BASAID projects
Kpomé is a village in Togo located about 40 km from the main city Lome. It is one of the villages generated due to the dislocation of inhabitants because of the phosphates found on their grounds. The main income for this population, estimated at more than 5000 inhabitants, is agriculture. The project aims specifically to … Read more
The aim of our project is the socioeconomic involvement of 50 women (victims of gender-based violence who live off of informalemployment, have low levels of education and face harassment and sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancies and depression), through aneducational and participatory process with gender and environmental issues via the creation of an urban garden with traditional … Read more
Reinforcement of the terrain, to help with the retention of rainwater and to guard against the risk of erosion:• Purchase and plant trees, sugarcane shrubs and elephant grass (about 2000 pieces.) • Purchase of seeds for yams (1000 pieces) and seedlings for pineapple and bananas (2000 pieces each)
For the first time, farmers’ wives can press out the cactus seed using the oil press. The resulting oil is scarce and should provide the farmer’s wives with a good income. The farmer’s wives also receive adequate training to operate the oil press. The project aims to contribute to generate development processes by identifying strategic … Read more
The inhabitants of El Congal were evacuated from their village during the civil war in Colombia. Now after peace agreement with the FARC, the inhabitants can return again. This is one of three projects carried out throughout Colombia to bring back evacuees. First, the mines had to be removed from the military. 14 families live … Read more
The Foundation Pilar & Gracia provides protection and comprehensive care to a population of adolescent, pregnant or breastfeeding girls who have their rights threatened or violated. It functions as a boarding school where food, accommodation, psycho-social support, coordination of health care, academic training and life skills are provided. The main objective of the project is to stimulate growth and … Read more
20 families are to be trained in the handling and cultivation of their own vegetables and on how to include these vegetables into their daily diet. The aim is to reduce the level of malnutrition among the families.
This is the first project from Huellas & Futuro Foundation that is supported by BASAID. Huellas & Future is a non-profit organization whose aim is to provide effective actions and programs for human and social development in underserved communities in the region of Cochabamba. The main objective of this project is to implement a process … Read more
Basaid has already implemented a major food security project for over 1,250 families with ADSOSMHU. In the last project, home gardens for these families have been established along with the training that should make these families independent in the future. In this new project, 300 women – indigen women from the Huista and Akatecha region … Read more
Health, education and community service project for the city youth in villages in AGOTIME ADRAKPO, Togo The rural village of Agotime Adrakpo is located about 80 Km from Lome. The population is around 1500. About 600 children are in the primary school. One of the main school buildings, originally built by the local villagers, is … Read more
Tanzania Project, a Norway-based NGO with a local board in Tanzania, supports more than 40 schools around Mbamba Bay, Lake Malawi, Tanzania. It is crucial for the success of those schools to attract and retain good teachers. One investment to do so is providing teachers’ toilets at the school and nearby houses for them and … Read more
Agriculture, farming and traditional weaving of Keteh are three main income-generating activities. However, due to difficult climate and soil conditions, many young people leave the villages and move to the city. The main objective of this project is to prevent the youth from leaving the village by giving them opportunities to create a sustainable business … Read more
In Togo, schools are located in cities or villages which are easily accessible by car. Children growing up in remote villages need to travel long distances (at least 5 km or more on foot) to go to school. In order to protect their children and ensure an education several village communities are organizing themselves in creating their … Read more
Lomé is a city where motorcycles and bicycles are the most used means of travel. The project aims to support fifteen young people (16-22 years) who cannot pay the material and tool boxes which they need for their 2-3 year apprenticeship. With the education of the craft of two-wheeled mechanics they will be able to thrive … Read more
Herdis House is a vocational school for poor children where they can learn within three years how to sew in order to make a living and hopefully an independent life. This year the school has 37 students from 13-20 years. With that project we will renew the furniture in the dormitories (beds, mattresses, chests of … Read more
Education in sewing, textile processing, processing of ginger and renovation of a building to serve as home for girls in Mokolo, Cameroon Cameroun villages closed to the border to Nigeria, e.g. in the Mayo-Tsanaga department, are most affected by Boko Haram attacks. Many families have lost relatives, property, or their homes. Thousands of women, men and … Read more
Ecosan toilets in village KPELE TSAVIE in the Kpalime area to avoid the pollution of the fields Kpélé Tsavié is a village at 30 km north way from Kpalimé with a population of about 800 inhabitants. To address the pollution of the fields by human excrements a pilot sanitary facility of 4×2 Ecosan toilets is … Read more
This project, run by Basaid’s local partner NGO Children’s Future International, aims to empower young women and provide them with the knowledge, skills and confidence to plan for a successful future. Young women are particularly vulnerable in rural Cambodia. They often drop out of school, face high levels of unemployment and, as a result, are … Read more
This program in the area of Battambang has been supported by Basaid for several years now. It is run by our local partner NGO Children’s Future International (CFI). The project is aimed at high school students and students lacking practical work experience. Practical trainings, trainee placement support and professional coaching by experienced CFI employees improve … Read more
BASAID and Children First would like to offer modern equipment and provide improved treatment facilities at the Taplejung district hospital. Improved treatment facilities in the district hospital of Taplejung: Currently the hospital is in very bad shape and can provide only poor health services. Around 500 children live in the surroundings and potentially need access to those health … Read more
Arrangement of furniture in all classrooms including required equipments and instruments will be done after the completion of the construction work
The main focus of the partnership lies in women’s health (sexual and reproductive health). The hospital in the south of Nepal comprises a catchment area of around 250’000 people. . BASAID will buy a replacement of the recently broken Autoclave (steam sterilizer). On the long run the Spital Limmattal will invest in the building of … Read more
The Dhenkanal district has a population of 1,200,000 inhabitants. The project focuses on the construction of a building devoted to training personnel for the health care segment. A school is being built is stages. SOVA has its own land, and the need is for a training facility. Thus, BASAID is supporting SOVA to construct a … Read more
Many women have been abandoned by their families or abused mentally and physically. Many of these women, irrespective of their caste or religion, are taken in by MSP from the streets and given a safe haven in which to live. Each and every one of their need is attended to from food and shelter to … Read more
In most parts of rural India, as in many places in the developing world, the issue of women’s menstruation is a matter still associated with taboo and discrimination. In some communities, women are still considered “unclean” during menstruation and are forbidden from entering the kitchen. This project will be implemented in 10 villages of 2 Gram … Read more
Teenage pregnancy in Peru still affects 12.6% of adolescents between 15 and 19 years of age.The Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, through the Queen of Peace Home, protects the rights of pregnant adolescents and mothers by providing them with comprehensive care through safe housing, health, food, basic education and training, … Read more
The objective of this project is to implement the production and commercialization of alcohol gel to generate a rotating fund which will be used for the distribution of dry food and essential items to families with low-income in the city of Cochabamba. These communities/families have been affected by the effects of the COVID-19. The provision … Read more
In Peru children under 15 years of age represents 24.9% of the population. COVID-19 quarantine has impacted their education severely and according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), only 39% of households nationwide have access to the Internet dropping to only 5% in rural areas.The objective of this project is to strengthen … Read more
La Congregación Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Buen Pastor through the Women’s Support Center “Santa María Eufrasia” in Cajamarca protects the rights of women and hosts those women and their children who have suffered violence, providing them with comprehensive care through safe housing, health, food, basic education, training workshops and personal empowerment. The aim … Read more
A short survey showed that a long-standing partner organization in Ghana, Ashanti Development, based in London, operates an eye clinic in the Ashanti region in Gyetiase. Until now, the collection of used glasses has mainly taken place in the UK, with the glasses being competently cleaned and recalibrated by SpecSavers on a voluntary basis. The … Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting lockdown, has provoked many reactions and emotions in all of us – fear, exhaustion, worry, loneliness, irritation. In rural, low-income areas of India, COVID-19 has been more than a health emergency. Many people in Odisha, India are facing food shortages as a result of COVID-19. These are coal miners, … Read more
Development of youth enterprises in the municipality to improve and support the life project of young people. The project aims to provide technical and financial support for the development of 4 youth enterprises in the municipality to improve and support the life project of 120 young people and their commitment to stay in the area, … Read more
Implementation of productive yards to improve the living conditions of 70 families through fruit-horticultural production. The expansion of COVID-19 has generated an immense impact on the informal economy, this is the case of the families of the district of Santa Fe, Magangué, Bolivar; that due to mandatory isolation have been in uncertainty, at high rates … Read more
The Village Chance center consists of a primary school for disadvantaged children, a kindergarten, special needs classes for children with mental disabilities and 33 apartments specially designed for wheelchair users. The village also includes a swimming pool for therapeutic purposes, a bakery workshop and a restaurant for vocational trainings and employment creation. After nearly ten … Read more
Development and education for the village Mballam in Cameroon. The pygmies or forest people is the oldest population group of the equatorial and tropical forests of Africa. The families of the village Mballan were forced 50 years ago to move close to the street. The village has 277 inhabitants and they live from hunting, fishing … Read more
The project aims to install facilities to collect and distribute rainwater which can be collected in the wet season to support three health centers. Special care is taken by a group of responsible people on treating the water to obtain drinking water quality and keeping the water free of contaminations. In addition, the health workers, … Read more
