Projects in Year 2025
India
CARD requested funding for a goat farm in help of poor women for 3 years. The result of years one and two for 90 women being positive, the extension of the project for a third year is justified. A third group of 45 women will receive goats from those given during the previous years
OCD in Tamil Nadu will train 60 young women from coastal fishing communities in seafood processing, shell jewelry, and fishnet knitting.
The program includes leadership and entrepreneurship training, seed capital for group-based ventures, and post-training support with bank linkages for sustainability. Budget: €6,831.52 (€5,928.18 requested from EU Can Aid; remainder by OCD). Expected income: €13–€15/month per participant, with production aligned to local demand and seasonal raw materials.
Projects in Year 2024
India
This project is a cooperation with eu can aid (EUR 5000), Castricum Muttathara, NL (EUR 5000) and Wilde Ganzen, NL (EUR 5000). Wilde Ganzen will make a lump sum payment of 15,000 to the beneficiary for the addition of a first floor in a sewing centre. This would enable 240 disadvantaged women to be trained per year. The centre welcomes people from families of lepers. This training should enable them to find work in companies in the neighbouring town or to start as self-employed.
The project consists in producing and marketing organic fertilizers as vermicomposting. It is aimed at 50 marginalized women, most of whom are widows or single mothers. These fertilizers will improve soil quality and save the cost of chemical fertilizers. Each centre will have a well and will be managed by self-help groups. This project will increase the low income of these women by a third.
Adventure Aid introduced a sewing project for 45 single mothers or young poor women without training. After a training each woman receives a sewing machine and a certificate. This will allow them to earn a higher remuneration than small agricultural jobs.
The project is developed over three years and concerns the financing of a goat farm for poor women. The first year’s results for 45 women are positive, so there is a reason to extend the project for a second year. A second group of 45 women will receive goats from those given in the first year.
The request concerns the funding of goat breeding in support of tribal women. Each woman will receive 20 goats, which should increase her monthly income from 4000 to 7000 rupees. They are part of self-help groups and will be helped by a training centre
The project aims to increase vegetable production in five tribal villages. In the first year, 50 farmers would be trained in commercial pulse crops, 50 in high value-added market gardening and 100 vegetable gardens would be established in the five villages. Products could be sold in markets close to cities.
The funding is for processing moringa oleifera leaves. This native tree grows quickly and resists drought. Its leaves are used as vegetables but also as traditional medicinal plants. Each woman would receive seeds. This project is expected to double the income of the 20 women beneficiaries.
Projects in Year 2023
25 families with disabled children will receive a rainwater tank. This will make it possible to fight against diseases due to improper water, by ensuring water for consumption, but also to irrigate small vegetable gardens, while avoiding women from having to fetch water from distant sources. Drinking water is scarce in this region due to storms and floods.
Nepal
The request to eu can aid concerns the purchase of a hydroelectric generator for an amount of EUR 10,000 payable in two instalments of 5,000 EUR each, the first when placing the order to help cover the advance payment and the second on delivery.
This project has been funded also thanks to the EU staff runners EKIDEN marathon 2022.
India
The project concerns the reintroduction of traditional indigenous seeds. More resilient than marketed seeds, they allow using natural fertilizers that respect the soil instead of chemical fertilizers that damage it and are expensive. The project aims to finance the purchase of these traditional seeds and their distribution to small farmers with training. The vegetables produced will be marketed in local organic markets to avoid intermediaries who exploit their customers. The project will be complemented by the distribution of goats, of local breed, to produce milk and natural fertilizer.
India
The request is for funding to raise goats for 90 women. Each woman will receive two female goats and one male goat. These women will be accompanied (training, visits, veterinary) for breeding by the NGO. This project will later extend to other women who will receive a part of the animals born. The manure will be recovered for sale in response to high demand. The NGO is working with local authorities.
India
3 income-generating activities will be developed to support 20 Covid widows: sheep and goat breeding, grocery stores and beauty care. Widows are often excluded from society and therefore from social assistance.
India
The project involves the purchase of machinery for the manufacture of ropes and mattresses from coconut fibers for the benefit of 80 women in difficulty. Training is foreseen.
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India
ARMDS runs a special school for children with cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities. The reques concerns the construction of a suitable toilet block, for a hundred children, to replace the toilets that are no longer usable. The school already has a well and a solar pump.
India
Financing of a chicken farm for 30 Dalit women, mothers of children living in a home for poor rural children. It will be an Indian species of black chickens, immune and resistant to local diseases, which reduces antibiotics. Once the project is completed, the first beneficiaries will assist another 30 women.
India
IRDRP requested funding to create a brick making unit which could be co-owned by the workers’ families. Those workers, according to the NGO, currently also work in brick making units but those are privately owned and are abusing their rights and are taking financial advantage of the workers and their families. To relieve one family of 6 members (Mother, Father, Son, Daughter in law, Daughters) from bondedness in Brick units and help repay the debt 3,000 EUR are required. On request, the applicant stated that the required amount is considered as revolving fund; he will start investing again and again and liberating many tribes. Therefore, he will not ask for additional grants.
Projects in Year 2022
India
The NGO AHIMSA (Association for Human Integrated Massive Social Action) was seeking funds to finance the cultivation of organic vegetables in help of 36 poor women. After a training, seeds will be distributed, and the plants will be regularly irrigated. Beneficiaries will decide how to use the revenues at each monthly meeting.
India
The Social Education and Environmental Development Scheme (SEEDS) was looking for funds to increase the incomes of 150 tribal women in ten villages through a professional beekeeping scheme. To this end, they will receive beehives but also appropriate training as they currently harvest wild honey in a dangerous way in the forest. The NGO has carried out a preliminary feasibility and opportunities study.
India
The project consists in the installation of solar panels in a school in a village in Tamil Nadu, populated by Dalit and tribal people. This facility would solve the problems of power supply, which is affected by frequent power cuts. The current power supply is also insufficient for the use of computers. The installation, including a storage battery, would allow to invest in the school the sums thus saved for the consumption of electricity. It would also serve as a model for other schools in the district.
This project has been co-funded by Solar Solidarirty International asbl.
India
The NGO EDUCATR (Education Communication and Development Trust) wants to fund the revival of small street businesses that had to stop following the COVID pandemic. This project will benefit 48 women who need small amounts of money to restart their street sales by buying products first. They live in a municipality that includes 12 slums and 8 rural villages. A training is also foreseen.
India
The NGO OCD (Organisation for Community Development) wanted to finance three income-generating activities for a group of women, who carry on alone their families, in sectors other than seasonal fishing. These sectors include clothing, shellfish crafts and traditional food. After training, each of the 45 beneficiaries will receive funding to launch one of the three activities.
India
The project involves the manufacturing of cement blocks. 30 poor landless women will be selected – 20 women will form a Self-Help group and will be permanently involved in cement block making, while 10 women will be kept on the waiting list in case someone leaves the project due to unavoidable circumstances. Currently the women work only approximately 4 months a year as agricultural labour and do not have regular income for the rest of the year. The women who will join the cement block unit, will be fully involved, and will not have to do the seasonal agricultural jobs anymore.
India
The Indian NGO Smile Trust has asked to finance the construction of a home for vulnerable children, specifically a one-story building, the ground floor building having been funded by the NGO Children Are the Future (CAF) which visits them every year. It is about giving these children a safe environment in which to study that meets their educational and health needs in a family atmosphere.
Lebanon
The Belgian NGO Belgian Overseas Support has asked to finance the installation of solar panels in a center for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, in a mountain town near the Syrian border. They should provide electricity for all 312 students. Proper heating is also planned due to the harsh winter. In case refugees are repatriated later, the equipment will be handed over to the local public school.
Pakistan
The proposed project aims at upgrading the Rimsha Masih Community School. The request concerns the electricity by installing solar system, the provision of furniture and of safe drinking water to the children by installing solar powered borehole. It is Committee’s opinion – seen the lack of available funds – that only the solar system and the borehole can be funded as more urgent than the furniture.