Volunteer work Cultural & free time Learning activities Accommodation & food In country staff Volunteer work As a calendar of activities, the volunteers will have a part time working day and field visit in the region - 5 days a week ( the 6th  day for meeting) and one day off, flexible agenda. Meetings will take place in Yaounde at AJVC organization for evaluation and planning. The main fields where the volunteers are needed in this region are the following:          Environmental and health education in schools; collection for recycling waste and reforestation,          Work with the network of focal points on youths activities          Public work in the markets places          Work with some poor families in their farms to help grandmothers and fathers in the villages          Help to put in place youth clubs and youths associations          Work with existing youths groups          Elaborate strategies on training and access to resources in schools and universities          Help design communication tools to insert on the electronic platform          Environment campaigns and organize visits in the parks and zoos          Support to illiterate youngsters and English classes in schools          Research, field work, support to the elderly and vulnerable youths Cultural & free time Since the jihad led by an Islamic cleric in 1804, the northern region has been culturally dominated by the Fulani. Urban Fulani are renowned as clerics in the Sunni branch of Islam. Most Fulani are cattle herders. The main crops in this area include cotton and millet. The Waza National Park, located in the far north of Cameroon, is of great interest to those who are interested in African flora and fauna. Regarding the specificity of the Adamawa Province, written and oral accounts both testify that it is considered as the point of convergence, encounter and dispersal of our major Bantu and Sudano-Sahelian cultural traditions. Lastly, regarding the major towns and cities of the "Great North", each of them organises a grand annual festival, especially during the touristic season which runs from November to May. Such festivals provide a suitable occasion for extensive, cultural and artistic displays, punctuated by a thousand and one very colourful and diversified attractions.   Learning activities All of this rich tradition will be a learning experience for all of the volunteers, the culture, the language and the life in the community. The volunteers will gain a lot from the intercultural exchange, they will gain a sense of initiative, the meaning of an active life, new ideas and new ways of thinking, less stereotypes, by knowing a different social and cultural environment. They will be able to put their energy, enthusiasm and creativity to good use by participating in practical activities which they will define. They will learn about taking responsibility and team work and about organizing and management of their time and activities. We will offer opportunities for volunteers to make a meaningful contribution to international education by living together with Cameroonian youngsters and teaching them a variety of things. The EVS programs include: full-time in-country coordinator; intensive in-country orientation including language training; board and lodging with host families/apartments which will contribute more to an authentic and intense learning process. The international language of football goes a long way in breaking down barriers, be them cultural or language. Either way, volunteers will find that teaching basic sports, democracy, leavings skills to the children is a great way to work with young people, stay fit and discover the beautiful country of Cameroon. Volunteers will use sports as the vehicle to teach important life skills to kids in orphanages, organizations, and schools while also seeing and experiencing the culture, wildlife and countryside. Expect to assist with the caring of the horses and animals and become 'bush wise' learning African wildlife. The surrounding reserves are host to the lions, elephants, rhinos, buffalos and monkeys . Experience and become involved in conservation, community life, and ecology projects. Teaching orphans, tracking wildlife and helping on safari is just the tip of the iceberg. You may want to get hands-on in a wildlife rehabilitation centre, a cultural center for youth or communities, learn how to track wildlife or join a research project in a national park or a local project. Volunteering with Jeunesse Verte du Cameroun allows you to make a real difference to wildlife in Cameroon with some of our partners. AJVC also implements sustainable after school programs to teach life skills and the importance of environment and healthy living. Accomodation & food We will host the volunteers either in hosting families, either in rented apartments, in hostels near their field work and also in our focal points families in the region. Sometimes we will organize with the chief of the village and the community and town institution. We will look for the better option depending on the region and the availability of accommodation facilities. For the food, it is very easy; the organization will make some provision with the volunteer or the hosting family. Each month , the volunteers will receive monthly allowances, and the organization will provide the food either to the volunteer or the host family depending on the place where he/she will be hosted. The volunteer will also receive support for his transportation. We will support also the volunteer in obtaining the visa. In county staff Marie Tamoifo EVS country coordinator   Mary is 35 years old, she has obtained a Bachelor's degree in private law and now she’s is doing an online master on public law, environment, ethics of organizations and professions. During the French and African Head of States Summit that took place in Bamako 2005, she was the African woman representative of youth who spoke in youth name. She organized the regional youth consultation of central Africa towards Africa -Europe Summit that took place in Lisbon in 2007. At the end of 2008, she was elected by the central Africa youths leaders, the regional coordinator of Rejefac (Youth network of central African for forest). She is also the president of “Association Jeunesse Verte du Cameroun¨, based in Cameroon. Marie has dedicated her life to promote and to improve civil society participation and work. She is powerful, dynamic, bilingual and open-minded and she is a pure product of learning by doing. We are all volunteers in our youth organizations; we have some experts though and permanent workers in the association. The permanent AJVC youths volunteers are mainly in the center region in Yaoundé. They have diverse backgrounds, they are familiar with non formal education and talented youths ( 20 young leaders). They work as public relations officer, secretary, documentary, IT , project managers, researchers of opportunities for funding our projects and programs. They are used to work with different networks of organizations and the focal points that we have in the regions, partners and institutions. We have an office in Yaoundé with an advisory board and then focal points run by youth leaders for our network in all the regions of Cameroon.