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Author: essam
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Boosting opportunities and employment in the textile sector – ident. africa initiates women’s project in Boboyo
With this project, ident. africa e. V. supports the initiative of 40 young women of Boboyo village who want to stand on their own feet after one year of intensive training in the textile sector. They want to open their own sewing rooms in groups and thus earn money by self-employment and support their families.
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RWTH Aachen University students present their architectural concept to the President of the Protestant Church of Cameroon
On the invitation of Prof. Jean Samuel Hendje Toya, President of the Protestant Church of Cameroon, Wendy Brochard and Coline Esseyric, winners of the architectural competition “A Church for Boboyo”, travelled to Cameroon in June 2017 together with Fred-Eric Essam, founder and chairman of ident. africa e. V., together with Fred-Eric Essam. There, the two…
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New training centre gives 47 women career opportunities as tailors
The new Boboyo training centre in Cameroon will be launched at the beginning of 2017. In just 12 months, 47 young women will be trained as tailors free of charge and subsequently supported in setting up their own businesses. The Cologne association ident. africa e.V. supports the training programme and those women who want to…
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ident.africa’s founder, Fred-Eric Essam a wild duck
As a teenager in Douala, Cameroon’s largest city—an urban and commercial center very different from his father’s life in the rural north— Fred-Eric Essam, a senior solution sales professional for IBM in Germany, received a unique opportunity that would set him apart from many of his Cameroonian peers: he was given a scholarship to study…