up so today we have a special treat yes we're calling the show using a passion to try and because that is what life to point out was all about identifying your passion time reserve as your guide to your purpose background and what we're involved in today certainly contributed along with all the skills we have learned and i'm right but you know jacki i was always interested in africa and i think back probably to the age of nine or ten and i went to school where they collected money for children in africa so i think that's where it came from that kind of interest and you know i didn't know where it was going to try to write but  i just i also when i worked with merck was a business manager for the team and so that was the other interests and knowing what was happening in africa at that time because that was about that is right is right that was some of the pretty  hawaii i love the story and that's all we were trying to recover from the crime price here and i was on the beach and the waves were pretty rough so we didn't go in and i met this woman and started right i turned i walk to dave who was talking to her husband and i said dave what have we been talking about for all these years helping in africa let's make it happen so so that's what we did that's how yeah that's how that started wow so and that's what we try to say at like to point what are those things that you know it's a lot it's very difficult sometimes to figure out what you're passionate about when we talk we tell people to think reflect back when you were child what were some of the things you were interested in so again you should  yeah but i think also sometimes the journey that we're on doesn't allow us to do the full time commitment exactly but there are spaces within the journey that you care and still touch that exactly right success goes back to what we've always talked about retiring because gene retired but it was not the end of what you could do and not an interview or conference you just said she walked into a whole different world i would defer what was that next step that you had to take to make this all happen well i think when we first went to uganda and dave and i thought we would be helping in uganda as opposed to starting a nonprofit organization so that was further down the home right and she told me that the maker of resources that they have webs being used to treat opportunistic infections not the diseases that the people experience every day malaria right right and i you know i stopped i gene give us an overview of what what you know your whole mission is about and that we'll talk about some of the great things that you guys have accomplished you know while while being over there because she has great slide so i yeah pictures are worth a thousand words absolutely go through yeah some of the dangers are doing yeah so give us out an overview of what it's all about and you know some of the work that you guys are doing over there so this is the children and wonderful children see their smiles yeah yeah there had ten said lawrence school ok and our goal is to improve the lives of orphaned and disadvantaged children and their families primarily through education but support them because they live it's not just about education and specially when time to develop a community focus on health care provided resources for health care and then micro enterprise or income generating activities so we started with education  eighty's he was separated from his family he had the opportunity to be sponsored in his education from when he was ten years old all the way up through the priesthood but actually now he just got his doctorate while in law and slanted a lot to offer the same opportunity to other children because education changed his life and his family's life and when we were in uganda and we said father how can we help you know he said well can you sponsor some children  program of sponsor a child as well so you know talk a little bit about that right and so the primary thing is to help these children become change instance through education change themselves change their family change community stay in uganda and stay in change the these pictures and i had no idea we were going to do to like the right right right so this is an example of what the school looked like at the time it was a substandard poor rovs building was falling down you know it was really not anything that you underneath a tree so there was no place to accommodate those children and there were eighty children this year in the school their performance was really weak and no one went on to take the national primary leaving exam wow so that's all because of the sponsorship program is helping the individual children and also helping the school provide quality education for all the children who attend on the next five will take a look at what the school looks like from a distance and change ninety miles north of camp our in a very rural area and it's now the number one school of government schools and their kids who go district and it's a number to say also you know how many how many kids do you guys have in this particular i'm going to the to secondary school again and seventy percent of all the students that took the primary leaving exam finished in the division one which is the top division so we're in this community and i humility is proud and happy because they have a school yeah their children can go to right you know and they're improving their lives there's some improving their lives yeah so these are just some of so these are these are two children actually speaking about successes and friend and david and they went to switzerland this year so from our school these two children were chosen to represent uganda program for young that's another reflection of outcomes and success right right and then in the other picture that we have here i wanted to share with you these are the children with solar who see lights so this is a solar light for whom it has different intensities and it was actually identified by a student a month in fairhaven high school sophia co who thought and her parents also sponsored a potential one child who thought that this would be helpful to education did fundraisers went away to fifteen hundred happen so we're really appreciative of this initiative and it's really hopefully helping the children do their homework at night one day and you said they're solar powered as well right yes so this is a little solar but battery  i'll entrepreneurs and things he's beautiful products that they and yes they can so some of the women so we have a microenterprise project to help the women become as well as the men to become more independent women the canonic perspective and we started first with crafts so i'll just show you some of the lovely baskets they didn't always look like that's right we had to bring someone in to grind them right but there's one and here's another one very colorful palette right so we're very proud of them yeah but the other thing that i'd like to share with you is education is the basis of change of life uganda and so how does that impact these women and their families so then you know english is the  national language in uganda although everyone speaks a local language and so these women were actually when they started making money from selling these things that they had to go to the bank and they really weren't treated with a lot of  they didn't speak the language or didn't have a right to start in a functional adult literacy program we have one hundred ninety six people in the program hundred seventy seven of them are women and the rest are men right and these women want to learn how to speak english to write english to to record their drug press like right and the other important thing is now they can be their children's report cards and education yeah so this is another component baskets whatever has the picture of the woman who made it and this is a wood on the outside and it's just a nice little touch and it comes in different colors this happens to be around when jackie has a black eye and so she puts the fair and just letting i yell because when you see people getting water from a pond like that right exactly and the children carrying water it's such a challenge right right he said ok so let's see if we can find some water and if we go me clean water water right eye and the next part of our program is called rise actually when what is that mean well what we're trying to do is change the roof right to put metal sheeting right so that when it rains front but this is the first pilot house that we did and you can see the brilliant the fact that they're they will have any water to drink and peter who's the who's the the father of one of our sponsored children because we really so this is our health center we completed in two thousand and fourteen if you go into the next slide you'll see our moms that are being treated there and also in the next slide is just an example of the woman on the left i met when i was first there  so to wrap this around now by jean taking that leap of faith and following that passion look at how much change has changed you have changed you know so many lives because of make you feel right i think we have a girl now yes our job right gerri is a sponsor right right and so i'm so grateful you know so so we're providing some leadership but it's really all the people we have when i think about ok what what is life two point zero zero all about you are definitely one of them because i think it's taking what you said was that passion that had been put on the shelf right this i know when we were working just feel actually blessed to have had the opportunity and it's not only about helping over there but all the wonderful people i meet thank you rabbi and so many other people yeah so and so having a boring retirement life and that's again what we're saying take those talents skills your life is not over i die it's like we're so many people that have talents and skills that they may not do what you do they may not be able to start what you do but they may have a talent or skill that can help you do what you want to do right and that bad support and they're just recognizing there's so much and there's lots of opportunity rice to reinvent yourself and i also think that even though you might not know how to do all the things that you want to do the internet is amazing resources that are available and whether people can help you move in that direction i think one of the key things is really having self confidence you know that i can do whatever i want to do and just have us and realize that there are so many others that we can help and we can be of service and make a big difference maker lived in right in their lives hey yeah well jan thank you so much for