| Ivory Coast – Help Women Displaced by the Civil War |
| The Project |
- Six-month training for 50 students to increase their chances to find a job and help them rise out of poverty
- Medical and prevention services for 300 women and their families
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A little girl holds her brother in her arms. The little boy passed away since because of malnutrition. |
| The Needs |
• An armed conflict and an economic crisis forced thousands of families to flee to Abidjan
• The UN ranks Ivory Coast 166 out of 177 countries according to its Human Development Index:
- 48% of the population lives below the poverty line (less than $1/day)
- 15% of the population suffer from malnutrition (21% of children under five years old)
- 22% the population is unemployed (4.5 million people)
- 80% of the unemployed are between 15 and 34 years old
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Baby girl prior to assistance |
After going through the nutrition program
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Expected Results |
Training of 50 women over six months to increase their chances to find a job and help them rise out of poverty, namely on:
- Democracy and human rights
- Introduction to basic computer office tools
- Job search training
Medical services for 300 women to improve living conditions in the Bas-Fonds neighborhood of Abidjan through:
- Medical consultations, vaccinations
- Nutritional programs
- Disease treatment and prevention
- Hygiene, viral infections and HIV/AIDS
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| Our partner in Ivory Coast |
| ADESC (the Association for Social and Cultural Development), an Ivory Coast NGO creating help centers and educational programs since 1984. |
Consultations médicales sur le terrain |
| LINCCO Objective |
Raise $20,000 to support women displaced by the Ivory Coast civil war and now living in Abidjan, the national capital:
- $180 = training of one woman
- $35 = health services for one woman
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Philippines – Training Community Health Workers |
The project: |
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One-year training program for 90 volunteer women to become Community Health Workers (CHWs) in a disadvantaged area near Manila
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Offer basic services in health, hygiene, home and community sanitation, as well as First Aid, maternal and child care
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 The needs
- Overall, healthcare services in the Philippines are deteriorating. Annually, 5,000 healthcare workers leave the country, and an estimated two hundred hospitals have closed;
- According to WHO, approximately 8 women die everyday from pregnancy and childbirthe related complications.
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What do CHWs learn
- Maternal and child care
- Emergency care and First Aid
- Diarrhea and communicable disease control
- Health and environmental education
- Proper use of prescription drugs
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Our partner in the Philippines: |
- The Family Cooperation Health Services Foundation (FAMCOHSEF), founded in 1991 by healthcare professionals, works with the Muntinlupa Health Office to create a self-reliant system of primary health care providers
- FAMCOHSEF has been successful, having trained 400 CHWs since its inception in 1991
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LINCCO's objective: |
- Raise $35,000 in Canada to support this training program – $390 for each CHW
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Kenya – Teacher Enhancement Program
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Seminar for 200 elementary and high school educators, with a one-year personalized follow-up through in-person visits and coaching;
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Equip educators with leadership and management skills to raise the quality of education, especially in disadvantaged areas surrounding and outside of the major cities.
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The need:
- Educators have many challenges – poverty, violence, spread of HIV/AIDS – for which they need training.
- Improving the quality of teaching can help lower student dropout rates, keeping more students in school and making a difference in the lives of more of them.
- Poorly built schools have hygiene problems, presenting risks for student health for which teachers need specialized training.
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What teachers learn:
- Leadership
- Awareness of their students living and social conditions
- Communication and negotiation skills
- Classroom management and harmonizing home/school relations;
- Health and hygiene skills
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Our partner in Kenya:
- Strathmore University of Nairobi started the Teacher Enhancement Program in 2002
- Since then, Strathmore has successfully trained 2,000 educators.
LINCCO's objective:
- Raise $20,000 in Canada to support the training of 200 educators – $100 each
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Condoray – Peru
LINCCO has worked for over 20 years with Condoray – a training centre for women in the Cañete Valley south of Lima.
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Photo Gallery of LINCCO-sponsored activities
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Background on LINCCO’s support for Condoray
The most recent project was a grant of $18,000 to train 48 Rural Women Leaders in 2003/04. The participants came from villages in the Cañete valley and received training to provide leadership to others in their communities for educational, family and social improvements. They received skills training in agriculture, nutrition, hygiene, first aid and child care.
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Background on the Cañete Valley in Peru
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Condoray means strength in Quechua, the local native dialect of the Cañete Valley.It was founded in 1963
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More than 20,000 women in 18 villages have benefited from its programs |
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Cañete Valley has 156,000 inhabitants of which:
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Less than 10 per cent of women earn a salary allowing them to meet their basic needs |
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80 per cent of women are illiterate |
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70 per cent of homes do not have running water or electricity |
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The infant death rate before first birthday is 160 per 1,000 births
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Democratic Republic of Congo
Beginning in 2005, LINCCO has funded a series of projects to provide job training and health care skills in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
Job training in the tourism and hospitality industries
Starting in 2004, LINCCO has partnered with the Charron Foundation to undertake a $100,000 commitment over five years to develop tourism and hospitality industry skills among young people in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Government bodies involved in tourism requested that Congolese Centre for Culture, Training and Development (CECFOR) include their students and staff in the training program. In the first four months of operation, 110 people, mostly women, benefited from the training.
The program consists of:
- Individual skills inventory followed by personal coaching
- Creation of teaching materials and a documentation resource centre
- Train the trainer programs for teachers in educational institutions
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Monkole Health Care Centre
In 2005, LINCCO partnered with Servir Plus to send a Canadian nurse to the Institut supérieur en sciences infirmières (ISSI) for eight weeks to train nurses working at the Centre hospitalier Monkole (Monkole Health Care Centre) in Kinshasa. ISSI is a 50 student nursing program, started in 1994.
In 2006, a Canadian paediatrician, Dr. Albert Larbrisseau from the Centre hospitalier Ste-Justine in Montreal, spent a month at Monkole Health Centre training physicians in specialized pediatric subjects.
In January 2008, in a partnership with Servir Plus, another Canadian nurse went to Kinshasa to train 25 nurses who teach at ISSI. During her two weeks in Kinshasa, the Canadian nurse offered group training sessions, individual follow up with all participants and audits of their in-class teaching. In addition, she met with Directors of Nursing at a number of Kinshasa hospitals to provide advice on improving the practical training nurses receive in hospitals as part of their education at ISSI.
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Photo Gallery of Monkole activities
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Background on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- DRC is struggling to rebuild following ethnic strife that began in 1994 and then a five year civil war that ended in 2003, estimated to have caused between three and four million deaths. This war was especially brutal, with the use of child soldiers and rape. Repeated pillaging, lawlessness and internal refugee migration further de-stabilized the DRC.
- Democratic elections were held in 2006 and the fragile peace is holding and rebuilding is underway.
- Despite the ending of hostilities, the lot of DR Congo’s citizens has improved only marginally. It is estimated that in 2005, 1,000 people were dying every day from war-related causes, including disease, hunger and violence. It is also estimated that 2.7 million people have HIV/AIDS of a total 65 million population, causing 100,000 deaths/year.
- Decades of decline, instability and war have left DRC’s economy and institutions weakened. Most economic activity is informal. Institutions such as all levels of education and health care are inadequate for the needs of the people.
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Yarani - Ivory Coast |
As part of the Harambee 2002 project, LINCCO received donations that were part of an international fund raising campaign.
Donations to LINCCO went to the Yarani Professional Training School to train 120 women, allowing the students to only pay one-third of the actual cost of their education. The program was in hotel management, instructing them about the food industry, customer service and computer literacy.
As female illiteracy is 66 per cent in Ivory Coast, this course was designed for women with limited formal education, allowing them to increase their chance of integrating into the workforce.
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