Community Outreaches
After a community meeting about the services of RuWCED's counselling centers
Community learning and exchange
Community exchange and learning with women from indigenous communities
GBV during COVID-19
Reflecting on girls' right to education and their VAWG related challenges in times of COVID-19 and conflicts
Discussing girls' right to education
Community exchange on girls' right to education
We Are Making a Difference
RuWCED's youths during National Youth Day 2015
Reproductive Health Talk
Sensitizing secondary school students on HIV/AIDS
Trained peer educators ready for HIV/AIDS Sensitization and prevention
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Celebrating 2016 National youth day in Ndop-Cameroon
Youths are the strength of our rural communities. RuWCED's team made the difference
Sexual and Reproductive Health Education
Reaching out to secondary school students during an HIV/AID-sexual and reproductive health education outreach
Mama Rural
A task she carries, a responsibility she bears a wife to a husband, and a mother to children, the hidden treasure from despised eyes!
Getting the community involved
Community leaders, parents, teachers and primary school pupils during our Education talks campaign
Sport, a healthy lifestyle!
Doing sport helps our women stay in shape!
Girl Child Education
Presenting school materials to some of our rural girls
Engaging Communities
Connecting Youths
Women's Day 2015
Reaching Out to the Youths
RuWCED's Sport for Health Session
Staff and pupils exercising after health talks
RuWCED's 2014/2015 IT graduating students
We are happy to have young dynamic girls graduating with computer diplomas from our training center
Our Youths performing for the community
Craft-work, drama, singing , as well as dancing is part of our recreational activities
Serving our Communities through Creative Sewing
RuWCED's Community Computer Training Center
Encouraging girls to get involved in Information Tecnology
Adolescent SRH
Reaching out to young boys and girls in our community
Empowering Young Girls
Equiping girls with SRHR knowledge, Human Rights and Leadership skils.

Sanitation

How to use pad during menses RH5 RH2

Hygeinic situation of most rural communities in Cameroon

Majority of women and girls in rural areas cannot afford sanitary pads during menstruation. This lack compromises menstrual hygiene since they resort to used cloths etc. Most especially, it affects the general confidence and psyche of women especially girls in primary school who get stained and shy away from school during menses. Also, there are few or none existent sanitary facilities for the disposal of faeces which further compromises community health.

This is because, there are generally no safe water sources available in most rural areas and inhabitants have to share the streams with livestock and other wild animals. When it rains during the rainy season, faeces disposed in the fields are washed down into the streams which serve the household water needs. During the dry season, the faeces dry up and are transported by the wind to the water sources.

We offer health talks every week to different schools and demonstrate to young girls how to use pads. This aims at improving the level of health and sanitation within primary and secondary schools.


We run a sanitation programme that deals with the drilling of wells (bore-holes) for primary schools, construction of pit toilets and the giving of sanitary pads to girls in schools.

See what one packet of sanitary pad worth 2 USD can do for a girl!

-It will prevent her from using old dirty cloths which are infection pruned,
-It will prevent her from staining her uniform and shying away from school
-It will create a working relationship between her and our health educator thus, erasing ignorance and infection while opening a door for reproductive hygiene!
In cash, your gift of 20 USD can buy her pads for one academic year!
In kind, you may volunteer to give an educative talk or dig a pit toilet for a family (especially one in which there are no able males)!
You can also fund or help us raise funds to drill wells for schools.

How will these actions solve the development puzzle of the rural poor?

-It will reduce the rate of virginal infections for young girls; reduce the spread of water borne diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera, thus reducing expenditures on health. It will also boost the morale of girls in school thus offering an enabling environment for learning.