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“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president.” - Nelson Mandela, Nobel Prize Winner 1993

“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” - Henry David Thoreau

Our Mission

The Creation Of New Hope

Vision

Our fundamental vision is to fight poverty and unemployment by promoting self-reliance through inspiring creative and technological initiatives.



“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work." - Mother Teresa

Mission Statement

Young people using computersThe TechCeFaCos mission is to use Arts and Culture as well as Computer Technology to improve the Quality of Life for the empowerment of a society and help it realize its potential for capacity development.    Our mission also includes promoting programs (through creative knowledge acquisition and ICT) to overcome the social, educational and economic hurdles that exist in the communities.

Project Challenges For Kumbo

Like most other Cameroonian communities, Kumbo faces a good number of challenges such as socioeconomic, technological, environmental and educational. Urbanization is the most crucial among these problems.

The sustained high rate of youth unemployment since the early 1990s has created a negative impact on the Cameroonian society as outlined below:

Cameroon village Continuing Poverty

  • Failure to take advantage of the human resources to increase the productive potential.
  • Reinforced the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

Increasing Crime

  • Due to the discrepancy between more education and exposure to the mass media and fewer employment opportunities, it has encouraged the spread of disruptive behaviors, recourse to illegal alternatives for generating income and the loss of basic societal values, all of which erode public safety and social capital.

 

Another village

Creating Conflicts

  • Triggered violent and intractable political conflicts.
  • Exacerbated intergenerational conflicts when young people perceive a lack of opportunity and meritocracy in a system that favors adults who have less formal education and training but more wealth, power and job stability.

Areas Of Focus

Arts and Computer studies are vital educational and training factors for a community's self reliance and employment, which are lacking in both the primary and secondary educational systems in Cameroon.

children in front of computergroup of childrenTechCeFaCos NGO strategically places itself in Cameroon with a unique aim, mission and vision and is committed to achieve the following:
  • The introduction of computer studies in secondary schools.
  • The introduction of arts studies in primary schools.

Aims & Objectives For Key Areas

Our aim is to utilize ICT as an all-purpose enabling tool for development. To accomplish this purpose and achieve our goals, we need to establish the TeleCentre for fostering and enhancing a comprehensive range of ICT-related services through ‘low cost’ and ‘low tech’ computer technology for the Tobin-Kumbo community.

adults in front of computerICT (Information and Communication Technologies)

  • Facilitate access to ICTs at an affordable cost.
  • Use Core ‘OfficePRO’ for TechCeFaCos’ ICT Development Initiatives i.e. programs and projects.
  • Change "digital divide" into a "digital opportunity".
  • Promote and encourage "Micro-Credit/Finance Schemes" through ICTs…e-Commerce, "Shishárshe".
  • Foster and enhance the achievement of MDGs…’EDUTAINMENT’-the arts of joyful education!

 

Medic with womanCommunity Development

  • Achieve (MDGs) as well as tackle socio-economic problems for the Bui community.
  • Foster socioeconomic development by using ICT to create awareness of its benefits.
  • Désenclave rural agricultural communities…TeleAgro.
  • Satisfy community needs for ICTs and other related services.
  • Collect and disseminate information on social issues like HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs).

 

Teacher with children

Assisting Youths

  • Empower youths for self-reliance, self-dependency, self-employment.
  • Provide free IT training of minimum 10,000 underprivileged youths of Bui community by 2015.
  • Create ICT-based employment opportunities for underprivileged youths.
  • Alleviate poverty amongst the underprivileged youths through ICT awareness and potentialities.

 

adults in front of computer

  • Equip and empower underprivileged youths to increase insertion to professional life.
  • Create opportunities for youth women to come out of vicious circles, being voiceless and helpless.
  • Promote social clubs/networks amongst youths in general.
  • Promote e-democracy and leadership among youths.

 

Green Industrygreen planetrecycle

  • Promote ‘Green Initiatives’ through multimedia data registration.
  • Enhance e-waste initiatives …’Keeping Old PCs Alive’ and ‘Computers for Cameroon’ programs through our ICT Resource Lab.