Come along to the Godwin Room in Clare College Old Court to help decide what proposals get funded. The proposals we have received are:
Here are the summaries and the full proposals are attached:
- Destiny’s volunteers
Fighting HIV/AIDS & Stigma free environment through sports{football}, drama, film, outreach programs, quizzes/competitions with community, church and mosque involvement.
- Kenyan Education Partnerships
Sends eight Cambridge students to rural schools in Kisii, Kenya for 10 weeks over summer. The first phase will be spent working in collaboration with the local schools to determine the most efficient way of improving the quality of secondary education for Kenyan students. The second phase is tailored to each school and will invest funds raised by the project workers to improve their resource base, teach infrastructure and management, aiming to raise the overall performance of the school in a positive cycle of sustainable growth.
- VA32
“Connectivity For All” is a project to give free access to ICT equipment and the World Wide Web to disadvantaged communities. With a primary focus on supplying equipment and educating school learners, adult community members also reap the benefits through evening classes using the same facilities.
- Canon Collins
Farm Orphans Support Trust (FOST) provides educational and emotional support to the most vulnerable children in Mashonaland and Manicaland, Zimbabwe. FOST provides orphaned children with access to school, ensuring that they have regular contact with responsible adults who are able to play a caring role and assist with their material, emotional, and social needs.
- Aiducation
To sponsor a scholarship worth £1500 to take 1 Kenyan through 4 years of high school.
- Afrinspire
To assist the two communities of Lajora and Gwuluku in South Sudan by the provision of the first school buildings, school equipment, uniforms (cloths for the first time), simple medical supplies to these two communities where the people have had no outside contact for many years and have been living without education and health care. This project is just starting to bring development to a needy people group previously cut off by the Sudanese civil war.
- Engineers Without Borders Bath
The purpose of this programme is to provide six rural education centres in Maharashtra, India with 12 engineering volunteers to teach some basic engineering and impart valuable appropriate technology knowledge to Indian students aged 15-20 years old. This includes skills such as engineering drawing, right up to more specific areas such as waste management and sanitation, water filtration and treatment, solar energy etc. This would greatly contribute to the practical skills programme that the education centres currently offer and also benefit the (approximately) 200 rural communities the Indian students return to at the end of their yearly studies.
- Engineers Without Borders Edinburgh
The project will be researching a new model for the implementation of an engineering solution in a community. Alongside the development of an appropriate technology, the project will be running various educational workshops to increase understanding of the technology provided and basic health and sanitation. The workshops will look to demonstrate and give understanding of the basic scientific principles behind the implemented technologies.
- David Anderson Africa trust
We are asking for £2,500 as a short-term grant to enable a special needs teacher in Uganda to complete his professional studies at university.
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