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These are a selection of projects that RSWR is currently funding, or has funded in the recent past.

This list does not include every project, but is meant to be representative of the type of projects and groups RSWR often supports.

RSWR approves groups for funding in the Spring and Fall of each year, however the exact time the group receives and distributes funds varies.

Retail

Kipchekwen Friends Women Group

Hamisi, Kenya
Mama Rebecah Amufa in her village shop

The women of Kipchekwen Friends Women Group (KFWG) have been working together as a self-help group since 2014, however they experienced challenges with getting funding for their businesses. After hearing about Right Sharing they invited Field Representative Samson Ababu to visit the group. KFWG's grant was generously sponsored by West Richmond Friends Meeting in Richmond, Indiana.

Initial Beneficiaries:

24 women of various religious denominations

Activities:

Green groceries, tailoring, cereals, provisions shops, secondhand clothes, baking buns, fruit sales, dried fish and fingerlings

Seed Funding Date:

July 2018

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Gondama Community Development Foundation

Fairo, Soro Gbema Cheifdom Southern Province, Sierra Leone
Two GCDF beneficiaries holding baskets of fish

Gondama Community Development Foundation (GCDF) is located in Sulima, at the southwest tip of the country. Sulima suffered greatly during the Civil War; many of the inhabitants fled or were killed. Since the war’s end in 2002, people have begun returning; however, those who had businesses prior to the war had since lost everything. With a RSWR grant, the women in this group were able to start successful fish-selling businesses and more than double their previous incomes.

Initial Beneficiaries:

36 fisherwomen in an isolated village

Activities:

Fish buying and selling

Seed Funding Date:

Fall 2016

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Juhudi Friends Women Group

Maragoli, Kenya
Juhudi Friends

Juhudi Friends Women Group (JFWG) is a group that RSWR helped form and train as part of our Capacity Building Training. The women all have retail businesses in Mbale market. The group is a mixture of tribes and religions, including several Quakers and one Muslim.

Initial Beneficiaries:

20 middle-aged women working to rise out of poverty

Activities:

Vegetable vending, second-hand clothes sales, grocery kiosks, charcoal resale

Seed Funding Date:

Fall 2017

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Lumpa 555 Women Association

Waterloo, Western Rural District, Sierra Leone
Women in Sierra Leone in front of a market stall with piles of peppers

The women in this project all used to make their living as petty traders. During the Ebola crisis people were not able to go to the markets these women lost their livelihoods and ended up spending their savings. The women in this group used their RSWR grant to re-start their businesses in the local market, to pay for their children's school fees and re-grow their savings.

Initial Beneficiaries:

39 women, many of them Ebola widows

Activities:

Petty trading in palm oil and pepper

Seed Funding Date:

Fall 2017

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Vasantham Pengal Sangam

Trichirappalli District, Tamil Nadu
An image of a woman standing behind a stall with fish.

The Vasantham Pengal Sangam is funding vending businesses of 3 types: making murrukku (crunchy rice snacks), fruit vending, or fish vending.

Initial Beneficiaries:

24 Women

Activities:

Vending Businesses

Seed Funding Date:

2015

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Manufacturing

Women’s Voice Trust

Chinnamanur, Theni District, Tamil Nadu, India
Woman from WVT making bricks

There are many brick kilns in the area of this project, but the owners of often trap workers in a cycle of poverty by offering advances but paying inadequate wages. Women's Voice Trust (WVT) works among rural Dalit women. A Right Sharing grant enabled this group to collectively buy and start a brick kiln. As the owners of the kiln, the women collectively reap the profits. The women make 75,000 bricks every month.

Initial Beneficiaries:

20 Dalit women who are former bonded laborers

Activities:

Brick making

Seed Funding Date:

Fall 2016

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Tewoh Community Development Organization

Bo, Sierra Leone
Beneficiaries from TCDO sitting and listening to a speaker with their children

Tewoh Community Development Organization (TCDO) works in two communities that were badly hit by the Ebola virus in 2014. Twenty-six people in the two communities died, and the village was quarantined for almost two years. The survivors were left with few resources and much work to do, with many women widowed and many children orphaned. With their loans from an RSWR seed grant, the women in the group make bread and soap to sell in smaller nearby markets.

Initial Beneficiaries:

30 women all affected by Ebola

Activities:

Bread baking, soap making, hair dressing

Seed Funding Date:

Spring 2016

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Social Welfare and Education Trust

Tamil Nadu, India
Women from SWEET in Tamil Nadu, India receiving their grant from RSWR Welfare and Education Trust (SWEET) was sponsored by the Irish group Quaker Faith in Action in 2017

This group with Social Welfare and Education Trust (SWEET) was sponsored by the Irish group Quaker Faith in Action in 2016. SWEET serves Sri Lankan repatriates, a disenfranchised and marginalized group within India.

Initial Beneficiaries:

25 women from Sri Lankan repatriate families, most of whom are widows or single mothers

Activities:

Vegetable vending, tailoring, masala powder preparation

Seed Funding Date:

Spring 2016

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Rural Women Development Trust

Salem District, Tamil Nadu, India
Coir rope

Rural Women Development Trust (RWDT) works with former bonded laborers so that they are able to run their own businesses and reap the profits as owners. The women in this self-help group were all previously making coir rope for the dominant landowners in the district. After being released from bondage they found they could not make enough income to support themselves and their families. RWDT, together with the women in the group, developed this project so the women could run their own coir-making businesses.

Initial Beneficiaries:

28 women, previously bonded laborers

Activities:

Coir rope making

Seed Funding Date:

Fall 2017

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Livestock Raising

Makomo Friends Youth Group

Maragoli, Kenya
Chickens

This Youth Group was started in 2013 so young adults could work together to overcome the challenges in their community. The group independently arranged for trainings on farming from the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture, and on group management skills with the Kenyan Department of Social Services. With their grant, the group collectively started the three businesses they determined to be most economically viable in their community.

Initial Beneficiaries:

30 young adult Quakers

Activities:

Poultry, firewood, rabbits

Seed Funding Date:

Spring 2016

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Vushitsyula Friends Women Group

Kakamega, Kenya
Bee hives

Vushitsyula Friends Women Group (VFWG) experienced an enormous setback when their chairperson was drugged and robbed after receiving the group's grant from RSWR. The group struggled with how to overcome these challenges, but with the guidance of RSWR Field Representative Samson Ababu and their pastor, the women came together as a group and persevered.

Initial Beneficiaries:

17 Quaker women

Activities:

Poultry, vegetables, bee-keeping

Seed Funding Date:

Fall 2016

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