Investments | Voxtra
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Investments
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Micro-entrepreneurship program in rural areas of Tamil Nadu, India. |
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Main targets: |
Create or expand 42,000 family-based enterprises and 550 small enterprises. |
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Approach:
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In this four-year program, Hand in Hand will enroll 75,000 poor women into self-help groups. Hand in Hand believes that financial capital, social capital and knowledge must be combined in order to unleash the full potential of entrepreneurial rural women. Therefore, they deliver customized training and hands-on mentoring to the self-help group members. Read more... |
International Development Enterprises, India (IDEI)
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Micro-irrigation program in rural areas of Assam, India. |
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Main targets: |
Increase the net annual cash income of 25,000 smallholder farmer families by an average of $400. |
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In this six-year program, IDEI will set up a sustainable supply chain of commercial manufacturers, distributors and dealers to market treadle pumps to smallholder farmers at affordable prices, enabling the farmers to cultivate two irrigated crops per year in addition to the rain-fed crop during the monsoon, and diversify from staple crops to high-value crops such as vegetables. Read more... |
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Micro-irrigation program in Kenya. |
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Increase the net annual income of 33,000 famer families by $300-$1,000 (Voxtra is one of the investors in this program). |
| Approach: | KickStart promotes manual irrigation technologies that enable smallholder farmers to do agriculture year-round, and grow higher value crops like fruits and vegetables. Pumps are distributed through commercial channels. KickStart’s activities include development of irrigation technologies, building awareness among smallholder farmers about the benefits of irrigation, and strengthening the capacity of the agri-vet shops that retail the pumps. Voxtra will support this program for three years. Read more... |
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Education program in remote areas of Cambodia, mainly areas where Khmer Rough influence prevented education sector development until 1998, and that still lag far behind the rest of the country. |
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Build 120 new schools buildings with 350 classrooms in remote areas, enabling access to schooling for 16,000 children. Decrease drop-out rates from an average of 4.3% per grade per year to 0.3% in six provinces. Enroll 120,000 children into a program for home-based early childhood education. |
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Approach:
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Save the Children works closely with local communities and the government to expand and improve access to education in rural and remote areas. Building schools, improving the quality of teaching, and mobilizing the community to ensure full participation and avoiding drop-outs, are the main focus areas. Read more... |