Peace Corps in Cameroon

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History of the Peace Corps in Cameroon
The Peace Corps entered Cameroon in 1962 with 20 Volunteers who came as math/science teachers. Peace Corps Cameroon’s program grew and diversified to include inland fisheries, credit union/cooperatives education, English teaching, community forestry, health, and community development. Since then, approximately 4,000 Volunteers have served in Cameroon. Currently, there are four active projects in Cameroon: education, Community health, agroforestry, and small enterprise development. The common themes that run through all Peace Corps Cameroon projects are impact, focus, counterpart involvement, Volunteer competence, and organizational professionalism. Through collaboration and good teamwork, the Peace Corps has made a difference in many aspects of life in Cameroon, one community at a time.

Community Health Project
Having gone through numerous revisions and updates over the past 20 years to effectively meet Cameroon's continuously evolving needs, the community health project, returns in 2006 as a combined community health and community development project. As such, it supports the priorities of the Ministries of Public Health and MINADER, collaborating with health care and community development professionals, to empower communities to improve their quality of life by assessing their needs and resources and undertaking their own projects to strengthen local health and community conditions. Additionally, the project is designed to assist the government of Cameroon to extend preventive health care, self reliance, and health promotion to the community level.