NAYD Cameroon

MAYA INITIATIVES - Fighting Poverty in remote regions!

Maya Initiatives is a two years old project that created by Pochi Tamba of Cameroon and Alexa gainsburry of Britain. We had met during a World Youth Conference in Scotland and thought we could contribute our bit to development by putting our efforts together. Initially, we were interested in the plight of orphans affected by extreme poverty. In remote regions of Africa, many poor orphans increasingly fall prey to social ills due to the poverty they live in. We put together MI to support these children in any way possible. Today, we have expanded our objectives to include any children affected by severe poverty.
In that light, we work with orphanages to provide needs for their children and have succeeded to keep two very brilliant orphans from dropping out of school.

Maya Initiatives is currently working on a library project for a government Secondary school in Bambalang, Cameroon.

AHURTOD - Defending Human Rights

As part of its good governance projects we continue to encourage women and youths to register for elections and to take a stand against electoral fraud and corruption. Future seminars are planned in the town of Tiko and at the University of Buea.

We are working to improve educational and vocational opportunities for inmates at the Central Prison, Buea, where illiteracy is a problem and many detained persons are under the age of 25. There is currently one voluntary teacher in the prison, but she is desperately short of basic educational resources, such as a blackboard and chalk.

In the coming months, we will also be organizing sensitization workshops on the new Criminal Procedure Code, to educate people about their rights, and to explain how the new Code should protect people against illegal detention, torture, and other Human Rights abuses.

ACTWID KONGADZEM
Association for Creative Teaching for rural Youths and Women in Development

We organize and train youths on Sexual and Reproductive Health. We do a lot of work on Care and Support to orphans and vulnerable street children and also the rural youths living with HIV/AIDS/TB in our town and villages. We organize peace marches on every 1st December which is World AIDS Day and on every 24th March which is World TB Day to create awareness on prevention and care of both disease. We train trainers who are youth’s leaders from our village groups on how to live free and share love with other youth and community members.

We have a group medicinal garden where we grow a good variety of medicinal plants with ARTEMESIA herb which is the herb that treats Malaria . Other herbs for boosting the Immune System too in our garden are Echinacea, Stinging Nettle for coughs we grow Plantain 1 and 2, Red mint Clover, Dandelion. Other herbs are Camomile, yarrow, fennel, garlic, Rosemary, comfrey and carrot. We also do small scale animal rearing to balance nutrition.

BAPESU - Benevolent Association for the Protection of the Environment and the Socially Underprivileged

Our goals are the protection of the environment through information campaigns, sensitisation, tree planting and seedlings for farmer etc; reduce feminisation of poverty; rehabilitation of destitute children and women empowerment; combating HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases; promoting community development (participatory approach); nursery of trees and seedlings for farmers; peace building.

In 2006 BAPESU successfully executed a project christened “HIV/AIDS Youth Awareness Campaign. The project had as target group the young people of the Bambui Rural Community in Cameroon. The objective of the program was to help fight HIV/AIDS among youths in Bambui via awareness. The program witnessed the active participation of 30 Youth volunteers that gave insightful contributions towards the realisation of the program. The entire program ran for two weeks (27th March through to the 7th of April 2006). This program was achieved with the benign support from Alert Fund for Youth Activities and MEBONU Foundation.

The International Centre for Conflict and Human Rights Analysis (ICCHRA)

ICCHRA is managed by a dynamic team of enthusiastic, earnest and deeply convicted youths. We believe that nothing great can be achieved without enthusiasm. Projects to date include involvement as an action partner in Promoting Women and Youths Participation in the Democratization process with the Pan-African Institute for Development in a way that will build their capacity to make informed choices, aspire to governance positions, and effectively support the government in its various development commitments; leading commemorative activities in Bamenda to observe the UN International Day of Peace, September 2006 which included an Inter-religious prayer service for peace and a musical concert and candle lights procession; university conflict mediation from November 2006 when the University of Buea (UB) was plunged into a students’ strike.

Mr. Chi Primus is currently a pioneer member/initiator of the national water and youth committee in Cameroon.

Campus for Peace and Dialogue (CAPED) International

CAPED International is a campus-oriented think tank with headquarters in Yaoundé-Cameroon. It was founded in 2004 in the backdrop of simmering tension on many Cameroon university centres that finally degenerated into violent uprisings in 2005. It engages in training, research and advocacy as means to bring about positive change on campuses. Its specific objectives, among others, include: institutionalise peace volunteering among students; promote dialogue and other alternatives to acts of violence in resolving conflict and offer citizenship and peace education. In order to address a wider populace, the CAPED International carries its activities to all institutions of learning, from primary schools, colleges to the universities. The principal message it drives across is that there exist other alternatives to the use of force and violence.

CAPED has also partnered with many sisters organisations in Cameroon to co-organise other activities such as workshops and the commemoration of International Day of Peace that comes up every September 21st of each year. One of the strengths of this organisation is the up-to-date library it has erected which has a wide collection of documents in areas as varied a peace & conflict, gender, human rights, History, international relations, democracy and good governance. Back to top

Student Global Aids Campaign (SGAC)

SGAC is committed to bringing an end to HIV and AIDS around the world through education, informed advocacy, media work, and direct action.With 42 million people living with HIV and AIDS around the world, an additional 15,000 becoming infected every day, and 8,200 people dying every day, we need effective and science-based prevention programs and inexpensive, life-saving AIDS medications.

SGAC participates in national campaigns and actions as well as develop and carryout their own projects. The work of SGAC chapters includes
• Educating students about the global AIDS crisis and their role in fighting it by holding teach-ins, film screenings, lectures, etc. on campus
• Lobbying, writing letters, and making phone calls to the President and members of Congress about global AIDS
• Utilizing media and direct action by holding rallies and press events to galvanize public opinion in the fight against AIDS
• Raising money for and partner with organizations fighting AIDS in the U.S. or abroad

Save Your Future Association (SYFA)

SYFA is non-profit organisation that works with African children, youths and low-income farmers in rural communities to promote organic farming techniques and protect the local environment. It was founded in 2001 by Farmer Tantoh and is located in Nkambe Central Sub Division.

OBJECTIVES OF SYFA:
• To sensitize the rural community on sustainable agricultural techniques such as tropical organic farming, through field training of low-income farmers.
• To encourage organic lawn creation and indoor flower gardening with children and youths in the rural community.
• To protect spring water catchments through planting agro forestry trees and educating the rural communities on watershed management issues.
• To create active environmental clubs in primary schools, secondary schools, churches, prisons, and in the villages.
• To promote formal education of the rural children.
For more information visit www.africasyfa.org

The Africa Education Initiative (NEF)

The mission of the Foundation is to further the advancement of science and engineering in Africa. The Foundation hopes to achieve its mission by providing educational materials and essential tools necessary to advance educational institutions.

Through its education assistance program, the Foundation strives to promote academic research in institutions. It supports scholars pursuing a vast spectrum of professions. Funding also assists students at critical stages of their education.

The Foundation assists professors and students with contacting institutions or colleagues in other countries. Students in need of internships are assisted with making the necessary contacts. In addition, professors seeking information about institutions abroad offering research opportunities are also aided.

NEF believes in global education and therefore communicates and exchanges information with other international education Foundations. More info. Back to top