A question I often get asked is: “How do you decide who to help, and what projects to take on?” There is no doubt about it, each day in Uganda our team members are faced with children who have very challenging circumstances. Sickness, disability, malnourished, no shelter, barely clothed.

It's been eight years since our first Empower Youth Leadership Conference and seven years (this week) since we received our 501c3 nonprofit designation.

Orphan, birth defect, female, living in rural Uganda - those four strikes against Rehemah could have defined her. But she is not letting them. This nine-year-old girl is resilient and determined.

It was just about a year ago when our advisor Prossy came across Abiba. This single mother was devastated when the land she had her cabbage crop on was seized and her crop destroyed.