Monday, 20 July 2009

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The United States African Development Foundation has signed a grant agreement to benefit a San community group in Botswana and empower them to become competitive in the wool trade. The grantee is BORAVAST Community Resource Management Trust, which is located in an isolated part of the Kalahari Desert.

After signing the grant, USADF President Lloyd Pierson stated, "USADF strives to identity and work with the most marginalised populations in Africa to ensure a better quality of life for them. This grant is funding one of the most marginalised populations in Botswana and is designed to help the group's members raise themselves out of poverty."

BORAVAST is a community-based organisation composed of 1,500 San residents living in four remote villages in the Southern Kgalagadi District. Traditionally a marginalised population, the San suffer from high levels of unemployment, illiteracy, and poverty. BORAVAST improves members' quality of life by mobilizing the community to participate in income generating activities.
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