Projects
The Rome group presently counts some 112 members and the entire amount of their contributions, around US$92,000 a year, is allocated directly to projects, without overhead costs since the Fund is managed by members themselves, all volunteers.
Since 1983, nearly $1,200,000.00 were disbursed by the Rome group to fund some 230 projects! Some of these projects and their project description are available in this section - select the subcategories (regions) from the menu bar or from the options below.
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To improve the income of poor women with the capital to produce leaf plates on their own instead of selling their labour to produce them for others.
Helping and promoting poor and uneducated women through educational activities with the aim to generate incomes.
Improve health and sanitary conditions of the population
To enable 20 tribal women to become self-sufficient in making and selling broomsticks
Students from the Bernard Bendel Formation House and surrounding villagers would build and tend a fishpond on the premises. The fish would be used to feed the students in the Formation House and the children attending nursery school as well as some of the