Pledge to Humanity

Pledge to Humanity values every human life as being the most important thing on the planet. To that end, we believe that every child should have access to education, health care, and clean water to have a better quality of life. It is our desire to meet these basic needs and offer them in a nurturing, healthy, loving, caring environment. Every child should have the ability to access these things and in turn enjoy a happy, productive childhood.

Through social media, fundraisers, events, ensembles, campaigns, and newsletters, we are able to bring awareness and bring the community together to positively affect the San Francisco East Bay. We utilize a local volunteer force of students, from elementary to high school age.

Pledge to Humanity is capable of reaching a large number of people in the community through our students groups, called Pledge to Humanity Kid's Clubs. These groups are able to serve an array of people, and address various social problems, through the school year, and through the summer during international missions trips.

We measure our progress for this organization through quantifiable, impactful services within our community. Through these services listed below, Pledge to Humanity is able to see how it is making progress.

Since its inception in 2009, Locally Pledge to Humanity and its youth ambassadors have:
assembled and served over 12,000 sandwiches for local shelters;
collected and distributed over 1,500 jeans through school and community collections;
collected and distributed gently worn and new shoes, as well as Halloween costumes for local foster children;
collected and distributed hundreds of pairs of socks and thousands of pounds of candy for Blue Star Moms to send in care packages for our service men and women;
raised $7,000 for Nepal Rancho, $4,400 for Haiti, $6,560 to UNICEF and Red Cross, mainly through student fundraisers;
organized and participated in blood drives;
empowered the Stone Valley Leadership Class for the past 3 years to visit senior citizens and disabled students;
organized hundreds of 8th Grade Graduation Service Projects to serve meals at Glide Memorial as part of an all day immersion field trip;
collected and distributed over 3,500 toiletries for distribution to shelters and abroad;
written roughly 1,100 letters to soldiers over the past five years to be included in Blue Star care packages;
worked with public and private schools in the East Bay, including The Seven Hills School, Stone Valley Middle School, Monte Vista High School, San Ramon High School, Rancho Romero Elementary School, and Diablo Vista High School;
worked with local organizations including Generation Alive, The Wheelchair Foundation, Advance International Inc, The Pac-12 Conference, Raiders Football Foundation, Fremont Bank, Glide memorial Church, Moms Against Poverty, Loaves and Fishes, Families Without Borders, Blue Star Moms, and Americans for Philanthropy.

Internationally,
Since its inception in 2009, Pledge to Humanity has funded and built 28 schools in countries such as Kenya, India, and Ecuador as well as provided water wells, mobile medical units, and alternative income projects to the communities in these countries. The founder, Gaby Ghorbani, and Pledge to Humanity volunteers have visited all of these countries to ensure that the funds raised are being efficiently spent as well as to spend quality time with the people in the villages who are in need of support. Additionally, Pledge to Humanity has spearheaded community development projects in Mexico, Haiti, and China to help individuals and families living in extreme poverty.