Colorado Gives Day 2025
Empowering Kenyan Communities
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WHO WE ARE
Global Health Connections (GHC) partners with rural villages in Kenya to build healthier households, stronger incomes, and long-term local leadership.
We do this through Community Health & Empowerment Clubs (CHECs) — community-based, structured clubs that our Kenya-based team leads intensively for the first two years.
CHEC members meet regularly to learn and immediately apply practical changes in daily life, including:
Clean water and sanitation
Safe cooking and food storage
Kitchen gardens and nutrition
Savings and financial literacy
Small business skills (poultry, beekeeping, vegetable farming)
After the first six months — when the initial health and sanitation training is complete — the club elects a Sustainable Governance Committee. GHC mentors and trains that committee through the rest of the program to manage the club, guide income-generating projects, and keep members active.
By year two to three, that committee is ready to run the CHEC independently so the progress continues long after we step back.
This is not one-time charity. We build capacity, transfer it early, and leave the community in charge.
WHY GIVE NOW
Colorado Gives Day is December 9. Early giving is open now through December 9.
During this window, all gifts to Global Health Connections are MATCHED up to $25,000 by our founder and board chair, Blair Gifford.
That means:
$25 becomes $50
$100 becomes $200
Your gift becomes clean drinking water, a kitchen garden, or a woman’s first source of income
Colorado Gives Day is Colorado’s biggest 24-hour giving movement. When you donate now through Dec. 9, you’re part of that — and your impact is doubled for GHC.
HOW YOUR GIFT HELPS
Clean Water & Sanitation: Members learn how to make drinking water safe, how to store it safely, and how to keep compounds cleaner. GHC also provides household water filters and training on how to use and maintain them — so kids aren’t getting sick constantly from contaminated water. Even a modest gift helps get safe water into a home.
Kitchen Gardens & Nutrition: CHEC members start kitchen gardens that improve household nutrition right away. In many cases, those gardens also create extra produce that can be sold — turning food into income. Donations help provide seeds, tools, and basic training to get these gardens started.
Income & Entrepreneurship: CHEC training helps members — especially women — start and grow small income projects like poultry, vegetables, and beekeeping. Clubs also run savings and loan groups (“table banking”) so members can access small loans and build financial stability without predatory lenders. Your support helps strengthen these savings groups so members have real opportunities to invest in themselves.
Local Ownership: After the first six months, each club elects a Sustainable Governance Committee. GHC mentors that committee so they can manage the CHEC, lead projects, and keep members active. By year two to three, the club is built to run itself. This isn’t a drop-off. It’s a handoff.
GIVE TODAY. HELP A VILLAGE RISE.
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