New Project Roundup
Four new projects that have recently begun
to receive funding from Feed the Minds.
Project name: women helping women
Location: Pakistan
The aim of the Women Helping Women project is to educate women workers in the brick kiln industry on their human rights and the condition of workers rights in Pakistan.
The project aims to
organise and implement
12 ‘democracy schools’ of
one week duration covering
topics such as the history
of democracy, the role of workers in promoting democracy and the
challenges faced by
women workers.
The ‘democracy schools’
will target up to 600 women workers with the aim of
increasing awareness of
their rights and in the long
term improve their working
conditions, especially with
respect to discrimination
and sexual harassment.
Project name: Craftshare Vocational Training Centre
Locat ion: Southern Sierra Leone
Craftshare Vocational Training Centre provides training in Christian education and basic literacy to members of the local community, many of whom cannot read or write.
Feed the Minds has been able to support
Craftshare by providing training guides
and coursework materials. To date 2,400 Literacy and Numeracy Study Guides, 150
printed Exercise Books, chalk, pens, pencils,
vanguards, flips charts, rulers, erasers and
markers have been funded.
This has enabled Craftshare to educate
844 registered participants, with 758 young
men and women now able to read simple
sentences.
Project name:
after school ghana
Location:ghana
Feed the Minds has provided funding to After School Ghana in an initiative to improve literacy and academic performance among children in three rural villages through publishing folkstories for reading clubs.
The project will develop and print the
materials for the initiative, identify, recruit and
train tutors and implement the workshops,
with 50 children being enrolled in the literacy
programme at any one time.
It is anticipated that 1,200 children
and young people will have access to the
workshops and that they will stimulate an
increased interest in reading and literacy.
Project name: Global rescue mision
Location: sierra leone
Feed the Minds has helped to fund a series of workshops, run by Global Rescue Mission in Sierra Leone. The objective of the workshops has been to develop the ability of young people to read and understand their surroundings and encourage them to actively participate in processes that lead to the development of their community.
The workshops covered a range of topics
spanning everything from culture and literacy
to newspapers and the media through to
political writing and persuasion.
The workshops have encouraged the
participants to read, engage peacefully and
increase the effectiveness of community
decision-making forums.
