The Global Fund For Children

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 [...]

Nyakagyzi, Uganda – It’s 7:30 in the morning, and we have commenced our journey back to Kampala after a visit to GFC grantee partner Nyaka AIDS Foundation, located in western Uganda. As Nyaka’s country manager, Jennifer Nantale; our driver, Edward Mugerwa; and I embark on the bumpy drive, we pass by Nyaka’s community library. To [...]

Monrovia, Liberia – I arrived in Monrovia this morning, just in time for a very special event: the Solid Education School System (SESS) graduation ceremony for kindergarteners entering first grade. The Global Fund for Children supports the SESS through the Mary M. Momolu Development Foundation, a GFC grantee partner. The school provides poor children with [...]

Port Loko, Sierra Leone – This afternoon, I was traveling in a car with Ibrahim Shaid, the founder and executive director of GFC grantee partner Talented Young People Everywhere (TYPE). I had arrived earlier in the day in Port Loko, a rural region in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, to visit TYPE’s GFC-supported after-school [...]

Freetown, Sierra Leone – In most African countries, it is common practice to bargain. Someone gives you a price, and you spend a moment, or hours if you have nowhere else to be, going back and forth until buyer and seller reach a happy medium. There are some commodities, though, that you just do not [...]

Soweto, South Africa – The school is a haven for them, said Jose Bright, the executive director of Teboho Trust, a small nonprofit organization in Soweto, South Africa, that provides personal empowerment and social development workshops, in addition to educational support, to approximately 400 orphaned and underserved youth. When I visited the Saturday School last [...]