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Help rural women in Uganda to increase food security
We aim to contribute to the eradication of hunger/food insecurity and environmental degradation through sustainable development initiatives and modern farming technologies. We know that women are the leading source of food production, and realise that empowering women in modern farming...
Improve employment and income for young women in Mufindi Iringa Region in Tanzania
We have had extensive experience of working with vulnerable groups in our community, including young people and street children. Girls and young women are among the most vulnerable of these groups. They live in an environment fraught with risks. The combination of an unstable family environment,...
Vocational training for young mothers in Uganda
We are trying to help young mothers below the age of 18 who have dropped out of school. Some of these young women are also victims of HIV/AIDS. We want to empower these girls economically, educate and support them through vocational training, and we also want to help them in regard to HIV/AIDS. We...
Project Helping Widows in Tamil Nadu, India
We are trying to help women and children by addressing issues of women's development and the importance of education for the children and vocational training for the unemployed widows. We also provide free hospital medical camps for the needy. Our main purpose of the project is to help the...
Partner to upscale poverty alleviation and climate change project in India
We are helping indigenous women and youths at the base of the pyramid, enabling them earn some US$ 3-5 a day from just under US$ 1 a day. We are into production and ensuring alternative livelihood for them introducing from their destructive system of livelihood. The program helps them to...
Help HIV/AIDS affected households through micro-credit in Uganda
We are trying to help HIV/AIDS affected women and youth headed households in the Rakai & Lwengo Districts to improve their resource management and develop their ability to generate income. This will reduce their vulnerability. We want to do this through vigorous training of the...
Financial and material support for community project in Kenya
Our organisation is helping children and women as well as the youth and the general community with their development agendas. We do this by providing trainings on HIV/AIDS, providing feeding program, supporting resource centers, sponsorships, building community schools, providing uniforms,...
Empower girls in Sierra Leone
We support girls between 5-19 who have a need for protection. This is a group that includes orphans, rape and domestic violence victims, HIV positive and out-of-school girls who have no functioning family to turn to for help. They come from areas with harmful cultural practices and with no basic...
Empower young girls in Nigeria
We are trying to address the issue of young girls who leave school and become prostitutes. It's a global problem. The facts abound from community to community round the world. Approximately one-quarter of girls in developing countries are not in school. We are focusing on 60 girls girls between...
Establish a seed fund for rural women entrepreneurs in Uganda
We are an organization that has helped to start village savings banks (over 17) among rural women in villages throughout Eastern Uganda. Each week, the women get together to add a small amount of money that they have saved to a combined fund. Women can then take loans from the savings bank and...