Category: grantees

$15,000 to provide training in soap making and small loan facility for 100 Bambuti indigenous women in DRC.

$15,000 to purchase and install 3 corn mills in 3 selected rural communities in Malinde, Kaseke and Sebele.

$1,000 to organize 5 public discussions with 100 couples on the issue of gender based violence and to organize 2 meetings on ways to prevent impunity of perpetrators of violence. Activities also include awareness creation programs among 300 households in Yopugon, a suburb of Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire.

$10,000 to organize a training program for 50 women living with disability on women’s human rights and gender issues and to organize an awareness creation on gender based violence and the rights of physically challenged women.

$10,000 to conduct a literacy programme for 100 women in the local government area of Batango.

$10,000 to train 10 women living with HIV as peer educators to educate their peers on HIV&AIDS issues including prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV&AIDS, sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV; To promote family planning issues and to provide business capital to 10 women living with HIV&AIDS.

$1,000 to conduct HIV testing and counseling for Fulani women in Sabga, to broadcast HIV informative talks on 3 radio stations and to commemorate the 2012 World AIDS Day.

$8,000 to organize a peace building training workshop.

$1,000 to train 20 volunteers of the organisation on gender based violence issues and to create awareness on female genital mutilations in Ngozi District in Burundi where it is still highly practiced.

$1,000 to organize community drama as part of educating the community on the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV.