“The Vulture and the Little Girl”

Our Mission

In March 1993 Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist captured the infamous picture now known as, “The Vulture and the Little Girl.” Carter returned home only to take his own life after winning the Pulitzer Prize for the picture he had taken in South Sudan of the vulture and the little girl. The fate of the little girl remains unknown today.

The African regions that stretch from South Sudan through Uganda and into Tanzania are currently ingulfed by drought, famine, AIDS and unimaginable living conditions. Children in these communities must walk for hours every day with buckets of contaminated river water to boil before consuming. Many have now been orphaned by their deceased parents, and struggle daily to survive.

The GTK Foundation’s mission will be to provide donors with a trustworthy online platform of vetted charitable organizations to browse and choose from. Our aspirations are to openly praise, to learn and to grow with every honorable organization that will “walk-the-walk,” in the struggle to better the lives of those less fortunate. One hundred percent of your donations, gifted in generosity to the GTK Foundation will be allocated towards providing clean water, through the construction of water wells that communities and villages will share throughout Tanzania, Africa. Although the average cost of every well-constructed is roughly $8,000 depending on logistics and location, the next water well-built will be the 63rd water well-constructed under the humble leadership of Alex Haimanis. As the GTK Foundation grows in family and friendships there will be more sister charities like World Vision, Mission Tanzania and Love for Locks that our foundation will work in close partnership with to help support, fundraise and bring awareness to their current causes.

After more than a decade of volunteer service under the leadership of World Vision, Alex Haimanis and his team of missionaries have dedicated their lives in pursuit of providing clean water for some of these same droughts-stricken West African communities. These wells have changed generations of lives and brought hope to this entire region. French philosopher and historian Voltaire once said, “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” Alex Hasimanis and his team of courageous missionaries will never share in that guilt, nor should you or I. For all that’s not given is lost.

Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. - Galatians 6:9

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