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"For development in Africa to vulnerable children in rural
Ghana, the GO Fund holds a
succeed education is critical. You benefit in support of a permanent
have to make sure infrastructure is home for the children he has GO Fund
there, electricity, paper and text been housing in an abandoned
post office. The fund-raiser was a
books. " huge success: we raised $30,0 0 0
in one night! The children moved
-Bill Gates, TIME 9/18 into their own home in June 2012. 10 Year

2007 - GO FUND FOUNDED

After five years of working on a
project to send critical medical History
supplies to Kenya, Sarah Davie
decides to found an
organization that specifically
focuses on the needs and
challenges women in Africa face.
Home for Hope under construction / Ghana
The GO Fund begins small
projects in Kenya and Tanzania 2012 ? PATHFINDER SCHOOL / GHANA
based on the philosophy that
Pathfinder International
educating and supporting
Academy opens its doors to the
women will lead to better
general public in September,
outcomes for society as a whole.
2012. Pathfinder provides a
2008 ? FIRST PARTNER, AYD / GHANA quality education to orphans,
and vulnerable and needy
Alliance for Youth Development children in Cape Coast,
was our first partner Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese
organization in Ghana. We learn District and its surrounding
of this grassroots organization districts in Ghana. Pathfinder is
from its founder Elvis Donkoh also a free school for the most Women's literacy program, Uganda
while he was in the US to receive disadvantaged in the 2016 ? SCHOLARSHIPS / TZ, GHANA, & KENYA
a youth leadership award. Our communities, yet who strive to
In 2016 GO Fund is proud to have
initial project together is be future community leaders.
funded Your Sisters as it supports
Gift-a-Goat, a livestock program W hile GO Fund is not the
individual scholarships for girls in
for women in rural Ghana with original funder of Pathfinder, we
Tanzania. We began supporting a
the objective of empowering have been the leading donor for
girl, the youngest of five with four
women economically, which still the school for many years, since
older brothers, through high school.
benefiting many of the women the founding donor backed out.
Defroza excels in science and
today. Our second larger-scale
project is a women's sewing and 2015 ? LUTINO ADUNU / UGANDA history.
batik program - Sew for GO Fund continues its strong
Sisterhood. We donated 16 interest in working with
sewing machines; the women organizations committed to causes
learn batik and professional related to women's empowerment.
tailoring, and transform their We are fortunate enough to meet
products and skills into economic and partner with this amazing
benefits. organization Lutino Adunu in
post-war torn Uganda, Nwoya
2010 ? 2012 HOME FOR HOPE/ GHANA
Distritct, which offers literacy and
After learning about Elvis' entrepreneural programs for
years of support for orphans and women and children.

Defroza, Scholarship Recipient / Tanzania
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