Cameo Woods donates $10,000 — January 6, 2021
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$185 to Maiduguri, Nigeria, to help Aisha Umar - widow with six children - start a charcoal selling business (Her Husband was killed by Boko Haram and She now lives in a refugee camp).
$167 to Khartoum, Sudan - to Maha Almahi, widow with two-year-old daughter. Maha is a thirty year old atheist, divorced by her husband. Her funds WIll start a Tea & Coffee business; they are very popular and the profit IS good.
$243 to KISIMU, Kenya, to support Maseno Humanist Peace Center - conflict resolution / mediation training group with seven members of Maseno University Humanists. Funds will set up website to serve student community with housing, tutoring and advice information - profit will be gained by selling advertising.
Yusuf Baraka - co-director of Maseno Humanist Peace Center
$95 to INDIA - Food, Medical & Hygiene kits to ELderly & DIsabled in Mumbai Slums
$85 to Safe House for thirty-two Women and Children in Mawlamyine, Myanmar. Funds will be spend on food and basic needs, and on sewing equipment, to provide income. Families are escaping domestic abuse, rape, child rape, or were abandoned.
$75 to Kasese, UGANDA - for Catering Business (Collective Efforts Foundation)
The Director wrote: We are so happy to tell you that we bought our catering equipment the equipment purchased include the following: Saucepans, Cutlery, dishes, trays, tea cups, plates, we really deeply appreciate HGC for funding us, the funds from HGC is a blessing to us as this is the first fund to us since we formed collective efforts foundation.
We have all agreed to use these few equipment carefully and half of the profit from equipment will be used to buy more new equipment. We have many hopes that community members will always hire our catering equipment as they pay good money to us.
YOURS - BETTY
$145 sent to Tulsipul, Nepal, for workshop informing girls about menstruation & showing how to make reusable sanitary pads.
$51 Sent to Uganda to Ithungu Agnes FOR COllege Tuition so she can become a teacher
She wrote: Thank you for supporting my education. I was very happy and my family was happy of this money. - AGNES