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From YouTube: Here/now: We're All Arlington -- John Wanda
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A segment of AVN's magazine show, "Here/now", "We're All Arlington" features short biographies of Arlington residents, highlighting our county's amazing diversity. This episode's subject is the founder of the Arlington Academy of Hope, John Wanda.
A
I
was
born
in
a
small
village
in
uganda
and
it's
time,
uganda,
and
it
was
a
very
difficult
childhood
as
well.
It
was
of
my
childhood
working
in
the
getting's
fetching
water,
taking
care
of
the
family,
god
the
life
of
a
child
in
disability,
again
that
I
call
really
given
your
grand
it's
very
difficult
and
for
the
most
part
of
the
children
who
grew
up
in
this
village,
is
a
hunger
most
of
the
time.
I
love
my
dad
he's
a
he's,
a
very
gentle
loving.
He
knew
the
importance
of
education.
A
He
wanted
us
all
to
have
a
good
education.
There
was
no
other
man
in
the
village
who
was
sent
his
children
not
to
care
of
his
children,
like
my
dad
did,
and
for
that
we
shall
always
always
be
grateful
to
him.
How
did
you
come
to
the
US?
Let
me
tell
you
that
it's
very
difficult
for
someone
growing
up
in
Uganda
to
Evergreen
about
coming
to
the
u.s.
wasn't
because
we
did
anything
spectacular.
A
The
only
way
that
we
came,
the
US
was
because
of
the
program
that
is
tech
department
dares
call
it
diversity
visa
program
where
they
bring
people
into
the
US
from
Britain's
ledisi
underrepresented.
My
office
name
was
selected
among
the
50
people,
who
admitted
to
the
US
that
year
from
Uganda,
we
had
no
idea
at
all.
A
Where
would
step
or
goal
was
to
go
to
Atlanta
that
year,
because
the
Olympics
were
being
held
in
his
lunch
and
we
thought
it'd
be
easier
to
get
a
job
there,
and
so
we
booked
the
flight
and
come
all
the
way
to
Washington
and
asked
the
run
for
us
to
Atlanta.
Until
this
gas
began
laughing
each
other
and
said
you
can't
go
to
a
talented
bypass,
it's
so
far
away.
I
got
my
first
job
within
the
very
first
week
of
arriving
here
where
I
was
lucky
enough.
A
I
worked
the
head,
I
impressed
my
bosses
and
encouraged
me.
Rapid
promotion.
I
took
me
two
years
to
become
vice
president.
That
was
a
very
rapid
growth.
The
fact
that
we
could
come
from
Uganda
and
find
ourselves
here
in
the
US
in
one
of
the
most
beautiful
counties
in
America.
This
was
like
a
miracle
to
us
as
soon
as
we
began
looking
around
our
the
dream
of
how
we
could
take
a
little
bit
of
what
we
found
in
a
new
country
back
to
Uganda
started
forming
in
our
minds
and
so
beginning
in
2003.
A
We
began
building
this
core
that
we
call
the
addington
academic
hope
because
of
all
the
local
support
that
were
sailing
from
this
Community.
It
was
published
as
far
as
before
the
children
of
Uganda,
and
it
was
how
intention
to
provide
something
that
had
elephant
so
that
it
children
growing
up
there
and
look
to
a
place
that
the
Buddhist
pyar
aspire
to
the
school
has
grown
since
their
time.
Amazingly,
for
the
first
time
ever,
the
children
who
have
studied
for
us
to
have
more
passed
high
enough
to
go
secular
school.
A
It's
the
best
performing
school
in
the
district
and
through
our
outreach
programs,
will
reach
more
than
10,000
students.
The
whole
community
is
being
transformed
from
an
18th
century
existence
to
being
at
the
forefront
of
change.
Just
two
years
ago,
we
were
able
to
bring
electricity
to
the
grid
for
the
first
time
through
the
school
and
I'm
told
the
first
time
that
they
flick
the
switch
on
and
this
lights
came
up.
The
kids
couldn't
believe
you
know
all
of
a
sudden
having
electricity
in
the
village.
My
father
still
alive.
A
He
is
probably
the
most
proud
person
in
that
community
is
all
that
every
day
he
goes
to
the
school
he
raised
to
the
children
at
that
school,
and
he
is
extremely
proud
that
we
have
sort
of
fulfilled
his
dream
list.
Not
even
a
garage
on
Wanda,
ganda
and
I'm,
proud
to
live
in
Arlington
and
happy
about
the
community
of
our
internet
has
much
others
and
welcomed
as
animators
adding
terminals.