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• 3-year programme to improve the social and economic living conditions of peasant families in the Archdiocese of Bukavu, DRC

  The overall purpose of the project is to improve the social and economic living conditions of peasant families. The programme focuses on 4 specific goals: - Goal 1: Increase the income of peasant families - Goal 2: Increase farming income - Goal 3: Improve health status - Goal 4: Improve family relationships Activities : Activities to...

  • NGO Partnership /
  • Income generating activities /
  • 2009

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  Capacity building for women members of a coop group

  Empower 60 women to access means of livelihood and financial self-reliance: the “Michité” (Rise!) group members are fishermen’s wives. Due to the slowdown in fishing activities, the women have decided to regroup in order to develop and diversify their individual income-earning activities. The group includes 60 women, organised in 5...

  • Staff Project /
  • Income generating activities /
  • Fnac /
  • 2009

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• Creation of a restaurant at the Community House for genocide surviving widows in Kigali, Rwanda

  The project supported by the PPR Foundation involves opening a restaurant at the Community House of genocide surviving widows in Kigali (Rwanda). Profits from the restaurant business will be redistributed among the cooperative members, widows and young girls survivors of the genocide at Kimironko. The project further intends to provide guidance...

  • NGO Partnership /
  • Income generating activities /
  • 2009

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• Improving the living conditions of women belonging to women’s groups in the village of Boukombe, Benin

  The goal of this project is to improve the governance of women’s groups in the village of Boukombe, and build their capacity to better manage the resources and to prosper. The project intends to create a centre providing guidance, help, training and prevention to the women’s groups, with the ultimate goal of supporting their economic and...

  • Staff Project /
  • Income generating activities /
  • Fnac /
  • 2011

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• Support programme for vegetable farming patches and capacity building for women groups in Mali

  The project supported by the PPR Foundation involves helping 18 women coop groups to gain access to 1-2 hectare plots of vegetable farming patches, and providing them with training in farming techniques and management to secure the food supply of their families and generate extra income: - Capacity building for women groups: training in...

  • NGO Partnership /
  • Income generating activities /
  • 2008

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  Support to rural women in Nicaragua

  This project supported by the Foundation concerns development aid for rural women, their families and their larger communities, through substitution of agricultural products and promotion of their work. The goal is to increase the income and build the capacity of women from 5 communities in Nicaragua, and to foster social and economic changes in...

  • NGO Partnership /
  • Income generating activities

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  Swift Wash: An industrial laundry as an economic alternative for victims of prostitution

  The goal of the Swift Wash laundry, launched in 2006 and supported by the NGO Acting for Life, is to provide support and guidance to former victims for social integration. To this purpose, they need to be provided with a source of income, vocational training and psychosocial assistance. The laundry currently employs 50 persons and runs 7 days a...

  • NGO Partnership /
  • Income generating activities /
  • 2010

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  Zazou Project: Urban waste management and creation of an income generating activity for women from the outskirts of Nouakchott.

  In 2005, the Gret initiated the “Zazou” (plastic bag) project intended to improve the living conditions of women in the suburban districts of Nouakchott and to create income generating activities by setting up a plastic recycling business. A GIE Economic Interest Group was created, consisting of 108 women’s cooperatives and representing over...

  • NGO Partnership /
  • Income generating activities /
  • 2011

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