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Building School in Cameroon

We need help in the last steps of a successful school building project in Africa which transforms the wood-made building to a more child-friendly environment.

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Building School in Cameroon

Building School in Cameroon

Building School in Cameroon

Building School in Cameroon

Building School in Cameroon

We need help in the last steps of a successful school building project in Africa which transforms the wood-made building to a more child-friendly environment.

We need help in the last steps of a successful school building project in Africa which transforms the wood-made building to a more child-friendly environment.

We need help in the last steps of a successful school building project in Africa which transforms the wood-made building to a more child-friendly environment.

We need help in the last steps of a successful school building project in Africa which transforms the wood-made building to a more child-friendly environment.

Emese Jánosi-Mózes
Emese Jánosi-Mózes
Emese Jánosi-Mózes
Emese Jánosi-Mózes
3 Campaigns |
Yaonde, Cameroon
$1,251 USD 21 backers
11% of $11,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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I have been teaching in this school for six month children with thirst for knowledge, dreaming already about university and good jobs, but who are not so lucky like us in Europe or America to have a safe environment to study and an axiomatic opportunity to get quality education. It is not a new thought that says "poverty is a great waste of talent". Starting with small things, like one brick for a more suitable place to learn can make a big big difference.

(Emese Janosi-Mozes, volunteer of CAPEC from Hungary)

Short Summary

Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child  (CAPEC) is a non-governmental, not for profit organization, working in Cameroon with Reg. No: G39/014/5/252. Since its inception in 2002, the organization has been working with children/youths, parents, government bodies and intergovernmental bodies in the promotion of community welfare. It works to identify the needs of the child especially the rural child/youths, the underprivileged and the weaker section of the society through participatory approach.

CAPEC runs a nursery and primary school in the outskirts of Yaounde, where are too few schools to serve the community. Bitame Lucia International School (BLIS) in Nkolfolou village provides anglo-saxon type education and has an essential role in providing education of quality for orphans and children from families with low income, moreover one priority goal of the organization and the team of the school is to increase girls' enrollment in basic education, who are more preferred to stay at home, help with housework and in the micro-business run by the family (petty trading). 

For over 5 years now, the school has been working in a plank and wooden-made building which is exposed to the weather conditions. This is a temporary structure, so by now these woods have dilapidated and the zinc are broken. It is very difficult to study under such conditions. When it rains heavily, neither the children nor the teachers can talk/nor listen to each other because of the heavy noise. Added to that rains get into the classrooms and sometimes wet the children and their books. Our goal is to create a more child-friendly environment, to build a permanent structure. With the support of  EducAided Netherlands, we received founds for most of the building materials, but an amount of 10000 USD is missing to fulfill successfully the building project, which should start and finish during the period of summer holidays.

What We Need & What You Get

After receiving support from CAPEC's partner, EducAided Netherlands, we have to cover a big part of the costs of the building material, such as cement, bricks etc. 

What you get?


The smiles of 200 children. The consciousness that you added real value to the welfare of a community. Let me quote a sentence written on the wall in the school:

"One hundred years from now,

It won't matter what car I drove,

What kind of house I lived in,

How much I had in my bank account,

Nor what my clothes looked like,

But, the world may be a little better

Because I was important in the life of a child."

(Unknown)

And of course your name will be written on the wall and the website of the new school. In case, you provide your e-mail address, you will be informed with pictures of every step of the constructions including the final result with lot of smiling children. 

The Impact

The opportunity for quality education can reduce poverty and increase the living standards of a whole family if not a community. The outskirts of the capital city, which are practically villages grown into the town, have only few schools which are not enough to serve these communities. Children have to travel long distances to arrive in one of the schools in Yaounde, thus this fact also decreases the motivation of parents to enroll their children, especially the girls in basic education.

Our school serves a big community demand, and gives opportunity of a positive future for the less privileged children, but the building of the school can not serve its role anymore. Your contribution will have a great impact in the life of the Nklofoulou community and a great impact on the provisioned future of its children.

CAPEC believes that, by constructing classrooms for these kids, they will solve the following problems:

·  Issue of schools dropout and failure.

·  To provide access to educate orphans and children from low income families

·  To prevent child prostitution, labour, trafficking and exploitation which are the offsprings of school dropout

·  To enable rural or village based children have access to quality education.

·  To introduce an alternative educational approach that could reverse the teacher centred and rote learning methodologies that most of the children cannot cope with.

Other Ways You Can Help

You can support the success of this project not just financially, but in two very useful ways also:

1. Share this campaign ad with your family and friends. Help us reach as many good people as possible.

2. You can help with your two hands to build the new, safer building of the school. Be our volunteer. Details and application here: http://sciencecaffe.com/en/mon-2014-03-03-1035/building-schools-africa.

Contacts and detailed information about the school and the organization

e-mail: info@capecam.org

Please visit the Facebook page of the school: https://www.facebook.com/Nkolfoulou

and the website of CAPEC: http://www.capecam.org 

Français

Une école décente pour les enfants défavorisés de Nkolfoulou

A propos de l’association

CAPEC (Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child) est une organisation non-gouvernementale crée en 2002. Depuis sa création, elle tente d’améliorer et de promouvoir le bien-être de la communauté en impliquant parents et enfants mais également les organes gouvernementaux. Le travail de l’association consiste à identifier les besoins des franges de la population rurale les plus fragiles, notamment les enfants et les jeunes. Dans son travail auprès des populations défavorisées, elle choisit d’adopter une approche participative afin de rendre chacun acteur de son projet de vie.

CAPEC intervient dans différents domaines de l’éducation et de la protection de l’enfance et de la jeunesse, comme la prise en charge d’orphelins ou d’enfants abandonnés mais aussi auprès des enfants des rues qui risquent de s’inscrire dans la délinquance. 

L’école Bitame Lucia

Depuis 5 ans, l’école Bitame Lucia accueille les enfants du village de Nkolfoulou, situé à 12 km de Yaoundé, la capitale du pays. Cette zone, principalement rurale et particulièrement pauvre, connait un taux d’alphabétisation très faible. La plupart de ses 6000 habitants, des femmes et des enfants, vivent dans de petites fermes qui représentent leur unique source de revenu. En 2008, une étude menée par l’équipe du CAPEC a montré qu’un grand nombre d’enfants du secteur de Nkolfoulou ne fréquentait aucune école. Une partie d’entre eux étaient orphelins tandis que les autres étaient issus de familles défavorisées qui ne pouvaient payer les frais de scolarisation, l’achat des livres et des uniformes. Le constat de ces difficultés a conduit la direction du CAPEC à créer une école dans le village même et à y inscrire gratuitement tous ces enfants. En février 2009, l’école maternelle et primaire Bitame Lucia a officiellement ouvert ses portes.

 L’implantation de l’école maternelle et primaire à Nkolfoulou avait donc pour objectif de permettre à de nombreux enfants d’accéder à une éducation de qualité malgré leur situation familiale et économique.

Construire une nouvelle école

L’école a été construite avec des matériaux peu couteux et de mauvaise qualité, notamment du bois et du zinc pour le toit qui se sont détériorés au cours des dernières années en raison des fortes précipitations qui s’abattent sur la région durant la saison des pluies. Les jours de mauvais temps, les classes sont inondées, le matériel de l’école endommagé et le bruit de la pluie sur le toit rend impossible la tenue des cours. La poussière et le sable envahissent les locaux durant la saison sèche. De plus, des serpents et autres animaux dangereux s’introduisent à travers les panneaux de bois, à l’intérieur des classes. Il est évidemment difficile d’étudier et d’enseigner dans des conditions qui ne garantissent pas la sécurité de la communauté scolaire de Bitame Lucia. Aujourd’hui environ 300 enfants de 2 à 12 ans bénéficient de l’enseignement de l’école. Les effectifs de l’école grandissent chaque année et rendent indispensable la construction d’un lieu sûr et décent pour les élèves. 

L’école dispose d’un terrain de 3000 m2 qui pourrait permettre non seulement d’accueillir les enfants dans une école adaptée à leurs besoins (sécurité, hygiène, électricité, eau potable) mais également d’offrir un lieu de rencontre et de formation à la communauté de Nkolfoulou dans son ensemble. En effet, des cours du soir pourraient être proposés aux adultes et les associations locales disposeraient d’un lieu de réunion.

La construction d’un nouveau bâtiment pour l’école permettra au CAPEC de proposer aux enfants des conditions d’accueil et de travail sécurisantes et décentes. Soutenir la construction de véritables infrastructures d’éducation c’est également permettre au CAPEC de continuer à travailler autour de différentes problématiques locales :

·  Décrochage et échec scolaires

·  Scolarisation d’enfants issus de milieux modestes et d’orphelins

·  Prévention de l’exploitation et de la prostitution des mineurs

·  Proposer une éducation de qualité en milieu rural

Vous pouvez nous aider à construire l’école de plusieurs manières. Bien sûr la construction d’un bâtiment nécessite des fonds importants et tous les dons seront les bienvenus. L’école a également un grand besoin de matériel scolaire et pédagogique. Enfin, il nous semble que la création de liens (correspondance, partenariat, organisation d’événements autour de la solidarité) entre les élèves et les enseignants de l’école Bitame Lucia et d’autres écoles, notamment européennes, seraient un formidable outil d’échange et d’éducation. 

Contacts

§  CAPEC - Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child

§  Adresse : BP 20646 Yaoundé - Cameroun

§  Téléphone : +237 22 03 01 63

§  Téléphone portable : +237 77 75 16 06

§  Email: info@capecam.org  capecam20@yahoo.com

§  Website: http://www.capecam.org

§  Facebook : Bitame Lucia nursery and primary school in Nkolfoulou, Cameroon

§  Twitter : @bitamiluciascho

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Member of community

$25 USD
Each contributor that supports us with 25 EUR or more will have his/her name written on a board on the new wall of the school and also on the website of CAPEC.
5 claimed

Pictures via e-mail

$50 USD
We will send you pictures to your e-mail address on the school and its children.
2 claimed

Printed memories

$100 USD
We will send you a printed picture from the school or a drawing from the children of BLIS.
Estimated Shipping
September 2014
4 out of 20 of claimed

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