In connexional year 2019\/20, MWiB awarded more than \u00a327,000 in gifts, grants and bursaries – here’s where the money went.<\/p>\n
Empowerment Gifts<\/strong><\/p>\n Fifteen applications were received, and a total of \u00a310,000 was divided between ten projects working to empower women and girls overseas:<\/p>\n \u00a4 Quick Impact Women\u2019s Project, Liberia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a31,500 \u00a4 The Shalom Project, Sri Lanka: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a31,500 \u00a4 Hairdressing project, Uganda: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a3500 \u00a4 Africa Greater Life Mission, Uganda: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a3500 \u00a4 Empowering Widows and Guardians of Orphans, Zimbabwe:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a31,500 \u00a4 Deaconess training programme, Nigeria:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a3500 \u00a4 Extra Mile, Sierra Leone:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a31,000 \u00a4 Chodort Training Centre, Zambia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a31,000 \u00a4 House of Emergency Love and Peace, Japan:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a31,500 \u00a4 Jameli Clinic, The Gambia:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a3500 Hearing Impairment Legacy Fund<\/strong><\/p>\n An Empowerment Gift application was received from the Nusirat Women’s Project in Gaza, working with young deaf women in the Nusirat refugee camp, and it was felt appropriate instead to award a grant from the Hearing Impairment legacy money. A gift of \u00a35,000 was given to provide training in sewing, embroidery and other skills to enable the women to live more independently.<\/p>\n Social and Community Action Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n MWiB provides funding for local projects around the Connexion, aimed at fostering interest and involvement in social and community action, and encouraging new projects that fill a local community need. The total awarded in SCA Grants in 2019\/20 was \u00a34,150.<\/p>\n Enabling Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n One Enabling Grant of \u00a3500 was awarded to the 1st Ryton Girls Brigade.<\/p>\n Discretionary Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n Three Discretionary Grants were awarded, totalling \u00a3700: Bursaries<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2019\/20, a total of \u00a32,360 was given in bursaries: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In connexional year 2019\/20, MWiB awarded more than \u00a327,000 in gifts, grants and bursaries – here’s where the money went. Empowerment Gifts Fifteen applications were received, and a total of \u00a310,000 was divided between ten projects working to empower women and girls overseas: \u00a4 Quick Impact Women\u2019s Project, Liberia:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a31,500 A project training women who are often primary bread winners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9112,"featured_media":15420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603,593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gifts-and-grants-feedback","category-resourcing-and-enabling"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 08:01:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA project training women who are often primary bread winners to produce goods such as soap, perfume, bleach etc, then to give them seed money to start small businesses. This project is featured in our 2019-2020 Annual Review.<\/p>\n
\nThe project has already helped women widowed by the civil war, firstly in befriending, then in offering psychological help. This Empowerment Gift provided women with chickens to lay eggs which they can sell, giving them a means of earning an income and helping them become self sufficient.<\/p>\n
\nTraining for 13-20 year old single parents to enable them to support their families.<\/p>\n
\nVocational training for women to make reusable sanitary pads; some of these will enable girls to stay in school during their monthly period, and engage in unbroken education.<\/p>\n
\nTraining for women to make bricks so they can sell them to support their families.\u00a0 The money given was used to buy tools and materials, including wheelbarrows, moulds, and cement.<\/p>\n
\nFunding for accommodationg, transport and fees for a deaconess to undertake an eight week training course in Montessori education, so that she can then go on to train others.<\/p>\n
\nFunding to provide reading and writing classes for twenty girls and women, aged 11\u201360 years.<\/p>\n
\nThis Empowerment Gift provided training and materials for 30 women in making reusable sanitary pads. These products will enable girls and women to stay in work and school during their monthly period.<\/p>\n
\nHELP is an emergency shelter for women and children, victims of violence or escaping from prostitution.<\/p>\n
\nTo provide training for a nurse\/manager which in turn will enable him to train others providing maternity services for an outpatient clinic.<\/p>\n
\n\u00a4 To enable a young woman to undertake Soul Edge leadership training:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a3200
\n\u00a4 Chalton School, Zimbabwe: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a3500<\/p>\n
\n\u00a4 To two young women undertaking the Cliff College Gap Year programme:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a31,000
\n\u00a4 To enable seven women to attend retreats and courses at Cliff College:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a31,300
\n\u00a4 To enable a young woman to attend Y-Pray (WDP Prayer Conference):\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a360<\/p>\n