Impact Report
The protracted Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon has had adverse effects on its immediate communities and Cameroon at large especially schools. For the past three years, CSOs, NGOs and other actors have been battling for school resumption in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. A great degree of success was achieved but alas more than 70 per cent of schools and students resumed with little or no infrastructures and didactic materials. As a result of this, Her Innovation Cameroon whose main mission is driving development through STEM Education contacted Books to Africa in order to gain some didactic materials (text books) to assist schools and students in English Cameroon.
The distribution plan was to share these books among 3 schools, 2 libraries and finally create a side library in the office of Her Innovation Cameroon where it could be opened to the public. Following this plan, HIC was able to destitute these materials to three schools and create a library in its office. Teachers now find planning lessons for students easier and can easily engage them as they have resources they can refer them to.
All these schools were very appreciative of these donations as they were particularly impressed that 90% of the books donate were in line with our educational curriculum in Cameroon. They all agreed to sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) with HIC so the can work together for future projects. Being that schools were on vacation and all these schools were carrying out repairs and renovations in preparing for the upcoming academic year, it was agreed that we will pass by in October to get full feedback concerning the donations of these books. In total, these books will impact 2,050+ students in Cameroon. Provisions were made and some books were sent to highly sensitive areas of the conflicts were access is difficult, that is Mamfe and Tombel.
To read the short profiles of the schools HCI visited, please click on the full report below.