Location: Salta Established: 1999

Subject Areas
Microfinance

Organization Objectives
Mission: The vision of Impulsar includes the creation of a national network of social actors that favor the diffusion, expansion, and sustainability of the foundation, instilling in businesses and the community the responsibility of providing economic support and mentorship to young entrepreneurs.

Location: Udaipur Setting: Rural Established: 2000 Staff: 15

Subject Areas:

Community Development: Community Empowerment; Building Social Capital; Social
Work; Social Responsibility
Environment: Sustainable/Organic Agriculture; Vermicomposting
Microfinance: Microcredit; Microlending; Entrepreneurship; Community Financial
Institutions; Budgeting; Managing Financial Resources; Social Entrepreneurship
Women's Empowerment: Intra-familial violence; Reproductive Rights; Self-Help Groups

Organization Objectives:
As the name suggests, Manav Rozgar Kshamta Vikas Sansthan (Human Employment Ability Development Society) aims to empower the marginalized through capacity building workshops, skill-building sessions, and other activities to enable human beings to seek more economic opportunities for themselves and their villages. Since its inception, HEADS has focused its attention on various community mobilization and development projects, such as creating self-help groups for microfinance activities, promoting sustainable agricultural practices (i.e. vermicompost production), organizing HIV/AIDS and reproductive health awareness programs, and offering skill training for women and adolescents. HEADS is committed to ensuring that equal opportunities exist for women, children, and the marginalized so they are able to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty. Specially, HEADS aims to:

• Empower poor and marginalized people through participation in local government
  and community development programs
• Facilitate greater economic freedom through livelihoods training and self-help groups
  (SHGs)
• Increase land fertility, seed viability, and yield through vermicomposting and
  sustainable agriculture methods
• Build awareness about women’s health, reproductive health, and violence against
  women through a network of peer educators

Location: Ciudad Sandino Setting: Urban Established: 1993

Subject Areas

Website: http://www.cecim-ni.org/
Community Development: Community Empowerment, Social Work
Health: Prevention of High-Risk Behavior, Assistance to victims of social violence
Human Rights: Child Advocacy, Social Justice, Legal Assistance
Microfinance: Micro-credit, Small Business Management, Lending Groups
Youth and Education: Counseling, Trauma, Development Interventions, Technical Vocational Training, Tradiational Academic Training

Organization Objective:
CECIM is a foundation representative of the community of Ciudad Sandino. It is a foundation of Christian inspiration that works to promote the human development of the community. CECIM develops a work strategy that reinforces the capacities of the community to promote community participation in starting up its own development. It is a true believer in asset-based community development. They are a team that possesses a lot of experience in educational work, and they are committed to bringing quality education to all individuals that seek it. Throughout its many programs, CECIM touches the lives of 10,000 clients each year. The objectives of CECIM include

• Contribute to the integral human development of the community and to raise its standard of living through programs and projects of formative education
• Develop the vocational and labor skills of its clients
• Promote activities that boost the social, moral, spiritual, cultural, economic, and intellectual health of the community.
• Successfully finance start-up businesses through their Microfinance Revolving Fund

Location: Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Urban Established: 2007 Staff: 8

Subject Areas:

Women’s Empowerment: Women and girls empowerment
Human Rights: Women and Children rights and protection
Education: Vocational training, literacy classes
Microfinance: Small business for women in rural areas

Organization Objectives:
Project Africa’s main objective is to empower women by giving them skills and resources for enterprise development in rural areas. It seeks to raise women who will understand that their gifts and talents can make room for their economic uplift more than they have been made to believe.
Its goals are to:
• Remove barriers that prevent women from gaining skills and participating in income generating projects
• Encourage education for girls and adult education for women in rural areas
• Increase micro-credit schemes for women and investing in the agriculture sector

Location: Webuye Kakamega, Kenya Setting: Rural Established: 1995 Staff: 4

Subject Areas:

Youth and Education: Personal and Professional Development, Cognitive Development, Child and Adolescent Development
Women’s Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies and women’s rights.
Health: Better Health Services to the HIV and AIDS
Microfinance: Small Business Training, Poverty reduction program among the vulnerable people.

Organization Objectives:
Forward Kenyans’ obligations is to help Webuye communities and its environs to access better health services for controlling HIV and AIDS and to initiate poverty reduction programs for the communities and to empower the marginalized communities in Western Kenya for better living standards through the promotions and trainings.