• Raised more than $130,000 for sustainable humanitarian aid projects in Kenya.  
• Two staff members were added in East Africa to help facilitate aid and GC Travelers to the region. 
• Developed relationship with former IDP camp, Jikaze Village. Sponsored 90 individual micro-finance loans to entrepreneurial businesses in the community and assisted them in completing the construction of semi-permanent housing.
• Provided funding to expand a water project with three additional reservoirs in the Northeastern Province of Kenya.
• Developed creative and sustainable ways to increase funding to and broaden the impact of the Limuru Children's Centre.
• Participated in initiatives to provide food, education and opportunities for employment in the Highlands region of Kenya.

• Facilitated the relocation of a Global Connections' partner to Ecuador to start Imagine, a nonprofit that works with university students and the problems of local poverty.
• Conducted an initial visit to survey potential partners in Haiti.

• Disbursed more than $35,000 to partner organizations working in Prague.
• Started a relationship building process for expansion into Eastern Europe.

• Sixty-three individuals traveled to Kenya through a Global Connection Group Trip and our Volunteer Program. Travelers worked alongside some of the most marginalized people of Kenya and experienced the problems of poverty and oppression. 

***Please see our 2009 Annual Report for a more comprehensive list of our recent accomplishments. 

Global Connections grew from one family's desire to be a blessing. Over 20 family members traveled to Kenya in the summer of 2005 and worked along side community members to help their neighbors.  The poverty was overwhelming and the needs continuous.  After helping feed widows, improve an orphanage, plant sustainable farm plots, and counsel AIDS victims many friendships were formed and our founder, A.B. Puckett returned to the United States determined to do something.

A.B. realized his life had been hugely enriched by seeing the world from another perspective and befriending people from a different culture, concurrently the lives of those helped were also enriched.

Today, we support many of those friends who are working hard to better their own community. These friends help Global Connections by informing us what the real needs in Kenya are, as well as hosting groups who travel and serve in East Africa.  Our community has grown to include over 200 travelers and 20 partners working diligently among the poor in the developing world.