Announcement: New Grants Approved
EA FOUNDATION: New Grants Announced
We are delighted to announce that Trustees have recently approved follow-on funding for existing partners who demonstrated strong evidence of the impact of their work on partner communities.
The Board’s decision to provide further funding to Mercy Hands Europe is based on a nurtured partnership over the last four years. As one of our longest-standing partners to date, we have been impressed by their thoughtful and collaborative approach to their work. With partners IACO, they have invested in the economic strengthening of communities in the in Al-Bab District in Syria over many years, and this grant of nearly £100,000 sees the evolution of our partnership by making further investment to revive the district’s extra virgin olive oil industry.
With a grant of £15,000, AdAmi Project will contribute to deepening its invaluable support to young mothers in Bo, Sierra Leone, enabling them to build brighter futures by providing career guidance, employability training services, building stronger relationships with local employers.
Building on our previous investment in this project at the end of 2023, with this follow-on grant of £50,000, Vita New Hope will now focus on strengthening field-based activities to deepen community impact in the fuel-efficient stoves programme, ensuring sustained adoption and long-term change.
Our initial partnership with the Wonder Foundation was for the refurbishment of a kitchen providing a space to train women vulnerable to dangerous and exploitative employment, including trafficking and prostitution. Managed by their in-country partner Fundación Sirama in El Salvador, further funding of just over £51,000 goes even further to provide hospitality training courses, one-to-one mentoring and job placements with industry partners to 120 women at risk over two years.
NEW PARTNERSHIPS
In addition to deepening our existing partnerships, we are excited to announce our engagement with new partners who demonstrated sound strategic alignment:
The Board approved just under £50,000 to PEAS to further their commitment to their ‘Inspect and Improve’(I&I) programme, improving education standards for marginalized students in rural Uganda.
To the Zimbabwe Educational Trust, we committed just over £30,000 to address Zimbabwe’s birth registration crisis. The project works to improve access to birth certificates, thereby addressing barriers to accessing vital basic services which require birth documentation.
Our partnership with Shivia sees investment of nearly £35,000 in a self-sustaining model of goat rearing, empowering women and their families in the state of Bihar to increase income and improve nutrition.
Savannah Education Trust will address a major barrier of teacher attrition rates in Lawra district, Upper West Ghana. Our grant of £45,000 will facilitate the construction of vital accommodation for teachers which will serve to strengthen retention in the rural community.
It is estimated that deaf children are three times more likely to be abused globally, compared to their hearing peers. With funding of just over £44,000, DeafKidz International through their DK Defenders programme will work to improve the safeguarding and learning outcomes of 660 Deaf children (50% girls) in three schools in Western Cape and Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Period poverty remains a key barrier to girls staying in school. Designed by their in-country partner COFCAWE, with our grant of £23,000, All We Can and partner will ensure sustained access to menstrual hygiene products and knowledge on menstrual hygiene management for 5,000 vulnerable girls in Busoga, Uganda, empowering them to stay in school, pursue their education & break the cycle of poverty.
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