Projects In Africa
Organization |
Project/Country |
Description |
| REPORTS FROM PARTNERS | ||
| 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 |