Live from Ndere Centre at the Gathering of Givers 2024, we sat under the sun (and some serious generosity) with Tugshamwa, Joel, and Eshban, three men navigating the complexities of giving in a world that often defines it through status, visibility, and material success.
But here’s the twist: they’re not here to echo that narrative.
They're here to redefine giving, not as a transaction, but as a practice of presence, service, and belief. Belief in country. Belief in community. Belief in the unseen value of tipping a little more when faith is fading. Of responding to that midnight call from a broke friend. Of choosing kindness even when the world has been unkind.
They speak of military men who gave their lives without medals, of friends who paid for strangers' dialysis during lockdown, and of communities like 4040 whose long-haul commitment to giving outlives trends. They speak of generosity as agency, the moment when young Africans stop asking for permission to help and start writing their own story of impact.
There are moments of laughter (“Eshban didn’t invite me!”), me!”),moments of wrestling (“Why am I generous to people who are mean to me?”) and moments of awakening, like when Jacqueline Asiimwe calls us to honor acts of giving the way we honor saints. Because perhaps we are writing our own Acts of the Givers, chapter by chapter, meal by meal, tip by tip, fight by fight.
This episode is layered with love, honesty, and fire. It’s about owning the narrative of who gives, why we give, and what giving looks like when done in our skin. It’s about dismantling the myth that philanthropy belongs to the wealthy and planting the truth that we are the givers we've been waiting for.
🎧 Tune in to be affirmed, inspired, and maybe even convicted. Giving isn’t charity. It’s a claim on the future.
🎧 Listen now to previous episodes. Reflect deeply. Pass it on.
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