Projects with Quakers
RSWR has made a firm commitment to supporting micro-enterprise projects with Quakers, some of whom are among the poorest people in the world (living on less the $1 per day). Currently, about one-third of RSWR's current partners are Quaker groups. Most of these groups are in Kenya (two in Rwanda), with recent past partners in Uganda and Burundi. This section of the RSWR website is designed to highlight the RSWR-supported projects which have Quakers as the beneficiary group. Most of these projects can also be found on the Projects in Africa section.
Organization |
Project/Country |
Description |
| (NEW!) 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) |
| (NEW!) 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) |
| (NEW!) 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 |
| (NEW!) 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 |
| (NEW!) 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) |
| WAMUDOGA FRIENDS CHURCH WOMEN | DAIRY, POULTRY AND MIXED FARMING Kenya ($5,000) |
Three women will engage in dairy, 20 in poultry, and 10 in mixed farming. [full text] (12-31-07) |
| MUSUMI FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP | DAIRY FARMING, KEROSENE, FIREWOOD and GRAIN SELLING Kenya ($4,850) |
21 women in three self-help groups from Gagolasi Friends Church, Vokoli Yearly Meeting, are participating in this one-year project. [full text] (12-31-07) |
| 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 |
| ELGON EAST YEARLY MEETING - USFW | AGRICULTURAL DIVERSIFICATION for SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD and POVERTY REDUCTION Kenya ($4850) |
Members of the yearly meeting’s 45 monthly meeting USFW chapters are participating in this four-year project. 2007 is the fourth year. [full text] 12-31-07 |
| 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 |