EDUCATION AND TRAINING
GOAL NUMBER 4:QUALITY EDUCATION
According to the 2030 UN sustainable development goal number 4, quality education should be given to children in order to promote sustainable development. To achieve this goal, help for orphans in cameroon carry out mobile education programs to meet the needs of children in remote villages. This education programs constitute classroom programs, after school group learning programs, individualized education plan for children with learning disabilities.
Primary School Education
Our education programs empower children in 15 hard to reach villages in the south west regions like Ekata, Bafia, Missellele, mudeka, and musaka. To improve learning and active participation of children in classrooms, we provide school supplies to community schools. We also support community schools with furniture to accommodate more orphaned children in classrooms.
Education for Delinquent Juveniles at Rehabilitation Centers
Our education programs extend to orphaned children in detention centers for rehabilitation. We empower them through life skills training and other occupational therapy programs like decoration, screen printing, culinary arts, painting, technical drawing, architecture, building and carpentry.
Entrepreneurship
In order to empower orphaned children for sustainable development entrepreneurship is at the core. To enable vulnerable children, build new ideas that will transform the world, we educate them on creative thinking and business management. In this light, they are taught the use of innovation in our contemporary society. Hard skills like fashion and design, interior decoration, architectural design, technical drawing and painting are taught as well as soft skills like leadership and team building, Communication, Analytical skills, problem solving skills and Critical thinking. In the end of training, they are given 100 USD each to state a small business.
Types of learning disabilities identified
Our cognitive development programs provide an intensive approach in helping children minimize their knowledge gaps and build stronger fundamental skills through fun activities and practice. We identify the following disorders:
Dyslexia- A reading disability
Dyscalculia: problems with arithmetic and math
Dysgraphia: a writing disorder leading to illegibility
Aphasia/dysphasia: difficulty in understanding spoken language, poor reading comprehension
Visual processing disorder: difficulty interpreting visual information, problems with reading math, maps, charts, symbols and pictures.
Audio processing disorder: difficulty hearing differences in sounds
Cognitive development
Children facing difficulty in learning would encounter issues involving behavior, attitude, memory and information processing. To distinguish gifted children and those with learning disabilities, we carry out psychological assessment using major psychometric tools like the Stanford binet test 5th edition and the Wechsler intelligent scale for children to determine their capabilities and to design an individualized education plan.
