What your support has already changed

We measure our work by what changes in homes: women with an income, girls who stay in school, families with hope restored.

women trained in business identification and business skills: 231
women trained in cooperative leadership and bookkeeping: 29
trainees enrolled at the centre in one year: +34
teenage marriages prevented through mentoring: 5
A-Level pass rate at SATHECCCOL, 2020–2022: 100%

Achievements

A new warehouse, dormitory and hall for female farmers, approved and funded by Manos Unidas (2019).
A new Toyota Hilux 4×4 donated by MIVA Switzerland (2019), which opened access to many villages.
A son of the cooperative, educated from primary school to seminary thanks to it, ordained deacon in the Diocese of Kumbo.
A slight decrease in teenage pregnancies and a marked decline in abortions.
Hope and joy restored in many families and young people through more home visits.
General improvement in women’s welfare through community talks, education and sensitisation.

Honest about the challenges

Sponsors deserve the full picture. These are the difficulties we face and what we plan to do about them.

Challenges

Families struggle to pay training fees. Trainers are under-resourced. Farm yields are limited by hand tools. Women have little capital. Graduates lack start-up equipment. Early marriages persist despite our talks, and one vehicle serves every need.

The way forward

Accept fees in kind. Invest in oil, rice and corn mills that earn income for the women. Obtain a truck and a tractor. Provide sewing machines to graduates. Organise more educational workshops, especially for fathers.

Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 1 · No poverty
SDG 2 · Zero hunger
SDG 3 · Good health
SDG 4 · Quality education
SDG 5 · Gender equality
SDG 6 · Clean water
SDG 17 · Partnerships for the goals

Help us go further

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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