GFA’s Mission to Address Poverty in Africa

While the overall rate of poverty in Africa is dropping in recent years, the progress is much slower than in the rest of the world. The situation there remains truly dire.

Africa is the poorest continent on the planet; twenty-eight of the world’s poorest countries are located in Africa, and almost half of Africa’s population—just around 47 percent—are below the global poverty line of living on $1.90 a day.[1] Many of these people don’t have access to clean water, food or shelter. One in four people in sub-Saharan Africa is malnourished. This is one of the world’s highest concentrations of hungry people, equal only to populations in parts of Asia.[2] Compounding these problems is that two in five African adults are illiterate, making it difficult for them to find higher-paying jobs, or any jobs besides manual labor.[3] Africa also has little access to proper healthcare, leading to 1.6 million deaths from preventable and treatable illnesses, like malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, in 2015 alone.[4] With an ever-growing African population, it is important for GFA World to help those living in Africa to break the devastating cycle of poverty.

The mission to help the parts of Africa in poverty is not a simple one, but GFA has forty years of experience with poverty relief and Gospel ministry in Asia. This has helped us to effectively plan and move forward with starting work in Africa. This work includes addressing the major African water crisis with Jesus wells, providing a healthcare ministry that distributes vitamins and supplements, and making sure that children are able stay in school. All this is done in the name of Jesus.