Our Mission & Philosophy

Gender equality and women's empowerment are human rights that lie at the heart of development. According to the UNDP, despite the progress that has been made, six out of ten of world's poorest people are still women and girls, less than 16 percent of the world's parliamentarians are women, two thirds of all children shut outside the school gates are girls and, both in times of armed conflict and behind closed doors at home, women are still systematically subjected to violence.

The GO Fund (Global Opportunity Fund) is a non-profit organization founded in 2007 as a vehicle to uplift impoverished women and children in Africa. Headquartered in New York City, the GO Fund is currently active in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. We implement innovative programs using our signature “L.E.T.S. GO!™” strategy, which provides vulnerable women with unique opportunities to Learn, Earn, Thrive and Survive.

MISSION

The mission of the GO Fund (Global Opportunity Fund) is to provide vulnerable women and children in Africa with the skills, resources and opportunities they need to lift themselves permanently out of poverty.

STRATEGY

The GO Fund’s strategy is to implement programs that enable impoverished women and children in Africa to Learn, Earn, Thrive and Survive. This “L.E.T.S. GO!™” approach carries out our mission by working to alleviate the cycle of poverty in a collaborative, sustainable fashion.

METHOD

The GO Fund’s method is to implement our programs through local, indigenous partner organizations. By providing technical, operational and financial training to our local partners, the GO Fund strives to achieve long-term sustainability of our programs, so that women and children get the support they need regardless of outside resources.

COMMITMENT

The GO Fund is committed to serving the poorest of the poor, specifically vulnerable women in Africa. We recognize that in order to reduce poverty and suffering in the developing world, we must improve the livelihood of their women. A truth that cuts across societal and cultural differences is that women are typically the primary custodian of a family’s nutritional, educational and economic longevity. Yet in many parts of the developing world, particularly in Africa, these women do not have access to the independence, income, and information they need to build and sustain a higher quality of life. The GO Fund addresses this disparity by delivering low-cost interventions that have large- scale impacts on the livelihood of vulnerable women and children in Africa. By collaborating with local partners and teaching women how to be economically self-sufficient, the GO Fund strives to break the detrimental cycle of poverty in Africa in a strategic and cost-effective manner.

The GO Fund is a registered 501c3 non-profit, tax exempt organization. All donations received which are not in exchange for goods or services are tax-deductible. Proof of status is available upon request.