About WOMF

Presentation of WOMF, targets, objectives, activities, organization and operation.

Our Targets

Children or a young persons in vulnerable situations

Children or young persons in vulnerable situation, are those persons whose development of their full intellectual, physical, mental and spiritual potential are likely to be fragile because of their social, economic, health or environmental conditions.
Based on this definition, we can cite in a non-exhaustive manner, children and youth from poor and destitute families, internally displaced children from the socio-political crisis in the South-West and North-West Regions. War orphans from the boko haram actions from the Northern Regions, BAKA children from the Eastern Region, children living with a disabilities. 

Children at risk of school exclusion

A child at risk of school exclusion is defined as any child exposed to any difficulties or discrimination in gaining access to school because of their physical or mental condition, their sex, their believes or their membership in a given socio-community group.
In that area we list children living with disabilities, those from minority social groups, etc. 

Young people at risk of socio-professional exclusion

We consider as young people at risk of socio-professional exclusion any young person in a situation of vulnerability exposed to difficulties in accessing stable and decent employment because of the lack of professional qualifications.

Le Bureau exécutif

Regional offices are composed of Regional Delegates and heads of beneficiary structures.
The Executive Board is elected by the general assembly and composed of the following members :

Anastasie NNANGA Epse AYISSI
Anastasie NNANGA Epse AYISSI
Chairwoman

Teacher by profession and Founder of social works

Judith NDEMNDOH épse NJENDOH
Judith NDEMNDOH épse NJENDOH 
Vice-Chairwoman

Teacher by profession and Founder of social works

Laurentine LETONO KEDE
Laurentine LETONO KEDE
General Secretary

Teacher by profession and Founder of social works

Marie J. NGABENA Epse ONANA
Marie J. NGABENA Epse ONANA
Treasurer

Founder of school and social works

Victorine DJEM Epse WAKELAK
Victorine DJEM Epse WAKELACK
Auditor

Teacher by profession and Founder of social works

Marie A. MBALA Epse NKOMBA
Marie A. MBALLA Epse NKOMBA
Censor

Teacher by profession and Founder of social works

Overall Objectives

Contribute to improving equity and inclusion in:

- Access to quality education for children in vulnerable situations or at risk of school exclusion.
- Vocational training, stable and decent employment for young people in vulnerable situations or at risk of professional exclusion. 

Specific Objectives

- To enrol children in vulnerable situations or at risk of school exclusion.
- To improve the conditions and the study environment for children in vulnerable situations or at risk of school exclusion.
- To support the training and socio-professional integration of young people in vulnerable situation or at risk of socio-professional exclusion.
- To promote gender equality in education, training and professional integration of young girls.  

Activities

- Identify children in vulnerable situations or at risk of school exclusion.
- Ensure the payment of tuition fees for children in vulnerable situations or at risk of school exclusion.
- Create a system to offer free education to children in vulnerable situations or at risk of school exclusion.
- Mobilize necessary resources to pay for the tuition of children in vulnerable situations or at risk of school exclusion. 

- Grant school materials to children in vulnerable situations or at risk of school exclusion.
- Provide school feeding and transportation of children in vulnerable situations or at risk of school exclusion.
- Provide WOMF schools with inclusive modern infrastructures, equipment and materials.
- Strengthen the capacity of teaching staff in WOMF schools regarding specific supervision, special to the inclusive education environment and sponsor in-service training of all the teachers. 

- Identify young people in vulnerable situations or at risk of socio-professional exclusion.
- Ensure the payment of academic tuition or training costs for young people in vulnerable situations or at risk of socio-professional exclusion.
- Establish partnerships with companies for academic and professional internships.
- Mobilize resources to support the professional installation of young trained persons. 

- Enrol the young girl in schools and to learn professional skills.
- Motivate and raising interest of the young girl in scientific, technological fields and particularly in ICT.
- Stimulate the education and integration of computer and digital cultures by women and girls.
- Train women and girls in areas of economic growth of the informal sector.
- Mobilize resources for the professional installation of women and girls. 

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Difficulties Encountered

  • On the human level, the permanent staff who are active day by day for the operation; the chairwoman, the executive secretary; the project and program coordinator; liaison officers between the school and the families; the regional delegates in charge of liaison between the national office and the beneficiary structures of the regions. These make a total of 18 as permanent staff, 20 volunteers. Indeed, the number of permanent staff being limited, several activities would not have been carried out without the help of volunteers.
  • At the material level, the lack of means of transport and communication tools have limited the visibility of our actions. In addition, there is lack of wheeled vehicle for field trips to visit the families living in hard-to-reach areas.
  • At the financial level, the limited financial resources impose the achievement of activities under extremely difficult conditions. A surplus of sacrifices and additional efforts are necessary, which makes the task much more difficult. 
  • At the social level, we are always confronted with situations which force us to play the role of parents for children who have lost both parents.
  • With some situations of pygmy children who live in the bush, we are called upon to dress them, care for them, educate them, during their stay at school, most pygmies are settled along the main roads. Most of them return to the bush, some for hunting and gathering, thus abandoning school. Some do not come back, and for those who come back, we have to start all over again.
Enfants Baka

Baka children in their natural state

Enfants Baka

  • In terms of inclusion, we have considerable difficulties because of the non-existence of inclusive infrastructures for destitute children with disabilities.
  • We have difficulties for socio-professional integration at the end of their study program, at the primary , secondary or higher level. 
  • We also have difficulties in integrating these children into vocational schools and higher education. 
  • Some villages are far from schools inhard-to reach areas, this causes us serious concerns for the household surveys of certain families.
  • Finally among all these children some are refugees who live in great precariousness, we have serious problems to cover the needs of all these entities.

You need a canoe without engine to reach these villages, for there are no bridges for instance.

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