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Description
COA has given grants, monies, and different sorts of financial assistance to individuals and groups all over the continent of Africa. COAForum Loans™ provides grants for micro loan startups in villages in Africa. The motto of COAForum Loans™ is loans, not guns. COAForum Loans™ can be reached at grants@coaforum.com . If you would like to contribute to COAForum Loans™, please contact us at coaforumloans@coaforum.com . 2008 Report Pending Report for September-December-2007 For Congo(DRC), $900 for existing micro loan business. Sierra Leone, $300 micro loan grant and $700 business support. Ethiopia, $3000 business support. Cameroon, $1, 800 business support. Malawi, $500 business support. Nicaragua, $400 business support. Dominican Repulic, $650 business support. Uganda, $500 business support. Somalia, $750 business support. Report for April-August-2007 As from April 2007 , COA provided $61,000 business support to Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. $1,800 for Jamaica, $1,200 for Senegal, $1,500 for Ethiopia, $2,000 for Angola, $350 for Cameroon, $1,000 for Kenya, $400 for Uganda, $2,500 for Somalia, $120 for DR Congo, $120 for Ivory Coast, $55 for Mali, $350 Benin, $900 for Dominican Republic. We now have our first micro loan start-up in Democratic Republic of the Congo-$300 seed first installment. We now have a third Micro loan start-up in Mozambique-$500 first installment seed money. Progress in the micro loan start-ups is slow because it is difficult finding and training reliable candidates to own the micro loan enterprises. Report for March 2007 We now have first $600 micro loan start-up in Mali, And from March to current update following grants to women businesses: Mali-$200, Gambia-$250, Liberia-$500, Ghana-$650, Senegal-$450, Ethiopia-$3000, Guinea-$500, Angola-$1000 and Cameroon-$850 Report for January 2007 Kenya-$2,000 additional grant for existing Micro loan Start-up. A group of 8 women who produced laundry detergent are now going to buy a "Bar Soap making machine". So they will now sell bar soaps they make themselves. Ivory Coast-$600 for two micro loans start-ups. Rwanda-$400 for one micro loans start-up. Angola-$3,000 business support, Mali-$300 business support, Senegal-$250 business support, Sierra Leone-$160 business support, and Gambia-$90 business support. Report for October-December, 2006 The following assistance made to existing micro loan start ups: Kenya-$3,300, Nigeria-$900, Guinea-$600, Sierra Leone-$900, and Senegal-$900 for three new start-ups. Other general business support for the following: Senegal-$5,000, Sierra Leone-$7,000, Ethiopia-$1,500, Mali-$500, Gambia-$300, Guinea-$350, Guinea-Bissau-$90, Cape Verde-$150, Somalia-$300, Madagascar-$200, Congo-Kinshasa-$400, Cameroon-$870, Liberia-$600, Mozambique-$150 and Tanzania-$270, Ghana-$700, Jamaica-$2,424, Spain-$1,800 and Greece-$2,000 The 2005 table below lists disbursements in the amount of $21,660.00 for COAForum Loans™ for the year 2005. The 2006 table below lists disbursements through much of 2006. That table lists disbursements in the amount of $21,362.00 for COAForum Loans™ thru September 2006. Please note that we have not been able to get qualified recipients for the available $3000.00 earmarked for Pujehun, Bonthe Island and Port Loko in Sierra Leone. We update periodically.