Educare Africa

Educare-Africa's programs are all geared towards providing essential tools for secondary/high school students and schools in rural areas of Cameroon so that they can complete their education. We also visit many students in their villages to see their living conditions, to encourage their parents to continue support their children as much as they can and letting them know about our support. In our future visits we want to include a message about family planning since they have large number of children.
Goals: To improve living and learning conditions for the students and teachers in Cameroon today so that the students can successfully complete their education and then can help their country. In addition, to promote peace, cross-cultural understanding, love and unity of all people.

Objectives:
1) Assess the needs and set priorities for one school at a time.
2) Help each school to prepare project proposals and budgets. Provide building
materials.
3) Provide necessary textbooks, basic school supplies, school and activity clothing, and
laboratory equipment.
4) Assist excellent students in applying to US colleges.
5) Establish this program as a model for helping other villages in Cameroon to improve
the education of their students.

Activities:
We will raise funds in the U.S.A. to buy building materials in Cameroon, assist with transportation of these materials to the building site and oversee completion of each building project. Parents of the students and community will provide the labor. When a dormitory is built, we will provide necessary living allowance for the staff of the dorm until they become self-sufficient. If necessary, we will assist in purchasing land for some essential school building projects, for example a dormitory (or a hostel). We will assist in getting electricity and water to each school.

We will raise funds to provide textbooks for the needy students. Textbooks are available only in Cameroon. We will use funds to provide all the necessary school supplies for needy students. All these supplies can be purchased in Cameroon, which will reduce shipping cost. However, we will also collect donations of laboratory equipment, sport equipment (balls for football, volleyball and handball, a net, etc.). We will collect donations to ship these gifts to schools in Cameroon. We will use raised funds to purchase used clothes in Cameroon for needy students. We will use our funds to assist excellent Cameroonian students in applying to American colleges and we will check on their progress in school.

We will focus on government secondary/high schools in rural areas of Cameroon and we will try to help as many as possible, depending on available funds.