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Miyoba Hamuhuma and Israel Balogun —  Grassroots Solutions for Africa’s Impoverished Youth (EP.272)

2025/6/12
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Israel Balogun
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Jim O'Shaughnessy
美国著名投资者和量化股票分析先驱，创立了奥沙恩斯资产管理公司，并著有多本投资经典著作。
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Jim O'Shaughnessy: 我邀请了两位了不起的OSV资助对象来讲述他们的故事，他们克服了巨大的逆境，激励了他人。 Miyoba Hamuhuma: 我感谢OSV提供的资助，这给我的生活带来了巨大的影响。我相信人是靠希望活着的，没有教育的残疾是双重残疾。我希望政策制定者能够认识到残疾可能发生在任何人身上，并始终为未来做好最好的准备。我们应该改变人们对残疾的看法，同时也应该从我们自身开始，培养积极的态度。 Israel Balogun: 我感谢OLSV团队给我和我们的组织提供参与这个项目的机会。我选择流浪街头是因为那里的生活比待在家里更好。完成学业后，我决定创建一个包容的空间，让街头的孩子们能够发现、发展和探索自己的才能。我们更关注街头赋予你的价值，而不是随之而来的负面影响。对街头儿童的污名化是无家可归问题的根源。我们正在利用这个平台来改写无家可归者的故事，消除污名化。

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Miyoba Hamuhuma's remarkable story of overcoming polio and parental loss to become a leader advocating for inclusive education and economic dignity for children with disabilities in Zambia.
  • Miyoba's experience with polio and parental loss
  • Challenges faced in accessing education due to disability
  • Establishment of Enlight Abilities organization
  • Impact of the OSV grant on the organization's work

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I’m joined today by two remarkable men I met through the O’Shaughnessy Fellowships and Grants program.

Israel Balogun was homeless and illiterate until the age of 22. Now, he leads a Nigerian youth rehabilitation nonprofit for street kids and is building a self-sustaining village for 200 out-of-school children with the support of an OSV Fellowship.

Miyoba Hamuhuma lost both parents by 12 and battled polio as a child. Now he runs Enlight Abilities, a Zambian organization advocating for inclusive education and economic dignity for children with disabilities and their families, backed by an OSV Grant.

“Inspiring” is overused nowadays, but here, it barely does them justice. As well as digging into their stories, we explore how personal pain became public mission, how grassroots enablement beats top-down intervention, and why they believe rewriting destiny begins with changing who gets seen, who gets supported, and who gets to dream.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. For the full transcript, episode takeaways, and bucketloads of other goodies designed to make you go, “Hmm, that’s interesting!”, check out our Substack).

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Show Notes:

  • First Goodnight in 12 Years
  • How OSV Helped to Build a Home for Street Kids
  • The Street King – Reclaiming Agency
  • The Dignity of Choice
  • Microenterprise for the Mothers
  • Rethinking the Street Kid Stigma
  • Inclusion is Not a Luxury, It is a Necessity
  • Trust over Control: We help the kids Lead
  • We seek to enable and empower
  • Emperors of the World
  • $10 = 30 bricks = Home for a Street Child