The Youth Health Scouts for COVID-19 (YHS) is implemented under the framework of the GIZ/CIM “Migration and Diaspora Program” to promote the developmental engagement of migrant organizations. The YHS project is launched to train twenty (20) youth volunteers as frontline workers for the fights against COVID-19 in local communities in Kribi, Cameroon. The project will provide young people and most communities in Kribi and its surroundings with knowledge and skills to better understand the virus. The project envisages empowering the twenty (20) youth volunteers through education and awareness-raising on responding to the COVID-19 virus in their communities constructively. The YHS initiative also seeks to address issues of education and awareness-raising of the virus, particularly on the method of transmission, control, and prevention. It is expected that proper education and awareness through the transfer of knowledge from the Diaspora to the YHS volunteers and their communities will help to enlighten and counteract cultural beliefs, practices and misconceptions that could reduce the spread of the disease in Cameroon. Thus, the project intends to teach young people and communities in Cameroon constructive ways of prevention.

To create a team of Youth Health Scouts (YHS) that will respond constructively to the fight against COVID-19 in communities around Kribi, South Cameroon.

 Train twenty (20) youth volunteers as scouts and frontline workers to respond to COVID-19.
 Transfer knowledge and skills from the Diaspora to young people in kribi, Cameroon.
 Empower young people through training, education and awareness-raising.
 Educate young people on the mode of transmission, control and prevention of the COVID-19 virus.
 Mobilize young people in the fight against COVID-19.
 Establish an exchange between the Diaspora and youth in Cameroon in the fight against COVID-19.

 We expect to mitigate the pandemic’s socio-economic impact in disadvantaged, vulnerable and at-risk communities through awareness-raising and advocacy on protection measures and the prevention of health risks.
 We expect to mobilize young people as front liners to create a Youth Health Scout (YHS) for the fight against COVID-19 in Cameroon.
 We envisage that through the multiplier/snowball effect of training 20 Youth Health Scouts, approximately 2,000 people will be reached and will benefit from the skills and knowledge shared/transferred to them to reduce the spread and community contamination of COVID-19 by 20%.
 We anticipate building and strengthening the capacities of these 20 YHS, who will build the capacities of their communities through the skills and knowledge they have acquired in the domain of Health Crisis management and community mobilization in times of crisis.
 We envisaged to a platform of YHS will be established as significant to combat COVID-19. As such, a list of these trained YHS having the necessary tools to deal with possible health crises will be made available to public authorities.

This project is supported by The Centre for International Migration and Development (CIM)

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