able to provide for their own kids.
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  • ♪♪
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  • [cheers] ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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  • Looking back, our community may never have
  • 00:53:01.936 --> 00:53:04.071
  • Found musana without andrea, her sister and
  • 00:53:04.071 --> 00:53:06.574
  • Friend making an impractical choice not
  • 00:53:06.574 --> 00:53:09.777
  • To leave us.
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  • ♪♪
  • 00:53:14.048 --> 00:53:15.483
  • When andrea returned to ia after finishing her
  • 00:53:15.483 --> 00:53:17.618
  • Education, i feel she returned home
  • 00:53:17.618 --> 00:53:28.462
  • ♪♪
  • 00:53:28.462 --> 00:53:29.463
  • And finding a home,
  • 00:53:29.463 --> 00:53:31.065
  • It turns out, it's about the most practical thing
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  • Anyone can do.
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  • ♪♪
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