Projects in Asia
Organization |
Project |
Description |
| REPORTS FROM PARTNERS | ||
| PEOPLE'S ACTION IN DEVELOPMENT | CULTIVATING MUSHROOMS AND VEGETABLES India ($5,250) |
60 Yandi tribal women from six self-help groups in Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, are participating in this one-year project. [full text] 12-31-08 |
| AGAPE MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVE SOCIETY | AGRICULTURE PROJECT Philippines ($5,350) |
43 people, 29 women and 14 men co-op members, from Manila are participating in this one-year project. [full text] 12-31-08 |
| WINGS TRUST | MICRO-ENTERPRISE FOR MOTHERS OF STREET CHILDREN India ($4,250) |
20 mothers of street children in the city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, are participating in this one-year project. [full text] 12-31-08 |
| ARANGARAJAN KUMARAMANGALAM MEMORIAL TRUST | DAIRY FARMING India ($5,250) |
16 landless women from two self-help groups in Tiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu, are participating in this one-year project. [full text] 12-31-08 |
| (NEW) VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION | INCOME GENERATING PROJECTS IN BORDER VILLAGES OF THE WESTERN GHATS India ($5,125) |
10 women, working as a group, will be engaged in floriculture and preparation of bouquets. 20 women will be engaged in herbal collection and bee-keeping. [full text] 12-31-08 |
| (NEW) SOCIO ECONOMIC EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY | CALF-REARING, HERBAL CULTIVATION AND JUTE PRODUCTS India ($4,925) |
70 women, 30 tribal women and 40 adolescent girls from two self-help groups in Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh... [full text] 12-31-08 |
| (NEW) RIGHTS TRUST | ECO-FARMING | The women will receive a two-day training eco-farming and in vegetable cultivation and pest control. Each group will then lease three acres of land. [full text] 12-31-08 |
| (NEW) ANNAI MARY FOUNDATION | INTEGRATED FARMING AND ORGANIC FOOD PROCESSING India ($5,500) |
New self-help groups will be formed in the target villages with 15-25 women in each group. [full text] 12-31-2010 |
| (NEW) SOCIETY FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT | WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH INCOME-GENERATING PROJECTS India ($5,225) |
50 women from three self-help groups in Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, are participating in this one-year project. [full text] 12-31-08 |
| (NEW) RURAL WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT TRUST | CALF-REARING AND SEAT-COVER MAKING India ($4,925) |
The women will first receive two trainings; a three-day training in the production of bicycle seat covers, and a four-day training in animal husbandry... [full text] 12-31-08 |
| (NEW) YUVAK VIKAS KENDRA | AGRICULTURAL INCOME-GENERATING PROJECT India ($5,500) |
They will lease one half acre of land for five years and develop a tree nursery, cultivate jetropa [vegetable oil for bio-diesel] and make compost... [full text] 12-31-08 |
| (NEW) SNEKITHI | BANANA-BASED PRODUCTS India ($5,450) |
The women will process bananas into products such as jelly, jam, dry chips... [full text] 12-31-08 |
| (NEW) NEW EARTH TEAM | CULTIVATION OF PLAINTAIN TREES AND SALE OF PRODUCTS India ($5,500) |
75 women from Tamil Nadu will be trained in the formation of a small scale producer’s federation [full text] 12-31-09 |
| CENTRE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT | INCOME-GENERATING PROJECT FOR MARGINALIZED WOMEN India ($3,525) |
The target women are destitute women expelled by husbands due to dowry harassment and widows without other means of support. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| PANCHAYAT RAJ MOVEMENT | CAPACITY BUILDING AND REVOLVING FUND India ($5,000) |
The project is for capacity building and seed money for sustainable agriculture practices, along with animal husbandry, for 30 marginal land holders. [full text] 6-30-09 |
| GRAMA VALARNARAI TRUST | BIODIVERSITY AND INCOME GENERATION FOR FARMER COMMUNITY WOMEN India ($5,000) |
Twenty women in each of three villages will receive loans of $70 to purchase one country calf, 20 chickens and seeds, compost and tree saplings. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT TRUST | CULTIVATION OF TRADITIONAL VEGETABLES AND FRUITS India ($5,000) |
The beneficiaries are 40 landless women. 20 acres of land will be leased for planting in traditional varieties of plants. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| GANDHIAN MEMORIAL PEACE MOVEMENT | SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF MARGINALIZED WOMEN India ($5,000) |
The 34 women served are those who are heads of households, who live in the slums of Madurai, and whose children were formerly engaged in child labor. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| RURAL ACTION FOR COOPERATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | ALLEVIATING ECONOMIC CRISIS AND HUNGER India ($5,000) |
The women will engage in a two-day training in Turkish hen-rearing...and will then be given 20 Turkish fowl, 16 female and 4 male. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| FRIENDS YOUTH ASSOCIATION | PROMOTING LOCAL INCOME-GENERATING PROJECTS FOR TRIBAL WOMEN India ($5,000) |
The project is to be implemented in five tribal colonies, with 100 self-help group members. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| RURAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION | EMPOWERING WIDOWS AND DESTITUTE WOMEN IN ARMALAM BLOCK THROUGH INCOME GENERATION India ($4,950) |
The women ... will be trained in animal rearing as well as vermi-compost preparation, azolla crop cultivation and kitchen gardens. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| POOR PEOPLE EDUCATION SOCIETY | RURAL WOMEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SELF-HELP GROUPS India ($4,700) |
The beneficiaries are all scheduled caste (formerly called "Untouchable") and tribal (outside the caste system) women. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| WOMEN'S ORGANISATION AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT | ECONOMIC PROMOTION PROVIDING FOOD SECURITY India ($5,000) |
Thirty Dalit women ... all have small pieces of land. The land is un-utilized and overgrown. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR NEEDY PEOPLE GUIDANCE OF ECONOMIC LITERACY | MICRO-CREDIT LOAN FUND FOR RURAL AND TRIBAL WOMEN'S SELF-RELIANCE India ($5,000) |
The Lambadi and tribal women proposed goat, sheep, poultry and dairy-rearing as income-generating activities. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| SOCIETY FOR PEOPLE'S RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICE | AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND PETTY SHOPS India ($5,000) |
In 15 villages of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, awareness and advocacy meetings will be conducted to establish new self-help groups. [full text] 6-30-08 |
| SOCIETY FOR HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT | COMPREHENSIVE INTER-VENTIONS TO EMPOWER WOMEN FROM OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES India ($3,850 ) |
The self-help group representatives will receive a one-day training on legal rights, women and child health care, and human rights. Vocational training... [full text] 6-30-09 |
| UDAYAM CHARITABLE TRUST | POSITIVE CHANGE in TRIBAL WOMEN through INCOME GENERATION India $4,775 | Loans of $90 each will be given to the women for bee-keeping, broom stick-making, and goat raising. [full text] 12-31-08 |
| WOMEN'S INTEGRATED NETWORK | WOMEN EMPOWERMENT India ($5,000) |
The women ... have been saving $0.65 per month. Each will engage in one of five trades; tree nursery, vermi-compost, pappa-dam and pickle making, masala powder preparation, and thatch weaving. [full text] 6-30-09 |
| VILLAGE COMMUNITY WELFARE SOCIETY | FOOD SOVEREIGNTY India ($4,500) |
The women will raise jetropa, inter-crops of grain, and Turkish birds... [full text] 6-30-09 |
| WOMEN'S ORGANISATION AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT | ECONOMIC SUSTAIN-ABILITY OF MUSLIM WOMEN THROUGH RURAL WOMEN'S MILK SOCIETY India ($5,000) | 20 Muslim women, two from each of 10 self-help groups in Pudukottai District, Tamil Nadu will participate in this three-year project. [full text] 6-30-09 |