Report on workshop for “Catering Entrepreneurial Skills for Girls and Young Women”
Funded by: Humanist Global Charity (HGC)
Implementing partner: ESARDEF
Number of current project beneficiaries: 15 girls and young women
Duration: 3 months (July – September, 2020)
Short Project Description - 15 girls and young women with a local traditional pot-oven method, learned to bake cakes and other pastries to create jobs for themselves, and other close relatives of theirs in the town of Limbe, Western Cameroon.
These skills will allow them to equally earn income to support themselves, educates their kids and other family members, or even further their education for those who are school dropouts, all in a means to give them a more dignified adulthood.
In addition, during the process (that’s if possible via a workshop (s)), they were taught project management, leadership skills, and Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) which will build their confidence and self-worth.
For the past three months (July – September, 2020), the trainees engaged in intensive and pragmatic pastry trainings on pancakes, chin-chin, fish and meat pies, puff rolls, peanuts and hamburger, bread, dough nuts, salads varieties, coconut sweets, cakes; - banana, and milk cakes, and other lucrative dishes like fried rice were taught inclusively to the girls and young women. The 15 trainees all graduated and were issued end of course certification. The end of course take home words were; ‘‘to create jobs for themselves as well as others so as to boost employability for better livelihoods and gender equality’’.
No major challenge was faced so far except of the numerous persons who showed up but were rejected due to limited space for training, and other limited resources. Thank you again for such empowerment thru our organization.
HGC Sponsors Pastry Workshop for At-Risk Girls in Cameroon
In July, 2020, HGC sponsored a French Pastry workshop for at-risk girls in Cameroon, through a local nonprofit called ESARDEF. Below is the Thank You letter we received:
Dear HGC,
Thank you so much for sponsoring our pastry project in Cameroon. Indeed, it is one of the best decision made so far in empowering these girls and young women to be independent especially thru self income generating means as such.
We at ESARDEF remain grateful
Etang S M Mbeng, M.Ed. / Founder / Executive Director / ESARDEF (Education for Sustainable and Rural Development Foundation) / Reg. No. 105/G.37/D14/VOL I/SAAJP
