We are extremely pleased to be funding another Education in Emergency project focussing on getting Internally Displaced children, who have been out of school for many years, back into education. (Please see the short film in our post dated 7th Feb 2025)

This year we are providing catch-up lessons at our Neighbourhood Learning Corners in Babessi (NW region) and Galim (West Region) for a total of 300 children.  The intensive learning programmes are pitched to each child’s current needs and will aim to get them ‘up to speed’ and back into mainstream education within a few months.  We also provide each child with a new uniform, school bag, books, pens etc and will pay their school fees for the first year.  This helps to ensure that the children feel comfortable attending school and are accepted by other children in their classes.  Many of these children in Galim will attend EP Bagam, where a new classroom block was recently funded by this charity.  Those who remain in the Babessi quarter in the NW Region will move onto to formal education at CBC Mbaw, which is about to receive a new classroom block funded by our supporters.

In order to ensure the children’s attendance at school is sustainable, we are linking this project to another of our Economic Empowerment for Education (3E) projects, so that, if appropriate, each child’s parent or care-giver can receive small business training and the necessary items to run a small business.  This will ensure that they will have a reliable livelihood, enabling them to pay rent, feed their families and pay their children’s school fees in the future.

In 2019 UNICEF noted that 855,000 children from the NW and SW regions of Cameroon were out of school, due to insecurity, displacement, the destruction of buildings and poverty.  The longer this situation persists, the more irreversible the damage done.  We are doing all we can to prevent a lost generation of children and the resultant damage to community development.