Category: grantees

$ 5,000 to organize a follow-up workshop for 40 practicing midwives on the proper use of the partograph as a tool for the prevention of prolonged and obstructed labor

$20,000 to support awareness creation and free breast screening in senior high schools and tertiary institutions as well as support post-surgery patients through the provision of goody bags; Part of the funds supported the organization’s administrative cost.

$20,000 as institutional support to sustain key persons in the organisation to ensure that BCI continues its outreach activities on breast cancer awareness, counselling services and provide hospice services to patients with breast related services.

$10,000 to improve the animal housing facilities for 5 women groups supported to engage in goat and pig rearing thereby reducing the risk of poor housing related diseases. Part of the grant was used to support staff remuneration.

$30,000 to train 60 women selected from women’s groups within the Hohoe Municipality, who are into small scale businesses, in entrepreneurship and credit management skills and provide them with micro-credit to expand and improve upon their businesses.

$15,000 to rent additional farmland to cultivate cassava for production into gari; purchase modern gari processing equipment (grater, grinder & presser) to boost production.

$ 4,000 to start a credit program planned for the Akpadgbu community group members and organize skills (business management, financial literacy, packaging, branding and customer care) training for the members of the group.

$ 4,000 to expand its current revolving loan scheme and to support six young women to undergo vocational training, after which startup capital was provided.

$5,000 to expand its current revolving loan scheme to include more women farmers to expand their farms and trading activities.

$3,000 to organize business management, record keeping and group dynamics training for Kese Wokan and the other four grantees of AWDF in the Mpohor Wassa West District in the Central Region of Ghana.