2019 PROJECTS

  1. Angola – Literacy program for women

  2. Cameroon – Agricultural school for young adults and their parents 

  3. D.R. Congo – Forfait Mama

  4. D.R. Congo – Nursing Scholarship for 10 nursing students

  5. D.R. Congo – Lodja education of school children

  6. Ivory Coast (Bingerville) – Entrepreneurship classes for women

  7. Uganda – Mushroom and pumpkin business for women

ANGOLA

LITERACY AND JOB TRAINING FOR WOMEN

Local Partner: Archdiocese of Saurimo/Promaica

Recipients: 120 women age 15 and older

Harambee Contribution:  €8,200

The Archdiocese of Saurimo/Promaica is located in the province of Lunda Sul, where many women of all ages are illiterate and unemployed. As a result, their contribution to their families’ income and to the local economy is very low. This literacy and job training program tackles both of these problems at their core to make life-changing differences in the lives of the participants.

Activity

Literacy education and technical training in cooking and sewing, enabling women to start successful micro-businesses.

CAMEROON

Local Partner: National Coordination of Agricultural Families of Cameroon (CNEFAC)

Recipients: 50 parents of students enrolled in CNEFAC’s modular courses

Harambee’s contribution: €7,000

Local family-owned farms need to be ready to respond effectively to food supply emergencies. Since 2004, CNEFAC has offered comprehensive agricultural vocational training to young people and their parents in parallel. The strategy, carried out through Ecoles Familiales Agricoles (agricultural family schools), helps to ensure that family farms are run more efficiently.

Activity

Provide agricultural and pastoral training courses to both young people and their parents in collaboration with CNEFAC.

Democratic Republic of CONGO

MATERNITY AND NEO-NATAL CARE 

Local Partner: Monkole Hospital and CECFOR 

Recipients: 400 pregnant women and their babies

Harambee Contribution: €52,500

In a country where mothers are routinely subject to Monkole Hospital, based in Kinshasa, offers hope by providing mothers with life-saving care “Forfait Mama” packages that cover pregnancy through birth. Each package includes ultrasounds, lab tests, medicines, delivery (including C-section), preventive anti-malaria treatment and check-ups for both mother and newborn. Maternity patients are charged only 5 euros, with the rest of the cost subsidized by the hospital. 

Activity

Improve the life expectancy of pregnant mothers and newborns in a country there is virtually no pre-natal care and high childbirth mortality.

Democratic Republic of CONGO

NURSING SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

Local Partner: Monkole Hospital 

Recipients: 10 nursing students

Harambee’s Contribution: $56,000 over 4 years

Harambee USA Foundation Nursing Scholarship Program helps subsidize the four-year Bachelor’s degree education of at least 10 nursing students at Institut Supérieur en Science Infirmières (ISSI), Monkole Hospital, based in Kinshasa. The program enables carefully selected students to become full-fledged nurses trained to deliver high-quality professional care in a country where per capital healthcare spending is $24.

Activity

Underwrite 75% of the four-year tuition of aspiring nurses, beginning in the 2018 academic year, with the students contributing 25% to show their commitment. 

Democratic Republic of Congo

VILLAGE SCHOOL FOR IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN

Local partner: Association Filles de Saint Joseph

Recipients: 100 children 7 to 9 years old

Harambee contribution: €15,000

Filles de Saint Joseph is a non-profit association that strives to help others through medical, educational, social and pastoral care. The region of Lodja in DR Congo has a large number of children who have no hope of attending school because the schools’ high fees and inadequate provisioning do not justify the crushing expense for economically disadvantaged families.

Activity

Construction of a small village elementary school in a village that will provide even the poorest children with access to education.

IVORY COAST

LITERACY AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Local Partner: Association for Social and Cultural Development (ADESC)

Recipients: 80 women

Harambee contribution: €15,000

ADESC, founded in 1984, promotes initiatives to help improve the standard of living in its native Ivory Coast. Early maternity, agricultural work and housework prevent many girls from being educated. The Ilomba multi-functional center and clinic in the province of Bingerville develops literacy and vocational training programs to help women in 15 villages surrounding Ilomba to escape from extreme poverty by helping them start informal businesses.

Activity

Literacy courses and basic vocational training for the creation of small businesses, and advanced vocational training to strengthen women’s self-employment opportunities.

UGANDA

AGRICULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Local Partner: Lwannda Community Development Initiatives (LCDI)

Recipients: 400 women

Harambee contribution: €6,600

LCDI aims to improve women’s livelihoods by training them in growing mushrooms and pumpkins, two crops with ready markets in Uganda and strong export possibilities. The comprehensive training touches every point along the supply chain by emphasizing modern techniques for cultivating, harvesting, drying, conducting quality control, packaging and marketing the crops.

Activity

Two-week courses conducted by two teacher at the LCDI training center, where women learn best practices in supplying high-demand crops for local consumption and export.