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The Christiana Charitable & Educational foundation (CCEf)
About CCEf:
The Christiana Charitable & Educational foundation (CCEf) is a grassroots organization formed by a Northern California local community members. The foundation derived its acronym from the center of the word “success” basing its core belief on the concept that success is within reach to those who strive and aspire for success. CCEf will also be referred to as “The Success Foundation.”
After traveling to many countries and across several states within the US, the founding members of CCEf would like to make the world a better place by encouraging and supporting disadvantaged children, sick, and poor people. Realizing that poverty and many diseases hinder academic, economic, emotional, financial, mental, and spiritual development, CCEf would like to instill the “yes, we can” mentality into many who would otherwise give up in life.
The lack of basic medical amenities and supplies in Cameroon – West Africa, was especially disheartening and alarming. As a result, one of CCEf main goals is to solicit and provide medical supplies to current hospitals, and seek to build at least one full-scale hospital with the various departments. Details of the “Helen Mbome Memorial Hospital” are provided below. Through “Breakthrough Academy,” CCEf will also support many programs to help young children aspire to become leaders and help change their lives. To ensure that the dream to succeed is carried forward, CCEf will also construct several libraries through remote areas to provide basic resources to the less fortunate.
CCEf is a nonprofit California corporation organized exclusively for Charitable, Educational, and Scientific purposes. Its main mission is to provide hospital services and supplies, affiliated medical research, and educational programs to improve the health, combat diseases, alleviate poverty, enhance education, and augment the quality of life for the people of Cameroon - West Africa, and California. CCEf is currently run by a seven member board of directors, five officers, and many volunteers. It welcomes ideas and contributions from experts in the health, educational, charitable, and scientific communities, as well as from individuals anywhere in the world who wish to support the goals of CCEf to make a positive difference.
1. Helen Mbome Memorial Hospital: The Christiana Charitable & Educational foundation (CCEf) plans to raise funds from everywhere and anywhere to build a hospital in Cameroon (West Africa). This state-of-the-art hospital will be a Treatment, Research, and Teaching (TRT) hospital.
Treatment – Provide routine and emergency treatment to sick people. There are very few good hospitals in Cameroon now and existing hospitals lack basic supplies like gloves, gauze, thermometers, blood pressure cuffs, sanitary syringes, medications, bandages, and more. This hospital will serve hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country.
Immunization to Protect Children
Even though most of the poorest countries around the world are now getting critical vaccines for children, Cameroon still lacks the basic vaccines for infants and young children especially in remote areas, and child mortality remains high. Our hospital will seek to obtain and provide life-saving vaccines to prevent needless deaths.
Research – Conduct research on diseases that are specific to this sub-tropical area such as malaria, filariasis, typhoid fever, etc, determine new diseases, and improve on previous diagnosis and treatments. For example, the strains of AIDS in this area are different from those in America making it difficult for American companies that try to provide drugs to effectively fight HIV / AIDS in Africa. CCEf will learn from fine hospitals like St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital that has the research aspect onsite.
The Research Center will also have an Invention Recognition Wing that will encourage invention of new medical products, practices, and services by the local citizens and reward successful candidates with awards and cash prizes. Currently, there’s no known medical research center in Cameroon to encourage its citizens to take initiative to fight health issues in the country.
Teaching – The hospital will serve as training site to enable people learn skills such as nursing, lab technician, physical therapy, administration of anesthesia, X-Ray, first aid, etc. to serve the hospital and help other communities. CCEf will learn from other hospitals like UCLA Medical Center that has the teaching aspect onsite, and has been ranked 17 times as “Best Hospital of the West” by U.S. News and World Report.
CCEf will also teach patients how to adopt healthy lifestyle changes and learn basic hygiene to prevent common diseases. CCEf will encourage citizens to reduce standing filthy water in muddy ponds within neighborhoods that carry the Anopheles mosquitoes which transmit malaria. Recent research reported that the coastal areas of Cameroon are a major carrier of Malaria in sub-tropical Africa. Malaria and Filariasis are not only diseases of poverty, but hindrances to economic development in the area.
2. Breakthrough Academy (BA) (to “break” through, from, and out of poverty)
The Christiana Charitable & Educational foundation (CCEf) also plans to raise funds to construct BA which will focus on young children first in Cameroon, and later in Sacramento, California, to grow in the following ways:
- Organize Summer programs for children 10 to 14 years old to participate in from June to August to learn Leadership and Entrepreneurial skills, integrity, GOD’S ways, music, basic first aid, language & Math skills, hygiene, academic development, positive self-esteem, participate in sports activities, arts & crafts, field trips, community service, and internships. BA will teach basketball, tennis, soccer, board games and encourage children to believe that they can make a positive difference in their future. There are so many young bright children in Cameroon who thirst for education but don’t have the most basic means to learn and change their lives. During the long holidays, few programs exist to keep youngsters busy so children just walk the streets and are exposed to prostitution, robbery, and other social problems.
When schools resume, the same BA facilities will be available for after school programs, similar to YMCA/YWCA, where students (primary, secondary, and high school) can study, conduct research, work, participate in sports. CCEf will also introduce the concept of tutoring which does not currently exist due to lack of funding and initiative. Tutoring will allow children the opportunity to learn to help one another, and also instill individual responsibility.
The high school students who attend BA during the school year will have a chance to work part-time during the construction of the Helen Mbome Memorial Hospital to help them acquire much needed construction skills to prepare them for economic development, and keep the kids off the streets.
ii. Adopt-a-Scholar Program: CCEf will encourage people to donate money to sponsor a child through primary, secondary, High school, or university. Eligible candidates will be children who perform well at school but come from extremely poor backgrounds. For example, US $1,300 can pay the yearly tuition, room and board for a child to attend a private boarding Secondary or High school.
iii. Academic Excellence Awards: CCEf will request donations to establish a scholarship fund from which certain amounts will be awarded to students, with a plaque at year end for academic excellence. This will be open to all students who meet specific academic merit and performance. CCEf will encourage young children to dream for a better future, and dare to succeed.
3. R.E.A.L. Libraries - The Christiana Charitable & Educational foundation (CCEf) also plans to build the Regional Empowerment for Advanced Learning Libraries (R.E.A.L. Libraries) in several school cities and small remote areas of Cameroon to combat illiteracy. The majority of schools in Cameroon don’t have libraries. CCEf will provide internet and other resources within the libraries to assist ALL who wish to improve their academic and reading skills in order to reduce the illiteracy rate in Cameroon. Citizens would also have a chance to learn basic computer skills such as typing, use of internet, and become proficient in programs like Microsoft Word and Excel that are critical in the work place. As the program advances, CCEf will consider providing self-study courses to allow secondary and high school drop outs to obtain their certifications.
4. Community Activities - As the foundation’s activities advance, CCEf will foster other community activities for continuous improvement.
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