Reforestation of the village of Khanke with the involvement of the children of Our Bridge. Reforestation of landscapes is an important part of the fight against climate change. The most suitable areas for this are semi-deserts, because it is more important to practice agriculture on fertile and well-watered plains to feed the world's population. Therefore, there are plans to offer a training program in which the village of Khanke will be reforested.
Year: 2022
Our project, "Supporting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Returnee Communities through Livelihoods," will train 50 women and girls in business management and provide 15 beneficiaries with small business start-up grants to promote financial independence and family support. The project will also include much-needed psychosocial activities for 50 women and girls to help them learn, heal, and overcome trauma. To ensure program impact, we will provide awareness-raising activities for 350 IDPs and returnees, addressing topics such as gender-based violence, early marriage, financial violence, and the importance of women's entrepreneurship. The project will be implemented in Al-Hamdaniya district to reach IDPs and returnees in non-camp settings where support is scarce and needs are particularly high.
The Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF) will implement ETC 2.0: The Artisans of Tomorrow, a 10-month project valued at €70.000 to promote the sustainability of the ETC as a community economic development center. In "The Artisans of Tomorrow," FYF will build on the previous efforts at the Enterprise Training Center (ETC) and advance them by diversifying products, improving marketing, and integrating products into distribution networks. The ETC is a center of economic opportunity for displaced Yazidis, particularly Yazidi women.
Construction of a training center for young people aged 16 and over. The training center will support the existing Our Bridge School in Khanke, Northern Iraq. Through technical and gardening and landscaping qualifications, Our Bridge opens up future prospects for the students and assists them with career preparation and integration. Trainers from Germany will be deployed regularly to impart the necessary specialist knowledge to specialist teachers and students. The focus is on technology and gardening and landscaping. To ensure the sustainability of the project, local specialists will be trained as future multipliers.
Peace promotion for educators and high school students in the Sinjar region, after the genocide and cruel war experiences: is an educational program and training project for teachers with a focus on peace, resilience, promoting multiculturalism/coexistence and conflict resolution, as well as an educational program for students and young people, especially high school students, with a focus on peace, coexistence, prohibition of violence, humanity.
Construction of greenhouses in the Shingal region of northern Iraq. The region is a major settlement area for the Yazidi minority. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from the region in the summer of 2014. Most of them still live as internally displaced persons in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. The project aims to support families in need returning to their homeland.
Nadia's Initiative (NI) aims to support students with disabilities in Sinjar by rehabilitating WASH facilities in schools to make them wheelchair-accessible and providing electric wheelchairs to students in need. As part of this project, NI will also build new libraries in two high schools in Sinjar to promote reading habits in the community.
The women of the village of Dakhar Mbaaye have joined forces to form the economic interest group (GIE) Bokh Khalat in order to better organize the cultivation and sale of fruits and vegetables. In recent years both mango and papaya plants have been planted and are now coming into fruition. In order to make the mangoes last longer, the women need a way to preserve them. By installing a tunnel dryer, you can let the sun dry the fruits and thus preserve them. The dried fruits can be sold on both the Senegalese and European markets and help women earn an income and enable their children to go to school.
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Improving the livelihood of youth dropping out of primary and secondary school in Rugombo and Mugina Municipality of Cibitoke Province through the introduction of AGRs, vocational training products. This training will be combined with financial literacy building and behavioral change awareness to enable them to engage in significant activities of socio-economic value and create jobs to increase their resilience. These vocational training courses will last six months and will include carpentry, tailoring and other activities (e.g. ICT).
The aim of the project is to promote generative activities based on the Sustainable Development Goals “Sustainable Entrepreneurship”. Specifically, it is about training and supporting young rural women who benefit from the Zero Plastic Program, in order to teach them sustainability and social responsibility in the project idea, from starting a small, income-generating activity to starting a business . In order to empower the young rural women who were accompanied by our organization under the Zero Plastic Project funded by the SEZ, we will train them in sustainable entrepreneurship and social responsibility to make them believe in sustainability to think about their activities.