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June 2008
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Important News! |
VEG Microfinance Loans for Women Growing Fast
With the support of dedicated microfinance volunteers during the past few months, we have advertised our credit services to women's groups in villages of Volta Region. The response has exceeded our expectations:
11 new groups signed in the last week (giving a total of 67 new members), and and we expect 20 more groups will be joining within the next following weeks.
This has confirmed the dire need for credit services targeting women in Ghana.
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The Lorlornyo Group, ready for a loan! |
Thank you all for your support at the Fundraising Event
Badenya Inc. and VEI hosted a fund raising event featuring jazz vocalist Lil Phillips of the United States, and Kora player Foday Musa Suso (website) of Gambia. About a hundred people came to this concert organized on May 30 in New York City. VEI would like to thank all the people who helped organizing this event, giving their time, their talent and their energy. Special thanks go to Maureen Lynch, who designed the program, Dr. Nii Nartey, who hosted Badenya, VEI and Foday Musa Suso on his African Show on WKCR (website), and INKO's tea (website), for their donation of refreshments. |
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Featured
Volunteer Placement |
Volunteer for the Lady Volta Bati Project:
Designers and Seamstresses Welcome
The volunteer will help by using artistic creativity to design new “high-end, luxury” fabrics. The batik cloth process is fun and easy to learn using wax stamps, dyes, and chemicals. Batik workshops are available here for understanding the process.
Volunteers interested in designing new products (must have basic sewing skills) can teach interactive product designing classes to the young women. |
Click here for the full placement outline |
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Featured
Project |
Dying the cloth
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Lady Volta Batik, our second imcome-generating project, was launched earlier this year. The project follows a similar model to the existing Lady Volta Beads Project, employing and training young women and young mothers. Two NGOs (Global Mamas and VEI-Ghana) are partnering to export the products made by the batikers and seamstresses here in Ho
Click here to find out more about the Lady Volta Batik Project. |
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