Yolanda George-David

"“It was easier to feed 500 people for me than it was for me to say to someone, ‘God loves you’. So I had to devise ways and means to show people the love I knew they desperately needed.”"

"“Rescue is just the beginning. Safety gives survivors breathing space, but rehabilitation through counselling, empowerment, and skills training gives them back their future.”"

"I have double certification; I am a gynecologist and a neurosurgeon, a marine, and with our training comes the fact that once you are a soldier, you are able to know what is important and what is not important."

"There is no day we don’t get up to one, two three rescues; we have ‘Okadas’ that go pick people that have been sexually abused, of course, there should be ambulances, but I tell my ambulances to make bikes to do all of that. The work is endless."

"I’m a merchant of hope, that’s what I sell. I sell hope; that’s why you see people coming. There is a difference between charity, where you dehumanize the receiver. Everybody that came here has the choice of what they wanted."

"“The work we do is all about the journey, not just the rescue.”"