Give The Hope Foundation works alongside households in the Democratic Republic of Congo, most of them led by single mothers. We cover medical costs that would otherwise go unpaid, sponsor the projects that move a household toward its own income, and put on days of celebration for people too often left out of them.
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We pay the medical costs a woman cannot, so illness does not become the thing that ends a household's stability.
We sponsor household projects that build an income, so a family's next crisis does not need us.
We host days of celebration for disadvantaged and disabled neighbours, because being left out is its own kind of poverty.
Most of what we see is not catastrophe. It is an ordinary household meeting an ordinary cost at the worst possible moment, with nothing standing behind it.
Where care is paid out of pocket, a single illness can consume everything a family has managed to set aside. The treatment itself is usually affordable. What ruins people is when it arrives — before the savings, after the harvest, in the month there is nothing spare.
Paying a bill solves this month. A household with its own income solves next year. We do the first because it is urgent, and the second because it is the only version of this work with an ending.
There is no second income to fall back on, and no one else to stay home when a child is sick. The same shock that sets another household back by a season takes hers down entirely. That is why the sponsorship program is built around her.
Disadvantaged and disabled people are rarely invited to the ordinary things — the music, the games, a day that exists for no reason except to be enjoyed. Those days are not a luxury on top of the work. For the people who come, they are the work.
Narrow by design. We would rather run three programs well, with the same households, year after year, than arrive once and call it impact.
When a woman needs care she cannot pay for, we settle the cost directly with the provider rather than reimbursing it afterwards — consultation, treatment, medicines, and the hospital bill that would otherwise go unpaid. Paying the provider directly is what keeps a household out of the debt that usually follows an illness.
A household applies with something it wants to build — a trade, a small business, some means of earning that does not depend on us. We fund the project and stay with it while it finds its feet. The measure of success is the household no longer needing the foundation, which is the only ending this work should be designed for.
Several times a year we put on a day built entirely around enjoyment — music, games, food and company — for disadvantaged and disabled people who are rarely invited to anything at all. Nothing is asked of anyone who comes, and nothing is expected of them while they are there. That is the whole design of the day.
The foundation exists for households in the Democratic Republic of Congo carrying more than they can carry alone — a medical cost that cannot be met, or a household trying to build an income of its own. If that is you, or someone you know, get in touch and we will tell you what we can do.
We answer every enquiry. We cannot fund every request, and we would rather tell you that quickly than leave you waiting on an answer that is not coming.
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Join the Hope Circle. Recurring gifts are what let us commit to a household's project months ahead and promise a family we will still be there when it matters — the single most useful thing a donor can do for planning.
Become a monthly giver →A one-time gift goes straight into the current cycle — a medical bill waiting to be settled, or the next household project waiting to be funded.
Make a one-time gift →Fund one household's project from application through to its first income, and receive the report on how it went: what was built, what it earns, and what changed for the family.
Sponsor a household →Birthdays, congregations, workplaces, a run. Start a page in your own name and we will give you the photographs, the story, and the household your total went to.
Start a fundraiser →Give The Hope Foundation operates as DGVJ Inc, a nonprofit founded to stand with households in the Democratic Republic of Congo — most of them led by single mothers — at the moments that decide whether a family recovers or goes under.
We are small on purpose. A short chain between a donation and a household means fewer places for money to be absorbed, and it means the people deciding on a sponsorship have usually sat with the family applying for it. We work through people who live where we work, not around them.
We publish what we spend and what it produced. Where a number on this site is an estimate, we say so. Where a program did not work, we would rather write that down than quietly stop mentioning it.
You can be the reason that decision is not hers to carry alone.
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