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Credit Programme to start in Zoba Debub (Southern Zone)

NUEW is implementing a Nakfa 2.1 million programme in Zoba Debub. Designed to raise the living standards of the people in the 4 sub-zones of Zoba Debub, the project will provide credit for women in these areas to stimulate business enterprise.

According to Mrs. Tsegga Gaim, head of the Social Services and Rehabilitation Project, credit will be given first to 600 women in the sub zones of senafe, Zorona and Emmi Haili. These 600 women have already been identified as being the most in need of such a scheme.

Each women  will be given from 500 to 1000 Nakfa, to be retuned in terms of between 1 to 3 hears. Ms. Tsegga said that the women getting credit are expected to start small business enterprises and activities such as agricultural initiatives that will help them improve their living conditions.

The programme will start in mid-2003 following training and education about how to use credit.

The training for the coordination of the credit programmes contains the following elements:

    - Information about NUEW's credit policy
    - Education concerning the ways and means of credit
    - The role of the village bank
    - The formation of credit programmes

In San Bernardino, California NUEW members give support for Vocational Training Centers to be established in Eritrea.

NUEW members in San Bernardino in California have donated $16,500 to renovate and develop the Nakfa women's Vocational Training Center.

The donation is part of a broad -based initiative for all NUEW members abroad: the construction of women's Vocational Training Centers in different Eritrean towns. NUEW members living abroad have united in their aim to support the construction of such centers with the overall aim of helping women in Eritrea to be self reliant.

Elsewhere in the US, NUEW members living in Washington D.C. contributed $50,000 towards the training center project in Senafe, Southern Zone. The construction is scheduled to start "soon". Santa Rosa is raising funds to support the construction of a center in Keren. New York is supporting Massawa and NUEW's members in Seattle are providing funds for a center in Assab.

In Europe, NUEW members in Sweden are raising funds for a Vocational Training Center in Adi Keyeh and members in Germany are supporting a similar project in Barentu.