CREATING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE TO END POVERTY
Get a single mother on her feet and teach her how to support her family for the rest of their lives.
Project Migration has pioneered a year-long entrepreneurship program to help single mothers living in or near Kampala, which is the location of one of Africa's largest and most desperate slums.
YOUR DOLLAR GOES FARTHER
After going through the Migration Program and becoming entrepreneurs with their own co-op, these single mothers are then completely self-sustaining. They can not only support their families for the decades to come, but will teach these skills to their children so when they are old enough, they too can support their own families.
HOW THE MIGRATION PROGRAM WORKS:
With your help, our sustainable and unique program takes young single mothers and their children off the street and gives them a second chance at life by teaching them how to support their family and prosper.
For one year, we take these families in and provide a clean and solid multi-room single-family house which they have all to themselves. We provide nutritious food for them and their children. We buy uniforms and pay for their children to go to school.
Then we open a co-op. We rent a building that has a storefront, three classrooms and a nursery. We put the mothers in a 6-month training program where they can choose what they would like to learn: weaving (to make baskets, rugs, placemats, etc.), sewing (to make uniforms, sheets, pillow cases, etc.), or jewelry making (for a range of jewelry). We teach them how to create, source materials and sell their products to market.
For the following six months, they will get support and materials and we will further coach them on selling their products in the markets of Kampala and in global markets through the internet. After one year they will be self-sustaining and, through the store sales, be able to take over the co-op rent so they can remain working as a group out of the building. They can keep their workspace and support group. The shopkeepers and nanny will being to be paid out of the funds they generate running their store and selling abroad. The remaining funds they divide based on productivity.
With your help, our sustainable and unique program takes young single mothers and their children off the street and gives them a second chance at life by teaching them how to support their family and prosper.
For one year, we take these families in and provide a clean and solid multi-room single-family house which they have all to themselves. We provide nutritious food for them and their children. We buy uniforms and pay for their children to go to school.
Then we open a co-op. We rent a building that has a storefront, three classrooms and a nursery. We put the mothers in a 6-month training program where they can choose what they would like to learn: weaving (to make baskets, rugs, placemats, etc.), sewing (to make uniforms, sheets, pillow cases, etc.), or jewelry making (for a range of jewelry). We teach them how to create, source materials and sell their products to market.
For the following six months, they will get support and materials and we will further coach them on selling their products in the markets of Kampala and in global markets through the internet. After one year they will be self-sustaining and, through the store sales, be able to take over the co-op rent so they can remain working as a group out of the building. They can keep their workspace and support group. The shopkeepers and nanny will being to be paid out of the funds they generate running their store and selling abroad. The remaining funds they divide based on productivity.
WHO ARE YOU HELPING?
Homeless teen mothers. Many of these girls bore children at a very young age due to rape. The culture in most countries in East Africa is such that once a young woman is married or has given birth, she is not allowed to return to her parents' home, regardless of divorce, death or abandonment by her husband or boyfriend.
At young ages, single mothers are left alone, to fend for their new family. They live exceptionally hard lives, without shelter, food, clean water, or access to education for themselves or their children. Rape and abduction into sexual slavery is commonplace, as is starvation and death from unsafe water. Despite this, these women are thirsty for a chance at a better life -- and when presented with one they take it, work exceptionally hard and thrive.
Homeless teen mothers. Many of these girls bore children at a very young age due to rape. The culture in most countries in East Africa is such that once a young woman is married or has given birth, she is not allowed to return to her parents' home, regardless of divorce, death or abandonment by her husband or boyfriend.
At young ages, single mothers are left alone, to fend for their new family. They live exceptionally hard lives, without shelter, food, clean water, or access to education for themselves or their children. Rape and abduction into sexual slavery is commonplace, as is starvation and death from unsafe water. Despite this, these women are thirsty for a chance at a better life -- and when presented with one they take it, work exceptionally hard and thrive.
DONATE NOW - and change lives forever:
Any donation helps:
Monthly sponsorship per single mother family: $260/month
Quantity: x $260 / month per familyYear-long program sponsorship for one single mother family: $3120
To begin each program, we must wait for 25 single mother families to be sponsored. If you are able to sponsor a complete program, you will ensure these girls and their children get help faster.
Program sponsorship for 25 families (with approximately 75 children): $78,000
Please contact us at 212-217-1575 to arrange donation and charitable tax receipt.
COST BREAKDOWN
We are totally transparent. Here is our cost breakdown:
Rent for a secure, multi-room house: $60/month
Three nutritious meals a day, for a family: $46/month
Education (including uniforms and books) for 3 children: $108/month
Six-month vocational training program (including supplies and nursery): $50/month
Donation of sewing machine and/or supplies needed for 6 months after training: $260 or $43/month
Vocational training cost breakdown, based on 25 single mothers per class:
Building rental (shop, three work rooms and nursery): $500/month
Instructor salary: $300/month
Materials: $250/month
Nursery Nanny: $200/month
With your donation, we will provide you with updates and letters from the single mothers you support. We solicit support from corporate sponsors to help with our administrative fees.
We are totally transparent. Here is our cost breakdown:
Vocational training cost breakdown, based on 25 single mothers per class:
With your donation, we will provide you with updates and letters from the single mothers you support. We solicit support from corporate sponsors to help with our administrative fees.
INVESTING IN GIRLS
Helping girls and women learn how to create a sustainable living is the best per dollar investment you can make to help end poverty. When you invest in girls and women, you change the dynamic in villages and help women to be seen as equals, giving them empowerment to help themselves and others.
Girls Give Back
It's been shown that when a girl gains educational and economic opportunities, the benefits ripple beyond her - to her brothers, her sisters, her parents, her community, her future children and grandchildren. In fact, for every woman we help directly, they will pass on help to 10 others in their community, making your donation keep on giving. This potential is unique to girls and is practically untapped. Official statistics show that when women in Africa receive aid, they spend 90% to help family and those in their community that are in immediate need, and with the 10% that they spend on themselves, the first thing they spend on is education. This is a stark contrast to the men in Africa, who spend 60-70% of the aid dollars on themself, usually in the form of alcohol consumption.
Girls Have Been Ignored
The global community knows that dollars invested in women and girls reap the greatest gain in social and health progress, yet Official Development Assistance figures show that less than two cents of every international aid dollar was directed to supporting girls. We aim to change this. When women are oppressed, that entire society is put at a disadvantage, and is unable to compete with the rest of the world, and therefore unable to grow upwards. Invest in a girl and she will do the rest.
Part of the United Nations MDG initiative to end poverty by 2015.
Helping girls and women learn how to create a sustainable living is the best per dollar investment you can make to help end poverty. When you invest in girls and women, you change the dynamic in villages and help women to be seen as equals, giving them empowerment to help themselves and others.
Girls Give Back
It's been shown that when a girl gains educational and economic opportunities, the benefits ripple beyond her - to her brothers, her sisters, her parents, her community, her future children and grandchildren. In fact, for every woman we help directly, they will pass on help to 10 others in their community, making your donation keep on giving. This potential is unique to girls and is practically untapped. Official statistics show that when women in Africa receive aid, they spend 90% to help family and those in their community that are in immediate need, and with the 10% that they spend on themselves, the first thing they spend on is education. This is a stark contrast to the men in Africa, who spend 60-70% of the aid dollars on themself, usually in the form of alcohol consumption.
Girls Have Been Ignored
The global community knows that dollars invested in women and girls reap the greatest gain in social and health progress, yet Official Development Assistance figures show that less than two cents of every international aid dollar was directed to supporting girls. We aim to change this. When women are oppressed, that entire society is put at a disadvantage, and is unable to compete with the rest of the world, and therefore unable to grow upwards. Invest in a girl and she will do the rest.
Part of the United Nations MDG initiative to end poverty by 2015.
