SowHope

Wellness

The Wellness program includes, but is not limited to, supporting women through physical and emotional projects such as: maternal healthcare; prevention of abuse, rape, and sex trafficking; counseling and recovery centers for victims of gender-related abuse issues; HIV/AIDS care and prevention; and clean water projects.

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Guatemala – Health and Human Rights Training

This project consists of training women to gain awareness of their value, understand their own capacity, increase hygiene, and gain access to purified water. This projects empowers 50 women.

Total project cost: $5,000

Uganda – Ultrasound

This project provides an ultrasound machine for the local maternity clinic. This project serves 112 women.

Total project cost: $3,400

Kenya – Borehole Digging

This project provides a borehole well for an extremely rural community. This project serves 400 women.

Total project cost: $17,000

DRC – Birthing Center Relocation & Rebuilding

This project builds a birthing center for communities who have been displaced and relocated to due natural disasters and domestic terrorism. This project serves 4,800 women.

Total project cost: $23,000

Nepal – Maternal Health Camp & Counseling

This project hosts a community-wide women’s health camp, providing counseling, medicine, and surgeries in regards to prolapsed uteruses, among other women’s health issues. This project serves 400 women.

Total project cost: $19,500

DRC – Shelter for Displaced Women

This project provides building materials for women displaced by domestic terrorists who burned down their communities. This project provides for 80 women.

Total project cost: $20,500

Education

The Wellness program includes, but is not limited to, supporting women through physical and emotional projects such as: maternal healthcare; prevention of abuse, rape, and sex trafficking; counseling and recovery centers for victims of gender-related abuse issues; HIV/AIDS care and prevention; COVID-19 stimulus grants; and clean water projects.

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DRC – Farming & Agricultural Cooperative

This project provides farming implements and security materials for the farm animals. This project empowers 350 women.

Total project cost: $8,500

Zimbabwe – Fish Farming

This project trains women on fish farming and gives them opportunity to do so. This project empowers 25 women.

Total project cost: $4,550

India – Makeup training for women

This project trains women on cosmetology and established beauty parlors for them to work in. This project empowers 20 women.

Total project cost: $8,500

Ethiopia – Livelihood Development

This project provides vocational and livelihood training for women displaced by natural disasters. This project empowers 120 women.

Total project cost: $18,200

Sierra Leone – Agricultural Training and Gender-Based Violence Learning

This project provides training in agricultural production, basic savings strategies, peace and safety, and gender-based violence. This project empowers 150 women.

Total Cost: $14,600

Economic

The Wellness program includes, but is not limited to, supporting women through physical and emotional projects such as: maternal healthcare; prevention of abuse, rape, and sex trafficking; counseling and recovery centers for victims of gender-related abuse issues; HIV/AIDS care and prevention; COVID-19 stimulus grants; and clean water projects.

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Kenya – Transformational Development Training

This project trains women on microfinance and small business in addition to providing seed money. This project empowers 350 women.

Total project cost: $21,500

South Sudan – Expanding Microbusinesses

This project aims to increase products and sales for established microbusinesses. This project empowers 500 women.

Total project cost: $30,000

Zimbabwe – Poultry Production

Five projects aimed at providing women with skills and supplies to become chicken farmers for local fast food chicken chains, in addition to training women on internal savings and lending schemes. These projects empower 310 women.

Total cost of projects: $26,000

Nigeria – Multiple Women Empowerment Projects

These 28 microprojects provide various needs for women throughout 5 states in Nigeria, including health training, vocational training, and economic development. These projects empower 400 women.

Total cost of projects: $17,600

Guatemala – Organizational Strengthening for Women Coffee Growers

This project assists a local group of women to become a recognized cooperative of women coffee growers. This project supports 50 women.

Total project cost: $6,500

Pakistan – Women Towards Sustainability

This project creates an online clothing business which in turn supports our partner’s vocational training center, which serves 300 women a year.

Total project cost: $23,500

Bangladesh – Livelihood Development Program

These two projects in separate areas of Bangladesh provide access to credit via microloans to women in underserved communities. These projects will empower 1,000 women.

Total projects cost over 3 years: $150,000

DRC – Savings and Internal Lending Communities

This projects provides women with livestock, agricultural resources, or financial support for starting a small business. Women are also trained on running their small projects, supplying them with means of communication among all 250 project participants.

Total project cost: $25,000

Uganda – Microfinance

This project provide microloans to women, serving 10 women.

Total project cost: $4,000

Afghanistan – Restore Lives Through Livelihood

This project provides economic and vocational opportunities for women. This project aims to serve 860 women.

Total project cost over 3 years: $50,000 (estimated).