Tuition. Laptops. Desks. Food. Whatever it takes to keep a Ghanaian child in school.
Through scholarships, technology, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and community support, GIU removes every barrier between a child and their education.
6,000+ lives transformed. 60+ scholarships. 62 laptops. 16 nurses trained. Classrooms rebuilt.
What we’ve done. What’s still happening.
In Ghana, 1 in 5 children drops out before junior high.
Poverty, not potential, decides who stays in school. GIU exists to change that equation — one student, one classroom, one community at a time.
Since you opened this page,
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Ghanaian children dropped out of school.
Ghana loses ~311,600 students from primary & JHS every year — one child every 101 seconds.
Source: Ghana Ministry of Education / UNICEF Ghana (2022)
When a Birthday Became a Mission
Instead of a party, founder Kesse partnered with Ghanaian influencer Ama Judithto deliver rice, chicken, drinks, and cash to 100+ orphaned children at the Osu Children’s Home — Ghana’s oldest orphanage. Their response? They sang Happy Birthday.
See All Impact Stories“These children deserve to know that someone cares. When you feed a child, you're not just filling their stomach — you're filling their heart with hope.”
The lives behind the numbers.
Real students. Real doctors. Real communities. Hear from the people whose lives GIU has changed — and who are changing Ghana with us.
Where Your Donation Goes
Independently verified. Publicly accountable. Every pin on the map is a real project — completion date, beneficiaries, and dollar amounts.
Project amounts shown reflect direct GIU spend and partner contributions. Some figures are organizational estimates from program records; full filed totals appear in our 990 filings.
Why I Started GIU
April 2026
“I grew up in Oyoko, Koforidua. I know what it costs a child in Ghana to stay in school — and what it costs them not to.”
Every dollar that comes through GIU passes through my hands and my conscience. We are a volunteer board. No one here takes a salary. 87.8% of every gift goes directly to a child, a classroom, a clinic, a future.
If you give, you are not just funding a program. You are standing in for a parent who cannot afford a uniform, a teacher who cannot afford chalk, a child who is bright enough for the next grade but cannot afford the fees. Thank you for standing with us.
— Kesse
Become the reason a child stays in school every month.
Monthly donors are why GIU never misses a tuition payment. Predictable funding means we can commit to a student through their entire school year — not just one semester at a time.
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