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Project Snapshot

• Lives affected: 300

• Project cost: $13,500

• Dollars raised: $793

• Dollars needed: $12,707

Project Description:

This project will empower women through the improvement of their living standards. This is expected to impact not only their own lives, but the lives of their immediate family as well.

The intention is to provide beneficiary women with micro-credit aimed at helping them get into farming of groundnuts. This will hopefully provide the beneficiaries with economic empowerment that will lead to well-balanced meals for their families, improved health care, and provision of basic needs for both themselves and their children. The project will be for an initial three-year period.

Participants will be taught the best practices in groundnut cultivation for high yields. They will also receive training on how to undertake some simple value-added processing activities using the groundnuts they produce. In the first year, each of the 100 beneficiaries will be given the micro-credit facility to enable her to cultivate one acre of groundnuts.

In the second year, the first group of women will be given training in groundnut oil and groundnut cake production while a new group of 100 women will be selected to benefit from the micro-credit facility. In all this, women will also gain some training on how to effectively manage their resources for maximum benefit. This is necessary since resources are always limited.

What you can do

Follow this project on the UEnd.org website and if you feel like this is something you’d like to donate too, please do. Or if you have a special occasion coming up like a family member’s or friend’s birthday, send them a UEnd gift card for this project.