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<\/a>Mallory Fundora spends time with Elvis and Kalvin in Uganda.<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cWhen I first started, it was just me helping other nonprofits working on the ground,\u201d she said. \u201cI had never been there, so it was definitely just dipping my toe in that water.\u201d<\/p>\n
A year later, when she was 12, she made her first trip to Africa. During that visit, Fundora met two babies named Elvis and Kalvin. She immediately began sponsoring them so they could earn an education, and she examined how Project Yesu could help other children.<\/p>\n
\u201cElvis and Kalvin, they\u2019re very important to me, and they\u2019re the reason the sponsorship program happened in the first place,\u201d she said. \u201cHearing that children were going to school hungry is why I started a feeding program. We started with 50 children, and within the first week, we had 100, and so it just keeps growing. Now we have 550.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doing enough?<\/p>\n
In order to feed more than 500 children every school day, Fundora spends about $500 a month. That means the APSU freshman is out aggressively raising money for her nonprofit while many of her peers are hanging out with friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gets a little stressful,\u201d she admitted. \u201cEspecially in high school, I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t have time for anything.\u2019 Or, \u2018I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve done enough.\u2019 But every time that happens, I see that I need to do more.\u201d<\/p>\n
[320right]That\u2019s how she ended up raising more than $13,500 to buy land for a new school in Uganda. Now, she\u2019s working to raise between $200,000 and $300,000 to build that school.<\/p>\n
But for a brief moment, as her high school career ended, Fundora thought of retiring from her nonprofit. But then, the University\u2019s President\u2019s Emerging Leaders Program (PELP) expressed interest in her work in Uganda.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustin Peay was very interested in Project Yesu; more than other schools,\u201d she said. \u201cHere, it seemed like I could be a leader and be able to run Project Yesu. Even though I\u2019ve been running it for seven years, I don\u2019t have a lot of business knowledge. I\u2019ve had to have help from other people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fundora decided to grow her nonprofit with a little guidance from Austin Peay. And earlier this summer, before she officially arrived on campus, she made her seventh trip to Uganda. During her stay, she delivered a few special gifts to her boys, Elvis and Kalvin.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow they have Austin Peay shirts and hats,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they love them.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information or to support Fundora\u2019s efforts, visit www.projectyesu.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN – On a warm afternoon in the African nation of Uganda, two young boys named Elvis and Kalvin took turns writing the words \u201cBe the change\u201d on a piece of paper. That paper eventually made its way across the Atlantic Ocean to Clarksville, Tennessee, where 18-year-old Austin Peay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,262,825,25385,12854],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6QD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26328,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327\/revisions\/26328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – On a warm afternoon in the African nation of Uganda, two young boys named Elvis and Kalvin took turns writing the words \u201cBe the change\u201d on a piece of paper.<\/p>\n![\"Mallory](\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/APSU-freshman\u2019s-nonprofit-feeding-children-in-Uganda-1.jpg\" "\\"Mallory")
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