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Due to COVID-19 and the impact that it is having on livelihoods, many families’ household income was drastically reduced, making it difficult to feed their families. In Zimbabwe, this led to a nationwide food crisis as many households cannot afford the basic necessities. With the help of donations from our generous travelers, Grand Circle Foundation… Read more »

Started in 2012 by the local municipalities in Turkey, these education centers offer women the opportunity to learn both traditional handicraft skills as well as new ones. The Nevsehir Public Education Center has donated both the space and provides a teacher to organize courses for the local women to participate in. At Nevsehir, over 100… Read more »

Pantry Packers is the food distribution arm of Tzedakah Central/Colel Chabad, the oldest continuously operating network of social services in Israel – established in 1788. Every month Pantry Packers delivers crates containing all the necessary foods and household maintenance supplies to Israel’s poorest families and senior citizens. Every recipient is screened and selected on a… Read more »

Established in 1923, the Kyoto YWCA is a non-profit community service organization working for empowerment of women — offering services focused on the needs of women, children, and foreign residents in Japan. The YWCA of Kyoto just opened their nursery in April 2020 and the foundation looks forward to working with them to get their… Read more »

The city of Medellin has gone through a lot of historical events. The city was known as the capital and the cradle of drug trafficking in a dark era during the 1980s and 1990s,  but the people found a way to transform their city and were able to construct one of the most innovative models for a… Read more »

The Children’s Orchestra project was born as a necessity to provide global training and an opportunity for boys and girls from vulnerable local sectors to grow and blossom in Puerto Varas, Chile.  A chance for individual development on intellectual, spiritual, social and professional level, rescuing children and teenagers from an empty, disoriented and deviant youth…. Read more »

The Maragato Crafts Center is located in the small village of Santa Colomba de Somoza, in the historical region of la Maragateria. Residents of this remote region of Spain are known as Maragatos, and they are believed to be the last living decedents of the North African Berbers who arrived in Iberia in the eighth… Read more »

For the 66 students of Te Kura Kaupapa Lothuhake O Tawhiuau located in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, partnership with Grand Circle Foundation brought access to the internet through the donation of laptops. The modus operandi of the school focused on the active engagement of the families of pupils and as such they ran computer,… Read more »

The Orphanage has given shelter to orphaned children since 1930. The Orphanage also hosts mothers with children who are in difficulties needing shelter while the mother is given help to find a job to become independent. They now host 8 children from 5 month to 5 years old, 14 girls from 6 years to 19… Read more »

In Iceland there is no army or National Guard so in an emergency, the people who are called, are SAR. SAR is an all volunteer organization providing vital public services to local communities – such as sea and mountain rescues, unblocking roads due to ice and snow, providing safety education to children and more. In… Read more »