$4,000 to set up a small credit scheme to support the trading activities of group members.

$4000 to organize pre-release training for selected prison inmates before discharge and provide them with tools for apprenticeship; and to provide support for aged women prison inmates in the form of supplementary food and prescribed medication. This will facilitate effective rehabilitation and re-integration process of ex-convicts in society and also enhance the welfare of aged […]

$2,000 to expand the group’s crops and animal farming activities.

To support the participation of the Executive Director in a workshop organized as part of the International Women’s Summit in Nairobi.

$12,000 to train 60 Bambuti indigenous women in soap making as a means of increasing their income levels. The trained women are expected to pass the skills on to others after gaining the knowledge. This is a group of women who are badly marginalized within the Congolese culture, which leaves them particularly vulnerable. The improved […]

$5,000 to support small scale businesses for deprived women and victims of domestic violence. This is to provide survivors of domestic violence a means of gaining control over their lives. Economic empowerment can contribute significantly to restoring or maintaining the mental health of the affected women.

$5,700 to purchase a corn mill and build a shed to house it. This grant will relieve project beneficiaries from walking long distances to grind their grains. The project will also build women’s leadership as community women are trained to manage the project.

$6,000 to train rural women farmers in fruits drying methods.

$10,000 to train selected members of the association in rabbit rearing, financial records keeping, and marketing and basic management skills. This is to ameliorate the high unemployment among the youth in Benin many of whom have no life skills training.

$14,000 to purchase equipment for harvesting and processing equipment and making candle out of the bee keeping project.