FUNDRAISING ADVISORY GROUP FOR EDUCATION

Volunteering

Overview

Assist CAMAAY in brainstorming and proposing ideas to raise funds for vulnerable children.

You have:

• Have an intermediate level of English.
• Have good writing skills.
• Have access to the internet.
• Have good experience in grant writing, project management, and fundraising.
• Be able to work with minimal supervision.
• Prior role as a fundraising officer for a similar non-profit will be an added advantage.

Contract

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Cameroon is a lower-middle income economy in central Africa characterized by a high presence of young population. Currently, more than 60% of the population in Cameroon are individuals under 25 years of age while 42.6% are children aged 14 and under; it is estimated that by 2020 the population of adolescents (10-19 years old) will reach 6,176,459 (The World Bank n.d.; UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs 2019b). Life expectancy at birth in Cameroon is only 58.5 years (2017) (The World Bank n.d.). While considered a politically stable country, conflict continues to affect Cameroon. It is estimated that recent crises have left 2.7 million people in need, being children and women the most affected by the lack of health services (WHO 2016). In 2018 alone, there were 459,000 new internal displacements caused by conflict and violence in the country, a substantial increase comparing to the 71,000 cases registered by 2015. As of 2018, the total number of IDP due to conflict and violence reached 668,000 (IDMC 2018). Traditionally, internal displacement in Cameroon has been concentrated in the Far North region. However, political tensions erupting since 2016 between separatists groups and security forces in the North-West and South-West Anglophone regions (Fig. 1) have escalated drastically, leaving almost 2,000 persons killed as a result of this war (International Crisis Group 2019). This conflict deteriorated quickly and forced many families to flee their homes and move to safer regions as an increase in violent attacks against civilians and destruction of houses took place. As far as 2018 the regions in the North-West and South-West accounted for 40% of the total displaced population in Cameroon, representing 437,000 IDP in the North-West and South-West regions (IDMC 2018). Recent figures indicate that 530,000 people are internally displaced in these regions while 40,000 have sought refuge in Nigeria (UN 2019). Education has also been severely affected with the forced closure of many schools. Around 80 per cent of schools in these regions are closed (IDMC 2018) and to date, more than 700,000 children have been out of school for nearly three years (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 2019).

CAMAAY is a fledgling organization with a lot of passion and project ideas. CAMAAY believe it is every child's right to have access to education and that education is the most powerful weapon they can use to change their story, their community, and the world. Unfortunately, many children of school-age in Cameroon and more precisely in the conflict affected regions.

We are looking for interested online volunteers with a passion for project management, grant writing and fundraising ideas. Volunteers will assist us in brainstorming and proposing ideas to raise funds and support vulnerable children to go back to school by providing them support packages. Additional information will be provided at project initiation and a team leader will be appointed to supervise the task. Volunteers will not be requested to submit any funding request on behalf of your organization.

An ideal candidates should have an intermediate level of English, good writing skills, access to the internet. Good experience in grant writing, project management and fundraising, volunteers are requested to submit copies of their CV with their applications. They should be able to work with minimal supervision. Prior role as a fundraising officer for a similar non-profit will be an added advantage

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