The GGFF:

Reducing Global Learning Poverty
Education is one of the chief cornerstones of upward social mobility, independence and growth. But our world has long been in an education crisis. Learning Poverty is on the rise and those hardest hit are underserved youths (youths from low-income families). The Gareth Gawaine Forbes Foundation for Underserved Youths, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing global learning poverty by helping underserved youths to access quality education and maneuver the various challenges along their educational journey. We are committed to helping these often overlooked youths realize their educational dreams by providing them with school supplies, tuition, food and resources that are incidental to their educational quests. We believe that when underserved youths receive the education they need, they are better equipped to break socio-economic barriers, realize their dreams and become valuable contributors to their families, communities, nations and to our world. Reducing global learning poverty results in an overall decline in poverty rates, decrease in crimes and increase in standards of living worldwide. Educating today's underserved youths results in a brighter future for everyone.
Fighting Educational Inequities
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.

How The GGFF Fights Educational Inequities & Reduce Global Learning Poverty
Here's how we help to Empower youths!
Transforming The World
One Community at a Time
The GGFF helps students of the San Rafael Integrated School, Sorsogon, The Philippines, October 2024.