A charity built on one refusal: to let a young parent's story end at a pregnancy.
GAP International helps single teenage parents deal with hardships including poverty, ill-health, abandonment, and the socio-cultural, religious and economic obstacles that so often follow an early pregnancy.
We believe an early pregnancy should delay a dream — never destroy it. Our work keeps young mothers and fathers in classrooms, in apprenticeships and in their communities, with support that treats them as people of promise, not problems.
We imagine a world in which isolated and disadvantaged young people — especially single mothers and fathers and their children — live better lives and reach their full potential.
Every young parent deserves a fighting chance. Where society sees a finished story, we see a person at the beginning — of a career, of a family raised well, of a life on their own terms.
We engage governments at multiple levels for better policies for young people and women — especially young unmarried mothers — while working directly with community leaders, schools and health services on the ground.
Providing education and skills training so young single parents can finish what life interrupted.
Advocating for policy improvements that benefit teenage parents and their children.
Empowering young single parents through programmes built on hope, health and practical empowerment.
Providing shelter, financial, medical and material support to people in deprived communities.
“Help is our main goal.”GAP International
Our head office sits in London; our West Africa team works out of Abuja. Both wings serve the same mission, and both are building toward expansion to other parts of the world.
27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom
Suite 23, Choos Complex, CBN Estate, Wumba District, Lokogoma, Abuja, Nigeria
School halls in Yenagoa and Abuja, a barbershop opened by a former orphan, homes rebuilt for families — our gallery tells the story better than we can.
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