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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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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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-Fond 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.
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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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Yarani
As part of the Harambee 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.
During the year 2010 four scholarships were sent to Yarani Professional Hotel School students. |
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Ivory Coast
