Vegfam

Registered Charity Number: 232208

Projects Under Consideration by Vegfam in 2013

Date Posted: 18 Feb 2013

Last year (2012), a total of £138,800 was spent on projects which will help more than 6,000 people in Bangladesh, India and Mozambique.

Many project proposals were carried over to 2013 for final consideration and Vegfam is hopeful that with help from supporters, those other vitally needed projects shall be funded this year.

2013 Projects Under Consideration

 

1. Organic Urban Agriculture in Three Areas of Colombia - funding needed up to £10,000

Beneficiaries: vulnerable and nutritionally insecure families; direct - about 80 families, indirect - about 1,000 people from neighbouring communities.
The project will facilitate the setting up of 6 organic community vegetable gardens and 20 family vegetable gardens for poor, vitamin deficient, women-headed households.
Its aim is to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable livelihoods for members (and extended families) of women's associations within poor communities; including women displaced by violence from different parts of the country.
As an extension of a successful 2 year previously funded Vegfam project from 2009 (community and household vegetable gardens; which greatly improved the livelihoods of Women's Association families who were only able to previously afford to survive on bread and solid cane sugar) and it will improve the food security and diets, nutrit-ional status and overall health of the deprived beneficiaries; which will enable further womans groups to participate in and benefit from setting up their own community and household vegetable gardens, medicinal plant and fruit tree nurseries and seed banks.
This 2 year extension project will cost £10,000 to provide funds for the cost of: seeds, tools and other inputs, seed banks, plant nurseries, training, vegan cookery skills and general project support.

2. Food Security & Sustainable Livelihoods in Zimbabwe - funding needed up to £45,000

This project is intended to build stable livelihoods and improve the long-term food security and nutrition of 5,000 households; by providing the means to grow their own food whilst utilising sustainable farming practices.
Funding is required for inputs such as seeds and tools, plus the costs to set up: composting schemes, rain harvesting facilities, agroforestry, project management, seed production and seed saving.
This will enable 1,500 resource-poor farmers and their families to access sufficient, healthy and diverse food.
The project cost is £100,000. Part funding by the project partner will leave £45,000 for Vegfam to potentially fund.

3. Improved Nutrition Programme for People Living with HIV & AIDS in Malawi - funding needed up to £60,000

Vegfam is discussing with a project partner the possibility of developing a much needed project to improve the nutrition of malnourished people and those who are living with disabling health conditions in Malawi. It would be intended to primarily benefit populations who are vulnerable to malnutrition or under-nutrition, principally children and the elderly and people living with HIV/AIDS. Working through mother and child care groups, schools, caregivers and Community Based Child Care Centres, it would target service providers in Malawi and beyond including government, Non-governmental Organisations and Community-based Organisations; to deliver nutrition interventions to vulnerable populations, in the form of nutritional vegetable gardens and by the production of an information and educational training manual (based on basic nutrition and animal-free, vegan food preparation and cooking practices that are appropriate to resource poor rural households).
The rural beneficiary areas of the (hoped for) project experience food insecurity, poor dietary diversity, high levels of disabling disease and high levels of malnutrition - including the child population who also suffer from wasting (4% to 10%) and stunting (47%) as a result.
The provision of a project which would grow highly nutritious food and train the beneficiaries on how to make the best use of such food would greatly help to alleviate these factors.
Copies of the information and educational training manual that would be produced would be made available for wider replication and dissemination to: the project partner's nutrition staff; the Government of Malawi and other relevant national and international organisations. A PDF English version of the manual would be available on Vegfam's and the project partner's website – to be accessed by individuals, groups and organisations with an interest in/working in community based health and nutrition projects in other countries throughout the world.  This project, if it can be set up (with Vegfam's input and help), would be vitally important and is greatly needed.
It could cost up to £60,000 to accomplish this and may take additional fundraising to achieve this goal.



To download the above information as a two page A4 leaflet with photographs - please click on this link: Vegfam Funded Projects 2012 and Projects Under Consideration in 2013

 

Other projects to be considered for funding in 2013

We are awaiting further details of another five projects (in India, Kenya and Madagascar) which need urgent support and which we hope to fund.

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