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All of these sources are dirty and consumed with dangerous bacteria and disease. They wash their clothes, bathe, bring their animals to drink, and draw cooking and drinking water all from the same source. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/5ffdb578179f322ce8d9c7cf/1610462596059/319B16C1-65C7-4363-9E9D-947ADBF0EFC4.jpeg Projects - Clean Water - Water Borne Illness If one is continually sick due to water borne illness it is difficult for that person to work, attend school, provide for their family, and contribute to their society. Clean water begins to change that and can place a community on a different path, with clean water comes a new life. https://www.projectsforprogress.com/projects/education monthly 0.5 2021-01-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/5fd8e8e2f1823d082def2825/1608050924736/7292AF66-933D-4AFD-B6A0-943293222767_1_201_a.jpeg Projects - Education https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/5f087f7d7fcea46493395500/1594737738645/IMG_0100.JPG Projects - Education - Book Sharing In the public schools in Benin, majority of students attend school with no school books. The school does not provide the students with books, therefor the parents have to purchase books for each of their children. Most families have at least three children making it impossible to provide books for them. With book sharing, kids are placed into small groups based on where they live and their grade level and they have access to school books as they need them. This allows them an opportunity to practice and study at home, improving their grades and opportunity for success in school. This project is available for Club PfP and children of women in our Life Skills class https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/5f0883e612cd1811f5992d9a/1594737696606/IMG-4604.jpg Projects - Education - Club PfP This is a club for middle and high school aged students. Through the club they are encouraged and motivated to stay in school, receive school supplies, exam preparation, educated on life topics such as hygiene and importance of girls education, play on a soccer team, and attend a back to school party. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/60103c0d6da43f4081d0d2b0/1611676701383/24FE91E6-BAD2-41E4-9D97-C233A4070384_1_201_a.jpeg Projects - Education - Women’s Life Skills An 18 month project that teaches local women on daily life topics. This curriculum has been developed in partnership with local women to provide real life usable information and to give readily accessible tools that empowers change to daily habits that are in reality obstacles preventing better health, better hygiene, and better financial practices within their family. Some of the topics they are taught on include malaria, proper food preparation, infant and child care, prenatal care, importance of girls education, first aid, and finance. At the end of each topic they are given tools that relate to the topic, such as mosquito nets to prevent malaria or material for school uniforms, so that they can implement the principles that were taught. After the class completes all topics they have a graduation party to receive certificates and celebrate their achievements. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/6009a9aeb6c8231def5b1b34/1611246017646/7FAFFE96-99E0-4E7A-B4AF-B819F3F60BD1.jpg Projects - Education - Technology Through this project, some middle and high school students, whose mothers are in our Life Skills Class, are taught how to use computers. They begin with how to plug it in and turn it on to producing documents. In their computer classes at school, there is one computer for approximately 80 students, meaning most students learn about computers through schematic drawings only. This allows students to have hands on technology training. https://www.projectsforprogress.com/projects/health monthly 0.5 2021-01-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/6009a05abb3ccd4abc4d9c1e/1611243631400/71509E53-6E2A-4F54-8AE3-BFC251CC3936.jpeg Projects - Health Care https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/6009a24c8e17af68e145bde1/1611244118027/IMG_2969.jpg Projects - Health Care - We provide financial support for medical costs and teach guardians how to keep their children healthy We provide financial support to the guardian of the child and cover all medical costs to bring the child back to healthy standing. In addition, the female guardian of the child must attend our Life Skills to have an understanding of how they arrived at having such an unhealthy child and how to prevent from happening again. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/6009a1e910311a5e89c2481c/1611244025109/IMG_0132.jpg Projects - Health Care - PfP partners with doctors to identify malnourished and sick children Through our health projects we are able to partner with local doctors and nurses during village malnutrition and malaria clinics to identify malnourished and sick children. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/6009a26f371b7f5ecd3993f7/1611244150240/0C714691-293F-4621-8EBD-A682C7508699_1_201_a.jpg Projects - Health Care - We offer assistance to babies whose mother has died during or after child birth We also offer the same assistance to babies whose mother has died during or after child birth. Many times these babies come to us after a few months of some one with good intentions but not an understanding of how to care for the child trying feed and care for the baby unsuccessfully, many times the baby weighing the same weight they did at birth. They are given financial support for medical care and the opportunity to join our classes to teach ad train them how to better care for this child and any other children they may have at home. We partner with them for up to two years providing formula and fortified food and cereal for the baby to ensure a healthy foundation. https://www.projectsforprogress.com/projects/small-enterprise-development monthly 0.5 2021-01-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/5feb47a2d5135836246a82cf/1609254833259/CBEB67C2-6F64-4885-8725-9839D0F67072.jpeg Projects - Small Enterprise Development https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/5feb4663b282ec468d3c86ec/1609254511256/7BCA25A4-9AC6-4CCC-86D8-13996E27D18B.jpeg Projects - Small Enterprise Development - Interest Free Business Loan Small interest free loans are given to individual women currently enrolled in or that have graduated from our Life Skills project to begin or expand a business. These personal businesses are usually selling items such as corn, tomatoes, cheese, grains, soap, yams, etc at their local village market. Eliligibility for this project is contingent on finance class completion and application acceptance. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/5feb46ba56bb3124d93edcdf/1609254597407/B9550B75-78D0-4C5B-B980-89CFB68CCA9C.jpeg Projects - Small Enterprise Development - Soap & Shea Butter Project Two other small business projects are the liquid soap project and the shea butter project. These, like the garden project, are large group projects. The women have formed soap and shea butter making cooperatives where they produce and sell local soap that can be used for washing dishes to washing motos and process shea butter to be sold at local market for traditional remedies, cooking, and skin care. They sell the soap both in bulk quantity and in individual bottle for household use. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed53ed2eeea714f8b94b57b/t/5feb47c6d5135836246a8874/1609254863074/6498C4BC-6E80-4D9A-9B40-800F2239712A.jpeg Projects - Small Enterprise Development - Garden Project We partner with Tolaro Global, a local cashew factory, in our agricultural garden project. An agronomist from Tolaro Global teaches PfP women better farming practices with our model garden and PfP in turn sells the vegetables to Tolaro, who uses the vegetable to provide healthy meals for their employees. Then any remaining vegetables are sold at the local market. Those in the project are encouraged to plant their own home gardens to provide for their families.