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Among others, we have leveraged our partnerships in achieving the following:
  • FECH delivered two ambulances and other medical supplies and equipment to the Douala Archdiocese in November 2008.
  • FECH supported the construction of the new Presbyterian Church in the village of Mbemi, Bamenda, North West Region of Cameroon, working in partnership with the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon.
  • FECH has partnered with Youth Development Foundation based in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, in support of the foundation’s work to educate and redirect youth from the streets and back to school. The work also involves teaching healthy living to street kids and adolescents, notably focused on preventing the spread of communicable diseases like HIV/AIDS, TB and other sexually transmitted infections.

It is our firm belief at FECH that no other social sectors in Cameroon require more urgent attention than the health and education sectors.

Especially if one considers the prolonged school closures caused by insecurity and violence triggered by the terror group Boko Haram and the ongoing war in the English-speaking part of the country where a school boycott brought education to its knees.

As a result of the war, terror attacks and violence, hundreds of thousands of families have been internally displaced, taking their school-going children with them away from the villages where they once went to school and into safe havens in bushes, forests and remote areas.

There are other challenges such as absenteeism caused by the high prevalence of diseases like malaria or on account of school closures triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to UNESCO and WHO, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schooling for 1.6 billion children around the world.

In 2019, UNICEF reported that 850,000 children in the English-speaking part of the country had already been out of school, most of them, for a period of three academic years. According to UNICEF, 80 percent of schools in this part of the country have been shuttered; 70 of them have been either partially or completely destroyed.

Violence since 2014 from the Islamic group, Boko Haram, has led to the closure of hundreds of schools in the northern regions of the country. Militants of Boko Haram [literally translate as “Western education is a sin”] target schools, killing and kidnapping schoolchildren.

UNESCO and UNICEF estimated in their joint State of the Education Crisis Report published at the end of 2021 that the costs of learning losses caused by school closures on account of COVID-19 and the economic shocks most countries faced stand at $17 trillion in lifetime earning losses or about 14 percent of world GDP in 2021.