Project duration: Ongoing
Project's focus area: mali
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The region of Nebkit is characterized by arid lands, low rainfall, week agricultural production, high poverty, food insecurity, and a poor literacy rate. WFP wants to help the women of Nebkit become self-sufficient. 420 women of the community have proposed the construction of a Women's Center for producing and selling the arts and crafts they create as their primary economic activity. The center will also be a place where women will receive literacy training.
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The Nebkit Women's Center will provide a work and training facility. It will improve women's literacy rate, build capacity and improve revenue generating activity, and enable them to contribute to their children's education. |
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The Nebkit Women's Center will increase the literacy rate and improve skills in economic activity for women of the community, and improve food security and allow for investment in children's education due to increased revenue from handicraft sales. |
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"Helping people across West Africa to adapt to the increasingly unpredictable threats of the 21st century is urgent."
- Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the UN World Food Program
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Meredith Slater,
Development Associate, Friends of the WFP
1819 L St. NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
United States
2025301694
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