Contribute
Hands at Work has many projects that are growing and stretching everyday, so there are plenty of opportunities to get involved by financially giving. One is by just donating to Hands General through Pay Pal. Transactions are processed through the secure PayPal account of Hands at Work in Africa (UK).
But for those that would like to give to a specific project we have put together this list of our most URGENT needs. Please contact us if you want to give to one of these projects specifically: contribute@handsatwork.org.
Holistic Community Care in Mozambique
Hands at Work in Gondola, Mozambique envisions a holistic community care site offering feeding, medication distribution, counseling, pre-school activities, and ARV support groups, next door to an agricultural site of poultry farming and vegetable gardens workers teaching project workers farm skills and enhancing the sustainability and food security of the project.
Care Centre Construction - $15,500
Chicken Coop Construction - $2500
Chicken Coop Equipment - $300
Care of the Chickens - $1800
Equipping Project Site with Electricity - $2600
Food Distribution Packet – One orphan or patient per month - $14
Full Care Food Packet (including more staples, fish, soap, etc) - $52
Teaching and Training in the DRC
With more than 3 million children in the DRC unable to access education, there is an incredible need for basic primary school teaching and practical life skills training. In Likasi, DRC Hands at Work is operating a single community school with local teachers and is poised to open a second in September, 2007.
By learning to build wooden benches and other products at the life skills site, local orphan boys learn an income-generating skill as they earn enough money to pay for annual school fees. Girls are taught knitting skills to pay for their school fees.
Monthly cost of operating 1 community school for 50 children – $200
Knitting supplies for girls - $500
Carpentry tools and materials for boys - $2000
Distributing Food in Swaziland
1 used vehicle - $15000
1 year fuel and driver - $5000
Empowering Desert Women in Nigeria
In the predominantly Muslim northern state of Kano, women are often uneducated and extremely vulnerable. Hands at Work targets the most vulnerable women in rural areas with a pro-literacy teaching site being developed into a holistic empowerment village, including education, agricultural teaching, food sustainability, and accommodation.
Near the literacy village, a small group of desperate mothers trapped in commercial sex work and urgently seeking a way out, are receiving life-skills training and support as a test group creating a new model of female empowerment.
Land for village expansion - $3000
Construction of literacy classroom and accommodation - $9000
Skills training and career empowerment - $3000