Hello and thank you for dropping by our website my name is Sebastian Adu-Gyamfi Founder and CEO of Bloom Trust International. We are a registered non-governmental and non denominational charitable organisation with a social enterprise twist. Bloom Trust has been registered in the UK since the year 2007 and we empower, engage, equip and enhance the poor, the deprived, the marginalized and the socially excluded in Sub Saharan Africa, southern Asia and in the UK by working hard towards the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to overcome poverty, sickness and hardships.

This is our story and how it all started. Born to Ghanaian Parents I lived in Ghana during my formative years until I moved in my late teens to the UK. Ghana is a country with a rich cultural heritage, mineral resources and a colourful bunch of people with fantastic hospitality. It has also produced great pedigree of people who have immensely contributed to the world. During my time there as a child, I witnessed dire scarcity and luck among a great number of the people and all through my growing up life I’ve always had this burning desire to do what I can to help. My mother will tell you, how at a very young age I will save any monies I received and will benevolently give to the poor anytime we paid a visit to the markets and by the road sides. It became so regular that my family and friends of my parents made it a point to send in their donations to help my passion. You can bet, the recipients always looked forward to this young fourteen or so boy, to come their way with what could be a lifeline for them and their families. This and vivid depictions from my Bible in Isaiah 1:17 and also Colossians 3:14 which teaches us to learn to do good: seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow and also to put on charity, which is the bond of perfection, gave birth to what I have called the Passion.

I continued with this Passion in the UK by volunteering and sponsoring charitable causes and till date I still sponsor Charities like Child hope and British Red Cross among others. When the time also came for me to marry God gave me a help mate Daisy Adu-Gyamfi, Co-founder and Director of Projects and Personnel she also has a passion for women and children. I then came across a book called The End of Poverty authored by one of my mentors Dr Jeffery David Sachs He is a Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is a special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and also served former UN Secretary –General Kofi Annan in the same capacity. He is also the President and Co-founder of Millennium Promise Alliance and was also once named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. His book and the Holy Scriptures fuelled and energised my cause to be deeply dissatisfied with the status quo and the organisation Bloom Trust International was born in that I have come to believe that, no matter how gloomy and intense the present is the possibilities of a bloomy tomorrow over shadows the intensity of the present. Being cognizant, from personal experience, of what many people live without has provided me with a unique understanding of where the disparities in our societies are and how important it is for each of us to act now to address them.

I am a very optimistic guy born with a great disposition of it and full of passion with a heart beat for the people. I have a personal commitment to make a difference, I do this because I must I can’t sit by while millions die and do nothing. I cannot bear the devastation wrought upon the most special of people in the world, children. I have tears in my eyes, as I type this bit with my four old daughter sat by me it’s simply not acceptable, being a Dad myself this moves me very deeply. Did you know malaria kills an African child under age 5 every 30 seconds? And that, 3000 children perish by it daily and over 1 million every year, not to talk about its crippling annual losses in GDP growth in endemic countries. This is absurd and not acceptable it’s a 100 percent treatable disease. This ought to count for something. But did you also know that one day’s worth of Pentagon’s spending ($1.5billion dollars) would be enough to protect every man, woman and child in Africa from malaria for 5years? Don’t take my word for it – Dr Jeffery Sachs was the one who did the maths. We can create a world free from malaria. It’s never been easier to achieve and the need has never been more pressing.Isn’t also staggering, to think that we can put a man on the moon, but haven’t found a solution to the 1.1billion people without access to clean water, which represents one in six of us. 40 billion working hours are spent carrying water each year in Africa and that equals to a year’s labour for the entire work force of France.

Did you also know that every 15 seconds a child dies from lack of clean water and the same cause kills an estimated 4,500 daily and 42,000 people die weekly from disease related to unsafe drinking of water? Well 80 percent of all sickness on the planet is caused by unsafe water and lack of sanitation. It kills 2.2 million people every year. That’s more than all forms of violence, including war and at any one time half the hospital beds in developing countries are filled with people suffering from diarrhoea caused by unclean water. 385 million people live on less than a dollar a day which equates to 60 pence and have no access to safe water.

Today, we can turn all this gloom into bloom by our actions and the choices we decide to make, I believe the positive choices we make will change lives for the better and can secure the future for our own children as well. Because we do not inherit the earth, from our ancestors but we borrow it from our children. It’s an opportunity so wondrous that I am confident we are going to choose it.

Mahatma Gandhi once said “You may never know what results comes off your actions but if you do nothing there will be no results.” and He also said “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

I sincerely enjoy helping others and my mission is to mobilise, galvanize and inspire all likeminded people around the globe to act now by supporting Bloom Trust International’s Projects aimed at liberating the underprivileged from the grips of poverty. We do this by raising funds, sponsorship and awareness to build wells, boreholes and others, to provide clean drinking water for the poor. We also procure and distribute long lasting insecticides nets and residual spraying to fight malaria the silent assassin. In the UK We aim to run innovative and practical project that supports the youth and seek to debunk the baronages of Morden mistrust about them by empowering them through our workshops for greatness. Our lone parent families’ session is all about support and offers life changing opportunities to enhance their employability skills.

I don’t only envision a better future but I believe we are the generation that can chalk a great achievement in history by being the change we want to see and act now to end extreme poverty. Fight poverty, the oppressor by raising great awareness about Bloom Trust projects and make a live-saving difference with your Donation today to help bridge the gap.

John Wesley once said “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long ever as you can.
This is my ethos and I trust you will make it yours too by joining forces with us to create global chance with your support, donations and services.

---- Sebastian Adu-Gyamfi ----