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Funding Needed: Micro-Loans Projects

Updated on 22 February 2008
 
   
Funding Needed: All Projects Funding Needed: Education Projects Funding Needed: Healthcare Projects Funding Needed: Environmental Projects Funding Needed: Micro-Loans Projects
 
   
Funding needed: Bee-keeping BEE-KEEPING
 
We want to set up 100 small community bee-keeping projects by providing micro-loans. This project will protect forests, provide honey, and give a sustainable income. The loan will include materials and training, and will be repaid over a two-year period, and then re-invested.
£15
£300
£30,000		 pays for one top bar beehive
pays for 10 beehives, training and equipment
pays for 100 bee-keeping projects

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Funding needed: Fish farming FISH FARMING
 
Fish provide valuable protein for Malawians, but fish stocks in Lake Malawi have been drastically reduced. Commercial inland fish farming not only provides additional fish but also much needed incomes. Money would be loaned for two years, and then re-invested.

£50
£120
£6,000

 pays for 500 baby fish
pays for fish feed for one year for one pond
total funding required for eight ponds

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Funding needed: Vegetable gardens VEGETABLE GARDENS
 
We want to encourage farmers to grow more vegetables, but this needs capital. Money is required for labour, equipment, seeds, fertilisers, and pesticides. Money will be loaned for one year, and then paid back and re-invested.

£10
£40
£300

 pays for 10 packets of seeds
pays for one knapsack sprayer
pays for a complete vegetable garden setup

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Funding needed: Fuel-efficient wood-burning clay stoves (mbaula) FUEL-EFFICIENT WOOD-BURNING CLAY STOVES (MBAULA)
 
We are setting up small groups to make mbaula (fuel-efficient wood-burning clay stoves). These stoves use about 70% less wood than a conventional fire. We equip and train the groups, monitor progress, and then help with marketing the units.

£80
£300
£3,000

 pays for the construction of a kiln
pays for an mbaula group setup plus training
total funding required for 10 mbaula groups

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