FLC Messages and Reports 2011 - Fellowship of the Least Coin

Fellowship of the Least Coin Project Grants 2011
AFRICA
1. Operating Millet Grinding Machine for Empowering Women,
Burkina Faso, $5,000
The project aims to operate a community-based millet grinding machine
to save women from painful handwork and at reduced cost; provide
employment to women who will operate the machine; and contribute to
organize women for other social projects. A millet grinding machine will
allow women of Nongsom to make flour out of corn, millet or sorghum.
The flour is then used to cook a mashed dish called “sagbo,” staple food in
Burkina Paso. Some women (female committee members) will be trained
to operate the machine and to manage the other linked activities.
2. Workshop on Gender-Based Violence, DR Congo, $5,000
With this project, the United Methodist Church aims to equip women
leaders with relevant skills to provide trauma healing and prevent
gender-based violence and fight against HIV/AIDS. As the war has made
thousands of victims in women and children rapes, there were many
divorces, contested pregnancies and babies, and women HIV/AIDSinfected.
The church wants to provide trauma healing and prevent GBV;
thus 30 women leaders, 10 youth leaders and 10 pastor leaders will be
equipped with relevant skills in order to face this challenge.
3. Domestic Violence: Focus on Children, Ghana, $5,000
The project of Institute of Women in Religion and Culture aims to
investigate how religion and culture are implicated in the trafficking of
children and the marriage of minors and sensitize women of faith to act on
behalf of children. The project is a follow-up to what was already done by
the IWRC for almost a decade of creating awareness and sensitizing faith
communities in Africa regarding issues that women raise. IWRC plans
a national conference of 100 women and men on the theme: “Domestic
Violence: Focus on Child Trafficking and Marriage of Minors.”
4. Empowering Women through Leadership Training, Kenya, $5,000
The project of the UMC Women Fellowship is organizing 3 training
workshops in different regions of Kenya for empowerment of 60 younger
women leaders. They would in return take their rightful leadership
opportunities in the families, church and society, providing leadership
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