Women’s Cooperative
Over 200 women in four groups farm rice, corn and groundnuts, store their harvest in a shared warehouse and run savings and loan schemes.
Sisters of St. Therese · Sabongari, Cameroon
When a woman earns and a child learns, a whole village rises
Since 2002 we have trained, organised and stood beside the rural women of Sabongari, and educated their children. More than 200 women now farm, sew, save and trade together.
- Women Empowerment Centre founded
- 2002
- women in the cooperative
- 200+
- cooperative groups in four villages
- 4
- women trained in business skills
- 231
- GCE A-Level pass rate, three years running
- 100%
What we do
Three programmes, one community
Women and children are the most vulnerable people in every society. In Sabongari we work with both, so that families become stronger and the local economy grows with them.
Vocational Training Centre
Young women learn tailoring, soap making, poultry farming and rice processing, then start small businesses of their own.
SATHECCCOL Secondary School
St. Therese Catholic Comprehensive College: affordable day and boarding education with the best GCE results in Donga-Mantung.
For sponsors and partners
A small, proven organisation where every franc is visible
Manos Unidas funded our warehouse, dormitory and hall. MIVA Switzerland gave the 4×4 that now reaches every village. Educate Me Cameroon helped us start poultry training. Each gift is still at work today.
We are led by Sisters who live in the community we serve, and we report on what your support achieves.
- Six costed projects, from 1.9 to 25.8 million FCFA
- Income-generating equipment that pays for itself
- Direct contact with the Sisters running each project
Where support is needed now
Projects waiting for a sponsor
Food sovereignty
Rice, groundnut, corn and oil mills
Processing the harvest on site lets the women sell finished rice, flour and oil instead of raw crops, and keeps the profit in the cooperative.
Needed 9,000,000 FCFA (≈ 13,740 €)
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Food sovereignty
A second-hand 4×4 truck
One pickup carries everything today. A truck would move food from the farms to the warehouse and the markets for the cooperative, Sabongari and the surrounding villages.
Needed 22,925,000 FCFA (≈ 35,000 €)
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Food sovereignty
A tractor for tilling the farms
The women still work large fields with hand tools. A tractor would let them till far more land in the short planting season and raise farm income.
Needed 25,872,500 FCFA (≈ 39,500 €)
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See the work in pictures
School Life
Graduation Day at SATHECCCOL
Gowns, certificates and proud families: graduates of St. Therese Catholic Comprehensive College receive their testimonials.
Women's Cooperative
The Women’s Cooperative
The members of the St. Therese Women’s Multipurpose Cooperative at their meetings, gatherings and celebrations.
Farming & Produce
Rice: From Paddy to Sack
Parboiling paddy over a wood fire, bagging the rice and loading it for the markets.
Trusted by
Partners who have supported our work
- Manos Unidas
- MIVA Switzerland
- Educate Me Cameroon
- Diocese of Kumbo
News
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