In Addition to Working With Orphans and the Vulnerable, Nonprofit Adds International Challenges Such as Poverty and Hunger to Its Scope
After nearly a decade of providing village-style havens and holistic, life-enriching programs for orphans and the vulnerable in Africa — first in Ghana and later in Zambia – the nonprofit Project Nyame Nsa is rebranding as Agape Global. Agape Global will be expanding its humanitarian efforts worldwide, wherever the need may be, in an effort to bring relief to the poor, hungry, orphaned, widowed, and others.
“The meaning of agape love is so beautiful,” says founder Devon Leondis. “Our organization’s mission is to reflect the type of selfless, sacrificial love that unites and heals through compassionate action.”
After visiting Africa as a teen, Leondis was moved by the poverty and need she saw. In 2010, she launched Project Nyame Nsa, which means “God’s helping hands” in Twi, a language commonly used in Ghana, Africa. After partnering with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Project Nyame Nsa was able to construct Village of Hope, a haven for orphans and the vulnerable in Ghana, which opened in July 2016.
Village of Hope is a non-traditional model, which places children – those without living parents, others coming out of human trafficking, and infants given up at birth — in loving homes located within the village, each with its own foster mother and siblings. The children experience a faith-filled, enriching program, which provides a holistic approach to a healthy and balanced childhood. Through education, counseling, the arts, faith-based services, and more, Village of Hope taps into each child’s God-given gifts and potential to help them thrive to become adults of character and integrity.
The life-changing success of Village of Hope inspired Project Nyame Nsa’s expansion into Zambia with an identical program, Village of Joy, which opened in 2021. They care for 100 orphans and vulnerable children in the Village of Hope and Village of Joy programs, in an effort to raise future leaders and instill hope back into the hopeless.
While Agape Global has the ability to bring its village model to other areas in need, the organization is expanding its scope of service by working to answer additional challenges throughout the world. However these needs may look — be it poverty, hunger, or an array of other issues — Agape Global delivers a solution-based response wrapped in faith, hope, and love.
Agape Global will remain aware of the wide variety of challenges worldwide and discern the best way it can utilize its resources to bring unconditional love and relief to those in need. The organization hopes to partner with, support, and enhance the positive work already being done by existing organizations around the world.
“Our mission is simple,” Leondis says. “It’s just love in action. Love is not so much an emotion, it’s not a feeling. To love someone, to be there for someone, it requires action, it requires movement, it requires sacrifice. So, how do we display Agape Global to the world? I truly believe it’s moving in a selfless love that is an active love. If you see a need, you’re responding to that need by whatever that looks like in different parts of the world.”
Agape Global expresses God’s love through compassionate action, striving to bring comfort, support, healing, and growth to those in dire need throughout the world. We’re continuing to operate our thriving, village-style havens for orphans and the vulnerable in Ghana and Zambia, Africa. We place children in nurturing families and provide access to education and holistic programs to help transform their lives and realize their potential. While Agape Global has the ability to bring our village model to other areas in need, we’re also expanding our scope of service by working to answer additional challenges throughout the world. However these needs may look — be it poverty, hunger, or an array of other issues — we deliver a solution-based response wrapped in faith, hope, and love.