CREDEV

Save Lives With Clean Drinking Water in Cameroon

CREDEV — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:20:57 GMT

Hi Friends,

You are welcome for visiting Centre for Reconstruction and Development (CREDEV) fundraising blog! I want to tell you a bit more about CREDEV and an exciting new opportunity we have been given by GlobalGiving this December!

CREDEV works in North West of Cameroon - Africa providing social change services, particularly rural water supply to poor communities. Since we were founded in 2004, we have assisted 5 communities with our services. For instance, just last year we helped Shi-Nyamboh by providing a water point for her community.

Currently, we were selected by the GlobalGiving Foundation to participate in its Open December Challenge; a fundraising opportunity for nonprofit organizations working around the world. The cause of our fundraising is prevention of deaths in Mbaw, a poor community from water-related diseases such as: diarrhoea, dysentery, filariasis, typhoid and ascaris. If we can supply pipe-borne drinking water to this community, we will save lives, particularly those of children dying from secretory diarrhoea. Clean drinking water is extremely scarce here at peak dry periods to the extent that, people tend to drink with cows from the same surface water just to survive.

In order to succeed in GlobalGiving’s Open Challenge, CREDEV must raise $4,000 from at least 50 donors by 22 December 2010. Should we meet this threshold, we will be given a permanent spot on GlobalGiving’s website, where we have the potential to benefit from corporate relationships, exposure to new donor networks and access to dozens of online fundraising opportunities for my organisation. This will permanently support our efforts of advancing sustainable development to grassroots communities.

Please help us reach the threshold of $4,000 from 50 donors! Be one of the first people to make a donation at http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/save-lives-with-water-in-cameroon ! Not only will your donation help children and women in Mbaw community but, it will help us take advantage of a long-term fundraising opportunity!

We also need your help to spread the word to others! Please share this opportunity with your friends and family, colleagues and the networks you are associated with!

Thank you for your support!

Best regard,

Mbuti Mboyam (Executive Director)

Save Lives With Clean Drinking Water in Cameroon

CREDEV — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:08:03 GMT

Hi Friends,

We also need your help to spread the word to others! Please share this opportunity with your friends and family, colleagues and the networks you are associated with!

Thank you for your support!

Best regard,

Mbuti Mboyam (Executive Director)

Save Lives With Clean Drinking Water in Cameroon

CREDEV — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:26:15 GMT

Hi Friends,

We also need your help to spread the word to others! Please share this opportunity with your friends and family, colleagues and the networks you are associated with!

Thank you for your support!

Best regard,

Mbuti Mboyam (Executive Director)

Improve 6300 poor children education in cameroon

CREDEV — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:03:08 GMT

Dear Sir/Madam

The Centre for Reconstruction and Development (CREDEV) will be fundraising to improve schooling conditions for poor children in rural Cameroon with GLOBALGIVING from 01 to 30 September 2010. First to start with, may you permit me to introduce this organization to you in brief? The Centre for Reconstruction and Development is an NGO (non-profit) registered in Bamenda – Cameroon as an equivalent of 501(c)(3) organization abroad in 2004 . CREDEV is an autonomous civil society organisation, whose purpose is development, charitable and organised to advance sustainable social change in disadvantaged and poor communities in the society. We are an affiliate or member of the United Nations Volunteering Service and CIVICUS: World Alliance for citizen participation, just to name a few. We are inviting you to sponsor the cause of these children in Mbaw Plain, a remote community with very poor access to education.

There are a several reasons I want you to participate in this fundraising SEPTEMEBER OPEN CHALLENGE organised for us by GLOBALGIVING amongst which are:

1.0 Children inability to read or write at school.

The lack of learning basic needs such as textbooks holds back the child’s mental development. Majority of these children who go through primary school have never owned a textbook in their life. A child has to learn how to read on its own also at home and do assignments.

2.0 Remoteness of the community.

Remote communities far off at borders with another country are worst off. Access to bookshops or even used textbooks is limited to townships. Some parents hold back their children from going to school particularly girls that we will change it.

3.0 Lack of qualified teaching staff.

Remote location schools lack adequate and qualified staff to teach with a pupil/teacher ratio of 300/1. 90% of the teaching staff does not possess O-Level GCE or teachers training certificate; they are first school leaving certificate holders. These teachers are recruited by the PTA, which is only able to pay them stipends for lack of enough resources from the government.

4.0 Poor educational infrastructure

The lack of enough classrooms force teachers to combine or jam some classes in one room. Some full cycle primary schools are operating in sheds for years for lack of permanent buildings. The PTA is unable to mobilise resources to build modern classrooms because parents are poor peasant.

5.0 High illiteracy in community

Less than 30 percent of the community indigenes are able to read or write. Even those who have gone through primary school have this difficulty because they were aided or just managed to pass. Very few advance their education through secondary school successfully because of the poor elementary educational base.

6.0 Lack of permanent donor support

We do not have a permanent donor and rely only on membership fee and honoraria. If we had a source of income we will fund our projects with little external support. That is why you are requested to support the poor PTAs of this community who we cannot help themselves from nothing.

7.0 Long-term future educational plan

This is a pilot project that prepares children to be able to cope with education at post-primary level. What will be next is the setting up of a technical training centre to train youths in crafts to be self-employed anywhere they go. Skilled craft technicians are few in the society let alone the community due to lack of competent technical schools.

GLOBALGIVING requires us to raise a minimum of $4000.00 from at least 50 donors during this fundraising September Open Challenge in other to maintain us as a partner in their database. International online fundraising is extremely new to us as we are only used to other methods and how to be successful in 30 days is our greatest challenge. That is why we have gone open inviting the public to generously support us rather than to individuals which we do not know. What I can guarantee you as my donor is that your dollar will be well spent specifically for the cause. The full project proposal can be downloaded for details from GLOBALGIVING fundraising website below, where monitoring and reporting procedures are found. Kindly tell a friend, a family member, your colleagues, everywhere you meet to adhere to this cause for children. I am requesting you to donate and change the schooling life of just one poor child by making the world a better place for them at www.globalgiving.org/6283.

I want to thank you very much in advance for your support.

Yours sincerely,

Mbuti Mboyam

Chief Executive

Support GLOBALGIVING fundraising effort for Children Education in Cameroon.

CREDEV — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:40:15 GMT

GLOBALGIVING.COM will be fundraising for Centre for Reconstruction and Development (CREDEV) in the United States from 01 to 30 September 2010. The fundraising is to support our programme on basic education in Mbaw community where less than 50% of children are able to attend primary school. They are vulnerable to poor education because of the situation of their community which is close to the Cameroon/Nigeria border being an indigenous community. We want to improve the learning conditions for these underprivileged children to attain primary school leaving certificate at basic education. There are several reasons why there is a high illiteracy rate in this community. Schools lack qualified teachers and instructive materials to teach and children lack basic school needs such as exercise books and pens, let alone textbooks, let alone computers that is a luxury and much more. Over 90% of the teachers are First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC) holders with no teaching experience. There are schools that have never had a permanent classroom, though they have been operating for over 5-years. As such they operate in sheds or even under shades in appalling learning conditions. Most of the pupils who attend these schools complete without being able to read or write well.

The objective of this fundraising is therefore to support the efforts of the government and Parent Teachers Association (PTA) in this community to give their children better education, to change this community. CREDEV want to improve learning conditions in Mbaw community from 10% to 25% by end of year 3. I want you to volunteer for us in one way or another by: hosting the fundraising link on your website; Provide online skilled computer support as a communication specialist to contact donors on our behalf whose information will be withheld in privacy. We also want volunteers to spread the news by telling a friend, family member or colleagues and use networks or their personal websites for us to be successful in this process. I will be grateful to read from you on the kind of support you want to give us and to discuss the terms and conditions of your participation.

The Centre for Reconstruction and Development is an NGO (non-profit) registered in Cameroon as an equivalent of 501(c)(3) organization abroad. CREDEV is an autonomous civil society organisation, whose purpose is development, charitable and organised to advance sustainable social change in disadvantaged and poor communities in the society. Though operating for 5-years now, we are a poorly resourced organisation with no permanent or regular funding source for our programmes. That is why we are very grateful to turn to GLOBALGIVING for fundraising support and also to you to facilitate the process to be successful. The full project is being developed in a document for donors to read the details that will to be downloaded on the fundraising page of http://www.globalgiving.com as from the above date. *Support us to change the world’s poor children to be responsible citizens tomorrow*.