Marie Auxiliatrice - Gondon

Available Ministries

Education
Teacher (Primary)
Teacher (Secondary)
Agricultural
Vocational
Cosmetology
Maternal & Child Care
Social Work
Youth Centre

Location

Bafia, Cameroon

Time Commitment

July-August or September-June

Opportunities

Female

Posted by Lena Mestdagh

Ministry Background

Bafia is a town in Cameroon located in the Center region, 120 km north of Yaoundé. Bafia is the capital of the Mbam-et-Inoubou department. It has approximately 55,700 inhabitants. It is the third largest city in the Center region after Yaoundé and Mbalmayo.
The Bafia are a Bantu population of Central Africa, established in Cameroon on the right bank of the Mbam, east of the Bapéi mountains (Mbam department, Bafia sub-prefecture).
They are mainly farmers, although they also hunt in the dry season. Their territory covers a region of equatorial savannah watered by small tributaries of the Mbam and the Sanaga and interspersed with islands of sparse forest. It is a land of contacts between the savannah of North- and the forest of South-Cameroon.
They speak Bafia, a Bantu language.
The Bafians are animists, Muslims or Christians. The Bafians were the followers of traditional primitive religions. The Bafians are mostly believers, there is much more Christianity than Islam (very minority in the region)

Purpose & Objectives

Education and training of children and young people

Programs, Activities, & Other Projects

Youth center with school activities (school support) and extra-curricular activities (games, sports, music, singing, dancing, manual activities)
Oratorio for the youngest with leisure activities
Vocational training center: stillyst-modelist, secretarial-office-accounting, pastry-cooking-hospitality, decoration, hairdressing-aesthetics, IT-maintenance, agro-pastoral.
Boarding school for girls
A field / vegetable garden
Catechesis and training of catechists in the parish
Youth groups and movements in the parish and in the diocese
Follow-up of religion courses in the Catholic schools of the diocese
Reception of vocational girls / pre-aspirants

Duties & Responsibilities

Animate activities with children and young people
Participate in the care and maintenance of equipment, premises
Teach and train in the areas in which we are prepared
Participate in the experience and preparation of the different moments of celebrations

Practical Qualifications/Skills Needed

Have finished high school
Know the French language
Love children and young people and have the desire to animate activities with them
Know how to live and work together
Want to live an experience with a religious community

Useful Academic Preparation

It would be very useful to have people with skills for our Vocational Training Center: stillyst-modelist, secretariat-office automation-accounting, pastry-cooking-hotel trade, decoration, hairdressing-aesthetics, IT-maintenance, agro-pastoral.

Useful Experience

To be able to teach and to be able to follow a practical workshop in this field
To be able to offer training for the trainers that we have on site

Involvement with the religous community

We form an educational community with lay missionaries. We share meals, prayers, moments of celebration. There are moments together, there are also moments reserved solely for the community. The midday meal we are all together, for the morning and the evening the lay missionaries can organize themselves differently, but the community plans everything with them.

Area Information

Youth center / Oratorio
Vocational training center
Boarding school / hostel
Tutoring for high school students
Fields/vegetable garden

Involvement with the greater community

The participation, the involvement of the lay missionary depends a lot on itself. With them, we will form a family.

Housing & Community

Live with Religious

Yes

Room

Shared

Daily Eucharist

Yes

Bathroom