CHILDREN’S REASSURANCE MINISTRY
GRACEPLACE  
HOPE – PEACE – SELF – RELIANCE
Association No 00685 / RDA/ J06 / BAPP. Ydé 29 Nov. 2000
Tel. (237) 223 76 52, 792 07 35

SOCIAL REINTERGRATION PROGRAMME FOR LOW INCOME AIDS ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN.

Location / venue

       Target Zones: Lassin, Nkor, Mbinon and neighboring villages.

       Sub – division: Noni Sub – division

       Division: Bui Division.

       Province: North West Province.

       Country: Cameroon.

Head quarters Yaoundé, PO. Box 5067 Nlongkak Yaoundé, Republic of  Cameroon. Tel: 23 76 52. cel. 792 07 35  
E-mail: gracelandc@yahoo.fr.  
Bank Account: SGBC. Société Général de Banques Cameroun. BP244 Yaoundé.
Account Number: 040001640001366-2

Major Articulations

The context and Justification.
The Project Description.
2.1 The problems to be addressed
2.2 The Proposed Solutions
2.3 The General Objective.
2.4 The Specific Objectives
2.5 The Expected Results / Benchmarks / Outcome Indicators / Effects / Impact.
2.6 The Projected Activities.
2.7 The Target Zones.
3. The Methodology.
4. The Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Plan.
5. The Chronogram.
6. The Sustainability Plan.
7. The Budget.
8. Technical and administrative documents attached.

 1. The Context and Justification

Lassin and neighbouring villages are 44km from Kumbo which is the Divisional headquarters of Bui Division in the North West Province of Cameroon. Lassin, Nkor, and Mbinon make up an indigenous population of about 30, 000 inhabitants, most of whom are youths and few thousands of aging persons.

It is worth noting that Lassin is a road junction, with the following roads converging to it – Kumbo road, Ndu, Nkambe, Djottin road and even neighbouring Nigeria. By virtue of the rich luxuriant watershed sahelian vegetation, coupled with the fact of animal husbandry being extensively carried out, has prompted Lassin to be the “bread basket” of three neighboring Divisions such as Donga and Matung Division, Bui Division and Boyo Division, thereby making it quasi – cosmopolitan during market days.
In effect, during market days, Lassin harbors a population of more than 9, 000 persons and as a consequence some of the drivers, traders and young girls / women indulge in unprotected sexual activities thereby propagating the HIV/AIDS pandemic across this community. Nowadays in Lassin, through the intervention of the Health Department of the Cameroon Baptist Convention and under the supervision of Banso Baptist Hospital (BBH), many youths have been diagnosed positive with HIV and because of poverty and cultural rejection, most of the young HIV / AIDS patients die young and live behind very young children (orphans).
Furthermore, in this Lassin – Noni Sub – Division as a whole, agriculture is the major activity on their farms, thereby escalating not just the HIV / AIDS pandemic, but also unwanted pregnancies and in due course these girls end up as vulnerable children incapable of caring for their infected parents and themselves. Worst still, according to Noni culture, early customary marriages are common and as a consequence, the birth rate is very high alongside a relatively high HIV/AIDS prevalent rate of about 4 cases out of 20 persons in  this region.
More so, from inferential analysis, we can deduce that 2 out of 5 children are orphans in Lassin and neighbouring villages hence more than 1.000 AIDS orphans and vulnerable children exist in this zone alone. Besides being orphans and vulnerable, some of these children lack proper care and moral education and as a consequence, some of the teenaged Aids orphans and vulnerable children are further infected by the HIV and vicious circle continues,. How can we curb down this exponential trend of orphans and vulnerable children?

This trend can only be curbed down by implementing a social reintegration programme which takes into consideration the proper and total development of children from childhood to 18 years and also fight against opportunists social ills such as child abuse, child labour, child trafficking, child neglect, juvenile delinquency and a host of others.

2. The Project Description.

2.1 The Problems to be Addressed
The problems of school drop out rate for AIDS orphans and vulnerable children.
The problems of malnutrition and vulnerability to diseases (healthcare).
The problems of child abuse, child neglect, child labour, child trafficking, succession rights for orphans etc.
The problem of lack of self-employment life skills (income-generating skills) especially for teenaged orphans and vulnerable teens.
The problems of stigma, trauma, social reinsertion and immorality.

2.2 The Proposed Solutions.

Offer sponsorship assistance to AIDS orphans and vulnerable children.
Boost their well-being through food and healthcare assistance.
Curb-down child abuse, child neglect, child labour, child trafficking, and succession problems through sensitization and advocacy campaigns.
Offer life skills through vocational training on income generating activities hence self-employment and capability of family continuity.
Destigmatize community members (affected and infected individuals)
Offer psychosocial counseling and moral rearmament lessons to this category of children and their affected family members.
Offer social reinsertion counseling to these children.
Working in partnership with other good health centres like Cameroon Baptist Convention for support groups.

2.3 The General Objective.

Improve on the educational, socio-cultural, physical and the psycho-social development of AIDS orphans and vulnerable children.

Improve conditions of women and teenage girls in the area.

2.4 The Specific Objectives.

Increase on the number of school completion rate for orphans and vulnerable children.
Improve on their academic performance rate through coaching and sponsorship assistance.
Build a sense of self-reliance and self-confidence through life skills training hence creating self-employment options and survival
strategies for them.
Boost their physical well-being through nutritional and health assistance.
Educate them on their succession rights through their eldest brothers or sisters.
Destigmatize affected and infected persons and why not the community as a whole.
Offer confidential counseling services to infected and affected persons.
Curb-down on child abuse, child neglect, child labour, child trafficking and abuse of birth right.
Curb-down the problem of teenage pregnancy and early marriages for the girl child –through short term courses in the women/girl centre.
Offer preventive campaigns against HIV / Aids and STIs.

2.5 The Expected Results / Benchmarks / Outcome Indicators /Effects / Impact.

We intend to offer educational, health, nutritional and moral counseling to 500 AIDS orphans and vulnerable children.
Close to 1 000 family members shall indirectly benefit from this program.

We intend to acquire positive behavioural change at the end of implementing this program.
In the long-run, the overall impact of the project should improve on the well-being of these children and the community as a whole.

2.6 The Projected Activities.

Advocacy workshop.
Assistance phase.
Life skills training phase.
Sensitization campaign against child abuse, child neglect, child labour, child trafficking and birth rights maneuvers.
Social reintegration of teenaged mothers and vulnerable girls through the construction of a women/girl child centre.
Build community partnership with the Baptist health centre for health and nutritional assistance.
Monitoring and Evaluation working sessions.
Newsletter for OVC activities.Improve on the existing children’s communal farm.

2.7 The Target Zones.

Lassin, Nkor, Mbinon and neighbouring villages.

The Methodology.

A. Quantitative Method.
Questionnaires
Opinion sampling
Sexo-demographic analysis
Basic enumeration and survey
Quantitative aspects of participatory rural appraisal.

B. Qualitative Method.
Testimonies
Interviews.
Qualitative aspect of participatory rural appraisal. Focus group discussions.
Participant observation.
Provoked observation.

The Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Plan.

A. The Implementation Plan.
Create committee of implementers
Create committee of caregivers.
Create committee of health and nutritional assistance.
Implicate the local village development organizations in the implementation of this project.
Create committee of destigmatizaton.

B. Monitoring Plan.
Routine follow-up by a project coordinator and committee leaders.
Fieldworkers and counselors should follow-up children on daily basis.

C. Evaluation Plan.
Quarterly evaluation and presentation of interim progress reports.

5. The Chronogram.

M=month6. The Sustainability Plan.

Proceeds from the women/girl-child centre-rental service from the registration fees and sales from products.
Community partnership and assistance through churches, caregivers and local municipal and civil authorities.
Free – will donations.
CREAM farmland and activities will be used as a means of acquiring food.
The trainees of today shall act as the volunteers of tomorrow thereby producing multiplier effects in this community.

 7. The Budget.

8. Women/Girl Child Centre in Lassin

 Estimate Materials Require For The Project

Total Project Cost:                                        51, 075, 525CFAF

Donor’s Contribution:                                  45, 313, 025CFAF

Community and CREAM’s Contribution:  5, 762, 500CFAF

CHILDREN’S REASSURANCE MINISTRY
GRACEPLACE  
HOPE – PEACE – SELF – RELIANCE
Association No 00685 / RDA/ J06 / BAPP. Ydé 29 Nov. 2000
Tel. (237) 223 76 52, 792 07 35

Date:

From: The President of Children’s Reassurance Ministry - CREAM

To: Sponsor, Donor __________________________________________________

Dear Sir, Madame,

 We have the honour most respectful to request for funding from your organisation. The Children’s Reassurance Ministry, CREAM is a Non-Profit, Non Governmental, and Non Denominational Association mainly fighting against poverty especially amongst children in Cameroon. It does this by providing self reliant skills there by reducing juvenile criminality, delinquency and improving their standard of living.

At the moment, CREAM is constructing a vocational training and retreat centre with a healthcare unit. We are 55% through with this project in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon
Concurrently, CREAM is carrying on more crucial projects in our rural areas which are enclaved, owing to bad roads.

Because of this urgent need, I am also presenting to you this social reintegrated programme for low income, AIDS patients, orphans, and vulnerable children. These programmes are divided into sub heads to facilitate our sponsors and donors to choose what they will like to help us with.
We shall be grateful if you become part of our local network supporters. Thank you in anticipation.

Yours Sincerely,

Justice Grace Mabu.

President.

Head quarters Yaoundé, PO. Box 5067 Nlongkak Yaoundé, Republic of  Cameroon. Tel: 23 76 52. cel. 792 07 35  
E-mail: gracelandc@yahoo.fr.  
Bank Account: SGBC. Société Général de Banques Cameroun. BP244 Yaoundé.
Account Number: 040001640001366-2