GRACELAND AFRICA MISSION
It’s not charity It’s investing in people It’s financing hope
"We seek a world where people are empowered to overcome poverty and social insecurity, ethnic and gender inequity; a world where they have the opportunity to achieve their hopes and dreams."
Our programs provide children with the opportunity to obtain a primary, secondary, and post-secondary school education. We assist families with capacity development focused on income generation, and we provide relief when needed. In all of our programs we focus on gender equity.
Why support Graceland Africa Mission?
Our Programs
Financing education is about investing in the future of children and youth.
Scholarships are timeless investments that open doors for meaningful employment, financial security, healthy families, and stronger communities. Currently GAM provides scholarships to over 50 students.
GAM scholarships are designed to respect the right and responsibility of parents or guardians to educate their children. Our primary school scholarship program, One for One, covers approx. 75% of primary school student expenses; parents and guardians are expected to cover the remaining expenses. Orphans receive 100% support.
Scholarships funded through our Right to Be scholarship program assist vulnerable girls in their quest to obtain secondary school, college, and university education.
Hesima is our scholarship program for vulnerable boys who are in secondary school, college, and university.
Read more about our students and graduates in our Impact page.
“A quality basic education is a key driver for reducing poverty, fostering economic growth, achieving gender equality, and social development.”
Our capacity building programs compliment our scholarship programs as we focus on the students and their parents or guardians. Capacity development schemes have included organic farming and animal husbandry.
Business grants coupled with local networking and training opportunities have helped women to establish successful businesses. We often assist single parent mothers as they represent families in the greatest economic need.
We also partner wth community groups, including churches and local community based organizations, for larger capacity development initiatives that include water harvesting projects.
““Capacity development is one of the most effective ways of fostering sustainable human development. By strengthening the capacities of individuals, organizations and the enabling environment, the foundation is laid for meaningful participation in national and local development processes and thereby sustainable development results.””
Although not a sustainable development initiative, at times assistance and relief is completely essential. Through our assistance programs GAM has provided much needed items such as blankets, solar lamps, residential water filter systems, and high efficiency cookers. We have also assisted several women needing medical intervention.
During the East African drought in 2011, GAM provided food relief to hungry families living in the arid and semi-arid lands of the Eastern Province of Kenya (see photo on right).
More recently during the height of the Covid-19 Pandemic, from April to December, 2020, GAM provided monthly food and financial assistance to the families of students in our scholarship programs.
