Empowering women and girls in Lingira
Summary
EDGE Project focuses on women's empowerment, education, agriculture, health/nutrition, & community leadership to promote sustainable development on an island of 3000 people in Lake Victoria, Uganda.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Lingira's isolation from mainland Uganda has created a nearly impossible living situation, in which women and children suffer disproportionately. Many fall into the sex trade in order to pay for various basic necessities. Some projects will improve access to quality education and economic development, which will increase financial security and help prevent exploitation. Others will improve access to food, clean water, and basic sanitary conditions, which will reduce malnutrition and disease.
Activities
EDGE Project utilizes grassroots community organizing and educational events to link community members to knowledge and resources, provided by University students’ research, related to all aspects of sustainable development.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $14,000
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $26,000
Total Funding Goal: $40,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
EDGE Project empowers and trains community members to respond to urgent needs in the community, especially those affecting women, with sustainable community-based development projects that form a foundation for alleviating poverty and injustice.
Project Message
To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds..for the world has changed
- Barack Obama, President's Inauguration Speech
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Michelle Mazzeo Marissa Mommaerts
Co Founder
Apt. 704
515 University Ave
Madison, WI 53703
United States
7088379340
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Project Sponsor
Organization
EDGE Project
515 University Ave
Apt. 704
Madison,
WI
53703
United States
(708) 837-9340
http://wisconsinedgeproject.blogspot.com/
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Uganda
and can also be found under 
Women and Girls.
For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 12, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 15, 2009
Latest Update from the Field
Thank You!!!
By Michelle Mazzeo - Project Manager, Co-Chair, May 27, 2009 04:11 PM
Thank you so much for all of your support during the Global Giving Challenge. Thanks to your dedication, we were able to raise $10,940 in a three week period! That put us at FIRST Place in the Challenge and we were awarded a $3,000 bonus from Global Giving and Northwestern University! All of your donations will go toward the EDGE community development project for the people on the island of Lingira, Uganda.
We would have liked to send you all individual 'thank you' notes, but donor information has not yet been released to us. In the meantime, we have been working very hard to prepare for our upcoming project- our first group of student researchers departs for Uganda on June 23rd!
On May 30th we are hosting our first Annual "EDGE Project: High School Social Justice Conference" on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. We will be working with Madison youth to think critically about global engagement as we facilitate workshops and organize supplies for the Lingira project. Students will be working to gather Healthcare Supplies, School Supplies and Clothes as well as compiling literature, posters and lesson plans to facilitate our various projects.
You can read more about our individual project proposals on our blog at: www.wisconsinedgeproject.blogspot.com
Check out our Literature Links in the right side-tab to read detailed Project Descriptions, our Proposed Itinerary and Budget for 2009-2010.
Eleven UW-Madison students have committed their Spring semester and the upcoming summer to the EDGE community development project in Lingira, Uganda. Three of our student researchers will be meeting in Uganda on June 23rd to lay the groundwork for our projects. The second group of seven student researchers will be arriving July 13th to help implement projects and carry out more detailed research for our future projects. We could not be more exited or motivated to get to work- thanks to encouragement from PEOPLE like YOU!
Again, thank you so much for your support. You have truly made a difference by enabling our group of dedicated students to learn best practices for planning and co-implementing community development service projects with one of the most marginalized communities of Uganda.
We will keep you posted on our Progress.
THANK YOU AGAIN!
Sincerely,
The EDGE Project Team
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