This project is aimed at providing a palm kernel processing machine to a 24-year-old internally displaced woman who had drop out from school and lost her source of income to fire as a result of the ongoing anglophone crisis. It will also increase her income, living standards and enable her to send her 02 children to school. Stephanie will employ 08 other youths to work with her in the processing unit from the bush and move them out of extreme poverty and recruitment by non-state armed group
24 years old Stephanie fled from Mamfe in 2018 after her school got burnt down and she lost her source of income to fire. Increased vulnerabilities led her into cross generational dating which resulted to her having 2 kids. None of them are able to go to school and she receives no support from their father. She provides unskilled labour to an oil mill and earns $20 monthly due to frequent lockdowns. She needs a steady source of income to educate her children and take care of their needs.
This micro project will provide Stephanie a palm oil processing machine to start up her own mill. It will also increase her income, living standards and enable her to send her children to school. She will also be able to leave lipenja bush where she currently resides and pay a room for herself in Lipenja town. As multiplier effect, Stephanie will employ 08 other youths to work with her from the bush and move them out of extreme poverty and recruitment into non-state armed groups.
Stephanie's stable source of income will improve her living standards and her 02 kids will have access to education, reducing juvenile delinquency. Lipenja community with a population of about 1000 will have access to an oil mill which will reduce post-harvest losses of palms, increase palm oil production and provide employment to 08 youths in the community besides Stephanie. It will also reduce teenage pregnancy, HIV in young girls and reduce recruitment of young boys by non-state actors.
