New Start: inclusion through football
Context
Cameroon has been, as from 2017, weakened by the “Anglophone Crisis” in the North-western and South-western sections of the country. According to ATCT, the crisis has impacted in different ways, notably the displacement of populations from those areas to the francophone sections, yearning for peace, stability and socio-professional integration. Among these displaced, there are students in search of schooling, out-of-school youths seeking employment and teenage mothers. The groups suffering the most from the crisis are youngsters aged 15 to 35 and the young girls who are the most exposed to deviant activities.
Objectives
- Facilitate the socioeconomic integration of the Anglophone Crisis IDP youth through sport;
- Establish social links between the IDPs and the local populations;
- Promote IDPs good health and well-being;
- Sensitise people on peace and living together;
- Train some young sports educators;
- Improve the framework for the community youths’ development.
Activities
- Bi-weekly football matches;
- Training sports educators;
- “Sport 4 Peace and Socioeconomic Inclusion” tournaments;
- Refresher courses in French;
- Training on setting up and managing an income-generating activity;
- Assisting the beneficiaries in the execution of their project.
Impacts
- 300 youths shall be benefitting from the programme, including: 175 young IDP girls and 125 young IDP boys.