Global Roots: nurturing life

Global Roots is a grassroots children’s charity that seeks out, tests and then supports local humanitarians who are helping to improve the lives of needy children who have been orphaned or abandoned in a place of war, famine or social unrest.

It is our paramount goal to bring aid to children before they lose the power to love or be loved. With proper support in their earliest years, children are much less likely to fall prey to all of the worst forms of exploitation including sexual predation and criminal recruitment.

The Global Roots Method: no matter where we go we demand 100% transparency from each of our partners. This also applies to our domestic administration. Last year we spent 92% of all donations on projects, not central admin costs. We never write blank checks — instead we create benchmarks for our local humanitarians to meet and we send service teams to support projects. Our Service Corps leaders bring back video progress reports to show our board of directors and supporters. In return for transparency, our local humanitarians proudly receive all of the local credit for their work. Click here to learn more about the Global Roots Method.

This year we worked with high-level officials at the United Nations and the Mercy Corp to roll out our most ambitious plan yet: the Global Children’s Gardens Initiative (GCGI). We created our first children’s garden in Kenya and we are now breaking ground on more gardens in Afghanistan, Gaza and Cambodia.

Please watch the short movie below to learn more about what we do! 

Global Roots in eight minutes: our heroes, history and children's gardens

Global Roots provides grant for Tibet's first kindergarten for the blind

Global Roots builds a school in Cambodia

The Mtito Andei Children's Garden

Learn about the Global Roots Service Corps

 

Humanitarian Heroes

	James Odaba, ...
	Janagha Jaheed, ...
	Kyila, ...
	Tsebho, ...
	Genden, ...