Action 2 Impact Podcast with Gwen Jones
Since 2019, host Gwen Jones — a proud Rotarian — has been sharing powerful stories of extraordinary people who turn bold ideas into meaningful impact. While many guests are Rotarians making a difference through service, the heart of the Action 2 Impact Podcast goes far beyond any one organization. Each episode spotlights inspiring individuals from around the world who took a single step to make life better for others — and ended up changing communities, and sometimes the world.
Listeners will discover uplifting stories, practical inspiration, and proof that real change doesn’t require perfection or permission — just action. Because impact isn’t reserved for a select few. It starts with one person, one idea, and one step.
Listen, subscribe, and get inspired to turn your own actions into impact.
Action 2 Impact Podcast with Gwen Jones
How A Ugandan Youth Leader Uses Soccer To Heal Trauma And Keep Kids In School
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We sit down with David Muhindo, founder of Be Well Child Care Initiative in Uganda, to talk about protecting vulnerable children and using soccer as a doorway into healing, mentorship, and life skills. We also trace David’s path from making bricks to pay school fees to leading a growing effort to build safety, dignity, and opportunity for kids who have nowhere else to go.
• David’s origin story and why his work is personal
• Paying school fees by making and selling bricks
• The dream to study peace and justice and why it matters
• Uganda’s refugee reality and a culture of welcome
• Holistic child wellbeing through education, health, mentorship
• Menstrual hygiene support to keep girls in school
• Rotary’s role in leadership, partnerships, and local impact
• Securing land and the urgent need for a children’s home
• Harmony Through Soccer as a low-cost gateway to trust
• Teaching teamwork, conflict resolution, and drug prevention through sport
• Monthly counseling and community mentor sessions
• What resilience looks like when resources are scarce
But if you'd like to help with this labor of love, it is made possible by um financial gifts from uh listeners like you. So get in touch with me either on the website or on Funsprout or of course at Rotarianpod@gmail.com if you wish to help keep the show going. And if you'd like to have the show hit the road and come to your neck of the woods, please feel free to use that same address to get in touch with me about that, RotarianPod@gmail.com.
Join me as I talk to those "amazing people turning their Actions 2 Impact all over the world. #BE THE CHANGE
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