Our interns here in Buea have spent the last four weeks doing amazing work at the three local NGOs at which they’ve been placed. Our superb seven—Tetsop, Ruth, Nelson, Eyole, Emmanuel, Lucia, and Josy—have created blogs and newsletters and facebook pages and twitter accounts, and all the while have learned how their local organizations function.  And now—this afternoon, in fact—their internships are coming to a close. We celebrated the event at Jabez Restaurant i...

We spent Monday morning with the YAN student interns working on descriptive and detailed writing, tools that are especially important as they have each been involved in newsletter or article writing, blog posts or website creation.  The first exercise paired students next to makeshift chalkboards (originally our closet doors)—one student received a piece of chalk and was directed to face the board, while the other received a random item and was directed to face away from the board.  The ob...

When we announced plans for the YAN internship in late April, most of our students immediately asked if they could be involved. Knowing that we only had openings for 7 interns—and also knowing that some of our younger students would probably struggle with the demands of a 4-week internship spent full-time in an office—we quickly scrambled to create an alternative internship for those not selected for the real deal. Our alternative plan finally came to fruition last Tuesday, w...

We are just finishing up week two of the four-week, YAN-sponsored internship program for local students.  So it’s about time you met the interns!

Lucia (GHS Buea Town) and Josiane (GHS Buea Town):

Hi, my name is Nanje Lucia Masare and I’m a student of GHS Buea Town and also a member of the YAN club.  I work with an organisation called ProClimate International.  This organisation is out to protect the environment from pollution and also to prot...

In the morning of Monday, June 3, with summer vacation barely 72 hours begun and YAN graduation just 48 hours into the past, we welcomed 7 of our students into our house at Pala Pala field. These students, among the strongest in all of our YAN classes, hailed from each of the three schools that we teach at. We had selected them based upon the strength of an application and their work in YAN classes to participate in the first ever YAN internship, whereby students were paired with...

A Graduation Organised by the YAN fellows in Cameroon, Southwest Region 

“It was on Saturday the 1^st of June, 2013 in Buea, precisely in the Buea Council Hall in Buea Town that the graduation of YAN students took place.  It started with the welcoming of guests and students after which we had some words of prayer from Sei Stella, a YAN student who schools in Government High School Buea Town.  Then we had an introduction from Miss Clara, our YAN teacher.  After that, Walters, ...