Projects in Year 2023
Realization of an orchard for the benefit of a cooperative group of 20 mother daughters, most of whom were abandoned by their family or by the father of their children. This orchard will focus on planting bananas, and secondarily tomatoes and watermelons will be grown. The project includes the drilling of a
well for irrigation of plantations. The sustainability of the project will be ensured by a management Administrative Body for the maintenance of the drilling and the management of the production and marketing. It is the opinion of the Administrative Body that only the drilling and the well can be financed; COSAD will assume the other costs necessary for the completion of the project in its entirety.
Benin
This involves the installation of solar panels on the roof of a health centre. This will allow doctors and nurses to work at night but also to power a refrigerator for vaccines, avoiding the use of expensive and polluting diesel generators. The lack of electricity has resulted in several overnight fatalities. The technicians who will install these panels will train management committee members.
Cameroon
Financing solar panels and wooden furniture for an elementary school caring for 150 orphaned and displaced children. The solar panels will also be used to run a pump for a well.
Ghana
It is about financing the drilling of a well for the benefit of a rural community. According to hydrological research, the hand pump (for lack of electricity) will provide drinking water and irrigate vegetable gardens and water livestock. This project will also help eliminate diseases caused by poor water quality.
Ghana
The request concerns financing the processing of agricultural products like rice, shea nuts and peanuts. The project will benefit 40 very poor women farmers. A cooperative will be created for its management.
Kenya
The idea is to finance the construction of two kindergarten classes to replace mud-walled classes that are unhealthy for children. The beneficiaries are the children of small farmers who make a living from farming for their consumption with little extra in order to obtain income from the sale of their products. The organizer will use local workers and materials. In addition, this project will facilitate the work of mothers.
Kenya
Imani Belgium has applied for funding for a sewing course to produce school uniforms for families whose children attend six local schools. This would involve training 40 interns per year among teenage mothers, girls who have dropped out of school and other vulnerable young women. At the end of the training, which would also include internships in companies, government certificates would be issued. It is planned to continue this training beyond the first year.
Malawi
Sewing and embroidery training, livestock breeding, and business skills will be developed. The beneficiaries are 40 young single mothers who have suffered violence or early marriage. They will be divided as follows: 10 for sewing and embroidery, 10 for livestock and 20 for business skills.
Senegal
In order to improve vegetable production, the restoration of a source with a solar pump to have drinking water and irrigate the land is necessary. Each family in the village will receive 5 trees to fight desertification in this region near the Sahel. A nursery will also be created.
Senegal
A toilet block for an elementary school of 150 students will be built. This block of 8 toilets (4 for boys and 4 for girls) including two with an access ramp for less mobile students will replace the existing block which is in a very poor condition. The block will be powered by a solar pump.
Tanzania
The demand is for a kindergarten and primary school in a region where there are many single-parent families and orphans. The idea is to finance the deeper drilling of the well that supplies this school with toilets, kitchens and vegetable gardens. The current well has dried up and water should be sought at a
deeper depth, according to a study. A solar pump will complete the well.
Togo
The application concerns the construction of a building that would consist of three classes, an office for the director and a room for teachers, in an elementary school. This is to replace the huts or slums currently used. This building would also raise parents’ awareness of children’s education.
Uganda
Equipment in tables, desks and chairs, as well as a solar installation and devices to collect rainwater are requested.
Projects in Year 2022
ASEP requested funding to dig a well and construct a water tower to avoid long trips during dry periods and fight against water diseases that have even caused deaths of children and pregnant women. Maintenance would be provided by a small fee at each water intake. A management committee set up with a representative of local authorities, two women and one ASEP member.
Benin
The project concerns the construction of a unit for processing cassava into gari (flour) for a group of 48 vulnerable women. The project will indirectly benefit approximately 245 family members as well as cassava producers. The processing unit will include a workshop, a storage store and processing equipment. This will multiply production by 5. The raw material is available, and a market exists for marketing. A management committee will ensure the management and the equipment’s maintenance.
Cameroon
The NGO N-CARE (Nature-Care) has asked to fund its project to develop cranberry culture for 448 women who have returned to their home communities after having to flee armed conflicts. The development of this crop, which is expected to increase production by 50%, will be based on training for production and marketing, particularly in workshops and demonstration farms, as well as monitoring every three months. There are also plans to include vegetables in the value chain.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
This is the third part of a three-year project. The first was construction of an orphanage and was completed in 2020; the second funded the equipment, furniture and energy and was successfully completed in 2021. This project aimed at improving children’s nutrition and health by creating fish farming which involved the digging of 6 ponds, the supply of water and the acquisition of a freezer for harvested fish.
Ghana
The UPCO NGO received funds to finance the supply of furniture and educational materials for a school in a slum in Accra. These are tables and chairs for students and teachers.
Kenya
The NGO MCESO (Murera Community Empowerment and Support Organization) was seeking funding to provide school benches to primary schools in three villages. Currently students are forced to sit at 4 or 6 per desk, making attention, reading, and writing difficult. These costs, although reasonable, are not covered by the government.
Kenya
The Kenyan Riley Orton Foundation (ROF) has asked to fund the installation of a solar pump for a well that has already been drilled and its water quality has been verified. This project will benefit 50 school students and community members and their families. A management committee will be set up to ensure the maintenance, by collecting a fee.
Madagascar
The French NGO ESF (Electriciens sans Frontières) wanted to launch in Madagascar a solar electrification program for 6 schools and 2 health centers, divided into three villages without electricity. The beneficiaries would be 1722 children for primary schools, colleges, and high schools and 19,980 inhabitants for health centers. The total budget amounted to about 135,000 EUR plus about 60,000 for a part of the equipment (valorization of donations from French companies). We contributed to the program for the electrification of two health centres.
This project has been co-financed by Solar Solidarity International asbl
Tanzania
The A Joy school was set up by a group of teachers and registered in 2017. It currently provides care and education for about 150 children a year. The school has 6 classrooms, a kitchen and a vegetable garden, toilets and a borehole. Due to an initial lack of funding the current toilet block has only a hard board separation between the boys and girls side, not offering sufficient privacy for the girls. The school is requesting funding for a second toilet block (4 cabins) with a small changing room for the (older) girls and for a permanent hand washing station where 10 to 15 children can wash their hands at once.
Tanzania
The NGO BIDII (Benevolent Institute of Development Initiatives in Tanzania) has requested funding to set a pig farming in help of 80 women (including widows and very young mothers). Each woman will receive one female and return 2 pigs to the NGO to allow the extension of the project to new beneficiaries. After training, the NGO will provide veterinary treatment. Different marketing strategies have been planned in the face of increasing demand.
Tanzania
Mokonona Secondary School has asked to finance the digging of a well to provide water access to the 1,800 students attending the school and coming from 8 villages. The nearest spring is about 6 km from the school and the water is not safe. A geological survey has been conducted and following its positive conclusion, the well has been drilled. The project has been cofounded by Tanzanian Development Trust
which supported the cost of the solar pump, the sink, and the reservoir.
Togo
The Togolese association PERJAT (PERma-jardins du Togo) has asked to finance a project of market gardening in permaculture to give food security and income-generating activity to 50 women in difficult situations (widows, abandoned or mothers-daughters). This project will also benefit their children (300). This activity is expected to triple their monthly income. The funding requested is mainly for a water-efficient irrigation system. This activity will also reduce deforestation, as these women mainly live from the manufacture of charcoal.
This project has been co-funded by the Association Femmes d’Europe asbl
Togo
NGO PRODIDA-PROISDA asked to finance the drinking water equipment of a village to improve the sanitary situation and avoid long distances on foot to obtain drinking water. The well will be equipped with an electric pump because of the great depth of the water table. The maintenance will be financed by contributions from recipient households. It was the Committee’s view that water’s conditions should be assured before financing the pump and generator. The project has been paid in two instalments: 1) drilling to verify the water condition and 2) pump and generator.
Uganda
The project involves water and sanitation improvements to a primary school in Kasugu community. It is planned to last 12 months and includes the construction of a borehole to provide the school and the community with adequate and clean water, a 5-stance VIP-pit latrine at the primary school, construct 2 multiple hand-washing stations, facilitate the formation of a school WASH club, water user committee and promotion among both the community and school population to adopt good hygiene practices in order to address the sanitation and health problems.
Uganda
The Ugandan NGO SRCDO (Snow Rural Community Development Organisation) has requested funding to improve maize production, making better use of production technologies and employing an improved variety of maize. The project will cover 200 local farmers in 20 groups of 10 in two villages. It will also create 20 demonstration gardens for training that will also focus on commercialization. The income of the beneficiaries could increase by up to 83%.
Uganda
YAWE foundation is dedicated to helping and working to empower the HIV positive youth and which has suffered the worst experiences of HIV/AIDS related stigma and discrimination right from their families of origin.
The project for which they are seeking support is to equip Welding and Carpentry Training Workshops at the Centre for Vocational Skills and train some twenty students annually. YAWE also participates in identifying potential employers and recommending graduates to them.
Uganda
The NGO MUWADA (Muwange Development Association) has requested funding for an infrastructure to store water from a source and provide access points with taps using pipes. This NGO was founded by academics who wanted to help their home communities. The source will be protected to avoid animal pollution. The infrastructure will be managed by a committee and financed by minimal fees. It will benefit nearly 65 households, or nearly 520 people.
Uganda
The NGO AWEI (Alpha Women Empowerment Initiative) was looking for funding to improve upland rice farming instead of rice fields, which requires less water. Improvements will be made through training and demonstration gardens. Beneficiaries will be divided into three groups of 20 women. The budget requested concerns the granting of tarpaulins to cover the fields and bags for storage. Marketing meetings will also be held, with improved rice selling more than twice as much.
Zambia
The NGO CCCYD (Charity Centre for Children and Youth Development) has requested funding for the development of a well and the installation of a pump with a water tank for the children of a school, but which will also benefit the surrounding community. The maintenance of the electric pump will be funded by other projects that will benefit from the well (market gardening, hammer crusher and chicken farming).