Dear friends, collaborators and supporters,
I hope this day finds you well. I am pleased to share with you the Harambe Cameroon youth engagement campaign that was conducted during the month of February called : "Am I Doing Something?" (A.I.D.S)
The reason why we launched this Campaign during youth week is to encourage the youths of our country to think beyond parties, myopic goals, snap out of victimization, and ask themselves the JFK question:
" Do not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
We identified 35 young Cameroonians under 35 "Doing Something" through leadership and entrepeneurship in multiple fields : Arts, Engineering, Health, Fashion, Music, Agriculture, ICT, Social Activism, Entrepreneurship, Sports.
The goal is to showcase young-success-stories that will inspire thousands more to ask themselves the introspective question : "Am I doing Something?"
The 35 youth leaders who came together to shoot 3-minutes PSA - and ask with one voice : "Am I Doing Something?"
highlighted who they are, what they are doing, why they are doing it, how they are doing it, some of the challenges, how they overcame them, and a message to the youth.
We launched the teaser video on the 29th February (Leap Day) - to prepare everyone for the One-day-One-video campaign we will launch on March 15th : Publishing a 3-mins video of each one of our 35-doers on our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/
And in parallel, we will negociate with TV & Radio outlets to help us disseminate the word even further than our online reach.
The ultimate goal is to have this campaign be an annual campaign, broadcasted accross our national and international media channels highlight another story of African youths, leaders and entrepreneurs. We hope this concept - scalable and easily implementable - will spread to other countries in the sub-region and the entire continent. We plan to publish 1 000 DVDs - which will be given free-of-charge to our network of youths through out the country, so that they may learn from their counterparts, they may be inspired to "do something", and engaged to action.
In addition to the support of the British High Comission, to cover our operations, we are currently fundraising to produce 1,000 DVDs ( 2.5 million FCFA ($5000) ) which will be distributed through our network of youth leaders in universities and secondary schools.
If you are interested in joining the pilot project of this annual initiative, please contact us via the official Am I Doing Something account : iamdoingsomething2012@gmail.
In the meantime, we hope you will help us spread the word (by forwarding this message to your networks) about our Youth Engagement Campaign - as an example, not only for Cameroon, but for Africa's youths and each one of us, to ask ourselves the question : Am I Doing Something?
As always, we are open to suggestions, feedback, opinions, financial & in-kind support.
Wishing you a great month ahead.
Harambe On!
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