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Month: November 2024

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November 19, 2024

Good Shepherd Academy celebrated its 8th Anniversary this month. Parents and loved ones visited campus, where student performances and demonstrations of academic progress delighted them. Seeing their families for the first time since August brought squeals of excitement and happy tears. Children of the Good Shepherd Home loved their visits by Sister Mary Lawrence and sisters…

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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Month: November 2024

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