Grassroots Advocacy Project (GAP)

This is a capacity building program for community/faith based organizations working to support children, youth and women. ICRI’s GAP project was established to support social movements at the grassroots that have little or no resources. The project provides training, resources, funding, networking and mentoring of grassroots leaders in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

The GAP project also involves mentoring community leaders who have dedicated their lives to serving their communities, many of them with little or no income for themselves. The GAP project also involves provision of opportunities for networking for community based groups. These groups provide services that are interrelated and have a lot to share and learn from each other. The networking opportunities have given rise to partnerships that have benefited many of our partners in many ways.

The GAP project also provides much needed funding to grassroots organizations through local and international partners. In Kenya, the GAP projects conducts an annual Make a Difference program that provides food items, clothes, books and other in-kind gifts for families in need.

Through the GAP project, ICRI has been able to raise more than $150,000 which has been funded to more than 20 grassroots organizations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The financial support has been through the Traveling Giving Circle, Palo Alto Giving Circle, Lantern Projects and from individual donors wishing to provide support to our partners.