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I61 Website Management

NGO Name: I61 Foundation

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Project Summary

The I61 Foundation does not take a percentage of project funds for their administration so we depend on funders who are willing to contribute to the running of our organisation.  The website is a tool to inform all stakeholders of current and completed projects as well as a call for funding to support projects from NGO’s registered with the I61 Foundation. The website also acknowledges funders of their support and provides an opportunity for volunteers to see the availability of placements where they can support their communities. Funding is needed to set up the website as well as maintain it. Thank you to our generous funders.

Capacity Growth Program

NPO Name: APPEL/ENL Foundation

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
4. Ensure inclusive & equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Project Summary

The ENL Foundation led this project and by collaborating with APPEL, this project provided training to 15 homeless men and boosted their capacity and opportunity to find and secure employment. The activities of this employability and training project were grounded in the experiences drawn by the ENL Foundation team through the APRANN Project which was sponsored by the HSBC.  

Objectives

1. To empower and equip beneficiaries for job opportunities.
2. To strengthen beneficiaries to sustain their jobs once they are recruited.
3. To strengthen beneficiaries on a psychological aspect in order to cope with professional and personal challenges.

Outcomes

1. Beneficiaries are now more confident and prepared for job interviews
2. Beneficiaries will be now able to keep jobs for a long term
3. Beneficiaries will now be able to stabilise their lifestyle with an income in order to meet their personal needs and progress further in life.
4. Beneficiaries will be able to rent a house once they become employed

Timing

From Tuesday 3rd August 2021 to Tuesday 7th September 2021 (Tuesdays and Thursdays only)

Please Note: All information herein, in part or in whole, is that of the said NGO and not of the I61 Foundation. 100% of the funds raised will be allocated to the project. If you have any questions, we would be more than happy to answer them. Thank you for your consideration.

Upgrading of Pre-School

NGO Name: Ti Rayons Soleil

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Project Summary

This is a collaborative project supported by Ti Rayons Soleil and the Livina Foundation.

Paille en Queue École Maternelle has been registered with the ECCEA (Ministry of Education) since June 2016. It welcomes 30 children from 3 to 5 years of age on a daily basis. In November 2019, the little school threatened to close, due to many challenges they were facing. Livina Foundation / Ti Rayons Soleil offered to take over the running of the school, as from the 1st of December 2019, so that the 35 children from Tamarin’s village and Cité didn’t lose their school, and the employees didn’t lose their jobs. 

The premises from where the school is operating belong to the Black River District Council, and is really too narrow to welcome 30 children on a daily basis. The school was given permission to place two containers on the property and transform one into a classroom for the Middle Section, and the other into the Manager’s Office / meeting room for the different members of their holistic team. The fencing around the school is being redone to ensure the safety of the children is maintained. To date the containers have been refurbished and the roofing and fencing have been completed. Funds are needed to reimburse the school for the fencing and roofing.

Project Update (May 2021)

We have paid out Rs72,600 for the fencing of this project which was generously provided for by our funders. The remaining funds of Rs109,000 for the roofing are still being raised. We have Rs16,286.62 to date with Rs92,713.38 outstanding. Should you wish to contribute to the roofing of this little school, please contact us on contact@i61foundation.org.

Project Completion (August 2021)

The I61 Foundation was able to support the Livina Foundation as they stepped in to upgrade and and give new wings to Pailles en Queue Ecole Maternelle in Tamarin Bay, thanks to the generosity of our funders. This little school now has a new classroom and staffroom. Funds were raised to pay for the fencing, to keep the children safely in the schoolyard, and the roofing of the new buildings. We are so excited for these little ones to have a safe, spacious place to learn. Thank you!

Please Note: All information herein, in part or in whole, is that of the said NGO and not of the I61 Foundation. 100% of the funds raised will be allocated to the project. If you have any questions, we would be more than happy to answer them. Thank you for your consideration.

R.O.C. Project

NGO Name: Eco-Sud

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Project Summary

The pressures of global environmental crises threaten food security worldwide. The environmental degradation associated with industrial agriculture, and its general failure to lead to resilient food systems has highlighted the need to adopt agro-ecological practices that, in brief, are more sustainable, lead to more productive food systems, are more socially inclusive and promote biodiversity. Indeed, agro-ecology has recently emerged as the approach that provides basic ecological principles to build and manage sustainable agro-ecosystems that are productive while preserving natural resources, to be culturally sensitive, socially-just, and economically viable. These systems provide resilient solutions to food systems.

The island nation of Mauritius is highly dependent on food imports. In addition to the consequences of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and the disastrous MV Wakashio oil spill have revealed the fragility of food systems in Mauritius. Hence, there is a pressing need to increase food self-sufficiency. There is an opportunity to support the people that have directly lost their income due to COVID-19 and the oil spill, and sustainably increase food security in Mauritius.

The Resilient Organic Community – or *ROC project* – is an important initiative of the NGO Eco-Sud to sustainably increase food security in Mauritius. The agro-ecological centres at Ville Noire will support beneficiaries through:

(i) a Solidarity Shop which will carry the distribution of food and provide a psychological support program,

(ii) a training area and the construction of food production kits (agro-kits) destined for the community,

(iii) a soil amendment and compost-making facility, and

(iv) plantations for food production.

Project Update (May 2021)

All 4 containers have been placed on their foundations. Two roof frames are now ready. Doors and windows will be made in the next 2-3 weeks and then the canvas for the roof will be added. Simultaneously, more land has been cleared to start the planting of vegetables. The first 20 agro-kits will also be made soon. The ROC are also currently waiting for their permit to open the Solidarity Shop.

Project Update (July 2021)

Because of the generosity of our funder, Mauritius Blue Action, the Resilience Organic Community (ROC) Project has covered the costs of their four containers. This means that this project can continue to prepare to educate the community on self-sustaining practices that positively impact the environment. The land has been cleared to begin preparing the agro-kits and their solidarity shop will open soon. The two roof frames are now ready to be covered with canvas, the containers are being painted and the doors and windows will be made in the next couple of weeks. Thank you to everyone involved for making this possible! 

STAGE 3 – Preparing the Containers:

STAGE 2 – Placing the Containers:

STAGE 1 – Clearing the Land:

Please Note: All information herein, in part or in whole, is that of the said NGO and not of the I61 Foundation. 100% of the funds raised will be allocated to the project. If you have any questions, we would be more than happy to answer them. Thank you for your consideration.

Carre D’As Sanitary Project

NGO Name: Pont du Tamarinier

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
10.Reduce inequality within and among countries
11.Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Project Summary

Carre D’As is a village situated on the main road of Black River, adjacent to London Way Supermarket, where 48 families are living in precarious conditions. Le Pont du Tamarinier (LPDT), for the last 13 years, has accompanied these families and advocated for them to obtain decent housing. In the meantime, LPDT has also implemented projects to better their living conditions while they wait for the social housing project to be realised. Many homes have no access to water in their current houses and have limited access to the reservoirs that are situated in the village. The Carre D’As Sanitary Project aims to provide effective solutions to better their living conditions. In conjunction with the I61 Foundation, Redeemer Church, the Tamarin Village Council and the habitants of the village, LPDT aims to remedy this situation, and invites others to join in this initiative that will change the lives of those in need.

Please Note: All information herein, in part or in whole, is that of the said NGO and not of the I61 Foundation. 100% of the funds raised will be allocated to the project. If you have any questions, we would be more than happy to answer them. Thank you for your consideration.