Mama Afrika - The Projects

Excerpt of Projects which are developed by now

	Mohamed Charo Mohamed Charo is our representative on the ground. He organises the monthly meetings of Mama Afrika members, controls the loan repayments and sends us monthly project reports.
	Emmily & Mbetsa Emmily and Mbetsa run a village shop in Mtwapa (40 000 inhabitants) which was founded in 2006. Since 2007, they have expanded the business to include a restaurant. They also invest in an agricultural market garden. Their vegetables are used in the restaurant.
	Margaret Margaret, a reliable partner, serves social and public services (hospitals, schools, prisons) with high-quality and inexpensive tablecloths and bed linen which she sources from neighbouring Tanzania. She has also been breeding chickens since summer 2008 with Seline.
	Riziki & Mohamed In 2007 Riziki and Mohamed built a foodstore in Likoni in the south of Mombasa. This had to be closed due to the rioting. Now they cultivate vegetables and fruits on their own soil.
	Patrick Patrick joined in 2007 with a business for Chinese medicine. Due to the crisis, his volume of sales collapsed and he transferred to the transport business.
	Veronika und Austin Veronika and Austin have been running a bar since October 2007 which they expanded to include a snack bar in 2008. The monthly Mama Afrika meetings take place in their “Ausver’s Bar”. Cultural events also take place there.
	Seline Seline has a chicken breeding business with Margaret. The chickens are sold to hotels, restaurants and private individuals.
	Aisha & Suleiman Suleiman trades with Charcoal. The charcoal is collected in the savannah and sold to the people in the city. Since mid 2009 they sell fresh vegetables and offer a breakfrest bar.
	Anne She operates a restaurant in the city with 3 employees.
	WOMEN A tailoring company operated by 5 trainees and one master dressmaker.
	John John is a painter and carpenter. He sells his products in the "Africa house".
	Ali u. Rashid Operate a surfing school at the beach of mombasa. With the profit from this company they finance a school for about 70 children.

Mama Afrika supports projects of three different sizes

The general size of Mama Afrika projects are "Medium Sized" projects. Most of the current supported companies can be allocated to this category. Typical is a development period of over 2-3 years. This is necessary for the company to establish a stable foundation. Mama Afrika supports these projects financially with a maximum of an overall budget of €3000.

The second category are the "small sized" projects which are finanzed with a maximum of €500. The necessary development time is between 1 and 1,5 years. The small sized projects are like secondary growth projects in which the candidates can prove themselves in order to launch a bigger company.

Up to now one "Jumbo" project is already realized with the tailoring company WOMEN. This size of projects is planned in the future as a focus. Two further projects with a financial scale in between 7000€ 10.000€ are being prepaired (one being an agricultural milk production company). These projects will be launched with the entrepreneurs who have already proved themselves as "medium sized" entrepreneurs.

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