Giving At-Risk Kids Their First Passport With Omari Davis

Home economics. Wood shop. Music. The enrichment classes that taught a generation how to actually live got quietly cut from schools, but the kids still need them. Omari Davis built an organization to put them back.

Omari Davis is the founder and executive officer of Get Out And Learn Something (GOALS), and a returning Find Your Cause guest five years after his first appearance.

In this conversation he and Joseph Smalzer get into the "Use What You Got" culinary unit that teaches latchkey kids to make a real meal from whatever's already in the kitchen, the Passion Through Passports program that has taken youth on their first flights to Jamaica, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico, why "no man is an island" still matters in the age of AI, the importance of protecting the pause between a question and an answer, and the slow, cold-call-and-a-flyer work of growing to nearly 20 schools across two states.

G.O.A.L.S.

Website: https://www.getoutandlearnsomething.com/

Email: getoutandlearnsomething@gmail.com

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getoutandlearnsomething/

GTZP:

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Want to be a guest? You may reach jerome@gtzp.org for inquiries.

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