Summer Festival Campaign Raises Over €10,000 For IICD Projects

A total of €8.000 will go to the Fair Trade for Beekeepers project, which is the full amount needed to fund this project. This project is aimed at helping rural beekeepers in Zambia certify and sell organic honey with the use of PDAs. The PDAs will be used to collect, store and analyse key data about Zambia’s honey sector. This will make it easier for honey producers to get their products certified which, in turn, will allow them to sell their honey on the international market. 

A total of €6.083 was also raised for the Mobiles against Malaria project, which is aimed at helping mothers in Mali fight malaria with the help of mobile phones. Of the €17.000 needed to fund this project, so far €13,851 has been raised. By registering data about malaria in the neighbourhoods with the mobile phones, a group of mothers that work as community health workers will be able to prevent, diagnose and treat malaria in a more effective way.

The two projects that were presented at the festival, where part of the GIVASHIT campaign. This is an initiative from Dutch NGOs Get It Done and Akvo. Visitors of the Parade were asked to make a small donation when they visited the toilets during the event. A total of €30,577 was raised for during the Parade for several small-scale development projects of which €14,000 went to IICD-supported projects. 

If you would still like to contribute to the mobiles against malaria project, please go to the mobiles against malaria donation page.