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:          Help design communication tools to insert on the electronic platform of AJVC/ REJEFAC.          Work with the community to solve local projects.          Work on research themes at the rural level.          Creation of a day center for young and disable people from a town or region.          Creation of green spaces at the rural level with community.          Develop local facilities (hiking...)          Transform a piece of wasteland into a public garden Cultural & free time The volunteers will have the possibility to choose amongst the towns and villages of the west regions, very diverse. Some of the famous town are: Foumban is a city in the central part of Cameroon, one of the best recreation centers in the country and an important center of traditional arts. Bafoussam is the capital of the West Province of Cameroon, in the Bamboutos Mountains. And the city is the region's center of trade. People are farmers who grow coffee, tobacco and tea. The city has also a coffee processing facility and brewery. It is the main city of the Bamiléké people and is the home of a chief's palace. has two main markets (Marché A and Marché B), several internet cafes, restaurants and supermarkets and a movie theater. Most of Bafoussam nightlife centers on the area called Akwa (so-named in the honor of the neighborhood in Douala). Akwa features several bars, stores, and a live music venue, along with customary vendors of soya (grilled meat brochettes), poisson braisé (grilled fish) and other foods. The Batcham - Bamenda area has big deposits of volcanic salts with a unique composition containing virtually every known trace element and in the future it may become one of the best spa resorts in Africa. There is also the big mount Bamboutos and large falls and sacred forest.  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.