Closer Connection Projects
Many Friends have asked us for a more direct connection with our project partners. Many of our project partners also yearn for a more personal connection. Now you can "earmark" certain Right Sharing projects and know that your dollars will go to those specific projects. You can follow their development as reports come in (these will be posted on our website, under "Projects", or you may request copies from the office).Current Closer Connection Projects
Income Generating Project for Widows
Positive Change in Tribal Women through Income Generation
Small Businesses and Petty Trading
Capacity Building and Revolving Fund
Comprehensive Interventions to Empower Women from Oppressed Communities
Women's Tea Farming and Small Businesses
Empowering "Women in Dialogue" via Income Generation
Economic Sustainability of Muslim Women Through Rural Women's Milk Society
Income Generating Project for Widows: $4,850
Contributions accepted until 12-31-07
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Project
partner: Mukuyu Village Friends Widows
Project highlights: Full description
- 20 women from Ndalu, East Africa Yearly Meeting - North
- Each woman will receive a loan to start a business selling such items as maize, sorghum, millet, beans, onions, milk and eggs, and will repay it in one year.
- In addition to the loans, the group will use $665 for a joint, small-scale farming project which will give each member an additional $50-$60 a month in income.
Positive Change in Tribal Women through Income Generation
Contributions accepted until December 31, 2007
Project partner: Udayam Charitable Trust
Project highlights: (Full description)
- Loans of $90 each will be given to the women for bee-keeping, broom stick-making, and goat raising.
- Training in
- leadership, empowerment, micro credit;
- indigenous and tribal rights for the women as well as the male community leaders;
- Legal Aid camp on sexual exploitation, filing petitions with government, police rules, court procedures, equal property rights;
- Health Education.
Poultry Farming
Contributions accepted until December 31, 2007
Project partner: Family Economic Development Women Group
Project Highlights: (Full description )
- 20 women from Nairobi Monthly Meeting, USFW
- Cooperative venture
- The women will begin with 1,000 chicks, and, after 5 months, sell eggs at $.05 each.
Small Businesses and Petty Trading
Contributions accepted until June 30, 2008
Project partner: Njagbawo Destitute Women Development Project
Project highlights:
- Women to sell fish, grains, palm oil, meat, palm wine, fruit and vegetables.
- Each of 65 women will receive a loan of $65 to start her business.
Capacity Building and Revolving Fund
Contributions accepted until June 30, 2008
Project partner: Panchayat Raj Movement
Project highlights:
- Sustainable agriculture for 30 marginal land holders
Comprehensive Interventions to Empower Women from Oppressed Communities
Contributions accepted until June 30, 2008
Project partner: Society for Health, Environmental and Rural Development Project
Project highlights:
- Training in legal rights, women and child health care, and human rights.
- Vocational training in livestock rearing, sanitary napkin-making, leather footwear-making.
Women's Tea Farming and Small Businesses: $4700
Contributions accepted until June 30, 2008
Project partner: Rafiki Mwema Women
Group
Project highlights: (Full details)
- Revolving loan fund already started
- Women own land on which they are planting tea
Poverty Reduction among Youth
Contributions accepted until June 30, 2008
Project partner: Rwanda Yearly Meeting Youth Department
Project highlights: (Full details)
- 84 youth (70% girls) from each of three quarterly meetings are participating
- Objectives: peace-building and poverty reduction
Economic Sustainability of Muslim Women Through Rural Women's Milk Society
Contributions accepted until June 30, 2008
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Project Partner: Women's Organisation and Rural
Development
Project Highlights: (Full details.)
- Training will be provided in animal husbandry
- Women with land will grow fodder trees for the cows and make milk byproducts
Food Sovereignty
Contributions accepted until June 30, 2008
Project Partner: Village Community Welfare Society
Project Highlights: (New project; no picture yet. Full details.)
- The women will raise jetropa, inter-crops of grain, and Turkish birds
- Jetropa is a drought-tolerant shrub used as natural fencing and in the production of bio-diesel.
Empowering "Women in Dialogue" via Income Generation
Contributions accepted until June 30, 2009
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Project
partner: Rwanda Yearly Meeting - Friends Peace House
Project highlights: (no picture yet. Full details)
- These women are reconciliation groups of Hutu and Tutsi whose husbands were either killed in the genocide of 1994 (Tutsi) or imprisoned as suspects in the killings (Hutu).
- Each group will receive training in loan management, then individuals will be given loans of up to $105 with which to start businesses.
How It Works
At present, we have 8 projects which may receive restricted contributions. There are some limitations. One is that the project must be a multi-year grant in its second (or subsequent) year. One-year projects and multi-year projects in their first year will be funded as before, from unrestricted contributions. A second limitation is that if the restricted contributions for a particular project exceed its total needs, the surplus contributions will be treated as unrestricted contributions to Right Sharing. Finally, if a project does not receive enough restricted funds to cover the grant promised to it, the difference will be made up out of unrestricted contributions.