To empower vulnerable and disadvantaged women and children in remote villages to learn to protect and care for themselves as they face the COVID-19 pandemic, thereby increasing local self-reliance and sustainable food production. It is 6 months project actual starting date will depend on fundraising through GlobalGiving 6 months period. Total expected Number of Participants 200 Vulnerable women and Children. Requested budget $5,000.
Human Cooperation Centre for Bangladesh works in one of the poorest nations on Earth. The climate crisis is already making the reality worse, with increased typhoons and rising seas and flood waters, and Covid-19 is ravaging the entire country. Our primary clients are at even greater risk than the rest of the low-income population, because they are women farmers who have found themselves to be the heads of their families. We help these women confront Covid-19 as well as to increase their crops.
We train women heads of household, and the youths in their care, to prevent and care for Covid-19 and to employ better farming and animal husbandry practices, and we provide them with microloans for seeds, animals, tools, and veterinary medicines. This enables them to produce more food for the table, and also more products to sell in local markets and use the cash for basic family needs, such as school expenses, medicines and disinfectant products, and clothes.
The project will provide training and loans to 200 women and youth, enabling them to confront Covid-19 and lift themselves out of deep poverty, and also to mitigate the long-term impact of severe climate disruption. Women heads of household with cash from marketing their products can cover the costs for their children to go to school and learn skills and values that will strengthen food and health security in their rural communities. Different type of training have been increased their capacity.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
