Who We Are
OUR MISSION
Ensure the health and safety of learners and staff in schools and learning communities.
Our vision is to build resilient schools and communities to secure a future with safer schools in Cameroon by the year 2035 and in Africa by the year 2063 (Agenda 2063).
School Safety Outreach (SSO) is a Cameroonian non-profit, non-denominational, apolitical organization established in 2020 and legally registered with registration number 215/G.84/vol1/A3/SAAJP in conformity with law number 90/053 of 19th December 1990 of the Republic of Cameroon.
OBJECTIVES
- Promote better water, sanitation, and hygiene(WASH) practices in schools and learning communities.
- Protect learners against violence in schools and communities.
- Work in synergy with the Ministry of Secondary Education to promote Education in Emergencies.
- Support the effective management of disasters in schools and communities.
- Promote Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Education.
- Promote school and community health outreach programs.
WHERE WE WORK
Our project and programs target learners and staff in schools and the community. We operate and work in Cameroon. The chief geographical area of intervention is the South West and North West Regions but operations can be extended to other regions when the need arises.
OUR APPROACH
We target primarily learners and staff as beneficiaries and people with challenges as secondary beneficiaries. We do understand that using a school-community-based approach that addresses the needs of schools and communities will greatly impact positively on the lives of our primary beneficiaries in a sustainable way.
OUR GOAL
School/Community Disaster Risk Management
Disaster Preparedness
Integrate Disaster Risk Reduction Education (DRRE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into the School Curriculum; train school administrators and local community authorities on how to develop a Disaster Risk Management Plan; organize awareness-raising campaigns to sensitize and educate learners, staff, and community members on coping strategies against disasters; implement early warning systems.
Disaster Response
Provide humanitarian response to people affected by societal disasters such as conflicts, wars, civil unrest, fire incidents, and epidemic infectious diseases; provide humanitarian aid to victims of socio-natural disasters such as floods, landslides, droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruption; provide humanitarian response to people affected by disasters of natural origin such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, etc.
Disaster Recovery
Reconstruction
Construct or rehabilitate schools, local community, or state infrastructures with the goal to improve local sustainable development; restore safe lines, etc.
Recovery
Provide psychosocial support and mental health education to people affected by disasters to enable them to bounce back strongly.
Disaster Adaptation/Mitigation
Integrate Disaster Risk Management into the Nationa Development Policy; promote better water, sanitation, and hygiene practices to reduce the spread of diseases, etc.
OUR FINAL DESTINATION
Sustainable Developments
Our School/Community Disaster Risk Management Plan aims to bring sustainable development to the schools and communities we serve. To contribute to sustainable development, we:-
- Provide learners with access to quality education.
- Promote better WASH practices in schools and the learning community.
- Ensure good health and well-being of learners and staff in schools and the learning community.
- Build resilient schools and communities.
OUR TEAM
Kongnyuy Banseka FONLON
MSc. in Disaster Risk Management and Safety
Certificate in Project DPro
Teacher with MINESEC
Co-founder/Executive Director, School Safety Outreach
Christelle Ya-Nicole FOMBU
BSc. in Management Science
MSc. in Disaster Risk Management and Safety
Human Resource Officer
Bonaventure Ngong UKAH
MSc. in Disaster Risk Management and Safety
Teacher with Catholic Education Agency, Buea Diocese
Project Manager
Dr. Donatus LAYU
PhD. in Public Health
PMD Pro, MISP, MEAL
Consultant- Health Focal Point
Mbulle EKWELLE
MSc. in Disaster Risk Management and Safety
WASH Project Officer
Delise TAVNJONG
BSc. in Special Education
Psychosocial/Mental Health Focal Point
Emile BERINYUY
MSc. in Geography and Urban Planning
Climate Change Focal Point
Marie Kelly KIVEN
CAPIEMP, B.Ed in Curriculum Studies and Teaching