Issues & Solutions

GCP believes that a strong, pro-active education is the best tool a child, family, and community can have. As a result, the development and provision of schools, educational methods, and strong academic follow-through have traditionally been GCP’s strongest tenant.

GCP supports several hundred children in community based schools, and strives to support these schools with academic supplies, infrastructural development, and teacher training and support. Since it’s founding in 1991, GCP has raised and educated over 80,000 impoverished, orphaned, war-zone affected, and abandoned boys and girls, many of these through their university and professional preparation years.

In addition, GCP operates schools in India and Guatemala from which GCP provides in-classroom and extended rural outreach programs.

In GCP we believe that every child, teenager, and adult needs to be healthy and well-fed in order to achieve the academic success which will enable them one day to break the bitter chains of poverty forever.

Across the United States, GCP staff and volunteers collect and redistribute donated medicines, medical and dental supplies, and surgical equipment to community centers and clinics in lower income regions.

In India, GCP provides medical personnel and volunteers to treat and care for girls aged 4 – 16 who have been rescued from lives of child prostitution and exploitation.

In Guatemala, GCP provides medical, dental, and psychological care at several locations, with major medical facilities at The Dreamer Center, The Scheel Center, and Casa Jackson Hospital for Malnourished Children.  In addition, GCP staff and volunteers regularly visit Project children and families in rural communities to provide remote-area field clinics, pre-natal and healthy baby medical services, and domestic violence education, identification, and intervention. GCP’s psychology clinic provides crisis-care involvement, personal counseling, and large group organization, i.e. Mothers Clubs and Fathers Clubs.

GCP believes that, whenever possible, orphaned, abandoned, and court-referred boys and girls should live with carefully selected, intensely supervised foster families from the same culture and community that is ‘home’ to the child. As such, GCP’s Foster Family placement program provides loving homes for hundreds of children, for which GCP pays the foster family a monthly amount for the child’s room and board. In addition, GCP pays for the child’s medical care, school, and clothing, and the entire family is assisted with weekly distributions of the donated food, fruits, and vegetables GCP receives from area farms, restaurants, stores, and donors.

In addition, individual and group volunteers who travel to Guatemala or to different part so the United States with GCP’s ServiceTeam Experience program work hand-in-hand with homeless or impoverished families to build dignified homes with external kitchens and bathrooms, and construct bunk beds. Two thousand four hundred and seventy homes have been built by GCP ServiceTeam groups since the first one traveled to Guatemala for this purpose in 1991.

GCP’s ServiceTeam Experience program continues to be extremely popular with schools, universities, churches of all denominations, community groups, and extended families.  In addition to building homes, GCP’s ServiceTeam Experience groups provide disaster relief, basic medical and dental attention, construct flood prevention and clean water systems, and engage in reforestation efforts.

GCP provides extensive free legal assistance services to individuals and communities in times or crisis or need.

In Guatemala, GCP’s Legal Aid department works directly with several government agencies, including the national and juvenile court systems, human rights offices, attorney general’s office, and first-responders , to bring immediate legal assistance, protective child-care custody, and prosecutorial assist to victims of domestic violence, gender-based violence, and street crime.

GCP’s Guatemalan Legal Aid department also works with the national court system to provide legal protection to children referred by the courts to GCP’s Casa Jackson Hospital for Malnourished Children, as well as into GCP’s Foster Family program.

In the United States, GCP operates the ‘Institute for Trafficked, Exploited & Missing Persons’ (ITEMP) to provide continuous human trafficking detection and rescue effort through referrals from police departments, the national human trafficking network, and nonprofit organizations. In addition, ITEMP’s 24-hour crisis line, 1-888-BeA-Hero, fields calls from victims, concerned relatives and community members, and law enforcement officials.