ASSOCIATION FOR CREATIVE TEACHING FOR WOMEN/YOUTHS IN DEVELOPMENT

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The Association for Creative Teaching for Rural Women and Youth in Development, abbreviated as “ACTWID KONGADZEM”, is made up of rural women and youth who are ready to develop themselves and their families and communities by improving their health status, providing better nutrition for themselves and their families, educate themselves and their communities, and alleviating poverty through sales of a variety of traditional crafts, together with their food crops which has both nutritional and medicinal value.

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NorthWest Region, Cameroon

Our Mission, Goals and Challenges

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We foster creativity and development for rural women/youths in local communities.

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Our Mission

A full 99% of rural women live below the poverty line in our village communities. Coming from polygamous homes in these local communities, we the women of Actwid Kongadzem created this NGO on September 1st 1989, as a task force to join hands together as one voice to address the urgent problems we face here as farmers, caregivers, and breadwinners for our families and communities

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Policy

ACTWID KONGADZEM women and youths of the grass fields are committed to the task fostering creativity among all women/youths/children of the grass fields. They strive to foster co-operation and stamp out all forms of violence against women and children, discrimination, unhealthy myths and taboos which hinder women’s socio-economic development, climate change and cultural misrepresentation.

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Our Challenges

ACTWID KONGADZEM is a non governmental organization whose work is focused on empowering and supporting venerable groups of people such as orphans and people living with HIV/AIDS. The group has a total membership of 48 registered groups made up of over 50 members per group with INTIMATE FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL as one of her most active group.

Our Activities

Since 1991, WE have been working tirelessly in our communities to foster development among women and youths of its target groups, WE have embarked upon diversified programs:

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