I: PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT
The objective of this project was to give financial assistance to five underprivileged women and girls in the Bamenda III municipality
II: STEPS TAKEN TO ORGANIZE THE EVENT
- Feasibilities studies were carried out by all members to see if there were underprivileged girls and women in our municipality.
- Selection criteria were discussed and agreed upon by CIDev members during their annual meetings.
- Advertisement and sensitization was carried out through the word of mouth and phone calls.
- Applications forms were distributed to members for the identified underprivileged women and girls to fill.
- Adhoc committee set up to examine the various applications tendered with the lead taken up by the project manager.
III: TARGET AUDIENCE: underprivileged women and girls in the Bamenda III municipality from ages 10-18years
IV: PARTICIPANTS: the participants present were the underprivileged girls and women, CIDev members including their spouses and invited guest from all works of life.
V: ACTIVITIES
Date - 18/12/2019
Duration - 5 hours
Location - Mile 4, Nkwen Bamenda III Municipality
Number of people in attendance - 35
Number of people reached - 5
VI: DESCRIPTION OF EVENT
The objective of this event was to impact the lives of 5 underprivileged women and girls in the Bamenda III municipality by giving financial assistance for petite businesses like food stuffs for marketing and raising profits which could be used to feed their families. Envelopes were handed by designated members to the beneficiaries. We had a panel of the underprivileged women and girls who shared their pathetic journey through life suffering, especially the story of Etangi Mirabelle and how it looks like to be relieved of such suffering. This left the participants with a soul searching mindset. Our event was a huge success, not only was everyone pleasantly surprised at such philanthropic gestures from the CIDev members, which sparked curiosity and interest for such a wonderful humanitarian services rendered to the underprivileged women and girls.
VII: OUTCOMES
Etangi Mirabel who was empowered with just a bucket of egusi is now able to buy egusi in bags, interest raised from the money helped her to support for the buying of a zinc for their uncompleted house. Kah loveline had some difficulties with insecurity but is able to have a sale of 6000 FRS per day and a weekly sale of 25000 FRS. Vanessa in her hurkebury business could make a profit of 2000/3000 FRS upon her daily sales. Delphine was unable to do business due to her tight schedules and resolved to open her account with the money. Isabelle used part of the money for her child’s surgery though she was considered by CIDev as apparently lazy. So for the first outcome, CIDev had a success rate of 60%
VIII: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
VIII.1: CONCLUSION
CIDev will continue to help the underprivileged girls and women in their community and disseminate the strategies that will be arising from the follow up reports. In the next outreach CIDev will increase the number of beneficiaries and results from the follow-up will provide valuable content for the next activity. Project manager congratulated and appreciated the group for a job well done especially on the transparency of the selection procedure.
VIII.2: RECOMMENDATIONS
- Continue to support outreach initiatives
- Adopt community outreach as a programmatic value
- Teach beneficiaries how to fish and not to fish for them
- Regularly visiting and Close follow up of the beneficiaries using the evaluation forms from the association after every 3 months.
