Social Impact Project for Fundraising Expert to Support Key Farmers Cameroon

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Project Description and Impact

Kumba Community has 250 villages with a total population of 700, 000 inhabitants making it one of the biggest communities in South West Region of Cameroon. More than 75% of the populations are Vulnerable Women who live below the poverty line. There existed a few governments Secondary schools, seventy private primary schools, ten private clinics and several small business concerns. With the out- break of the Anglophone crisis in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon in 2016, the inhabitants of Kumba community suffered a major setback throughout the crisis as well as experienced an influx of 45% population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the community most of whom are physically challenged. The Anglophone crisis affected most business activities in our community and more than 50% collapsed and destroyed by both the military and non-state armed groups.

This project strives to provide Community Vocational Training Workshops and Job Creation Centers for 5000 women and youth with disabilities as well as women refugees and other vulnerable groups in Kumba and neighboring communities. Participants will receive education and training in food production and marketing; livestock (poultry & piggery) production and marketing; mushroom production and marketing; fishery management and aquaculture development; ICT, Dressmaking and Fashion, Aesthetics, modern Agro-forestry farming systems and trees demonstration, Food Processing and Transformation Technology. The courses will combine theory and practical work for duration of one year for participants with experience and two years for participants without experience.

It is at this backdrop that we are soliciting for your support to enable Kumba vocational training Workshops and Job creation Centers to go operational so as to benefit our vulnerable populations, reduce hunger, poverty and cut down crimes in our community.