Washington, DC–Children require adults’ support, care, and protection to become productive adults themselves. Unfortunately, many children globally are deprived of this protection, and they suffer various forms of abuse and exploitation, which adversely affects their well-being. Child abuse includes all forms of physical and emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, and other forms [...]
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa represents our largest regional portfolio. We currently invest in over 60 grantee partners working in the following countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
In East and Southern Africa, our grantee partners address a broad range of issues associated with HIV/AIDS, forced displacement, gender-based violence and gender disparities, and access to and provision of education. In West Africa, most of our grantee partners address the issues of trafficking, child labor, and gender-based violence.
To date, we have awarded 952 grants totaling $6,044,466 to 126 organizations in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Uganda Today: Healing in the Aftermath of Kony
- By: Emmanuel Otoo on March 11th, 2012
- Category: Blog
By now, like us, you have probably watched “Kony 2012”—the 30-minute long video about the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and its notorious leader Joseph Kony. Posted a few days ago by the advocacy group Invisible Children, the video has gone viral with more than 70 million views. The buzz is exciting—to have millions of people [...]
Going Places
- By: Monica Grover on March 10th, 2012
- Category: Blog
Lagos, Nigeria–My first night in Lagos, Nigeria, was kind of rough—a mouse sprinting around my hotel room, bugs clustered at a corner of the bed I was to sleep on. That was yesterday. Today was a new day. When I first saw everyone at the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) in Lagos, it felt like [...]
Change Agents
- By: Monica Grover on March 7th, 2012
- Category: Adobe Youth Voices
Lagos, Nigeria–Temitope Tejuoso, Tope for short, is an Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) lead educator. She is part of Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), a Global Fund for Children grantee partner based in Lagos, Nigeria. KIND trains adolescent girls to become leaders in their communities. Most of the girls at KIND are between the ages of [...]
Saturday Afternoons in Lagos
- By: Monica Grover on March 6th, 2012
- Category: Adobe Youth Voices
Lagos, Nigeria–The youth with whom Francesca Adeola Abiola works are between the ages of 12 and 18, and many of them are in secondary school. Some are Muslim, some are Christian, and they come from various socioeconomic backgrounds. Media Concern Initiative is a grantee partner of The Global Fund for Children and is dedicated to [...]
Community-Based Organizations Addressing Community Challenges – GFC’s Model
- By: Emmanuel Otoo on February 14th, 2012
- Category: Blog
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 Girl’s Passage to Freedom
- By: Emmanuel Otoo on January 30th, 2012
- Category: Blog
Nairobi, Kenya–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. [...]
Video: On the Road with Josephine Ndao
- By: Josephine Ndao on January 1st, 2012
- Category: Blog
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.
A Gift That Gives to Rescued Child Slaves
- By: Emmanuel Otoo on November 29th, 2011
- Category: Blog
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 [...]
Akili Dada Comes to Washington, DC
- By: Emmanuel Otoo on November 21st, 2011
- Category: Blog
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. [...]