2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo

ADEFOR – Association pour le Développement et la Formation – offre à 50jeunes filles de Righini, un quartier très démuni dans la périphérie de Kinshasa, accès à un métier qui leur permette de gagner leur vie. Le projet est de créer un atelier de couture et les fonds serviront à l’achat de machines à coudre, tissus, matériel de couture et panneaux solaires.

2018 Ecuador

Fundation “Agustin Tomala” helps people living with HIV/AIDS, by offering them educational, informational, cultural and recreational programs to support their daily life, in Guayaquil. The aim of the project, supporting 15 children up to 5 years old, is to offer a place where mothers can learn how to educate and stimulate their children by providing them the opportunity to do activities that include music, movement, stories, sharing, discussion and games. To this end, equipment for an activity centre will be funded.

2018 Ecuador

Fundacion Plan Ecuasol offre à des familles défavorisées: soutien scolaire et activités extra-scolaires, appui financier, accès aux soins et nutrition ainsi que soutien psychologique. Le projet mettra en place une salle informatique avec 6 ordinateurs portables, 1 imprimante, 1 vidéo-projecteur, 3 bureaux et 6 chaises, connection internet, branchements électriques et impression de 60 livres.

2018 Egypt

Banati Foundation aims to protect and support street children (girls) through prevention, early detection, protection and rehabilitation. The project involves purchasing furniture (beds, closets) for a new wing to accommodate 30 additional girls in the Banati shelter of Haram City – which currently has a capacity for 250 children.

2018 El Salvador

SIRAMA Foundation aims to contribute to peace by empowering young women through personal and professional development. The project is to offer 7-month professional training in a beauty programme, alongside a personal development programme. Relevant equipment to furnish the training room will be purchased (scissors, dryers, hair irons, etc.)

2018 Ethiopia

Opportunity for Women and Children Network is a small organization that is providing accommodation and food for a group of 20 street-children. Schooling is provided in the local school. The funds will be used to renovate a bedroom area specifically for the girls (other funds have been obtained for the boys bedroom area) and renovate the kitchen area.

2018 Guatemala

ACOE (Asociacion para la Cooperacion Educativa) promotes training programs for rural and marginal urban young women in the Aldea Santa Catarina Bobadilla, in the Department of Sacatepequez. The project seeks to strengthen the entrepreneurial skills of indigenous women in extreme poverty, to improve their income by organizing cooking classes and training in business management. Kitchen equipment will be purchased.

2018 Haiti

Healing Hands for Haiti se voue à la réhabilitation de personnes à déficiences physiques en leur donnant accès à un appareillage adapté, des soins et un suivi régulier et individualisé. Les fonds couvriront les frais d’appareillage et le suivi de soins pour 10 enfants.

2018 India

Protsahan encourages and trains needy young women (40 at a time) to gain skills and become self-sufficient and help support their families. The project aims to improve the infrastructure of the training facility (repair work of toilets, water dispenser), to provide training materials such as educational equipment (projector, screen, laptop, camera and books), and materials for the student production unit (fabrics, labels, brochures).

2018 Indonesia

Syamsi Dhuha Foundation was established in 2003 to improve the quality of life of people with lupus, through education, public information, advocacy for government support, research and cooperation with similar international groups. This auto-immune disease affects women 6-10 times more than men. This project aims to help lupus patients with low vision; it seeks to purchase devices for the visually impaired, support the development of new devices and provide micro-financing to support small businesses for 7 women.

2018 Jordan

Fondation SURGIR aims to combat violence against girls and women in the Middle East and Central Asia. This particular project is to support Syrian refugee women and their children in Jordan, through legal, social and psychological aid, and training in income-generating activities. A sewing machine, buttonhole machine, cutting table, industrial iron, clipping machine, and scissors are to be purchased.

2018 Lebanon

Borderless has been working with Syrian refugee children since 2015 in an area in Beirut where many refugees live. The organization’s objective is to create an educational opportunity for these children who have no access to formal education. Vocational workshops are offered with the aim of training them and providing a chance at a sustainable source of income. The project is to create 3-month computer skills training workshops. Everything is in place (instructors, room, etc.) but they require the hardware – 10 laptops.

2018 Mauritius

L’éducation pour Travailleurs a pour but de promouvoir la langue maternelle de l’Ile Maurice, le créole mauricien qui est très sous-estimé et négligé par les institutions. L’objectif du projet est de stimuler l’intérêt de la lecture des nouvelles classiques en langue créole chez les jeunes de 13-14 ans qui ont appris le créole à l’école. Les fonds contribueront à financer un concours de traduction: campagnes de publicité à la radio, cours d’orthographe, promotion du travail des traducteurs, prix.

2018 Mexico

Voces americanas Accion con Pueblos Migrantes promeut l’organisation et la rencontre entre les femmes et les hommes indigènes migrants pour la défense et l’exercice de leurs droits individuels et communautaires. La participation des enfants et des jeunes indigènes se fait à travers l’expression artistique. Le projet est d’intégrer une perspective de genre dans l’ensemble des projets: ateliers mémoire et genre, pièce de théatre pour le musée en mouvement, vidéo participative sur le genre et la migration, guide de travail, livres en langue indigène et espagnole sur la violence conjugale, ateliers de sensibilisation et de débat. Les fonds contribueront au matériel pour la vidéo participative, la pièce de théatre, les livrets bilingues, les ateliers.

2018 Nepal

Gautam School is a private NGO, non-sectarian educational institution in an area badly affected by the earthquake and the latest monsoon. It has an extensive social services outreach program and will be managing funding provided by the UNWG. The project is to support three needy schools and encourage children, especially girls to attend school. These schools are extremely poor, and there are high rates of malnutrition, leprosy, etc. Funds will be used towards school clothes, school bags, hygiene sets, writing and stationary sets, teaching aids such as story books, wall charts and teaching books.