Projects

“It is just when we recognize into one another that we start transforming ourselves”
 

PROJECT “Acquiring and development of producing and trading skills”-  September 2006/August 2008
The project, financed by Fondazione Cariplo – an Italian Grant Making Foundation, allowed us to make important steps: the creation of two new working sections (tie and dye and tailoring), the acquirement of the export license, the empowerment of the partnership with Equomercato, the opening of the Gulu Town Shop and, in the end, the organization of some important training for the staff and the members.

 FONDAZIONI4AFRICA PROJECT
Wawoto Kacel Cooperative is participating to FONDAZIONI4AFRICA Project as local partner of the Italian organization Good Samaritan Onlus. The project, promoted and finance by four Italian Grant Making Foundations (Fondazione Cariplo, Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Compagnia San Paolo and Fondazione Cariparma), includes the managing and trading strengthening of the cooperative.

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND COUNSELING
The cooperative members have free access to the internal clinic and to the hospital, thanks to the Comboni Samartitans of Gulu Health Department. Furthermore, many HIV/AIDS affected members receive the Anti-retroviral treatment and psychological support by a team of counselors. Thanks to Regione Piemonte and Ivrea Municipality we are improving these activities.

ADEGUATE NUTRITION
The members receive breakfast and one meal every day paying a cheap meal ticket. An adequate diet is a very important for sick people fighting against a weakening disease. In particular the Anti-Retroviral treatment must be supplied with a correct and sufficient  nutrition in order to avoid negative consequences on the health status of the patients.
Nowadays the daily menu is not always appropriate. The diet assured includes meat not regularly.
Help us to improve their nutrition!

BICYCLE PROJECT
The bicycle is a very important means of transport in Africa. Most woman working in the cooperative have to walk long distances every day to reach the compound, in spite of the fact that they are weak and sick, and this worsens their health condition. For these women having a bicycle has always been a dream!
Thanks to the support of Regione Piemonte and Fondazioni4Africa Project a microcredit program has been possible. It permits the members to buy a bicycle paying by 6 installments the 50% of its cost. At present 120 bicycles have been distributed. The members that have not already had the possibility to make their dream come true …  they will do it soon!

Help us to increase our support for our vulnerable members!