The 44.5 Foundation Difference
44.5 Foundation’s goal is to transform lives in Douala, Cameroon by being a reliable and trusted provider to underprivileged families living under deplorable living conditions. Our focus is on food donations to families and providing school education resources to underprivileged children who are seeking a right to an education.
Cameroon, Africa
Cameroon by Numbers:
- Population: 27.9 Million
- GDP per Capita: $1,499.37
- 40% of Cameroon lives below the poverty line
- 2.3 Million People are food insecure in Cameroon
- Minimum wage in Cameroon is 36,270 FCFA/month ($61.00)
- Internet Users: 33.5%
- Poverty rate stands at 25.3%
- 15% of urban population and 18% of rural population have access to clean running water within 30 minutes of home
Join us on the empowering of youth, families, and communities in the areas of community food drives, education empowerment, community outreach assistance, and clean water wells.
Our Impact by Numbers
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Equipped Technology Lab
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our programs
Community Outreach
We strive to create social impact by the adoption of an elementary school to support families with visible signs of poverty.
Community Food Drive
Our mission is simple – to serve families within the communities, globally.
Clean Water Wells
Together, with the local government authorities; we are building water wells to supply portable water in Cameroon, Africa.
Our Current Campaigns
Ramadan Food Drive
On April 19th 2022 The 44.5 Foundation Cameroon chapter hosted a food drive for Douala Muslim faithful at the Bonaberi Al Haqqou Masjid. We distributed to over 100 families 5kg bags of rice, 1L of cooking oil, 1kg of sugar, and 1kg of flour each. We have relentlessly worked to alleviate the economic burden caused on poor families due to rising inflation. As families gather to break bread at the end of each fasting day, 44.5 Foundation stands by them to honor their daily sacrifice.
Personal Donations of Supplies - Thank You
We are very grateful for any donations which are allocated to our partnership with SMART Bilingual Primary and Nursery School. Your donations, impacting 200 + children, with reading literacy, school supplies, and clothing.
Thank you once again for your generous contribution that will help us change the future of many underprivileged children.
Hon. Ndong Hilary
Hon. Ndong Hilary has made a donation of school supplies to the 44.5 Foundation. The donation included 100 notebooks and pens. He recognized that as a young NGO 44.5 Foundation has made impressive steps towards supporting the education of the less fortunate. He promised his continued support and also to canvass the assistance of other business community.
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American Association of University Women
We extend a very warm Thank You to the AAUW Atlanta Charter for donating reading books which will be extremely helpful in building a library for the students at SMART Bilingual Primary and Nursery School. This will help students explore the world of knowledge and increase their reading level.
We will always be grateful for this very kind gesture and thank AAUW for helping our students impower their education.
What Our Families Are Saying
So this morning we were so touched again by 44.5 Foundation who came in again with a very big consignment of books for our library which as you can see most of the shelves are empty and we plan on filling these shelves with the books and keep our children up to date. Many of our children now a days have lost that desire to read and thanks to 44.5, we would be able to make our children regain that desire to read again hoping in some way to change the world by making our children to love reading.
I'm Ms Emmanuella and i think these books are really going to help the children in the sense that they will spend time in reading the books and it will increase their language power and fluency. it will also help them to be good in narrating stories and they will learn new words.
We are very happy to receive this gift for it will motivate the kids to read a lot. We send a big thank you to 44.5 Foundation because through reading the children will develop more and reading has every aspect of child growth. So we thank 44.5 Foundation and may God abundantly bless you. Thank you 44.5 Foundation
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank 44.5 Foundation for this wonderful gesture that goes a long way to improve the quality of our library. As a teacher, any book donation is always welcome because it helps a lot towards achieving our goals. These books will help the kids to enrich themselves through the educative topics and of course get them to enjoy reading more. These books will help us improve the English reading skills of our children. We thank you for your wonderful gift. We are very moved by such a gesture. Thank you.
Ramadan Kareem to the 44.5 Foundation team. I wish your team God’s blessings. Mr Ahmed please tell your overseas partners a big thank you for everything you do for our community.
Please come back again. I heard about you all and came to see. You are very well organized. And to think of donating food during this month of Ramadan is particularly thoughtful
I thank God for the people at 44.5 Foundation. They have never disappointed us. We can count on them showing up for us.
This year fasting season has come with high prices in the market for basic food stuff. Thank you 44.5 Foundation for making the month easier for us Muslims.
Every time when we organize these donation drives, it is truly a labor of love. I cannot thank the people at 44.5 Foundation enough for allowing me to join them to bring so much relief to so many. Special thanks to Mr. Conroy for loving our people the way he does!
Good morning. I want to thank Allah who has allowed you people to come here again this morning. Just yesterday I went begging my neighbor for a little cooking oil to cook for the children. And that’s when I heard about the food drive today. Your generosity is God-sent. We love your commitment to us the less privileged. Please keep coming. Rahinatou Ali
My husband sent the kids away to the village because we simply cannot afford to keep them here in Douala. Too expensive with these prices that keep going up. We cannot thank you enough. You give us hope.
News & Events
June Food Drive
Clean Water Wells Together, with local authorities, we are building water wells to supply potable water to parts of sub-Saharan...
Read MoreJune 22, 2022Books Donation
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Read MoreJune 6, 2022Clothes Drive Donations
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Read MoreJune 4, 2022The African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meeting
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Read MoreMay 25, 2022Your Donations Impact
Along this journey, we have learned to celebrate the big moments, along with the small moments. We are excited to share EVERY moment with you!
- A donation of $25.00 provides a bag of food that feeds a family of 7 for 10 days.
- A donation of $100.00 provides new equipment for the school technology lab.
- A donation of $445.00 provides school tuition, textbooks, uniforms and supplies for 1 child for a school year.
- A donation of $1,000.00 provides 5% of the total cost to build a clean water well to benefit a village of 5,000 residents.
