35+ Years · Kenya & East Africa · Since 1991

Every project. Every life.
All right here.

From active programs running today to completed capital projects and seasonal campaigns — this is the complete record of what your giving has built, is building, and will build across East Africa.

Candid Platinum 2025 & 2026
501(c)(3) · EIN 93-1730164
GreatNonprofits Top Rated 2024 & 2025
9
Active programs running in East Africa right now — serving children, women, and communities daily
5
Major capital projects completed or in progress
35+
Years of projects across Kenya & East Africa
590+
Children served every day
5,500+
Women reached annually
9
Active programs
2026
·
590+
Children served
daily
·
5,500+
Women reached
annually
·
1,100
Seat Multiplex
Mombasa
·
11
Osarai classrooms
renovated
·
KSH 250K
Monthly Mathare
injection
·
2,000+
St. Rita waiting
list
·
530+
Children in Season
to Remember
·
9
Active programs
2026
·
590+
Children served
daily
·
5,500+
Women reached
annually
·
1,100
Seat Multiplex
Mombasa
·
11
Osarai classrooms
renovated
·
KSH 250K
Monthly Mathare
injection
·
2,000+
St. Rita waiting
list
·
530+
Children in Season
to Remember
·

9 programs active across East Africa today.

Every program below is operating right now — funded by your giving, led by our Kenyan team, changing lives every single day.

All Projects
Children & Homes
Women & Girls
Education
Infrastructure
New 2026
Completed
Clean water infrastructure — GDP Kenya boreholes and water tanks
● Active · Kenya-wide
Est. 2010
Water Infrastructure
Clean Water Program

Wells, boreholes, and storage tanks giving 2,000+ people safe daily water access across Kenya’s most vulnerable communities and orphanages.

2,000+
People · daily access
Learn more Infrastructure
GDP Women's Empowerment Summit Kenya — 5,500+ women reached annually
● Active · Kenya & Uganda
Est. 2012
Women & Empowerment
Women’s Empowerment Program

5,500+ women annually through trauma care, vocational training, financial literacy, and 24/7 crisis support. Led by Patricia Wright. Also hosted at the Mombasa Multiplex Center.

5,500+
Women reached annually
Learn more Women · Leadership
GDP Children's Homes — three homes serving 590 children daily, Nairobi Kenya
● Active · Nairobi
Est. 1991
Children in Care
Children’s Homes — Three Sites

Three homes and a special needs center providing safe housing, food, healthcare, education, and trained caregiving to 590+ children every day. Project of Hope · Good Samaritan · Compassionate Home.

590+
Children · daily
3
Partner homes
Learn more Children · Care
GDP Scholarship Fund — Evelyn S. Weatherspoon Scholarship, Kenya
● Active · Kenya
Est. 2018
Education & Scholarships
Evelyn S. Weatherspoon Scholarship Fund

Supporting students from GDP’s partner homes into secondary school, vocational training, and university. In 2025 alone, 11 new college students were enrolled — including Mercy Deborah Nyamuze, the first medical student from Good Samaritan Home.

11
New college students 2025
Learn more Education
GDP Youth Empowerment — 11 leadership centres across Kenya
● Active · Kenya-wide
Youth & Humanitarian
Youth Empowerment & Humanitarian Aid

12 youth leadership centres across Kenya, quarterly summits, crisis response for widows and families in Nairobi’s informal settlements, and next-generation leader development.

12
Leadership centres
Learn more Youth · Humanitarian
🌍
Northern Kenya
~339 km from Nairobi
✦ New · Samburu County
Launched 2026
New Initiative · 2026 Launch
The Samburu Project NEW

Quarterly field missions into one of Kenya’s most remote and underserved regions — mental wellness training, health outreach, emergency rescues, and a direct pipeline to St. Rita. Teen pregnancy rate 50% · illiteracy 76% · GDP goes in anyway.

50%
Teen pregnancy · highest Kenya
11+
Girls rescued to St. Rita
Child in wheelchair at Project of Hope Special Needs Center, Mathare, Nairobi — GDP Kenya daily care
● Active Daily · Mathare
Special Needs · Project of Hope
Special Needs Center — Mathare

Therapy support, specialized education, and daily care for children with special needs at the Project of Hope Children’s Home — including a newly built and fully furnished school and therapy clinic.

1
New therapy clinic built
Daily
Care, meals & therapy
See the project Special Needs
“GDP is building ‘lighthouses’ all around Kenya where young men and women are being rescued by the hundreds from crashing their lives into the rocks and forever destroyed.”
Local Government Official, Kenya

The buildings your giving literally constructed.

These are not programs — they are physical structures that will serve thousands for decades. Built from the ground up. Funded by your gifts. Standing today in Kenya.

Multiplex foundation rebar construction
Multiplex structural framing
Mentorship at the Multiplex — women and youth sharing a meal
Youth session in the Multiplex auditorium
🏫
11
Classrooms renovated
KSH 250K
Monthly community injection
Project of Hope Renovation — Mathare, Nairobi

11 renovated classrooms, 4 dorm rooms, new restrooms, and a brand-new therapy clinic for the Special Needs Center — all built by contracting 90% of the work to local Mathare fundis, injecting KSH 250,000+ into the community every single month.

Full Mathare story → 🔨 90% local fundi workforce · ✓ Completed

From Mombasa in 1991 to the world in 2026.

Every project on this page is the result of 35 years of showing up in hard places and refusing to leave. Here is the arc of that commitment — from the first days in Kenya to where we stand today.

91
1991
GDP founded in Mombasa, Kenya
Foundation
10s
2010s
Clean Water + Women’s Empowerment launched
Expansion
18
2018
Humanitarian Aid + Scholarship Fund
Growth
22
2022
Mathare renovation + Multiplex construction begins
Capital
24
2024
Multiplex opens · 12 youth centres · Most active year
Record Year
25
2025
St. Rita founded · Osarai Grand Opening · 11 new college students
Landmark
26
2026
Samburu Project · GHWB NGO · Kenya officially knows our name
Now

Seasonal projects — every year without fail.

Two annual campaigns that mobilize the entire GDP community and deliver tangible results to children and families across Kenya every year.

Every October · Annual

October of Hope

October is GDP’s Month of Giving — raising $15,000 to fund food and hygiene supplies, school supplies, emergency support for Osarai and St. Rita, and the entire “Season to Remember” for 530+ children in December.

Your gift means:
→ Food & hygiene for 3 children’s homes · November → School supplies for all homes · December → Emergency support · Osarai + St. Rita → The Season to Remember · 530+ children
$15,000
Annual goal
Give in October →
Every December · Annual

A Season to Remember

Each December, the GDP team arrives at all three children’s homes with packed trucks, special meals, and a full day of celebration — the highlight of every child’s year. Something they would have never imagined. 530+ children given a season to remember.

What it delivers:
→ Special meals · Good Samaritan · Project of Hope · Special Needs → School supplies + gifts for every child → GDP team hands-on at every site → 530+ children who would otherwise have nothing special
530+
Children given a Season to Remember
Fund the Season →
“In the toughest places — hope shines brightest. GDP’s work in Osarai proves that courage, consistency, and compassion change outcomes. We don’t wait for perfect conditions — we go into hard places and bring what’s needed.”
GDP Kenya Field Report · Osarai Primary School · September 2025

Every project here began with one donation.

The Multiplex Center. The Osarai classrooms. The Samburu Project. St. Rita. Every single one started because one donor decided to give. You are that donor for whatever comes next. What will you build?

501(c)(3) · EIN 93-1730164 · Candid Platinum 2025 & 2026 · info@gdpkenya.org

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