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Where Hope Begins: The Save One Life Podcast

Where Hope Begins: The Save One Life Podcast

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In honor of Save One Life’s 25th Anniversary, audiences will be invited to hear the remarkable story of how the organization grew from a passion to help those without access to essential medications and treatment into a global lifeline for individuals with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders. What began with a single visit to a humble home in Pakistan—and a father’s plea for $20 so his son could attend school—sparked a movement that has now transformed thousands of lives across continents. This anniversary program will highlight Save One Life’s extraordinary global impact, sharing deeply human stories of courage, resilience, and determination from children, young adults, and families navigating life with limited access to care. Listeners will hear how sponsorship, financial assistance, education, and community development programs have opened doors to opportunity, restored dignity, and replaced fear with hope. The podcast shines a light on both the families whose futures have been changed and the sponsors whose compassion has helped break the cycle of generational poverty. Over the past 25 years, Save One Life has become a beacon for those living with hemophilia in underserved regions—providing essential support, fostering independence, and creating pathways to long-term self-sustainability. These stories honor not only where the organization began, but the rippling impact of what is possible when one life touches another. One country, one community, and one life at a time—Save One Life continues to prove that small acts of compassion can transform generations.Copyright 2026 Where Hope Begins: The Save One Life Podcast Economie Management Management et direction Sciences sociales
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  • "My Son Will Not Die": Megan Adediran on Building the Hemophilia Foundation of Nigeria

    "My Son Will Not Die": Megan Adediran on Building the Hemophilia Foundation of Nigeria
    Sep 28 2026
    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 circumcision. What followed was nearly two years of hospital stays, blood transfusions, and doctors telling her it was nothing, until a clotting test at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital gave the family a name for it: hemophilia. Megan was told there was no treatment in Nigeria and that boys like Timothy rarely lived past age three. She looked at the doctor and said, "My son will not die." From a cyber café, Megan taught herself about hemophilia, found a mentor at the South African Hemophilia Foundation, and eventually emailed her story to 67 organizations. Three days later, Dr. Assad Haffar of the World Federation of Hemophilia replied. On July 4, 2004, a DHL box of donated factor reached her office. It changed Timothy's care overnight and led to the founding of HFN on World Hemophilia Day 2005, with Timothy as its only member. Megan shares how a live TV appearance, where the host insisted hemophilia "does not affect Black people," brought in 45 patients in a single week. She talks about her own denial when her second son, Isaac, showed signs of hemophilia years after she had started the foundation, and about the long campaign that ended with Nigeria's Ministry of Health naming bleeding disorders a priority non-communicable disease in 2022. She also describes Save One Life's role as HFN's platinum camp sponsor, a camp that grew from 20 boys over one weekend to about 100 campers for a full week. Her message to mothers facing a new diagnosis: you are not alone, hemophilia is not a death sentence, and there is a community ready to help.
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    37 min
  • "I Believe in the Power of Knowledge": Rithy Run and Choryee Hun on Leading Cambodia's Hemophilia Community Forward

    "I Believe in the Power of Knowledge": Rithy Run and Choryee Hun on Leading Cambodia's Hemophilia Community Forward
    Aug 27 2026
    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 now a law degree he'll complete next year — all while rising through a decade of volunteer roles at CHA to become its president. Choryee shares the harder side of that same history: losing her brother to a bleed in an era before Cambodia had access to factor concentrate, and now raising a son of her own with hemophilia while running CHA's day-to-day operations. Together they walk through how far hemophilia care in Cambodia has come since CHA's founding in 2008, and how far it still has to go.
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    25 min
  • "I'm Not Going to Let This Beat Me": Rich Williams on Turning Tragedy into a Cross-Country Ride for Save One Life

    "I'm Not Going to Let This Beat Me": Rich Williams on Turning Tragedy into a Cross-Country Ride for Save One Life
    Jul 27 2026
    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 a friendship with Save One Life founder Laurie Kelley that began before the organization itself took shape. Rich talks candidly about the financial and emotional toll of raising a child with a bleeding disorder in the 1980s and '90s, how grief repeated itself in his life, and how he's turned decades of loss into service — through this ride, and through his volunteer work honoring fallen veterans with the Patriot Guard of Montana.
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    31 min
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