Marie Auxiliatrice - Gondon
Available Ministries
- Education
- Teacher (Primary)
- Teacher (Secondary)
- Agricultural
- Vocational
- Cosmetology
- Maternal & Child Care
- Social Work
- Youth Centre
Location
Time Commitment
Opportunities
Language
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
Room
Daily Eucharist
Bathroom
Access to ATM