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Month: October 2020

A Green Light for Good Shepherd Academy

October 27, 2020

The day has dawned! The day is here! We have been given the Green Light to re-open Good Shepherd Academy in Bafut, Cameroon! On September 24th, “A Communique for Back to School 2020/2021” was circulated in Cameroon stating, “If our children do not go to school, they will not know how to read and write…

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 Green Light for Good Shepherd Academy

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