Belize
Concepcion Sewing Project: This sewing project was created to empower women in Corozal to become self-sufficient, productive individuals by enabling them to operate a sewing business. As GAFC’s sustainable program in Belize, they are supported by monetary funds, sewing machines, and other essential resources necessary to run their business. By providing employment for the women of Corozal, their children are given the opportunity to attend school and help the family break the cycle of poverty.
Holy Cross Anglican School: This small school has been built on the only available land on the island: a trash dump within San Pedro. GAFC is dedicated to teaching and implementing environmental projects to help clean up and protect the school and the land surrounding it, which includes the beach and the coral reef.
Cambodia
Cambodia Children’s Fund (CCF): The Cambodian Children’s Fund was founded by Hollywood film executive Scott Neeson who traveled to Cambodia on holiday in early 2003. There he found his life changed by the desperate circumstances of the people while at the same time inspired by the courage of Phnom Penh’s most impoverished children. The CCF was originally developed to provide a safe haven for 45 children in critical need. Within four short years, the CCF has grown to incorporate four separate facilities, where over 300 children receive nutrition, housing, medical treatment, dental services and vaccinations. GAFC supports the expansion of this amazing organization through year-round fundraising.
Colombia
Fundacion de Jesus: Supporting more than 150 children in the surrounding community, the center is located in the “Swamp of the Virgen” area of Cartagena. The center has nutrition and feeding program, pays school fees, and provides health care. GAFC is working with this organization to help them move into a new facility and complete much needed renovations.
Costa Rica
San Jose Orphanage: Home to many abandoned children, this orphanage needs to improve facilities in order to accommodate the increasing number of children coming to live in San Jose. Ambassadors for Children volunteers will assist in designated projects to help the orphanage meet this demand.
Reforestation Project: GAFC works with multiple conservation organizations throughout Costa Rica on reforestation projects, as volunteers regularly plant trees to help maintain the environment.
El Salvador
The Villa Kiwanis: This organization provides victims of the 2001 earthquakes with housing, medical care, schooling, and an established neighborhood watch program. Villa Kiwanis prides itself on providing the people of El Salvador with complete ownership of their homes.
Our Father’s House: This orphanage cares for approximately 50 abandoned children. While the home strives to provide the basic necessities of life to their children, outside help is still desperately needed.
Ethiopia
Atetegeb Worku Orphanage: This center is located in Addis Ababa and provides shelter, food, medicine, and education to orphans living with HIV/AIDS or otherwise affected by the deadly disease. GAFC provides assistance to this orphanage so that these children may realize their full potential.
Awassa Children’s Center: This organization is located south of Addis Ababa in a town called Awassa. It is home to more than 60 children and focuses on providing a safe and nurturing environment for orphaned children. With a medical clinic, vocational training classrooms, and an educational center on site, this organization is helping children turn their lives around. GAFC fundraises to help with new renovations and additions to the center, as well as to raise the enrollment level of those attending school.
Guatemala
Vamos Adelante: This organization works in several villages supporting schools and literacy projects in Esquintla, teaching people about hygiene and basic health care, and passing out much needed supplies. GAFC is helping to raise enough money to build a new school in one of the villages.
Open Windows Foundation: Located in the village of San Miguel Duenas, this organization assists children with their education by providing a library, tutoring services, technical support, school supplies, computer classes, and games.
India
Ramana’s Garden: Dr. Prabhavati Dwabha formed Ramana’s Garden Home for Destitute Children in India approximately 10 years ago as a result of her spiritual practice on the banks of the River Ganga. After meeting the numerous homeless, destitute, and abused children, she decided to make them her life’s work. She has provided a growing number of children with education, nourishment, and a future where they had little or no hope. Prabhavati has also instituted programs to educate local villages in practices of proper sanitation, safe drinking water, and general health care. GAFC has started a library at Ramana’s Garden and a computer center to raise the quality of learning available to these children.
Jamaica
The Rotary Club of Jamaica: GAFC currently works in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Jamaica to provide aid to rural schools in local communities such as Cokesview, Ferris, Hudson, and the School of Hope. GAFC focuses on community development projects such as school painting, playground assembly, and tree planting to help benefit the local children.
Jordan
Habitat for Humanity: GAFC works with Habitat for Humanity on building projects throughout Jordan. Habitat for Humanity Jordan (HFHJ) began its work in 2001 and is currently working in four rural villages, where the average family consists of seven children. HFHJ is also working in three urban communities. Houses are made of cement blocks, with the largest measuring 55 square meters. Through voluntary labor and donated materials, families contribute an average of $1,000 USD towards their own house. Each new house brings greater opportunities for families to lead safe, healthy and productive lives.
Jordan River Foundation: This organization was established in 1995 and Chaired by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah. Their vision is to empower society, especially the lives of women and children, which in turn will secure a better future for all Jordanians. GAFC teams up with JRF on their “child safety” and “community empowerment” programs.
Kenya
Eldoret Rescue Center: Over 200 boys and 50 girls rescued from the streets call this center home. Dealing with the harsh realities of everyday life puts these children, in particular, at a very high risk for violent behavior and/or drug and alcohol abuse. The center offers housing, food, schooling, guidance, and legal representation to all their children. GAFC has been actively involved in renovating and supporting the operations of this rescue center.
Charitable Children’s Institutions of Nakuru (CCIN) – This umbrella organization provides support to over 16 children’s homes in the greater Lake Nakuru District. GAFC has developed amazing relationships with many of these homes and continues to provide support so that food, medicine, clothing, and other basic necessities of life are made available to these children.
Malawi
Malawi Project, Inc: Malawi Project inc. is an organization composed of people living in the United States, working with groups in a number of other countries, who are combining efforts and resources to supply much needed medical supplies, health care, and other humanitarian aid to the African nation of Malawi. GAFC is dedicated to working in Mtendere Orphans Village and is fundraising to build additional homes for the orphans and to renovate their library. GAFC also volunteers at local hospitals, a Vita-Meal production plant, the rural food outreach program, and many other development programs.
Nepal
YETI (Youth Enhancement and Training Initiative, Inc.): YETI is a not-for-profit organization that helps underprivileged children abroad and at home. GAFC and YETI are working together to build an orphanage and library/community center for a village in rural Kathmandu. When fully constructed, the orphanage will provide housing, food, and supervision to at least 40-orphaned children.
Navajo Reservation
Youth Shelter and Family Services: This organization provides short-term refuge to at-risk youth living throughout Northern New Mexico. GAFC is implementing after-school programs to help keep these children focused and interested in learning.
Sante Fe Mountain Center: This organization is dedicated to promoting personal discovery and social change among youth, families, and groups through the use of creative learning experiences in wilderness, community, and cultural environments. GAFC works alongside local youth on various conservation projects.
Peru
Peruvian Hearts: Peruvian Hearts is a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to help provide education and enriched opportunities for children living in orphanages in Peru. The organization gives these children an environment which will help protect and nurture them physically, emotionally, and spiritually. GAFC is raising funds and support to help with several feeding and nutrition programs throughout various orphanages in Peru.
Serbia
Serbia and Roma Music School and Cultural Center: This organization is located in Belgrade and works to get at-risk youth, abandoned and neglected children, and those living in institutionalized care involved in the arts. This center focuses on music education, provides free lessons on various musical forms, fosters cross-cultural exchange, creates a forum for local musicians, and also offers cultural classes, such as photography, art, and dance.
South Africa
Baphumelele Children’s Home: Baphumelele provides a safe home for abandoned, abused, neglected or orphaned children in Khayelitsha Township. In addition to providing housing, Baphumelele provides education, vocational training, and medical care for the children, most of who have been affected by HIV/AIDS in some way.
Uganda
Building Tomorrow: This non-profit is committed to building schools in sub-Saharan Africa for at-risk children and has started its project in the Wakiso District of Uganda. GAFC is raising funds to build their first international school through Building Tomorrow in the rural villages of Kampala.
