Rural women in Saskatchewan have two weeks to come up with project ideas to apply for grants under a new initiative.
The grant amounts vary from $250 to $500 per project for the application deadline of June 15. There will be another grant round with a deadline of Sept. 14.
The grants follow up eight workshops that were held in the province over the past two years looking at concerns of rural women, said Joanne Havelock of the Rural Women’s Issues Committee of Saskatchewan.
She said the workshops uncovered issues such as leadership and networking among women, the need to care for one’s own health, the farm income problem, community kitchens, the environment and recycling and the need to build links between farmers and city consumers, seniors and youth and aboriginals and non-aboriginals.
Havelock said projects must be doable by an individual and be a local action such as printing booklets, holding a public meeting to educate others or meeting with policy-makers to present possible solutions.
For more information, contact the committee at 306-585-5727 or e-mail pwhce@uregina.ca.
