Income Generation
MAP supports a number of income generating projects, focusing in particular on improving the earning potential of women with families.
MAP supports a number of income generating projects, focusing in particular on improving the earning potential of women with families.Below are listed some of the income generation projects supported by MAP:
MAP is working to establish a representative and accountable local committee in Lebanon's Dbaye camp to manage a small micro lending programme designed to enable households to meet family health needs that have been prioritised in recent participatory surveys. This project has tried to engage with the entire community through a series of open meetings and participatory exercises.
Working closely with its partner organisation, the Beit al-Mustaqbal Association (BAM) MAP has supported a series of projects to enhance the income-generating potential of women in the Khan Yunis region of the Gaza Strip. Targeting poor women who are married with children, the scheme offers workshops to raise their knowledge and improve their skills in drying crops professionally using solar energy. After training, the women are provided with shared drying machines as well as packing and weighing equipment. In this way it is hoped the women will be able to generate incomes of $100-$200 a month each.
In cooperation with al-Majd Women Association, MAP is providing training to 100 women, 50 in food processing and proper cooking, six of whom will subsequently be employed in al-Majd's food production unit, and 50 in the care of egg-laying chickens. These women will receive hatching chicks and the feed for a one month period. They may then use the eggs to feed their families and sell any surplus to buy feed for the chickens and ideally contribute to the family income.