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WIDCO
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Women Initiative Development Cooperation Organization
builds and supports grass root organizations in Cameroon that empower women through:
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- Micro-finance schemes; education & training.
- Addressing cultural practices, women's rights, the political climate, and basic human rights.
- Leadership, management, and community development.
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Our Objectives:
- Provide philanthropic and educational services to the women of the target community in Cameroon's rural districts.
- Encourage economic promotion and income-generation for the whole community, eventually on a national and international basis.
- Facilitate research and dissemination of key concepts of national and international economic and social welfare regarding all women, information which can lead to productive policy and social change.
To accomplish the above objectives, WIDCO
- Sensitizes and creates awareness in the community.
- Organizes economic, social and cultural groups with female leadership with the aim of improving the leadership skills of women.
- Collaborates and undertakes activities with related associations and organizations created to promote better health and social welfare of the targeted community.
- Collaborates and undertakes activities with related associations and organizations created to promote gender balance and equality within the targeted community.
- Works with cooperative movements and existing legislation in Cameroon under a shared initiative to fight against poverty and for gender equality.
- Undertakes all legally acceptable activities geared toward more active participation of women in civil society.
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What makes WIDCO different ? |
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WIDCO is geared towards promoting only civil society organizations in which both men and women operate together meanwhile reserving such leadership positions as President and Treasurer only for women as the principal action in promoting women civil and political leadership or entrepreneurial skills;
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WIDCO believes in the existence of God and creation and also that “Woman” was created because of the inability of “man” to survive in an isolated forum and hence that the existence and survival of man is completely compromised in the absence of woman hence the two must be promoted to live together and operate together in the family, civil and political grouping as the only way to lay a firm foundation for social cohesion, conflict reduction and resolution.
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WIDCO believes that community development that does not evolve from the foundation of the cultures and traditions of any concerned community is not sustainable and hence that the cultural and traditional potentials of any area must be developed first then used as the bedrock for the development of the said community be that development social, economic or political.
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Members of the WIDCO Pyramid in the newly created Nkum Subdivision in Cameroon will be celebrating in their new world of information technology with the launching of the first Multimedia Information centre in Tatum the chief town of the subdivision. This project which is going operational as part of the General Community Education (GCE) program is a joint venture scheme between WIDCO and an Information Technology group in Bamenda Cameroon known as Yu Tarr Productions with financial, material, ...
