1. Project Name: Water and Sanitation
Budget: $17,000 Amt Raised $ 2,000 Balance: $15,000
Objective:
To help serve 2,300 community members with low cost but sustainable safe clean water wells and pit latrines: 15 new water wells; rehabilitating 17 old dilapidated and unsanitary wells; and the construction of 17 modern pit latrines. Priority areas will include community centers, such as local schools. In addition, the project will provide basic health hygiene and strengthening of community groups to enhance local ownership and care for the facilities.
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2. Project Name: Education
Budget: $25,000 Amt Raised $ 0 Balance: $ 25,000
Objective:
Two thirds of the children in rural Lundazi do not go to school. Families face the cruel choice of choosing boys over girls to attend community schools due to luck of money to buy basic school supplies. Yet, every child has the right to an education! This project will help enhance school enrollment for children and youths with particular focus on girls. It is expected that 520 children will be placed in basic school (primary school) with school supplies (uniforms/books/pencils and other indirect costs). The project will also improve the quality education by attracting qualified teachers to work in rural areas through improved accommodation (the project will rehabilitate 4 teachers houses).
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3. Project Name: HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment
Budget: $30,000 Amt Raised $ 0 Balance: $ 30,000
Objective:
One in every 5 adult is HIV+ and the life expectancy in Zambia has dropped drastically to 37 years. Food security in a predominantly subsistence farming area has been compromised as the death toll increases significantly targeting the 16-49 years old- leaving children, women and the aged to fend for themselves- In order to turn the tide against the AIDS epidemic, this project will offer a comprehensive AIDS awareness program targeting youths and women. HIV counseling and testing will be provided in collaboration with the local clinics-Information for access to Home Based Care for the terminally ill, will be available. HIV+ patients will be given information on how to travel to the nearby clinics to access ART-Particular focus will be made on the Prevention of Mothers to Child Transmission (PMTCT). This program is expected to help 300 patients to have access to treatment, 1,000 individuals will receive care and support (including orphans); and many more new infections will be prevented.
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4. Project Name: Livelihoods-(Agriculture/Micro Credit)
Budget: $45,000 Amt Raised $ 0 Balance: $ 45,000
Objective:
This project will help families recover from extreme poverty by helping them restore back their assets (animals and farm products) that they depended upon for food or income. The program will provide livestock and inputs to 220 local families to help them sustain their livelihoods. The project will also train local communities on savings-When people learn how to save-they can invest and sustain themselves in the future-The project will provide small loans to Local Saving Groups (LSC), These groups will comprise of 10 members (max) and five members (min).Each member group will lend money to one individual in the group who will return to the group with a small interest. In that way, people will be trained how to save money and at the same time, for those who receive the group savings, they can use the money also to start a small scale business to help them pay back and at the same time improve their livelihoods at home. The project will also provide training on environmental protection particularly on soil conservation (tree cutting) and alternate source of energy such as solar panels. It is anticipated that the project will entire 10 solar panels at a local clinic to reduce the use of wood for fire (cooking and heating).
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5. Project Name: Organizational Development
Budget: $45,000 Amt Raised $12,000 Balance: $ 33,000
Objective:
RFDP measures it’s success by the change it makes in the lives of communities in rural areas of Zambia .If we are able to visit and distribute school books and materials to help children go to school, that is success on our part. If we are able to help families restore their livelihood that is also success! We can only do what we have promised to do only if we have an effective and efficient organizational environment-The project desperately needs a reliable transportation-We need to purchase a new 4x4 vehicle to help us distribute inputs and resources to our projects deep in the rural areas. In addition, we need to hire full time staff to help us monitor the projects professionally and be accountable to our friends and donors-This project will hire a qualified accountant to help us account for every penny that you give us.
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