EducationYaoundé, Cameroon
Eighteen final years of study funded
A grant programme targeting final-year students only — the point at which dropping out costs the most.
- Amount committed
- 21 600 €
- Year
- 2025
Entrepreneurship
A sewing workshop set up by five former trainees
Five young women trained at the neighbourhood centre set up a shared workshop. The Foundation funded the machines; the premises were lent by the town council.
- Location
- Douala, Cameroon
- Year
- 2025
- Amount committed
- 4 500 €
The starting point
The neighbourhood training centre teaches sewing to a dozen young women every year. On leaving, almost none find work: existing workshops are not hiring and a machine costs more than a year's income. The training led nowhere.
What the Foundation funded
Five graduates joined forces and submitted a shared application. The Foundation funded four industrial machines, an overlocker, a cutting table and an initial stock of fabric. An accounting mentor has supported them since, half a day a month.
What it produced
The workshop has been self-sufficient since month eight. It fulfils school-uniform orders and now employs two additional apprentices from the same course.
In figures
- 7
- jobs created
- 8 mois
- to self-sufficiency
- 4 500 €
- funded
“We knew how to sew. What we lacked was not the skill, it was the machine.”
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