Please see the attached listing of 23 project fundings approved in our May round. The total approved is €178,000. From Cork to the C.A.R., and from Afghanistan to Zambia, YOUR generosity is changing lives. Keep her lit! Applications Approved May 2016
Guinea Bissau is a small and very poor country in West Africa. Plan International has been working there since 1995. Basic education infrastructure and access are inadequate, with very poor facilities and school environments. This has been made much worse by exceptionally heavy rains in 2015, which rendered many schools unusable. At least 2,000 children…
We approved 18 Development and 1 Humanitarian excellent projects worth €185,000 in our March funding round. The attached listing details this excellent life-giving work – which only your generosity makes possible. Projects Funded in March 2016!
The Ethiopia Deaf Project has a long-term support relationship with the Ambo Lazarist Deaf School in Ambo, Ethiopia. A series of workshops and needs analysis carried out through the Deaf Community in Ireland resulted to a proposal to build a specialist school for children with hearing difficulties from Grades 5-8. Appreciation of Children’s rights to…
Turkana is an isolated ASAL (Arid and Semi-Arid Land) in Northern Kenya – the poorest region in the country. The people are mostly nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists, with a limited agricultural tradition. In the last 15 years, Turkana has suffered droughts of increasing intensity and frequency. These droughts have increased the range of the…
Please see below our full listing of the 25 projects approved for funding in our January 2016 round. We have committed €188,000 of your generously-donated funds. The plan pictures is of Emesco’s new rural health centre in Maisuuka, Uganda – which will be built for €21,000, including €12,000 from ElectricAid. This is life-saving work –…
Mary’s Meals is a Scottish NGO with a simple philosophy. They feel that the best way of promoting education and opportunity in the Developing World is to give each school-going child a nourishing meal. They are now (January 2016) feeding 1,101,206 children daily! Keeping them fed, nourishes them, and keeps them in school. Staying in…
Africa Direct is a small, completely voluntary Cork-based NGO, doing great “hands-on” work on behalf of some of the most vulnerable people of Kenya. ElectricAid has funded Africa Direct 4 times since 2008, with a modest total of €39,000. This has allowed them to Build a refuge and training centre for displaced and vulnerable young…
