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Dear mates,

as yet another year draws to a close I want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your commitment to the Akumalam Project. We would like to look forward, to see what we still need to accomplish for the upcoming projects.

While your ideas are always appreciated, your contributions to this project are more than appreciated. With your help to this organization, we have been able to fulfill some of our projects in 2010.  But perhaps even more important, you all continue to make someone happy in Akumalam and the neighboring areas!

We do not need to mention our routine tasks; school fees, uniforms and an extra teacher’s salary, …. that you all continue to support them in 2010. However, none of our group members or friends were able to travel to Akumalam to realize some of our initiatives. The reason is simple: we are working hard to execute one of our major task in 2011 – THE AKUMALAM SCHOOL LEARNING CENTRE. Our target has always been to motivate and support education. With this project, we continue to drive our strengths to improve the education level around this area. With your help, we can make it.

In 2010, some items (books bought with your donations from OXFAM and also donated equipments) have been transported to Akumalam and the construction of the ASLC building kicked off.

Thanks so far to all the donors and the crew working on this project. We still need books (see report) for this ASLC, and also financial support for the cupboards and shelves for the execution of this project by March 2011.

The inauguration of this centre is due April 2011, Kai and I will be in Akumalam in April to finalize this project.

May GOD continue to bless us, and guide us through 2011. I wish you all the best of health

thank you,

Anye C.

Construction – Akumalam school learning centre

An existing building will be transformed and erected beside the Church building.

Construction of building should be finished be April. 1. 2011

Building will consist of 3 Rooms, the library, Study room and office

Timeline

Dec. 2011 Level one Construction kick off

Feb. 2011 Level two Final construction

March 2011 Level three Shelves and cupboards construction

April 2011 Level four Books and other Service installed

At the Akumalam Village School, basic hygiene is not an important issue. However, the hygiene of the pupils should not be neglected despite the other problems faced by the Akumalam village school. Continue Reading »

December 2009: during this christmas season we received 40 soccer balls from TFI (Talentschmiede Fußball International), Babenhausen, Germany. The donations of the molten brand balls were handed over by the CEO Andreas Humbert to the Dorfschulprojekt coordinators. These items will be donated to the Akumalam school and other village schools upon our visit in April 2010. Dorfschulproject will continue to improve sports infrastructure for village schools as another method to motivate kids to study. Dorfschulprojekt would like to thank the TFI team. For more information, please do not hesistate to contact us.

The teachers at Akumalam last received their salary in July 2009. The main reason is because of outstanding school fees from the pupils. Thus, all the fees we pay are used 100 % for the teacher’s salary. Normally, the regional education board decides the division of the total fees collected for other expenses. We have been able to communicate the need for the teachers salary (between 20 – 28,-€ /Month), and the fees will be henceforth be used only for Akumalam teachers.
This school year 37 pupils received their school fees from Dorfschulprojekt, 7.000 FCFA (11,- €) per academic year and 1 teacher’s salary, the total sum of 610 Euro will be allocated for this project. Here follows the list of the selected kids. It also gives you the reason why we chose to support them, and you will understand that helping them is the right thing to do. On behalf of the school, the pupils and Akumalam a big Thanks goes to all who support this project! Continue Reading »

After the successful Friendship cup 2008, co-organised by Steffgen Umzüge & Lagerung Enterprise (Trier, Germany) and the donation of soccer kits for pupils in Akumalam, they have found their heart for enthusiastic children in Akumalam.

“After seeing the pictures of the pupils rejoicing with the soccer shoes at the friendship cup, we kept our eyes wide open for further possibilities to support this great project. Our Enterprise is not financially doing well, so we are not able to donate cash, however we transport items around Germany for diverse customers. During the closure of a medical practice, Our Company Steffgen Umzüge & Lagerung rapidly stood up, to get the items, which can now be donated.” (cit. Steffgen Umzüge & Lagerung)

Village School Project directs the donation…

The Medical equipments obtained by the company will be donated to the Bamenda General Hospital, located 20 km from Akumalam. These equipments are seriously needed in the Bamenda hospital and they are presently stored in the company’s warehouse.

Meanwhile, the Akumalam project has already contacted the director of the hospital about the donation of these items and they are delighted to receive them. The Akumalam project wants to take care of the transportation expenses from Germany to Cameroon. We therefore request for donors to assist this project to transport these items to Bamenda.

Equipments to be sent via AirCargo:

• Ultrasonic with two heads and monitor
• Electrocardiogram ECG with monitor
• Rollcar/Trolley for the ECG
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) equipment
• Sterilization oven
• Incubator chamber
• Blood pressure measuring equipment