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Vocational Skills Development for People with Disabilities

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Organization:
Location: Local Volunteering (in person), Virtual Volunteering (from home)
Address:
P O BOX 4 FDG, JINKFUIN, Belo Sub Division, Boyo
BAMENDA, 237
Cameroon
Great For: Great for Seniors
Service Area(s): Administrative / Office Work, Business, Children and Youth Ministry, Computer Training, Directly Serving People, Disabilities Ministry, Education, Indirectly Serving People, Jobs Training and Placement, Science / Tech / Engineering / Math, Social Services, Sports and Recreation, Teaching
Skills: Administrator / Office Skills, Computer Trainer, Deaf Ministry
Hourly Commitment:
4
Commitment is per:
Day
Number of Positions:
6
Number of Volunteers in this
Position in the Past Year:
2
One-time / Ongoing Position:

Description

People with disabilities in rural Cameroon are all too often viewed as cursed. This is not acceptable. Goodness and Mercy Missions (GMM) hopes to contribute greater understanding that all people should be treated equally and afforded the same opportunities.

In addition to involving people with disabilities in our other programs, GMM would like to open a tailoring workshop. For this project to begin, GMM is in need of the following items:

1. sewing machines
2. knitting machines
3. embroidery machine

There are already some people doing hand embroidery and earning good money, so we have every reason to believe that this will be a successful program. GMM plans to also teach small business skills to this group and is considering a micro-credit scheme to help get successful business ventures off the ground.

One of the greatest difficulties we face is not only getting the equipment, but having the necessary funds to pay for shipping these items to the GMM office.

We hope that you will share your ideas for how we can best get this program off the ground. If you have experience with micro-credit, we would love to learn from your experience.

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Requirements:
have at least something to offer regarding this project.

Requirements

have at least something to offer regarding this project.

Do you require that volunteers for this position be Christian?

No

Organizational Statement of Faith:

No

Language


English

Group Minimum and Maximum


5 - 10

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