Archives in the category: thematic areas

West Africa AIDS Foundation (WAAF)

$10,000 to provide quality care to expectant mothers living with HIV/AIDS and to extend the care to the mothers and babies after birth.

International Women Communication Centre (IWCC)

$10,000 to strengthen the home based programme of the organisation to ensure some level of effective prevention, treatment and care of people living with HIV and their families. Micro loans will also be given to selected young women to start income generation activities.

Minya Ntak Emadea – Multi Purpose Cooperation Society (MPCS)

$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.

Ekiti Development Fund

$50,000 to set up a credit scheme, organize financial management training and award small credits to 20 women from selected women’s cooperatives; Create awareness on gender based violence and the Equal Opportunities bill in Nigeria. The bill will be translated into Yoruba for wider circulation.

Briskila Emefesi Women Foundation

$4,000 to train selected women within Mulang community in Nigeria, in business and credit management and provide them with credit to expand their income generating activities.

Women’s Aid Collective (WACOL)

30,000 to support the administrative and research works of the Executive Director of WACOL who is also the UN Special Rapporteur in Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children.