7100 underpriveleged children will go back to school

Thanks to a national charity caravan dubbed #Back2skoul2015 launched in Douala, 7100 disadvantaged children will go back to school.

The initiative was launched on Friday at the l’Institut Pour Déficients Auditifs et Visuels (Idav) at Bonamoussadi and will be designated in Douala as a starting point for this campaign. This will take place in a span of one month in the 10 regions of Cameroon with the objective to provide home and guidance centres for disadvantaged children with school kits.

In total, 7100 young people will resume school this year on the initiative of the MTN Foundation. In detail, 5,000 orphans and vulnerable children will receive school supplies, while 2100 children will have full support with their schooling. They include young girls from the extreme North from Nursery to class 5 and the Hoptec orphanage in Buea.

For the Littoral, 14 structures received their donation on Friday in Douala, a specific donation according to the needs of each and every centre.

Thus, institutions with visually impaired people received brailles while the orphans and other disadvantaged children received classic school supplies. In addition to supplies for students, a thousand desks were made available to primary schools in the Far North, North, West, Centre, South and coastal.

For the latter region, the Centre de Formation et de Productivité des Aveugles et Malvoyants du Cameroun (Cefpamavoc), located in Bonaberi, will be a beneficiary. Classroom furniture were provided in June during the "21 Days of Y'ello Care.

Idav is another centre which received additional donations from previously received equipment. Thus, after the audiometric and speech therapy facilities given by the MTN Foundation a few months ago, the Institute received notebooks and pens. For the Director Marie-Louise Epoh, “it is a great relief. It will allow us to try as much as possible to buy other things.”

She also appreciated the fact that she hosted the ceremony on September 4 last year: "after Bépanda and Bonaberi for the launch of Back to School the previous years, our site has been chosen this time. We had a lot of visitors who discovered what Idav does. It permitted people to know that there is a centre for deaf children, if the need arises.”