What we do Our project

Since 2005 we have been involved in a project aimed at improving overall well-being of disabled children and young adults in Bamenda area, in the northeast of Cameroon. Using our existing temporary shelter, health care and education are provided for 30 physically challenged girls. Through our work these girls and other children and their relatives benefit from education, health care and sanitation measures.

In order to avoid severing the links with their relatives and improving their integration in society, non-severe disabled girls go back to their family homes during long-vacation periods. Its one of our main aims in the refuges not to shelter abandoned girls but to work as an education centre for the local community.  We aim to raise awareness among  local communities, that physical or mental disabilities are to be accepted as this discriminated group have right to the full participation in society.

The long-term aim of our Organization is to educate within the local families, carrying out a awareness programmes in order to make it possible these families take care of less seriously disabled children, the shelter would take in the most serious cases, those who must have special care and professional attention not to be provided by families. Working with families to define and solve the problems their disabled children and communities face, and utilizing a broad array of strategies to ensure self-sufficiency is the cornerstone of all Cero Negativo´s programmes.