Between 2015-2017, the UN reported that “Globally, an estimated 617 million children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age —more than 55 per cent of the global total—lacked minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics in 2015. One third of those children and adolescents were out of school and urgently needed access to education.” Following the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO reported that the number of out-of-school students soared to 94 percent of the world’s student population.

As the world struggles to recover from the COVID pandemic, the education crisis continues to wreak havoc on the poorest people in the world. When households are struggling to provide the basics for their families, education becomes a luxury that many can no longer afford. Even in first world nations, underserved youths (youths from lower-income families) are most likely to miss school due to economic and other factors. And even when some of these underserved youths attend school they do not have the resources that they need to excel. They end up performing poorly and dropping out of school. In 2023 a report by AP said that “Millions of kids are missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US. The situation is grave in The USA and it is not much better for underserve youths in other nations. Many underserved youths are dropping out of the educational system before they acquire the skills they need to adequately help themselves, their families and their communities. The GGFF has made it our mandate to help reduce the global learning poverty by targeting and helping those underserved youths climb the educational ladder in hopes that they will break the cycles of poverty and crime and uplift themselves and their communities.