West Africa:
Koinadugu HIV/AIDS Youth Life Skills Project
CAUSE Sierra Leone (SL) will partner with local communities in Koinadugu, including schools, to significantly enhance the capacities of local youth to deal effectively with the HIV/AIDS pandemic and take appropriate action to protect themselves and their peers from this and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Investment in Youth Education Project
This initiative empowers youth by providing non-formal “rapid education” for older students who have missed years of schooling due to Sierra Leone’s 10-year civil war. The program also focuses on the girl child and promotes the entry of young girls into the primary school system.
Building Futures
The ten years of the rebel war in the country severely affected the education sector. Although a number of schools are now operational, there is an acute shortage of teachers, furniture, and learning and teaching materials. Only four of the eleven chiefdoms have junior secondary schools.
Community Rehabilitation and Socio-Economic Reintegration
Community Rehabilitation and Socio-Economic Reintegration of Most Vulnerable People with disabilities in Bombali and Koinadugu in the north and Bo and Bonthe in the South Sierra Leone, Western Africa (2004-2006)
Gbinleh-Dixon Water and Sanitation Project
In response to massive destruction of property and displacement of people during the decade long conflict in Sierra Leone, the Gbinleh-Dixon Water & Sanitation Project (Sierra Leone, West Africa) expects to benefit the health and standard of living for thousands of women, men, and children through constructing 20 community water wells.
Community Rehabilitation and Socio-Economic Reintegration
Community Rehabilitation and Socio-Economic Reintegration of Most Vulnerable People with disabilities in Kono and Kailahun Sierra Leone – West Africa, April 2003 – April 2005.
Child Soldier
Peace Theatre
BO Displaced Persons
Lungi Immunization
Women Affected by War
Côte d'Ivoire
About Korhogo and Dabou
Anti-Malaria Program
Women's Coop
Korhogo Women’s Training Program
The women of northern Côte d'Ivoire are predominantly subsistence farmers without any formal education. The Korhogo Women's Training Program (Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa) offers 1,200 of these women education opportunities in literacy, health, and income generation to assist them in reaching their potential.
Immunization Project
The Korhogo Immunization Project (Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa), vaccinates babies and women of childbearing age in 35 communities from preventable disease, and provides basic health education.
Past Projects in Central America:
Honduras
Coconut Palm Reforestation Project
The northern coast of Honduras has seen a deadly blight kill a majority of the area's coconut palms - a principal and essential component of subsistence economy of the Garifuna people that inhabit the area. To reverse this trend, Honduran Coconut Palm Reforestation Pilot Project (Honduras, Central America) will establish 82 coconut palm micro-nurseries (43,500 trees) and a coconut seed producing nursery serving 11 communities.
Micro EnterpriseProgram
Garifuna Agricultural Education Program, 2004-2007
Honduras is considered to be one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. The country has an “extraordinarily unequal distribution of income” according to the CIA World Factbook and has been made a CIDA focus country.
Hurricane Relief: 2006
CAUSE Canada filled major gaps in the acquisition and transportation of goods that included everything from hammocks for displaced people to sleep on to fuel for boats and trucks moving the goods. Agricultural supplies and seeds were distributed to help food growers recover. CAUSE Honduras was heavily involved in the reconstruction efforts.
CAUSE Honduras continued to support Garifuna coastal villagers with agricultural inputs such as seeds, seedlings, fertilizer and technical support. Since these farmers are frequently the victims of flooding during the annual hurricane season, CAUSE personnel worked with them to implement pro-active strategies (diversification and irrigation canals).
Guatemala
Comitancillo Fruit Growers Program
In the western highlands of Guatemala, barriers to developing individual and community self-determination include ill health, lack of formal education, un/underemployment, discrimination, and lack of access to aid programs. The Comitancillo Fruit Growers Program (Guatemala, Central America) helps to overcome these barriers by fostering and strengthening a local agricultural association benefiting 500 Mam Indian families in 16 communities.
Microcredit Program in Comitancillo
About Todos Santos
About IMDI
Water and Health Program
Forestry Program
About Tajamulco
Fruit Growers Cooperative