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We integrate education with microcredit to improve nutrition and health for poor rural women in Arochukwu, Abia State of Nigeria.
Our mission is to reduce poverty and improve health among rural women by combining microcredit with health education. The program provides poor women with non-formal adult training to improve maternal and child health and nutrition, while empowering them economically through access to small working capital loans. Members utilize their loans for income generating activities such as processing and selling food, operating small shops, selling smoked fish, hairdressing, weaving, and trading in fruits and vegetables. These businesses enable them raise their families' income, improve their children's nutrition and bolster their self-esteem while developing valuable skills. AAPI operates in Arochukwu - Abia State of Nigeria.
Through credit and health education poor rural women with no collateral can take a small loan and invest it in pruductive trading to improve their income and their families' health and nutrition, which has given them a real hope for a better future. AAPI's achievement can best be explained in human terms and by this example. In March 2000, there was a religious disturbance in the Northern part of Nigeria; many people fled the region including a single mother with two children who returned to her town at Arochukwu. She had no job or means to provide adequate food or health care for herself and her children. They were all sick most of the time. Her friend introduced her to AAPI, where she applied and was granted a small loan. She utilized this loan to buy and sell smoked fish. With profit from this trade she is now able to feed and provide medicine for herself and her family. Her children are back to school.
We need partnership cooperation and support for our work. We also need volunteers in the following areas: proposal writing, fund raisers and webiste designers.
Action Against Poverty International Inc.
Nnanna Okereke
15 Fencourt Avenue, P.O. Box 754
Randolph, MA 02368
United States of America
Telephone: 781-963-3109
Web Site by PageDesign 2001
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