Empowerment of underprivileged School Dropouts-Crisis Victims

Project Location:  Cameroon North West Region, Bamenda City Njang Belo sub division

Project duration:    12 Months                                      Project cost:€5,000

PROJECT GOAL: Tacking vulnerability of urban youths-internally displaced school dropouts, crisis victims

PROJECT OBJECTIVE: To profile and placed 10 school dropouts in specialized training centres of:tailoring, carpentry, and hairdressing, dress making, bike and vehicle repairs, etc.
 
PROJECT PURPOSE: Creating job opportunities for youths

Skills training for the empowerment of vulnerable poor girls from crisis impacted communities, now settled in Bamenda town and seeking for livelihoods self –help improvement, out of their village economic base; needs sustainable alternative means of survival.

Sustainable Development Goal 8

PROJECT ACTIVITIES

(1) Profiling and enlisting participants
(2) Signing training agreement and placing beneficiaries at various training facilities
(3) Procure and supply seed capital and training equipment to trainee beneficiaries
(4) monthly supervision and monitoring visits at training facilities
(5) Pay training fees
(6) Report and disseminate to sponsors
   
WHAT HAS CAUSED THIS PROJECT TO HAPPEN

From 2016 to date, violence started in the two English speaking regions of Cameroon that are marginalized by the 80% French speaking central government, and has resulted in displacing 765,000 persons,
 now living in the urban cities and other regions, with 60,000 others displaced as refugees in nine camps in the neighbouring Nigeria. Schools were closed with resulting in school dropouts of 800,000 children, age 3 to 18 years, and 4,000 dead: Re:
 https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/central-africa/cameroon/250-cameroons-anglophone-crisis-crossroads

In response to these challenges faced by the marginalised –underprivileged internally displaced children relocated to the regional capital city of Bamenda, need self-help initiatives.

Project beneficiaries: 10 School drop-outs (boys and girls) 10 to 25 years, orphans, single mothers, widows on self-help, self-sufficiency job placement skills of: tailoring, carpentry, and hairdressing, dress making, bike and vehicle repairs, etc

This project is supported by the Maecenata Foundation, Munich/Berlin: https://support.betterplace.org/hc/de/articles/6106004149404-Was-ist-Maecenata-