Happy New Year to all our Newsletter readers.
For our United States readers, you still have a five full days left to make a donation for 2025; please consider visiting Donations – Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund.
The purpose of this Newsletter is to announce our Call for Proposals 2026 and introduce our Application Package 2026.
US-Based HALEY McCREADY OUTREACH AND DEVELOPMENT FUND (HMODF)
Student Grants Program
Call for Proposals 2026
Submission Deadline: January 24, 2026
Overseen by the Burundi Advisory Committee, the Student Grants Program of the US-Based Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund (HMODF) provides one-time, start-up grants to students and graduates of Hope Africa University who submit a project proposal for an agriculture development project in Burundi. Any student or graduate who is willing to be a long term volunteer Project Manager is eligible to apply. Interested students and graduates are encouraged to submit a proposal, using the Application Package 2026 and its proposal outline, format and instructions.
The projects must address obvious agriculture needs and have the potential to produce significant, lasting change. Applicants must clearly explain how their proposed project will alleviate poverty, develop beneficiaries’ capacity and become self-supporting, self-managing, self-governing and self-sustaining. We expect projects to (1) organize 10 poor women; (2) develop a self-help association; (3) cultivate crops; (4) distribute goats or pigs; and, (5) develop microfinancing (see examples: www.HaleyMcCreadyFund.com).
The proposals must be well-written and clearly describe how the objectives will be met, how the beneficiaries will be meaningfully involved, and how the benefits will be shared with the beneficiaries and their families.
The grants are for the BIF equivalent of $1,500.00 USD. The start-up, implementation period will normally be about 12 months but the projects are expected to become self-sustaining and continue long into the future, see examples on our website: www.HaleyMcCreadyFund.com.
- All applications, all proposals must be submitted in English to John McCready as e-mail Word file attachments, using the 2026 proposal outline, format and instructions
- All applications must be submitted by January 24, 2026
For an Application Package that contains the 2026 proposal outline, format and instructions and for questions about the use of the proposal outline and format, you must e-mail John McCready in English.
John.McCready@HealthyHorizonsConsulting.com
Following our Call for Proposals 2025, the HMODF now has:
- A total of 39 agriculture development projects and a total of 16 Project Managers
- A total of 468 project beneficiaries, mostly poor women, and an estimated 2,808 benefitting family members
- Our projects already have 1,136 animals; almost all goats and pigs, and have sold 736 animals for income-generation purposes
Two New Agriculture Development Projects in 2025:
- Empowering Vulnerable Women from Butaramuka Colline, Mugina Commune in Cibitoke Province through Cultivating Crops and Breeding Pigs – Experienced Project Manager: Audace MPAWENIMANA
- Supporting Vulnerable Women from Gishirwe Colline in Bugarama Commune, Rumonge Province through Cultivating Crops and Breeding Pigs – New Project Manager: Euphraim NDIKUMWENAYO
Including our Canadian Fund, we have a total of 63 projects, 681 beneficiaries, 4,086 family members, 1,217 animals (goats and pigs) and 745 animals sold.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Please remember the Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund (HMODF) in your giving. Donations to the HMODF are direct investments in agriculture, livestock and microfinancing development for poor Burundian women and their family members. Our projects are self-supporting, long-lasting and alleviate poverty and improve lives.
To donate, please go visit Donations – Haley McCready Outreach and Development Fund