Global Welfare Foundation

Global Welfare Foundation

Entrepreneurs

Joe Ola Aseweje

Joe Ola Aseweje

Founder & CEO

As the Director/CEO of the Global Welfare Foundation, The Gambia, Joe has a solid understanding of managing projects from start to finish, with strong knowledge of project methodology, risk management, and mitigation techniques. He has successfully performed, supervised, and negotiated various contractual matters.

Team

Remi Aseweje

Remi Aseweje

Ecosystem Builder

Remi is an ecosystem builder, explorer, and founding partner of the Global Welfare Foundation. Everything she knows about growing healthy networks and communities stems from over 10 years of practice and experimentation. She has supported dozens of organizations in shared leadership, network governance, and community building.
Will Gowen

Will Gowen

Project Manager

Will has a wealth of experience in education, with extensive governance roles across primary, secondary, alternative provision, and special school governing bodies. He has mentored aspiring leaders on behalf of the Department for Education (DfE) and led the Education Improvement Partnership.
Blessing J. Aseweje

Blessing J. Aseweje

HR Executive

Blessing J. Aseweje is a creative entrepreneur and Human Resource Administrator passionate about storytelling, people, and purpose-driven leadership.
Jainaba Ceesay

Jainaba Ceesay

Designer

Jainaba is a designer and facilitator of distributed leadership, helping community builders practice this model within their own environments.
Amie Colley

Amie Colley

Community Development Leader

Amie is dedicated to fostering positive change and empowerment. Amie Colley has built a distinguished career grounded in leadership, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy, serving less privileged individuals, including orphans and street children. She has made many significant contributions to charitable endeavors and community development initiatives.
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Idea

Global Welfare Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the welfare and future of orphans and vulnerable children in The Gambia. The organization was founded on the belief that every child deserves to grow up in a safe, loving, and nurturing environment that supports their physical, emotional, and educational development. This project seeks to establish a permanent rehabilitation center that provides shelter, healthcare, education, and psychosocial support to children who have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS, poverty, and other social crises. The center will serve as a model institution for child rehabilitation and empowerment across The Gambia.

Challenge

Global Welfare Foundation is addressing the growing crisis of child poverty, homelessness, and neglect among orphans and vulnerable children in The Gambia. Many of these children suffer from malnutrition, lack of education, poor healthcare, and social exclusion. The HIV/AIDS epidemic, poverty, and limited social protection programs have worsened their living conditions, particularly in rural areas. Additionally, the absence of adequate rehabilitation centers has left many children without parental care, forcing some into child-headed households. This project directly confronts these challenges by providing comprehensive care, education, and empowerment programs that restore dignity, hope, and opportunity to the lives of these children.

Solution

Global Welfare Foundation is implementing the Establishing Rehabilitation Center for Orphans and Vulnerable Children project as a sustainable and holistic approach to addressing the critical needs of disadvantaged children. The proposed center will provide a stable home, food security, access to education, and healthcare services. It will also introduce vocational and life skills training to equip children with the tools necessary for self-reliance and future employment. By mobilizing resources from global donors and local partners, the foundation aims to create a self-sustaining environment where vulnerable children can thrive and grow into productive citizens.

 


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Global Welfare Foundation Joins Fastercapital Equitypilot To Build Rehabilitation Center In The Gambia
09 Oct 2025

Global Welfare Foundation Joins Fastercapital Equitypilot To Build Rehabilitation Center In The Gambia

Banjul, The Gambia & Dubai, UAE — Oct 09, 2025

Global Welfare Foundation and FasterCapital announced a strategic partnership today through FasterCapital’s EquityPilot program to accelerate establishment of a rehabilitation center for orphans and vulnerable children in Bara, Lower River Division, The Gambia — addressing urgent needs from HIV/AIDS, malnutrition and pandemic-era shocks by combining local program expertise with global acceleration resources.

Market opportunity & problem

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a persistent orphan and vulnerable-children crisis exacerbated by HIV/AIDS, health-system gaps and recent epidemics. In The Gambia, rural districts report high child-headed households, malnutrition and limited access to education and healthcare. Existing NGO capacity is fragmented and underfunded; Global Welfare Foundation’s plan for a model rehabilitation center (projected cost $709,803) addresses acute shelter, health and education gaps while creating sustainable food-security and livelihood programs — a replicable solution for other underserved regions in the Western Region and nationwide.

Startup solution & differentiation

Global Welfare Foundation brings grassroots credibility — registered in 2009/2011 and operating in Bara, with more than 150 vulnerable children registered locally — and a comprehensive, integrated care model: residential shelter, nutrition and child survival programs, primary education support, vocational and agricultural training (piggery, poultry, dairy), and microfinance-driven women’s livelihood initiatives. The center’s holistic design couples immediate life-saving interventions with long-term self-reliance pathways, reducing institutional dependency and creating revenue-generating social enterprises. This blended humanitarian-development approach creates defensible program advantages versus single-focus interventions and positions the center as a regional model.

FasterCapital partnership value

Through the EquityPilot program, FasterCapital will provide strategic mentorship, fundraising support, legal and financial structuring, and access to its global investor and donor network via FasterCapital. FasterCapital’s selective criteria vet startups and nonprofits for impact potential and operational readiness; acceptance signals validation and accelerates time-to-implementation. The collaboration targets a first-phase build and program roll-out within 12 months, with capital-raising milestones tied to construction, staffing and food-security pilot launches.

Executive quotes

“Harnessing disciplined startup acceleration methods for high-impact social projects is core to our investment thesis,” said Hesham Zreik. “Global Welfare Foundation’s integrated model is a scalable answer to a persistent humanitarian challenge in West Africa.” Joe Ola Aseweje, Project Lead at Global Welfare Foundation, added: “This partnership fast-tracks our vision to provide safe homes, healthcare and future-building skills to children who need them most — enabling durable change for families and communities.”

Growth trajectory & next steps

Near-term priorities include land acquisition, phased construction, staffing and launching child-survival nutrition clinics and agricultural pilots. The organizations will pursue a blended funding model (donors, impact investors, social enterprise revenue) to meet the $709,803 budget and scale to additional districts within 24–36 months. Monitoring tools (QuickBooks financial tracking, quarterly/biannual reporting, annual audits) will ensure transparency and donor confidence.

About Global Welfare Foundation

Global Welfare Foundation is a Gambian community-based nonprofit founded to care for children affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty. Operating from Bara village and registered nationally, the Foundation provides shelter, nutrition, education and livelihoods training to vulnerable children and families, focusing on long-term rehabilitation and community reintegration.

About FasterCapital

FasterCapital is a global venture builder and online incubator dedicated to co-funding and co-founding innovative startups. Established in 2014, we are now #1 venture builder in terms of number of startups that we have helped, money invested and money raised. It supports startups worldwide through various programs, including funding assistance, business development, and technical support. The EquityPilot program is designed to help early-stage startups build scalable solutions with mentorship, strategic guidance, and network support.

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