Honorary Board Archives | Imagining Tomorrow

(1960 – 2021) Founder, Good Shepherd Academy, Bafut Founder, Good Shepherd Academy Association, Bamenda Founder, Good Shepherd Home for Children, Bamenda & Batibo Founder, Benedictine Sisters of Bethany, Bamenda Sister Jane Mankaa grew up in Bafut, Cameroon the eldest of eight children. While her story is similar to other women growing up in poverty in…

Founder & Vice-Chair Emeritus Senior Partner, Heidrick & Struggles, (ret.) Brenda Ruello was an executive search recruiter with Heidrick and Struggles, a prominent international firm specializing in senior management searches. As the first woman partner, she was elected to the Board of Directors, served on the Compensation Committee and was Co-Manager of the New York…

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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