Financial need: 12,000,- €
Project: 51252
Cameroon
CETIC Vocational training centre (CAREJ) - Nkonjock
Learning to read, write and do math, but also obtaining vocational training, is not taken for granted in Africa, especially for girls. Basic math and the ABC often become the foundations on which to build their lives. A person’s education and training frequently determines if they are going to stand a chance and, if so, what future they have, and whether they can shape and develop their life
Nkondjock is a place in the middle of the jungle in South Cameroon. Here, up to 100 young women and men are offered the opportunity to obtain vocational training in the College of Industrial and Commercial Technical Education under the name of Protestant CETIC (in the past named Centre d’animation rurale et Jeunes (CAREJ)). The supporter is the Union Eglises Baptistes du Cameroun (UEBC), which uses their specialist teachers to train young men and women in electronics, car reparing, typing, computer skills, pasture farming, poultry farming and stenography.
Most of the pupils come from poor or difficult homes so that they often do not have the money to pay the school and education fees. Here we are helping with scholarships. The education at CETIC should enable the young men and women to receive good jobs and give them prospects in the face of the existing poverty and migration in this economically underdeveloped region. Former pupils today are already helping the people in their villages with problems related to electrical facilities, clerical work and pasture farming.