Profile | Chingwell

Username: Chingwell
City: Minneapolis
State: MN
Ripples: 1

About Me

I am originally from the DR Congo and I have been in the States for more than 10 years. I founded First Step Initiative about two and half years ago. My passion and drive to fight global poverty stem from my experience growing up in the Congo. I saw the devastation of poverty first hand. so, when I moved back to the USA, I was determined to do my part to help alleviate poverty in the communities that I left behind. I am very grateful to have this opportunity to serve the many people that our organization work with.

Cause Area

Poverty

Change Agents I Nominated

Change Agents I Back

Shawn Smith Shawn Smith | Agent of Change Rides to Loan
Backed since 2008-06-17

Fan

Socheata Poeuv Socheata Poeuv |
Backed since 2008-01-25

Fan

My Recent Comments

  • Hi guys! I would certainly love to connect with you at some point in the near future. I am originally for the DRC and currently running a micro-finance organization in the DRC. Thank you for the work you are doing to raise awareness about the issue of rape against women. I hope to connect with you soon and please keep up the good work.
    Posted to Congocast: Why we do this... on Aug 04, 2008 08:08 AM
  • Alex, Thank you very much for your warm welcome. Your kindness is greatly appreciated. I learned about Changents last week from the Chronicle of Philanthropy eNews and I was thrilled to learn about your work and decided to join Changents right away. Thank you very much for creating such a wonderful platform for change agents to share their stories, and learn from each other as we all try to make our world community a better place for all. So, I am very thrilled to be part of this dynamic group of people. I just saw Shawn's story and in fact I was introduced to Shawn Smith a couple of months ago but I am going to contact him again. Thank you for suggesting that Alex and if you know of other people that you think I should connect with you, please let me know. Chingwell
    Posted to Chingwell Mutombu's story on Nov 25, 2007 11:11 AM
 
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