Ndom Bilingual Middle School Library Building Work

Renovation of an old administrative building to host a modern school library serving students of all the surrounding communities.

Cameroon

Sanaga Maritime

Ndom

Completed

Infrastructure, Renovation, School

About the Community

Name:

Ndom Bilingual School Middle School

Main mission:

Bilingual middle school. After graduation, students move to high school.

Areas of focus:

Generation Education

Date of creation:

September 16, 2013

Number of students:

Number of teachers:

Social composition:

Students come overwhelmingly from underserved rural areas.

Main challenges:

In general it is a challenge for most of the students to have the basic school supplies: notebooks, pen, pencils, rulers, books. The most crucial needs for a bilingual school is access to books in English, computers and the internet and a safe and clean place where students can do their homework.

Great to know:

Social Impact

Ultimately will allow about 150 students of the school and surrounding communities, to have access to books in English and French and to have an adequate environment where they can study and do homeworks.

With the completion this phase, student and teachers already have at their disposal a modern building with desks, shelves, electricity and modern restrooms.

Additional Contextual Information

This project is Phase 1 of the Ndom Bilingual Middle School multi-media library pilot program. The goal of the program is to equip the school and surrounding communities with a state of the art library with internet access and the possibility to establish partnerships with schools in the USA. The next phases are separate projects that will be carried out with partners. The pilot program includes the following phases:

Phase 1: Transformation of an old building to a modern building capable to host a state of the art multi-media school library.
Phase 2: Purchase and donation of books and training of a team of volunteers to manage the library.
Phase 3: Purchase of computers, software and internet access equipment.
Phase 4: Installation of solar panels to insure a reliable provision of electrical power to the library.
Phase 5: Parnerships with USA schools

If the pilot program is successful, it will be duplicated in other communities throughout the Grand Sanaga region of Cameroon.

Project Milestones

Milestone	Date
Preliminary exchanges with the local community	2022-03-31
Field visit	2022-05-25
Scoping completed	2023-02-26
BOD Approval	2023-05-26
Local authorities approval	2023-06-16
Work started	2023-08-25
Work completed	2023-11-30
Official delivery	2023-12-08

Our Partners

This project was carried out in collaboration with the partners listed below. By working together, we accomplish more, faster and with a greater impact.