At the end of 2009, Pangea awarded grants totaling $123,000 to 19 organizations in three regions of the world. We are proud to support the work of these partners who are doing so much to help their communities.
Common Ground Program ( Kenya), $6,700 to organize a women’s economic cooperative for 150 women (mostly widows and single mothers) based around organic agriculture. The grant will provide training in biointensive farming, food production, and leadership and marketing skills.
Omeko Women's Group (Kenya), $8000 to launch a corn grinding mill and expand their poultry business to include broiling chickens.
Bagamoyo Education and Development Foundation (Tanzania), $2500 to expand their milk production business started last year to another group of 10 widows. Our grant buys a cow and 5 goats and provides veterinary care and training. The program creates a sustainable livelihood for widows, helping lift them out of extreme poverty and increasing access to quality food for them and their children.
Longido Community Integrated Program (LOOCIP - Tanzania), $5300 to fund the second year of Montessori teacher training for two Maasai (one woman, one warrior) and to launch a reproductive health and sex education program aimed at improving school retention rates of ~500 secondary school age girls.
Unity in Diversity (Tanzania), $5500 to provide building materials for two vocational training classrooms being built in the Mbeya community. UDF has already secured donation of tools and equipment, arranged for teachers, and lined up work-study opportunities for the first students. Earnings from these work-study arrangements will fund much of the operating expense.
Groups of Women in Water and Agriculture (Kenya), $7500 to drill a borehole to provide clean water for a rural community and to provide training and materials for permaculture methods and use of drip irrigation. Health and food production of 500 families in the community will be improved by this project.
Tears (Kenya), $4500 to provide staff/ volunteer training on urban farming and nutrition, set up an urban farming demonstration project, promote healthy nutrition through community theatre outreach to 5,500 people, and provide 25 sex workers with entrepreneurial training for an alternative source of livelihood.
Adopt-a-Village (Guatemala), $5000 to develop a technical training program on sustainable agriculture that links secondary school students at a Mayan Center with women leaders in 9 rural villages.
COMUNDICH (Guatemala), $5000 to support political (citizenship) and technology training for 110 youth in 4 schools in 2 municipalities.
Light for All (Haiti), $8500 to support operation of the school by paying teachers’ salaries, purchasing supplies, and supporting a project to grow trees that will provide oil for fuel.
Haiti Konpay (Haiti), $8500 to construct a center for a volunteer youth organization to house a chicken aviary and production area for alternative charcoal briquettes and rocket stoves. The grant includes partial funding for an erosion control project.
CEDICAM (Mexico), $5000 to support an income-generating activity to produce and sell organic fertilizers.
CEADEL (Guatemala), $4500 to support the return to school of 20 girls and boys working in the informal labor market (shoe shine, gum and candy sales). Includes regular home visits with parents and afterschool activities to build children’s self esteem and educate them on rights.
Maya Aj Sya (Guatemala), $5000 to support teacher training and improve teacher retention rates for a bi-lingual, intercultural pre-school and primary school for indigenous Mayan youth.
Friends Economic Development Association (FEDA) (Cambodia), $8750 to continue vocational training for a group of young artists supported with our 2008 grant, The grant will train an additional 100 youth in traditional dance, music and performing arts while educating them about human rights and environmental issues.
ASHA/Nepal (Nepal), $9000 to fund construction of 25 toilets in two villages, educational trainings on sanitation and hygiene, and community mobilization on health issues.
Pattanarak (Thai-Burma border), $8750 to support a day care facility and feeding program for 110 migrant Burmese children and to educate the migrant Burmese community on educational opportunities and legal rights.
Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma (Thai-Burma border) $10,000 to train 100 migrant workers on how to protect themselves and/or escape from exploitative working conditions (similar to 2008 grant). The grant also provides consultation and legal aid where needed, and supports advocacy efforts to Thai government to amend laws related to migrant workers.
Tean Thor (Cambodia), $5000 to establish a seamstress apprentice center in Battambang city, where there are more professional opportunities for seamstresses. The program will train 10 women at a time for three months each, for a total of 40 women during the next year.