The Funding Network - MARCH 13th, 2004

	TFN GROUPS
	TFN Scotland TFN South West TFN Toronto TFN Leeds TFN South Africa TFN Oxford Youth Funding Network

September 24th, 2005

The Funding Day was held at the Royal Institute of British Architects. The event was devoted to the three themes of MakePovertyHistory: aid, trade & debt and we asked each project to pitch for up to Ł10,000. A total of Ł70,684 was raised on the day.

African Initiatives - to run a series of workshops designed to kick start an embryonic farmers’ social movement in northern Ghana that will allow farmers to change negative and damaging attitudes, policies and practices at a community, national and international level. The Funding Network funds were used to pilot two 8 day workshops and enabled them to update and adapt the project for northern Ghana and Tanzania.
The Fairtrade Foundation - to finance a launch of Fairtrade certified cotton in the UK. The grant raised went towards design, production and event venue costs. www.fairtrade.org.uk
Navdanya, India - to promote organic fair trade in India, to provide food security and a sustainable future for peasant farmers and rural communities, and setting-up an organic canteen for street children in Delhi. The funds raised helped Navdanya initiate two projects a) a micro-initiative on removing poverty and hunger, that benefits small organic farmers and street children; and b) a campaign and action plan to “Make Food Poverty History” through organic fair trade.
NEF (The New Economics Foundation) - to develop a coherent and consistent proposal for resolving the current and future debt crises, as part of an overall reform of the international financial system, with broad civil society backing. The TFN grants funded the identification and assessment of proposals on the short-term (methodological) and long-term (institutional/structural) aspects of debt cancellation;a political mapping of who actively supports and who opposes such proposals, among civil society and decision-makers, and the political process through which they would need to be adopted; an estimation of how much debt cancellation is required now for sustainable human development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals; and development of an initial consolidated proposal encompassing proposals for the current and future debt crises.
Kufunda Self-Reliance Community, Zimbabwe - a small learning centre near Harare in Zimbabwe, aims to help people tackle the considerable challenges they currently face through increased self-reliance. The grant helped build a rammed earth house at Kufunda. The building would serve during mornings as a centre for the Kufunda pre-school, which currently does not have its own space at Kufunda, and afternoons as a community hall open to activities of the community surrounding Kufunda. www.kufunda.org
JOLIBA TRUST - to extend the Trust’s work on soil conservation and tree planting to help restore rural livelihoods in the poorest 5 th Region of Mali. Funds raised went towards employing a 3 rd Forester/Erosion Specialist to meet training needs for dune and gully stabilisation and desertification control in 6 districts which requested this. www.jolibatrust.org.uk
Ekoturin Foundation: East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) - to provide integrated training in organic vegetable farming, organic worms & castings, farming and goat breeding for milk & sale. TFN's grant went towards empowering 730 families from the 3 adjacent lower mountain hamlets of Ban (175 families), Panek (185) and Cut-Cut (370) by initially training small groups of 7-10 farmers (selected by their respective communities to represent them) in three integrated and holistic projects. These will teach permaculture techniques of sustainable and environmentally sound land use to design integrated ecological systems of food production, incorporating appropriate technology and community development.
TALC (Teaching-aids At Low Cost) - to supply up-to-date health information on CD-ROMs to our partners – health workers in developing countries who have difficulties accessing the internet, but who urgently need the information for their work. The money was used, together with core funds from TALC, to fund the production and dissemination of eTALC. www.e-talc.org

CAMFED International - to enable girls in Tanzania to complete school, protect themselves from HIV/AIDS, and go on to become leaders of change in their communities and Make Poverty History for the next generation. Funding was raised to enable a new group of girls in Iringa to make the transition to secondary school at the end of this year, and to continue through four years of secondary education, at which point they will leave school as confident young women who can in turn go on to ensure other vulnerable children in their communities go to school – the virtuous cycle.