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ZIMBABWE - Irrigation and water project (September 2009)

This is an Oxfam project that Prospect members are supporting through the Oxfam Appeal Fund. It is the first stage of a three-part irrigation project in the rural Gutu district of Masvingo province and will combine with agricultural and business training to ensure that 25,000 people have a steady supply of food throughout the year.

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HONDURAS - Development Advocate (HSE Branch), Clare Hawkes & women sweatshops (May 2009)

Following a request from War on Want and supported by the NEC, Clare joined a delegation to Honduras to participate in a conference organised by War on Want partner, CODEMUH (Honduran Women's Collective). Part of the trip was also spent meeting women employed in sweatshops who, as a result of their the abysmal working conditions in the vast sweatshops of Honduras suffer from crippling muscular skeletal disorders.

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GUATEMALA - Branch aid for Asociacion Conrado de la Cruz (Mayan child labour organisation) -  (April 2009)

To raise awareness of the Mayan child labour in Guatemala, the Forensic Science Branch undertook a fund raising campaign for the War on Want project partner in that country - Conrado de la Cruz. They raised £1,340.00.

Conrado de la Cruz works with women and girls in some of the poorest areas of Guatemala City. The principal objective of Conrado de la Cruz is to improve the livelihoods of Mayan girl workers via education and campaigning. Conrado de la Cruz provides services for 700 Mayan girl workers in Guatemala City and three rural areas.

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KENYA – Nomad education project in Kenya (2008)

Prospect members have donated approximately £17,400 which has been dedicated to a project that aims to establish and equip ten new mobile schools for the children of nomadic (pastoralist) families.

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Natural England branch (January 2009) 

Two reps at Natural England Branch, who have engaged with the BID project, have taken forward a motion to their conference that calls for NE to support a policy of addressing human rights issues through corporate social responsibility and supply chain policies.  The aim is to persuade management groups to implement policies and activities with suppliers and contractors on human/workers’ rights, health and safety and environmental protection throughout the supply chain.

The full story is reported in the January edition of REPORT which may be downloaded from the following link. http://www.prospect.org.uk/doclib/internationaldevelopment/case_studies_in_report

Central Science Laboratory (November 2008)  

Members at the Central Science Laboratories in York engaged with suppliers at the annual CSL suppliers’ fair where they handed out information and discussed issues with suppliers and other Prospect members.  The suppliers’ representatives were keen to hear about the initiative and willingly took the leaflets that outline ethical trading, the law and positive reasons why they should get more involved. A copy of the supplier leaflet can be downloaded by clicking the link www.prospect.org.uk/page/15086

COLOMBIA - Branch aid for Colombian trade unionists (Oct 2008)

On August 8th 2008 Liliany Patricia Obando was detained by the Colombian authorities. The Colombian regime has accused her of ‘rebellion' and is currently holding her in the political prisoner's block of the ‘Buen Pastor' women's prison in the Colombian capital Bogota. Liliany

Liliany is held in appalling conditions, food and medicine are insufficient, communication with the outside world is limited and some women in the political prisoners block, though not Liliany, are imprisoned with their small children.

Liliany is an academic, a women's rights campaigner and a trade unionist.

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CAMBODIA - Mitigation of flooding on communities along the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers (2007)

Approximately £28,000 has been collected under the Trust up to end of March 2007 - this money has been dedicated to a project that aims to minimise the impact of flooding on the lives and livelihoods of people and communities that live along the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers.

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Full project report from Oxfam www.prospect.org.uk/page/13850