Projects supported by QPSW in 2011
QPSW Relief Grants in 2011
Dealing with Conflict and Anger in Northern Uganda
Mediation workshops to counter anger and conflict in Uganda. To help create a sustainable peace between those affected by the Lords Resistance Army and the resulting community conflicts. Supported by Redland Quaker Meeting and Bristol Local Quaker Meeting and received a grant of £4,890.
Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
GARAS offer support to those seeking asylum in Gloucestershire, welcoming them when they arrive, advocating for them in their daily struggles, supporting them if they face being sent back as well as helping them adjust to their long term future if they are recognised as refugees. Supported by Gloucestershire Area Meeting and received a grant of £6,000. Website: www.garas.org.uk
Swazaid E-Motion
E-motion is to help children learn how to understand and express their feeling and develop their pro-social skills and trains teachers to teach life skills and how to use positive discipline. Supported by Ruthin Local Meeting and North Wales Area Meeting and received a grant of £6,000.
CARDS/SHARE Tawe
SHARE Tawe was started by the Destitution Working Group of Swansea City of Sanctuary. The Group was formed out of a concern for the number of destitute asylum seekers in Swansea, estimated to be currently up to 100. Supported by Swansea Quaker Meeting and received a grant of £6,000. Website: http://www.sharetawe.org.uk/
Solace project
Solace is a charity which provides free counselling, psychotherapy and advocacy in the Yorkshire and Humber region to the survivors of persecution and exile. Supported by Adel, Carlton Hill, Ilkley, Otley, Rawdon, Roundhay Quaker Meetings and Leeds Area Meeting and received a grant of £6,000. Website: www.solace-uk.org.uk
Purple Field Production
Purple Field Productions will create a training film for farmers in Malawi to adapt their farming methods to meet the threats imposed by climate change. Supported by Taunton Meeting, Ilminster Meeting and West Somerset Area Meeting and received a grant of £4,000. Website: http://www.purplefieldproductions.org/.
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Children of the Forest
They are a U.K registered charity based in Thailand providing a school and home for Karen, Mon and Burmese refugee children. Supported by Halifax Local Meeting and Brighouse West Yorkshire Area Meeting and received a grant of £6,000. Website: www.childrenoftheforest.com
Integrated Village Development Trust (IVDT)
The Integrated Village Development Trust is a small charity (Charity No. 1013316) which acts as a link between donors in the UK and Non-Government Organisations (NGO´s) in developing countries. Supported by Truro Local Meeting and received a grant of £5,984. Website: www.ivdtrust.org.uk
Gulu Youth Development Association
GYDA is an indigenous and community owned NGO implementing community driven needs, including a training programme of bricklaying and concrete practice, carpentry and joinery, salon and hairdressing, tailoring and garment cutting, welding and metal fabrication and motor vehicle mechanics. Supported by Faringdon Quaker Meeting and received a grant of £2,000. Website: http://www.gyda.org/
Imprezza Academy
Operation Imprezza supports a secondary school in Kenya, which has been serving the needs of local young people in Western Province, under the headship of Catherine Omanyo. Supported by Reading Quaker Meeting and received a grant of £6,000. Website: http://www.operation-imprezza.org/
African Great Lakes Initiative
Trauma healing and sustainable development for Batwa in Rwanda is supported by the projects Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities (HROC) and Growing Together with a combination of workshops based on AVP and co-operative working growing food. Improving nutrition and building community cohesion, Batwa may lose their habitual suspicion of all authorities. Supported by Ealing Local Meeting and London West Area Meeting and received a grant of £6,000. Website: http://aglifpt.org/
Quaker Peace Networks West Africa
The building of a clinic at Rokel, Freetown, Sierra Leone at the site of the Centre for the Prevention of Violent Conflict, which is organised by Freetown Quakers. Supported by Keswick Quaker Meeting and others and received a grant of £6,000. Website: http://www.qpnwa.co.uk/
Abaseen Foundation
Based in Pakistan the Foundation develops health, education and research projects and has responded to recent major natural disasters as well as supporting people who have been internally displaced due to the security situation. Supported by Lancaster Quaker Meeting and received a grant of £6,000. Website: http://www.abaseenfoundation.org.uk/
Great Lakes Pigs for Peace
1,000 women and their families purchase piglets on a 'loan' basis, with the 'interest' on the loan being a piglet from each of the first two litters from the loaned pig. The project is designed to first empower and then sustain the individual women and their families, and give meaningful work to provide for herself and her family. Supported by Northampton Quaker Meeting and received a grant of £3,000. Website: http://www.glrbtp.org/projects_p4p.html
Initiatives Communautaires pour la Reduction de la Pauvrete au Burundi
A grassroots self-help movement aimed at rebuilding community by bringing people together to fight a common enemy - extreme poverty. ICRP aim to find funding for cows, goats and chickens to be distributed across ethnic and social divisions; also towards veterinary care, including training para-vets. Supported by Burford Quaker Meeting and Witney Local Quaker Meeting and received a grant of £3,000.
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