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EDUCATION

Welisane Foundation outlines a five-year strategic plan of ‘’ONE GIRL ONE DREAM’’ back to school project for 2018/2019 school year.

The One Girl One Dream project started this school year and spans to 2023. It seeks to support and encourage the education of the girl child. In the next five years, it intends to reach out to 1000 children in primary school, 100 students in secondary school and some 15 students in Higher institutions of learning across Cameroon especially those of the English faction of ages 5-21. This is intended to help the underprivileged gain access to education and in a bit to reduce the number of challenges the young girl faces in present day Cameroon. It also seeks to foster Sustainable Development Goal four (4) on quality education.   

This is to many a stitch in time because of its proper timing and considering it is coming at a time when poverty has caused many to abandon their dreams, traditional values too causing many to abandon studies, early marriages stand as a barrier, and gender inequality has really over the years played down the education of the female folk.  
According to UNESCO Institute of Statistics of 2016, 70% of Cameroonian girls are illiterates. In another related report in a study carried out, it revealed that 50% of girls in rural areas are illiterates.

It is against this backdrop that WF saw the need to help the already existing civil society associations, NGOs and government to address the alarming plights of the girl child given that in some localities many still live in a male chauvinist society and any doctrine of feminism seems to be an attack on the gods and talk less education of the girl child.

Welisane Foundation saw the light of day at the start of 2018 and has as driving force to improve the socio-economic empowerment of girls, sexual and Reproductive Health and Right, networking among women, amongst others. This Foundation has much to its credit ranging from activities organised to empower young girls economically, the just ended “Vacances sans grossesses” campaigns that educated thousands of female youths about pregnancy and how to chase dreams without being interrupted by unplanned pregnancies, education on World Menstrual Hygiene day, 2018, awareness on Human Trafficking of children and woman on the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, and Women and Media impact.

Welisane Mokwe Nkeng is the founder of the NGO and states what motivates her to engage in a war against the illiteracy of girls and underprivileged in Cameroon. “I was pushed to do this because I was appalled by the level of girl illiteracy in Cameroon. Being fortunate to have received a decent educated, I think I owe it to give back to my community. My mother is a role model…She did same so inculcated in me the spirit of giving and reaching out to the less privileged”.

By Awoh Caleb Ndazua (ACN) in Yaoundé, Cameroon

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