2018 Grants
In a board meeting on January 10, 2019 the board of the Trolltech Foundation decided to make the following grants for 2018 to:
* Nashulai Maasai Conservancy:
49,800 USD has been granted to build a high standard kitchen in Oldarpoi Wageni Camp in Sekenani, Kenya.
Wageni Camp, which is a high end safari camp, will help support other projects that Nashulai Maasai Conservancy is running.
16,000 USD has also been granted to support the legal registration of each leased parcel of land in the conservancy.
49,994 USD has been granted to support lease fees to the land owners in Nashulai Maasai Conservancy. This will allow the wild animals to move freely from one conservancy to another.
* MCODE:
34,870 USD has been granted to partly fund the enhancing of the female-headed household's income generation capacity, through sustainable organic agriculture.
MCODE is located in Najja, Nyenga and Ngogwe Sub Counties of Buikwe district in Uganda, East Africa.
The Project is directly targeting 210 female-headed households.
This group is confronted with difficulties and inabilities in meeting their social and livelihood needs including, health, education for their children as well as domestic food requirements and other social needs, due to lack of a sustainable income generating activities. The project therefor aims at enhancing the ability of these households to acquire sustainable income streams through organising them into selected value chain groups (specifically production of bananas-local Matooke indigenous varieties which is the staple food crop, and local vegetables), build their capacity in organic agriculture and link them to organised markets.
MCODE’s goal is to: establish sustainable income streams for at least 210 rural female-headed smallholder farming households in Buikwe District, by ensuring access to knowledge and quality markets.
* Africa Startup:
300.000 nok has been granted Africa Startup’s MyFarm in the Kombo area of Gambia. My Farm is an open training center for children and youth. MyFarm provides educational opportunities through agricultural innovation, environmental protection and entrepreneurship.
The big value of MyFarm is without doubt the holistic approach we are having. That we start with the foundational learning and integrate it with producing of crops and also making that into products that generate money in the end.
Africa Startup ́s main mission is finding methods that can empower and make the best change for, and greatest impact on, youth and children in developing countries in terms of literacy and entrepreneurship.