Community training on hand washing after toilet, using 'Tippy Taps'.
The women also learnt how to make fly traps.

Plans for a School for Hope

Picture the scene: a large work-room, equipped with carpenters benches, hammers, saws, a variety of handicraft tools, and filled with the sound of young people hard at work learning a trade.

Next door, a group of young Cameroonians are learning how a skilled electrician has analysed potential dangers before engaging them in theprocess of connecting a house up to mains electricity. In the field outside, a group are being educated on sustainable environmental practice, and are harvesting the yield of the organic crop they planted. A local plumber is teaching other young people how to fit a water pipe without wasting a drop of water.

After completing their work on studying how a radiator works –  and why it is important for the running of a car, the mechanical group wipe the grease off their hands and head to the canteen for a hard earned lunch.

RUDEC wants to make this idea a reality.

We want to construct a vocational school in which the focus is on more practical skills  and application, where orphans and the underprivileged undertake a valuable apprenticeship and learn a trade for life.

This is because the current technical education in some schools is failing young people.

Many leave school with no practical skills to apply in the community. Indeed, the majority of university graduates are either unemployed, or return home to work in the family shop/farm after an unsuccessful search for a professional career.

Often, orphans wish to start an apprenticeship to support their siblings, but don't have immediate family support. Apprenticeships are often beyond the financial means of young Cameroonians.

 Hence, our passion for providing a low cost, high quality set of practical skills which our students will keep for life!

Our vision is an all-inclusive school where boys & girls are equipped with invaluable skills which will provide employment at the end of their apprenticeship; in doing so we are increasing their opportunities and quality of life. 

A school which provides an education and employment to local people, whilst reinvesting excess back into the school, will us to increase our capacity, provide more educational activities, and increase opportunities for the children. The site would also house the RUDEC Headquarters and a fully equipped Volunteer House with the capacity for ten volunteers, who are the backbone of RUDEC activities.

However, this is no easy task. Investment costs for this project are high, but the benefit to the community is far greater!

Plan for tourism social enterprise

RUDEC has agreed with Middle-Africa to collaborate on a tourism package of five nights and four days.

Willy Casasnovas, the Director of head office of Middle-Africa in Douala, has worked hard with Roberto to arrange an amazing trip to the highlands.

The aim of the program is to offer a five-night and four-day tourist trip with an emphasis on the natural and cultural characteristics of Belo village and the surrounding Boyo division.

We´ll provide guided tours and daily activities to the most attractive places. These will include the village of Bafut and its traditional Kom Palace, Ndawara with the Fulani people, the tea estate plantation, Oku village and its crater lake and of course, Belo and the waterfalls.

During the course of this exciting and enlightening trip, you will experience the wonders of traditional Kom dances and the beauty of the natural escape that is the North West region of Cameroon.

In addition, a percentage of the cost of this trip will be contributed to the orphan project to support the ongoing work. 

We plan that 100% from all tourism project surpluses would be invested in the orphan project to help educate a child.

Greater tourism in the area will also increase the number of employment opportunities for the local community.