Dimapur, November 6 (MExN): Six applicants from Nagaland have been selected as the first cohort of Christian Social Development Training and will receive Seed Award Grant of 5000 USD each for their projects.
According to a press release from the Seed Award Team members are Benjamin Chan (Convenor), a total of 16 applicants were screened out of which the six were selected. The Training and Seed Award is a special project of International Ministries to respond to the economic and livelihood impact of the COVID pandemic and to be in partnership with the North East Christian University, Nagaland, India.
The selected applicants include Bangerchiba (Panger Ozukum) - Kulem Enterprise (To start a pineapple plantation and fishery business to provide jobs to unemployed youth); K Machungambou - Akhombou Piggery Farm (To establish a model farm to provide farming education and generate employment for economically backward rural communities); Maongnungsang - Books on Wheels Social Enterprise (To train and provide mobile book selling jobs to the unemployed youth and to empower them to become positive contributors to the church and society); Norbu Lama- Making Multipurpose Cooperative (To train and hire financially struggling families in their production and sale of their processed food business); Senmi Imolangba Jamir - Common Ground (To train and engage unemployed and disadvantaged women in handicraft production and the sale of their handicrafts); and Temjenwati Jamir - Akan-Chi (To provide food security and sustainable livelihood to vulnerable communities through the cassava and azolla farming business).
The awarded small businesses share the common characteristic of targeting social and financial disadvantaged people.
A common goal is to equip those persons with work skills, training and education. Then they can experience opportunities to restore their dignity and to achieve a better quality of life, the release stated.
