MicroAid Projects Charity

Registered charity number 1125206

On JustGiving since Jan 2011

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£10 Could buy the skills books for poor family

£50 Pay the cost of training on home enterprise for poor family

£100 Provide an opportunity for poor family group to learn new skills

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£3 Could buy a cookbook or craftbook

£10 Could help a family group to learn simple skills

£25 Could help a family group start a small home business

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Why your donation matters

MicroAid’s motto is: teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

MicroAid Projects helps poor people learn new skills that will create income for them and their family.

MicroAid promotes self help with short small educational projects that lead to independent businesses (no chance of long term dependency),

MicroAid avoids distorting the market by not giving capital goods (no free cows on us)

We use very local Community Facilitation Partners who have been in place for years; so we ensure that only truly poor people can access the support

MicroAid is a “bottom up” charity; we only do what local people ask;

We can reach via the internet into the remotest communities in the world yet still keep track of progress.

Case study: donations in action

7 families find success with a community vegetable garden.

The vegetable garden in Wailiti Village, Indonesia is a family-run farm by 7 families who received training to create a community vegetable garden.

A month ago, the families harvested cabbages for the 1st time and managed to sell 340 cabbages. The selling price per cabbage was 40p so the money earnt came to £136. The money was then divided between 7 families, so that every family received £19. Harvesting the cabbages is carried out every 4 weeks.

To increase family incomes further, the group of mothers will now expand the area of the vegetable garden and plant mustard. If they succeed with harvesting mustard, then each family will get an extra £22 per month. When aggregated with the income from cabbage sales, the total amount will be £41 per month for each family.

Fransiska (with thumbs up) & friends from Wailiti village, Indonesia in their cabbage vegetable garden. Delighted with their new home enterprise