Projects In Africa
Organization |
Project/Country |
Description |
| REPORTS FROM PARTNERS | ||
| MASABA "A" WIDOWS GROUP | CEREAL MARKETING Kenya ($5,225) |
The members propose to open a store for buying cereals and grains. [full text] Dec. 31, 2008 |
| UNITED WOMEN'S MULTIPURPOSE COOPERATIVE SOCIETY | FORMATION OF NEW COOPERATIVE SOCIETY Sierra Leone ($4,000) |
50 rural women from Mile 91 are participating in this one-year project, the final year of four years of funding to UWMCS. [full text] Dec. 31, 2008 |
| (NEW) KALIYESA FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP | SMALL-SCALE MICROENTERPRISE Kenya ($5,000) |
The group has chosen three income-generating projects; poultry, cereal sales and tree nurseries. [full text] Dec. 31, 2008 |
| (NEW) WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT | FOUR INCOME-GENERATING PROJECTS Sierra Leone ($4,425) |
65 self-help group members (young widowed women) from the village of Potehun are participating... [full text] Dec. 31, 2008 |
| (NEW) ISHAAK MUCKSON INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT | FARMING Sierra Leone ($5,500) |
All the participants are victims of a wild fire which burned 29 houses in the village, displacing 400 villagers. [full text] Dec. 31, 2008 |
| (NEW) WOMEN IN NEED | VARIOUS INCOME-GENERATING PROJECTS Sierra Leone ($4,000) |
Forty poor rural women from Mile 91 will receive funds to expand their respective enterprises; [full text] Dec. 31, 2008 |
| (NEW) FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL CENTRE - PARADIGM SHIFT | MUSHROOM FARMING Kenya ($5,450) |
50 youth will be trained in mushroom production, processing and marketing. [full text] Dec. 31, 2008 |
| (NEW) MUKONYI FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP | FIREWOOD SELLING, GRAIN SELLING AND POULTRY KEEPING (Kenya $4,950) |
21 members of the group (including six widows) are participating in this one-year project. [full text] Dec. 31, 2008 |
| (NEW) VOMBI FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP | SMALL-SCALE VILLAGE MICROENTERPRISES (Kenya $5,375) |
The project has three components: dairy, poultry, selling of cereals and grains. Each income-generating activity will have nine members... [full text] (12-31-08) |
| NJAGBAWO DESTITUTE WOMEN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT | SMALL BUSINESSES AND PETTY TRADING (Sierra Leone $4,600) |
Each of the 65 women will receive $65 to undertake activities such as sales of fish, grains, palm oil, meat, palm wine, fruit and vegetables. [full text] (6-30-08) |
| FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WELFARE DEVELOPMENT | MICRO-CREDIT FOR WAR WIDOWS (Sierra Leone $4,125) |
This project is designed for 30 war widows who are involved in sex trades, street begging and underpaid domestic jobs... [full text] (6-30-08) |
| WAR WIDOWS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME | GOATS, SHEEP AND POULTRY REARING (Sierra Leone $4,600) |
The fifty beneficiaries will be trained by an agriculturist in animal husbandry. Twenty-five female sheep and goats... [full text] (6-30-2008) |
| LOGELI FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP | LOGELI VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT (Kenya $5,000) |
The 30 women are members of Waaluchula Village, Kinazogi Monthly, Kigama Quarterly, and Vokoli Yearly Meeting. [full text] (6-30-08) |
| RURAL WOMEN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE | TOOLS AND TRAINING FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED SCHOOL GIRLS (Sierra Leone $4,025) |
30 (20 orphaned and 10 single-parent) girls are participating in this one-year project. The beneficiaries are school girls who... [full text] (6-30-08) |
| WASUVA FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP | SELF-SUSTAINING CHURCH WOMEN GROUP (Kenya $5,000) |
The women plan three income-generating projects; keeping broilers/layers, zero-grazing of cattle, and grain selling. [full text] (6-30-08) |
| FARMERS WITH A MISSION | WEAVING (Sierra Leone $4,025) |
The 110 beneficiaries (mostly women) will engage in weaving of school bags, sleeping mats and hats... [full text] (6-30-08) |
| TAMARANEH FARMERS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT | BROOMSTICKS TO BEE- KEEPING AS INCOME- GENERATING PROJECTS (Sierra Leone $4,425) | TFDP is a current partner. ... This follow-up project will support additional income-generating activities: bean sales, broom sales, bee-keeping, fruit, ... [full text] (6-30-08) |
| MIGOSI VUHAMBANI FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP | ESTABLISHING SMALL SCALE MICRO-ENTERPRISE BUSINESS (Kenya $5,000) | Migosi Vuhambani Friends Women Goup is composed of 25 women from Manyatta Village and Monthly Meeting, Thimjope Quarterly, Bware Yearly Meeting. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| ROPOLON AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | LIVESTOCK RAISING Sierra Leone ($4,700) |
RADA is a current partner. This project will provide funds for a livestock project for an additional 45 women [full text] 6-30-2008 |
| SENENDE FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP | HORTICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT (Kenya $4,850) | The 26 women are members of East Africa Yearly Meeting - Kaimosi. 5-10 women will form a solidarity group [full text] 6-30-08 |
| MWEDINYIE SELF HEP WOMEN GROUP | QUAKER WOMEN IN RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Kenya ($5,000) |
Each member will be lent $70 to engage in various income-generating projects such as buying and selling maize and beans, vegetables and fish. The three young men [full text] (6-30-09) |
| FAMILY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WOMEN GROUP | POULTRY FARMING Kenya ($4,675) |
20 women from Nairobi Monthly Meeting, members of the United Society of Friends Women (USFW) are participating in this two-year project. [full text] (12-31-08) |
| MUKUYU VILLAGE FRIENDS WIDOWS | INCOME GENERATING PROJECT FOR WIDOWS Kenya ($4,850) |
20 women from Ndalu, East Africa Yearly Meeting - North, are participating in this one-year project. Each member will receive $165 for establishment of her business selling such items as maize, sorghum, millet, beans, onions, milk and eggs... [full text] 12-31-08 |
| RAFIKI MWEMA WOMEN'S GROUP | KENYA ($4700) | A total of $660 has been saved so far and 20 women have been helped to start a small tea business on their land. 15 additional women... [full text] 6-30-09 |
| TONGOWA DISADVANTAGED WOMEN in POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT | MICRO FINANCING for STABILITY Sierra Leone ($4,750) |
130 (50 new and 80 current) members are participating in this expansion of an existing project. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| LIFE for RELIEF and DEVELOPMENT ORPHANAGE | INCOME-GENERATING PROGRAM FOR SELF RELIANCE Sierra Leone ($4,600) |
LRDO is a current partner. This additional year of support allows for the expansion of the project to an additional 60 women and orphan children.[full text] 6-30-08 |
| RWANDA YEARLY MEETING - FRIENDS PEACE HOUSE | EMPOWERING “WOMEN in DIALOGUE” VIA INCOME GENERATION Rwanda ($5,000) |
Women in Dialogue is a group of women composed of women whose husbands are suspects in the 1994 genocide and women who are widows as a result of the genocide. [full text] 6-30-10 |
| RWANDA YEARLY MEETING - YOUTH DEPARTMENT | POVERTY REDUCTION AMONG YOUTH Rwanda ($5,000) |
The project’s objectives are to help youth from three quarterly meeting to work together in peace-building, and to strengthen their ...initiatives in poverty reduction.[full text] 6-30-08 |