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G L O B A L C O MMU N I T Y I MP A C T
SCOTT SWEAT
Davi ds Hope I nt ernat i onal
Alpha Omega Group Wealth Management
Multi-Financial
Scott Sweat is a serious multitasker.
His full-time job is as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. He
also is a certied nancial planner and puts in 20 hours a week
as an advisor with Alpha Omega Group Wealth Management in
Alexandria, Virginia. Even with all that, he squeezes in 20 hours a
week to act as the executive director of Davids Hope International.
The nonprot organization, an outgrowth of a mission Lt.
Col. Sweat and his wife led for the McLean Bible Church in
2009, supports an extremely poor rural community in Kenya,
with a focus on creating a self-sustaining way of life.
Over the past three years, he and his team of volunteers
not only raised $300,000, but returned to Kenya to build
an elementary school (taking hundreds of children off the
streets), staff and supply a medical clinic, and construct
a maternity ward, an orphanage and a church.
Sustainability elements include brand-new wells the
villages rst-ever continuous water source and
introduction of a boarding school program to provide
continuing income to support the communitys needs.
What drives Lt. Col. Sweat to take this on? Its part of living my
passion and purpose. My fulllment and joy comes from serving
others whether clients or needy people in Kenya, he said.
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