Scott Sweat

Scott Sweat is a serious multitasker. His full-time job is as a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard. He also is a certified financial planner and puts in 20 hours a week as an adviser with Alpha Omega Group Wealth Management Inc. in Alexandria, Va. Even with all that, he squeezes in another 20 hours weekly as the executive director of David’s Hope International.

The nonprofit organization, an outgrowth of a mission Lt. Col. Sweat and his wife led for the McLean Bible Church in 2009, supports an extremely poor rural community in Kenya, with a focus on creating a self-sustaining way of life.

Over the past three years, he and his team of volunteers not only raised $300,000 but returned to Kenya to build an elementary school (taking hundreds of children off the streets); staff and supply a medical clinic; and construct a maternity ward, an orphanage and a church.

Sustainability elements include brand-new wells — the village’s first continuous water source — and introduction of a boarding school program to provide continuing income to support the community’s needs.

What drives Lt. Col. Sweat to do all this?

“It’s part of living my passion and purpose,” he said. “My fulfillment and joy come from serving others — whether clients or needy people in Kenya.”