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Millions of abandoned children face the same problem: emotional neglect + hunger = vulnerability. Vulnerability + exploitation = angry children who completely lose the ability to love or be loved FOREVER.

Global Roots has found a solution: we work with local humanitarians in distressed places to create "children's gardens" — havens of tranquility where traumatized children can learn, heal and feel love.

A Children’s Garden, however, isn’t just about vegetables. Our gardens and chicken egg farms eventually blossom into vocational schools, medical clinics and foster centers. In East Africa, we have seen that families once too poor to take in an abandoned child suddenly do so if the child arrives with vegetables, eggs and a solar array (see below).

Global Roots is a “human-based” charity. No community leader has ever turned us away (we are one of the few western aid outfits currently active in both Gaza and Afghanistan) because we bring aid to children in the name of humanity – not politics or religion. We never talk God or Peace – we only SHOW love.

Please help us protect our planet’s most important asset: its children.  

 

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Learn about our heroes, history and our children's gardens. All video (except for Chinese television and Patagonia mountain footage) was captured by Global Roots volunteers in the field!

 
Global Roots provides grant for Tibet's first kindergarten for the blind
GR funds the first blind kindergarten in Tibet 
Global Roots builds school in Cambodia
GR rebuilds school in Cambodia after typhoon
The Mtito Andei Children's Garden
Our first Children's Garden in Mtito Andei, Kenya
Learn about the Global Roots Service Corps
The highlights of our 2010 Kenyan service trip
 

 

Kyila's kindergarten

China/Tibet - empower local humanitarian Kyila
  • Funding Level: Medium - the Children and Heroes need our help
  • Duration: Oct 1st to Oct 5th, 2010
  • Location: China/Tibet, Lhasa, Singatze
  • Mission Director: Patrick Firouzian
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  • Learn about Global Roots Service Corps

 

In Lhasa we visited the Braille Without Borders school and we met Kyila who is starting up a kindergarten for blind children. Kyila joined the school at 12 years old, and since learned english, compter and management skills. She is ready to make a difference.

At global roots we empower local humanitarians to achieve sustaining change, people like Rosina Mutundu., Chairman Leva (Kenya), Jahagha Jaheed in Afghanistan, Maria Engenia in Nicaragua or Tendol Gyalzur.

Kyila has the passion, emphaty, initiative and integrity of a true humanitarian. We immediately dispatched funds from our reserve budget to give her project a kick start.

Please see our pledge for fundraising here:

- English version

- Chinese version

- Japanese version

 

 

 

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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 improve the lives of needy children around the world. We strive to commit 90% of all donations to projects and less than 10% on central administration. We exceeded this target in 2010 with an all-time low 8% administration fees!

 
View our 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 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
Christian Science Monitor: Tendol's Story

Books We Read

The Bottom Billion: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about itHalf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Recommend a site or book here.

 

The Global Roots Juke Box

Under construction!

Very soon you can post your original music here to be heard by anyone who views this website. We are currently getting about 1,000 hits a day but this number spikes to 10,000 everytime Paul Wesley and Torrey Devitto shout out word about what we're doing on Twitter. We have heard from famous rockers young and old who are preparing tunes for this Juke Box. If someone makes a donation to download your song, your popularity will increase in our custom made popularity meter. Very hip -- and our children win!