Few weeks ahead of school resumption, Grace Charitable and Rehabilitation organization GRACARO Thursday August 18 at Hot Spot Bamenda, donated more than three hundred school backs and thousands of exercise book to students and pupils to assist them in the 2022/2023 school year.
Following the influx on internally displaced persons into Bamenda due to the ongoing Anglophone crisis, and the inability of most of parents to meet up with the school demands of their children, the provision of didactic material to learners was a well thought-out initiative appreciated by parents and the students who turned out in numbers to receive the items.
Corded Rev Chaibi Martin Sam
The beneficiaries craved for more of such gestures to enable to the less privilege go back to school.
The turn out, according to the organizers exceeded the estimated the number,an indication that people are in appalled need of material assistance to enable them educate their children. The coordinator of the NGO was visibly touched by the desperation of the parents and learners, on this note, he promised to continue to stretch out to the more vulnerable and needy children where ever possible to continue to reach out to the less privilege whom he says are very desperate and despaired with life.
He promised to expand his scope to be able to assist many children. ‘ I would have loved to go as far as granting scholarship to female students especially the IDPs and the Mbororoes to spur them go beyond Primary education to reduce the dehumanizing attitude of always forcing their female children into early marriages. Such abuses of the children’s rights to education and gender imbalance can only be overturned if social structures invest more in the girl child especially the Mbororoes . Through education, we will be able to annihilate the repugnant cultural heritage responsible for the social and economic stagnation of some African communities.
Zenab Mohamadou form three female student of Muslim extraction hailed the NGO for the initiative while advocating for scholarships grant to female mbororo to spur them go beyond secondary education.
The CEO of the NGO Rev Chaibi Martin Sam was optimistic that that God will sure him the way to be able to reach out to many needy communities, students and pupils in the years ahead.
CRACARO saw the light of day in 2018 and has since then assisted many communities within the northwest Region.
