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Project Name: Each One, Teach One: Safe Spaces Library’s Girls Reading Clubs
Location: Eastland Slums, Nairobi, Kenya
Application Club's Length of Affiliation: 7 years
Parent Organization: Safe Spaces, Nairobi
Website: https://www.safespaces-nairobi.org/
Project Funding Breakdown:
Librarian salary
| $2136
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Girls Reading Club
(student transport, food, guest facilitators
materials)
| 1864
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TOTAL:
| $4,000
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Purpose of the Grant: When Covid-19 closed schools, Safe Spaces, which runs girls’ empowerment programs in Nairobi’s Eastland Slums, launched a library with computers and a librarian, enabling 800 girls and 200 boys to learn remotely. Our project’s goal is Pioneer a Reading Culture in the slums through Girls Reading Clubs. Safe Spaces identified 90 girls who are passionate learners and capable of mentoring to be Reading Club participants. They’ll meet 3 hours/week in the library for computer-based reading and research assignments, present to each other and journal what they learn. They’ll develop confidence in public speaking and debating along with reading, researching, mentoring and organizing skills. Guest facilitators will expose the girls to the world beyond the slums. “Each one, teach one” will impact the community through the librarian who will train teachers in 10 schools on computers and Reading Club girls will mentor other community members. The grant funds will fund the Librarian and Girls Reading Clubs.
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Project Name: “I Will Learn!”—Keeping Tribal Children in School
Location: Three hamlets belonging to Hazarwadi, Sangamner Taluka, Ahemdnagar District, Maharashtra, India
Application Club's Length of Affiliation: 12 years
Parent Organization: Nandanvan Trust (Integrated Tribal and Watershed Development Programme), Sangamner, Maharashtra, India
Website: https://www.ecojesuit.com/those-who-catch-the-rain-the-tribal-watershed-programme-in-india/
Project Funding Breakdown:
5 training sessions for 3 tutors
| $ 400
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Annual wages for 3 tutors for 10 hours/week
| 1010
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Training for field instructor
| 135
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Annual wage for field instructor
| 400
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Annual wage for program coordinator
| 670
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Total cost for teaching aids and materials for each of 3 hamlets
| 400
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Laptop, USB drive, and sound box for each of 3 hamlets
| 970
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Annual wage for digital field instructor
| 320
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Donation from FAWCO club
| -305
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TOTAL:
| $4,000
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Purpose of the Grant: By the age of 13, more than half of the tribal children in rural Maharashtra have dropped out of school. They thus lack the education needed to improve their own status and that of their communities—home to the poorest of the poor, the marginalized and deprived. With parents largely illiterate and placing no value on education, the children do not speak the official school language and have poor learning habits and no digital experience. The grant funds will finance teaching materials, digital equipment, and tutoring staff for supplementary classes for 60 tribal children (ages 7–15) for ten hours each week over one school year. Many classes will be held in a kindergarten building previously funded by a FAWCO Foundation DG. The children will learn the basic skills needed to keep them in school and continue their education, empowering them to break the poverty cycle and ensure socio-educational sustainability of their communities.
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Project Name: MaaSAE Girls Secondary School
Location: Monduli, Tanzania
Application Club's Length of Affiliation: 1+ years
Parent Organization: Operation Bootstrap Africa
Website: https://bootstrapafrica.org/
Project Funding Breakdown:
Scholarships ($1,200 each)
| $3600
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Days for Girls Training & Kits
| 400
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TOTAL:
| $4,000
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Purpose of the Grant: Education is one of the most effective interventions for poverty alleviation, particularly for girls. However, most Maasai girls never get the chance to attend school. Fewer than 20 percent of Maasai girls enroll in school. Only one in five finish primary school, and only one in 15 proceed to secondary school. Dropouts are caused by early pregnancies, forced marriages, female genital mutilation, and other economic and cultural factors. Maasai leaders established the MaaSAE Girls Secondary School in 1995 to provide a safe and supportive educational environment for these at-risk girls. The school focuses on education as a tool of empowerment that allows young Maasai women to escape the bonds of poverty and gender-based violence. The grant funds will finance three scholarships for Maasai girls who would not otherwise have access to education and would also provide reproductive and menstrual health education to 380 students at the MaaSAE Girls Secondary School in Tanzania.
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Project Name: Ridne Slowo “Mother Tongue”: Easing Transitions in the Refugee Process for Ukrainian Children Escaping to Germany
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Application Club's Length of Affiliation: 19 years
Parent Organization: Pro Ukraine e.V.
Website: https://www.pro-ukraine.de/
Project Funding Breakdown:
School supplies (books, papers, pens)
| $ 400
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School equipment (computer, printer, projector)
| 1600
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School outings, special events
| 1000
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Teacher fees
| 1000
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TOTAL:
| $4,000
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Purpose of the Grant: War in Ukraine is bringing refugees to Germany daily. The initial transition period is a precarious time that is not well supported within existing state infrastructure due to lack of resources and speakers of Ukrainian language. The children will be integrated into the German school system, via Pro Ukraine e.V. The existing Sunday school program Ridne-Slowo: “Mother Tongue” can QUICKLY provide: after-school Ukrainian language classes including culture and history for children to retain their heritage, psychological support by creating a hub for young people to interact with each other, and adult refugees, who are qualified teachers, a structured way to contribute in their new community by teaching these classes. These classes will immediately create safe spaces to maintain a connection to home, stave off isolation and thwart stigma regarding refugees. The grant funds will allow the school to expand existing offers as well as react flexibly and immediately to the increasing refugee needs.
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Project Name: Shamrock Hot Water Project
Location: Pokhara, Nepal
Application Club's Length of Affiliation: 12 years
Parent Organization: n/a
Website: https://shamrockschoolnepal.org/
Project Funding Breakdown:
Solar panels, purchased locally to maximize benefit of monies received
| $4000
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TOTAL:
| $4,000
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Purpose of the Grant: Purpose of the grant: Shamrock, a boarding school in Nepal, serves children from small villages in the Himalayas, allowing them to continue with secondary education. For many children from poor backgrounds, this is their only opportunity out of poverty and a subsistence farming lifestyle. The school relies on donations and facilities are basic. Running water arrived in 2018 and we would now like to install solar panels for hot water. This is so important for bathing and laundry for these quite young children in a cold climate like Nepal. In the past, children with weaker health have had to leave the school and this is something we hope never to happen again. The grant funds would cover the purchase and installation of the panels without impacting an already tight budget. This would lead to truly long-term change for the conditions under which these children live while they work so hard to change their futures.
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Project Name: Speak Up
Location: Vienna, Austria
Application Club's Length of Affiliation: 4 years
Parent Organization: Die Moewe
Website: https://www.die-moewe.at/
Project Funding Breakdown:
Illustration and graphics
| $3000
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Printing costs: booklets and worksheets for children and educators
| 1000
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TOTAL:
| $4,000
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Purpose of the Grant: Violence and abuse of children is a huge social problem, causing immense individual suffering. COVID 19 has exacerbated the problem by children’s loss of access to trusted adults because of reduced daily contact in schools and daycare. Effectiveness of the ‘Speak Up’ Prevention workshops, which focus on children, educators and families, was negatively affected by cancellations or moving to on-line sessions, creating shortcomings as on-line workshops possibly decrease the impact and might put children in unnecessary danger. Our project is to create and publish two booklets to increase the impact of "Speak Up! Trau dich" workshops, by raising awareness about the abuses against children and empowering children to resist and report abuse. Now in times of COVID it is imperative that we are able to create these materials to put in the hands of children to reinforce the messages. The grant funds will allow development of the content and initial printing, which allows reaching up to 4000 people.
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Project Name: Model for Teaching Nutrition to Petty Traders in Greater Accra
Location: Ngleshie Amanfro, Ghana
Application Club's Length of Affiliation: 12+ years
Parent Organization: The Talent Tree (NGO)
Website: https://www.the-talent-tree.org/
Project Funding Breakdown:
Nutritionists’ salaries and transportation
| $1400
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Workshop
| 500
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Lay personnel training and implementation
| 1000
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Production of teaching material
| 800
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Food demonstrations
| 300
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TOTAL:
| $4,000
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Purpose of the Grant: Petty traders in Ghana comprise a semi-literate and economically, socially, and medically vulnerable female population. No nutrition or health program has been designed specifically for these women. The Talent Tree (TTT) hopes to change this by creating a peer-to-peer program for teaching nutrition, modeled on small breastfeeding-support groups that are known to function well within the Ghanaian health system. With its sister NGO of petty traders in Ghana, TTT wants to design content for a tiered system with qualified supervision of lay personnel, and create teaching materials for supervisors, lay personnel and the target group. This can be the first step towards wider implementation in local clinics and beyond. TTT has seen that Ghanaian women empowered with greater understanding of nutrition enjoy better health, and neighbors follow their example. TTT seeks to break the cycle of ignorance by showing that women can achieve health and well-being even in poverty-stricken slums. The DG funds will help develop a model for nutrition and health teaching.
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