5. June 2024 Project reports, Central African Republic

Central African Republic

In the Central African Republic, Cap Anamur is expanding the Bossembélé hospital into an interdisciplinary clinic. A team of doctors also provides care for the patients and trains local staff.

Cap Anamur has been building schools in the Central African Republic for years
Cap Anamur baut seit Jahren Schulen in der Zentralafrikanischen Republik

In the Central African Republic, the illiteracy rate for the over-15s is around 60 %. The school system has suffered from the years of civil war; schools were destroyed and hardly any new ones were built. In rural regions in particular, many children do not even start school because they have to contribute to the family income by working from an early age.

The school system in the Central African Republic has suffered from the years of civil war, with schools destroyed and hardly any new ones built.
Give the gift of the future – build schools

We have already completed the new building of the elementary school in Bondio at the end of 2020.

The foundation stone for another elementary school was laid in mid-2021. In Bowesse 2, a village in the hinterland of our project location Bossembélé, school lessons were held in the premises of the church, as only a ruin remained of the original school.
Last year, with the support of the Reiner Meutsch Foundation, we were also able to build a new school here. In mid-December, the official inauguration ceremony took place, which was even covered by the state TV station and radio.

In Bowesse 2, a village in the hinterland of our project location Bossembélé, Cap Anamur built a school in 2021.
The demand is great – we build more schools

In December 2021, our craftsmen moved directly on to Bossongo Café Parish after completing work at Bowesse 2. There is only one private school there so far. Representatives from the Ministry of Education approached Cap Anamur because many families cannot afford the cost of a private school and the need for a private school is great. We could still make a commitment to build the public school in the fall of 2021.

As the Central African Republic is currently outside the rainy season, we expect to be able to meet the planned construction time of three months and inaugurate another school in spring 2022.

Cap Anamur is building another school in the Central African Republic in 2022.
Outlook

We are also planning an expansion of the school in Bossembélé for this spring. Here the number of students exceeds its capacity. We plan to build three additional classrooms.
Plans are also underway to build a library in Bossembélé. The provincial capital is home to the schools’ book depository for the entire region. In a newly constructed building, the teaching material could thus be properly housed. With this, we are building the first library in our history. To date, Cap Anamur has built over 70 schools worldwide in 42 years.

We continue to try in this way to offer a better future to the girls and boys in the Central African Republic.