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Changing Lives with $2

Posted by Andrea Wilkinson on June 10, 2008 11:57 AM | 

Time for a break and Joan (who is our ‘on the ground’ contact from COFTA) and I discuss the progress of the day.

There are interesting topics up for discussion like how the life expectancy in Rwanda is only 40 years old and how the project will work with more women than men (the country’s population is made up of 60% women following the genocide.)

Some of the groups that we are working with currently live on only $1 per day and, through this project, we aim to increase this three-fold. To you and me, this doesn’t sound like much, but it is enough to change many producers’ lives here....it will enable them to send their children to school, afford health care and plan for the future.

Through this project we aim to change lives, working from the grassroots up and building capacity that will last for generations to come.

Joan and I keep focused on the outcome of this project – that we will train and recruit 15 trainers who together will develop a training course. We will recruit a project coordinator and will eventually train 50 handicraft organisations over the next three years.

By the end of our meeting, my head is buzzing with excitement - this project could really change peoples’ lives - not just for the next few months but for years to come.

With that in mind, on with the afternoon session!

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