Project Report
| Oct 28, 2011
Here Come the Rains
By Tom Arsenault | Overseas Program Manager
When the roads are wet and muddy, people in Zimbabwe still have to go places. It makes it more difficult to travel in the rain but life goes on.
There is a special group of women that volunteer to keep their villages informed about ASAP trainings. If they each had a bicycle it would make their work a lot more tolerable. They could travel to a lot more places each day and teach people a lot more about improving their lives.
Please help us help these women who make so many sacrifices in their volunteering. A bicycle would certainly change lives for the better. Be apart of it - donate now.
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Aug 9, 2011
Is it excessive to have a bicycle?
By Tom Arsenault | Overseas Program Manager
Attaining a bicycle can be a life changing moment for a women who has had to walk everywhere she goes. To a lot of people a bicycle may seem excessive. But keep in mind, ASAP's voluteer cluster facilitators willingly walk miles regularly to meetings of their peers in rural villages. Just imagine that you don't have a car or bicycle and have to walk everywhere you need to go. That means walk to work, the grocery store or the next meeting of A Helping Hand where you volunteer. Just imagine that is the way your life is.
Suddenly one day someone gives you a bicycle. Now imagine how that would change your life! Well it's just the same for these women in Zimbabwe. Up to now our donations have been slow but you can change that by getting the ball rolling. Please make a generous donation to this project and change a woman's life. You will feel good about it!
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May 20, 2011
Pedal Empowerment for Zimbabwe Women
By Tom Arsenault | Overseas Program Manager
ASAP Africa launched our Malawi program in January 2009, just as the world’s economy took a giant downturn. It has been a struggle to survive and we are saddened to announce that we were forced to close our program in Malawi as of May 1st 2011. As a result, this project to supply bicycles to rural women volunteers has been moved from Malawi to Zimbabwe where ASAP has been working since 1994 and the program is better established.
The need is more acute in Zimbabwe and the distances women walk are much greater. Your donation to this project will help not just one woman succeed but it will help her entire village to succeed. This bicycle recipient volunteers her time, walking throughout her village regularly to help her peers, sharing skills and coaching groups in best practices in ASAP's Village Savings & Lending micro-finance project. Because of your donation her time will be used more effectively, further increasing the benefits for all the women in her village. Please note that the bicycles will be purchased once we have funds to secure the bulk-rate price. Thanks for your interest in our project.
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