WE HAVE STARTED THE 3rd YEAR

INDIVIDUAL ACADEMIC AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS (FROM NORTH- AND SOUTH-WEST CAMEROON) IN BAFOUSSAM 

ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

 A PROJECT IN COOPERATION WITH

BON-SECOURS KAMERUN IN GERMANY

AND THE SUPPORT OF DIRECT PARTNERSHIPS IN SOUTH-GERMANY THROUGH THE BASEL MISSION – DEUTSCHER ZWEIG E.V. and MISSION 21

Education plays a key role in the development of every child, but for displaced children it is even more crucial.

Catch-Up Classes

We have already started the Catch-Up Classes as from beginning of July 21. We are working there with more then 50 children. For this purpose, we work together with 4 teachers who teach the children four days a week from 8.30-12.30 for 2 months. 

The catch-up classes are meant to:

-          slowly reintroduce children to school life after years of absence from official school attendance

-          reintroduce children to the basics of reading and writing (even children in secondary school often have massive difficulties in reading at all if they have not attended school for years and have never held a book in their hands again, often associated with cumulative traumatic experiences)

-          help the children regain confidence in themselves and their new environment

-          help the project staff to assess, by the time of enrolment, the level of the child in order to estimate in which class the child could possibly keep up