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Fields of Life £6,600Fields of Life will use the grant to dig two borehole wellsin Northern Uganda. They try to ensure that each welldug will benefit at least 1,000 people. A hydro-geologistand drilling team work with the local people and elderson each project to identify the best location for the well,and to train a Water User Committee on hygiene andcleanliness issues and to ensure local ownership ofthe well.Meningitis Research Foundation £6,000Meningitis is 10 times more common in Africa thanin the West and can account for up to 5% of childdeaths. The grant will go towards an awareness raisingcampaign to increase knowledge of meningitis andenhance community awareness of severe childhoodillness through radio and theatre production. Thecampaign will highlight to parents the importanceof seeking prompt medical help when feverishillness occurs.SERVE in Solidarity Ireland £6,000This project is to extend a youth training facility inZimbabwe which would double the capacity to offer anadditional 140 training places per year. The extensionwill provide 3 workshops for carpentry, welding anddressmaking skills which will be run as franchises,offering accredited training for disadvantaged youngpeople. The centre is run by Youth Africa who meetswith both the students and franchisees frequently toensure high quality training is delivered.05.internationalgrant programme2012 saw the launch of the fourthInternational Grants Programme.Applications were invited fromNorthern Ireland charities whocarry out work in poor communitiesoverseas or in developing countries.Organisations could apply for grantsup to either £5,000 or £10,000. TheFoundation funded 17 organisationsa total of £104,000 for the oneyear programme.Abaana Ministires £5,000To support 38 boys who had previously been living on thestreets of Kampala, Uganda. The boys live in purposebuilt homes on the site of a school and are providedwith a home, education and support at least until theend of primary school. Rehabilitation with their parentsis also encouraged and staff work with both the boysand their families to help facilitate this where possible.Africare £4,000Africare provide mainly non-surgical bone manipulationand post-surgery support to children in Uganda. Theyreceived their grant to assist them with opening up anoutreach clinic in the North of Uganda to treat childrenin this area. The need for the outreach centre has becomeevident as increasing numbers of children are beingbrought down from the North of the country, which isboth impractical and unaffordable for most families.Children In Northern Ireland £8,000Children in Northern Ireland are working in partnershipwith National Network for Children (NNC) an umbrellaorganisation in Bulgaria. The grant will increase theskills and capacity of 10 rurally based NGO’s in Bulgariato enable them to develop children’s services in theirlocal area. NNC will deliver training and support to therural organisations who will in turn receive support andexpert advice from Children in Northern Ireland.Christian Aid Ireland £8,000The grant will provide training and support tostruggling Cambodian farmers, to enable them todiversify production and learn new farming techniques,to produce a better quality and quantity of crops forgreater food security. The project also will look ataffordable credit and micro finance for farmers whileconcentrating on sustainable farming. Local peoplewill be skilled up to provide local training.Emmanuel Church £6,000The grant is to build a boarding facility for 150 girlsat the Light for All secondary school in Uganda. Theschool was built by Fields of Life, funded by EmmanuelChurch in 2008 and this expansion would free upclassrooms currently being used as a dormitory. Thechildren from the poorest families who attend theschool, receive child sponsorship from Northern Ireland.Holy Innocent Children’s Hospital £5,000The hospital aims to meet the ever increasing demandfor specialist paediatric services in Uganda. Respiratorydisease is the main cause of admittance to the hospitaland therefore, oxygen is in high demand, with a 10 hourround trip required to collect oxygen cylinders fromKampala. The grant allows the hospital to purchase8 oxygen concentrators that convert room air intoconcentrated oxygen on site.Livability £6,400Many of the patients leaving the Spinal Injury ResearchCentre in Nepal are from poor farming families who livehigh up in the Nepalese mountains. The grant will helpsupport their discharge packages providing simple aidsuch as cushions, mattresses and catheters as well assimple home conversions to allow patients to be able tomove around their very basic homes by wheelchair.Livingstonia Hospital Partnership £4,000David Gordon Memorial Hospital in Malawi is supportedby Livingstonia Hospital Partnership. The hospitalserves around 60,000 people over a large rural areawhere there is no primary health provision. This projectis specifically to improve the care to pregnant womenand especially at the time of delivery. The grant willenable perinatal training for 15 nurses and to purchasea years supply of omni vacuum extractors to try toreduce the number of caesarean sections.Oxfam Ireland £8,000The grant will go towards a much larger livelihoodsdiversification programme with 12,000 households in4 rural and poor districts in Malawi. The project aims toreduce post-harvest losses and improve diversificationin both crops and farming techniques. It will also improveagribusiness skills amongst these impoverished andvulnerable farmers to enable them to get the mostprofit for their production.Reaching and Teaching Ministries £7,000Reaching and Teaching Ministries have built a home forstreet children in Boho Island in the Philippines. Thereare a high number of street children in the Philippineswith nowhere to go who are routinely thrown into jailalong with adults. The grant will enable them to extendtheir current home to accommodate an additional20 children.Romanian Partnership Committee £5,000Romanian Partnership Committee supports an organisationcalled SCUT (translated as Shield) in Romania whosupport young people both in, and leaving the caresystem in Romania. The grant will help with rent foraccommodation, medical costs and transport coststo allow these young people to begin their lives in theoutside world.War on Want £8,000War on want will work with 112 households from 3vulnerable groups in North East Uganda, to increasetheir agricultural outputs through irrigation, trainingand quality inputs. Hands on training and support willbe given to these vulnerable people as well as goodquality seed to improve the chances of a good harvest.They will also receive basic training on financial andmarketing skills.We Care Third World Charity £6,000This grant is towards the provision of vocational trainingin areas such as woodwork, electrics, IT and gaining adriving licence for boys who live at the Don Bosco boyshome in Chennai, South East India. There are currently60 boys aged 11-18 living in the home, all who havecome from the streets. They are provided with a sharedhome to live, education and accredited vocational skillstraining to give them a head start for independent living.Zomba Action Project £5,000Zomba Action Project plan to work with 200 farmersin Malawi living on a basic existence, to provide themwith treadle pumps and training on how to irrigatetheir land. They will also receive high quality seed andfarming techniques training to help them develop a20 hectares area into usable farmland. Village Headmenand Committees oversee the communal area of landand will allocate areas to individual farmers.14 international grant programmeinternational grant programme 15