Snapshot · The Shawn Ryan Show
Frohardt's team of 10 is climbing Kilimanjaro to raise money for Global Partners in Hope, including a medical treatment facility costing approximately $180,000 that will save hundreds of mothers and babies in West Africa.
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With 20 days until departure, Frohardt explains the climb's purpose: raising funds for Global Partners in Hope, an Omaha nonprofit he sits on the board of after a serendipitous connection through his former DEVGRU commanding officer, Admiral Scott Moore. The organization builds self-sustaining water wells and medical treatment facilities in French-speaking West Africa. Frohardt makes the stakes visceral — a lack of clean water forces children to spend their days fetching it instead of attending school, and a $180,000 treatment center could save hundreds of mothers and babies who currently die because C-sections are unavailable. The 44-mile, 7-night Kilimanjaro expedition, covering 7,000 feet of elevation gain to 19,400 feet, is framed as a chosen hardship that mirrors, in a small way, the unchosen hardship of those they are helping.
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