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Global Roots improves the lives of orphans and disadvantaged children with support of local humanitarians from all over the world. We feel the best way to bring about positive change is to offer assistance to the humanitarians who have already taken the first step to help the children in their local community. They are our heroes and it is through them that Global Roots works to protect the world's most valuable asset, its children.

The children suffer from shortage of food, clothing, medical care, education, and protection. They are victims of starvation, poor living conditions, abuse, and prostitution with very few options. Global Roots' mission is to give them a chance for a normal life.

Second Mission to Afghanistan: Building momentum

After our first mission in February 2010, we dispatched a second mission to restore the failing energy supply at our Kabul orphanage, further cement ties with our local team of Afghan humanitarians and deliver supplies to deprived children in Badakshan and Goldora. We needed helicopters for our northern mission and we reached to the same people who helped us in February: the US Air Force and the Afghan generals. Our good friend Colonel Olaf Holm (USAF) suggested we contact Greg Mortenson to see if we could all work together. Our director contacted Greg and a joint humanitarian mission was launched. Thank you Oly, Greg, and Generals Barrat and Assadulah!


"Eleven days in one of the most wonderful region in the world, and one of the most dangerous. I am glad to have collaborated with Afghan people, Afghan Air force, US Air force, and people of Central Asia Institute towards the same goal: protect and educate children to give them a chance to a better future. I am inspired and optimistic, but there is much left to do!" - Patrick Firouzian, Global Roots mission lead.

Our Recent Missions - Videos & Travel Logs

Global Roots' Service Corps are volunteers with the talent, creativity, skills, and passion to assist our local humanitarian heroes. They provide expertise, resources, and labor for our missions around the world.
Building Schools in Cambodia   Rosina's Baraka Orphans in Kenya

Five volunteers and $12K helped a Cambodian community build a future for their children. View the details and financials of this mission here.

  

Rosina saves the lives of thousands of Kenyan orphans. She struggles to provide food, clothing, education, and protection for the children. Read her story here.

 

Donations

Please help a child in need through a tax deductible donation.

Your Trusted Partner

Global Roots is a 501c3 non-profit organization registered in  the state of Washington. Our goal is to support local humanitarians in their efforts to change the lives of children around the world. We abide to the "100% volunteerism" motto in which no wages or salaries are given to the members or volunteers.  We strive to commit 90% of all donations to projects and less than 10% on administration.
View our 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 financial statements here.

 

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Links to Visit & Learn
Green Empowerment: social justice * sustainability * local leadership
Defeat Poverty: A conversation on global economic issues, ideas & data to help us defeat the scourge of extreme global poverty
Solar Cooking Archive: How you cook with the sun
eBay Green Team: Thoughts on a greener marketplace and what it means to be green
Christian Science Monitor: Tendol's Story
 

Books We Read

The Bottom Billion: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time  
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
 

Recommend a site or book here.