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Programs
| EAJC |
This program provide small African
entrepreneurs primarily with business coaching, micro loans
and more, to allows the entrepreneur to expand
operations, hire employees, and become part of the
"engine" that drives their own national
economies.
EAJC
Program
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| Women
Programs |
At
ICAfrica, we believe that at this point in the fight
against extreme poverty in Africa, impoverished
enterprising women have unique strengths and abilities
to stretch scare dollars around basic life saving family
necessities. (see
Because Women Carry the Load).
We are therefore putting high emphasis on leveraging the
capacities of these women to deliver more efficient services
with limited dollars. Women
Programs
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| PPF |
The
PPF or Partner Projects Facilitation Program allows both individuals and groups to contribute
money and other resource, to specific poverty reduction programs anywhere in Africa.
This program is best suited for Africans in
diaspora wish to help improve the economic conditions of their home towns in
Africa. PPF
Program
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| Jobs
Creation |
Number
of jobs created & number of people taken out of
poverty line per dollar spent, are the primary measuring
tools used at ICAfrica to determine the success of our
development programs. We know that the primary reason for the great amount of poverty in Africa
is high unemployment & low productivity of individuals.
Jobs
Creation
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| DRL
- Donor Refundable Loans |
This
program allows individuals, working and living anywhere
in the world to contribute a Donor Refundable Loan (DRL)
directly to struggling but still impoverished
entrepreneurs in African small towns and villages, for
the purpose of increasing the capital base in their
businesses. DRL |
| Micro
Credit |
Our program targets -
- Super-Micro Entrepreneur
- Micro Entrepreneur
- Small Business Entrepreneur
- Small Venture Capital
Micro
Credit
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| Business
Support |
We provide all the necessary
assistance required by a micro-enterprise to grow
and stand on it's own. This includes business planning, market
identification & development, product
manufacturing/packaging & promotion,
etc
Business
Support
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| Skills
Training |
Skills Training for women, youth and men include; classroom training, hands-on skills, apprenticeship programs,
industrial attachments, other advanced skills training
and scholarships.
Skills
Training
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| Environment |
We
take very seriously, the protection and the
preservation of our eco-system for this and for future
generations. Environment
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| Gender |
ICAfrica
has a non-compromising policy on gender issues. Men
& Women have equal rights.
Gender
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YEDP
Youth Enterprise Development Program |
In
recognition of the great need in the Ontario
African-Canadian Diaspora community to support the Youth
and new immigrants, ICAfrica, as an extension of our
work in Africa, is offering a robust Youth
Enterprise
Development Program (YEDP)
which coaches, mentors and guides these young people
into starting and successfully operating their own small
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Women's
Sewing Venture
One of our largest projects, The Kamuche
Sewing Company was founded with a $3,500 loan from
ICAfrica, immediately creating six full-time jobs for
women in Owerri, Nigeria. Within 12 months, this
venture, which is now fully self-sustaining, created
another six full-time jobs.
$50 Rescues
Alice & her 2 children
In Awuda village Nigeria, she only had
$30 to her name. 28 but looked 50ish from tough hash
life. ICAfrica boosted her super-micro retail business
capital with $50. Immediately her daily income jumped
from $3 to $6 and more a day and 3 weeks later, Alice regained her
body and looked her age. She is now earning enough
profit to feed her family. Her two very young sons are bubbly and happy again as the three now live
above the poverty line. This is the power of $50 to an impoverished
woman in an African village.
Family Fish Retail Enterprise
ICAfrica loaned $150 to Mrs. Fidelia
Oyoyo, an impoverished 46-year-old mother with three
children in Zwedru, Liberia. She was able to expand her
fish retail trade, which she operates with her husband,
Mark. The family now earns an average monthly profit of
$45, up from $27 only one year ago. With the additional
income, they can now afford two good meals a day, repair
their leaking roof, buy some used clothing, and pay for
school supplies for their children
Humanitarian Support
While working with entrepreneurs,
ICAfrica encounters other areas of human needs which
cannot be overlooked. Outside of our core program,
ICAfrica devotes 10 per cent of its resources to
services that impact on the "improvement of the
human condition", such as community water projects,
disaster relief, HIV/AIDS support, school feeding
programs, computers for schools, books and community
library projects, literacy programs, community health,
orphanage care, and housing for the poor.
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