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Shelter. Disciple. Launch.

From at-risk to empowered, one girl at a time.

In Uganda, girls are being pulled out of school and forced into early marriage. The Geaux Foundation interrupts that cycle with a safe home, hands-on training, and gospel-centered mentorship.

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Shelter HerA SAFE HOME Disciple HerFAITH AND HEALING Launch HerSKILLS FOR LIFE

Illustration of a weathered mud hut with banana trees in rural Uganda — An illustration of the kind of home many of our girls come from.

The Problem

Girls in Uganda are being traded away.

In many parts of Uganda, girls as young as 13 are pulled out of school and married off for food, money, or survival.

Education isn't free. When families run out of options, girls become the currency. Most will never go back to school. Many will live as third or fourth wives in polygamous homes, forgotten and voiceless.

1 in 3girls in Uganda is married before her 18th birthday

40%in rural villages like the ones our girls come from

Sources: UNICEF Uganda Country Brief, 2025; Child Marriage Data Portal.

A crop field where girls work for food — Instead of school, many girls work in fields for food.

Women and children gathered in a rural village — In rural villages, families have few options.

I watched girls disappear from school, married off before they even had a chance to dream. I knew God was calling me to step in and give them what I was given: hope and a future.

Peace Daniel, Founder of the Geaux Foundation

Our Mission

The Geaux Foundation exists to stop that story before it starts.

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Shelter Her

A safe home away from harm

We give girls who are at risk of early marriage, or forced out of school by poverty, a safe place to live, daily meals, and basic care.

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2

Disciple Her

Faith, identity, and healing

Each girl hears the gospel, learns God's Word, and is mentored every day by women who love her. Here she begins to heal from the trauma of poverty and abandonment.

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3

Launch Her

Skills for life and livelihood

We train girls in sewing, hair braiding, and small business so they can support themselves, serve their communities, and change their families' future.

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Skills That Empower

She learns to build a life.

Every girl in our care gets hands-on training in skills that earn real income. These skills can support her and her family for years to come.

Our six-month live-in program prepares girls to start small businesses, work in local shops, or serve their communities. Along the way, she grows in confidence and purpose.

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Girls practicing hair braiding — Hair braiding

A tray of bread rolls the girls baked — Baking

A girl holding a basket she wove — Basket weaving

6Months, live-inA safe home, meals, and mentoring every day

4TradesSewing, hair braiding, baking, and basket weaving, plus small business skills

1Sewing machine, hers to keepEvery graduate goes home ready to earn

The Difference

Six months later.

New Geaux girls on the day they arrived — BeforeThis is how they arrive.New girls on their first day at Geaux.

Jane, a Geaux graduate, at her sewing machine in a garment factory — AfterThis is where she’s going.Jane, the first Geaux graduate to be hired, now sews in a garment factory and teaches new students.

Six months of shelter, faith, and training changes the direction of a girl’s whole life.

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Current Needs

Choose where your gift goes.

Every gift keeps girls safe, fed, and learning. Pick a need below, or give where it’s needed most.

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Sponsor a Girl

Four girls in our newest class need someone to walk with them through all six months of the program.

Your gift gives her:

A safe home and daily meals
A trade: sewing, braiding, baking, or basket weaving
Daily Bible teaching and a mentor who walks with her
Her own sewing machine on graduation day

$100 a month for 6 months

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Ongoing

Keep the Home Running

Food, utilities, and upkeep for the home where the girls live, learn, and heal.

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Ongoing

Give a Graduate Kit

Every graduate goes home with her own sewing machine so she can start earning right away.

$130 buys one sewing machine

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An elderly woman with her Christmas food package from last year's Geaux Christmas meal — Last Christmas, 100 people were fed.

Through December

Christmas Feeding

Two cows and a Christmas feast for 200 people in rural Ugandan villages, together with Magnolia Baptist Church. Goal: $3,300.

$16 gives one person a Christmas meal

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Success Stories

Hear from our graduates.

Her mother left when she was 2, and she had to quit school one exam short of finishing. At Geaux, she rose to the top of her class and became head girl.

NankyaRead graduate stories

“The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.”

MATTHEW 9:37

Our Story

A mother and daughter answering the same call.

Founder & President

Peace Daniel

Peace grew up in Kampala. On school breaks, she visited her grandmother's village and watched her childhood friends get married off far too young. She couldn't forget them. In 2021, while deep in prayer, she felt God call her to step into the gap. That call became the Geaux Foundation.

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Director in Uganda

Miss Betty Nakisita

Miss Betty is Peace's mother, and she runs our program on the ground in Uganda. She lost two husbands and raised her children through deep poverty. Even so, she opened her home to village girls for decades, teaching them her skills and sharing what little food she had. Today she is a mother to many, not only by blood but by love.

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Get Involved

There's a place for you in her story.

Individuals & Groups

Sponsor a Girl$100 a month for 6 months carries one girl through the whole program. Meet the class
Give a One-Time GiftYour gift goes toward housing, meals, spiritual mentoring, and skills training.
Sponsor a Graduate KitGive a girl a sewing machine, fabric, and the tools she needs to start her own business.
Become a Monthly SupporterFund the day-to-day care that changes lives, all year long.

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For Churches

Invite Us to SpeakWe'd love to share this mission with your church, in person or online, through video, slides, or a live talk.
Sponsor a ClassPartner with us to equip a full group of girls with training, supplies, and support through graduation.
Add Us to Your Missions GivingJoin other churches giving monthly to rescue, disciple, and launch girls in Uganda.

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Your YES can be the beginning of HER new life.

Every gift shelters, disciples, and launches a girl who was running out of options.

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