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The life changing impacts of projects funded by TRAID

Chief Executive Maria Chenoweth-Casey Chair Ian Hagg

Introduction

For every unwanted garment that TRAID collects for reuse and resale in the UK, we can make a positive change to someone’s life somewhere in the world. This book sets out the individual stories and collective impact that TRAID’s international development funding has made. We are proud to share with you the ambition, resilience and optimism of the communities, households, farmers and textile workers we support.

It is difficult to imagine anything more worthwhile than working in partnership with communities to help them overcome the challenges of poverty, inequality and environmental degradation.

We invest directly in projects that change lives, and our goal is to find the best ways to help people in the most difficult situations to improve their lives in the long term.

Although TRAID is a young charity, our support has advanced health, education, employment and opportunity for people living in some of the world’s poorest communities.

TRAID is able to fund these remarkable projects by collecting unwanted clothing in the UK and reselling them in our charity shops. It’s a method of fundraising with powerful environmental and social returns. In the UK, textile reuse shrinks landfill, our carbon footprint and consumption. In the developing world, it enables us to help people lift themselves out of poverty. The more unwanted clothing TRAID collects in the UK, the more we can do.

This work demonstrates what is possible, and inspires us to do more. Thank you for supporting TRAID and our partners. You are critical to our continued success.

ContentsTackling Injustice in the Textile Industry 6

EveryChild – Engal Kural, Our Voice 8

War On Want – Better Conditions for Garment Workers 10

Traidcraft Exchange – Sustainable Textiles 12

Fairtrade Foundation – Empowering Textile Workers 14

Pesticide Action Nework UK – Organic Cotton. A Route out of Poverty 16

Pi Foundation – Child Labour Free Cotton Seed 18

International Childcare Trust – Girls at Risk 20

One World Action – Cutting the Chains 22

Sustainable Livelihoods 24

Africa Now – Enabling the Poor to Enjoy the Fruits of their Labour 26

Nepal Trust – Clean Energy Workshop 28

SolarAid – SunnyMoney 30

One World Action – Sustainable Fishing Cooperative 32

Excellent – Excellent Water, Soil and Trees 34

Case Studies

Ending Child Bonded Labour – EveryChild 36

Microsolar Success – SolarAid 38

Life After the Streets – Children at Risk Foundation 40

Health and Happiness – UNICEF 42

ContentsChildren and Education 44

Restless Development – Linking Learning to Life 48

Azafady – Project Lanirano 50

Tibet Relief Fund – Tibetan Transit School 52

CARE International – Community Organised Primary Education 54

CARE International – Girls’ Primary Education Programme 56

Children at Risk Foundation – The Hummingbird Project 58

Clean Water, Health and Sanitation 60

Azafady – Project Votsotse 64

Azafady – Project Rano & Project Salama 66

CIVA – National Innovation Fund for India 68

Project Concern International – Anwar Village Development Programme 69

UNICEF – Water and Sanitation Programme 70

Oxfam – Integrated Rural Development Project 72

Conflict and Emergency Relief 74

CARE International – Coming Home Free from the Fear of Landmines 76

Emergency Relief Funding 78

Thank You 80

29Right now, TRAID cash is hard at work

around the world improving people’s

lives, challenging poverty conditions

in the textile industry and cleaning

up our environment.

Life ChangingProjects

For every unwanted garment that TRAID collects for reuseand resale in the UK, there isa positive change in people’slives, somewhere in the world.

TacklingInjusticein theTextileIndustry

The textile industry employs hundreds of thousands of women, men and children in some of the world’s poorest communities. The abundance of cheap labour, and pressure from retailers to turn around clothes quickly and cheaply, leads to routine rights violations, exploitative wages and unsafe working conditions.

It’s not only people that pay a heavy price for our clothes. Environmentally, textiles are a dirty and resource intensive industry consuming vast quantities of water to dye and print clothing, and land to farm cotton.

Cleaning up the textile supply chain depends on empowering workers to claim rights, stemming pollution to manufacture clothing more sustainably, and changing purchasing practices to lift textile workers out of poverty, rather than consigning them to it.

IndiaTamil Nadu

Engal Kural,Our Voice

TRAID funding

£42,568

Partner

EveryChildwww.everychild.org.uk

Funding year / duration

2010 / 3 years

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Photo © EveryChild

The caste system is deeply ent-

renched in many parts of India

with lower caste groups facing

discrimination, social restrictions,

violence and abuse. The Arunt-

hatiyar are regarded as the lowest

of all castes, known as the ‘Dalit

among Dalits’ or the ‘Untouchables’.

They are compelled by their status

and extreme poverty to carry out

the most menial and shunned jobs

such as scavenging, cleaning toi-

lets and burying the dead.

As well as facing discrimination in

every aspect of their lives, many

Arunthatiyar children are forced

to enter into bonded labour to help

their families, pay for their mar-

riages, or pay off family debt.

TRAID has donated £42,568 to

EveryChild to prevent children

in India being forced into bonded

labour, specifically in textile spin-

ning mills. Increasingly, textile

mills prey on families living below

the poverty line with a scheme

called ‘sumangali thittam’ which

lures girl children into bonded

labour with the promise of a mar-

riage dowry at the end of the con-

tract. This is rarely, if ever, paid.

Operating in two districts of West

Tamil Nadu, the project aims to

rescue and rehabilitate 150 chil-

dren in bonded labour every year,

with a further 3,000 children per

year provided with education and

support. Child activity centres,

interventions to remove children

from bonded labour, and educat-

ing the wider community, includ-

ing employers and supervisors, are

some of the ways vulnerable chil-

dren will be protected.

Volunteers trained in child protec-

tion and rights track every child

enrolled in the centre to ensure

they are not missing school to

work in the mills, or worse have

been trafficked into the cities. Old-

er children will be supported with

skills training and career guid-

ance to equip them to have the

best possible start in their lives

as young adults when they leave

bonded labour.

Interventions to remove children from bonded labour, and educating the wider community are some of the ways vulnerable children will be protected.

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In Bangladesh, more than three

million people work in 4,825 fac-

tories producing cheap clothing in

appalling working conditions. The

textile industry accounts for 80%

of Bangladesh’s export trade, and

over 85% of these exports are sold

in Europe and the United States.

The pressure applied by interna-

tional retailers to turn around

clothing cheaply and quickly sees

factories flouting existing labour

laws, and subjecting textile work-

ers to long working hours, abusive

treatment and extremely low pay.

TRAID is supporting War on Want

with a grant of £75,000 to empow-

er Bangladeshi textile workers,

especially women, to defend their

rights through unions, to claim

their rights under existing labour

law, and to build the capacity of the

National Garment Workers’ Fed-

eration to defend workers’ rights.

A key component of the project

will also be to address the global

demands made upon Bangladeshi

factories by using advocacy work

to leverage consumers in sourcing

countries to press for change.

Educating and training 450 textile

workers at 15 workshops each

year on basic legal rights, health

and safety, sex discrimination,

the minimum wage and how to

form a trade union.

Providing legal advice to textile

workers to strengthen factory

dispute mechanisms.

Establishing dialogue with factory

owners and international

corporations.

Strengthening the involvement

of women through leadership

training and education.

Campaigning nationally to guar-

antee health and safety standards

for garment workers.

Monitoring and reporting worker

rights abuses nationally and

internationally.

The pressure applied by international retailers to turn around clothing cheaply and quickly sees factories flouting existing labour laws.

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•The National Garment Workers’ Federation (NGWF).The NGWF works with exploited garment sector workers through-

out Bangladesh. Through campaigning and education programmes,

the NGWF aims to ensure that workers receive fair wages and are

aware of their basic rights. The NGWF’s work with the government

and employers is leading to improvements in the working condi-

tions and environment of factories in Bangladesh.

Key Activities

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Bangladesh

Better Conditions for Garment Workers

TRAID funding

£75,000

Partner

War on Wantwww.waronwant.org


20103 years

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Photo courtesy of War on Want

India Rajasthan

SustainableTextiles

TRAID funding

£62,212 Partner

TraidcraftExchangewww.traidcraft.co.uk


2010 / 2 years

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Photo courtesy of Traidcraft Exchange

Most textile workers live in poverty earning around £2.80 per day, and typically work for small, unregulated textile businesses in unsafe working conditions.

Garment manufacturing is res-

ource intensive and highly pollut-

ing, especially the printing and

dyeing processes. Large volumes

of contaminated waste water are

released into rivers damaging eco-

systems and posing serious health

risks to local communities.

TRAID is supporting Traidcraft

Exchange with a grant of £62,212

to develop a tool-kit enabling small

businesses in Rajasthan, India,

to produce textiles without damag-

ing the health and environment

of workers and surrounding

communities.

The tool-kit will help business

owners and workers to establish

low cost pollution control measures

and safety equipment.

Once the tool-kit is tested and

refined, the approach will be

shared with other small textile

businesses across India reaching

over 450,000 people. Low cost

eco-friendly technologies will be

promoted to deal with pollution,

waste treatment and water con-

servation. This will reduce water

consumption, water pollution, and

improve the lives and environment

of workers.

The project will work with clusters

of small block printing businesses

reaching around 150 families in

the Bagru district of Rajasthan,

an area suffering extreme water

shortage and environmental deg-

radation. Traidcraft Exchange has

set up an eco-friendly water treat-

ment facility at a small textile busi-

ness, and will use it as a model to

demonstrate the viability and aff-

ordability of producing environ-

mentally friendly textiles.

Developing a tool-kit demonstrat-

ing how to set up low cost eco-

friendly textile production. It will

be translated into at least two Indi-

an languages starting with Telegu

and Hindi.

Running workshops across 14 tex-

tile clusters to introduce the tool-

kit, share learning and carry out

health and safety training.

Mentoring representatives of tex-

tile clusters to access the resources

necessary to carry out changes.

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The Fairtrade Foundation already

works with parts of the textile sup-

ply chain, such as cotton farm-

ers, to help workers secure a fair

price for their produce. Increas-

ingly, consumers with ethical con-

cerns can buy clothing carrying

the Fairtrade Mark – a label which

guarantees high trading and envi-

ronmental standards in developing

countries.

However, there is currently no sys-

tem in place for workers involved

in other stages of the supply chain

to share in Fairtrade benefits. For

example, while a T-shirt with the

Fairtrade Mark may tell you the

cotton used to make the garment

was grown and sold on fair terms;

the workers involved in stitching

the t-shirt, or embellishing it, or

dyeing it, will not have benefited.

TRAID has provided the Fair-

trade Foundation with a grant of

£64,166 to extend the reach and

benefits of Fairtrade through the

supply chain by empowering tex-

tile workers to access and claim

their rights. The project will inves-

tigate how Fairtrade can improve

the living and working conditions

of textiles workers and their com-

munities at pilot sites in India.

This exciting work is expected

to directly impact between 500

and 2,000 workers and their com-

munities. They will benefit from

improved rights awareness, advo-

cacy skills and international mar-

ket access for garments produced

under Fairtrade standards. It will

involve stakeholders at every lev-

el of the manufacturing process

to ensure full and active participa-

tion of the beneficiaries, managers,

retailers and local organisations.

Findings from the project will

contribute to an international Fair-

trade strategy on how we can best

address the challenges of the tex-

tile industry, and ensure the devel-

opment and empowerment of work-

ers in textile supply chains around

the world.

The project will investigate how Fairtrade can improve the living and working conditions of textile workers and their communities.

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Empowering Textile Workers

India

TRAID funding

£64,166

Partner

FairtradeFoundationwww.fairtrade.org.uk


201015 months

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Photo © Peter Caton / Fairtrade Foundation

Benin Organic Cotton. A Route out of Poverty

TRAID funding

£180,000 Partner

Pesticide Action Networkwww.pan-uk.org


2009 / 4 years

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Photo © Pesticide Action Network UK

In Benin, West Africa, cotton farm-

ers struggle to earn a living to

support themselves and their fam-

ilies. Typically, cotton farmers in

Benin are smallholders growing

cotton crops on around four acres

of land.

Poor health compounds poverty

amongst farmers due to the use of

highly toxic pesticides, often with

inadequate or no safety equipment.

TRAID provided a grant to the

Pesticide Action Network UK to

improve the livelihoods of cotton

farmers in Benin. The project is

helping over 2,100 farmers in Ben-

in make the transition to organic

cotton production. It is estimated

that at least 12,000 women, men

and children will experience

improvements in their livelihoods,

education and environment.

This ambitious and exciting

project is establishing a sustain-

able and environmentally friend-

ly agricultural model that does

not use pesticides, maintains and

improves cotton yields, and estab-

lishes buyers for the organic cot-

ton Benin’s farmers are growing.

A new model of cotton farming is

vital in Benin which, since the ear-

ly 1990’s, has seen cotton no long-

er contributing to community

development due to falling prices

and increased production costs.

Environmentally, the use of chem-

icals in conventional cotton farm-

ing has had a devastating impact

on biodiversity, wildlife and water

resources, as well as soil fertility.

The project is working with all

groups involved in the organic

cotton supply chain, from farm-

ers to buyers. A landmark report

will be published at the end of the

project providing a tried, tested

and systematically measured

working model of sustainable

cotton production.

TRAID is funding the Pesticide Action Network UK to establish a new and sustainable model of cotton farming that does not use pesticides.

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ChildLabour Free Cotton Seed

TRAID funding

£87,014

Partner

Pi Foundationwww.pifoundation.org


20093 Years

India is one of the leading produc-

ers of cotton with the largest geo-

graphical area under cotton cul-

tivation in the world. It has also

been an early pioneer of develop-

ing hybrid cotton seeds for com-

mercial use. Unlike other types of

hybrid seeds, cotton seeds must be

cross pollinated by hand. This is

extremely labour intensive and as

a result, in India, the use of cheap

bonded child labour in hybrid cot-

tonseed farms is rife.

In South East India, in the cotton

belt of Maharashtra and Andhra

Pradesh, approximately 200,000

children between the ages of 5 –

14 are involved in the delicate and

labour intensive process of cross

pollination. Girls account for 95%

of the existing labour force work-

ing for up to 13 hours per day for

around 24p.

TRAID has funded a project with

the Pi Foundation to develop a

new model of seed production that

eliminates child labour, is eco-

nomically viable for farmers, and

helps supply chains adhere to

labour standards protecting the

rights of children.

The project is working in part-

nership with farmers to grow cer-

tified Child Labour Free cotton

seeds paying fair wages to adult

workers, and selling to farmers at

affordable prices. Every acre con-

verted to produce seeds without

using child labour, directly cor-

relates to children being released

from bonded labour. Formerly

bonded children will be placed

in accelerated learning courses

enabling them to eventually join

mainstream schools.

The project is working to develop a new model of cotton seed production that eliminates child labour andprotects the rights of children.

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India Maharashtra & Andhra Pradesh

471,950Workers experiencing better wages and conditions

Every year, schemes known as

‘sumangali thittam’ (marriage

plans) lure thousands of girls from

poor rural communities into the

garment industry with the prom-

ise of earning their own dowry

(marriage payment) at the end

of a three year apprenticeship.

These schemes claim to enhance

the welfare of girls by giving them

a chance to get married. The reali-

ty is that they will work in deplor-

able conditions with no legal pro-

tection or education, returning

home years later empty handed.

In 2009, TRAID funded the Inter-

national Childcare Trust to lobby

government leaders and institu-

tions in the Dindigul District to

end child bonded labour in textile

mills. The Girls at Risk project has

built a network of local, regional

and national organisations to

campaign with one voice to outlaw

‘sumangali thittam’.

This work is already gathering

momentum. In 2010, the project

helped to bring the first ever test

case of unpaid girl labourers to

court. The judge looked at the cas-

es of 42 unpaid workers who were

promised a dowry and ruled that:

All victims present at the hearing

should be awarded immediate com-

pensation from the spinning mills

employing them.

Spinning mills must pay appren-

tices regularly and cannot con-

tinue to pay only a lump sum at

the end of a full three year term,

which is rarely, if ever, paid.

The Tamil Nadu Women’s Commis-

sion, an influential organisation

reviewing constitutional and legal

safeguards for women, can con-

duct spot checks on any district

textile mill to check working and

payment conditions.

Alongside advocacy work and

changes in the law to protect the

rights of children, the project is

also working at the grassroots

level to persuade families not to

allow their children to enter into

contracts, and with local institu-

tions and community leaders to

help stop child labour practices

in their midst.

The project has built a network of local, regional and national organisations to campaign with one voice to outlaw ‘sumangali thittam’.

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Girls at Risk

India Tamil Nadu

TRAID funding

£69,682

Partner

InternationalChildcareTrustwww.international-childcare-trust.org


20093 years

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Photo © International Childcare Trust

In Delhi, there are approximately

75,000 women embroidery home-

workers dependent on exploitative

middle men for poorly paid piece

work. A virtually invisible work-

force, these women work for

extremely low pay with no job

security or legal status. Without

recognising the vital role home-

workers play in producing gar-

ments for the world market, there

can be no regulation, improvement

to their livelihoods or protection

from exploitation.

In 2009, TRAID funded One World

Action, and its Southern partner

the Self Employed Women’s Asso-

ciation, to help women embroidery

homeworkers improve their lives

and wages. This ground breaking

project established two Embroidery

Centres in an urban slum in Delhi

to help women secure work directly

from suppliers, typically doubling

their wages.

The project also opened an infor-

mal education centre for the chil-

dren of workers. The Embroidery

Centres secured contracts from

export houses supplying many

high street brands. Today, over

500 women are receiving regular

fairly paid work, and 200 children

of workers are using the edu-

cation centre.

In 2010, TRAID funded the project

for two more years with a further

£89,443 to scale the project up

and become completely sustainable

in 2012. Phase Two of the project

aims to provide over 3,000 women

with regular work and to influence

more suppliers to shorten supply

chains by negotiating directly with

homeworkers. One of the ways this

will be achieved is with the creation

of a production company owned by

homeworkers through which they

can negotiate directly with suppli-

ers and maintain quality control.

By linking companies directly to

workers, layers of exploitation can

be eliminated, and homeworking

recognised and regulated. With

a shift in entrenched purchasing

patterns, and at no extra cost to

suppliers, this model of best prac-

tice shows that homeworking can

help women and their families

break free from poverty.

This ground breaking project is helping women embroidery homeworkers secure work directly from suppliers, typically doubling their wages.

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Cuttingthe Chains

India Delhi

TRAID funding

£142,289

Partner

One World Actionwww.oneworldaction.orgwww.sewabharat.org


2008 and 20104 years

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Photo Rufus Exton / © TRAID

SustainableLivelihoods

Extreme poverty forces people to accept conditions, wages and treatment that would otherwise be unacceptable in order to support themselves and their families. One of the best ways to fight poverty is to help the poorest people gain access to the skills, assets and opportunities they need to create jobs, increase incomes and improve living standards.

TRAID funds projects helping communities, farmers, textile workers and micro entrepreneurs overcome the barriers which prevent the poorest people from realising their full potential. This includes helping producers and communities to benefit from the opportunities of increased global trade and to prevent exploitation by working cooperatively to boost incomes.

It also includes establishing clean energy alternatives to alleviate energy poverty which hinders the lives and livelihoods of over 1.4 billion people who have no access to electricity, and are forced to use expensive and polluting fuels in their homes and communities.

56% of Kenya’s population are

living in poverty and are unable

to meet their basic needs.

Increased global demand has stim-

ulated a growing export agri-

culture and textile sector where

the poor can secure jobs and an

income to support themselves and

their families. However, workers in

these sectors experience very poor

working conditions with no securi-

ty or rights, and where none of the

economic benefits of global trade

are passed on.

TRAID is funding Africa Now

to alleviate poverty by empow-

ering low income households to

benefit from the opportunities of

increased global trade. The project

will help 25,000 low income work-

ers, and 5,000 small scale tea, cof-

fee and vegetable farmers in the

export sector, to get a fair price

for their goods by producing Fair-

trade products for the internation-

al market.

Farmers will receive training to

meet the codes and standards

needed for Fairtrade certification

and will be linked to buyers to

benefit from higher prices. At the

same time, factories will be trained

to meet core labour standards help-

ing thousands of workers into

safer, more secure employment.

Training factory personnel to rec-

ognise international and national

core labour standards.

Ensuring that 30 factories imple-

ment ethical management systems

with over 25,000 low income work-

ers experiencing an improvement

in their working conditions.

Developing training materials to

improve supervisor skills, establish

workers’ committees and improve

communication between workers

and management.

Working with small holders to

improve environmental sustaina-

bility by working towards Rainfor-

est Alliance certification.

Increasing revenue for 5,000

small scale farmers from sales

of Fairtrade certified tea, coffee

and fresh produce.

Building the capacity of small

scale producers to handle

Fairtrade premiums.

TRAID is funding Africa Now to alleviate poverty by empowering low income households to benefit from the opportunities of increased global trade.

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Enabling the Poor to Enjoy the Fruits of Their Labour

Kenya

TRAID funding

£50,000

Partner

Africa Nowwww.africanow.org


20093 years

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Photo © Africa Now

Humla is the highest, most remote

and most northerly region of Nepal.

Its inaccessibility means that the

vast majority of people live with no

electricity and will probably never

be connected to the grid. To add-

ress this, dozens of solar, micro-

hydro and wind power installa-

tions have been established in the

region to bring light and heat to

people’s homes.

Although renewables hold the

promise of a practical, clean and

cheap energy solution, there is a

serious lack of local skills to main-

tain, repair and operate the devices.

Many no longer work or are not

fully functioning, putting the long

term success of harnessing clean

energy at risk.

In 2009, TRAID provided a grant

to the Nepal Trust to carry out an

integrated approach to technical

maintenance by establishing the

Clean Energy Workshop – a fully

equipped hub to train and employ

local people to repair, maintain and

operate renewable energy devices

in their communities.

It is estimated that the lives of

44,000 people will benefit from the

workshop by providing employ-

ment, power for food production,

hot water, improved sanitation and

an alternative to the use of harm-

ful kerosene lamps. At the end

of the project, the workshop will

be handed over to the community

with the support of the Nepal Trust

in a model that combines develop-

ment with social enterprise rather

than dependency.

Maintaining power and lighting

for schools, monasteries and health

facilities.

Providing power for food grinders,

grain mills and saw mills stimulat-

ing income generation.

Heating water.

Creating local employment.

Equipping local people with train-

ing and skills to maintain commu-

nity projects.

Supporting improved food

production.

TRAID funding is training local people in Nepal to repair, maintain and operate renewable energy installations in their communities.

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NepalHumla

Clean EnergyWorkshop

TRAID funding

£74,765

Partner

The NepalTrustwww.nepaltrust.org


20093 years

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Photo © Nepal Trust

MalawiSunnyMoney

TRAID funding

£147,307

Partner

SolarAidwww.solar-aid.org


2007 / 3 years

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Photo © SolarAid

Many of the poorest communities

in the world have no access to elec-

tricity or are dependent on infre-

quent and unpredictable supplies.

In rural Africa, barely 2% of the

population is connected to the grid,

yet many of these regions have

the highest levels of sunshine in

the world.

In 2006, SolarAid launched to help

African communities harness the

power of the sun, and establish

long term supplies of cheap, clean

renewable energy.

TRAID was one of the first organ-

isations to fund SolarAid with a

grant of £147,307 to train poor

people in Malawi to build and mar-

ket solar powered versions of small

devices like lanterns, radios and

phone chargers which are essen-

tial to these communities.

The SunnyMoney project focused

initially on ending the depend-

ence on burning kerosene for light

which is harmful to health, dan-

gerous and expensive. Entrepre-

neurs learned to build and sell

solar powered lamps generating

income for themselves and their

families, and at the same time, pro-

vided an environmentally friend-

ly and non-polluting alternative to

kerosene in their communities.

To date, microsolar businesses

established by the SunnyMoney

project have sold 5812 solar

powered lamps.

At the macrosolar level, the project

is scaling up and has since installed

clean and affordable solar powered

lighting systems in 18 schools,

health clinics and community

centres. Today, SolarAid is fight-

ing poverty with enterprise across

Africa reaching thousands of

people through its macro and

micro programmes.

SolarAid launched to help African communities harness the power of the sun, and establish long term supplies of cheap, clean, renewable energy.

Wezzie Mhango, Solar Aid Entrepreneur, Malawi.Thanks to Solar Aid, the money that I was paid after assembling

panels saved the life of my children, I could easily take them to the

hospital, buy better drugs from the pharmacies and buy milk which

I used to feed them as it was very difficult for me to breast feed both

of them at once due to health problems.

This business is better than any other business I have ever been

involved with. As of now I just want to be safely employed and indep-

endent. My goal now is to sell 100 products by the end of the summer.

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The Manobo people live in the

Agusan marshlands of Mindanao,

the second largest island in the

Philippines archipelago. Today, the

main source of income for around

90% of the indigenous Manobo pop-

ulation is fishing. However, despite

the regions rich resources, poverty

and malnutrition in this region

is severe.

Middlemen and traders come from

all over the Philippines to buy fish

at rock bottom prices. Traders

advance exploitative cash loans

to local fishing families binding

whole communities to debt and

poor trading terms. Crippling pov-

erty and pressure from traders

has also meant that fishing com-

munities are increasingly using

unsustainable methods, like dyna-

mite, to catch fish. This is ravag-

ing the vast and complex freshwa-

ter ecosystems of the marshes and

decreasing fish stocks.

TRAID provided a grant to One

World Action to empower the

Manobo people to improve their

livelihoods, free their communi-

ties from debt and work for them-

selves. This funding established

the Agusan Fish Processing Enter-

prise, a cooperative business mod-

el giving fishing families complete

ownership over their livelihoods.

As a cooperative, they are involved

in the whole process of production

and are reinvesting profits into the

business. Fishing families have

reduced their dependency on

traders, and by selling fish for

higher prices, are able to pay off

their debts.

For the first time in their history,

the fishing families living on the

Agusan Marshes are selling their

fish for a fair price and are run-

ning a successful and profitable

social enterprise.

The processing plant is operational

and is generating profits.

Fishing families are selling their

catch at a higher and more stable

price.

100 fishing families have been

equipped with fishing nets and

canoes.

Sustainable fishing methods are

being promoted.

Traders advance exploitative cash loans to local fishing families binding whole communities to debt and poor trading terms.

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SustainableFishingCooperative

TRAID funding

£23,670

Partner

One World Actionwww.oneworldaction.org


20071 year

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Photo © One World Action

Philippines Mindanao

Africa suffers from poor soil fer-

tility, low rainfall and is prone to

drought. This means that access

to clean water and irrigation for

crops can be insecure and unpre-

dictable. Water sources quickly dry

up forcing people, especially wom-

en and children, to walk miles to

collect often unclean water.

On average, one in three rainy

seasons fails, and these prob-

lems are made worse by regional

deforestation.

TRAID provided three grants

to Excellent to mobilise rural

Kenyan farmers and their

communities to improve soil

and water conservation.

Working together, communities

terraced land, planted trees and

built sand dams – an incredible

water saving device capable of

holding and filtering 2 – 10

million litres of water.

The project also built water tanks

in schools providing clean drink-

ing water for students. Access to

water in schools means that stu-

dents do not have to interrupt

their learning by walking for

miles to collect water.

4,000 people directly benefiting

from the project outputs.

40,000 people indirectly benefiting

from improved water supply.

6 new sand dams.

1 school water tank.

1 sand dam extension.

Terraced 23,600 metres of land

(exceeding the original target by

12,400 metres).

Produced 8,000 seedlings in tree

nurseries.

Planted 5,000 trees.

Water sources quickly dry up forcing women and children to walk miles to collect often unclean water.

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Sand DamsA sand dam produces millions of litres of clean water. It is simply

a reinforced concrete wall built across seasonal river beds with

a pipe running through it. Over a few seasons, sand builds up

behind the dam. Eventually, huge volumes of clean water filtered

through sand are stored. The rise in the water table enables

farmers to irrigate their crops with a plentiful water source,

and access filtered drinking water all year around.

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Kenya

ExcellentWater, Soiland Trees

TRAID funding

£88,777

Partner

Excellentwww.excellentdevelopment.com


2007, 2008, 20093 years

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Photo © Excellent

Case StudyProjects in ActionTRAID funding

£42,568

Photo © EveryChild

Surya and Bhuvana are 14-year old girls

from the Dalit caste or the “Untouchables”

living in Western Tamil Nadu. Discrimi-

nation, crippling poverty and family debt

meant that Surya and Bhuvana were forced

to work at a nearby spinning mill, making

yarn for export.

Like girls in all these factories, they were

paid nothing upfront or while they worked.

If girls leave the mill before three years are

up, as most do due to the appalling condi-

tions, they receive nothing.

Girls are kept in hostels, under the tight,

secretive supervision of male guards, which

leaves them open to physical and sexual

abuse. Little or no family contact is allowed.

Surya and Bhuvana slept cramped into a

10-foot square room with six other girls,

and shared a toilet with 40 others. This

situation is illegal.

Surya and Bhuvana would probably still

be working in the mill now, but after some

girls died from food poisoning, they sum-

moned up the courage to leave. EveryChild

was able to help them return to their families.

Both girls are back with their families, and

Bhuvana is attending school. EveryChild

has now introduced a credit scheme in their

village to fund loans and stop families hav-

ing to send children away to work.

The girls also come to the EveryChild activ-

ity centre where the children can play tog-

ether and learn. Through initiatives like

these we can bring about lasting change

to communities.

Ending ChildBonded Labour

Photo © Marianne Kernohan / SolarAid


£147,307

John Nyirenda’s journey began a couple of

years ago when SolarAid organised a train-

ing day which John attended. He immediate-

ly impressed the SolarAid trainers and start-

ed with thirty micro solar products to mar-

ket. Today, he owns a SunnyMoney Kiosk

in Nkata Bay, Malawi which he opened after

selling one of his cows called Chimwemwe.

“I am very grateful to SolarAid for consid-

ering me. Before I started the micro solar

business I built a house but had no money

to buy iron sheets to finish it. I therefore

used the profits I made to finish my house

and my family is very happy now.”

Inside John’s house, he has micro solar

light bulbs fitted with six LED bulbs hang-

ing on the wall using the very first light

bulb design SolarAid launched. “I like this

design of the Muuni light bulb because it

gives enough light. It is very bright. I have

never bought paraffin in this house since

I started using it. It’s very reliable and has

helped me save a lot of money,” he said.

Asked on what he plans for the future

regarding his micro solar business, he is

very optimistic.

“I want to use my success to motivate oth-

ers. The journey has just begun and there

is no looking back. Helping me set up this

micro solar business, SolarAid has indirect-

ly assisted many people who look up to me

for financial and material support.”

MicrosolarSuccess

Photo © Gregory Smith / CARF


£30,000

Sandra was abandoned on the streets of São

Paulo, Brazil in the nineties. She was one of

four children, all of whom ended up on the

streets. Her mother was a homeless alcohol-

ic and died when Sandra was young. Her

father had also died. She lived on the streets

with her siblings unprotected, unsupervised

and addicted to sniffing glue.

After six months of working with Sandra

on the streets to win her trust, she even-

tually went to live at the Hummingbird Cen-

tre where she was supported to learn to live

within a healthy social environment.

Since then, Sandra has grown up together

with her two brothers and sister, and is now

a married mother. Her older brother Jeffer-

son also lived on the streets with Sandra.

Today, he teaches the Brazilian martial art

Capoeira to hundreds of at risk community

children at the Hummingbird Centre, help-

ing them learn new skills, instilling them

with self respect and steering them away

from a life on the streets.

Life Afterthe Streets

Photo © UNICEF/NYHQ2007-1726/Nesbitt


£180,472

For as long as she can remember, a dominant

theme in Fatima’s life was her struggle to

cope with the harmful effects of unclean water.

Growing up in the Angolan village of Mabuia,

Fatima would spend up to four hours each day

collecting water. Disease could be, and was,

transmitted via the water.

In 1999, Fatima’s first child, Isabel, died after

a series of attacks of diarrhoea. “Isabel was

always sick, she could just never get strong”

says Fatima, hugging her second child,

13 month old Fernando. “By the time Isabel

was Fernando’s age she had been sick a

dozen times.”

In 2000, UNICEF responded to appalling lev-

els of child mortality by supporting the Ango-

lan government in building a pipeline from

a river to the community. A filtering system

ensured every single drop of water was clean

and safe. For improved sanitation, latrines,

taps and showers were installed.

The results were exceptional: Diarrhoea rates

dropped to almost zero and child deaths plum-

meted. Girls were suddenly freed up from

hours of walking to and from the river so

that they could enter school. Mothers found

more time to grow food crops and boost the

family income.

In addition, UNICEF helped create a communi-

ty water and sanitation committee which

now maintains the system. The committee

now ensures that the system is self sustain-

ing, allowing UNICEF to invest in new

rural projects.

Smiling widely, Fatima swings Fernando onto

her back, fills her bucket under the gushing

pipe, and drinks. “Clean water!” she says, as

if she had just poured liquid gold.

Health andHappiness

Children &Education

Poverty is the main reason that children and adults miss out on schooling. In developing countries, the costs of education are often too great for parents to afford to send their children to school, and girls are the first to lose out.

Education is one of the most powerful and effective catalysts for people to lift themselves out of poverty. However, 70 million children worldwide are unable to read or write. We think that everyone has the right to a basic education, and TRAID has invested £235,638 since 1999 to overcome barriers to education and address the reasons why children are not in school.

The projects and partners supported by TRAID have successfully schooled adults and children in some of the most challenging regions in the world, trained teachers, and greatly improved access to education, especially for girls.

The social, economic and health benefits of education are far reaching, helping people to break the cycle of poverty, exploitation and disempowerment.

150Schools Built

30,000Children Educated

LinkingLearningto Life

TRAID funding

£30,000

Partner

RestlessDevelopmentwww.restlessdevelopment.org


2006 / Nine months

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Photo © Restless Development

UgandaKamuli and Kayunga

Uganda is young, growing and

mostly rural. Two thirds of Ugan-

dans are under 30, and the major-

ity depend entirely on their imme-

diate environment for food and

income. Poor health, economic

stagnation and unpredictable food

supplies are commonplace.

Restless Development is a youth

led development charity engaging

with young people to strengthen

democracy, create jobs and support

peace building. The charity places

young people at the heart of devel-

opment. TRAID funded the inno-

vative Linking Learning to Life

project to empower young people

to take leadership roles in their

communities.

28 young adults (aged 18 – 25)

were selected from 750 applicants

to become volunteer Peer Educa-

tors across seven rural commu-

nities addressing urgent health

and environmental issues such as

water pollution, deforestation and

HIV/AIDS.

Peer Educators were trained

around water harvest and conser-

vation, soil fertility, crop growing,

and organic farming techniques.

They were then placed in commu-

nities to share knowledge organ-

ising 231 community events and

demonstrations reaching 3,936

people, 7,950 primary school

students and 3,461 secondary

school students.

Peer Educators encouraged young

people to have a say in the policy

and decision making processes

that impact their lives, and on

their families and communities.

The project culminated in a five

day conference giving hundreds

of young delegates the opportu-

nity to discuss problems in their

region, and share ideas about how

they could become more involved

in their own future and lead their

own development.

TRAID funded the innovative Linking Learning to Life project to empower young people to take leadership roles in their communities.

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ProjectLanirano

TRAID funding

£15,791

Partner

Azafadywww.madagascar.co.uk


2006 / 1 year

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Photo © Azafady

MadagascarTolagnarao

(Fort Dauphin)

Despite its size, Madagascar is

one of the most impoverished and

least developed countries in the

world. The majority of the popu-

lation lives below the poverty line

with almost no sanitation or water

infrastructure, no health care,

inadequate education, mass unem-

ployment and chronic malnutrition.

Azafady is a charity which has

been working for over ten years in

Madagascar to fight poverty and

prevent environmental destruction.

TRAID provided a grant to train

women to gain employment and

secure an income. Courses took

place in a permanent training

facility and included language

courses, IT and literacy.

This funding also built a crèche

giving mothers the opportunity

to take courses while receiving

free childcare and food. For stu-

dents graduating from courses,

small grants were made available

to help candidates set up their

own businesses.

Establishing a crèche providing

free childcare and food to course

participants.

250 Malagasy people completing

courses with the highest demand

in literacy and English language.

6 Education Workshops run to

train course graduates to establish

small businesses.

31 businesses set up and generat-

ing income.

This project model has proven

successful and today, Project

Lanirano continues to enhance the

incomes of some of the most mar-

ginalised people in Madagascar.

Project Lanirano is enhancing the incomes of some of the most marginalised people in Madagascar.

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India & Nepal

TibetanTransitSchool

TRAID funding

£32,242

Partner

Tibet ReliefFundwww.tibetrelieffund.co.uk


2006 / 2 years

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Photo © Tibet Relief Fund

In 1950, Tibet was invaded and

occupied by the People’s Libera-

tion Army of China. Since this

time, Tibetans have been denied

basic human rights and their

culture, language and natural

resources have been eroded irrev-

ocably. The Tibet Relief Fund was

the first charity founded following

the Dalai Lama’s flight from Tibet

to support Tibetans living inside

Tibet, and those in exile.

TRAID funds enabled the Tibet

Relief Fund to extend a school in

Dharamsala, India, for Tibetan ref-

ugees. The Tibetan Transit School

provides basic education for newly

arrived refugees including vital

vocational skills like carpentry,

plumbing and masonry to enable

them to secure employment in

a new country.

TRAID funds rebuilt the school

kitchen and helped improve com-

mon toilets, store rooms and class-

rooms. It was expected that the

school would provide for around

300 refugees, however, the high

influx of displaced people was

more than double this. The school

also provides medical and psycho-

logical support to refugees after

enduring huge difficulties both in

Tibet, and after crossing the Hima-

layas into India.

Project work also took place in

Nepal when the Tibet Relief Fund

partnered with Trek Aid to bring

skilled volunteers – doctors, health

workers, teachers, architects and

builders – together with refugees.

They worked on projects in four

Tibetan camp settlements deliver-

ing small scale improvements to

infrastructure, medical services

and care for older people.

Today, the Tibetan Transit School

is a vital resource for newly

arrived Tibetan refugees provid-

ing food, accommodation, care and

education for up to 700 refugees at

any time.

The Tibetan Transit Schoolprovides refugees who haveendured huge difficulties witheducation, accommodation,health and psychological support.

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In Afghanistan, decades of conflict

and unrest has caused the destruc-

tion of infrastructure and the dis-

placement of nearly one-third of

the population. Occupation, war

and Taliban rule has had a devas-

tating impact on children’s educa-

tion, especially girls. In 2000, it

was estimated that only 4 – 5% of

Afghan children were being edu-

cated at primary school level, with

fewer having access to secondary

or university level education. Under

Taliban rule from 1996 – 2001, half

of Afghan schools were destroyed,

and girls were denied all access

to education.

In 2002, TRAID supported CARE’s

innovative Community Organised

Primary Education (COPE) project

to help communities run their own

schools to educate their children.

Rural areas in particular were

underserved by even the most basic

services. CARE surveyed the rural

mountain region of Nowar in the

Ghazni province which revealed

that parents were desperate for

their children to be educated, and

willing to do what they could to

educate them.

Funding provided by TRAID estab-

lished Village Education commit-

tees to mobilise communities to

train teachers, build schools, set up

libraries, provide school supplies

and protect schools and students

from attacks.

14 schools enrolling 1,882 students

(48% girls) in 64 classes.

Established 15 Village Committees.

Trained and hired 54 school teach-

ers (13% female).

Today, there are more than

5,000,000 children in education

in Afghanistan. CARE continues

to be a leader in community based

education and is currently streng-

thening COPE to meet the educa-

tion needs of 3,641 students, 70%

of which are female. CARE is also

working in partnership with Afgh-

anistan’s Ministry of Education to

continue developing the curricu-

lum and the potential of girls and

women in remote communities. As

more girls obtain a primary edu-

cation, CARE is also addressing

the need for continuing education,

helping girls to train to become

health workers and teachers.

In Afghanistan, TRAID funding helped to mobilise communities and parents to train teachers, build schools and set up libraries to educate their children.

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AfghanistanGhazni

CommunityOrganisedPrimaryEducation

TRAID funding

£27,500

Partner

CAREInternationalwww.careinternational.org.uk


20022 years

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Photo © Katie Holt / Care International

Education is fundamental in the

fight against poverty. In India,

while the pace of education has

accelerated, there are many barri-

ers to children accessing quality

primary education, especially for

girls. The states of Uttar Pradesh

and Rajasthan have the lowest

female rural literary rates in all of

India, 19% and 12% respectively.

In 1999, TRAID funded Care Inter-

national to expand its Girls’ Prima-

ry Education Programme in these

regions by establishing communi-

ty schools in remote rural villages.

In these areas, there was previous-

ly no access to primary level edu-

cation for children.

TRAID funding enabled CARE

to set up 200 community schools,

train teachers, provide schools

with basic materials and greatly

reduce the enrolment gap between

boys and girls.

Community mobilisation helped

to raise awareness about the imp-

ortance of girls’ education, and cre-

ate the conditions in which girls

could go to, and remain in school.

The project worked closely at the

family level and community level

to establish a broad base of support

for educating girls. This involved

creating Mothers’ Groups, home

visits, small group discussions,

folk media, films, events and vil-

lage rallies. At the same time,

CARE worked closely with local

organisations to strengthen local

commitment towards establish-

ing quality education in poor rural

areas, especially for girls.

350 Mothers’ Groups and 150 com-

munity groups formed.

200 Community schools providing

access to quality primary educa-

tion for more than 6,000 children

who would otherwise not be attend-

ing school.

Establishing an accelerated learn-

ing residential programme for

uneducated adolescent girls to help

them get into formal school.

Today, CARE’s Girls’ Primary Edu-

cation Project is flourishing with

thousands of young girls receiving

education in hundreds of villages

in the region.

Community mobilisation helped to raise awareness about the importance of girls’ education.

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India Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan

Girls’PrimaryEducationProgramme

TRAID funding

£100,105

Partner



19992½ years

56 57

Photo © Anne Heslop / Care International

HummingbirdProject

TRAID funding

£30,000

Partner

Children at Risk Foundationwww.carfweb.net


1999 / 2 years

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Photo © Gregory Smith / CARF

BrazilSão Paulo

In São Paulo, the largest city in

Brazil, thousands of children live

on the streets after running away

from failing and abusive families.

Street children are marginalised

and vulnerable; they are exploit-

ed by criminals and to survive

get involved in prostitution, drug

dealing and robbery. Despite leg-

islation in Brazil protecting the

rights of the child, the authorities

have done little to protect children

and have been accused of brutalis-

ing and killing them in unofficial

‘death squads’.

The Children at Risk Foundation

(CARF) is based in São Paulo and

works to defend the rights of street

children in Brazil. CARF works in

innovative ways to get children off

the streets and living in healthy

family based environments.

TRAID funding enabled CARF to

build and equip the Humming-

bird Activity Centre to offer a gen-

uine alternative to children and

adolescents living on the streets of

São Paulo. The Centre enables up

to 12 children every year to leave

the streets permanently, eventual-

ly being sent to foster families, or

where possible, reintegrated into

their natural families.

Children benefit from an intensive

rehabilitation programme with

four social workers. Nearly all

street children are drug dependent

and detoxification is an important

part of the process. Sports, par-

ticularly the Brazilian martial art

Capoeira, play an important part

of the recuperation programme.

The Centre is geared to prepare

them to return to ordinary family

life with each child settled into fos-

ter or natural family care within

a year of leaving the streets. Piec-

ing together a child’s family his-

tory is important to potentially

renew bonds, and to initiate psy-

chological work. Today, the Centre

has expanded and offers a range

of cultural activities reaching over

600 at risk children every year.

TRAID funding built and equipped the Hummingbird Activity Centre, giving children an alternative to living on the streets of São Paulo.

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Clean Water,Health &Sanitation

40% of the world’s population do not have access to basic sanitation or safe drinking water. As a result, millions suffer from life threat-ening preventable diseases that claim the lives of thousands every day, especially children.

Clean water and basic sanitation leads to dramatic health improve-ments, and leaves people with more time to work, learn and care for their family.

Improving the standard of sanitation in poor countries worldwide is a matter of basic human dignity, and TRAID has invested £624,914 since 1999 in sanitation and clean water programmes.

200,000People Accessing Health Services

1,350Latrines Built

Food insecurity is one of the most

immediate problems for rural

households in Southern Madagas-

car. Children are especially vulner-

able. 1 in 10 children dies before

they reach 5 years old, and a major

factor is malnutrition and a lack

of nutritional education, especially

among pregnant women and nurs-

ing mothers.

TRAID supported a major project

delivered by Azafady and CARE

International to significantly red-

uce malnutrition in children under

the age of five, and to promote

good hygiene in rural Madagascar.

TRAID funds are being used to

create and tour a mobile cinema

screening education films to rural

communities to raise awareness

about good nutritional practices

and health, and how to recognise

malnutrition in young children.

In local villages, nutrition commit-

tees have been established to circu-

late and promote better nutrition-

al knowledge. Mothers are able to

monitor the growth of their chil-

dren and to find out how to imp-

rove the diet of their families by

growing and cooking new foods.

The mobile cinema will move

between villages in community

meeting places and will be a key

educational tool.

In 2009, TRAID provided an addi-

tional £20,423 of core funding to

Azafady enabling them to take on

more staff to carry out vital work.

In local villages, nutrition committees have been established to improve the nutritional health of babies, pregnant women and nursing mothers.

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In rural Madagascar, 80 – 90% of

the population have no access to

basic sanitation and clean water.

Polluted water is one of the main

causes of disease and many villag-

es have serious health problems

including typhoid, cholera out-

breaks and diarrhoea. State health

facilities in Madagascar are seri-

ously underfunded, and for most

rural people, the nearest health

post is at least a 50km round trip

on foot.

In 2002, TRAID provided a grant

to Azafady to improve rural health

and sanitation for 10,000 people in

the remote Anosy region of South

East Madagascar by establishing

clean drinking water, basic sanita-

tion and access to healthcare.

The project built 1000 latrines to

reduce the high incidence of diar-

rhoea and to prevent cholera out-

breaks, installed hand pumps to

improve hygiene and introduced

latrines in key communal spac-

es like schools, churches and dis-

trict committees. Five pharmacies

were built with the participation of

villagers, and community health

committees established to prevent

and treat common diseases and

dispense basic medical supplies.

Building on this work, in 2006,

TRAID funded Azafady to continue

establishing access to clean water

and health care in the region. This

work included stocking village

pharmacies, providing a mobile

doctor to treat people unable to

reach a health facility and educat-

ing communities about the causes

of poor health using a network of

trained health promoters.

Building 1000 latrines.

Installing 52 village wells.

10 new school latrines.

5 village pharmacies.

25 education and hygiene work-

shops delivered to improve

health and sanitation in rural

communities

Mobile doctor.

State health facilities in Madagascar are seriously underfunded and, for most rural people, the nearest health post is at least a 50km round trip on foot.

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Project Rano &Project Salama

TRAID funding

£26,500 & £18,474

Partner



2002 & 20062 years & 1 year

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Photo © Azafady

MadagascarAnosy

Putting power into the hands of

people living in extreme poverty

to find solutions to their problems

is at the heart of sustainable dev-

elopment. The Centre for Innova-

tion in Voluntary Action (CIVA)

was founded to encourage individ-

uals and communities to come

up with new ideas for addressing

social problems in developing

countries.

TRAID provided core funding to

enable CIVA to set up the Innova-

tion Fund in India to make small

grants available to organisations

working in new ways to promote

better health, to promote volun-

tarism and to build the capacity

of communities to improve their

own lives.

The first grants made by the

Innovation Fund included health

improvement projects tackling

reproductive health and HIV/

AIDS awareness, immunisation,

pre and post natal care, sani-

tation, community health care

and supporting children with

disabilities.

Grants were also made available

to promote philanthropic and vol-

untary work in India including

the launch of a national awards

scheme for volunteers, volunteer

placements and Youthbank. The

Youthbank scheme is led by young

people who decide for themselves

how and where money is spent

and is flourishing today.

NationalInnovationFund for India

India

TRAID funding

£90,000

Partner

Centre for Innovationin VoluntaryAction ww.civa.org.uk


20003 years

Core funding provided by TRAID set up the Innovation Fund providing small grants to build the capacity of communities to improve their own lives.

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Project Concern International

(PCI) is a charity working to pre-

vent disease, improve communi-

ty health and promote sustaina-

ble development. In 1999, TRAID

funded the Anwar Village Devel-

opment Programme, a community

led project to improve health, san-

itation and water facilities across

11 villages in the Anwar District

of Rajasthan.

The project focused on improving

sanitation by building latrines

and establishing a clean water

supply. Only 10% of families in

Anwar have access to toilets. The

project worked with villagers to

build simple two pit toilets from

local materials after research into

the most appropriate latrine mod-

els. By the end of the project, 150

latrines had been built.

While many villages had hand

pumps, many were in a state of

disrepair and not working.

TRAID funding enabled PCI to

provide villages with tool kits,

and train nominated people in

each village to maintain and

repair hand pumps improving the

reliability of local water sources.

The second part of the project

was an HIV/AIDS awareness

campaign tackling high rates of

infection in the region. Discuss-

ing sexual health is taboo and the

biggest obstacle to raising aware-

ness about the prevalence of HIV/

AIDS. In a conservative state like

Rajasthan, it is particularly dif-

ficult to transgress the tradition-

al social structure. The project

trained peer educators from local

communities to speak in villag-

es and schools. The campaign

reached over 10,000 people.

Anwar VillageDevelopmentProgramme

TRAID funding

£53,723

Partner

Project ConcernInternational www.pciglobal.org


19991 year

TRAID funding enabled Project Concern to improve health, sanitation and water facilities in 11 villages in Rajasthan.

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AngolaBengo

Water andSanitationProgramme

TRAID funding

£180,472

Partner

UNICEF www.unicef.org.uk


1999 / 15 months

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Photo © UNICEF/Angola/2005

Almost three decades of civil war

devastated water infrastructure

across Angola. Sanitation cover-

age is minimal and millions live

without clean water or basic sani-

tation. People struggle to cope with

the harmful effects of dirty water

and poor sanitation. Diseases like

cholera and diarrhoea are rife with

children under the age of five most

vulnerable.

In 1999, TRAID funding enabled

UNICEF to respond to these

urgent problems by improving

access to clean water and sanita-

tion in 100,000 households in Ben-

go, a province in North West Ango-

la. Low cost innovative technolo-

gies were used to get clean water

to families including manual well

drilling, constructing hand pump

water points, basic water purifiers

and water stand posts. In house-

holds and villages, latrines were

built serving around 700 house-

hold members.

Local people were trained to car-

ry out basic maintenance of water

facilities to ensure that pumps,

wells and filtration systems con-

tinue to be sustainable in the long

term. At the same time as working

in villages to establish access to

clean water, UNICEF also worked

with the government to plan,

implement and sustain national

water and sanitation projects.

In addition, the UNICEF project

implemented a national sanitation

education campaign aiming to

reach at least half the national

population through community

mobilisation and primary school

programmes.

Establishing clean water systems

reaching 100,000 households.

Installing 150 family latrines.

Building 18 wells.

Hygiene education promotion.

20 public laundry facilities.

Local people were trained to carry out basic maintenance of water facilities to be sustainable in the long term.

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The terrible famine in 1984 focused

the world’s attention on Ethiopia

and the suffering of its people. But,

even now, Ethiopia remains an

extremely poor country with low

life expectancy, high maternal and

infant mortality rates, and very

limited access to clean water.

In 1999, TRAID funded Oxfam,

one of the leading international

organisations delivering aid and

development work, to address some

of the basic needs of communities

living in Jijiga in Eastern Ethio-

pia. This arid region is mostly pop-

ulated by pastoralists moving with

their livestock in search of water

and grazing. However, this way of

life is changing due to population

growth and increased pressure on

pastures as people settle.

The integrated rural development

project included water point devel-

opment, reforestation, improving

access to primary health care and

micro finance for the most disad-

vantaged households. More broad-

ly, the project aimed to help strug-

gling communities lacking even

the most basic services to develop

long term strategies to improve the

lives and livelihoods of increas-

ingly settled communities.

These interventions included estab-

lishing trained water and health

committees, building wells and

water reservoirs, establishing seed

nurseries and training traditional

birth attendants.

The harsh climatic realities faced

by people living in this region

came into sharp focus during

the project when a devastating

drought saw some of the project

objectives redirected to help pop-

ulations migrating in search

for water, and to establish bet-

ter emergency prevention and

preparedness.

The project aimed to help struggling communities lacking even the most basic services develop ways to improve their lives and livelihoods.

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IntegratedRuralDevelopmentProject

TRAID funding

£218,000

Partner

Oxfamwww.oxfam.org.uk


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Photo © Crispin Hughes / Oxfam

Ethiopia Jijiga

Conflict &EmergencyRelief

Natural disasters and conflicts kill, maim and impoverish. Emergencies can devastate entire communities and, in the developing world, the impact and aftermath of these events are made much worse by poverty.

TRAID has donated over £235,000 supporting the emergency relief work of the Disasters Emergency Committee and other organisations to provide assistance in the most challenging conditions when a rapid response is most crucial.

These funds ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable people receive help to meet their immediate needs including shelter, food and medicine. In the longer term, this support helps communities begin the process of rebuilding their lives and livelihoods.

An estimated 1.5 million people

were killed in Angola during

the civil war, with more than

2 million people forced to leave

their homes. The ceasefire agree-

ment in 2002 finally brought the

war to an end. However, 27 years

of conflict has left an appalling

legacy of poverty and littered the

country with mines and explo-

sive devices. People cannot walk

on or farm huge swathes of land

in Angola, and hundreds of thou-

sands of people, especially wom-

en and children, have been killed

and maimed by landmines.

In 1999, TRAID funded CARE

International to deploy Mine

Action Teams delivering mine

awareness training to local com-

munities, land mine survey map-

ping and mine clearance. The

main objectives were to clear

farmland for food production, to

make it safe for children to get

to school, and to make it safe for

families to reach essential water

and health care facilities.

The Mine Action Teams cleared

over 1000 mines and pieces of

unexploded ordnance (UXO) ena-

bling over 5,000 people to farm

and walk in their communities,

free from the fear of landmines.

This project built on CARE’s

programme of demining Ango-

la, working with the government

and UNITA soldiers clearing hun-

dreds of thousands of mines and

pieces of UXO.

Today, Care International con-

tinues to work in Angola and

the focus of its work has shifted

from emergency activities to long-

er term rehabilitation and recon-

struction work. Angola

Coming HomeFree from the Fear ofLandmines

TRAID funding

£39,658

Partner



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Landmines were cleared from farmland to make it safe for children to reach school unharmed, and for families to grow food.

Landmines were cleared from farmland to make it safe for children to reach school unharmed, and for families to grow food.

(That’s Two Million, Two Hundred and Forty Three Thousand, Four Hundred and Sixty Two Pounds)

£2,243,462Funds Donated

Natural disasters and conflicts kill, maim

and impoverish. TRAID cash has been hard

at work since 1999 supporting the work of

the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)

and Oxfam to provide emergency help

to millions of women, men and children

affected by major disasters.

TRAID has donated £235,802 in response

to emergency appeals.

Since 1999, TRAID has supported

the following appeals:

Oxfam Haiti Cholera Appeal 2010.

DEC Pakistan Flood Appeal 2010.

DEC Haiti Appeal 2010.

DEC Indonesia, Philippines

and Vietnam Appeal 2009.

DEC Democratic Republic

of Congo Crisis Appeal 2008.

DEC Myanmar Cyclone Appeal 2008.

Oxfam Darfur and Chad Appeal 2007.

DEC Bangladesh Cyclone Appeal 2007.

DEC Asia Quake Appeal 2005.

DEC Niger Appeal 2005.

DEC Tsunami Appeal 2004.

Médecins Sans Frontières Iraq Appeal 2003.

DEC Sudan Appeal 1999.

www.dec.org.uk

www.oxfam.org.uk

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Thank you to everyone donating their unwanted clothes and shoes at TRAID textile banks, you give us the means to fundraise for fantastic causes; to the councils, businesses, community groups and schools which site our textile banks, essential to our ability to collect textiles and raise funds; to TRAID’s shop customers who support our work through their purchases; to our international development partners, successfully challenging poverty conditions in some of the world’s poorest communities; and finally, to TRAID’s dedicated staff, trustees and volunteers who work so hard to wear poverty out.

ThankYou

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