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Janine Maxwell

Co-founder of Heart for Africa (Project Canaan, Eswatini), a faith-based humanitarian organization; former Canadian marketing executive.

Oct 4, 2026

18:58
And w- tell us more about the country.
19:01
Yeah, so, uh, one of the stats that you saw in the video is more than half of the total population are children under the age of 15 who are orphaned or vulnerable, and vulnerable usually means that there is no parent.
19:14
Obviously, if they're under 15 and it's 50% of the population, and, um, that's a, that's a very big problem and a big deal, and we'll talk more about that later.
19:21
But these 10, 11-year-old girls who I'd met years before in Kenya, I'm seeing them right in front of me, and the same thing is happening.
19:29
They're having sex for a loaf of bread.
19:32
So we have that.
19:32
We have a 70% unemployment rate, and that was actually before COVID.

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31:00
And you normally take 40 a year.

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