Cameroon
FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Ambassadors Girls’ Scholarship Program (AGSP)
- Association de Femmes Musulmanes du Diamaré (AFEMDI) is a women’s member organization located in the far north of Cameroon. They provide scholarships to girls in the Maroua area.
- Groupe Scolaire Les Hirondelles is a private girls’ school serving secondary school girls in Garoua, a northern town in Cameroon. Les Hirondelles’ sister school, Dounia Andal, serves primary school girls. Dounia Andal and Les Hirondelles provide scholarships through the AGSP for poor girls in their community whose families could not otherwise afford to send them to these schools.
- Manyu Women’s Association (MOHWA) is a women’s association working in the Manyu Division of Cameroon in the country’s southwest province, the Mefou and Afamba Divisions in the Centre Province and the Mvila Division in the southern province.
- Plan International—Cameroon, the local branch of a U.S.-based international development agency to serve Fulani and Baka girls in the eastern (Upper Nyong, Kadei, Lom and Djerem Divisions) and northwestern provinces (Boyo and Mezam Divisions).
- Serve the Orphans Foundation (SOF) is a volunteer-run, local NGO serving orphans in Cameroon’s Ndu Subdivision in Cameroon’s northwest province. SOF also provides scholarships through the AGSP to girls in the Littoral region.
- Granting scholarships: 20 girls, all AIDS orphans or from families affected by AIDS, have been awarded secondary school or post-secondary scholarships. Once they begin their first year of secondary school in September, this same scholarship will be paid annually by Batonga until they graduate. The scholarship includes tuition, uniform, school supplies, mentoring and community awareness programs.
FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
- International Scholarship Program for Africa (4). VALUE: $100,000 ($25,000 x 4 years). Must be citizen of an African country. To renew — maintain high academic standing (7.8 on a 9-point York scale) in each academic year at York
