Global Restoration Initiative

About Global Restoration Initiative: Assisting Global Partners around the World
Global Restoration Initiative (GRI) is a Houston, Texas-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was formed specifically to address the holistic needs of our international partners: mind, body, and spirit. GRI endeavors to make a tangible impact in the development of the residents, the institutions, and the communities of our partners in foreign countries that our organization feels it can make a lasting impact upon and that have reached out to GRI for assistance.

GRI assists the people of various international countries in helping themselves and those in their surrounding regions and communities, and it will bring about transformation for international communities for the benefit of not only themselves, but also the world that surrounds them; for if one corner of the world is in crisis, such a crisis affects the entire global community.

The Mission of Global Restoration Initiative: Raising Awareness & Resource Distribution
The mission of GRI is to identify and raise awareness of the problems concerning its partners in various countries around the world and to accumulate and distribute the resources that will allow us to address the spiritual, health, educational, and community development needs of our worldwide GRI partners. This initiative differs from other U.S.-based programs in that it is a comprehensive global development initiative that focuses on the establishment of on-going, long-term relationships—unlike many other programs—that will improve the quality of life for our partners across the world.

The strength of our organization, as well as our main purpose, is to 1) make lasting, tangible deposits in the country each time that we visit and 2) to form lasting relationships with the officials and the people of our GRI partner countries such that we stay in constant contact with them, assisting them in capacity-building activities even in our absence from the country.

The Objectives of Global Restoration Initiative: Holistic Development for the Global Community
GRI promotes five impact objectives for development within the communities of its international partners that comprise a holistic approach to the advancement of these regions, and consequently, the advancement of the global community.

Though there are several impact objectives within the Initiative, GRI’s most critical, prioritized projects will be those that address the immediate needs of our global partners. Each year, the Initiative will build upon the resources and services that it delivers to its global partners during its annual mission to each respective country. Within each of these impact objectives lay a number of specific objectives designed to enhance the quality of life in each of the respective areas for GRI partners around the world:

1. Medical / Health
2. Education
3. Community Development
4. Micro Enterprise Development
5. Spiritual Development

Through various outreach applications in the Greater Houston, Texas and surrounding areas, we endeavor to establish ambassador-type relationships between concerned citizens in these local Texas cities and our global partners. It is our aim to enlist the assistance of thousands of people who are willing to partner with the Initiative to help gather resources, financial capital, and supplies for the investment in improvements that will make the communities of our GRI partners around the world healthier, safer, and more modernized.

The Vision of Global Restoration Initiative
Through the strategic efforts of GRI, we envision sanitary, stable, self-sufficient global communities with adequate educational facilities that will academically and technically train both children and adults for increased opportunities in the job market, thus contributing to a healthier economic outlook for the residents of their respective countries. Further, we envision the development of hundreds of micro enterprises that will create wealth within the communities of our global partners while employing thousands of individuals. Our vision entails bringing a lasting presence of medical assistance to the country’s residents, modernizing hospitals, and establishing satellite clinics in rural areas. Finally, our vision entails having the global GRI partners that we assist turn around and provide assistance to the local neighbors in their region.

Meeting the Needs of Our Partners: Donations and Delegations
We desire to make a tangible impact on people in select areas of the global community by traveling to the country each year to meet needs in the areas of health, social capacity-building, micro-enterprise development, and education. These needs are met through the donation of tons of medical supplies, medical equipment, books, computers, clothing, building supplies and materials, vehicles, and other tools and equipment specifically requested by the leaders of various GRI-sponsored global communities. We also meet these needs by bringing in our travel delegation only the most trained, qualified travelers to host medical clinics in remote communities, assist at local hospitals, to teach locals how to start a business utilizing the resources that are around them, and to teach seminars determined by areas of greatest need (communicated to GRI by community leaders).

African Americans and Missions: Not a Traditional Combination
Unfortunately, African Americans do not traditionally invest much of their time or many of their resources in overseas missions, opting to focus their energies and efforts on their own ministries and the communities that immediately surround them instead. However, Global Restoration Initiative is unique in that it is an African American-led organization with a heart for global missions. Our mission as an organization is not exclusively for the development of our own local interests. In contrast, we at GRI choose to invest a significant portion of our time and resources into helping not only our surrounding communities and partners throughout the U.S., but our overseas brothers and sisters as well. As a testimony to this fact, on our last trip to Cameroon in 2003, we were the very first African American delegation to ever visit the country of Cameroon for humanitarian purposes—the few other groups that had visited had done so simply as tourists.

You Can Make a Difference!
Global Restoration Initiative has plenty of opportunities for you to participate! By assisting GRI in our international efforts, you will be helping thousands of people around the world with hope for a brighter future. Your assistance is needed in the following areas:

  • Donations of supplies (building supplies, books, bicycles, computers, etc.)
  • Donations of financial resources (for shipping, travel, improvement projects, etc.)
  • Medical professionals to travel on missions trips (ex: physicians, nurses, etc.)
  • Prayer for our missions efforts

For more information on how you can make a difference, please contact us at info@danacarsonministries.com!



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