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
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