School Reopening : Empowering Underprivileged Kids With Skills

Underprivileged children have learned to paint, draw, perform drama, encouraged to love education and counselled in the way of life as a part of preparation to strengthen their performance in the course of the on-going 2022-2023 school year. The purpose is to help in the education, training of different underprivileged children to help them gain skills that will be profitable to them as they grow up and improve performance in their normal school course work.
The training was the first in a series of regular training that will be held every Saturday throughout the school year by the non-profit association Jeunesse en joie in collaboration with facilitators who are experts in the different domains of training. The training of Saturday, September 10, 2022, brought together underprivileged children (including autism and disabled children, among others) of ages 5 to 17 years at the Bassa Multipurpose Reference Center of the Ministry of Youth and Civic Education at Cite Sic in Douala.
The children showed immense interest in the activities and excitement. They were eager to learn new talents in art, activity-based learning, and field games. Julie Mbarga, President of Jeunesse en joie, highlighted that the programme will go on throughout the school year particularly on Saturdays. Sessions will be held with such children and once in three months an educative talk will be held with parents living with the children.
"Every year, we notice with helplessness that t...