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Our grant pool for 2005 was divided
between Latin American countries where we've made previous grants, and
two countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mexico/Haiti
To be considered for a grant, projects
had to improve the standard of living for an identifiable group of
people as part of a larger plan to develop community resources, or
improve water access or quality, or build the capacity of past and
current grantees. Two projects were chosen:
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CEDICAM (a 2003 &
2004 grantee in Oaxaca, Mexico) will use this year's grant to
continue the Ita Nuni Marketing Association funded last year. This year's
project is a training course to teach 20 peasant families the
marketing and business skills they need to make this cooperative
project successful.
- Lambi Fund
of Haiti (a 2004 grantee) will use Pangea funds to
start a cooperative plowing service for the area farmers, using the
profits from the service to establish a micro-credit fund for its
members.
Africa
Our grants to
African organizations focused on community-based responses to the HIV / AIDS crisis.
Projects had to provide support to community-led groups caring for
orphans, widows, and caregivers; programs to encourage education,
income-generating activities for caregivers and children heading
households; or health education.
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Rabour Village Project
(Kenya) will begin cultivating a cash crop of sunflowers and
raising hybrid dairy goats, with the sunflower oil and goat
milk/meat used to augment food supplies for Rabuor's orphans,
caregivers, and other vulnerable children. A
community-based evaluation during the year will consider how to
replicate the project in neighboring villages.
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Teens
Against AIDS (Tanzania) will conduct an AIDS
awareness/prevention project among the Masai youth, training
peer educators with skills in counseling, care for people living
with HIV/AIDS, communication, advocacy and conflict resolution
skills.
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Ikonzo
Musanda Self-Help Group (Kenya) will construct and equip a
two-room school and a small community library.
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Common
Ground Program (Kenya) will support 14 orphans at an
agricultural academy, as part of a program to provide training
in organic farming techniques for women and adolescents affected
by HIV/AIDS.
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St.
Margarita Development Centre (Kenya) will provide motorized
tilling equipment, pumps, seeds, and technical training to
revive community farming in fields idled by illness and the loss
of plow animals to a tsetse fly infestation.
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