Archives in the category: thematic areas

The Joyce Banda Foundation

$20,000 to collate and document the contributions of Right Honourable Joyce Banda to the empowerment of women and rural communities in Malawi over a 20 year period

Women’s Rights & Democracy Centre (WORD Centre)

$15,000 to organize series of educational activities on reproductive health issues for adolescent girls in Margibi County as well as to support interested teenage female sex workers with income generating activities.

The African Leadership Centre

$30,000 to assist in funding the participation of young African women in the African Leadership centre, their placements in feminist organisations and mentoring by feminist leaders.

People and Passion Consult

$15,000 to mobilize grassroots women to actively participate in the 2011 local level elections in 8 Local Government Areas (Zaria, SabonGari, Kudan, Makarfi, Ikara, Kubau, Soba and Lere) of Kaduna State.

World YWCA

$10,000 to provide training and start up capital for women living with HIV/AIDS and out of school girls.

Young Women Campaign Against AIDS (YWCAA)

$4,500 to build the capacity of bar maids (Bawa groups) in the Kibera slum area in the management of their businesses. Part of the grant will also be used to wage a HIV/AIDS stigma reduction campaign in the Kibera slum area.