Grants
2008 Grants
East Africa
Common Ground Program (previous grantee, Kenya), $10,000 to complete the water system started in 2007. The 100-meter-deep well will supply water to 360+ students of Pathfinder Academy and 2100 households in the surrounding community. The grant also paid school fees for one orphan who is completing her final year in boarding school.
Omeko Women's Group (previous grantee, Kenya), $6750 to expand the egg production business started last year. The women have improved profitability by purchasing used equipment and purchasing feed in bulk.
Precious Tears Initiative (previous grantee, Kenya) $2000 to fund mobile HIV testing units and peer education training.
Bagamoyo Education and Development Foundation (Tanzania) will set up a milk production business (cows and goats) for three groups of women in the Bagamoyo district north of Dar es Salaam. The women will be trained in animal husbandry and bookkeeping/marketing, and the milk will be sold in the village and to a milk distribution company.
Longido Community Integrated Program (LOOCIP - Tanzania), $2500 to send two Maasai (one woman, one warrior) for the first year of a two-year Montessori teacher training course. LOOCIP runs a successful Montessori preschool program, but needs local teachers who will stay in the community.
Unity in Diversity (Tanzania), $4500 to improve and expand a preschool in the outskirts of Mbeya town. The school was operating in abandoned chicken coops, with inadequate ventilation and light. The grant built two simple classrooms and pays a small salary to the teacher and her assistant.
Women's Education and Economic Center (Tanzania), $5000 to implement an agricultural initiative in an isolated hillside village suffering from food shortages due to erosion and drought. Training has already begun, and the first crop of produce grown with improved farming methods is nearly ready for harvest. The grant will also be used to repair and update an existing irrigation system.
Latin America
Adopt-a-Village (Guatemala), $8000 to offer advanced veterinary training for students in 10 Mayan villages who completed basic training funded by last year's grant. This grant benefits not just the students but also the villagers in this remote region where the nearest veterinary services are 60 km away. Students will graduate as assistant veterinarians.
COMUNDICH (Guatemala), $8000 to complete the next phase of a project to provide training in leadership, computer skills, and the arts to youth in a high-risk area where teens are being recruited into the drug trafficking business. Our 2007 grant funded the start of this project.
Living Earth Institute (Nicaragua), $9450 to work with a local organization to increase access to water and sanitation for five schools in southwestern Nicaragua. The project will include water storage tanks, latrines, and hand-washing stations at each school.
Light for All (Haiti), $5000 to replace books, uniforms and school supplies destroyed in floods caused by recent hurricanes. Grant funds will also be used to support a school clinic and to expand a project to grow Jatropha trees that produce oil for fuel.
Haiti Konpay (Haiti), $5000 to reconstruct agricultural fields on the mountainside surrounding two village water sources, replant fields with control channels, and install a large drainage system to stop soil erosion and reduce the likelihood of crop loss and flash floods.
Southeast Asia
Saboros (Cambodia), $4250 to place young men and women (16-25 yrs old) in apprenticeship positions in private enterprise, and provide training and information resources to help them find employment when they complete their apprenticeship.
FEDA (Cambodia), $4250 to provide vocational training for youth in the performing arts and traditional dance and music. The youth will also be exposed to awareness raising on human rights and environmental issues.
ASHA (Nepal) $4250 to work with members of five women's groups to construct 30 toilets.
Living Earth Institute (Nepal) $4250 to provide safe drinking water and sanitation facilities to nine villages in the Bara district of Nepal. As part of the project, the communities will be provided training in health awareness and in social and economic improvements for women.
Pattanarak (Thai-Burma border) $4000 to strengthen the capacity of village savings groups and the creation of community shops so residents have access to more affordable goods and credit.
TACDB (Thai-Burma border) $4000 to train migrant workers on their rights under Thai law, help build the capacity of the legal aid community volunteers, and support advocacy to the Thai government.
Tean Thor (Cambodia) $1500 will establish a sewing workshop in Battambang city for vulnerable young women to prevent them from being exploited and provide an income for themselves and their families close to their homes.
Maiti Nepal (Nepal) $500 to rescue girls from jail who were arrested while victims of human trafficking.