The TARA ProjectEmpowering Communities.  Ending Poverty.

The Tara Project Mission

The Tara Project improves access to health, education and enterprise for chronically poor communities.

We foster an environment of equals where an exchange of ideas and resources creates a sustainable, prosperous future.

The Tara Project VisionSuccess is sustainable independence and a higher quality of life where at minimum, basic needs are met including:• safe housing• adequate, healthy food supply• income opportunities sufficient to

ensure health care, education and security.

Why We’re DifferentWe build a partnership with our communities based on respect and equality that includes:

• Community, not donor, driven projects

• Capacity building including business and leadership skills

• Expectation that communities want to and will be self-sufficient after initial project support

• Continued relationship with communities as part of the Tara family year-after-year

• Leveraging community leaders expertise and experience when working with new communities

Our Community Focus

Our Community Focus

• Impoverished

• Lacks access to opportunities

• Ready for change

• International or Domestic

Our Community Focus

• Multinational corporations or large businesses

• Doing business in or around target communities

• Open to creating profitable, equitable & ethical local partnerships

Our Community Focus

• Individual investors or philanthropic organizations

• Invested in communities and projects

Our First Local Community

Kojwach Location in Kenya’s Nyanza Province

Our First Project:  Girls Education

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Girls Education

Education is a basic right. It is more than reading and writing, education is empowerment to:

• Choose the size of families• Reduce infant, child & maternal

mortality• Have better job and earning

opportunities• Be healthier• Ensure a brighter future for the

next generation

Girls EducationOver the course of three months in 2009, speaking with 138 people we found that girls were more likely to drop out of school because of :

Lack of access to basic needs and adequate hygiene which leads to:

• Risky relationships with older men

• Unplanned pregnancy and early marriage

Girls EducationThe Solution: Promote girls education in Kenya by reducing barriers to attendance and retention

• Provide shoes and new school uniforms every 18 months

• Skills training

• Improved sanitation infrastructure at schools

• Peer education training

• Scholarship “bank”

Girls Education

The Timeline:• December 2009: Field preparation

and detailed project development

• June 2010: Launch project

• December 2010: Initial Evaluation

• January 2011: Program modifications based on evaluation findings.

• June 2011: 1st Year Program Evaluations

How You Can Help

• Immediate needs: $10K for December Field Preparation

• Bring your kids to our ornament events

• Skilled volunteers: Website coder, Flash Designer

• Hosting Parties

• Tell a Friend!

For More Information• www.TaraProject.org• Facebook Group

Thank you!