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Community Economic Development Projects
Send A Goat to Obalanga Subcounty
New Project – Global Grant 2350334
Host Club Name and District: Entebbe, Uganda District 9214
Contact Information: George Ochieng Email: ochiengg@un.org
Project Location: Obalanga Subcounty Uganda
Area of Focus: Community Economic Development
Project Description: The project creates goat farms for communities in the Obalanga Sub-county. A household, through its farmer group, receives a goat that will create a number of goats for reproduction, milk, meat, and other products. The first offspring is then sent to another family for a similar cycle. Other offspring create the backbone of the family's goat farm. Effective and efficient breeding of the goats is achieved by providing a water source, shelters for the goats, and a livestock expert who provides training. A committee manages the facilities and the goat sharing. It also collects a user fee for maintaining the water source and common facilities.
The project:
- Generates income and creates employment opportunities.
- Provides the people of this area with access to quality goat meat in their diets and a market for their goat products.
- Creates breeding cells from which the farmers can get improved breeds of kids.
- Creates sites of observation for young entrepreneurs, especially girl children and youth who are still attending school.
- Provides accessible portable water to the communities
- garden and water their animals.
- Teaches local farmers how to use local materials to build goat sheds using materials provided by the project
Project Budget: $129,000 USD
Direct Beneficiaries: 500 Households through 70 Farmer Groups
Indirect Beneficiaries: 3000 members of family and community
Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities in San Jacinto Valley, CA
New Project – Global Grant TBD
Host Club Name and District: Hemet, CA USA, District 5330
Contact Information: Sonia Lamas Email: soniaq20@yahoo.com
Project Location: San Jacinto Valley, California USA
Area of Focus: Community Economic Development
Project Description:
The objective of this project is to develop and support entrepreneurs in low-income and underserved areas of the San Jacinto Valley. By closing the financial inclusion gap and nurturing entrepreneurship, the project will drive economic growth in the San Jacinto Valley. The result will be entrepreneurs who will enhance their living standards, create job opportunities and establish successful and sustainable businesses that contribute to the overall well-being of the community.
The project includes:
- Business Education provides entrepreneurs with the knowledge and plans needed to create a successful, sustainable business.
- Microloans ensure a reliable source of funds that are needed to create a successful and sustainable business.
- Mentors who advise and support the entrepreneur and help transition the business from plan to reality.
- Networking to create awareness and partnerships that help the business grow in current and new markets.
The project also includes outreach to inform the community about entrepreneurship opportunities and evaluation to tell the community the impact on entrepreneurs, families, and the economic health of the community itself.
The project expects to create 25 businesses with an average loan of $10,000. At the completion of the project, the revolving loan fund will continue to serve the community.
Project Budget: $175,000 USD
Direct Beneficiaries: 25 direct beneficiaries
Indirect Beneficiaries: 150 indirect beneficiaries plus a 9 to 1 return on investment to the benefit of the community
Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities in South Los Angeles
New Project – Global Grant 2350764
Host Club Name and District: Woodland Hills CA USA District 5280
Contact Information: Greg Abrams Email: gregabr@me.com
Project Location: South Los Angeles, California USA
Area of Focus: Community Economic Development
Project Description:
The objective of this project is to develop and support entrepreneurs in low-income and underserved areas of South Los Angeles. By closing the financial inclusion gap and nurturing entrepreneurship, the project will drive economic growth in South Los Angeles. The result will be entrepreneurs who will enhance their living standards, create job opportunities and establish successful and sustainable businesses that contribute to the overall well-being of the community.
The project includes:
- Business Education provides entrepreneurs with the knowledge and plans needed to create a successful, sustainable business.
- Microloans ensure a reliable source of funds that are needed to create a successful and sustainable business.
- Mentors who advise and support the entrepreneur and help transition the business from plan to reality.
- Networking to create awareness and partnerships that help the business grow in current and new markets.
The project also includes outreach to inform the community about entrepreneurship opportunities and evaluation to tell the community the impact on entrepreneurs, families, and the economic health of the community itself.
The project expects to create 25 businesses with an average loan of $10,000. At the completion of the project, the revolving loan fund will continue to serve the community.
Project Budget: $175,000 USD
Direct Beneficiaries: 25 direct beneficiaries
Indirect Beneficiaries: 150 indirect beneficiaries plus a 9 to 1 return on investment to the benefit of the community
SWEATERS/JACKETS FOR CHILDREN IN PERU
New Project, Host Club Name and District: Tulsa, Oklahoma USA District 6100
Contact Information: Pedro A. Figueroa Email: pefigdekb@gmail.com
Project Location: Peru
Area of Focus: Community Economic Development
Project Description: The objective of this project is to protect 4,400 students from cold weather during the school year to keep them attending school during the winter.
Winter temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere at elevated altitudes in the Andes Region can prevent young children from attending school. The project supports parents who cannot afford to keep their children at home and avoid them becoming ill because of the low temperatures and rain during wintertime. The project is sustainable because the parents themselves can take care of the jackets by washing and repairing any damages.
Project Budget: $33,000 USD
Direct Beneficiaries: 4,400 direct beneficiaries
Indirect Beneficiaries: Parents and family members who cannot keep their children at home
Better Life for Women & Girls in Egypt
Club Name: Rotary Club of Cairo Royal # 71618 - District 2451
Contact Information : Name: Nevine Badr El Din, PP. RC Cairo Royal - Club TRF Committee Chair-Email:nevinebadr@yahoo.com - Mobile Number: +201275019000.
Project Objectives: Empower Women & Girls Economically & Socially and provide them with financial and non-financial services with the aim of availing decent life and better future to them, especially for the marginalized groups.
Area of Focus: Economic & Community Development
Community Need: The project will be implemented in El Khanka district in Qaliobia Governorate in Greater Cairo. It is an area of 7 kilometers and contains around 70,000 people (more than 50% are women). It is considered one of the remote, poor areas in Egypt. It has an illiteracy rate of 29% for citizens above 15 years old. It is specialized in handicrafts, pesticide production, and food production.
Category: Planned Project
Direct and Indirect Beneficiaries: 200 ladies & girls between the age of 18-50 receiving loans to conduct Micro Finance projects during the 5 years project duration (revolving funds) will result in benefiting around 1000 indirect people as family members of the direct borrowers. in addition to availing products to the whole area's citizens.
Sustainability: The project will be monitored by the implementing agency partnering with RC Cairo Royal. And the women receiving the financial and training on how to conduct their projects will have a better living standard and will have the capacity to train other micro-entrepreneurs and recruit more people in their businesses. So the project will have an impact on job creation and human development.
Partners: Arab Women Association ( a very experienced Association that as a track record of conducting Economic and Community Development projects since 1987, also has a consultancy post with the UNDP Community Development Association. The Association will contribute by providing training on how to manage your project to the beneficiaries.
Budget ($USD): 50,000
Girls Empowerment Program in Nyamphande Chiefdom, Petauke District Eastern Province Zambia
New Project, Host Club Name, and District: Rotary Club of Maluba District 9210
Contact Information: Chanje Chilangwa Makayi Email: chanje40@gmail.com
Project Location: Petauke District, Eastern Province, Zambia.
Area of Focus: Economic and Community Development
Project Description:
The objective of this project is to equip secondary school learners with information on career choices and to reduce the underdevelopment of the community and the district at large because of the information gap in career choices that learners can make. Furthermore, through sex education the project will endeavor to reduce teenage pregnancies, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and increased school dropouts by female learners.
The project includes:
- Equip learners with improved career choices, entrepreneur skills, and personal development.
- Fostering the advancement of young girls and boys to make positive life choices and maximize their potential.
- Reduced unplanned pregnancies.
- Foster the participation of parents in the community, by including education on cultural change and understanding.
The project will include:
- Quarterly Careers workshops at primary and secondary schools in the chiefdom
- Monthly training on sex education in the primary and secondary schools
- Monitoring and evaluation exercises with parents and teachers on a monthly basis
The project expects to see an improvement of 25% in the number of girls graduating from secondary school and starting tertiary education within the province or within the country. Through the involvement of policymakers an improvement in some teaching materials and curricula.
Project Budget: $10,150.50 USD
Direct Beneficiaries: 200 Learners
Indirect Beneficiaries: 100 indirect beneficiaries
Completion of the Construction of the Computer and Science Lab at Muyooma Primary School, Lusaka Zambia
On Going Project
Host Club Name and District: Rotary Club of Maluba District 9210
Contact Information: Chanje Chilangwa Makayi Email: chanje40@gmail.com
Project Location: Chilenje Community, Lusaka Province, Zambia
Area of Focus: Basic education and Literacy
Project Brief: The completion of the construction and kit out of the Science and Computer 1*2 classroom block at Muyooma Basic School situated in Chilenje Community, Lusaka Zambia. The school caters to over 1000 learners from Primary grade 1 to junior secondary grade 9. The curriculum requires that learners are taught science and ICT practically but because the school does not have these facilities the school management is forced to improvise with the use of homemade science equipment and encourage the sharing of 20 obsolete computers among 500 students.
The project includes:
- Construction of a 2*1 classroom block that will house the science and computer labs.
- Improve ICT skills in the learners who in turn can use those skills to charge for program development etc
- Encourage the girl child to take a keen interest in science and improve the performance of learners in science-based subjects in senior secondary schools.
The project will include
- Completion of the Classroom Block
- Kit out of the Science and Computer labs
- Monitoring and evaluation through the PTA and School Management
The project expects to see an improvement of 10% over a 12-month period in the number of learners with improved results in science and computers. Sustainability of the ICT program at the school and its extension to the wider community at a fee to potential users.
Project Budget:
Construction: 50,000 USD
Kit out: 35,000 USD
Direct Beneficiaries: 500 Learners
Indirect Beneficiaries: 100 indirect beneficiaries
Rotary Children Community Recreation Park
On Going Project
Club Name: Rotary Club of Umuahia, Nigeria District 9142
Objectives:
1. Construct 1 Nos 6-compartment toilet to provide sanitation and
hygiene for the project
2. Construct a 1 Nos motorized borehole with a 4,000-liter overhead tank, limited reticulation connection to toilets, and to ultimately provide adequate water supply to the Adult and children pack, health center, and other components of the complex.
Areas of focus:
Water and sanitation
Economic and community development
Community need:
The Rotary Children's Community Recreation Park is a complex that is planned as an economically and environmentally viable project that will provide relaxation, health facilities, a hygienic environment, and economic value to the people of Okwuta Village Community and the Ehimiri Housing Estate with over 500 Households.
Direct and Indirect Beneficiaries:
Okwuta Community
Ehimiri Housing Estate Dwellers
Children in Umuahia City and Environment
Sustainability: It is expected that when the project takes off, gate fees, the token sale of water, etc. will provide income.
Partners: Rotary Club of Umuahia D9142 and You
Budget: $9,975.00 (Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred and Seventy-Five Dollars.)
Contact Information:
PP Chinedu Brown, Service Project Director
chinedu_brown@yahoo.com +2348033917456
The project is a multifaceted complex with Health Centre, Halls for meetings and Officers, and an Adult and Children's playground. There is presently no relaxation park for adults and children in the whole of Umuahia, the State Capital.
Four programs of microcredits for single mothers or with no income of emigrant and host mothers concentrated in four areas of underserved shanty towns in Lima Peru.
CLUB NAME: Rotary Club of Tulsa District 6100 Oklahoma, USA
CONTACT PERSON: PDG Pedro A. Figueroa Email: pefigdelb@gmail.com
OBJECTIVES:
1. Introduction to becoming an entrepreneur through education in business ethics and practices of basic business procedures, such as planning, business plan marketing, management, operations, finances, and accounting for small businesses.
AREAS OF FOCUS:
1.-Personal and Community Development.
COMMUNITY NEEDS:
1.-To provide for those lacking basic needs of products and services in the very poor communities and become Emigrants and Host heads of families and breadwinners.
CATEGORY:
1 Ongoing Project (Planning Stage)
DIRECT BENEFICIARIES: Single Mothers Emigrants and Host in an environment lacking males Fathers.
INDIRECT BENEFICIARIES:
The malnutrition of children, because of the lack of food, and the young girl’s sexual health by learning about sexual abuse and minimizing risks.
SUSTAINABILITY:
Monthly follow-up meetings with the Group to exchange experiences, would improve their operations and with the help of business Rotarians would achieve market growth. A similar experience under my leadership done in Caracas (Venezuela) with 1,700 Microloans for Single Mothers done during 7 years in 12 very low-income areas, produced these results.
PARTNERS:
Donation from my third largest Petroleum Client/ Rotary Clubs and Districts of Oklahoma and Texas, Rotary Clubs, Dist. 4455 of Lima Peru and looking for RAGCED participants.
THE TOTAL BUDGET for each program is estimated to be US $50.000 of which a donation from the Financier is $25.000, plus participation of USA$7,500 from the RC. Dist. of USA, plus $1.500 from RC and Dist. of Peru, and looking for USA $16.000 from you as a Global RC. Dist.
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Sowing Seeds
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