rudec
services for a healthy environment and people
RUDEC aims to serve the neediest members of the rural communities
of Cameroon's Boyo Division through the creation of education,
social and economic empowerment projects

RUDEC Community Empowerment Women Club

 RUDEC Community Empowerment Women Club (RUCEC)RUDEC_community.JPGRUDEC's seniors  Clubs that was made up of women has  change to Rudec Community empowerment women club (RUCEC).This is to better define our project, Mostly in the clubs there are people who are about 25-50 and cannot be consider as seniors and so to better the support all community members in the communities that RUDEC would be working in, it would focus on community empowerment of women through clubs that has the vision of supporting themselves and their community needs.These clubs seek ways to help school drop out youths, street children, elderly people in rural communities who find it particularly difficult to earn incomes and are thus destined to be poor. The migration of some younger women to urban dwellings to find jobs has made matters even harder for the them and they are fall into the arena of prostitution. Some youths who drop out from school stay back and has no orientations to carry out an activity that could better their lives, Young girls who are dropped out from school are force to marry as the families wish to transfer responsibilities and those that are not fortunate to marry fall pray to unwanted pregnancies that often result to deaths.  The needs of the different gender groups in rural areas are often overlooked because they do not have the means to communicate their views widely enough to enable them to be heard by the government/other organisations who could assist them. These gender groups from rural areas have to decided  together to form RUDEC Community empowerment women Clubs (RUCEC), where they share their common experiences of economic hardship. Although the clubs are open to all, the majority of members are often women. They work together to find means of increasing their incomes through organic agriculture, animal and/or self-help initiatives which not only benefit them but others in their household who are depedent on them. One  Club  starts with an activity that would benefit them as a group like poultry,gardening,Guinea pigs,goats project to begin with. One of the women club  began with one chicken that was fed and cared for by club members; the chicken went on to produce healthy chicks and two chicks from each brood are then passed on to other club members to continue the cycle. These Clubs provides vital support to the wellbeing of its members by contributing small sums of money to individuals who are in need, to help in the purchase of important basic needs such as medicine,kerosene and food. RUDEC supports these Clubs members by giving advice on income-generating activities, the use of organic manure in backyard gardening, nutrition, and good health of the the members.RUDEC also focuses on project designs that would benefit the individual families in the communities. RUDEC volunteers  provide  socio-economic support to this groups according to their needs through participatory need analysis as per community.These are often develop into a project that would benefit a family as well as the whole community. If you are interested in this project and have some knowledge in any domain, you could join RUDEC as a volunteer and make changes in the lives of people and well as their communities in Cameroon.