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Your financial support will go a long way towards helping us empower Liberian Market Women, thereby ensuring that the country strengthens its economy and nutritional health, and the children of market women attain standards of education that every child deserves.

A great asset to SMWF is the African Women's Development Fund. The AWDF, based in Accra, Ghana, was established in 2000 as the first Africa-wide fundraising and grant-making fund for women. The AWDF funds local, national, sub-regional and regional organizations in Africa that work towards African women's empowerment. In the past, the AWDF has funded the Sierra Leone Market Women's Association (SLMWA) in support of its organizational efforts and continues its support of market women through its work with the SMWF.

The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Market Women's Fund is funded by grants under a fiscal sponsorship arrangement with the African Women's Development Fund USA Inc. (AWDF-USA), a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization.

Examples of What the Money Covers:

Full Markets

  • $350,000 builds a complete urban market with all services
  • $100,000 builds a complete rural market with all services

Partial Market/Services

  • $61,000 pays for a rural market structure only
  • $25,000 will help construct a clinic
  • $10,000 will help build a nursery school
  • $5,000 helps provide toilets and sinks
  • $2,500 helps supply potable water
  • $1,500 can set up storage facilities
  • $1,000 helps provide electricity
  • $500 helps construct a playground
  • $100 helps provide a loan to a market woman
  • $75 helps to train women in entrepreneurial skills
  • $50 helps buy nursery school supplies

Make a tax-deductible donation via PayPal:

$50 $100 $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000 Other

Or, send a tax-deductible check payable to AWDF-SMWF to:

AWDF/SMWF
P.O. Box 3967
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163-3967
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