Nyara Project
The Breakdown:
To improve the welfare of vulnerable women and children affected by armed conflict in Northern Uganda.
Specific objectives:
Caleb’s Hope Nyara Project involves vulnerable women and girls that have been affected by war. They all live in an IDP camp in Attiak as refugees in their own country. Nyara means “my daughter” in Acholi, the native language of the region. The project is simple: micro-enterprising. Job creation and village banking. The women are trained and paid as proper employees with fair wages by Caleb’s Hope. In Attiak, they are engaged in paper bead making and by end of 2010, be engaged in agriculture-based activites.
Each beneficiary has a bank account at the Barclay’s Bank in Gulu – their very first – to help in their savings and personal money management. Part of each woman's paycheque also goes into the group's very own village bank in Attiak.
The women receive training on group dynamics and peer counseling, small business, how to save with a bank account, and good nutrition for them and their children (especially important for PLWA). As the program grows we can offer assistance with school fees and even goats for each woman and her family.
Nyara Project gives these women not only a job but training, empowerment, a means to take care of their family, and be a contributing and respected member of their community. Profit generated from the selling of Nyara merchandise goes directly back into the project, helping it grow, hire more women, provide school fees for their children and support PLWA in the community.
To improve the welfare of vulnerable women and children affected by armed conflict in Northern Uganda.
Specific objectives:
- To support vulnerable women to generate incomes through crafts and agriculture to enable them support their children.
- To provide sustainable income generation activities to women living with HIV/AIDS.
- To support HIV/AIDS orphaned children in primary school.
Caleb’s Hope Nyara Project involves vulnerable women and girls that have been affected by war. They all live in an IDP camp in Attiak as refugees in their own country. Nyara means “my daughter” in Acholi, the native language of the region. The project is simple: micro-enterprising. Job creation and village banking. The women are trained and paid as proper employees with fair wages by Caleb’s Hope. In Attiak, they are engaged in paper bead making and by end of 2010, be engaged in agriculture-based activites.
Each beneficiary has a bank account at the Barclay’s Bank in Gulu – their very first – to help in their savings and personal money management. Part of each woman's paycheque also goes into the group's very own village bank in Attiak.
The women receive training on group dynamics and peer counseling, small business, how to save with a bank account, and good nutrition for them and their children (especially important for PLWA). As the program grows we can offer assistance with school fees and even goats for each woman and her family.
Nyara Project gives these women not only a job but training, empowerment, a means to take care of their family, and be a contributing and respected member of their community. Profit generated from the selling of Nyara merchandise goes directly back into the project, helping it grow, hire more women, provide school fees for their children and support PLWA in the community.
