EDUCATION PROGRAMME

Education is to empower, and to enable.
 

 

 

We work with poorer communities, to help them help themselves, to build schools, community development progrmmes, and to become active confident citizens, solving their own problems.

Rhontong village school, Bui Division

 

We bring new ideas and new technologies to improve livelihoods in rural communities

Training to improve agriculture
We work with school education authorities, helping them provide quality basic education.
Educational resource materials donated
15,000 reading books donated to primary schools
Training for primary school managers and teachers
 
We have organised IT equipment and resources that will help deaf children at Njinikejem Baptist School Boyo Division to learn vocational skills, and their hearing class-mates to improve sign language communication .

Educational support for hearing impaired students

May 2009 Njinikejem report
Widening horizons and opportunities for deaf children
Integrated education for deaf children - Njinikejem community making progress, December 2009
 

We encourage teaching of leadership and citizenship skills in schools - helping education authorities to establish standards for school governance and school elections, and to integrate the principles behind these into everyday school life. Three booklets have been published, tested in ten schools, and are standard references in >50 schools in four regions.

School elections - Guidelines
School elections - Notes for students
School elections - Monitoring and evaluation
 
The forth student leadership booklet is a resource for students and teachers, classroom, club, debating and informal use.

School elections - vocabulary

 

For more information contact
education@unafas.org
© UNAFAS, 2009, Yaoundé, Cameroon