Break the cycle
Mostly in rural areas, the indirect cost of education is still referred to by families as “lost income” or loss of earnings. Although difficult to estimate, it often leads to parents’ reluctance to enroll their children in school. Rather than opt for schooling, parents prefer to send their children to work to increase the family income.
In the long term, the desertion of schools will lead to an illiterate, frustrated, ill-equipped, and poorly exploited population, inevitably reinforcing the fragility of Cameroon, and of Africa in general. Faced with this calamitous prospect, we have put in place solutions to reduce or even eliminate these inequalities, in order to promote opportunities.
Training, accountability and empowerment
In order to break the vicious circle (under-schooling-analphabetism-unemployment-precariousness-rural exodus-frustration-urban plagues) in which rural communities are plunged, Pierre Thierry Noah Foundation sets up a special schooling program for children in rural areas who present a strong academic potential.
The social environment from which they come from should no longer be an obstacle to their personal achievement. On the contrary, it is relevant to equip them to improve their original environment, without alienating it. This is what makes this project special: schooling reinforced by training, empowerment and autonomy.
Betta Place : a better place for tomorrow’s heroes
Goals The project aims to facilitate access to quality education for disadvantaged children from rural areas in order to reduce inequalities of opportunity in the African society of tomorrow.
The specific objectives are as follows:
1. To provide the beneficiaries with a healthy and serene schooling through a
financial coverage
2. To initiate the beneficiaries to innovative trades for the achievement of the objectives of sustainable development
3. To strengthen the beneficiaries’ capacities of autonomy to better prepare their life as a young adult.
Target audience
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Program components
Component n°1: Support the education of disadvantaged children
The Betta Place project first provides full coverage of school fees for its beneficiaries. This includes annual registration fees, boarding school fees, textbooks and school supplies, uniforms and other accessories. The goal is to limit as much as possible the factors of regression or failure to allow the beneficiaries to have the best conditions to express their talents.
Component n°2: Introduction to innovative professions for the achievement of the SDGs
Component n°3: Youth Empowerment Capacity Building
It is important to ensure the sustainability of the project by investing in specific training and tailored mentoring. In other words, to provide beneficiaries with training in the following areas before they graduate from high school:
Digital activities: graphic design, digital communication, web writing, content production, SEO reference, UX/UI design, etc.
– Manual activities: driving, craftsman-repairer, sewing, cooking, aesthetics, buying and selling products, logistics, etc.
– Financial empowerment: concept of budgeting, personal savings, small-scale investment, etc.
– Entrepreneurship and leadership: awareness of business creation and management, business opportunities in rural areas, gender issues, responsibility, solidarity and community, etc.
Promoting quality, inclusive and responsive schooling
Expected results
The immediate expected results are as follows
– 30 scholarships including full funding of schooling for the secondary cycle have been granted;
– Beneficiaries have received specific training on sustainable development concepts and
The beneficiaries have received specific training on sustainable development and innovative trades;
– Beneficiaries have acquired the financial autonomy to manage their lives as young adults
Impacts
Contacts
For more information:
Mrs Patricia NOAH, President of the fondation
Phone : +49 172 6654131 (WhatsApp)
Email : patricia.noah@ptnfondation.com
Mrs Talulah ESSAM, Program Coordinator Phone : +237693872935 (WhatsApp)
Email : talulah.essam@ptnfondation.com