International Programme 2010
Below is the list of the 15 successful applications in the 2010 International Programme.
Africare £20,000
The grant will support the cost of building on a dining room area and classroom at the Acheru centre, a children’s hospital in Uganda. They have already completed two phases of their children's hospital where bone manipulation techniques are used to re-shape limbs.
Barefeet £4,500
The group will run 10 week modules and workshops in 32 centres for street children in Zambia. Up to 2,500 children are seen at the centres, some of the centres provide residential care and others day time support, catering for the children’s basic needs and welfare.
Camara Education UK Ltd £3,174
To set up a computer lab in a school in Zambia and provide teacher training as well as supporting utility costs for one year. The computers are reconditioned in Northern Ireland and sent to the hub in Zambia, one of 7 in Africa.
Charlenes Project £5,000
The group will use the grant to support 10 child headed families in a small village in Uganda, where a new school is being built. The children will attend school and receive medical and basic food supplies as well as support from a Project Worker. Each of these families has approximately 5 children.
Children in Crossfire £12,300
The project will help support child development and infant care in rural Tanzania. The money will be used to build a toilet and sanitation block at their medical centre as well as allow for some additional staff time.
Christian Aid Ireland £20,000
Rural Afghan farmers will benefit from this project through training in essential farming techniques including animal husbandry, saffron growing and silk production. The project will also allow distribution of bulbs, animals and equipment required to expand the farmers production levels.
Concern Worldwide £20,000
The project will allow the provision of oxen and ploughs for indigenous and refugee families in Chad. There will be training for farmers on how to increase production. The project will also provide training to women in the area in shea butter production.
Grooms-Shaftsbury £10,000
Grooms-Shaftesbury works alongside their partners in Nepal to support local people with spinal injuries. This project will improve the capacity and skills of the Spinal Cord Rehabilitiation Centre in Nepal and improve the rehabilitation of sufferers back into their communities through teaching them new skills from which they can earn an income.
Habitat for Humanity Northern Ireland £18,180
The grant will enable 300 slum households to have wood burning stoves installed to improve their living conditions. There will also be 5 water pumps installed in these Ethiopian slums which will provide clean drinking water to around 20 families each. 50% of the families who will benefit form the project will be affected by Leprosy.
Holy Innocent's Hospital £10,000
This Ugandan based children’s hospital will benefit from a new portable ultrasound from the grant. This will be used to treat patients both in the hospital and out in the surrounding rural areas. The hospital has a .5% infant mortality rate compared to the nearest hospital with a 30% infant mortality rate.
Oxfam Ireland £20,000
This project will provide new irrigation systems in communities in Malawi as well as training for the farmers on the use and maintenance of the treadle pumps as well as irrigation techniques. The farmers will also be trained in how to access local markets with excess production.
Romanian Partnership Committee £5,000
Over 100 young people will benefit form this project over the year. Some will be leaving the Romanian orphanages and venturing out on their own for the first time. The grant will provide support and essentials such as healthcare and transport costs for the young people. Other young people still in the orphanages will undergo training and workshops to help them prepare for when they will leave.
Saphara £5,000
Through their partner organisation in North India, Saphara will deliver a basic education programme to girls living in rural areas. The project will promote health and hygiene initially then go on to educate the 800 girls in sexual education and personal development.
War on Want NI £12,457
War on Want will use the grant to develop 3 irrigation projects in Malawi. The farmers will also received training on crop growing, rotation and irrigation techniques as part of the project. Approximately 50 families will benefit from each new irrigation system.
Zomba Action Project £5,000
The project will try to energize an extremely poor village in Malawi of approximately 7,000 people spread over 2 miles. The project will provide livestock and animal husbandry training, fruit trees and agricultural training as well as beehives and the setting up of micro credit projects and support will be provided for a year.
International Programme 2008
The Foundation ran a one year International Grant Programme in September 2008, with a closing date of 31st October 2008. Below are the list of 11 successful applications in 2008.
Africare £15,000
The Africare medical facility in Uganda is the main provider for non-surgical support for the country and surrounding areas. They use manipulation and casts to re-shape limbs in children. The grant was used towards the building of a new outpatients building and inpatients building. Africare have plans to build staff blocks, a workshop, stores, kitchen and dining areas in the near future.
Christian Aid Ireland £10,975
This grant went towards the initial building costs of a new training centre for girls who live in the slums of Luanda, Angola. Further fundraising is required to complete the build. The new centre will train the girls in the afternoon after their school day finishes. They will learn real skills for work as well as building their self-esteem. The centres will also provide vital information to the girls and their families on HIV.
Concern Worldwide £10,000
The grant was used towards the provision of womens empowerment centres in Afghanistan. Women received training in tailoring, weaving, baking and computer skills as well as literacy classes. On graduation the women were given start up kits to allow them to commence small scale sewing, baking or weaving businesses to help support their families.
DepaulTrust NI £5,000
The organisation provides support to street children in the Ukraine and also provides support and training to staff in the state run care system and orphanages. Staff are trained in basic good practice and what is acceptable practice within orphanages. The grant was used to provide medicine and food for the street children they work with.
Habitat for Humanity Northern Ireland £10,000
The grant was used towards the home building project for orphans and other vulnerable children in Mozambique. This is part of a project to support the orphans in Mozambique who make up approximately 8% of the population mainly due to their parents dying from AIDS. The project also delivered Inheritance Rights and Certificate Writing training to 145 families most of whom have now legalised their wills so their children cannot lose their homes if they, the parents die.
Oxfam Ireland £13,090
The grant was used to build grain stores in North East Uganda. The stores allow local women from the pastoralist communities to store and sell their grain and thus provide a living for their families. The women were provided with credit and money safes which has allowed them to engage in small scale trading at local markets. This had increased the diversity of food and basic household commodities available to the wider community.
Public Achievement £11,868
The grant was a joint venture to allow Bush Radio in Cape Town to train young people as civic youth workers and to allow them to run projects with young people looking at violence in their lives and how this can be changed. The project worked with around 30 groups of children and young people who have gone through some harrowing experiences in South Africa.
Romanian Partnership Committee £5,000
This organisation provides support to young people coming out of the renowned care system in Romania. The grant was used to provide basics such as food, rent, medical support and transport for these young people who receive no state support once they leave the care system.
Tools for Solidarity £4,458
The grant was used towards the small scale tailoring enterprises support programme in the Lake zone area of Tanzania. High quality refurbished sewing machines were delivered along with training, to groups and communities who had come through an assessment process. Local mechanics were trained in the maintenance of the machines. The groups are each receiving training on business skills and embroidery design.
War on Want £10,000
The grant was used towards the better alternatives for living project in North East Uganda. The project develops the capacity of local groups and supports them to develop sustainable farming projects and businesses. Seed, poultry, goat and heifer distribution along with tools, enabled the communities to provide for their families and sell the surplus production to put into next years farm planning.
Zomba Action Project £5,000
The grant enabled in excess of 72 families in Zomba to have irrigated land with which to grow crops, through the installation of pumps in their village. The local people were also given training on how to gain a longer term better yield from their crops. The Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development participated in the project and has promised long term support.