A Happy Note from Cameroon

The Cameroon authorities are in full support of our project! :-) On June 15th, we met with the Tiko Divisional officer (Government representative).  He personally booked an appointment with his boss, the Senior Divisional officer and we met the next day in Limbe (that's unheard of!).

Only three days after that, on June 19th, the Divisional officer officially launched the 2012 Cameroon Reading Camp; the event was covered by one of our television stations and two radio stations. The Camp will be shown and broadcast this week throughout the entire country! This took a dimension we never expected, anticipated or planned for. Hopefully we shall have a copy of the DVD for you and the Ambassadors. It will look like a short documentary.  The speed with which this all happened has taken us all by happy surprise as we never expected, anticipated or planned for it! 

There are 45 children at Camp; eight were replaced June 18th; 20 kids who weren't selected showed up anyway and they are hanging out everyday with others and learning some activities through the window! We are also feeding the kids hanging out. We need to do roll call each day to avoid children not selected entering in the learning centers. We are working with 21 trained teachers and 12 counselors - they are so cooperative and helpful.

In short, the community is blessed to have this reading camp and is longing for more every year.

Bishop Chilton's goal to make the Episcopal church visible in the community has been achieved far beyond our expectations.

Thank you very much and thank God. 

Clemence