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BCA is Excited to Welcome our October Speaker, Derreck Kayongo
Posted by bcaphila-jj in BCA News on August 11, 2014
BCA is ecstatic to have Derreck Kayongo as our speaker for the October Breakfast. His story truly embodies the American Dream. Please Join us on October 2nd and 3rd to welcome Derreck to the great city of Philadelphia.
Derreck Kayongo and his family fled a civil war in Uganda and settled in the U.S. when Kayongo was just ten years old. Now a successful entrepreneur, Kayongo is a renowned expert in environmental sustainability and global health. Kayongo is the founder of the Global Soap Project: a program which takes donated, melted, purified and reprocessed hotel soap and redistributes it to vulnerable populations around the world. Read the rest of this entry »