Funding Goals

Mission

NUWECHI’s mission is to improve the livelihood of women, children and the youth to realize their rights to survival, protection, participation and economic needs to enable them live a meaningful life

Summary

The war in northern Uganda which has lasted over twenty years now has caused untold suffering to the people of northern Uganda in general especially to women and children.

During this war many people left home and settled in the internally displaced people camps. Some of them decided to go to secure towns. Most found themselves in the Kampala slums and became jobless. The women then started looking for petty jobs to earn a living. They started doing things like retailing and hawking bananas, handcrafts, stone quarry work (manual breaking of stones with hammer into small pieces mainly done by the displaced women from northern Uganda); and, as if that was not enough, others even  joined prostitution to earn a living amidst discrimination from other tribes.

Although the work mentioned is very hard and hectic, these women have no alternative sources of getting money and must do it for survival considering that they are single mothers, illiterate and displaced.

According to the interview carried out with them, we found out that some of these women are infected with HIV/AIDS, many of them are single child mothers and widows and also many of them have various sicknesses.

So having looked at all these conditions in which these women are facing we identified fifteen of them and we asked them to decide a suitable business for them and they all unanimously agreed to take up a tailoring project but also requesting that their family members be given some support/ food while on training.

The implementing agency requires a total sum of $23,550.9 US. NUWECHI will directly contribute $2,896. The amount requested from donors totals $23,583. This will be used to purchase:

-10 manual sewing machines & accessories

-assorted materials

-cutting tables

-1 electrical machine for making designs

-1 table cloth making machine

-money for feeding

-stools for sitting

-office chairs and a table for the trainer

-iron sheets, timber, nails, labor for erecting a temporary structure

-hiring a place where the temporary structure will be for 4 months.

Vision

To see an improved livelihood of women, children and youth towards holistic and sustainable development.

Core Values

* Transparency and Accountability.
* Commitment
* Compassion.
* Empowerment of women, children and youth.

Motto -“Hope for tomorrow”

The overall objective of the project:

Empowering single mothers/HIV/AIDS infected women, prostitutes on chicken rearing as an income generating activities

Specific Objectives of the project:

1. Equip the marginalized women from camp with income generating activity

2. Settling them in their own home by use of resources available in their places

3. Encouragement of group development and teamwork through coordinated        activities.

4. Providing marketing information to them by linking them to buyers, therefore promoting collective     marketing for higher bargaining powers.

BUDGET BREAKDOWN

	BUDGET ITEM	Quantity	Rate	To be funded by Donor	To be funded by  NUWECHI and Applicant
1	Manual Sewing Machines	10	200,000	2000,000	0
2	Electrical computerized Sewing Machines/button holes /finishing	1	1,200,000	1,200,000
3	Electrical table cloth Sewing Machines	1	1,500,000	1,500,000
4	Iron boxes	5	20,000	100,000	0
5	Materials (Assorted rolls of clothes)	20	100,000	2000,000	0
6	Tools & Accessories  (Tape measure, Scissors, oil, Threads, training papers…)			500,000
7	Cutting Tables	3	150,000	450,000
8	Sitting stools/chairs	15	20,000	300,000	0
9	Machine Maintenance				195,000
10	Monitoring and evaluation			250,000
11	Iron sheet	20	32,000	640,000
12	Timber	25pcs	12,000	300,000
13	Hiring space	4	100,000	400,000
14	Labor	Lumpsum	250,000	250,000
15	A chair and table for trainer	1	350,000	350,000	350,000
16	Manual sewing machines after training to beneficiaries	15	200,000	3,000,000
17	Feeding/support for 4months	15 pple	10,000	18,300,000
18	Snacks /refreshments during training	17 pple	2000		4,1480,000
19	Trainer’s fees 4 months	1	250,000	1,000,000
Sub total				32,540,000	4,693,000
20	5%Miscellaneous			1,627,000	234,650
Grand Total				34,167,000	4,927,650