2025 annual report

A calendar year of community work

Our 2025 annual report follows activities from January to December across education, health, protection and livelihoods. It describes a volunteer organisation combining home and business visits, practical assistance, partner referrals, public events and administrative work. The year’s accounts also show the preparation behind an intervention: making contact, submitting information, finding resources, organising training and returning to hear what happened.

The organisation worked with families, schools, public services and other associations. Members contributed time and skills, while dues, gifts and requests for project funding helped sustain the work. Some requests were still proposals. Other entries describe assistance delivered, a training completed or a household visited. The chronology below preserves those different stages.

January: training and preparation

Five people joined a poultry and small-business initiative supported by Bamenda City Council. The dedicated training report dates the session to 3 January. It began with songs, prayer, a welcome from the coordinator and presentation of the agenda. Facilitators covered poultry housing, hygiene, feeding, common risks, marketing and record keeping. Chicks were collected on 5 January according to that account.

The annual report explains that two participants pursued other small income-generating activities rather than poultry. The five-person group must therefore be described as a mixed livelihood project. Training presentations included projected sales and reinvestment expectations. These were planning estimates, not evidence of earnings. Members were expected to monitor the activities through successive phases.

Alongside the project, the organisation prepared proposals for potential supporters and attended to office equipment and communication needs. This administrative work supported coordination and record keeping.

February and March: review, visits and reporting

The annual report places the AGM reviewing 2024 on 1 February 2025. It also records a working visit by Social Affairs representatives, during which the organisation described its activities, achievements and difficulties and participants raised their own concerns. This is a different visit from the separately documented Social Affairs meeting of 22 February 2024.

Home visits continued, together with online meetings to keep members outside Cameroon informed. In March, staff worked on reports for Social Affairs, including revisions to meet the requested format. The organisation visited Hope Social Union for Visually Impaired and recorded practical support for families seeking help. These entries show a combination of coordination, referral and immediate assistance. Individual health details and payments are retained in the private records.

April and May: listening and partner follow-up

Visits to homes and business sites explored the conditions in which people were living and trying to sustain activities. The record describes follow-up with families awaiting assistance, discussions about schooling and caregiving, and encouragement around rehabilitation. The public account preserves the work undertaken while avoiding identifying descriptions of crowded homes or personal crises.

The coordinator followed up with the National Employment Fund on project registration and submitted accountability material to Social Affairs. Contact with CDENO led to a request for information about potential participants. A list was submitted for consideration. That submission preceded the August distribution and was not itself a delivery of poultry inputs.

June: children taking part

CVID-Cam joined the preparations for the Day of the African Child under the theme ‘Child Rights Planning and Budgeting: Progress since 2010’. Preparatory meetings brought together Social Affairs and participating organisations. Activities began during the week of 11 June, with radio discussions, awareness work and creative training.

Two children represented CVID-Cam in bead-making activities intended to pass skills on to peers. Rehearsals took place at the office on 12 June. At the local celebration on 14 June, children contributed prayers, songs, cultural performances, games and exhibitions. The programme also included health activities. Gifts and dignity kits were recorded, with a prize for one song presentation.

The organisation also participated in Youth Outreach Programme Cameroon’s third Youth Festival of Arts and Culture at Franco-Alliance Hall. Two young people and the coordinator represented CVID-Cam. The annual report records participation in these gatherings; it does not assess their longer-term educational effects.

July and August: two distinct livelihood projects

July’s work included monitoring the third phase of the City Council-supported project. The report describes a transition towards participants managing their activities and money independently. Home visits and proposal writing continued. It gives no reconciled record of net profits for the five-person group.

On 8 August, a separate intervention took place at CDENO’s premises in collaboration with PULCCA. Seven of ten shortlisted people received poultry support. The distribution report lists 50 three-week-old chicks, a bag of feed, two feeders and a drinker for each recipient. This group and its inputs must remain separate from the January City Council project and the earlier Regional Assembly project.

The distribution was the result of earlier contacts and submission of participant information. Expressions of appreciation were recorded. The delivery establishes receipt of inputs; later visits are needed to understand how each activity develops.

September to November: accountability and preparation

Four of the seven CDENO participants attended a follow-up meeting on 7 September to discuss progress and difficulties. An implementation report on the separate City Council project was prepared. The organisation also received a visitor who interviewed the coordinator and donated office equipment. On 18 September a dedication gathering took place in the new office.

During October and November, project proposals and appeal letters sought further support. Reports were deposited with CDENO and the City Council. The accounts describe school and livelihood assistance, new contacts and preparations for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. An online meeting on 6 October considered the Christmas event, a proposed budget, fundraising, membership and office staffing. The gaps raised in that meeting help explain the work required before a public gathering can happen.

13 December: the Christmas gathering

The Christmas event brought together participants, members, partners and visitors. Activities began at 7:30 a.m., with the formal opening recorded at 8 a.m. Songs, a welcome and a musical presentation preceded a meditation by the minister from Presbyterian Church Musang on compassion and service. Items prepared for distribution were blessed.

The coordinator introduced CVID-Cam, reviewed its work and thanked supporters. The programme included appreciation songs and participants’ contributions. It also recorded recognition of participation and updates on documentation and vocational support. These individual administrative and personal details remain in the private source.

A Christmas meal was shared, consisting of rice, chicken and a drink. Non-food items were distributed, and group photographs and closing remarks concluded the event. The newspaper clipping provides a separate attributed account of the occasion. Its attendance estimate is not substituted for a verified register in this annual report.