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Solar/Wind Electricity Projects
The Caribbean African Association of Barbados (CAAB) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization registered in Barbados. Our objective is to develop human capacity in Africa and the Caribbean through education, business/ technology and culture. We are currently initiating African rural community projects in the generation and utilization of renewable energy through solar and wind technologies. The main aim of this project is to provide electricity to four rural communities in Nigeria which have no access to the national grid. These projects will tremendously empower the locals by providing light for their homes and electricity for their small businesses. View
Medical/Ambulance Boat Project for Africa
Global Charity Association's (GCA) investigation of best economic way to provide health care is through use of medical boats. In many of the world's impoverished regions, health care is non-existent and this is one of the major problems that exists today. The fact that 20% of the world's population lives on, or beside, waterways made us create one unique idea of a mobile clinic capable of navigating on water. This way one medical boat can cover a big area equivalent to 10 to 25 or more small permanent medical facilities. Medical boats have extremely low price because we build only one mobile medical facility on one medical boat, instead of building 10 to 25 or more, small, permanent, land based medical facilities. View
Community-Driven School Feeding Programme
Malawi like many other sub-Saharan Africa countries is very hit by HIV and AIDS. One of the resulting effect is the increasing number of orphans due to death of parents from AIDS. In additional absenteeism, repetition, drop out, forced early marriages, early pregnancies are common to most children due to poverty and the impact of HIV and AIDS. The most affected are girls, who mostly carry on the burden of caring for their siblings, whilst cultures of promoting boy education perpetuates the problem further. One strategy in Malawi used by both the government and development partners has been the introduction of School Feeding Programme (SFP) which aims at reducing absenteeism, repetition, drop out poor performance, early pregnancies and early marriages of poverty-stricken and HIV and AIDS affected children in Malawi. This support comes to selected schools and provides food and nutritional materials for porridge to students. Funds in Milions of U$ dollars are used annaully to cater for this. My idea is the introduction of a home-grown, community-driven school feeding programme, in which an organization like Country Minders for Peoples Development, working in the communities will support communities/schools with seeds, inputs, best farming methods technics with the support of local agricultural officials for communities to plant soya and beans, maize, groundnuts, etc whose proceeds will be harvested, and used for the school feeding programme and some will be sold to buy cooking utensils and materials, buy additives like sugar, salt, milk, etc as well as for an incentive for those local committees involved in running the programme as well as women preparing the food for the children. View
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