Kim Emch: The Only 3 Generation Family ESL Program (Pt 1)
06/03/25 • 40 min
When Kim found out that thousands of kids in her suburban community were going hungry in the summer, she couldn’t look away from the problem. Her nonprofit Festa now feeds over 800 children in the summer, but as Kim puts it, they don’t just want to help people live in poverty a little bit better. So they serve 1,166 people with America's only 3-generation family English as a Second Language program, to help their families escape poverty.
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When Kim found out that thousands of kids in her suburban community were going hungry in the summer, she couldn’t look away from the problem. Her nonprofit Festa now feeds over 800 children in the summer, but as Kim puts it, they don’t just want to help people live in poverty a little bit better. So they serve 1,166 people with America's only 3-generation family English as a Second Language program, to help their families escape poverty.
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An Army of Normal Folks - Kim Emch: The Only 3 Generation Family ESL Program (Pt 1)
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All the tutoring I did at that inner city school,
Speaker 1I knew they got a free lunch. I knew it. I never asked them, what are you doing in the summer?
Speaker 2Welcome to an army of normal volks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, I'm a father, I'm an entrepreneur, and I've been a football coach in inner city of Memphis. And that last par
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