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January 11th 2007
We've had an excellent start to the New Year - the Funding Evening
at Goldman Sachs on January 11th 2007 raised £49,125.23 for the following
5 projects:
- Steven B. MacQueen Memorial Bank, Kabul, Afghanistan:
The Memorial Bank is a micro-finance project aimed at helping
women to establish themselves in their own businesses. They will
use the grant to make loans to 50 families in the first instance,
which will then get recycled to other families on repayment. It
will strengthen the track record of the Memorial Bank and help
it to attract more substantial funding in future. www.villagebanking.org
- COIN - Climate Outreach and Information Network: To use
innovative learning techniques and practical programmes to increase
public awareness of the threats of climate change, promote low-carbon
lifestyles and achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
The raised funds will go towards employing an additional 0.4 Full
Time Equivalent employee, dedicated to administrative and fundraising
support, and able to provide extra capacity for COIN programmes.
As with all COIN employees, wages would be kept low, so as to
maximise efficiency. www.coinet.org.uk
- Rape Crisis, South Africa: Rape Crisis’s principal aim
is the prevention of and opposition to rape and other forms of
gender-based violence. One in two South African women gets raped
in her lifetime. The grant will help Rape Crisis to develop and
run workshops and a mentoring service for young men, to create
more awareness of gender-based violence and to prevent young men
from becoming perpetrators. The pilot will take place in Centocow,
a deep rural area, with patriarchal values where abduction of
women is common. They have worked there since 2004 and have good
relationships with important role players.
- Iraq Body Count: Research and consultation to develop
a workable concept for introducing civilian casualty counts into
the international regulatory system and a strategy for promoting
it and engaging key players. The grant will enable Iraq Body Count
to undertake relevant research and consultation during 2007 to
develop a workable concept for introducing civilian casualty counts
into the international regulatory system, and develop a strategy
for involving and influencing key players in moving the agenda
forwards. www.iraqbodycount.org
- Pump Aid, Zimbabwe: To improve the sanitation conditions
in poor rural schools in Zimbabwe. With the funds raised, they
will be able to install a hand-washing facility outside the toilets,
which will be fitted with water from the Elephant pump, plus soap
- improving the toilet facilities at 12 schools; therefore dramatically
improving the health of over 6,000 children. www.pumpaid.org
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