"Ending the cycle", One Ummah on LO Review. (2/14/08)
2007 Annual board meeting (5/16/07)
ABC News feature on American Assistance for Cambodia (2/7/07)
Executive Summary Of 7th trip to Cameroon (9/13/06)
Blake Goud has joined OneUmmah as the Executive Director (9/1/06)
Elizabeth Bourgeois joins One Ummah Foundation (9/1/06)
Camroon
Map source: Map of Camroon
Population 18,060,382 Major Ethnic and Linguistic Groups Cameroon Highlanders 31%
Equatorial Bantu 19%
Kirdi 11%
Fulani 10%
Northwest Bantu 8%
Eastern Nigritic 7%Religions Indigenous beliefs 40%
Christian 40%
Muslim 20%Population Growth Rate 2.241% Median Age 18.9 Life Expectancy (Males; Females) 52.86 (52.15; 53.59) Under Five Mortality (per 1,000) * 149 Ratio of Girls to Boys in Primary/Secondary Education * 83% GDP Per Capita (PPP) $2,400 Literacy (Males; Females) 67.9% (77%; 59.8%) Literacy (Males; Females) 67.9% (77%; 59.8%) Percentage With Access To Improved Water Source ** 66% Poverty Rate (% living on <$1 per day) * 17.1% Income Share Held By Lowest Quintile * 5.6% Income Share Held By Lowest Decile * 2.3% Source: Data from CIA World Factbook except that data marked with a “*” indicate they are from the World Bank Group World Development Indicators (WB-WDI) as of 2005 and “**” indicates they are from the WB-WDI as of 2004.
ONE UMMAH PROGRAMS
One Ummah’s work in Cameroon occurs through EDUCARE Africa, a nonprofit run by Pavla Zakova-Laney. The non-profit is based in Albany, Oregon and supports the village of Tatum in Northwest Cameroon near Bamenda. Pavla was a Peace Corps worker in Cameroon from 1996 to 1999. Upon her return to Oregon, she started EDUCARE Africa.EDUCARE Africa provides assistance for several schools in villages near Bamenda, primarily in Tatum where she was a Peace Corps worker at Government High School (G.H.S.) Tatum. Recently, EDUCARE Africa raised money to help provide laboratory equipment for a science lab (biology, chemistry and physics). The lab was constructed using $32,000 raised by the local P.T.A., who also raised $4,000 towards some of the laboratory equipment.
More information is available on the EDUCARE Africa website.
