Overview
SHUMAS has been involved
in integrated sustainable rural development since its formation
in 1997. Integral to all SHUMAS activities are the principles
of community participation and self-reliance underpinned by training,
long-term follow-up, monitoring and evaluation.
Vision
A society where everyone,
especially the most marginalised, is empowered economically, culturally
and socially and with equal opportunity to achieve their full
potential.
Mission statement
Improving lives, reducing
poverty and empowering people so that they meet their needs without
compromising posterity from meeting theirs.
Areas of activity
Water supply, education,
agriculture, environment, health and sanitation, social welfare,
womens' empowerment and volunteer placement schemes.
Social Welfare Programme
This comprises activities
that promote the well-being of people with special needs (physical
disability), blindness, lameness, deafness and paralysis. SHUMAS
achieves this by:
- Moral enhancement workshops
- Capacity-building workshops on economic productivity
- Life skills training
- Provision of seed capital to trainees to start their own businesses
Shumas Rehabilitation Centre
This has as its main objective
equipping and empowering physically disabled persons with skills
compatible to their disabilities so that they can become independent,
self-reliant and able to effectively participate in the development
of their communities.
The objectives of the Centre are
to:
Train disabled people in self-reliant
skills so that they will be able to carry out economic activities
which enhance their self-esteem and enable them to be part of
the mainstream of development of their communities.
Train them in basic management and leadership skills.
Continuously monitor and evaluate graduates for some years to
assess their progress.
Set up a revolving micro-finance scheme to benefit ex-trainees.
Advocate for the rights of disabled people.
There are training workshops in knitting,
sewing, traditional embroidery, shoe mending/making, hairdressing
and barbing, crafts and traditional jewellery and cane weaving.
There is training in basic management
skills and record-keeping, English skills and advocacy.
All the workshops are well furnished
and accessible to all physically disabled persons with a team
of well experienced trainers.
Who can participate?
Nature of disability - Those who
can be trained in specific trades and are able to take part in
the training.
Age -Those with special needs between
ages 16 and 30
Commitment - Those who can fully
commit to the training.
Training conditions
a) All recruited trainees
from poor homes receive a tuition scholarship.
b) However, all trainees are responsible for their lodging, feeding
and other personal needs.
Nonetheless, for those trainees out of Bamenda town, we make easy
the acquisition of lodging facilities around the Centre.
Duration - Training
is expected to last for at least two years
Results expected
After the training, we
expect the trainees to:
a) Be well equipped in at least one life skill that fully empowers
them economically and socially.
b) Be armed with leadership and basic management skills to run
a good business.
c) Start up workshops with assistance.
Contact:
SHUMAS CENTRE
Mile 6 Nkwen, Bamenda
NW Region
Cameroon
Tel: 77107315
EMail: shumas_ngo@yahoo.com
Web site: www.shumas-cameroon.org
