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Projects In Africa

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KAMOBO FRIENDS LUMINARY YOUTH

Various Income-Generating Projects

Kenya $4,950

Their focus is to bring two different tribes, Nandi and Luhya, together to address the issues affecting them such as vulnerability, unemployment and empowerment. For the last nine months, KFLY has been involved in small-scale businesses... [full text] 6-30-2011
TAWOPANEH MULTIPURPOSE ASSOCIATION

Country Clothing and Basket-Weaving

Sierra Leone $4175

70 women - 40 doing sewing and 30 basket weaving - will be involved in this project. The beneficiaries will “undergo extensive and intensive training, which will allow them to know how to produce country clothing and local baskets”. [full text] 6-30-2011
KEGOYE UNITED SOCIETY OF FRIENDS WOMEN

Cabbage, Tomatoes, Firewood, Poultry

Kenya $4,250

They have been engaged in small-scale micro-enterprise, merry-go-round, horticulture, and awareness building regarding HIV/AIDS. For this project they will be divided into three sub-groups... [full text] 6-30-2011
MANEMPEH COMMUNITY PROJECT

Cassava Processing

Sierra Leone $3,900

The forty women will be divided into four groups. Each group will work with a machine which is used to process cassava. Each group will own the machine collectively for a period of four years. [full text] 6-30-2011
GIDAGADI FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP

Poultry, Soybeans, and Groundnut Production

Kenya $4,600

The forty women of GFWG are members of East Africa Yearly Meeting. The members will be divided into three groups; ten members in each of the poultry and groundnut projects and twenty in the soy bean project. [full text] 6-30-2011
WASUNDI FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP

Three Income-Generating Projects

Kenya $4,200

This group of twenty-four women from Chavakali Yearly Meeting began in 2008 and have been contributing $3.25 per month to a merry-go-round. They also run a church nursery school for 30 children, including orphans. [full text] 6-30-2011
AFRICAN WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Food production

Sierra Leone $3,900

The thirty-two beneficiaries will receive loans from the credit committee to mass produce and sell local foodstuffs such as rice, corn, potato and cassava for home consumption and marketing. [full text] 6-30-2011
LOGEHO FRIENDS VILLAGE WOMEN GROUP

Fish, Firewood and Kerosene, Maize and Beans

Kenya $5,000

This group was recently formed and is in dire need of funds. Without exaggeration, a closer observation will show that the poverty level is higher in this area than in other areas of Vihiga. Unlike most groups, Logeho is led by young women, aged 26-32 years... [full text] 6-30-2011
KATIMPI VULNERABLE GROUP

Country Clothes, Raffia Bags, Local Mats

Sierra Leone $4,025

This is a new project for a past RSWR partner. The 60 beneficiaries are from Masama which is 2½ km from Katimpi. Loans will be $60 per woman. [full text] 6-30-2011
ROKOLON AGRICULTURAL WOMEN ASSOCIATION

Country Rice, Groundnuts, Cassava

Sierra Leone $3,925

This project will support 48 women farmers. Each of the women will grow all three crops. Every three months the NGO will organize a three-day intensive training... [full text] 6-30-2011
SAIDA WOMEN SELF HELP GROUP

Tailoring, Green Groceries and Grains, Retail Shops

KENYA $4,625

“SWSHG is a Quaker group that is situated in an urban slum. All the women in the group engage in some form of business. Their husbands are casual workers in Del Monte pineapple plantations in Thika, and ... [full text] 6-30-2011
IMBINGA FRIENDS WOMEN'S GROUP

Fish, Sorghum, Maize and Bean Sales

Kenya $4,675

Twenty-seven women, members of Vokoli Yearly Meeting, are participating in this one year project. They will be organized into four groups... [full text] 6-30-2011
DIM DIN WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Production and Sale of Local Foodstuffs

Sierra Leone ($3,800)

Seventy rural women farmers will produce cassava, groundnuts, potatoes, yams and fruits. Loans will be repaid in six months [full text] 6-30-2011
KIHILA AVALINA VAKALI GROUP

POULTRY RAISING

Kenya ($5275)

Twenty members of the group, Vihiga Yearly Meeting, are participating in this three-year project. [full text] 6-30-11
LUSUKA FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP

SORGHUM, MILLET AND SOY BEAN SALES

Kenya ($4,675)

Thirty women, members of Vihiga Yearly Meeting, are participating in this one-year project. [full text] 12-31-10
BIDIKE VILLAGE MEETING WOMEN GROUP

VARIOUS INCOME-GENERATING PROJECTS

KENYA ($5,250)

The group was originally founded in1995 as a social and spiritual fellowship with four members. It was officially registered in 2002... [full text] 12-31-10
GIMUDI FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP

POULTRY

KENYA ($4,000)

The group decided to procure two-month old chicks, put them in specially designed poultry units... [full text] 12-31-10
MUSIRI FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP

POULTRY, FIREWOOD AND GRAIN SALES

KENYA ($4,450)

Thirty women, members of East Africa Yearly Meeting - Kaimosi, are participating in this one-year project. [full text] 12-31-10
WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT

PRODUCTION OF CHAIRS, STOOLS AND BASKETS

SIERRA LEONE ($4,275)

Sixty women near the city of Bo are participating in this one-year project, which is an expansion of an existing project. [full text] 12-31-10
WAR WIDOWS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

PRODUCTION AND SALE OF FOODSTUFFS

SIERRA LEONE ($4,000)

This project will provide additional funds to expand and sustain the current agricultural project by granting loans to 100 more poor rural war widows on the waiting list. [full text ] 12-31-10
TONGOWA DISADVANTAGED WOMEN IN POST WAR DEVELOPMENT

WEAVING

SIERRA LEONE ($4,325)

Eighty rural women from Bo are participating in this one-year project. The women are from the area of the village of Teibor, where the original RSWR-sponsored project (2007) was implemented. [full text] 12-31-10
WOMEN IN ACTION FOR DEVELOPMENT

FOOD PRODUCTION

SIERRA LEONE

100 rural women from Mayenkineh, on the outskirts of Freetown, are participating in this one-year project. [full text] 12-31-10
KIDINYE FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP

VEGETABLES, SOY BEANS AND GOATS

KENYA ($4,650)

25 women, members of Vihiga Yearly Meeting, are participating in this one-year project. [full text] 12-31-10

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