Author: African Women's Development Fund

$5,000 to purchase equipment and materials to put the skills acquired to use in order to improve on the income levels of group members who were recently trained in candle, charcoal briquette and soap making.

$5,000 to purchase bread making equipment to enhance its bread making activities.

$4,500 to set up a poultry and piggery project.

$3,000 to establish a revolving loan scheme to provide credit facilities to women who cannot meet the formal and semi-formal credit market.

$12,000 for institutional support including the purchase of office equipment such as a laptop, a printer and a photocopier machine.

$20,000 to provide fundraising and ICT training for 40 selected key officers from network organizational members in Togo & DRC as a means to strengthen the organisations

$10,000 to support 150 young commercial sex workers with income generating activities and to educate them on their rights.

$18,000 to provide economic and legal support to women living with HIV&AIDS who are all members of “Femme Plus” one of women’s groups beneficiaries of Femmes de Demain’s activities.

$10,000 to train 200 rural women in fruits and vegetable preservation, to provide 10 solar dryers to 10 rural women’s groups in Kara and to equip project beneficiaries with marketing skills.

$1,000 to organize panel discussion for various stakeholders including faith based group leaders, the media, youth groups, community based organizations and women groups, to sensitize them on gender based violence through the use of regional and international mechanisms such as the African Charter Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, AU African Women Decade 2010-2020 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.