WHO WE ARE

Rural Youths in Action (RUYAC) is a legally registered non-profit organization founded in January 2020 and is committed at empowering youth’s, especially vulnerable female gender living in rural communities of Cameroon, through education, health care education climate and environmental preservation. Its activities of youth empowerment are mostly focused in the Western region and the two war-torn Anglophone regions of Cameroon, although its operations also extend to rural communities in other parts of the country.

OUR VISION

Rural Youths in Action (RUYAC), has the vision of empowering Cameroonian youths residing in rural communities to become literate, overcome poverty and enjoy good health while preserving the rural environment.

OUR MISSION

RUYAC has the mission to empower youths in rural communities through education, health education, climate  and environmental preservation.

FOUNDING HISTORY

The organization was founded by Nkeze Martin a seasoned teacher with extensive experience in living, teaching and working with social enterprises in rural communities. As an orphan, Nkeze was raised in Fontem village by his grandmother, mami Regina Emenkia of blessed memory. His difficult childhood experience (difficulties to access quality education and health care) in rural communities as well as the experience of working for 12+ years in rural communities inspired the creation of Rural Youths in Action (RUYAC), as a panacea to some of the basic challenges (illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, social discrimination, low healthcare and environment degradation) encountered by youths residing in rural communities of war-torn regions of Cameroon.

The organization operated as an unregistered grassroots initiative at the outbreak of the Anglophone crises in 2017 before obtaining its legal non-profit status in January 2020.

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RUYAC’s board and executive are composed of a dynamic and gender-balanced team of young professionals all residing in rural communities of Cameroon with extensive experience drawn from several domains of life. RUYAC’s collaborative approach has enabled her to attract over 27 volunteers assisting in the organization’s mission of empowering youths in rural communities.

Thanks to continuous collaboration with government agencies, indigenes, religious authorities, corporate authorities and private stakeholders RUYAC has already empowered 40000+ youths in rural communities and plans to impact over 1 million youths in rural communities

HOW RUYAC WORKS

Being committed to the passion of empowering youths in the war-torn regions of Cameroon, RUYAC leverages on collaboration with youths, corporations, individuals, governments and other key stakeholders to initiate innovative solutions that empower youths living in rural communities. RUYAC supports and empowers rural youths through three (3) of its priority domains in line with SDG 3, 4 &13.

  1. Education
  2. Health care education
  3. Climate & Environmental preservation 

Every donation/grant to RUYAC is made towards a specific project domain as listed above and our accountability values ensure that every donation/grant is used for the specific project domain as indicated by our donors. Donors have to indicate their interest area to avoid donations serving different project(s).

Because our focus and passion remains the empowerment of rural youths, at RUYAC we ensure that over 91 % of donations serve directly for rural youths’ empowerment and less than 9 % of donations are used as expenditure for administrative purposes.

Our support for rural youths is none discriminatory to racial differences, political differences, tribal differences religious differences and sexual orientations. However considering our limited resources, we accord privileges to the more vulnerable youths in rural areas. At RUYAC we consider the following as more vulnerable youths in rural communities:

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  • Unemployed young girls in rural communities
  • Orphans and young widows in rural communities
  • Youths with some serious physical challenges in rural communities
  • Youths whose parents have a serious physical challenge in rural areas
  • Convicts & Ex-convicts living in rural communities.
  • Youths from economically poor family background living in rural communities.
  • Internally displaced persons, refugees and victims of war living in rural communities.
  • Youths who are current victims of social segregation and rejection in rural communities

Committed to demonstrating ACCOUNTABILITY to our donors and partners, RUYAC ensures that feedback is given to donors/partners on how and what their donations have contributed to empowering youths in rural communities. This is done by presenting GPS images (pictures and videos) as well as reports of RUYAC’s activities on the organization’s website and RUYAC’s social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, linkedln. For greater accountability, RUYAC is committed to sending these images (pictures & videos) and reports directly to her donors upon request.