A Message From Our Leadership
The children of Bolingo Village matter. Equality matters. Black lives matter.
Eat a Bug, Save the World: Sustainable Insect Farming
Farming and eating insects may not sound appealing to you, but those creepy crawlies are already feeding mouths across the world.
Our Fear of COVID-19 is What Congolese Live With Every Day
Our nurse, Marlene, summed up the difference between the U.S. and DRC’s response to COVID-19 by saying, “The Congolese government took it seriously knowing what we experienced with Ebola… the American government has never lived like this.”
GOF in the Field: Trip Update
As always, the best part of the trip was seeing the kids play, laugh, and thrive. We currently have 19 children living between 3 homes, and we are happy to report that they are all A-OK!
Temporary Placements at Bolingo?
This forever home never planned on accepting temporary placements. We intended to only open our doors to children who would be a part of Bolingo Village forever. However, last week, we were contacted by social services and asked to accept a temporary placement of three siblings.
Thanks for a Great Year!
During this holiday season, we can’t help but take a minute to reflect on all that we’ve accomplished in 2019. With the help of our Global Orphan Foundation family, 2019 is coming to a close with an incredible sense of accomplishment.
Campamento Mi Momento 2019
We’ve just returned from another year of Campamento Mi Momento in Nicaragua. This program includes five days in a camp environment where we focus on providing girls with skills of leadership, goal-setting, proper coping, and relationship building. We’re excited to share this years’ experience with you!
BarnRaisers $25,000 Farm Expansion
Global Orphan Foundation is happy to announce that we’ve been awarded $25,000 to help expand our farming operations over the next year by BarnRaisers of Indiana.
Palm Weevil Larvae: The Other Other White Meat
The world’s population is expected to reach 9 billion by the year 2050. That’s a lot of mouths to feed, and we’re not doing a great job with the mouths we already have – 10% of the world’s population suffered from chronic undernourishment in 2016.
Congo Trip Update
After a 10-day trip in DR Congo we’re back and happy to report that everything is peachy keen, and we’re excited about our next steps in Bolingo Village. We hope that you were able to follow along on social media, but if not, here are 5 things you may have missed…
Campamento Mi Momento 2019 Approaches
Campamento Mi Momento 2019 is coming up in just a few short months! As we were reflecting back on past years, we found this lovely piece on the camp experience written from the perspective of GOF board member, Judy Miller. Enjoy!
Thank you and what's next
Once I understood that 1 in 7 children under the age of 5 was dying of malnutrition in DRCongo and that GOF was doing something about it, I wanted to do anything I could to be a part of the solution.
Bolingo Village Grand Opening!
We opened Bolingo Village in March and we're so excited to share some pictures with you!
The entire GOF team recently spent a little over two weeks in DRC preparing for and celebrating the Bolingo Village opening. It was so exciting to see years of planning and hard work coming together.
Thank you and goodbye
I came to Global Orphan Foundation in 2013 as we were just beginning to develop our dreams and plans and I've had the honor of seeing our programs and the organization flourish.
Foster Care vs. Orphanage Care in DRC: The importance of family
Our foster moms will be the rule makers and enforcers, the boo-boo kissers, the co-pilots on imagination fueled trips on space ships, and - most importantly - each child’s advocate.
Bolingo Village offers children a future
GOF is answering the need for an alternative to DRCongo Orphanages.
New Year, New Goals
We are building something that will quite literally transform lives for orphaned and vulnerable children in the countries we serve. We work for those children. If we do our job well, we’ll create something that matters as much to them as it does to us, and all of our lives will be better for it.
Camp My Moment 2017
GOF Program Manager Rachael Carmichael shares details of our 2017 Campamento Mi Momento in Nicaragua.
It’s done! Our first building in DRC.
A quick 40 days after the groundbreaking, our first of many buildings in DRC is complete.
Our first DR Congo building!
We're so excited to announce that we have broken ground on our first building in DRCongo!