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Month: January 2015

A Different “New” Year

January 2, 2015

Happy New Year! This familiar phrase means different things to different people. It might mean, “Let’s celebrate the coming of a clean slate, a new year on which to write the story of our lives!” Or if that’s too heavy for you, perhaps it means, “Let’s recover from last night’s party and get ready to…

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle

If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito. – African Proverb

The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world. – Malala Yousafzai

Secondary school in Cameroon is not mandatory resulting in a large gap between school capacity and the number of potential students. You can help change that!

EDUCATION yields a larger impact than ANY other form of help or aid we can give to improving health, raising income, promoting gender equality, and reducing overall poverty.

For every year a child goes to school, HIV rates decrease, income potential and employment rates increase, girls marry later, early pregnancies decrease, and health is elevated for the entire family.

In Cameroon there is only one teacher for every 45.6 primary school students. In SECONDARY SCHOOL the number increases to nearly 100 STUDENTS PER TEACHER.

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A Different “New” Year

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