Contact Information



Contact Information

COMMITTEE OF ASSISTANCE TO THE NEEDY WOMAN OF CAMEROON (CAFENEC)

P. O. Box: 13 282, Yaoundé, Cameroun

Tel: (00237) 79 97 52 59 / 22 09 24 73

Fax: 00237 2222 18 73

cafenec@ or info_cafenec@yahoo.fr

. Contact person's name and title:

Lydienne NKALEU

National President

Organizational Information

The aim of CAFENEC is to create a real and ideal framework in order to ameliorate the living conditions of women, widows, orphans, girl mothers and needy young girls from rural and semi-urban zones of Cameroon through self-help activities, conscience awakening and education.

The principal objectives are:

- Promotion of female leadership ;

- Promotion of rights of women and children ;

- Help rural women "Head of families" to initiate their own income generating activities;

- Reinforce the auto-management capacities of basic female groupings ;

- Mobilise women, girl mothers and youths to get vaccinated against diseases and get tested for HIV/AIDS, STIs and Venereal diseases.

- Training and integration of orphans and children rendered vulnerable.

The Committee of Assistance to the Needy Woman of Cameroon was created in September 2001. Its first General Assembly was held on the 20th February 2002. CAFENEC was officially recognised by the Senior Divisional Officer of the Mfoundi Division on the 30th April 2002 with declaration receipt n° 00423/RDA/J06/BAPP, as a female non-political and non-profit making organisation.

CAFENEC was created by three Cameroonian women determined to improve the living standards of extremely poor women from the rural and semi-urban zones of Cameroon.

The founders are; Mme NKALEU Lydienne, Mlle MADZAM à MBANG Yvette et Mme DJIOGO Jacqueline.

We do not have any social insurance, we do not have access to loans in order to develop productive activities, and we have no rights to land. We lack money to send our children to school.

Several needy women and girls have thought it necessary to come together in order to ameliorate their living standards and to come out of the extreme poverty in which they live by taking their fate in their own hands without waiting for the corrupt public officials of Cameroon.

More than 51% of the Cameroonian population is comprised of women; that is about 7 800 000 women, amongst which 4 900 000 live in rural areas and about 1 200 000 live in semi-urban areas, in an extreme poverty, living with less than 1USD per day.

In short, there is need for action in order to transform the Cameroonian woman while combating corruption under all its forms. The projects of CAFENEC answer the cries of the needy women of Cameroon.

CAFENEC is a national organisation with Head Office in Yaoundé and sub offices in the various regions.

The principal beneficiaries of our organisation are: women, girl-mothers, women living with HIV/AIDS, AIDS orphans and others, supervised female groups and needy young girls from rural and semi-urban areas of Cameroon.

CAFENEC has several human resources which participate in an active manner in all its activities. CAFENEC is very much respected and much attention is paid to it. CAFENEC is a composed female association female association well known through our campaigns and other activities.

Yet, our major obstacle is our limited financial resources. Sometimes we receive threats, our posted mails are opened. Our offices have become targets for thieves and are sometimes flooded with the intention of stealing documents which permit us to denounce the abuse on widows, orphans and others in our country.

The General Assembly is the supreme organ of CAFENEC. The members, including the management committees of supervised female groupings come together once every year in an ordinary session to define the orientations or the general policy of the organisation, to vote the functional budget, fix our objectives, adopt moral and financial reports and elect the council.

The Administrative Council is composed of six elected women who are in charge of supervising the action, programs and the management of resources of the organisation. These are devoted women who are concerned by the problems of women and who love community development. They are all volunteers and they meet 3 times per year. The council works in close collaboration with Management of programmes.

List of members of the Administrative Council

|Noms & Prénoms | |

| |Fonctions |

|NKALEU Lydienne |President |

|KENGMO Odile |Secretary |

|TENZEM SOUNA Ernestine |Treasurer |

|NANFACK Brigitte |Councillor |

|GUICHI Marie-Noëlle |Councillor |

| HATOU Judith |Councillor |

The Management of programmes is composed of specialists and experts in development projects for women. The project Directors are appointed by the Administrative counsel, in relation to projects and their availability.

The General coordination of all activities and projects is done by the National President who in turn reports to the various partners.

Statutorily, CAFENEC has three (03) categories of members:

- Three (03) founding members (one is member of the council).

- Forty eight (48) active members (with 38 women, 3 members of the council).

- Six (06) members benefactors (three are women). 

CAFENEC is a female organisation for, women. CAFENEC is managed by a woman.

Here are the key challenges our organisation face in the area of work.

- Rights of women :

• Project “Let’s Humanise our Widowhood Rites in Cameroon’’, Since September 2007, at the end of the great sensitisation movement and support to widows, CAFENEC supports the activities of different groups of widows and orphans in the different regions of Cameroon. These widow and orphan groups work to sensitise the authorities and the local population on the fight for the rights of widows and orphans and on the necessity to adopt a definite family code in Cameroon.

• Project “Water and Sanitation”; Water is a right. In general, all works related to water are of interest to women in our country. At home, it’s the woman who fetches water for cookery and cleaning up. In the Far North Region, from the South West to the Western Regions of Cameroon, water becomes very scarce in some of these localities. Women, widows and especially girls suffer a lot to find potable water for consumption.

Our aim is to drill potable water in villages having such difficulties and with a population of about 100 women and to build latrines in order to solve the problem of sanitation.

• « Education against violence»; It is an educational program against violence done to women, widows and girls in our community.

• Economic emancipation of the woman: “Fund for Social Aid” it’s a fund put in place by CAFENEC to support income generating activities and to employ women, widows, orphans and needy girl mothers supervised.

• “Mills to women and Widows”; in rural areas, women and widows send girls far off to grind food stuffs during school hours. The case of Bamendou is very edifying, place from which this project originated in order to enable widows transform their own food at home and save the children and women the trouble of going to far off areas to grind their food stuffs. The case of the South West region at Alou and Ndento (Fongo-Tongo) at the West were very painful.

• The health of women and girls. CAFENEC is preoccupied by the health of widows and orphans, women and girls in rural and semi-urban areas. Here CAFENEC takes care of widows and orphans of HIV/AIDS in rural areas. Operation STOP AIDS enables us to sensitise girls on HIV/AIDS, STIs and venereal diseases and enables them to know their status.

At this moment in Africa, Malaria kills many people because of our unhealthy environment. More than 500 million people in the world are affected; 90% of these people live in Africa and 85% die in tropical Africa. Reason for which we have to organise sensitisation campaigns in rural zones of our environment. In short, there is need to save these persons rapidly by bringing our support through insecticides to spray their homes, mosquito nets and anti malaria drugs.

Since October 2009, CAFENEC has added another constituent of health to its activities. That is the taking care of epilepsy patients from the South West Region.

The Wild Rose constituent enables us to help women who are beneficiaries of the fund to get treated in health centres at a reduced cost.

• Education and Training of Girls

CAFENEC brings its support to girls who do not have the opportunity to continue school to go back to school or to learn a trade if they so desire. It is generally a financial support and a follow up with the participation of their parents.

The project “Housework Quality” enables us to train jobless women and place them in homes to serve as house helps.

Below is a description of our activities and programs.

- Mills to women and widows of Bamendou ; 03 grinding mills were offered to women and widows of the Bamendou community in the West Region of Cameroon, with the financial support of Global Fund for Women, in May 2008.

- In October 2009, it was the turn of widows of Alou in the South West Region, from the Lebialem Division to benefit from 03 grinding mills and farming material with the financial support of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF).

- Again, in November 2009, Ndento women in Fongo-Tongo from the West Region benefitted from 03 grinding mills and farming material, still with the financial support of AWDF.

- In January 2010, CAFENEC was in the East Region at Bertoua to bring their support to 60 orphans under their supervision in that region.

- In March 2010, CAFENEC was in the Far North for a sensitisation campaign on literacy through the Gattegno approach for the benefit of widows in that region. This is thanks to Anne Thiébaut, a training officer from Paris, France and Saha Ikram from Morocco. Then, CAFENEC went to Yokadouma in the East region to meet some widows from that locality, requiring assistance from CAFENEC.

- The “Social Support Fund” finances income generating activities of rural women. Women who benefit from this fund are supervised by CAFENEC.

- In 2008/2009, Housework Quality trained and inserted 20 girls as house helps in Yaoundé.

- Operation “STOP TO AIDS” enabled us to sensitise more than 60 000 students (girls and boys in Yaoundé, Douala and Bafoussam). Several students volunteered to be tested for HIV/AIDS since our team was comprised Doctors, hanks to CAFENEC’s collaboration with the NGO CIB santé au Cameroun. This NGO placed individual tests and mosquito nets together with some drugs against Malaria at our disposition. After this tour, seeing the number of people who suffer from Malaria, CAFENEC understood that Malaria is very dangerous as compared to other illnesses.

Here are our organisation’s present activities and programs.

- Grinding mills to the widows of Alou in the South West Region and Fongo-Tongo in the West Region.

- Planning of activities/programmes of CAFENEC.

- Support of activities to 12 groups of widows and orphans in the framework of the project “Let’s humanise our Widowhood Rites in Cameroon”.

CAFENEC’s Plan of Action for the future.

2010 – 2014 Exercise

For an effective amelioration of the living standards of widows, orphans, girls and needy girl mothers in Cameroon, CAFENEC has maintained in its Plan of Action the following activities and programmes:

➢ The installation of at least 10 widow and female networks every year.

➢ Another Heart held point is to succeed in signing a long term financing contracts (3-5 years) with grant making organisations and philanthropists which can take care of our rents or build a Head Office for CAFENEC. Taking care of salaries payment of bills and purchase of equipment.

➢ The support of networks put in place by the Fund for Social Aid in the localities and the creation of a collective income generating activity for groups of widows under our supervision, to give a financial autonomy to women while enabling them to cater for themselves mutually in their own locality and in all aspects. E.g. the installation of grinding mills and purchase of farming material at Alou and Fongo-Tongo, NDENTO.

➢ The granting of small loans to people living with HIV/AIDS from Alou for income generating activities which is an urgent need because it will enable them to cater for themselves and reduce their stress.

➢ The granting of grinding mills and mills for the transformation of cassava into Garri at the demand of widows from the South West Region, that is Kumba, Muea, Tiko, Béréka, Ndougated, Mmouckgie et Lower Fondjumetaw, of the East region at Bertoua, and to Moundan women in the Far North.

➢ The granting motorised cultivator and farming material to widows of Béréka. Palm nuts are the principal riches of women of the Nwangong locality seeing the tired state in which these widows are, not having any to till the very hard soil. Their area is hilly and rough and so they threw a cry of distress to CAFENEC to move them out of this situation by offering them a motorised cultivator which is going to ease their suffering and also increase their live span on earth.

➢ The training of different management committees of these groupings and of basic organisations supervised from Bamendou, Fontem, Alou, Ndento, Fongo-Tongo and Bafoussam.

➢ The psychological and medical taking in charge of 100 women living with HIV/AIDS, and the school fees and didactic material of orphans at Alou in the South West.

➢ The drilling of potable water at Bamendou, Alo’o and at Going in the Far North. CAFENEC will emphasize on the project Water and Sanitation in the West, South West and Far North Regions to reduce the suffering of rural women.

➢ CAFENEC will support pregnant women, children and people in rural areas to fight against malaria. You malaria at this moment in Africa causes great damage due to our unhealthy environment. More than 500 million people are affected in the world; 90% live in Africa and 85% die in tropical Africa. Reason for which we should act fast by bringing them our support in offering them insecticides, worming, mosquito nets and malaria tablets. In helping them to clean the environment in which they live.

➢ CAFENEC will put an accent on the follow up of already realised projects for a good management of the achievements.

➢ The research of institutional support to reinforce the capacities of CAFENEC.

➢ The research for Four Wheel Drive pick up vehicles for CAFENEC’s trips to dangerous rural zones and for a better follow up of activities, now that our acting sphere is growing bigger.

➢ Our Project on the Humanisation of our Widowhood rites will continue until the adoption of a new family code including questions on widows and orphans.

➢ The creation of a female magazine which will enable the women to express themselves.

➢ CAFENEC has received several complaints from needy women, widows and children themselves, asking us to do something for them. Since they have our support but we think it is better to teach someone how to fish than to feed him every day. That is why CAFENEC after as study and with your support we will open socio-professional centres for the training and integration of school drop outs (girls), girl-mothers, orphans and others in small trades such as tailoring, hair dressing, computer awareness, cookery, decoration, artistic painting, local soap manufacturing, fabrication of cosmetic products. This is a very important and pressing need for the lives of the needy.

The solicited subvention will take into account three specific needs in order to ameliorate the living conditions of widows and orphans. To know: The Grinding Mill project and farming material to widows and women of Ndoungated, Mmouckgie, Béréka and Lower Fondjumetaw.

The subvention seeked through Globalgiving will be used to finance the Project Mills and Farming Material to widows and women of Ndoungated, Mmouckgie and Béréka and Lower Fondumetaw.

In effect this subvention will cover the purchase of 11 mills (02 grinding mills for grains, 02 for spices, 02 for dry foods, 01 to transform cassava into garri, water pumps to enable widows to water their gardens and farms for better yields, and then oil press), the purchase of farming material (trucks, hoes, machetes, files, gloves, sprayers). Insecticides and Fungicides will be purchased to reduce the sufferings of widows and rural women from Ndoungated and Mmouckgie in the South West region, and at Lower Fondjumetaw.

In practical terms, these mills will help them to transform their meals and to contribute in the betterment of the living conditions of these poor women. The insecticide and fungicide will enable them to have good quality products from their farms (potatoes, carrots, leeks and other subsistence crops), and their harvest will also increase.

In brief, it will enable us to show our mastery in managing women productive activities and the acquisition of local funding sources.

It will equally support needy women and solve the problem of lack of contribution due to the very high cost of living in Cameroon.

According to the recommendations of the general assembly, the activities and efforts for the projects and programmes carried will henceforth be centred in the defined zone of intervention. Thus, for a period of three years, CAFENEC will concentrate all its energy in the West, South West and Extreme North regions of Cameroon to benefit the groups of widows, orphans, girls and women from rural areas.

This work is very tangible because the groups of women supervised are very dynamic. The awaited results are short-termed and the anticipated impact is real and visible.

The strategic objectives sought through this subvention are very tangible for both beneficiaries, that is, the widows, the orphans, women and rural girls and for CAFENEC itself.

For the beneficiaries, CAFENEC brings them an activity which will be of dual importance on the social an economic plan.

- On the economic plan, the mills and farming material will produce money for the beneficiaries. This beneficial economic activity will equally solve many problems (reduction of distance, time wining for the girls, the reduction of suffering for the women who used to grinding food stuffs on stones. For the tired widows, the act of running around the bushes to look fro pieces of zinc and nails in order to perforate the zinc so it can serve as a grater to transform cassava into garri is very painful). The increase in the harvest due to insecticide and fungicides. All these will also enable CAFENEC to evaluate its management capacity for productive activities.

- On the social plan, CAFENEC thinks the problems of rape and kidnapping will cease. The girls will be able to go to school courageously instead of walking for miles to grind food stuffs. The beneficiaries will eat to their satisfaction and their working conditions in farms will be improved. Thanks to the sprayers and fungicides, the water pumps, the quantity of their production will add. The widows will now exploit their cassava; this was not possible in the past because mills were not available. According to widows of old age; their live span will increase due to the oil press.

For CAFENEC, this subvention will be a great satisfaction and a very great relief for the beneficiaries. Solving the problems liked to mills in these three localities will enable CAFENEC to give an economic autonomy to widows, women and girls of Ndoungated, Béréka and Mmouckgie in the South West of the country; and of Nwangong-Lower Fondjumetaw. The money reaped will help to finance other productive activities required for the improvement of their living and working conditions. (For example the construction of warehouses).

5 - DETAILLED PROJECTED BUDGET.

|Line |Description and Activities |Quantity |Unit Price |Total Amount in CFAF|Total Amount in US |Sources |CAFENEC and |

| | | | | |Dollars |To Seek |Beneficiaries |

|I- |Project, Mills and Farming Material to Widows of lower Fondjemetaw, | | | | | | |

| |Mmouckgie and Béréka. | | | | | | |

| |Purchase and Installation of Mills. | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | |

| | | | | | | | |

|1- |Purchase of grinding mills | | | | | | |

|1-1 |Purchase of water mills |02 |650 000 |1 300 000 |2 888 |2 888 | |

|1-2 |Purchase of bag mills |02 |350 000 |700 000 |1 555 |1 555 | |

|1-3 |Purchase of cassava mills |02 |250 000 |500 000 |1 111 |1 111 | |

|1-4 |Transportation of mills |01 |650 000 |650 000 |1 444 |1 444 | |

|1-5 |Purchase of motorised cultivator |03 |200 000 |600 000 |1 333 |888 |444 |

|1-6 |Purchase of gasoline oil press |01 |2 390 000 |2 390 000 |5 311 |5 311 | |

|1-7 |Construction of mill cabins |01 |2 000 000 |2 000 000 |4 444 |4 444 | |

|1-8 |Installation of Mills |03 |50 000 |150 000 |333 | |333 |

|1-9 |Labour costs (Builders, Carpenters) |03 |50 000 |450 000 |1 000 | |1 000 |

|1-10 |Reception, transmission and inauguration ceremony. |03 |200 000 |600 000 |1 333 | |1 333 |

|1-11 | |03 |400 000 |1 200 000 |2 666 | |2 666 |

| |Farming materials to women groups | | | | | | |

|2- | | | | | | | |

| |Purchase of trucks | | | | | | |

|2-1 |Purchase of machetes | | | | | | |

|2-2 |Purchase of hoes |10 |100 000 |1 000 000 |2 222 |2 222 | |

|2-3 |Purchase of pairs of gloves |200 |5 000 |1 000 000 |2 222 |2 222 | |

|2-4 |Purchase of files |200 |5 000 |1 000 000 |2 222 |2 222 | |

|2-5 |Purchase of sprayers |200 |3 000 |600 000 |1 333 |1 333 | |

|2-6 |Purchase of insecticides and Fungicides for market garden products |50 |2 500 |125 000 |277 |277 | |

|2-7 |Decis |10 |85 000 |850 000 |1 888 |1 888 | |

|2-8 |Cypercal50 | | | | | | |

| |Bastion(10g) | | | | | | |

| |Metrostar500 |06 |18 000 |108000 |240 |240 | |

| |Fongistar without dose |06 |10 000 |60 000 |133 |133 | |

| |Ivory80 |04 |6 000 |24 000 |53 |53 | |

| | |25kg |15 000 |375 000 |833 |833 | |

| |N.B.: These products have to be sprayed every two weeks till they are |10 |25 000 |250 000 |555 |555 | |

| |harvested. |06 |60 000 |360 000 |800 |800 | |

| | | | | | | | |

| |Purchase of fryers | | | | | | |

| |Purchase of jerrycans for conservation | | | | | | |

| |Purchase of wide bowls | | | | | | |

| | |10 |15 000 |150 000 |333 | | |

| |Transportation of farming material |03 |40 000 |120 000 |266 | | |

| |Reception and transmission |10 |15 000 |150 000 |333 | |333 |

| | | | | | | |266 |

|3- |Coordination, organisation, training, follow-up and assessment. |03 |Forfait |200 000 |444 | |333 |

| | |03 |300 000 |900 000 |2 000 | | |

| | | | | | | |444 |

| |Organisation and training | | | | | |2 000 |

| |Follow-up and assessment | | | | | | |

| |Secreterial Works | | | | | | |

| |Coordination | | | | | | |

| |Media |03 |250 000 |750 000 |1 666 | | |

| | |03 |300 000 |900 000 |2 000 | | |

| | |01 |Forfait |350 000 |777 | |1 666 |

| | |01 |Forfait |500 000 |1 111 | |2 000 |

| | |01 |forfait |650 000 |1 444 |1 444 |777 |

| | | | | | | |1 111 |

| | | | | | | | |

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| | | | | | | | |

| | In US Dollars | | |46 581 USD |46 581 USD |31 863 USD |14706 USD |

The present projected budget is stopped at a total amount of 46 581 USD.

N.B. 1 USD = 450 CFAF.

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