240. NIGHTLIGHT (A Knight Without A Castle - With Robert Katende)

Once too poor to afford the rat poison with which he planned to take his own life,Robert Katende tells an astonishing true story of resilience and hope. His work was made famous in the Disney movie Queen of Katwe. On this edition of Nightlight, Robert gives a first hand account of his own childhood, as he beats impossibilities that would have likely crushed most anyone else. And then how he started a ministry to empower kids in Ugandan slums through chess - a game so foreign there is no word for it in their native language. Robert also updates on the expansion and further successes of his chess academy for slum children and the other chess champions they have produced.