Call for projects
2026 call for projects: applications are open
Applications can be submitted until 30 November. The criteria are unchanged and the process is entirely online.
Read the articleIn the field
One year on: the Douala sewing workshop employs seven
Five seamstresses received four machines. They have taken on two apprentices and now fulfil school-uniform orders.
Published on
We regularly go back to see funded projects, including those that are not going well. This one is going well.
The workshop has been self-sufficient for eight months. The most telling figure is not turnover, but the fact that two apprentices from the same training course now work there. The project has stopped being a supported project and become an employer.
One point is worth stressing because it comes up often: the premises were lent by the town council, the training had been delivered by a neighbourhood centre, and the skills were already there. What blocked everything was buying the machines. Funding that precise blockage was enough.
Also worth reading
AnnouncementOnline applications: what two years of the platform changed
More files received, measurable turnaround times, and above all an end to requests lost in an inbox.
Read the article
In the fieldWhy we fund the final year of study, not the first
Concentrating support at the point where dropping out costs the most: that is the choice made for school grants.
Read the article