Projects In Africa
Organization |
Project/Country |
Description |
| REPORTS FROM PARTNERS | ||
| (NEW) 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 |
| 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 |
| AVALINA SELF-HELP GROUP | IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTING SELF-HELP PROGRAM Kenya ($5300) |
The focus of the group is feeding, counseling, medical and spiritual services to elderly and orphans. [full text] 6-30-09 |
| (NEW) TONGOWA DISADVANTAGED WOMEN IN POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT | GARI AND FOO-FOO PRODUCTION Sierra Leone ($4900) |
This project enables them to meet,... the rapidly growing need which can not be met by the current project's funding. [full text] 6-30-09 |
| (NEW) ROPOLON AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION | RAISING LOCAL ANIMALS Sierra Leone ($4875) |
Each of the thirty new members will receive a female sheep, pig and goat. Thirty of the old members... [full text] 6-30-09 |
| (NEW) LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ORPHANAGE | AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS Sierra Leone ($4825) |
40 widows and orphans from Tonkolili District are participating in this one-year project, an expansion of the project currently being implemented [full text] 6-30-09 |
| (NEW) KATIMPI VULNERABLE GROUP | FARMING Sierra Leone ($4525) |
There will be ten groups of ten women engaging in agricultural activities such as backyard gardening, vegetable, cash crop, and cassava planting. [full text] 6-30-09 |
| (NEW) MUDETE FRIENDS WOMEN GROUP | TREE NURSERY, MUSHROOM FARMING, FISH FARMING Kenya ($5250) |
Twenty-two women from Chavakali Yearly Meeting are participating in this one-year project. [full text] 6-30-09 |
| 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] (6-30-09) |
| 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) |
| 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] 6-30-09 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |