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We have setup Ndabuchiseh, a rescue center that scouts the vulnerable youth and gives them a safe space to recalibrate, develop vital livelihood skills, and use other coping mechanisms. These livelihood skills include sewing, plumbing, organic farming, being a chef, being a renewable energy technician, etc. In addition to these livelihood skills, each youth will also earn soft skills in conflict management, dialogue, counseling, and peer education. This program also provides psychosocial care to these youths.
The cost of skilling each youth for one-year training is $750. This covers cost of accommodation, food and allowances for trainers per youth. If we destroy the youth, we destroy humanity, and if we build the youth, we build humanity. Please join us in the rescue!
Bobo is just one of the several thousand youth at risk in Cameroon. Walking down the streets of Bamenda, Buea, Kumba, Muyaka, Kumbo, and Kwakwa, Fundong, and Wum, some of the cities in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, we are faced with gruesome killings, several cases of rape and sexual violence, and youth who were drugged to become teenage soldiers. We often hear thunderous gunshots, and all of us have seen the lifeless bodies of teenagers, drugged or killed, carelessly thrown on sidewalks or in rivers. For seven years, there has been a civil war in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. Youth vulnerability and involvement in this armed violence are leading to deaths, trauma, displacements, destruction of property, and horrendous abuses of human rights. According to UNICEF, every 7 minutes, somewhere in the world, an adolescent is killed by an act of violence. The UNDP Service Center in Africa reported in 2022 that Africa’s youthful population, approximately 60 percent of the total, is exposed to recruitment efforts by extremist groups. In the ongoing armed conflict in the English-speaking part of Cameroon, several thousand youth have lost their lives, and several thousand others are already bearing arms.
Some of these youth often join violent groups, indulge in crimes, drugs, forced prostitution, forced marriage, and forced childbearing, just to name a few, due to a lack of means of livelihood.
SCHOLARSHIP OFFER
- Are you a youth between the ages of 17 and 35 and live in the English-speaking part of Cameroon where the violence is happening?
- Do you lack a means of livelihood and are you willing to acquire a livelihood skill in one of the following fields: renewable energy technology, organic farming, community health, or forest conservation?
- Are you willing to contribute toward peace in your community?
- Are you willing to live out of the violent area for at least nine months? If yes to all the above, then this program might be for you. Further inquiries, contact us through email, telephone, or by visiting our office.