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Stopping FGM Financial support to
APDA
in Ethiopia who initiated and will carry out a three year project to Begin the
process whereby the community led by their leadership will decide to stop FGM
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Cooperatives: Financial and
personnel support to APDA in Ethiopia to build knowledge on how to start and
run cooperatives. Comenced in January 2007 and will continue through 2009.
Report from first part of 2007.
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New big water and sanitation project
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International cooperation between APDA - Ethiopia, SONNE -
Austria, Afarfriends - Sweden and all others that want to join hands |
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Afar Language Development Conference:
A project with the primary aim to decide on which character-set to use when
writing the Afar language. Representatives from Eritrea, Djibouti and Ethiopia
joined for one week in Uppsala, Sweden in May 2007. |
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Preparation for
adult educational activities in Djibouti. Here a report from a
reconnoitre tour (3 Mb) (only available in swedish but with interesting pictures).
Now (6-17 November 2007)
a team o four from Afarfriends in Sweden will conduct an education for future
"adult educational activities" teachers who will help Afars on the Djiboutian
countryside to read and write. Teaching manual and reading-book is in the press
and will be ready for the educational start.
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Culture against AIDS: A project with UDC in
Djibouti.
UDC is interpreted "Union pour Dévélopement Culturelle" and work primarily
with education.
Together with Afarfriends of Sweden they started a project
which aim to spread knowledge about the danger with HIV/AIDS and how to avoid
it. A theatre and musical group will spread information on how to avoid HIV to
a number of villages and nomads dwelling places during 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Together with this they will produce music cassettes with the same message
that will be distributed free of charge to minibus drivers and others.
A report from the first part is,
so far, only to be found in swedish
slutrapport(sv)
or french
rapport
d'activité final (1.8 Mb). 
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Economic contributions
Contributions are welcome. When you want
to help the struggle for the Afar people please donate money to our
account. If you want to contribute to a specific project or to one of our
partner organisations just add a word (e.g.
Coop, HIV, Language, APDA or UDC) on the form and we will see to it that the
money are distributed as you wish. Please remember that the projects that are
supported by SIDA (now all our projects) have a 10/90 contract i.e. for every 10
SEK or Euro you put in, the swedish government add 90! All banking details are
found at the bottom of this page. Soon we will make public the figures of the
different projects, that you will be able to follow your contributions. For
specific information don't hesitate to contact us.
Afarvänner i Sverige / Afar Friends in Sweden
Plusgiro 480 33 73-2
P.O. Box 25156 Bank account 99603448033732
S-750 25 Uppsala, SWEDEN
IBAN: SE68 9500 0099 6034 4803 3732
e-mail
info@afarfriends.org
BIC: NDEASESS
Closed projects
