Women and Youth Project
Placement number: 0150
Location: Cameroon
Preferred Languages: English
Date: All Year
Minimum Period: 1 month (24 hours per week)
Volunteers should have experience in one of the areas
listed
in the
volunteer role section!
Brief Presentation of Reach Out
BACKGROUND Reach Out (REO) is a women and youth
centered organization operating in the Southwest Province of Cameroon with head
office in Great Soppo - Buea and field offices in Kumba, Mundemba, Bamusso,
Mamfe, focal points in Limbe (within the Provincial Hospital) and
Idenau.
Created in 1996, the organization obtained its legal status in the year
2000.
VISION Under-privileged
groups are aware of their rights and have equal access and control over
resources for sustainable development within a supportive policy
environment.
VALUE
Reach
Out stands for the voiceless through commitment, transparency and accountability
in the execution of its programmes for better
livelihoods.
MISSION STATEMENT Reach Out supports under-privileged
groups within the communities on health issues, wealth creation and provides
capacity building and information through the use of participatory approaches
and advocacy.
GOAL Improve
economic growth and better health within communities and to promote sustainable
livelihood.
MAIN OBJECTIVE Under-privileged groups are
sustainably empowered economically and in the fight against HIV/AIDS in their
communities.
If all the above are taken into
consideration, then we hope to make a giant step which will lead us
to:
EXPECTED
RESULTS
Ψ
Functional capacity of institution
strengthened
Ψ
Prevalence of HIV/AIDS
reduced
Ψ
Level of
household income increased
NATIONAL
Six Divisions Fako, Meme, Ndian, Manyu, Lebialem, Kupe
Muanenguba as pioneer NGO on Home Based Care and Psychosocial Assistance to
HIV/AIDS infected persons, orphans and vulnerable
children.
Four Divisions Fako, Meme, Ndian, Manyu on OVC care
and support
Three Divisions Fako, Meme, Ndian, for the
establishment of micro projects
Five Provinces Nutritional counseling HIV/AIDS
adapted feeding with a total of ten (10) NGOs and twenty (20) Associations of
PLWHAs trained South West, Littoral,
Centre, East,
Four Provinces Coordination OSIWA HIV/AIDS
project in South West, Littoral, Centre,
INTERNATIONAL
CURRENT
ACTIVITIES
Care and
support to orphans and vulnerable children in Fako, Ndian, and Manyu
divisions.
Home
based care and psychosocial assistance to HIV/AID infected persons on Buea,
Limbe, Idenau (Fako)
Wealth
creation or establishment of micro projects in Fako, Meme, and Ndian
Divisions.
HIV/AIDS
community mobilisation/sensitization within Idenau
municipality
IEC in
Idenau
Coordinating OSIWA HIV/AIDS
activities (follow up)
Coordinating Dynamique Citoyenne and
Multi-Actors Concerted Programme activities in the Southwest
province.
MAJOR
ACHIEVEMENTS
Trained
25 Council Executives/ staff and other social key actors on Behaviour Change
Communication in Idenau.
Established an HIV/AIDS/STIs
listening, information and Counseling Centre within Idenau council.
Recently
trained 200 women in Kumassi
Identified 10250 orphans and
vulnerable children (OVCs) in Fako, Manyu and Ndian divisions in the
Co-organized a large grass root
event on women and HIV/AIDS in Limbe, which 800 women
attended.
Co-organized advocacy workshop on
HIV/AIDS with Multi-Actors Concerted Programme (MACP) HIV/AIDS Thematic group in
Bafoussam, Ebolowa, and Buea.
Trained
28 Community Based Organizations to respond to the needs of
OVCs.
Assisted
28 CBOs to establish 28 micro projects within their communities to carter for
the needs of OVCs in Kumba Central Sub division.
Trained
45 communities on the participatory process for the fight against HIV/AIDS,
assisted them to come up with their action plans and seen to it that they are
financially assisted by the Provincial Technical Group for the Fight Against
HIV/AIDS.
Pioneer
NGO to have conducted Home Based care and Psychosocial Assistance to HIV/AIDS
infected persons/OVCs in the six divisions of the Southwest
province.
Provided
care and support to 3925 OVCs and 250 PLWHAs in Fako, Meme, Ndian and Manyu
divisions.
Trained
17 Associations of PLWHAs and 11 NGOs on Nutritional Counseling for HIV/AIDS
adapted feeding.
Trained
120 women in four divisions of the Southwest province on Project Implementation,
Monitoring and Evaluation in collaboration with APWAC.
CONSTRAINTS
Delay in
project execution and adequate follow up of CBOs micro projects due to lack of
own means of transport.
Inadequate space and working
materials due to expansion in activities renders work
difficult.
Limited
finances to execute projects remains a major constraint.
PERSPECTIVES
The
provision of means of transport for project execution and supervision in hard
reach areas.
Provision
of care and support to at least 10,250 OVCs and 500
PLWHAs.
Establish
more micro projects in Fako, Meme, Ndian and Manyu to sustain the OVC care
program and for poverty alleviation.
Institutionalize the Half Way House
Project for Skills Development for drop out from schoolgirls, older OVCs, widows
and single mothers.
Set-up a
computer village project for the women in Ndian Division (minority
groups).
Set-up a
women centred radio station
Set-up a
ring me project for widows, single
mothers and young girls (denouncing harmful traditional practices, earning an
income through phones).
A Home
solace/counseling on the wheel programme for HIV/AIDS infected person, OVCs and
caregivers.
Facilitate the creation of
demonstration farms to equip women with practical skills.
Improve
on the Management Information System (MIS) through the acquisition of more
computers and the establishment of Information, Communication Technology section
for better outreach of information by staff, members and
beneficiaries.
Acquire a
permanent site so as to take care of the present inadequate office space due to
expansion in activities.
Role of Volunteer
The role of
the volunteer will be to work within the operational framework of the
organisation. It maybe in any of
the following:
-
Office routine
work
-
Establish a good
filing system for the organisation
-
Providing care
and support to orphans and vulnerable children
-
Conduct home
based care activities to people living with HIV/AIDS
-
Assist groups to
establish micro projects
-
Train widows
groups/others on maintaining accounts, project write ups and on group
dynamics
-
Train groups on
project implementation, monitoring and evaluation
-
Assist the
organisation to come up with demonstration farms on organic vegetable
farming
-
Assist the
organisation to update its website
-
Assist the organisation in resource
mobilisation and fund raising
Cost
-
US$ 375 for a less than one month
stay.
-
US$ 475 for a one month
stay.
-
US$ 825 for a two month
stay.
-
US$ 225 beyond two months
stay.
The above costs include food and
accommodation.
Travel
To ease reception,
potential volunteers are advised to have their fights schedule for the
Reach Out staff have the
responsibility to receive the volunteers at the airport.
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