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March 18th 2006
The March 18th Funding Day was an event worth celebrating at which
TFN reached the £1 million milestone. We raised a total of £47,830
for 10 projects.
- Lake Malawi Projects - to establish on-going training
in a range of vocational skills in the Likoma District of Malawi
in order to: boost employment; meet demand for and reduce the
price of goods, services and training; stimulate the local economy
and build local capacity to enable communities to drive their
own development in future. Funds raised funding will go towards
expanding the reach of the training programme to cover the skills/goods/services
which are in highest demand throughout the District. www.lakemalawiprojects.org
- Legal Action for Women (LAW) - to provide training and
support for women asylum seekers and their families based on LAW's
recently published For Asylum Seekers and their Supporters - A
Self-help Guide Against Detention and Deportation. The TFN grant
will help to publicise the Guide around the country through a
series of public launches followed by training workshops.
- WordWorks - 1. To implement a school programme for the
teaching of early language and literacy skills to deprived South
African children 2. To provide teacher training, volunteer training
and parent training to ensure sustainability of the programme.
The grant will enable the three principal trainers to provide
a service to all interested schools in that community, providing
teacher training, parent workshops and volunteer training.
- MANGRO - to enable 50 villages in coastal Orissa to sustainably
regenerate their mangroves, thus increasing protection against
tidal surge, super-cyclones and coastal erosion, to increase fish-stocks
and bio-diversity, and enhance the livelihood and survival prospects
of the villagers. The raised funds will cover the costs of educational
work and training. www.ivdtrust.org.uk
- The Global Ideas Bank- to gather, foster and promote
new and innovative ways of tackling social and environmental problems
and inequalities in the world. The funds will enable the registration
and formation of the new charity; provide funding for the awards;
support a redesign of the website and enable the publication electronically
of the creative problem solving book.
- NakRuDA Rural Access Project -A community project in
the isolated Dadiya region of Nigeria, to facilitate access to
healthcare and economic opportunities through the improvement
of earth roads and stream crossings.
- Streetwise Opera - to support our Nottingham Workshop
Programme for one year which includes the delivery of weekly workshops
in two Nottingham homeless centres leading to concerts and theatre
trips for participants. The Funds raised will help fund all of
their vital weekly on-going workshops in the YMCA and Friary in
Nottingham for 2006/07 including the presentation of informal
concerts in the city, concert and theatre trips for our participants
and our Work Placement Scheme.
- Mango Tree Orphan Support Programme - an outreach programme,
supporting orphans, vulnerable children and their guardians in
Tanzania, where 20% of the population have HIV. Funds raised will
help 50 students to finish their secondary education; fund the
work of the excellent Medical Officer, for another year; to provide
primary school and medical support for the whole of Ngana ward,
and the 355 orphans there; and provide vocational training for
30 students. www.themangotree.org
- Kenya Rapid Response Fund - enable experienced Kenyans
to respond to emerging violent conflict at the earliest stage,
to prevent conflict from escalating and thus save lives. The funds
raised will save lives and reduce the number of internally displaced
people in Kenya over the next twelve months; will serve as a model
for a more permanent fund in Kenya, if successful; and will serve
as a model that Peace Direct would like to replicate in up to
30 countries experiencing violent conflict.
- One Water Network, Bolivia - working to solve acute problems
of water scarcity and contamination through education, art and
the implementation of specific replicable ecological solutions
to water management. The TFN grant will further support the network
of water stewards and hold additional training for the key trainers
and community leaders as well as going between the different projects
and helping to see them properly completed.
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