About 300 kids are following our educational program with the support of Ministry of Social Affair and the Ministry of Basic Education.The project Every Child Is Ours started on January 06th, 2014 led by WEBDEV Foundation. This project has been in preparation since many months and is based on participation of our volunteers worldwide to kid’s education but mostly concerned target are deprived children in orphanages and schools where most of students are from very poor families. The activities carried on IT, s*e*xual education, sanitary education, languages, cultural activities and extra-curricular activities as music, dance and painting. All the activities are based on educational games as well as participative and play ground pedagogic methods.
For the realization of this project, WEBDEV Foundation is working with internationals, Line (China), Angelise and Goery (France) and nationals, Estelle and Virginie (Cameroon) volunteers. So the volunteers organize classes in schools as well as share their competences and cultural differences. The children are very receptive and therefore are very curious and attentive in discovering these new learning. Actually, we are focus on delivering classes to class 5 and class 6 in 2 schools (Ecole Publique Djemoum and CEBEC Plateau) and 2 social centers (AVAPEV and CERSOM).
During the first week, the volunteers have had the opportunity to meet students for the first contact. Students were happy to discover new faces and expressed their joy. It was with a great pleasure that students and volunteers met again.
The lessons mixed the theory to the practice so that we can keep the attention of children. Take for example the IT, where every child has the opportunity to work directly on computer and learn things as put on/off the computer, open a file, used Software WORD. For the sanitary lessons, l’apprentissage se fait aussi sous forme de jeux, quizz, petites scénettes etc. Ces techniques permettent aux enfants de s’amuser tout en apprenant. Learning also takes the form of games , quizzes, small skits etc. . These techniques allow children to have fun while learning.
The ECHO project continues in schools and orphanages until late March before leaving for new sessions with other beneficiaries .
Testimonials
Iram, 8 years old, participating in games and social center AVAPEV every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evening « I ‘m happy because it changes from the school, we do different things and interesting things we learn. We also do small games and songs so it is not boring. I still prefer games courses, we laugh more. «
Goery, 21 years old, French Intern in Cameroon for 4 months
« These courses beside Webdev foundation a unique opportunity to develop myself. I realize that brings real and useful knowledge to children is very rewarding. The children are all very friendly, and even though sometimes it’s hard to keep everyone’s attention for 1:30 hours, we feel the true interest of students for this project. «
