“Creating Hope for Children in Sub-Saharan Africa”

The Global Response to African Children’s Education (G.R.A.C.E.) Project, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization based in New Jersey and also registered in Kenya as an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), whose mission is "To improve the quality of education for children in rural Africa by providing affordable quality education, basic health-care, nutritional food and a home for those that have been orphaned as a result of HIV/Aids and other tragedies."

In Kenya, G.R.A.C.E. Project is responding to the educational crisis by creating the GRACE Center, a new school and community center to provide hope and a brighter future to impoverished children. The GRACE Academic Center will provide a high quality primary education, housing and health services to qualified students, regardless of their economic means. The GRACE Academic Center opened its doors to 60 boys and girls (30 boys and 30 girls) on January 12, 2010. Thirty one of the children are either orphans or live with one surviving parent.

In selecting students, priority is given to orphans, those that have one surviving parent, those with both parents but extremely poor and lastly, those that have the ability to pay full tuition. GRACE Project's model is tuition based on the family's ability to pay. No qualifying child is turned away because of the family's inability to pay.