Education Cameroon Project #3643

Teen Mother Empowerment in Cameroon

by Social Development International

Project Report | Nov 11, 2013
Teenage Mother Community Empowerment Workshops

By Nzue Maxentius Eseh | Project Team Leader

Teen Mums Saying Thank you

Friends and Donors,

Social Development International (SDI) is announcing the end of community Teenage Mothers workshops for Bolifamba and Muea communities after eight months of intense learning and sharing. The combined end of field activities took place on saturday November 02, 2013 at the Bolifamba Health Centre Hall in Buea, South West Region, Cameroon. In attendace were some invited guardians, parents of the teenage mothers as well as the teenage mothers themselves and children.

They are now graduates to the next level of capacity building from a weekly session to a monthly workshops and attending the teenage mothers Institute for literacy, practical livelihood and business development courses. We are moving on to new communities of Likomba, Tiko Town and Mutengene of Tiko sub division.

The event activities were:

A welcome speech by Suliaman Turay the CEO of SDI Cameroon
A word from a parent
A word from a teenage mother
Thank you messages and Videos by Teenage Mothers to donors of The Girl Effect Fund, Global Giving and Social Development International Staff.
Lunch and closing

In the opening , the CEO speech appreciated the turn out from the two communities; one hundred and twenty initially registered but today we have seventy active participant through the eight months intense activities. This shows that we still have a lot of work to do in this communities..we are their agent of change. We should keep on interacting with them for a change.

The parents' representative thanked Social Development Intermational, Global Giving and The Girl Effect Fund for work well done. The teenage mothers expressed their sincere thanks to all those who have in one way or the other must have contributed to their new sense of reasoning especially Global Giving, The Girl Effcet fund and Social Development International team in Cameroon.

They claimed they have been empowered and we believe them from the sketches, sense of humor and reasoning compare to when we first met them. They expressed that , we continued the support we started in their new life and business development endeavours they so cherished.

Thank you The Girl Effect Fund, Global Giving Donors and Friends . We could not have achieve all thses without your support.

Teen Mums Saying Thank you 1

A cross section of Teen Mums at the closing

Teen Mums Saying Thank you 4

Links:

Social Development International YouTube Channel

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Oct 17, 2013
International Day of the Girl Child In Cameroon

By Nzue Maxentius Eseh | Project Team Leader

Group picture on Launching Day

October 05, 2013 Social Development International (SDI) and The Girl Effect Fund of Global Giving USA, launched the International day of the Girl Child 2013 with 30 teenage mothers, their children, three international Volunteers, the Press, SDI executives, cross community members and invited guests in attendance. The day started at 10:00 AM with training sessions done by ILse from Netherlands, Fiona from England and Dida Rose a Gender and Women Empowerment Masters student from the University of Buea. Three training sessions were followed by Girl Child Post 2015 Development goals Declaration, Choral shetches, Debates,Drama, Role games with goals all centered on the Girl child Innovative and Inclusive Education, Health care, Ecomnomic Empowerment, Political Freedom, and Social Wellbeing. At 2:20PM the media community took over the day with series of interviews with teenage mothers representative, Volunteers, Community members and SDI Executive team.

The day ended with a dinner and a promise to champion the cause of the Girl Child innovative and inclusive Education in all frontiers at all cost.

October 11. 2013 International Day of The Girl Child. Theme: Innovate for the Girl Child Education.

Day's program:

Singing of National Anthemelcome and open Speech by CEO of SDI
Reading of the Girl Child Declaration
The Guiding Principles of the Declaration
The recommended goals
Lunch Break
Presentation of Scketecs, Drama, role play
Press Interviews

The maiden celebration commenced at 11AM.

After the National Anthem, the welcome speech was closely follewed by the reading of the Girl Declaration which is a call to action to put Girls at the heart of the post 2015 development agenda. Seven selected Girls presented the declaration. Participant had lunch of snacks and drinks before coming back to the celebration Hall for socio-cultural and psycho-educayional activities. This activities included, singing, fashion parade, traditional dancing, debate and drama.

In our next report, Watch out for the opening of our Teenage Mothers Institute in Buea and the extention of the project to new communities in Tiko Sub division.

Thank you Girl Effect Fund and GlobalGiving Donors

With warm regards,

Nzue Maxentius Eseh

Teen Mums Rep delivery speech

The Eden News Paper

Attachments:

Girl Declaration Post 2015 Development Goals (PDF)

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Aug 1, 2013
Teenage Mothers Institute Cameroon, Established

By Nzue Maxentius Eseh | Project Team Leader

Teenage Mothers Institute Sign Board

Friends, Donors, Supporters, Partners We Salut !

Last time you heard from us, we were in the final stages of establishing our teenage mothers groups in new communities, recruiting local volunteers and running regular community workshop.

Thanks to your generosity we have been able to reach even more communities and teens with the benefit of building capacities for social and economic change. We have got more teens than ever especially in the Bolifamba community, and we are supporting a number of teens entirely with Mutual Health insurance coverage with funds you have donated.

Today, we are finalizing the preparation for the opening of the Teenage Mothers’ Institute in Cameroon; Location-Buea, Bonduma Village, South West Region- Come October 2013, while continuing our regular community teen’s capacity building trainings.

We are delighted to have received financial support from the Girl Effect Fund, without which the establishment of Teenage Mothers Institute and teens trainings this year would have been a dream.

We thank all who donated to the Girl Effect Fund, Global Giving technical team, administration, partners and all; your contribution and services count in all our achievements. Dedicated to supporting the families of the poor teenage mothers in marginalized communities we are serving.

With the support of the American Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon we were able to get a peace corps volunteer - Chris Michail seconded to our Teen Mothers project to give a helping hand on our community outreachs.

This past saturday July 27, 2013; 53 teen mothers from Muea and Bolifamba teen groups gathered at the Bolifamba Health Centre Hall for their regular last saturday of the month whole day training session ( From 10:00AM to 17:00PM); coordinated by Nzue Maxentius Eseh.

Please know that, we are in this together, our achievement is yours.

We look forward to your continued support, Pictures attached to see the value of your money.

Thank you from all of Beneficiaries and SODEIT Team

Information and Computeer Technology Training Room

One of the Classrooms

Classroom2

Teens on Last Saturday July 2013 Training session

Teens Last Saturday July 2013 Training session2

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