Author: African Women's Development Fund

$5,000 to purchase a cassava processing machine/corn mill to be installed at Ediene Atai Village-Uruk-Anam LGA in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

$4,000 to set up a revolving loan scheme to provide credit facilities to grassroots women in Panyam district of Mangu LGAs in Plateau state.

$4,000 to purchase and install a rice threshing machine and its accessories.

$20,000 as a contribution towards the organization of an international forum on “Women’s Rights in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings” in Fez from 21 – 23 June 2013.

$15,000 as a contribution to organise the Malian Feminist Forum in Mali.

$14,000 to help mobilize 30 women to actively participate in the 2014 municipal elections through encouraging women to contest for the elections and mobilizing the community to vote massively for candidates who have a women’s agenda.

$10,000 to train a corps group of school girls in rural areas in Malawi to lead the fight against stigma and discrimination in their communities.

$20,000 to support business skills development for women.

$12,000 to work with teenagers especially teenage mothers and street hawkers to mitigate the spread of HIV/AIDS.

$10,000 to train peer educators and set up HIV prevention and anti-teenage pregnancy clubs in schools in Voinjama District, Lofa County – Liberia.