Sep 1, 2006

New Volunteer Opportunities in Cameroon

Dear All,
We write to introduce our organisation and our activities to your high office. The Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child (CAPEC) is a non-governmental organisation that has been operating since 2002 with Reg No:G39/014/5/ 252.The objectives of CAPEC is to promote the rights of the child. We equally work to identify the needs of youths, especially the rural youths and the underprivileged. We organise youth leadership training, youth cultural exchange programmes, volunteer programmes, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Elimination of Child Labour, Child sponsoring and community Development

We would be grateful if we could collaborate and work as partners in some of our programme
-Youth Cultural Exchange and Volunteering
-Youth Leadership training/workshop/ seminars

We equally do volunteer placements in different organisations in Cameroon. So far, we have received some volunteers.
Dana .M. Shepard from Dickinson University USA (dana.shepard@ gmail.com)
Mac McCauley from Loughborough Centre UK (mac_mccauley@ excite.com)
Domien Van Gool from Belgium (As a resource person during a Youth Leadership Forum organised by CAPEC)
We are equally working with Youth Action for Peace International Germany (Frank Schroeder) frank_traveller@ web.de.
More information on our website www.capecam. org or Google search (Cameroon Association for Protection and Education of the Child (CAPEC) to be more specific
We are a verified volunteer organisation with GOABROAD.

Available volunteer positions are:
-Teaching Program
-Cameroon Community Development
-HIV/AIDS Program
-Medical/Health Program
-Children orphanage Program
-Reproductive Health
-Human Rights
-ICT
-Sustainable Livelihood


Some of our activities have been funded by:
-British Council Cameroon (Cameroon Youth Leadership Forum 7th -9th Feb 2006)
-NEPAD Outreach Fund II-Canadian Fund for Africa Secretariat (CIDA)
-US Embassy Cameroon (Elimination of child Labour)
-MTN Cameroon
-International Labour Organisation
-Book Aids International
-Tallberg Foundation Sweden (Tallberg Forum)
-Ministry of Youth Affairs
-Les Hayman and Victoria of France (Child Sponsoring)
-Nestle Cameroon

While waiting to read from you, accept greetings from CAPEC Team

Kind Regards,

Ngwese Musembe EDIE
Programmes Coordinator- CAPEC
BP 20646 Yaounde,Cameroon
Tel.237732 94 19/ 775 16 06
Fax 237 2209003
Email: capecam20@yahoo. com
info@capecam. org
Website: www.capecam. org

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