Grassroots Partners is an NGO based in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria.  We are reaching out to the poorest of the poor at the remotest rural areas to lift them out of abject poverty.  This NGO is set up by a group of civil society individuals who pull their resources together to help give skills and start up small business ventures for selected poor and helpless women and young adults at the grassroots with particular focus on widows, single mothers and the youth at the rural areas.  This organization is 100% people funded.

This campaign is a call-out to all people of goodwill to lend a hand to lift someone out of extreme poverty.  It is extremely important to us because it will provide us with the funds needed to reach out to the many helpless people whose hope of finally living a better life has been raised by their contact with us.

Your contributions will help us to establish, after necessary trainings to ensure sustainability, small business ventures for a targeted 60 poor and helpless rural widows/women and young people who, otherwise, would continue to have difficulties to survive in life and live life with dignity.  Your will give these helpless people a better life.

We need $50,000 to :

·  Pay for training materials and facilities;

·  Pay for tools/materials needed to start-up small business ventures for at least 60 selected beneficiaries;

·  Pay trainers and monitoring/supervising officers.

What You Get For Supporting Us:

Our unique Perks:  When you donate you will receive one of our unique perks specially home-made for our contributors as a token of our ppreciation/recognition for partnering with us in this project of assisting others to find and live a better life.  Our perks include:

-  Post Card -  $20 -and above

  Customized hand-made “Thank You” Card (Small), Donate $100 - and above -(Made within our organization by one of our local skill trainers) 

Customized hand-made “Thank You” Card (Big)

 -Made within our organization by one of our local skill trainers); Donate $500 &above

If our goal is not reached:

If our goal is not reached we will only train and set up small business ventures for just a limited few that our resources can cover.  And that will dash into pieces the hope of the many rural women and youth who are already breathing a sigh of relief in high expectation of being assisted by our organization which is, hundred percent, operating with resources from concerned people.

Impact

Your contribution is not just very important for our project, it is also very significant because it will help to start up small business ventures for these rural women and youth thereby giving them something that will help them live life with dignity, lift them out of extreme poverty and reduce the world population of those wallowing in abject poverty.

-Your contribution will help to provide gainful employment for these women and young people and deter them from engaging in drugs, crime, terrorism and other vices harmful to the society;

-When you contribute you will be lending a hand to someone in need and that in itself gives a sense of fulfillment and self-worth. These people whose lives you touch will forever be grateful to you for helping to improve their lives.  You will also be contributing to poverty reduction in the world as a whole.

Our activities so far:

-Until recently, our initial initiative and activities consisted in collecting used household items such as clothings, furniture, utensils, etc. from rich households in the cities.  We mend, repair, refurbish these items where necessary and use them to set up petty trading ventures for selected rural women.  This also provides employment for some youth who are engaged at our charity outlets where some of these used items collected from rich households are distributed at little or no cost to the grassroots public . 

Other Ways to help

- Any amount is acceptable - $1, 5, 10, 15, 10,000, 20,000, etc, they are all invaluable to us;

-Talking about this campaign with your contacts, make as much noise about it as you can and encourage them to donate;

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