Project Report
| Sep 29, 2021
Updates: Peacebuilding and Livelihoods Project
By Arziki Sawa | Program Adviser
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Some project participants during a training
Dear all,
Thank you once again for your generous donations and support. Our psycho-social support and livelihoods trainings continue to take place. Some of the girls and women in this project were recently involved in a Peace Rally to mark the 2021 International Day of Peace.
Our tailoring and cattle rearing programs are ongoing. However, some of the tailoring graduates who have opened shops are finding it difficult to renew their rents partly due to initial COVID-19 restrictions and the poor economic climate. With your help, we will continue to help them to ensure that they are able to pay their shop rents and that their sources of livelihoods are not threatened.
As we prepare for the End of Year fundraising in December, it is important to mention that GlobalGiving will be giving out $1 million in matching funds and that all donations on GivingTuesday will be matched proportionally. All monthly donations of up to four months between the 13th and 17th of December will have the first month matched at 200 percent.
Thank you for your support always!
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Jun 1, 2021
Peacebuilding Project and Impact of COVID-19
By Theophilus Ekpon | Project Coordinator
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Some Project Recipients Monitoring Their Cattle
Many thanks for your support to this project and especially throughout the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Your kind donations have ensured that we are able to sustain and expand the project.
All aspects of the project for the girls and women who were victims of the Boko Haram violence continue to make progress. The on-going components of the project include trauma healing, tailoring, cattle rearing and mentorship. We have rented part of a new cattle ranch outside of Yola and have started empowering more girls and women with cattle at the new ranch.
During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, your support went to supporting project participants with sanitary and hygiene materials, including giving loans to pay for their shop rents and buying medicines for their cattle. However, the post-pandemic era has brought a new challenge of inflation, as buying new cattle, sewing machines and other project materials and services now cost between 30 and 60 percent more. Thank you to our monthly donors and we will be happy to get more donations to help us address the impact of inflation on the project.
Thank you all for your support always!
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Feb 2, 2021
Welcome to the New Year!
By Theophilus Ekpon | Project Coordinator
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Some project participants
Thank you for your kind support to this project that equips girls and women who are survivors of the activities of violent extremists in the North East of Nigeria with psycho-social support, tailoring and cattle rearing skills. We could not have come this far without you! We also want to thank those who have volunteered to reach out to their friends and families about supporting this project. We are indeed grateful.
As we navigate 2021, we have been able to reach 178 girls and women who are at various stages of this project over the last three years. Our intention is to reach 1000 girls and women in the first phase of this project. We will be reaching out to you about the various GlobalGiving fundraising activities that have been planned for this year.
GlobalGiving will be matching all donations of up to $50 at 50% during the Little by Little Campaign and the International Women's Week that will take place from the 8th to 12th of March, 2021. We are counting on your support to raise additional funds for this project.
Thank you for your support always!
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