To contribute to a specific project, select one of the choices below.

TACE - Tanzania Community Enterprise Fund

TACE addresses issues of chronic economic hardship. Originally we worked with choral groups where choir members came together with a common voice to share their values and describe their role in the community. COSAD tapped their talents to create economic opportunities by identifying and creating appropriate projects for individuals within each group.

Now, TACE has expanded it role to develop community intiatives with other groups. For example, our "One Woman/One Goat" initiative seeks to acquire 100 dairy goats for the women of Izigo Village. In addition, we want to build improved housing facilities for milking goats and train an artificial insemination technician to help improve milk production for the families.

With your donation, you can help provide stock, materials, and training for micro projects/micro business management skills and small loans to carry out these projects and find market access for their products.


COSAD Center - COSAD Center for Enterprise and Community Development

The COSAD Center will overlook Bukoba and house several programs, including:

        • The Center for Micro Enterprise Facilitation
        • The Bruce L. Johnson Community Resource and Learning Center
        • The Volunteer Resource Center
        • The Community Health Awareness Center

COSAD has purchased the land for the Center and is in the process of gathering donations for our Building Fund. We invite you to become contributor.


CHAI - Community Health Awareness Initiative

With your help, COSAD will be providing a 3-year scholarship to the Ndorage School of Nursing for a student, Esneth Bakengi, from Izigo Village near Bukoba. Esneth will return to the village to provide much needed assistance at the currently unstaffed clinic to the many people of Izigo who have never had medical care. Esneth successfully completed her entrance exam in April and begins classes in September of 2008.

 


SHARE - SHannon's Afterschool Reading Exchange

We are collecting thousands of books and books are heavy and shipping to Africa is expensive. SHARE also has plans to hire teachers, purchase desks, prepare the room for electricity (ceiling, carpeting, lighting) and create additional SHARE branches.

What your donation goes towards

$25 - helps with shipping the books down to Tanzania

$50 - provides a desk for the SHARE room

$100 - provides a bookshelf that hold 1000 books for the SHARE room

$250 - pays a SHARE teacher's salary for one year

$1000 - pays for a new SHARE branch


Take heart in knowing your donations will help end the book famine for young African girls.

SHARE is a program of COSAD, a 501(c)(3) public foundation so all gifts are tax-deductible.

By credit card: Click the Make a Donation button below
By check: payable to COSAD, mail to 35 Spring House Lane, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

We truly appreciate your support! Asante Sana (Many thanks, in Swahili)

 


THE DREAM TEAM - Mark Twain Elementary 5th Grade Project

The 5th Grade Class of Ms. Mondrea Mitchell in Houston, Texas, is raising funds to provide a pump for a well in the village of Izigo, Tanzania. Access to clean water is a major issue for the women of this village, who daily must walk up to 2 miles to carry water home for their families and livestock (http://www.freewebs.com/exhibitionsquad/index.htm).

With your donation, you can help this generous and ambitious class of students contribute to the well being of the families in Izigo.


 

For Partnership inquiries, contact Smart Baitani by emailing: smart@cosad.org

 

If you would like to provide general support to COSAD,
simply click on the button below for credit card or PayPal donations.

Contributions by check or money order may be sent to:

COSAD, Inc.
4624 Hillsboro Ave North
New Hope, MN 55428 USA


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 
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