Deadline: 31 May 2017
The Embassy of the United States in Port Louis is currently seeking applications from non-governmental organizations, schools, community groups, health and environmental associations and others for its U.S. Ambassador’s Special Self-Help Program in Seychelles.
The program is a grassroots assistance program that responds to requests for financial assistance from small community based projects.
The Self-Help Program promotes self-reliance through community action and strives to support projects that impact entire communities, through direct or indirect benefits.
The primary objective is to help people help themselves.
Activities
- Improve basic economic and social conditions at the grassroots level;
- Aid the HIV/AIDS-inflicted or conduct sensitization/awareness and prevention campaigns and projects;
- Address global issues such as women’s empowerment and the environment;
- Provide a firm foundation for democratic processes to take root;
- Be welcomed and supported by the local community;
- Support high-impact, quick-implementation activities which benefit a large number of people within one year without requiring further SSH assistance;
- Involve a significant local contribution in cash, labor, or material, and are within the ability of the local community to operate and maintain;
- Are in direct response to the initiative and aspirations of the local community (the local sponsors of the project, who will also be its prime beneficiaries); and
- Be able to implement the activity within the one-year agreement period.
Funding Information
No less than SRs3000 and no more than SRs50, 000.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications are invited from non-government organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations or parent-teachers associations (PTA) of primary schools, secondary schools, co-operative societies and other charitable institutions based in Seychelles.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via post, fax, email or hand delivered at the address given on the website.
Eligible Country: Seychelles
For more information, please visit U.S. Ambassador’s Special Self-Help Program.