Service Spotlight: The Gem Foundation
The Gem Foundation creates a caring and loving environment for orphaned children with special needs and disabilities in Uganda, Africa. They currently service 40 children who have been orphaned, abandoned …
Fox 13’s The Place: Miss Utah 2019 shares her life-changing experience in Uganda
As part of Dexonna Talbot’s social impact initiative for being Miss Utah 2019, she partnered with the local non-profit WHOlives to bring clean water to other countries. She just returned from a …
Spanish Fork 17: Studio Chatter, WHOlives and Miss America Competition
Dexonna sat down with the ladies of Studio Chatter to go into depth about her trip to Uganda with WHOlives. She also touched on her departure for the 2020 Miss …
Traveling to Uganda with the WHOlives Foundation
I recently returned from a humanitarian trip to Uganda, Africa with my partner WHOlives. They are a non-profit organization committed to bringing clean water to developing communities in a self-sustainable …
Service Spotlight: Kids Who Count
Kids Who Count (KWC) is a program for pre-K students with developmental disadvantages. It is a non-profit organization whose mission is empowering to “optimize the developmental potential of their young …
KSL: Group Helps Terminally Ill Man Fulfill Final Wishes
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — A small group gathered at Raw Tin Garage Thursday to help fulfill a terminally ill Utah man’s final wishes. The group was there to create a special …
Cottonwood Heights Journal: One Week Can Spark Change In Students For Life, Miss Utah Tells Ridgecrest Students
“Since she could walk, she served her uncle who had special needs,” said Ridgecrest fifth-grade student Lily Hoescherl. “She realized how by brightening up his life, she was helping herself …
Service Spotlight: Kids On The Move
Kids On The Move provides services for families all over the state to support children with special needs. Their mission is to support the development of children with developmental disadvantages …
KSL Hi 5: Miss Utah and Mascot Miracles Surprise Autistic Boy with Homecoming Dance Date
HIGH 5 ! What a great HIGH 5 story! Watch what happens as an autistic high school boy gets a BIG SURPRISE! A date with Miss Utah to his homecoming …
Reminiscing on my Involvement with Miss Utah’s Outstanding Teen
In June, I had the opportunity to go to Orlando and watch as our very own Miss Utah’s Outstanding Teen, Claire Inouye killed it at Miss America’s Outstanding Teen (MAO …