Impact is not a number. It is a life moving forward.
From children waking up safe, to women rebuilding after trauma, to students entering university and communities gaining clean water—GDP turns generosity into lasting pathways from crisis to opportunity.
Different needs. One connected mission.
GDP does not treat poverty, trauma, education, health, and opportunity as separate problems. Our programs reinforce one another so that help today becomes strength tomorrow.
St. Rita Evergreen Girls School
Trauma-informed residential education, safety, medical care, and healing for girls escaping gender-based violence, forced marriage, and abandonment.
Children in Care
Food, housing, healthcare, education, clean water, and consistent care through GDP’s partner children’s homes.
Women’s Empowerment
Trauma recovery, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, leadership development, and trusted community.
Clean Water + Community Infrastructure
Wells, boreholes, solar pumping systems, tanks, and infrastructure that restore health, school attendance, and dignity.
Scholarships + Education
The Evelyn S. Weatherspoon Scholarship Fund moves gifted young people from children’s homes into trade school, college, and university.
Humanitarian + Crisis Response
Food, medical support, relief, and long-term community relationships reaching vulnerable families in hard-to-access regions.
Not handouts. Pathways.
Real development is not one moment of relief. It is a connected journey that helps a person become safe, grow, build a future, and eventually strengthen the lives around them.
Crisis is met
Food, shelter, medical attention, water, protection, and a trusted human response.
Safety is rebuilt
Stable care and trauma-informed support create room to breathe, recover, and believe again.
Learning begins
School, mentorship, scholarship, life skills, and access to tools make progress possible.
Opportunity grows
Vocational training, enterprise, leadership, and career pathways replace dependence with direction.
Impact multiplies
Graduates, leaders, and entrepreneurs return strength to their families and communities.
One opportunity can redirect an entire life.
The clearest evidence of impact is not a chart. It is a person who can now see a future that once felt impossible.
Mercy’s dream did not end in Mathare.
Mercy grew up in one of Nairobi’s most challenging communities. Through education support and opportunity, she is now pursuing medical training—with a vision to serve communities too often left without care.
See how scholarships change futures →Grace moved from survival to leadership.
After surviving domestic violence with no income, Grace entered GDP’s women’s program. Two years later, she was running a tailoring business and employing three other women—proof that one restored life can open doors for many.
Explore women’s empowerment →U.S. Headquarters
Primary Program Network
Growing Reach
Humanitarian Reach
One connected mission
Global reach. Local trust.
GDP combines U.S. nonprofit accountability with long-standing East African relationships and operational leadership on the ground. That balance helps resources move with both integrity and cultural understanding.
Donor relations, governance, fundraising, compliance, and international partnership development.
Program leadership, children’s care, women’s empowerment, scholarships, youth development, clean water, and construction.
GDP’s sister organization expands the same values and long-term mission into Uganda, South Sudan, and beyond.
See what generosity can put into motion.
Giving is most powerful when donors can picture the outcome. These examples connect a gift to practical care and forward movement.
Helps provide nutritious food through a children’s or widow-support feeding program.
Supports books, uniforms, learning materials, or a seat at an empowerment gathering.
Helps provide safe housing, meals, care, and support for a girl at St. Rita.
Moves clean-water access, classroom improvements, or critical community infrastructure forward.
Helps provide a stronger package of care—education, counseling support, meals, and stabilization for vulnerable children, girls, and families.
Can fund approximately one year of tuition for a deserving GDP scholarship student.
Trust is part of the impact.
GDP’s work is built on transparency, donor intent, local accountability, and long-term relationships. Donors should know what their generosity is building and why it matters.
High-level organizational transparency displayed through current nonprofit profile and reporting information.
Tax-deductible charitable giving through Global Development Project, EIN 93-1730164.
Restricted gifts are applied to the program selected by the donor and tracked accordingly.
Program decisions are informed by operational leadership and trusted relationships in East Africa.
You do not have to change the whole world. Start with one life.
Your generosity becomes food, safety, learning, healing, clean water, opportunity, and a future. Together, we can keep showing up in the places where hope has waited the longest.