Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) Africa Program
$20,000 to support the organization of the 2011 East Africa Advanced and Grassroots Training Program in water, sanitation and climate change mitigation for grass root women in various communities.
$20,000 to support the organization of the 2011 East Africa Advanced and Grassroots Training Program in water, sanitation and climate change mitigation for grass root women in various communities.
$10,000 to train 30 unemployed women in piggery management and pottery making and to provide startup capital for the beneficiaries to start business.
$10,000 to expand its revolving loan scheme and to train members to sustainably manage their small scale businesses.
$3,000 to purchase tent, 100 plastic chairs, I video camera, 1 digital and 1 manual cameras to be used as an income earning equipment. The items will be rented out to generate income which will be reinvested into the group’s savings and credit scheme to support income generating activities of group members.
$4,500 to strengthen activities at its brick making factory to create more avenues for employment for women living with disability.
$10,000 to improve income generation activities of women into small scale businesses as well as to increase women’s participation in local governance.
$25,000 is recommended for the completion of the first phase of the 50/50 headquarters and leadership institute for the promotion of good governance in Sierra Leone
$4,000 to educate selected communities in the southern region and its chiefdoms in Sierra Leone on the newly Legislated Gender and Child Rights Act for the prevention and protection of women and children from sexual and gender based violence (SGBV).
$15,000 to provide entrepreneurship training to rural women and victims of human right abuses to address issues of poverty. Part of the grant will be used to organize trained women into cooperatives who will be funded to undertake value added business.
$4,000 to establish a cassava processing centre and purchase a gari processing machine for women in IkotAbasi Local Government Area. The proposed project is intended to create livelihood opportunities for women and improve the market value of cassava to enable farmers earn more income.