Where Hope Begins: The Save One Life Podcast

In this episode of Where Hope Begins, host Kai follows a story that starts in North Carolina and reaches more than 5,000 miles to Romania. Adriana Henderson was born in Romania and came to the United States at 18. In 2000 she founded S.T.A.R. Children Relief (Start Thinking About Romania) to help orphaned, abandoned, and disabled children. Her work later grew to include children with hemophilia, and it led to Camp Ray of Hope, an award-winning summer camp where Romanian kids can swim, play, make

Twenty-five years ago, Save One Life began with a simple belief: one person can make a difference in the life of another. This special episode shares the audio from Save One Life's 25th anniversary webinar, which brought together more than 100 people from around the world. Founder Laurie Kelly tells the story behind the organization. Watching her own son live with hemophilia made her more aware of suffering everywhere. Then, on her first trip to the Dominican Republic in 1998, she saw children i

In this episode of Where Hope Begins: The Save One Life Podcast, we sit down with Megan Adediran, president and executive director of the Hemophilia Foundation of Nigeria (HFN). Megan's story began generations before she was born. Her great-grandmother lost four sons and her grandmother lost nine, all to bleeding after circumcision that no one could explain. The family came to believe that having sons was taboo. Then, in 1996, Megan's 10-day-old son Timothy bled uncontrollably after his own circ

In this episode of Where Hope Begins: The Save One Life Podcast, host Kai sits down with Chanthearithy "Rithy" Run, newly elected President of the Cambodian Hemophilia Association (CHA), and Choryee Hun, CHA's Secretary General and Save One Life's Project Manager in Cambodia. Rithy, who lives with hemophilia B, traces his own path from a childhood of surgeries and isolation to a 2014 World Federation of Hemophilia youth fellowship, a Save One Life scholarship that funded his master's degree, and

In this episode of Where Hope Begins: The Save One Life Podcast, host Kai sits down with Rich Williams — this year's Wheels for the World cross-country rider, and the first ever to make the journey by motorcycle. At 75, Rich is riding from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine to honor Barry Haarde's legacy, but his connection to this cause runs four decades deep: the loss of his infant twin, his son Trevor's severe Hemophilia A diagnosis, the deaths of two wives who each shaped Trevor's care, and

In this episode of Where Hope Begins: The Save One Life Podcast, host Kai Sorensen sits down with Dr. Shahla Tariq Sohail, a pediatrician, a woman living with von Willebrand disease, and the founder of one of Save One Life's most successful country models anywhere in the world.