YEESJA UPLIFT FOR BAMENDA CAMEROON helping the poor and IDPs @yeesja

A. PROJECT RATIONALE AND APPROACH
1.1. Project Summary
YEESJA Uplift is a 12 Months (for IDPs and poor children) and 3 months (for fresh Accounting Graduates) intensive Enterprise Development program and Peer to Peer Mentorship Training designed to harness opportunities and insights that will help inspire 70 poor children, Startups and Existing Businesses in Bamenda Cameroon and position them on the growth trajectory.

The Uplift is scheduled for January, 2021 – 30th December, 2021 involving 70 participants , 7 Facilitators, 7 Moderators, and 14 Mentors and will run on the following Tracks such as Vocational trainings, Self Leadership, Information Technology, Entrepreneurship, Funding and Financial Management

The world will only be a better place, the moment we genuinely take action towards the social problems affecting our communities. We are today's witnesses to the socio-political crisis that has greatly affected our community leaving a very negative impact in the lives of our children and our people at large. Uncountable deaths, thousands displaced, educational activities halted, socio-cultural and economic activities collapsing, thereby leading to an increase in crime wave and drug abuse, teenage pregnancies, prostitution and all sorts of juvenile delinquent activities. Life has become unimaginably hard for our community and action needs to be taken to save our children.
The number of poor and internally displaced children in our community who can’t afford conventional education or vocational training is rapidly increasing and if urgent action is not taken, we risk creating an illiteracy gap which can further jeopardize the future of our community.
As such We already launched a 1-year program and identified 70 poor and internally displaced children for the year 2021. We have registered them under diverse training of their choices in different workshops around the city of Bamenda. Attached is the list of the children who have been registered by our program indicating their trainings of their choices.
We look forward to paying for their 01-year training and empowerment, as well as providing them with seed capital and resources to start up their own small businesses by the end of December 2021.