Causes: International, International Relief
Mission: To improve the social and economic status of impoverished women. Vision - To help impoverished women and their families generate more income, become community role models, and have more fulfilling lives.
Results: Peopleweaver's focus has been on the Congolese women living in the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda. Although Peopleweaver’s primary focus is microcredit, aid has also included food, schooling, supplies, reading glasses, malaria nets, medicine, communication tools, and two cooperative grain mills. We started a Free Little Library at a primary school in the settlement. Adding books and libraries is ongoing. At the repeated request of the microcredit women we started adult education classes, both women and men attend these classes. We have given approximately 150 microcredit loans; this includes loans to individuals as well as groups. In 2008 we gave loans to 20 individual women who have since started working together forming their own club called “Tuungane” (Swahili for “come together”). Tuungane farms together, manages the grain mill Peopleweaver granted them in 2009 – among other activities. They divide profits among themselves while investing the balance on future projects. Tuungane has even given their own microcredit loans within the community. Likewise another group of microcredit women living some distance from Tuungane formed their own group. We are aware of several strong women’s groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our future goals are to provide microcredit loans to these groups. We also have plans to target a few girls to attend school in the DRC.
Target demographics: women, children, community
Direct beneficiaries per year: 150 individuals, 450 children, 150 students
Geographic areas served: Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Uganda
Programs: Although our primary focus is individual and group microcredit, aid has also included food, schooling, supplies, reading glasses, malaria nets, medicine, communication tools, and two cooperative grain mills. We started a Free Little Library at a primary school in the settlement. Adding books and libraries is ongoing. Currently we are doing two pilot adult education classes, if this program is successful we hope to expand the project to several locations.
Mission: To improve the social and economic status of impoverished women. Vision - To help impoverished women and their families generate more income, become community role models, and have more fulfilling lives.
Results: Peopleweaver's focus has been on the Congolese women living in the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda. Although Peopleweaver’s primary focus is microcredit, aid has also included food, schooling, supplies, reading glasses, malaria nets, medicine, communication tools, and two cooperative grain mills. We started a Free Little Library at a primary school in the settlement. Adding books and libraries is ongoing. At the repeated request of the microcredit women we started adult education classes, both women and men attend these classes. We have given approximately 150 microcredit loans; this includes loans to individuals as well as groups. In 2008 we gave loans to 20 individual women who have since started working together forming their own club called “Tuungane” (Swahili for “come together”). Tuungane farms together, manages the grain mill Peopleweaver granted them in 2009 – among other activities. They divide profits among themselves while investing the balance on future projects. Tuungane has even given their own microcredit loans within the community. Likewise another group of microcredit women living some distance from Tuungane formed their own group. We are aware of several strong women’s groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our future goals are to provide microcredit loans to these groups. We also have plans to target a few girls to attend school in the DRC.
Target demographics: women, children, community
Direct beneficiaries per year: 150 individuals, 450 children, 150 students
Geographic areas served: Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Uganda
Programs: Although our primary focus is individual and group microcredit, aid has also included food, schooling, supplies, reading glasses, malaria nets, medicine, communication tools, and two cooperative grain mills. We started a Free Little Library at a primary school in the settlement. Adding books and libraries is ongoing. Currently we are doing two pilot adult education classes, if this program is successful we hope to expand the project to several locations.
International
Longmont
