betterworld says....
I am a social entrepreneur in Cameroon. I have just hit this very useful web site and wondering how the KnowHow team can link non profits in Africa with less connectivity for more visibility and effectiveness in learning how to participate in global issues!
ICT seems to have left non profits in this part of the world on the sideline. For example Better World Cameroon is a grassroots NGO has been struggling to build an international network for youth people for ecological agriculture. Can any Team member be of help!
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While BetterWorld Cameroon (BWC) is extending a hand to Knowhow Nonprofit, Cameroon is getting to boiling point due to high food prices youth unemployment and the financial crisis.
There's been no war in Cameroon since independence, that's why it's been described as an island of peace in turbulent sud saharan Africa.
The absence of war would have meant an environment for growth and development, but due to the system of government and mismanagement of the county's natural resources, poverty in cameroon is worse than in countries at war.
This to my own understanding is because any sustainable development needs a certain level of social justice an devlopment education. BWC is fighting to make the voice of young people heard, because they represent the future, but are denied their basic human rights.
Would anyone like to be involved in our Link Up Africa through Knowhow to empower young people to be able to share understanding an contribute their indigenous knowlege to global environmental issues? www.betterworld-cameroon.com
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I think there is likely to be a variety of organisations that can help. I for instance work for Green-Works, a charity and social enterprise who divert office an school furniture from landfill - one of the schemes we run is donating furniture to the developing world. We have provided furniture from NGO's, schools, orphanges, hospitals, libraries and ITC facitilies across Africa and Aisa; Sierra Leone is currently a big focus for us, we are working with CODEP on a project called the Big read - providing a library in every school with a minimum of 2 books per pupil.
If it is ITC you are particulary interested in generating help for, we work with an organisation called Digital links - they provided the computers and we provided the furniture. But i think there are quite a lot of organisations out there doing this...we find the hardes bit is getting the funding fo the shipments.
We have some information on our site about our overseas work - check it out http://www.green-works.co.uk/pages/aroundtheworld.aspThis comment was last edited on Feb 12, 2010
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If you want IT equipment, talk to Computeraid. They have a successful programme in Kenya and other African countries.
IT resources can be harnessed to train youth into skills through CBT based programs even accounting, agriculture etc.
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