The Global Fund For Children

Washington, DC–Having the opportunity to interact with someone who spent most of his growing years in slavery was a powerful experience for me. [...]

The Maasai people live in Kenya and Tanzania along the Great Rift Valley. A pastoralist people, they occupy an estimated total land area of about 160,000 square kilometers (roughly 62,000 square miles). Traditions and culture are of great importance to the Maasai, and among these traditions are female circumcision and early marriage for girls. Before [...]

Josephine Ndao, The Global Fund for Children’s program officer for West Africa, reflects on her recent trip to Nigeria and Burkina Faso to visit current and prospective GFC grantee partners.

Washington, DC — Child labor, child trafficking, and modern-day slavery are problems with vast dimensions in many economic sectors in Africa, especially agriculture, tourism (specifically sex tourism), fisheries, mining, local transportation, and domestic service. In Ghana, the number of working children between the ages of 5 and 17 is estimated to be 6,361,110 (about 35.5 [...]

Washington, DC – It was a great privilege for GFC to have Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg, the founder of Akili Dada (one of GFC’s grantee partners in Kenya), visit the GFC office. She took advantage of her visit to learn more about GFC and to share her education-focused intervention for deprived Kenyan girls with the GFC team. [...]

Washington, DC – At GFC, we take pride in collaborating with a number of grantee partners that work with children who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. Our objective is to strengthen the efforts and creativity of grantee partners such as Synergie pour l’Enfance in Senegal, an organization that works with community members to [...]

Rahel wanted her daughter Aster, who has autism, to go to school just like the other children in Addis Ababa. But schools turned her away. And family members would not take care of Aster—it was too hard to understand and control her.

Washington, DC – We were lucky to have Kakenya Ntaiya visit the GFC office to speak about her organization—the Kakenya Center for Excellence, located in Enoosaen, Kenya—and its ongoing work to empower girls by engaging the community in the girls’ success and well-being. Kakenya shed light on how engaging community members, even those who might [...]

For the last two years, GFC has partnered with the Adobe Foundation to participate in Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), a program that empowers young people to share their voices and express their understanding of the world through the use of new media technology. Twenty-seven of our grantee partners currently participate in the AYV program. Young [...]

For the last two years, GFC has partnered with the Adobe Foundation to participate in Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), a program that empowers young people to share their voices and express their understanding of the world through the use of new media technology. Twenty-seven of our grantee partners currently participate in the AYV program. Young [...]