Lessons from the Second Annual Hope Bursaries
A Noteworthy quote by Mother Teresa goes “Don’t worry about the numbers, help one person at a time and always begin with the person near you”. This quote is reflected in the establishment of Better Breed Cameroon’s annual “Hope Bursaries”. The bursaries were launched last year and begun with covering the cost of tuition for […]
Re-Introducing Better Breed Cameroon
Here’s a brief presentation on Better Breed Cameroon. You are cordially invited to join the movement… Be the change you want to see, breed the change we need to see for a Better tomorrow Introducing Better Breed Cameroon
What Next?
Note: This month’s blogpost is an excerpt from Better Breed’s “What Next?” Publication. It is dedicated to all those students who just completed the A’ Levels and are looking forward to grander things. Please share to someone you know…. Does school ever end? Well, yes it does, but learning shouldn’t. You did know that […]
The Country with no National Day
Most National Days originate from the country’s Independence Day; America’s 4th July, Ghana’s sixth of March, Namibia’s 21st of March and so on. In Cameroon, this is not the case. We rather celebrate a “National Unity Day”. The question on everyone lips, however is “Are we really united?” So let’s take a look at […]
10 Books by Cameroonians which Every Cameroonian should know/read
Here at Better Breed we aim to encourage and inspire Cameroonian youth to believe in their worth and ability to achieve. What better way to do so than give recognition to those who have achieved and are achieving. Tomorrow is World Book and Copyright Day, so we thought to have our very first Top […]
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 […]
