We've been involved with Global Hope Network just a few years, and have been blown away by the results of the TCD projects. Love the focus on sustainability, education, and empowerment. Villages are truly transformed when the 3-5 year project is over, and they keep on improving even when GHNI is no longer involved. I'm proud to be a part of a great organization who stewards money responsibly and helps people with compassion and dignity.
An excellent 'for public good' charitable organization that works in some of the toughest regions of the world to combat generational poverty. Their success is truly amazing given the scale of their staff and income - given much of their programming is about knowledge transfer, giving a hand up not a handout. Have had contact with many of their field staff, who are people of upstanding character, and who do their best to create a sustainable impact with limited resources. Also impressed with their US staff that are tasked with raising funds and equipping those that work in such challenging communities.
Review from Guidestar
The founder of the organization and the Brazilian pastor who are now both deceased stole all of the money I worked to raise to go on a mission's trip. Stealing is ok as long as you're a pastor and as long as you work for a mission's organization. I should have known not to trust an x-ian organization. I will never step foot in a church or be involved with any x-ian organization ever again.
I have personal knowledge of some of the GHNI staff through my volunteer work with them over the last two and a half years, and consider it a great privilege. Their heart for the suffering and dedication to personally venturing into areas of the world that are frequently highly dangerous has both inspired and humbled me. Unlike some other relief organizations, their stated and fulfilled aim is to teach the villagers they aid how to achieve self-sustainability: "a hand up, not a handout."
And they do all this on donations from regular folks like you and me, most working without a salary, because of their huge hearts and powerful sense of mission.
I have rarely met people I'm more proud to be associated with, even in my relatively small way.