Small Grants for AIDS awareness clubs
The Small Grants Program provides funding for AIDS Awareness Clubs and Windows of Hope Clubs. The grants support team-building activities to strengthen self-confidence and community outreach activities which share information between learners and the adults in their communities.
Activities that build self-confidence and team spirit create networks that help keep young people healthy. Encouraging young people to help educate others empowers them to make their own decisions and take control of their own future.
The Small Grants Program will fund forty grass roots, creative activities at the school level: 10 grants each in 4 of the neediest regions of Namibia. The Small Grants Program is active in the Kunene, Kavango, Omaheke and Karas Regions.
Both Kunene and Karas Regions, in the far north-west and the far south, are fairly un-populated. Because of their inhospitable terrain and the distance from the capital city of Windhoek, these areas of Namibia are often overlooked by government programs and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Omaheke is on the edge of the Kalahari Desert to the East, and like the Karas Region further south, is the inhospitable home of the marginalized and minority San and Tswana ethnic groups.
The Small Grants Program has real impact: At its roots, it supports young people to participate in educational activities that help prevent the spread of HIV. These activities reach between 40 and 500 students each, depending on the size of the school and HIV/AIDS Awareness Club.
Small Grants in Action
The learners at Rakutuka Primary School wanted to get the message out to their peers and their community about HIV. The Windows of Hope Club applied for a small grant to paint the walls outside their school. Once the learners planned what messages they wanted to paint, the action started! They sent us these pictures of their mural, and click here to see the letter one learner wrote to us in appreciation!
Downloads
Small Grants Application 2009 (PDF)
Small Grants Guidelines 2009 (PDF)
Example Budget Sheet (PDF)
Monitoring & Information sheet (PDF)
Small Grants 2009 Flyer (PDF)
Regions where the Small Grants Program is active.
Windows of Hope Clubs draw “My Special Balloons” with materials provided through Sekolo’s Small Grants Program.
