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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Income Generating Goat Scheme for 25 marginalized women workers and their families those are brick makers and farm workers

Project ID: PAK/14/071
Date of request: 12 May 2014
Country: Pakistan
Project location: Khushall town
Project status: Completed
PEACE-PAKISTAN will implement an animal loan project for 25 marginalized women workers and their families those are brick makers and farm workers in Khushall town in partnership with KushallWomen’s Cooperative Credit Society. The main objective of this project is to stimulate economic growth of women and their families in order to increase the income and resources of vulnerable families. Each family will be given two female goats and one male goat. During one year, the families will have more goats [...]

Quality Coffee Processing Project to Improve the Incomes of the Marginalized Poor Farmers (QCP)

Project ID: UGA/14/047
Date of request: 26 Mar 2014
Country: Uganda
Project location: Western Uganda, Kasese District, Kisinga Sub-County
Project status: Completed
To increase domestic incomes of the rural poor engaged in Arabica coffee growing and trade in Kisinga -Kasese.

Subsistence for orthopatically challenged women in villages.

Project ID: IND/14/038
Date of request: 18 Mar 2014
Country: India
Project location: Thiruvarur
Project status: Project in progress
India is not yet declared as a Polio free Country. A national Polio eradication campaign is still going on. Long before this, Polio had played havoc in villages. A sizable number of disabled persons, due to Polio can be seen in very village. The incentives enjoyed by the present generation of disabled children were not available some years back. Hence, the disabled children could not reach school then. So they remain illiterate now. The disabled men mange to survive [...]

Provision of Safe Clean Water and Improved Home Sanitation to former war victims in Obalanga northern Uganda through protecting existing two un protected community springs embaked up with health education

Project ID: UGA/14/035
Date of request: 14 Mar 2014
Country: Uganda
Project location: northern uganda
Project status: Completed
Whereas water is an important resource and its life, during current resettlement in Obalanga after the war it’s a crisis and an emergency in this era, people deserted this community and water springs become bushy and where being used by wild animals, the two unprotected springs continued supplying unsafe water to surrounding homes for consumption coupled with worse hygienic condition and lack of reasonable alternative access to safe clean [...]

Food security and poverty reduction through pig farming

Project ID: BDI/14/030
Date of request: 05 Mar 2014
Country: Burundi
Project location: Rutovu Commune in Bururi Province
Project status: Project in progress
The proposed pig farming project aims at providing quality technical and financial support to rural pig farmers's association located in Rutovu Commune of Bururi Province in southern Burundi. Farmers will be trained in improved pig farming techniques and will be provided with young pig to start with. In addition, farmers will be linked to other donors for other needs such as medications and animal feed. Target beneficiaires are members of local farmers' association made of vulnerable people. The expected results [...]
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