Global Humanitarian and Development Foundation (GHDF) has been working with community-based groups since 2000. Our initial goal was to promote peace, unity and reconciliation through debate and dialogue; encouraging community members to communicate, work together, forming savings and loans associations and developing micro-finance initiatives as a way to consolidate this peace building process and promote economic development.

Given the growth of GHDF, the change in its mission and the transition of its strategic goals for years to come, PAJER changed name to Global Humanitarian and Development Foundation in July 2016. Over the past 21 years, the organization has developed expertise in initiating and implementing various projects, having a profound positive impact on the lives of a growing numbers of people both refugees and rural communities and broadening the spectrum of its activities. Since 2012, GHDF has been providing assistance to refugees from neighboring countries (D.R.C. and Burundi) through water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs, health campaigns, distribution of food and non-food items, construction and maintenance of shelters and sanitation facilities, as well as livelihood projects. Remaining attentive to the needs of the population, Governments’ and donors’ expectations and responding to emerging issues and crisis, GHDF has expanded its services to benefit numerous communities from Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi. In the same line, since September 2016, GHDF has officially registered its new office in Canada in addition to the registration in the United States of America (in the state of New Hampshire), the established offices will support GHDF fundraising initiatives which identifies and solicits funds from external donors to support its operations and oversees the development and implementation of its Fundraising Plan.