Loans & Project Grants Funded by UWD

Following is a summary of the loans and projects that the UWD has funded by year.

Loans

2018

  • Honduras – group – Puerto Lempira Cafeteria
  • Honduras – individual – Secretarial Service
  • South Africa – individual – Outlet for Women’s Crafts
  • Western Tanzania – individual – Taxi Service
  • Western Tanzania – individual – Sewing Business

2014

No loans were granted in 2014.

2013

  • Honduras – Individual Loan – Tires for Transportation Bus
  • Zambia – Lending Circle Loan – Fishing
  • Zambia – Lending Circle Loans (2 of them) – Farming

2012

  • Tanzania (Lake Tanganyika Province) – Individual loan – sewing school
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  • Zambia – Lending Circle Loan – enclosure for hammermill

Projects

2018

  • Tanzania – All-Africa Women’s Conference
  • Cuba – VAW Conference
  • Suriname – Seminar for Pastor’s Wives and Training for PCs

2014

  • Albania – Funds reserved for a women’s education and training program (remaining funds are being raised)
  • Honduras – Funds for Provincial Coordinator to visit 2 new areas to introduce the UWD
  • Nicaragua – Funds to purchase basic office supplies for a women’s organizational meeting
  • South Africa – Provincial Coordinator training
  • Tanzania (Southwestern Province) – AIDS education programs
  • Tanzania (Western Province) – Funds for Advisory Board member to travel to the Western Tanzania Women’s Conference
  • Tanzania (Western Province) – Funds to support the Western Tanzania Women’s Conference
  • U.S. Northern & Southern Provinces and Tanzania – Stipends for participating professors working on a domestic violence course

2013

  • Honduras – Health care kits (UWD facilitated collection/transportation of donated items)
  • Honduras – Layettes of Love (UWD facilitated collection/transportation of donated items)
  • Honduras – Medical charts for health care classes (UWD facilitated collection/transportation of donated items)
  • U.S. Northern & Southern Provinces and Tanzania – Stipends for participating professors working on a domestic violence course

2012

  • Cuba – Funds to support the first Cuban Women’s Conference
  • Sierra Leone – School lunches for 3 children attending secondary school
  • Tanzania – Women Secretaries Training Seminars (for women who also serve as Provincial Coordinators)

2011

  • Tanzania – T-shirts for first all-Tanzania Women’s Conference