UNIMAC ACTIVITY REPORT OF FIRST SEMISTER OF 2023 PROJECT EXECUTION

UNIMAC ACTIVITY REPORT OF FIRST SEMESTER OF 2023 PROJECT EXECUTION

During the first semester of 2023, UNIMAC was mainly focused on the following activities that were identified as priority activities:

Ø  Donation of didactic materials to some schools

Ø  Donation of textbooks and exercise books to some needy children

Ø  Supporting and payment of fees for some school drop-out children in some Nursery and primary schools in the course of the 2022/2023 academic year.

Ø  Training of some displaced adults on income-generating activities like soap making, small-scale poultry farming, beads, and handmade embroidery producing handbags, necklaces, slippers, table cloths, pillows cases etc.

Ø  Implanting of and supporting club activities in schools

Ø  Promotion of reading culture in schools

Ø  Identification of children needing assistance in the Mefou Akono subdivision of the center region and some clusters in the Mezam division of the North-west region that harbors a lot of displaced and needy children in order to assist them as school reopens in September 2023.

Ø  Identification of priority educational zones (areas with low school attendance rates) in the various regions of Cameroon due to gender and income disparity.

1)      DONATIONS OF BOOKS AND DIACTIC MATERIAL

We also took up during the 2023 project year, trainings and seminars of various kinds in schools, academic milieus, and the communities at large. We took up our usual book and other donations in kind as it is done yearly to the local communities. This is usually done by our home-to-home distribution to families and through prizes to the best pupils in the local community schools. Books and some didactic materials were donated to two primary schools at the neighborhood of  bambili. These are schools with good number of internal displaced children that UNIMAC identified. Assistance given to Primary Nusery vision Academy in Bambili new lay out) by UNIMAC included:

–          26 text books (Mathematics, English, Civics and Moral Education, French, Drawing and colouring, painting, Arts and craft etc)

–          Other School Materials (Pens, Pencils, Rulers, Sharpeners, Erasers, Bold Markers, School Bags, School Uniforms)

–          Chalk and other didactic materials to the school and identified pupils.

–          Twenty-six pupils after noticing that they were not in possession of uniforms.

Below is a table showing some of the items in terms of their quantities and cost

Description

No of Articles

Amount in FCFA

Exercise Books

224

67000

Text Books

26

65000

School Utensils

26

13000

Uniforms and Bags

26

130000

Packet of chalk

48

120000

School uniforms

26

130000

Total Cost

525000

DONATION OF BOOKS AND DIDACTIC MATERIAL IN VES PNVA.

1)      Assistance and payment of fees to some children in 2023

From January 2023 to the month of June 2023, UNIMAC proceeded with assistance in the payment or completion of payment of fees of a few children within needy communities. Thirteen (13) children’s fee in primary Nursery Vision Academy Bambili New lay-out Bambili were partially or completely paid by our organization after identifying that they were displaced and could drop out of school after the first term. We are concern about the wellbeing of these children as many have been displaced and were notice after a fee drive. We pray for these kids and our Nation, there is thus need to accommodate and encourage several children to go to school in such communities. Our major challenge is the lack of adequate funds. The most valuable thing to give a child is education. We realized that about 82 pupils in this school were internally displaced and their parents were jobless. We negotiated with the school authorities and paid the fees of some in installments.

Number of beneficiaries of our tuition support programs during first semester of 2023

UNIMAC continued to support children in tuition support scheme. Moreover, the demand for support increased during the school year 2023 as some displaced parents were cut off from their income generating activities. Below are current numbers of beneficiaries on our tuition and donations support program as of November 2023

number of nursery pupils

number of primary pupils

MALES

02

03

FEMALES

02

06

Total number

04

09

Total cost

650000