For this year’s Day of Interfaith Youth Service, World Faith teamed up with local students to volunteer with Harlem Grown. If you’re in NY, volunteer hours are every Saturday until June, 10-4– swing by and get your hands dirty doing something fun!
(You don’t actually have to get your hands dirty- there are gloves.)
For a regional celebration, WF Burkina Faso served 1060 people. Potato-laden pictures below:
While it’s always work to get funding, WF Gambia’s Mango Tree Nursery School is still going strong!
In February, WF Cameroon worked on educating local youth about entrepreneurship. 75 people learned how to come up with a business plan and proposal, about sources of raising capital, and things to consider when deciding where to locate a business. Many of them are now aware of available sources of government funding to support them, like the National Employment Fund and Ministry of Youth Affairs. The event also raised awareness on the importance of youth participation in the fight against unemployment.
Members of WF Burkina Faso joined local Christians as they walked from Yagma village to Ouagadougou, a 20 km journey.
This month, WF Cameroon helped to clean an orphanage. The main projects were clearing the overgrown grass surrounding the orphanage, scrubbing and disinfecting the toilet, washing the childrens’ dresses, and disinfecting the orphanage with better cleaning chemicals than the orphanage had at hand.
Here are our volunteers hard at work and play with the children of the orphanage:
This February, in the Ngando Slums in Nairobi, CEPACET, our World Faith chapter in Kenya, worked to establish a school. They started with giving the site a face lift, painting it, adding new flooring, furniture, and a kitchen with energy-saving boilers. They also interviewed and recruited teachers and staff for the school, and worked with community health/social workers to figure out which children would attend.
Here are some pictures showing the whole process:
Catch up with the Youth Empowerment Community Initiative Group (YECIG), our World Faith chapter in Cameroon! Last November, they facilitated the authorization of the construction of a public toilet in Wovia village, feeding and educating the village with regards to the toilet’s construction and use. In December, YECIG improved the hygienic and sanitation conditions in 3 orphanages, most notably helping to reduce mosquito breeding grounds. Check out pictures from the two projects here:
This January, World Faith Burkina Faso celebrated the Feast of Mouloud with Islamic leaders for peace. They served over 1000 meals to Islamic leaders, Koranic students, and volunteers! Check out the photos of this great event below:
