Real lives. Measured change.
For more than 35 years, GDP has served children, women, and families across Kenya. These are the results.
of St. Rita girls complete Form 4
continue to technical school, trade school, college, or university
of women's businesses still running after 12 months
water system uptime
meals served every year
school attendance, more than doubled
increase in graduation
of those students graduate
Counting people reached is easy. Showing what changed is what matters.
Each program below answers three questions: What’s the problem? What are we doing? What changed?
One of the very first of its kind in East Africa.
Girls who survive violence and early pregnancy are usually pushed out of school for good. St. Rita keeps them in school and lets them bring their children.
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Trauma-informed care
Healing, safety, and dignity are built into every part of school life.
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The first school for these girls and their children
Young mothers keep learning while their babies are cared for on the same campus.
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A way out from the hardest places
Opened March 2025, with a rescue pipeline from The Samburu Project.
Where a St. Rita education leads.
From finishing school, to further training, to graduating.
complete Form 4
go on to technical school, trade school, college, or university
graduate from their next program
When we show up, children show up.
GDP supports 2 local schools in some of Kenya's most isolated regions, where getting to class and staying there is a daily struggle.
School attendance more than doubled
Increase in graduation
590+ children wake up safe every day in GDP's children's homes and special needs center. They get housing, healthcare, education, trained caregivers, and three meals a day, every day of the year.
- 590+ children in safe care every day
- 3 children's homes
- Fully equipped special needs center
of businesses launched through our women's summits are still running a year later.
Businesses that last. Income that stays.
Many of the women we serve are surviving trauma, widowhood, or poverty with no income of their own. We start with healing, then build a livelihood through vocational training, financial literacy, and women's summits at the Mombasa Multiplex Center.
Women equipped every year
Crisis support available every week
Water that keeps flowing.
Too many water projects break and stay broken. GDP builds wells, boreholes, and tanks for communities and children's homes, then keeps them running.
Uptime across all GDP water systems
People with safe water every day
Going where the need is hardest to reach.
Samburu County, about 339 km north of Nairobi, is one of Kenya's most isolated regions. GDP brings health training, essential supplies, and a direct rescue pipeline to St. Rita.
Girls rescued and now safe at St. Rita
Field events reaching 100–150 women and girls each
Teen pregnancy rate, highest in Kenya (Kenya DHS 2022)
Illiteracy rate in Maralal Town
35+ years on the ground.
Since 1991, GDP has built trust with local leaders and stayed with the communities we serve. That's why these results last.
- Candid Platinum Seal2025 & 2026
- GreatNonprofits Top Rated2024 & 2025
- IRS-verified 501(c)(3)EIN 93-1730164
- Registered in the U.S. & KenyaFL G26000059044 · Kenya CLG-DATKR2MA
- 10 active programs · 11 youth leadership centresEast Africa & the U.S.
- Annual financial reportsPublished publicly
Every number on this page has a name.
Behind every percentage is a girl in school, a mother earning a living, a child who ate today. Help write the next chapter.
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