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FOG Projects


Photo by Erik Zimmerman
Youkounkoun, '01-'02

As you're able, please make a donation, support our projects in Guinea!


These are all the projects that have involved giving money. We do much, much more.

Donating

In order to make a donataion to one or more of the projects Friends of Guinea is helping, please click on the following link:

Pending projects & fundraisers

2006 PCPP and Friends of Guinea helped raise enough money to purchase a radio for Saramoussaya. Thanks for your help!

1/2006. The 2006 Boys Conference was funded from direct donations and with support from PCPP.

12/2005. Mandiana has all the necessary books and furniture for a library, but there is currently no place to put them. PCVs are seeking funds to construct a library. Click here for more details.

12/2005. The 2006 Gender Conferences were fully funded from direct donations, and we raised over $500 through sales of the RPCV calendar.

12/2005. FOG sent a check for $7300 to the organizers and fully funded the 2006 Girls' Conferences. Friends posting flyers helped make this fundraising successful:

Past Projects

Radio for Sarammoussaya

Sarammoussaya lacked a high frequency radio, which posed a major problem for the community, since the doctor of the health center and local officials are often drawn away from the village in order to communicate on work-related matters. People from surrounding communities often travel long distances to get to the health center, only to find that there is nobody capable of treating them while the doctor is away.

In order to solve this problem, the community purchased a high frequency radio and a solar panel for the health center. The radio allows the doctor to make arrangements to receive medications and vaccinations without having to leave the village, decreasing the amount of time he would normally have to spend traveling, and therefore improving the overall healthcare in the area.

World Map Project

PCV Wayne Kleck requested $71 to paint some world maps on two elementary schools in the Dubreka area. Abdourahmane (Mane) Bangoura, a Lycee student, worked with Wayne to complete one of the maps in seven days. They worked from early morning until early afternoon each day. Mane said that the project was a good lesson in paying attention to detail. He was very proud of the completed map and plans to use the leftover paint to paint a map of africa at his neighborhood video club.

Students in front of world map The Guinea map, painted on an exterior wall of the Yurokoguia elementary school, took 6 days, and Wayne painted it with the help of 5 students. One of the students was the coordinator of all the helpers on the Guinea map. Wayne writes: "I spent most of my time on this map overseeing the work of the students that were helping me. It was a great team effort!"

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Koundian Library, Mandiana

PCV Meghan Greeley sponsored this project to create a library in Mandiana. FOG donated $500 of the $1957 for this project.

Health Center Organization Development Workshop

PCV Kelly Hamblin sponosred this project to help the staff of the Selouma Health Center organize their work. FOG donated $90 to this project on 12/10/04

Partage Quebec Guinea (PQG)

FOG has donated $810 to this project (including $110 from the Guinean diaspora in Cincinnati) in 2003 and 2004..

Partage Quebec Guinea (PQG) is a Quebec-based organization which collects books and sends them to Guinea. This is a great organization, but it desperately needs help. It's based in Quebec,the president is a 65 year old man, and unfortunately they've been getting more books that they can handle. More information.

Timbi Touni Physics books

In 2004 Magdalena Vilderama, a PCV who teaches 9th grade Physics in Timbi Tounni, near Pita, asked FOG to help her aquire some French Physics books for her students. FOG acted as a liaison between Magdalena and PQG, and PQG shipped a few Physics books along with an English-French dictionary to Conakry, where Magdalena was able to pick them up and bring them to her school.

Guineenews Donations

FOG has donated a total of $400 (in 3/2004 and 2/2003) to Guineenews (formerly boubah.com), which provides an excellent set of news and information on Guinea to those living outside its borders. Part of our donation will go to offset expenses incurred by Guineenews correspondent in Conakry.

The Landouma Translation Public Health Project

FOG donated $100 to this project in October 2003. Carrie Mitchell (at right) is the PCV sponsoring this project. She requested a $100.00 donation from FOG for a bicycle ($75.00) and some cassette tapes ($25.00). The project involves translating public health information into the locoal language of Landouma and playing the tapes for local villagers. Carrie works currently in Boke.

The Koliagbe Basic Hospital Materials Project

FOG donated $120 to this project in December 2003. Ann Clayton (at left) is the PCV in charge of this project. She requested a donation from FOG to purchase a few basic hospital materials for a village hospital in Koliagbe, Kindia. The materials can be purchased in Conakry UNICEF and they include a stethoscope, tension-meter, baby scale, baby bath tub, linens, and scissors.

The 110 French Books Project

RPCV Sally Decco offered us 110 free books in French. Jody Sites, our previous financial officer, drove the books from Vermont to Quebec at the end of 2003. PQG agreed to ship the books from Quebec to the PC office in Conakry where they were stored and eventually shipped to the Diountou library.

Hawa Barry Donations

Served as a clearinghouse for over $700 in donations to Hawa Barry's family, a Guinean woman living in Boston who was shot in the abdomen while pregnant in 2003.

More information

On behalf of Hawa Barry and her husband Mamadou, I would like to convey a heartfelt thank you for the generosity of those of you who sent checks. Friends of Guinea collected more than $800 in Hawa's name, including a personal donation and note of encouragement from Dane Smith, president of the National Peace Corps Association.
- RPCV Josh Johnson
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Gender Conferences

Friends of Guinea has consistently helped raise money for Gender Conferences. Volunteers gather Guinean girls and boys each year from citites and villages in regional centres for a 2-day conference on careers, health, and education.

About the Conferences

Gender Conferences 2005-2006

Photos and reports:

Conference Amount raised Photos and Reports
2006
$7300
2005
$8786
2004
Not available
Not available
2003
over $10 000
2002
over $7 000


 


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