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Activity Report for the Month of May 2021

For our May 2021 report, we are pleased to share with you the incredible success stories of two of our beneficiaries from the Hope Alive Foundation (HAFA) Charity School Project: Laye and Favour. We also share the report from Mah Di’s Christian Bilingual Nursery and Primary School (CBNPS).

1. Success Stories of Two Pupils from HAFA Charity School Project

Laye is a 6 years old internally displaced child who hails from Bom Village in the North West region. Like many internally displaced persons, Laye’s parents were forced to relocate to Tiko in the South West Region after their house got burnt down due to the Anglophone Crisis. Due to the crisis, Laye had not gone to school for the past three years. During the identification of orphans and vulnerable children for the Hope Alive Foundation (HAFA) Charity School Project, HAFA identified Laye and his brothers and they got admitted at HAFA Charity school for the 2020/2021 Academy year. Laye was admitted into nursery one. At the beginning of the school year, he could not speak in the English Language as he could only speak his mother tongue and pidgin English. He could not also write and always got laughed at by other children. Today, we are pleased at how much progress Laye had made as he can now write and speak in the English Language. This is thanks to the continuous follow-up of his class teacher and the entire staff of HAFA.

Like Laye, Nan Favour is a-10 years old IDP from Bamessing in the North West Region who got relocated with his parents to Tiko. Due to the crisis, she too had not gone to school for the past four years. Favour demonstrated great interest in school though her parents could not afford to pay her school fees. So HAFA identified her as a vulnerable child and got her registered at the HAFA Charity School in February 2021. Because she could neither write nor speak the English Language, Favour was registered under junior primary in class four. Favour’s story is one of resilience and passion as she showed strong interest in her books and is today capable of writing and speaking the English language just after a few months in school. Though she still faces challenges in acquiring her school needs such as uniforms and textbooks, she remains committed and her case inspires hope for other children. In addition to Laye and Favour’s stories, we are proud to let you know HAFA registered 17 children for the Government Common Entrance Examination into Form One and the school had 100% with all the children passing in List A. The third best pupil for Tiko Sub Division came from HAFA.

1. Mah Di’s Christian Bilingual Nursery and Primary School (CBNPS)
   Pong Pong Quarter – Kumba III

Activity Report for The Month of May 2021

MAH DI’S CBNPS has an enrollment of 155 pupils made up of a total of 99 boys and 56 girls. These are mostly distressed children from the Orphanage and others from our community.

Below are some of the activities that took place for the period ending 31^st May 2021.

1. COMMON ENTRANCE EXAMINATION:
The pupils of class six wrote their common entrance exams on the 18^th and 19^th of May. 16 pupils wrote and 15 passed in list A and 1in list B. The school had a 100% pass rate.

2. HOME ECONOMICS (Practicals):
The class six pupils did their practicals in the school where they prepared different types of dishes such as: rice and beans, rice and stew, cake baking, porished plantain, hot pot Irish, and Ekwang.

3. SPORTS:
The pupils carried out their normal sports activity

4. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION:
One of the instructor’s children had his birthday on the 24^th of May 2021 and decided to celebrate with the classmates in school.

5. STAFFS:
The school has 10 members of staff; 8 females and 2 males

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                                                   Activity Report for the Education Project

                                                    For the Period 01^st – 28^th February 2021

This report is written by the proprietor of Hope Alive Foundation Academy Mr. Noble Amik.

The month of February was challenging but encouraging as we learned new strategies to keep our charity school project alive. Just like the last part of January that was characterized by lockdown due to the advent of the African Nation Championship, the month of February started slowly with a poor turnout of school children, as most of them were kept home by their parents for security reasons. In a bid to communicate their agenda to the international community, the non-state arm group in the ongoing Anglophone crisis in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon declared ghost town on days matches of African Nation Championship were played in Limbe. This made parents to keep their children at home for fear of the unknown.

Limited classroom space is becoming one of the school’s challenges given the growing number of children, especially coming from war zones in the North West Region. We received in the month of February 6 children displaced from Bui Division who are now schooling with us. Three out of the six children are in senior primary classes; 5 and 6, while 2 are in the junior primary; class one and nursery.  None of these displaced children are paying fees. This is because, apart from being a charity academy, they don’t have the financial means for that.

Away from the above-cited challenges, we were able to record some successes in the month of February. Three of our six teachers benefited from an in-house training pedagogy program for Nursery and primary schools in Cameroon with the help of a pedagogy expert from the Tiko Sub-Divisional Delegation of Basic Education. We also took part in a mini-cultural and sporting activity for primary schools in the Mongo zone of Tiko. Before the end of the month of February, we were able to remobilize parents who are still keeping their children at home due to the effects of the lockdown to send them back to school. Attendance in the month of February increased to 173 pupils from nursery to primary six, an indication that we need additional classroom space to conveniently host the growing number of children, and equally increase the number of teachers from six to eight. This will help us to have a teacher per class from nursery to primary six.

With help from you donors, through Reach Out, our charity school project will go a long way to impact the lives of needy community children in the Anglophone regions; it will shape their destinies for a better future.

We are grateful for the financial support Reach Out NGO has been giving to us from your donations to take care of two teachers. Attached to this report are pictures of the students and teachers depicting the smooth functioning of the establishment.

Sincerely,

Noble Amik

Proprietor,

Hope Alive Foundation Academy.