EMPOWERING HOPE. CULTIVATING OPPORTUNITY.
Building Sustainable Futures in South Sudan.
WHAT GEMS STANDS FOR
GEMS works across four connected areas to support healthier, more resilient communities in South Sudan.
GOATS
Goats provide families with nourishing milk and a new source of income to combat food and financial insecurity.
MEDICINE
We improve access to essential healthcare and medical support. We help those in need through clinics, support for polio survivors, and care for new mothers.
EDUCATION
We support and provide opportunities for children to learn and build toward a brighter future.
SUSTAINABILITY
GEMS invests in long-term community needs through projects such as clean-water access, empowering women-run business, and sustainable farming.
How to Help the GEMS Community
Help While You Shop
We have partnered with the Roundup App to make it as easy as possible to donate your spare change while you shop.
Contribute to Active Projects
Learn more about the active projects we are assisting with today. You are the power behind these projects that change the lives of the communities we are working with.
Life-Changing Experiences
“My name is Luka Garang Kenyang. I am Dinka, living in Korok Center. GEMS has made a lot of differences in my life in different ways. The salary I make from GEMS improves my living status, and the humanitarian work that I have been involved in to help the needy has also helped me learn a lot in different fields!”
Luka
GEMS South Sudan Field Director“We donate every year in memory of our son Ian. We just received a picture of the recipients and their goat. Warmed our hearts.”
Tom and Shirley Umphries
GEMS Donors"My name is Adut Ruay Dut. I am Dinka and live in Majak Goi village. There has been a great impact from receiving my goat from GEMS. It has changed my lifestyle because the goat gives birth twice a year, and often to twins and this is wonderful progress.”
Adut Ruay Dur
Goat Recipient$2.50
Feed a Family for One Day with Sorghum
All it takes is $2.50 to make a difference.
The GEMS Team
Focused on Empowering Hope and Delivering Opportunities
We know that good intentions are not enough. Too many times, well-meaning Westerners drop into a region, hoping to do good, and miss essential factors that would make lasting, meaningful change. The GEMS Development Foundation works to avoid those pitfalls by utilizing our experience working South Sudan since 2010, even before the non-profit was formed as GEMS.
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
help@gemsdevelopment.org
Phone
(888) 818-4684 (Toll Free)
