Steve Kallaugher

  • Peace Corps Volunteer, Health Extension Programs, Swaziland, 2004-2005
  • Founder, Young Heroes, Swaziland, 2006
  • Employed by NERCHA, Swaziland, 2006-2008
  • Established and managed the Young Heroes Foundation, 2008-2020

After working as the Associate Creative Director at the Wall Street Journal for many years, Steve Kallaugher decided to retire and join the Peace Corps. Steve was placed in a small, rural community in Swaziland, which has the highest rate of AIDS on earth. He soon realized how much could be done to improve the quality of life there, especially for children who had been orphaned by AIDS. Steve first served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Kingdom through 2005.  He then branched out on his own in partnership with the National Emergency Response Council on HIV and AIDS (NERCHA) to form Young Heroes, a non-profit organization that provides food, shelter, clothing, school tuition and job skills training to youth affected by AIDS. Since 2006, Young Heroes has impacted thousands of Swazi orphans and other AIDS-affected youth with the means to survive as well as tools to ensure a better future. When Steve repatriated back to the U.S. in 2008, he formed the Young Heroes Foundation, the U.S.-based non-profit fund-raising arm of Young Heroes.  He served as director of the Young Heroes Foundation until 2020.

Jacqueline Eisenberg-Nelson

  • Peace Corps Volunteer, Health Extension Programs, Swaziland, 2004-2006
  • Director of the Young Heroes Foundation, 2020 – Present

When Steve Kallaugher stepped down as head of the Young Heroes Foundation in 2020, Jacqueline Eisenberg-Nelson took over as the organization’s new director and has managed the Foundation from her home in Colorado ever since.

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