By Patrick Chung and Gabby Richardson | CAMAAY Global Giving Project Leaders
A lot of young people living in Cameroon are in vulnerable situations. Unfortunately, many drop out of school and many do not have the opportunity to learn valuable and useful skills to improve their career and job prospects. This program is intended to identify and implement a program that can provide significant areas of opportunity to develop individualized business prospects. We need your help to tackle this challenge.
CAMAAY has created 7 proposals that aim to create vocational training in Hairdressing, Cooking, Metalwork, Tailoring, Mechanics, Agriculture, and Woodworking. The Cameroonian youth can attend one of these workshops and get skills to become economically independent.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO DATE:
COMMUNITY MOBILISATION
We organized two community meetings to present the project to different stakeholders within the community in order for them to get a better understanding of the project. The different projects were introduced to the local council authorities, the traditional authorities and the different government ministries in charge of youth affairs, employment and vocational training. They express gratitude for the laudable initiative, saying that the project’s ideas are timely and it would go a long way to solve the huge problem of youth unemployment. They also said this program would help the beneficiaries to become self-employed and would help them generate revenue. They pleaded with us to intensify our search for funding, for the projects to start come 2021.
RESOURCE MOBILISATION
We have listed potential funding bodies to be contacted for sponsorship for the projects. Funding bodies from Europe, U.S.A and Canada have been short listed already. Introductory mails have been sent to them and we are hoping to move forward with the discussions in January.
Our Resource Person, Gabby Richardson, has also organized a “12 Days of Christmas with CAMAAY” event using GlobalGiving to raise some more funds for the project. We had about 50 more dollars raised during the campaign. We hope to intensify fundraising for the projects in the days ahead.
We are very grateful to GlobalGiving for the support they are giving us.
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