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We will be writing proposals to web hosting companies asking if they are able to donate hosting space for our newest ASSASS-Burundi project - a video/music site where people around the world can purchase music and videos MADE IN BURUNDI by the local representative and his friends.
If you have some time to spare, we will need someone to search on the web for hosting companies that might want to donate web space to our organizations project. The web host would have to have the capacity to host things like videos and music so a fair amount of space would be needed.
Please help us out and get involved with ASSASS-Burundi!
Thanks in advance!
In order to raise money for ASSASS-Burundi projects, and to help create a more connected world, the LR Jean-Claude and his partners in Burundi are working on music, videos, e-cards, etc that will be available for purchase (downloads) online. Jean-Claude has already begun to create a collection of music and videos made by him and his friends, in Burundi, to share with the world and help show people another side to Burundi.
In order to sell these songs, etc online, we need a website. And to have a website, we need to have web hosting. Because ASSASS-Burundi is a non-profit organization, we are hoping to find a web hoster who might donate the space to our cause. What we are looking for is someone, or a group of people, to write proposals that can be submitted to a web hosting company, with the hope that they might donate the web space to us.
If you are interested in working on this task, please let us know so we can provide you with the necessary information.
Thanks in advance!
We are looking for somebody with web designing skills asap. We would like the neighbor to take the responsibility for this task and see it through completion
There are many programs around the world that offer various forms of school feeding programs. We already have some basis on what a program should look like, but require more specific information on how successful food programs in Uganda are being operated.
We need help researching organizations that offer school feeding programs specifically in Uganda. We would like to learn more about the following:
The costs associated of running a program in Uganda
Types of food they offer
Successes and lessons they may have to offer
If they can collaborate with KSP to offer school feeding programs in Kyomya
A medical training program for orphans was started 2-years ago. Bramuel presented this idea to the hospital board members and they sat together to try and determine an appropriate budget to start the program. They found that they would not be able to realistically manage it if they took too many students, so they decided to start with 3 with the requirement that the student must be orphaned-without both parents.
In 2007, they began recruiting for this program and were able to find 3 students, who graduated and are now working in local hospitals at Patient Assistants. In 2008, they recruited another 3 students. These students will finish their studies on January 30, 2009.
Through this experience, they have found that the cost per student is $15/mo. This covers their education materials, breakfast and lunch. In 2009, they were hoping to have enough funds to recruit 10 students, but unfortunately they do not have enough money to support that. They recently accepted new applications for a new class and received over 40 applicants. They know there is much interest in the local community based on this response. Unfortunately due to lack of funding, they will only be able to accept 3 students again this year. After finishing the course, they provide follow-up with them until they gain FT employment.
The hospital would love to make this a more sustainable program and are interested in obtaining ideas on how to do that. They are looking for organizations that may be able to provide funding, or sponsors willing to donate $15/mo. for 1-year so that they could then increase the number of students. Micro-finance has also been considered as a possible option.
For this task we are looking for suggestions as to how this might be restructured in a way that would allow for the costs to be covered so that the program can be expanded.
The school has a feeding program in place for the children. The community helps with some of the donated goods, but we need to find a way for the feeding program to function on its own. Help brainstorm ways to get donations and support for the long term.
Task:
ASSASS-Burundi is non-profit organization operating in Burundi to help alleviate poverty and provide opportunities for people suffering from social injustices.
We are looking for a qualified website designer and developer who can help build a website that can adequately host the upload and sale of songs, videos and e-cards. With the assistance of ASSASS-Burundi staff, the volunteer would need to create all content for the website, upload videos and music, and establish a method for sales and downloads of our products.
Background Information:
Some of our projects include a community health and development centre, a training centre for higher learning, and a school for orphan's and vulnerable children. In order to fund these projects, the staff of ASSASS-Burundi and their friends have developed the idea to host a website which sells music produced in Burundi, as well as other e-products like e-cards and videos. All sales made on this website will go directly to ASSASS-Burundi projects.
Objective:
Your contribution will enable us to fund projects that will better the communities in Burundi most affected by social injustices, as well as creating a global sense of community. The website will help connect the world to Burundi, and showcase the talents of the people living in Burundi.
Requirements:
- experience in web design and development
- experience in creating online payment systems
- able to design a simple, yet effective website
- ability to upload videos and songs for download
- ability to create online e-card sales/distribution
Areas of Expertise: web design/development
Language: English, French and asset
Hours per week: 5-10
Duration in weeks: 12
(This task will also be posted on the UN Volunteers website. The task can be done by one person, or a group of people who work together.)
HOPE Children's Foundation Africa currently has a basic, free website at http://hcfa.weebly.com/index.html but we are hoping to expand the site and have our own domain name. In addition to providing information about our organization, some of the goals for the website are:
- to accept online donations
- to provide free ecards for visitors to send
- to generate income via affiliate program links.
Any other suggestions for the site are welcomed and we can discuss specific content once we have a volunteer designer.
If you can help with this task, we would love to hear from you!
Cathy.
GUILDANCE MICROFINANCE
Guildance Community Development Foundation need the assistant of volunteers/neighbour to write proposal,research donor,link us to NGO in Canada,USA,UK etc that is interested in funding microfinance.This will also include website design
OBJECTIVE;
• To tackle poverty which had been the bane of development of our people by creating an institution that will assist in improving their income generation, promote their understanding of social problem and ultimately enhance the quality of their living standards.
• To nurture, encourage, and support local level investments in income and employment generating activities.
• To empower the people that our organization had already trained in various vocations to enable them practice the new acquired skills at a sustainable level.
• To put in place a pay back mechanism for every loan given to beneficiaries such that the microfinance bank will be self sustaining in maximum of 3 years.
• To create product and services that will be used to drive deposit and create credit for the sustainability of the microfinance bank.
• To embark on capacity building that will give the beneficiaries of our services the needed managerial and entrepreneurship skill that will make the assistance gotten a life lasting one.
• To obtain a license to operate a micro finance bank which will serve as vehicle/organization to drive and actualize the above objectives.
EXPLANATION OF OUR OBJECTIVES
POVERTY ALLEVIATION: Over the years the Government of Nigeria had embarked on series of policy and institutional reforms aimed at enhancing the flow of finance from the Banking system to small and medium scale industries as well as those that engaged in petty businesses (micro) activities. The convectional Banks perceive micro activities as bad risk; hence the very low of funding to the sector couple with the issues of high cost of fund and the short tenure nature of those funds. Since robust economic growth cannot be achieved without putting in place well focused programs to reduce poverty through empowering the people by increasing their access to credit, the government through the central bank of Nigeria CBN as part of its reform agenda embarked on the micro finance bank aimed at providing financial services to the poor who are not served by the conventional financial institution.
In the past, Nigeria Government has initiated series of micro/ rural programs targeted at the poor with the overriding objective of making credit readily available to those who were traditionally denied access to credit. Such credit was used for the development of small and medium industries which is the springboard for sustainable development in all emerging economies like Nigeria. The government has shown a great concern for the development of SMIs because of the underlying socio economic factors plaguing the nation. Some of the reasons include the past policies failed to generate efficient self sustaining impetus needed to uplift the country to the take-off stage of growth, the increased emphasis on self reliant approach to the development and the recognition that dynamic and growing petty business can contribute substantially to a wide range of developmental objectives. However the full potential of the micro business in the developmental process have not been realized owing to numerous bottlenecks. In the light of this, the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN as part of its reform agenda. Initiated micro finance Banks, a policy initiative aimed at bringing credit to the door step of those that do not have such access under the conventional financial system. The thrust of this paper is to articulate the prospects of the micro finance bank towards boosting the performance of the micro business thereby reducing the level of poverty and enhancing employment generation.
MICRO FINANCE
There are several definitions of the concept of micro finance. It is about providing financial services to the active poor who are traditionally not served by the convectional financial institutions. It is the provision of very small loans (micro credit) to the poor, to help them engage in new productive business activities. It includes a broader range of services mainly credit, savings, insurance, money transfers, loans, and other financial products targeted at the poor.
Micro- financing is not a new phenomenon in the Nigerian society as evidenced by cultural economic activities such as “Esusu” Ajo” ADASHI” “OTATAJE” which were practiced to provide funds for producers in our rural communities. The effort of government in Nigeria is to monetize micro financing in our rural and urban communities to improve the productive capacity of the rural and urban poor, enhance their economic standing which alleviates the level of poverty and aggregated to improve development of the national economy.
MICRO CREDIT
Micro credit refers to small loans made to low income individuals to sustain self employment or to start up very small businesses. Although there is no standard definition of micro credit, in practice such loans are quite small amounting to a few thousand of Naira. Simply put micro finance is the provision of very small loan to the poor to help them engage in new productive business activities or expand or strengthens existing ones.
SMALL AND MEDIUM INDUSTRIES SMI
The concept of SMIs is relative and dynamic. The definitions changes over a period of time and depend largely on a country’s level of development prior to 1992. Different government agencies in Nigeria such as the Centre Bank of Nigeria, The Nigerian Bank for Commerce and Industry, the Centre for Industrial Research and Development (CIRD) and the National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND) adopted various definitions of SMIs probably due to difference in policy focus.
However in 1996, the National Council of Industries streamlined the various definitions in order to remove ambiguities and agreed to revise them every four years. Small scale enterprises were defined as those with Fixed assets above N1m but not exceeding N10m excluding land but including working capital while Medium Scale Enterprises are those with Fixed asset excluding land but including working capital of over N10m but not exceeding N40m. the definition were revised in 1996 with small scale industry defined as those with total cost, including working capital but excluding cost of land above N1m but not exceeding N40m with a labour size of between 36 and 100 workers.
CBN MICROFINANCE POLICY
The Central Bank of Nigeria has put in place the following strategic measure to license and regulate the establishment of micro finance banks as well as promoting the establishment of NGO based micro finance institutions. In fact a lot of funds by many NGO channeled towards micro finance were undocumented. Under the current dispensation, the bank has put in place a well coordinated policy meant for NGOs which will equally have a great impact on micro activities. The state and local Governments will be encouraged to participate in micro finance industry by engaging them to devote at least one percent of their annual budgets to micro credit initiatives which would be micro banks. The regulatory institutions for the micro finance banks would be strengthened and a campaign for transparency, professionalism and good governance would be pursued with vigor. Financially, domestic savings would be adequately mobilized while the capital base of the existing microfinance institutions would be followed up by continuous training of the regulators, operators and the beneficiaries from the policy.
CHARACTERISTICS OF MICRO BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
Micro finance as a concept is on economic development approach intended to benefit low income women and men. The term refers to the provision of financial services to low income clients, including the self employed. Financial services generally include savings and credits; however, some microfinance organizations also provide insurance and payment services. In addition to financial intermediation many MFIs provide social intermediation services such as group formation, development of self confidence and training in financial literacy and management capabilities among members of a group. Hence the definition of microfinance often includes both financial intermediation and social intermediation.
Microfinance is not simply banking, it is a development tool.
Microfinance activities usually involves
• Small loans typically for working capital
• Informal appraisal of business and investment
• Collateral substitutes such as group guarantees or compulsory savings
• Access to repeat and larger loans, based on repayment performance
• Streamline loan disbursement and monitoring
• Secure savings
• Enterprises development services such as skill training and marketing and social services.
Microfinance clients are typically self employed, low income entrepreneurs in both urban and rural areas. Clients are often traders, street vendors, small farmers, service providers such as Hairdressers, drivers, Rose plantains sellers and artisans and small producers such as blacksmith and welders. Usually their activities provide a stable source of income (Often from more than one activity)
The poor are bankable, as they can save, invest repay loans and have need for insurance services. The challenge of micro finance is not repayment of loan given to the poor; the poor have integrity and must meet some stipulated conditions before draw down. The challenge is actually generation of enough deposit to meet the rate of loan request due to the level of poverty in the country. Our experience as explained below would testify to our claim that with more fund at our disposal we surely make a lot of people cross the Rubicon of poverty.
EFFECT OF OUR EXPERIENCE IN OUR NGO (GUILDANCE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION)
We have injected lives to many people in Nigeria through microcredit,skill acquisition,managerial skill and entrepreneurship development programme.Guildance Community Development Foundation had trained 1,310 entreptreneurs,loan 90 traders (micro credit) and collection of voluntary daily contribution from 225 as at the time of writing.
Help to develope a complete webpage for SACDS. Please help in following task.
1. Website design
2. Change SACDS logo in colorful logo
3. Wesite content writer
4. Web editor
6. Research for charity web host
Hallo members I'm designing a website for my village using web 2.0 technology in webnode. I will like members to see and comment on it so that I can come up with a good website for my village. Feel free to share with us.
Please visit the web page http://walemavu.webnode.com
Create a website (using the free web editing software weebly.com) that not only offers important information about BBSM, but also builds communication and connection between those of us in BBSM and those living elsewhere.
The information needed on the site (http://benando.weebly.com/) is: our goal, missions, and objectives, and expressing need for sponsorship both financially, as well as through other efforts.
We endeavor to write regular blog posts in the community blog page of the site. We would like to find possible links to other similar sites or blogs.
We still need to register a PayPal account and figure out how to implement it into our website.
Kisozi needs volunteers to come to Kisozi and help build and renovate the school, organise activities and help out with health programs. The question is, where do we find those volunteers? Are there organizations that can help us? How can we apply to organizations for volunteers to support us? Anyone that has ideas or useful links or experience with this, please let us know.
Also, read the news page: http://www.nabuur.com/en/village/kisozi/news
So volunteers are needed for these tasks:
* building and renovating the school
* organising activities for the schoolchildren
* helping out with health programs (sexual health programs) and
educating the school children
We want to explore two things:
* What are the possibilities for this in the area of Kisozi/in
Uganda? Are there neighbours in Uganda who can help or have
connections or ideas?
* What are the possibilities for this through organizations world
wide? Have you got idea or tips or can you tell us about your
experiences with organizations? Which things are important when
working with organizations outside Uganda?
Set up school projects with schools inside of Kenya and in other countries as well (http://songcircle.ning.com/).
We are presently working on setting up collaborative school projects with schools in Germany, Canada, and USA. We will next look at finding partner schools locally, in Nairobi, and nationally. To do this we are making efforts to contact other projects in Nabuur, as well as the Roots and Shoots community.
The projects will be an exchange involving topics of syllabus education, HIV/Aids programs, and health and nutrition. The goal is for these projects to improve our school syllabus, help the children to experience globalisation in a constructive and creative form, and help support our teachers to be able to teach better.
Materials and work efforts needed:
- Communication with other projects in Nabuur and Shoots and Roots platform.
- Help from any other Nabuur member to establish contact with schools in other countries or in Kenya.
- Concrete suggestions about what sort of topics we can explore, how to do this, and links to online information or worksheets we could use in our schools.
- We have been sent a digital camera and a mp3 player that can record audio.
Poverty has enhanced illiteracy in Manyatta slums where there is very high population with low income earners. Many guardians resort to, addicts of illicit brews, a very common business in the area.
Their are very bright children but they cannot go to school due to either complete schoool uniform or inability to pay tuition fee.
YGC admits all Orphans and Vulnerable children with or without uniform.The challenge now is how to maintain the staffs. If we get neighbors who can pay tution fee for this bright and needy children..we are sure the staff will be able to get pay.
Education In Progress;
Need Neighbours who can help find solution to;
Inadequate Supplies.
tuition fee for need children in Nursery - 5USD per child @month, Primary - 10USD per Month, this will help sustain running of the school.
Pay staff.
and High school students. Others are;
Feeding Program - 5 USD per day per child.
DREAM (Directing through Recreation, Education, Adventure and Mentoring) is a unique organization that partners college students with children living in Vermont’s affordable housing neighborhoods. We achieve our mission of empowering children and neighborhoods by blending best practices from mentoring and community development models. Mentors and their mentees take part in weekly trips to college campuses, adventures around the country, and summer and winter visits to Camp DREAM – our residential camp.
SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITIES
DREAM’s Local Programs (groups of college students mentoring children from an affordable housing community) are the heart of the organization. The primary responsibility of Program Empowerment Directors is to ensure that mentors have the necessary resources, training, and support to run an amazing mentoring program and empower children to DREAM big. Program Empowerment Directors spread contagious energy, model empowerment, and assist with action planning in a number of venues such as mentor meetings on college campuses, adventure trips around the Northeast, and outdoor skill building in the woods at Camp DREAM.
Program Empowerment Directors drive DREAM’s mission, backed by a nine person Support Team. In addition to mentor support, each Program Empowerment Director will collaborate with Support Team members to implement projects that provide programming and improve our resources for children, families, and mentors.
THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT WILL POSSES
o A Bachelor's degree.
o Significant experience working with youth and college students.
o Significant work experience in one or more of the following areas: community development, outdoor recreation, youth/student led initiatives, group travel planning, camp programming, or other project/program design and implementation.
o Exceptional communication and facilitation skills.
o Computer proficiency – comfortable with Microsoft Office Programs and email communication.
o Flexible schedule – able to attend Camp sessions, overnights, trips, and night meetings.
o An outlook that remains steadfastly optimistic in times of rapid change.
o Creativity, energy, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
o A contagious energy for DREAM’s work.
- $11,400 living stipend
- $4,725 educational award
- Health care coverage
- Weekly bus pass
- Reimbursements for work-related travel
- Incredible, life-changing experiences!
For a full Position Description, please check out our website at www.dreamprogram.org
We would appreciate a volunteer that have the ability to draw up good community Economic policies for these young people, experienced in community base programs and work closely in ensuring the program meets the required goals.
The total budgetary cost for the program is US$6,328.00 for implementation.
more details on the proposal will be given when contacted.
Join SPEAK today and lets make our global community a better place for our kids.
Please consider joining The Friends of the World Food Program. The Friends of the World Food Program works to support the World Food Program through education, advocacy and fundraising in the United States. The World Food Program (WFP) is the largest humanitarian effort in the world. A program of the United Nations, the World Food Program is the only program administered by the UN that does not receive monetary support from it, and that is why we need your help!
The Friends of the World Food Program is working to build awareness of global hunger issues, and our California contingent is looking for leaders to help with this campaign. In addition to fighting global hunger, you will gain valuable skills that you will continue to build upon!