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About Us
About Us
G-AID is a voluntary logistics network, working in partnership with local airfields in the UK.
Our mission is to consolidate materials and distribute these resources to provincial community
colleges in developing countries, where they are still of real value. Through a national network of regional site depots hosted by local airfields, we’ve enabled schools to visit and deliver their donations as well as participate in live video conferencing with the recipients overseas. We provide a window through which UK students can learn the true value and application of what they've donated, as well as start a dialogue with the people who will continue to use those resources to improve their standard of living.
Our online project collaborations are hosted and supervised by heads of department and involve students working on sellable products to raise money for school fees, with project discussions on breaking technological barriers. These discussions address issues such as: power cuts vs steady supply and contaminated water vs solar desalination. We support harvesting power from more ecological and renewable sources, working with Veragon and All Power Labs to deliver greener solutions for running independent schools off grid and at low cost.
At the heart of our organisation is a core manifesto that believes in cross-cultural collaboration. A philosophy that supports local activism towards global community; strength in numbers and a keen eye on reusing resources as and where possible. We promote that by insuring materials that are donated are used by recipient schools for education or to subsidise vocational training through scholarships. These opportunities are currently scarce especially for the population below the poverty line (currently young woman in West Africa).
If the materials are not fit for educational purposes, they are used for regional outreach in Ghana and for sale in school operated second hand shops. The majority of materials are books commonly skipped by
new build schools in the UK, but we also process items that would simply end up in landfill.
Meet Our Team
Damian Rayne
(Director / Liaison officer) has worked with General Aid since 2009, working in due diligence and developing distribution channels between our partners.
We support...
Video conferencing
Airfield visits (UK)
