Sep 19, 2026 · 1 min · 2 segments
Joshua Ngao's personal story of growing up in extreme poverty in Kenya (trekking 11 miles to school without breakfast or shoes) and how it became his calling to bring clean water to his community…
Joshua NgaoHost
We used to trek 11 miles away every morning to school without breakfast, without anything.
showers and then we have to come back without knowing whether we have our food or not when we get back home and the following day we have to go.
So I feel for them and I don't want them to be able to pass through what I passed through.
So that's why my calling is for these children and the community to get water because I did not have water.
There are many kids who die 25% in that community because of waterborne diseases.
We used to trek 11 miles away every morning to school without breakfast, without anything.
showers and then we have to come back without knowing whether we have our food or not when we get back home and the following day we have to go.
So I feel for them and I don't want them to be able to pass through what I passed through.
So that's why my calling is for these children and the community to get water because I did not have water.
There are many kids who die 25% in that community because of waterborne diseases.
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