Combined Services Third World Fund

Address: 76/78 Harcourt St, Dublin 2

Phone: 00 353 1 4082473/75

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Application For Grants
     
The following projects were awarded grants in September 2009

No. 2471: The sum of €8,800 was approved for the provision of water storage tanks at St. Benedict’s Priory for the use of the Priory and the
local community at Tororo, Uganda. (Picture below).


Workers and neighbours of the community helping off-load the tanks.

No. 2472: €2,200 was approved for Tiruchirappalli Multipurpose Social Service Society, Tamilnadu, South India for the provision of drinking water and water for kitchen and toilet use for people suffering with leprosy..

No. 2425: €2,000 was granted for the funding of 10 Nursing Schorships at the St John of God Hospital School of Nursing in Lunsar, Sierra Leone.

No. 2476: The Montfort Brothers of St Gabriel of Njombe, Tanzania were granted €4,500 for the purchase of 4 dairy cattle and the construction of a small shed for them at their Agricultural Biased Secondary School.

No. 2479: The sum of €6,000 was granted to FLAME (Foundation for Liberty, Awareness and Mankind Empowerment) to build the capacity, empowerment and economic development of 300 uneducated, unskilled, marginalized and underprivileged girls by adult literacy and skill development.

No.2481: €10,000 was awarded for the provision of scholarships for 3 Ethiopian girls to train as nurses in the Nurse Training School in Wolisso, Ethiopia.

No.2482: €3,000 was granted to the Etafeni Day Care Centre Trust, Nyanga, Capetown, South Africa for the purchase of garden implements, seedlings and compost.

No. 2483: €4,600 was granted to the Little Flower Mission Hospital, Vilakudy, Kollam, Kerala, South India for the purchase of a C- Arm Image Intensifier.

No.2484: The sum of €8,000 was given to a project in Patna, Bihar, Northern India involving the refurbishment of the Pastoral Centre where courses and seminars are offered for village women on basic health, for youth leaders, and for community organizers and leaders.

No. 2485: A grant of €4,500 was awarded to Caritas, Faisalabad, Pakistan for an income generating goats scheme for small women farmers in Faisalabad.

No.2486: €8,000 was granted to the organization, Mirta Coronel, Argentina, for an Adult Literacy and Study Help project for needy students in Cuartel V, Moreno.

No.2487: A grant of €3,000 was approved for a vegetable seeds project to improve the diet of poor families in six indigenous communities in the mountainous region of Ambatillo, Ecuador.