Art From Our Hearts 2007

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Art From Our Hearts 2007

In 2007, proceeds from the sale of our art helped support a community development project in Nepal through Heifer International and a new group of entrepreneurs in Nansana, Uganda through KIVA.

 

 


 

Katooke III Group, Nansana Uganda

This project is sponsored through KIVA

Jesca is 33 years old and divorced with four children. She sells hardware equipment. With the extra business profits, she intends to pay school fees for the children and provide other necessities for them. Faith owns a restaurant and wants to use the loan to purchase more furniture. Justine has a brick laying business. Agnes is a poultry farmer while Rose sells used clothes.

This is a group loan. The loan funds will be distributed among the group members, each of whom will invest in her own business. The members mutually guarantee one another's loans. If one member does not repay, the other members are responsible.

Nepal - Sustainable Community Development Project

 This project is sponsored through Heifer International.

 This project will assist a total of 1385 families in the Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Palpa Districts of Nepal, which are characterized by widespread poverty, caste discrimination, and illiteracy, among other problems. The 475 original project families will receive 900 meat goats, 40 water buffaloes and fodder seed/saplings, while their respective local groups will receive funding to purchase fruit and vegetable seed/saplings. An additional 910 families will benefit though passing on the gift. All project participants will receive trainings on Heifer's 12 Cornerstones, self-help group management, improved animal management, kitchen gardening and organic farming, forage feed production, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS awareness. The project will also conduct Values-Based Literacy Program (VBLP) classes at 11 centers and organize youths into 17 groups for Cornerstones training. Heifer will also train Village Animal Health Workers (VAHW) and provide basic veterinary equipment and vet supplies. Exchange visits will be organized for project participants to learn from other Heifer project sites.The overall goal of this project is to improve nutrition of at least 1,800 children in Buyamba Parish through milk consumption at least once a day. Some 160 families will benefit directly from the project over three years. Eighty families will each receive 80 exotic milk goat nannies, and another 80 families will receive 80 pass-on offspring. The goats will help improve livelihoods in these communities through sales of early maturing goat offspring which will generate significant family income. Goat manure will be used to fertilize crops and improve productivity.