International Women’s Day- Making it Happen
This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Making it Happen”. In Cameroon as usual the theme offered by the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Family is different: Assessing the Implementation of the Beijing Platform 20 years later. Better Breed is questioning this theme. We would like to know just what the average Cameroonian knows about the Beijing […]
On African Philanthropy
Not so long ago, a friend and I were talking and the topic of African philanthropy comes up. She argued that Africans, Cameroonians in particular, don’t give like Westerners do. For one, you don’t see them supporting each other causes from donating to funds for a cancer patient they know or even buying tickets to […]
A Better Breed Resolution
Happy New Year to all of you reading this!! Hope the year has begun on a positive note for each of you… and if it hasn’t; each new day is hope for a new start, change things, you are not a tree! Speaking of change, you know our Cameroonian saying: “New year, new fashion? What new […]
Our Year in Review
When Better Breed Cameroon was being set up two years ago this week, it was a dream. A fragment of a dream, held together with equal measures of hope and the readiness to be disappointed. But two years later our disappointments are yet to outweigh our capacity to hope. And that is what keeps us […]
The Magic to Getting a Scholarship
A few months back the coordinator of Better Breed Cameroon was awarded a Chevening Scholarship to study in the UK for a Masters degree in Education, Gender and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London. Since then she has been receiving a lot of inquires as to how she got it. The […]
Rearing A Better Breed: The Teacher’s Role
As the world prepares to pay tribute to the unsung heroes and heroines that have had so much of an impact in the lives of everybody living on earth today come October 5th 2014, many of us sit and reminisce about our school days. We had favorite subjects, teachers and even favorite hang outs around […]
Rentree Scolaire/Back To School: Just What Are You Doing To Rare A Better Breed?
It’s that time of year again. After roughly three months of long holidays with kids home from school, parents are anxious both positively (Yay! They’ll be out of my hair now) and negatively (Weh! How will I make it to payday after this rentree scolaire) as the kids return to school. Given that very few […]
I Think My Friend/Family Member is Depressed. What Do I Do?
One of the biggest (if not the biggest) challenge faced by people living with depression in a country like Cameroon, is the fact that aside from the condition barely being recognized for what it is – a mental illness, there is a profound dearth of professionals skilled in recognizing and treating the condition. This often […]
A Better Approach… Volunteer
If you are a typical Cameroonian youth, this is the run down on your life. You are born; you go to nursery school, primary school, secondary school, high-school, university and then after graduating with all these certificates. You join the thousands out there looking for a job. They tell you: Welcome to Shomencam– the fictitious […]
In the Beginning…
Better Breed Cameroon is over a year old now with several minor youth projects to its repertoire. But in the beginning, all there was to it was a young lady with a dream, a mentor who pushed her and a cash award which made the dream all the more possible. Have you ever […]