Through Christ, Gate of Hope Ministries International (GHMI) encourages, empowers, and educates vulnerable East Africans for a better future. We inspiring hope and transform lives in the Name of Christ. 

Since our inception, GHMI has served to create an environment where East African individuals, families and communities are equipped and empowered to live out a more spiritually fulfilled, socially connected, and economically stable life. We offer a welcoming and healing community of hope, break isolation, foster and strengthen a sense of belonging, for individuals and families to transform their communities and nations. We provide holistic, trauma-informed, culturally competent, linguistic specific and age-appropriate direct support to individuals and families geared towards removing barriers to self sufficiency. 

We are a registered 501(c)(3) organization, founded in 1995 with programs in the US and Rwanda. In the US, we support the integration and belonging of refugees and immigrants from Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, residing in Louisville, KY. In Rwanda, we support the development and empowerment of the poor, elderly, widows of the genocide, orphans, people with HIV/AIDS, vulnerable children and their families, living in the rural villages.  We offer services and programming in member’s native language among them Swahili, Kinyarwanda, French, Kirundi, or Kinyamulenge.