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Help For Orphans in Cameroon

Muea, Cameroon
Joined October 2022

our mission is to provide orphans with education and training, good health, nutritious food with focus on building their minds to live in and eco friendly environment. Work in Cameroon.

Presence in: Cameroon
Focus: Children's Rights, Education, Gender-based violence, Health, HIV/Aids

Help for orphans in Cameroon was founded by Helen Tabe in 2014 and registered as a community based organization to improve mental health and cognitive development for orphans in muea Cameroon. It has7 board members and 45 volunteers who work to achieve the mission of the organization.

Its mission is to provide quality education, counseling, good health and material support to orphans and vulnerable children in English Cameroon with focus on building their minds to live in an eco-friendly environment.

a)Counseling

-To improve the mental health and emotional health of orphans/vulnerable children undergoing violence from caregiver or society, sexual abuse, slavery and other human right violations.

-To improve their professional lives by giving them employability skills and open them to various career options.

b) Education

To provide quality education to orphaned children using modern educational technologies for sustainable development.

-To empower orphaned children with special needs through individualized education programs and to train more teachers in special education to reduce the gap for children with special needs.

-To build schools and provide didactic materials to community schools to improve learning outcome.

-To empower adolescents in entrepreneurship and business management to improve professionalism.

c) Health

-To educate children  on environmental sanitation and hygiene to prevent water borne diseases like typhoid and cholera through installation of school water supply and building of school toilets.

-To prevent the spread of Hiv/Aids by educating adolescents children and women on mode of acquisition and prevention.

-To motivate orphans with Hiv to follow up treatment and to provide psycho-social support.

– To educate adolescents  on sexual and reproductive health rights to prevent teenage pregnancy, STI, as well as sexual violence like rape.

– To provide access to health care for rural communities.