Global Development Group (GDG)
About GDG
Global Development Group is a Non Government Organisation [NGO] carrying out humanitarian projects with approved partners and providing aid to relieve poverty.
The Australian Treasurer declared Global Development Group an ‘approved organisation’ under the OAGDS scheme on 10th March 2004. From this date donations to the ‘Global Development Group Overseas Relief Fund’ were declared tax deductible.
Our Mission
To relieve poverty and provide long term solutions through:
the provision of:
- quality aid and development projects
- in approved countries
Projects include these key factors:
- Relief from poverty – our mandate
- Social Justice – our concern
- Capacity Building – training people to do the job
- Sustainability – reducing dependence on outside assistance
- Environmental – eco?farms, water conservation, clean water, solar applications, reforestation
- Micro Enterprise & Micro Finance – a large variety of income earning activities including brick making, fish farms, frog farms, livestock, pigs and goats
- Development Projects – large ventures developing whole communities
- Children’s Projects – rescuing and educating disadvantaged children, programs for AIDS orphans and disabled children and medical programs for communities in need
- Vocational Training – job creation for older youth and adults
- Gender Factors – initiatives to assist women and children who are usually more disadvantaged than men
- MDGs – the Millenium Development Goals - Global Development Group is committed to the achievement of the MDGs