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E141: Zahara McCoy

E141: Zahara McCoy

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Zahara McCoy - CEO of Children of Grace - shares her inspirational journey and the impact her company has including growing up in rural Uganda; joining her mother in her Christian faith; the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Uganda; losing her father to AIDS and the diagnosis of her mother; how faith was all that was left; giving her life to Jesus at 8 years old; being taken out of school when her mother died; living with her aunt who tried to marry her off at 10/11 years old; the desperate walk to the next village to sign up for the possibility of orphan tuition assistance; the moment the news of assistance came; the celebration of her sponsors arrival to Uganda; how her sponsor chose to become a sponsor; the culture shock of her move to the U.S.; cold showers; the guilt of being pulled from hardship; not being rescued from, but being rescued for; the impact of a little girl named Mercy; perspective of fairness; the work that Children of Grace does; and so much more!

https://www.childrenofgrace.com/

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