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
