GDP Kenya
Global Hearts Without Borders Network
🇰🇪 Kenya & East Africa · Since 1991
Where Others
Won't Go — We Stay
A permanent, trauma-informed, relational presence across Kenya and East Africa. Not a mission trip. A life's calling shared across two continents.
35+
Years in Kenya
8
Programs
12
Youth Centers
$180K
Annual Operations
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Global Development Project Kenya
GDP Kenya · Field Operations · Kenya
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Global Hearts Without Borders Network
GHWBN · 501(c)(3) · United States
🏆 Candid Platinum 2025 & 2026
⭐ GreatNonprofits Top Rated
✅ 501(c)(3) Verified
🇰🇪 GHWBN · Registered Kenyan NGO
"We go into the places others won't go — and we stay. Not for a season. For a lifetime."
— Michael & Patricia Wright · Co-Founders · Kenya since 1991
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Relational, not transactional
We build deep, lasting bonds with communities — not check-the-box aid drops.
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Trauma-informed presence
Every program is designed with dignity, healing, and long-term wellbeing at the center.
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Sustainable by design
Local leadership, Kenyan partners, and community-owned models built to outlast us.
3
Partner Children's Homes
1
Girls School Founded
12
Youth Leadership Centers
$770K
Capital Projects Budget
1991
Year We Began
Programs at work
Core
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Children in Care
3 Homes
Project of Hope · Compassionate · Good Samaritan
Safe homes, education, nutrition, and spiritual grounding for orphaned and vulnerable children across Kenya.
Education
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St. Rita Evergreen Girls School
Nyahururu
Founded by Dr. Phyllis Njoki Kagimbi
Breaking generational poverty through girls' secondary education in Kenya's central highlands.
Infrastructure
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Clean Water Initiative
Villages
Musoli · Samburu · Remote communities
Drilling boreholes and building sustainable water systems in remote villages across Kenya.
Empowerment
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Women, Youth & Leaders Empowerment
Mombasa
GDP Multiplex Center — All Under One Roof
Women, youth, and community leaders — all gathered under one roof at the GDP Multiplex Center for economic training, microenterprise, mentorship, and leadership development across coastal Kenya.
Scholarships
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Weatherspoon Scholarship Fund
Growing
Evelyn S. Weatherspoon Fund
Named scholarships enabling higher education for exceptional Kenyan youth.
Humanitarian
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Humanitarian Aid
Crisis Ready
Kenya · Uganda · Southern Sudan · East Africa
Rapid-response relief for communities in crisis — food, medical, shelter, and trauma support.
Youth
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Youth Empowerment
12 Centers
Leadership development nationwide
12 centers building the next generation of Kenyan leaders through mentorship, skills, and character formation.
★ New 2026
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The Samburu Project
Maralal
Northern Kenya · 2026 Launch
Bringing holistic care, clean water, education, and community development to the Samburu people of northern Kenya.
From the field
GDP Kenya community gathering in Maralal, Northern Kenya with Samburu community members

The Samburu Project

Maralal, Northern Kenya — GDP Kenya team presents to the Samburu community beneath the iconic euphorbia tree

★ 2026 Initiative
Girls at St. Rita Evergreen School in Nyahururu Kenya

St. Rita Evergreen Girls School

Nyahururu, Kenya — Students at the school campus founded by Dr. Phyllis Njoki Kagimbi

Girls Education
GDP Kenya Multiplex Center gathering in Mombasa

GDP Multiplex Center

Mombasa, Kenya — Women's Empowerment gathering at the Multiplex Center community hall

Women's Empowerment
Kenya landscape with rhino wildlife

The Land We Call Home

Kenya — A land of breathtaking beauty, resilient people, and a mission that never ends

Kenya · Since 1991
Voices from the ground
"GDP Kenya doesn't just bring resources — they bring themselves. That relational commitment is what changes everything for our children."
Project of Hope
Partner Children's Home · Kenya
"Education is the key that unlocks every door — and these girls deserve every door wide open."
Dr. Phyllis Njoki Kagimbi
Founder, St. Rita Evergreen Girls School · Nyahururu
"The Multiplex Summit opened doors we didn't know existed. Women in our community now see a different future for themselves and their families."
Multiplex Summit Participant
Women's Empowerment · Mombasa, Kenya
Where we work

Active Regions

Nairobi
Urban programs, coordination, youth centers, partner children's homes
Mombasa
GDP Multiplex Center — Women's empowerment hub
Nyahururu
St. Rita Evergreen Girls School — Central highlands
Samburu / Maralal
The Samburu Project — 2026 new initiative, northern Kenya
Osarai
Partner children's home, community development
Musoli Village
Clean water, youth leadership, community infrastructure
Uganda
Humanitarian outreach and cross-border aid
Kenya field work

A Network Across Kenya

From coastal Mombasa to the central highlands of Nyahururu, from Nairobi's urban core to the remote Samburu north — GDP Kenya and Global Hearts Without Borders operate where few others venture, building permanent roots in every community we enter.

Kenya Field Director on the ground ensuring every program maintains relational integrity and community accountability across all regions.

The people behind it
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Michael Wayne Wright

Co-Founder · GDP Kenya & GHWBN

Based in Atlanta. Kenya since 1991. Over 35 years of field presence, relationship-building, and organizational leadership across East Africa.

🇰🇪 Kenya since 1991
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Patricia Ann Wright

Co-Founder · GDP Kenya & GHWBN

Co-architect of every program GDP Kenya has built. Her pastoral heart and strategic wisdom have shaped the organization's identity as a deeply relational, trauma-aware presence across Kenya and East Africa.

❤️ Co-Founder · 35+ Years
KFD

Kenya Field Director

Field Operations · GDP Kenya

More than 30 years on the ground in Kenya. Manages field operations, partner relationships, and community accountability across all GDP Kenya programs — the boots-on-the-ground engine of the mission.

🏕️ Field Director · 30+ Yrs
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Dr. Phyllis Njoki Kagimbi

Founder · St. Rita Evergreen Girls School

Visionary Kenyan educator who founded St. Rita Evergreen Girls School in Nyahururu — transforming girls' futures in the central highlands through secondary education and mentorship.

📚 St. Rita · Nyahururu
Join us in Kenya
2026
✈️ December 2026
Kenya Mission Trip
🗓️ December 6–21, 2026
📍 Multiple sites across Kenya
👥 Open group — Limited spots
Join Michael and Patricia Wright on a transformative 15-day field immersion across GDP Kenya's active programs. Visit children's homes, St. Rita Girls School, the Multiplex Center, and the Samburu Project site. See the work firsthand. Meet the partners. Experience what a lifetime of commitment looks like on the ground.
Trip includes visits to
Nairobi Nyahururu Mombasa Samburu Osarai
2027
✈️ Coming 2027
Kenya Mission Trip
🗓️ Dates — TBD 2027
📍 Kenya & East Africa
👥 Register your interest now
Building on the momentum of 2026, our 2027 mission trip will go deeper into GDP Kenya's expanding work — including the growing Samburu Project, new youth leadership center initiatives, and a closer look at community transformation in Musoli Village and Osarai.
Planned focus areas
Samburu Project Youth Centers Musoli Village Osarai Uganda
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What to expect on a GDP Kenya trip
These are not tourist experiences. You will visit real communities, build real relationships, and witness the kind of transformation that only comes from 35 years of faithful presence. Travelers return changed — because Kenya has that effect on people who go with open hearts.

Become Part
of the Story

Global Hearts Without Borders Network · 501(c)(3)
🏆 Candid Platinum 2025 & 2026
⭐ GreatNonprofits Top Rated
✅ 501(c)(3) Nonprofit
🇰🇪 GHWBN · Registered Kenyan NGO
GDP Kenya · Global Hearts Without Borders Network · Est. 1991
Kenya · Uganda · East Africa · Atlanta, USA