Category: grantees

$10,000 to train 20 midwives and 20 nurses on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV&AIDS; to train 20 women living with HIV&AIDS and 20 female sex workers as peer educators; to undertake HIV education and provide psychological and free HIV voluntary testing for women.

$8,000 to provide skills training in income generating activities for 25 returnee widows.

$10,000 to process birth certificates and identification cards for 1,000 rural women in Boni, a rural community in Burkina Faso; to conduct 5 training workshops on women’s rights issues for 100 leaders of women’s groups and to conduct a door to door sensitization on women’s political participation.$10,000 to process birth certificates and identification cards for 1,000 rural women in Boni, a rural community in Burkina Faso; to conduct 5 training workshops on women’s rights issues for 100 leaders of women’s groups and to conduct a door to door sensitization on women’s political participation.

$1,000 to organize an information sharing program on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV&AIDS, create awareness on prevention of HIV&AIDS using a variety of strategies including radio in local languages and community engagements.

$8,000 to purchase a corn mill and train women in the production of flour and groundnut paste.

$1,000 to organize community marches by youth peer educators in three districts (Francistown, Bobonong and Molepolole), targeting the high-traffic bus stations.

$10,000 to fight against stigma and discrimination among students through a variety of awareness creation programmes in 3 secondary schools in Ifangni. Part of the grant was used to produce and broadcast 5 radio programs with a focus on stigma reduction.

$12,000 to provide startup capital for 30 women living with HIV/AIDS, provide them with management training and a literacy program. The project will also train 42 peer educators on HIV/AIDS

$1,000 to educate and sensitize 100 police trainees on the law on violence against women in Benin.

$1,000 to produce 4 radio programs on gender based violence in two local languages.