MAMIKEUChildren of Marie Mikeu Association
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Pupils of Yantou Public School holding up the school kits they have just received

We move the Community forward through innovative, collaborative projects

Building a dignified, self-reliant future in the heart of rural Cameroon.

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In partnership with Avery Dennison Foundation◍Fokoué Town Council◍Fokoué Inclusive Public School◍Yantou Public School◍Development committees · National & international NGOs◍
Who we are

Three arcs, one movement

MAMIKEU — the Association of the children of Marie Mikeu — was created on the initiative of all the children who lived with Marie Mikeu. Its mission: to contribute to the socio-economic development of educationally and economically disadvantaged people, in particular teenage mothers, widows and orphans, through training, education, mentorship, workshops, coaching and entrepreneurship.

The association takes root in the values of equity and equal opportunity. It runs on a voluntary basis: the members contribute, decide and carry out the projects on the ground, with schools, the town council and partner foundations.

Vision, mission & valuesExecutive board
Latest field action · March 2026

Back to School: school kits handed over at Fokoué and Yantou

With the support of the Avery Dennison Foundation, pupils of the Fokoué Centre-Ville Inclusive Public School and the Yantou Public School received full school kits — bags, books and supplies.

Read the project sheet ⟶
Pupils with their kits in front of the Fokoué-Ville Inclusive Public School signMAMIKEU / Avery D. Foundation 2026 school bagBags, exercise books and supplies of the 2026 kit laid out before the handover
Programme areas

Five arcs, one circle

Click an arc to explore the area and the projects attached to it.

01
Health & Nutrition
01 — Focus area

Health & Nutrition

Feeding, caring, supporting the mothers and children of the district, in support of the Social & Medical Centre.

Identified projects 2025-26
  • Food donations to children
  • Medical equipment donated to the Social & Medical Centre
  • Christmas and New Year gifts
  • Health care for children during campaigns
  • Layette and nutrition for mothers
Explore Health & Nutrition
02 — Focus area

Business & Entrepreneurship

Building the association's own resources and supporting members' economic activities.

Identified projects 2025-26
  • Purchase of rental equipment (dishes, tables, pots, tents)
  • Purchase of generators for rental
  • Purchase of office equipment
  • Support to group members for economic activities
  • Creation of a MAMIKEU function hall
Explore Business & Entrepreneurship
03 — Focus area

Agriculture & Environment

Sowing, planting, cleaning: making the area more productive and healthier, season after season.

Identified projects 2025-26
  • Seeds handed over to women
  • Fruit tree planting
  • Cleaning of public places (hospital, market, town hall, etc.)
  • Holiday camps
Explore Agriculture & Environment
04 — Focus area

Education & Training

Getting and keeping children in school, and giving young people and women a trade.

Identified projects 2025-26
  • Training in sewing, dyeing, soap, oil, etc.
  • Back to school (school supplies handover)
  • Academic scholarships
  • Sponsoring of training placements at Fokoué hospital
  • Seminars on entrepreneurship, moral values, etc.
Explore Education & Training
05 — Focus area

Collaboration & Partnership

Acting alongside the institutions and organisations that serve the same area as we do.

Identified projects 2025-26
  • Fokoué Town Council
  • National and international NGOs
  • Development committees
Explore Collaboration & Partnership

Get involved

Three ways to join the circle.

01 · Membership

Become a member

Founding, adherent, partner, honorary or benefactor: the statutes set out who may join and how.

03 · Volunteering

Give your time

Campaigns, holiday camps, clean-ups, training: the coordinators answer directly, in Cameroon and abroad.

Our origin

The living legacy of Marie Mikeu

Portrait of Marie Mikeu
Fokoué & Fomopea: solidarity and the passing on of family values.

In the light of her life and of the values Marie Mikeu passed on to us, our commitment was born of a duty of the heart: to carry on her legacy of generosity, of listening, and of active kindness.

MAMIKEU was founded to lastingly change daily life for disadvantaged families in rural areas, and above all in the Fokoué subdivision and the village of Fomopea.

Identity
Name
Association des enfants de Marie Mikeu — MAMIKEU
Registered office
Fokoué, Menoua Division, West Region, Cameroon
Fiscal year
1 January to 31 December
Declaration receipt
no. 00043/RDA/F.34/SAAJP, 23 April 2025

Preamble

« On the initiative of all the children who lived with MIKEU Marie, the association of the children of MIKEU Marie, named MAMIKEU, is created. The association takes root in the values of equity and equal opportunity. Those values guide its mission and the choice of its action programmes, notably in the field of training, education, environmental protection, agriculture, human rights and Health. »

Statutes drawn up in December 2024. Declaration receipt issued at Dschang by the Prefect of the Menoua Division, under article 7 of law no. 90/053 of 19 December 1990 on freedom of association.

Our story and local commitment

MAMIKEU (the Children of Marie Mikeu Association) was born of a shared resolve: to lastingly change daily life for disadvantaged families in rural Cameroon, and above all in the Fokoué subdivision and the village of Fomopea. Against socio-economic hardship and geographic isolation, we are a committed citizens' collective set on concrete, durable answers.

Our vision and strategic goals

We hold that autonomy and dignity are won through fitting local infrastructure and the passing on of skills. Our work rests on four pillars.

  1. Family empowerment

    Helping rural households stand on their own through technical assistance, direct grants, practical training and access to education.

  2. Equity and solidarity

    Building mutual-aid work founded on social justice, alongside those most vulnerable and most in need.

  3. Enterprise and the fight against poverty

    Encouraging local economic initiative, income-generating activities (IGAs) and self-employment.

  4. Strategic partnerships

    Promoting co-operation with associations, national and international NGOs and local institutions — the Fokoué Town Council among them — that share our values.

Mission

« To contribute to the socio-economic development of educationally and economically disadvantaged people, in particular teenage mothers, widows and orphans, through training, education, mentorship, workshops, coaching and entrepreneurship programmes. »

Vision

« To become a benchmark civil-society association in Cameroon in promoting the socio-economic emergence of the female and male skills of disadvantaged families. »

Values

Integrity, honesty, transparency, responsibility and team spirit: a state of mind, a culture and a way of being that frame everyone's conduct.

Our objectives

  1. Help people from disadvantaged families to support themselves through technical assistance, grants, training and education programmes.
  2. Set up mutual-aid and assistance works founded on the principles of equity, for widows, orphans, vulnerable people and those in need.
  3. Promote the spirit of enterprise.
  4. Facilitate programmes to fight poverty.
  5. Facilitate programmes for adaptation to climate change and for the protection and preservation of biodiversity.
  6. Promote partnerships with associations pursuing the same objectives, nationally and internationally.

Means of action

  1. All kinds of support, financial in particular, granted to institutions and bodies working within the scope of its mission.
  2. Scholarships and school supplies granted at each new school year to a defined number of children.
  3. Charity events and gatherings organised in connection with its mission.
  4. Participation in building and running recreational facilities in line with its mission.
  5. Training and transmission of knowledge relating to craft trades.
  6. Information campaigns created on subjects related to its purpose.
  7. Support to young people's economic and entrepreneurial initiatives.
  8. Resources mobilised to improve the living conditions of economically disadvantaged young people.

Priority axes

01
Training and information
02
Entrepreneurship
03
Education
04
Health and the protection of the rights of disadvantaged people

Financial transparency

The association runs on a voluntary basis. Its resources are members' dues, registration fees and the material or financial contributions of benefactors and partners. Each year the executive board produces an income statement, a statement of use of resources, a balance sheet and its annexes, presented to the General Assembly and checked by the auditors. In 2026 the members also gave more than 120 hours of volunteer work to coordination, data collection and report writing. No financial transaction takes place on this site.

98.77%
of the 2026 budget spent
84.82%
in direct support to students
120 h
of members' volunteer work
Reports & activity records
A document handed to a young mother during a field operation
01

Health & Nutrition

Feeding, caring, supporting the mothers and children of the district, in support of the Social & Medical Centre.

  • Food donations to children
  • Medical equipment donated to the Social & Medical Centre
  • Christmas and New Year gifts
  • Health care for children during campaigns
  • Layette and nutrition for mothers

Programmes in this area

Health equipment
Regular gifts of medical equipment and consumables to Fokoué hospital and the rural health centres.
Prevention and vaccination campaigns
Financial or logistical backing to ease children's access to basic care and vaccines.
Support for young mothers and infants
Layette kits, food aid and clothing handed to young mothers without means.
MAMIKEU officers conferring during a handover
02

Business & Entrepreneurship

Building the association's own resources and supporting members' economic activities.

  • Purchase of rental equipment (dishes, tables, pots, tents)
  • Purchase of generators for rental
  • Purchase of office equipment
  • Support to group members for economic activities
  • Creation of a MAMIKEU function hall

Programmes in this area

Support for income-generating activities
Technical support and micro-funding that let women and young people stand on their own through income-generating activities.
Shared equipment
Buying and managing community equipment with real economic weight.
The hills and village of Fokoué seen from the school yard
03

Agriculture & Environment

Sowing, planting, cleaning: making the area more productive and healthier, season after season.

  • Seeds handed over to women
  • Fruit tree planting
  • Cleaning of public places (hospital, market, town hall, etc.)
  • Holiday camps

Programmes in this area

Seed distribution to rural women
Quality seed and farming equipment supplied, strengthening the part mothers already play in the household economy.
Reforestation and fruit trees
Fruit-tree planting campaigns that hold back erosion, widen diets and open new sources of income.
Public hygiene and sanitation
Community clean-up days for public places: markets, hospitals and schools.
School kits handed out to pupils of Yantou Public School
04

Education & Training

Getting and keeping children in school, and giving young people and women a trade.

  • Training in sewing, dyeing, soap, oil, etc.
  • Back to school (school supplies handover)
  • Academic scholarships
  • Sponsoring of training placements at Fokoué hospital
  • Seminars on entrepreneurship, moral values, etc.

Programmes in this area

Annual « Back to School » programme
Full school kits handed out — a sturdy satchel, exercise books, pens, erasers and slates — and school and parents'-association fees covered at every new term. In March 2026 the edition funded by the Avery Dennison Foundation equipped 100 primary pupils in two public schools in Fokoué and Fomopea.
Study grants
Financial support for deserving pupils and those from families in real hardship, so their schooling is not broken off. In 2026, 50 excellence grants were awarded on school results, at every level: 27 in primary, 13 in secondary and 10 at university, 31 of them to girls.
Trades training centre
A learning centre for sewing, dyeing and manual trades, opening a working future to young people out of school.
Medical placement sponsorship
Housing and settling-in costs covered for health students on placement at Fokoué hospital.
Educational holiday camps
Socio-cultural activities, tutoring and citizenship workshops run through the school holidays.
The MAMIKEU team behind the Avery Dennison Foundation partnership banner
05

Collaboration & Partnership

Acting alongside the institutions and organisations that serve the same area as we do.

  • Fokoué Town Council
  • National and international NGOs
  • Development committees
Current partner
Avery Dennison Foundation

Funding partner of the March 2026 school kit handovers in Fokoué Centre-Ville and Yantou.

Project focus

The « Back to School » initiative

Every year MAMIKEU mobilises for school success across the Fokoué subdivision and the village of Fomopea. Through handing out supplies, having uniforms made locally and helping repair run-down school buildings, we let every child go back to school in decent conditions. In March 2026, with the support of the Avery Dennison Foundation, the edition gave 100 primary pupils a school kit in two public schools, awarded 50 excellence grants from primary to university level, and supported 150 families in all.

News journal

This page carries the progress of our work on the ground, the reports of our distribution campaigns, and the accounts of beneficiaries and local partners.

The school kits blessed before the handover, YantouSatchels handed to the youngest pupils, YantouThe team and pupils in front of Yantou Public School

The 2026 journey

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Done · March 2026
Handover ceremony at the Fokoué Centre-Ville Inclusive Public School

Handover ceremony — Fokoué Centre-Ville Inclusive Public School

School kits handed to pupils in the presence of the school authorities and MAMIKEU members.

Done · March 2026
A group of pupils with their school kits

Back to School — the pupils and their kits

Bags, exercise books and supplies distributed class by class.

Done · March 2026
Banner of the kit handover at Yantou Public School

Handover — Yantou Public School

Second site of the operation, with the Avery Dennison Foundation.

Done · March 2026
An individual handover to a beneficiary, away from the ceremony

Individual handovers

Pupils followed personally by members, outside the ceremony.

Next step

Seeds handed over to women

Date and site to be confirmed
Pupils gathered around the ceremony banner, Fokoué Centre-Ville
Education & Training · March 2026

School kits — Fokoué Centre-Ville Inclusive Public School

Handover ceremony with the Avery Dennison Foundation. Together with the Yantou school, the operation gave 100 primary pupils a school kit.

Per-school breakdown not stated in the report
Yantou pupils holding up the school kits they have just received
Education & Training · March 2026

School kits — Yantou Public School

Second site of the Back to School 2026 operation, which gave 100 primary pupils a school kit across the two schools.

Per-school breakdown not stated in the report
School bag marked AS. MAMIKEU / Avery D. Foundation 2026
Education & Training · 2026

The 2026 kit

Satchels marked AS. MAMIKEU / Avery D. Foundation 2026. Each kit holds a sturdy satchel, exercise books, pens, erasers and slates.

Business & Entrepreneurship

MAMIKEU function hall

Progress to be confirmed
Agriculture & Environment

Fruit tree planting

Progress to be confirmed
Health & Nutrition

Medical equipment for the Social & Medical Centre

Progress to be confirmed
Education

Academic scholarships

A continuing programme: 50 grants were already awarded in March 2026, and the offer runs on in the years that follow.

Education

Training in sewing, dyeing, soap, oil

Education

Sponsoring of training placements at Fokoué hospital

Agriculture

Seeds handed over to women

Environment

Cleaning of public places

Environment

Holiday camps

Business

Rental equipment: dishes, tables, pots, tents

Business

Generators for rental

Health

Layette and nutrition for mothers

Activity reportPeriod to be confirmed · PDF
Financial reportPeriod to be confirmed · PDF
Back to School 2026 end-of-project reportPDF · 4.1 MB
Funders & partners

Become a partner in rural impact

Standing with MAMIKEU funds concrete work directly, with no intermediary. Whether you are a funder, a company or an individual, every contribution changes a life in Fokoué and Fomopea.

Open the contact formlesenfantsdemariemikeu@gmail.com

Ways to give, offline

Institutional partnership & funders

Funding multi-year programmes (education, health, IGAs) on the basis of structured project files.

Gifts by bank transfer or mobile money

Details sent on direct request or through the contact form.

Volunteering & skills patronage

Join our working committees or bring your technical expertise to our teams in the field.

01 · Membership

Become a member

The association is made up of founding members, adherent members and partner members. Anyone able to put their knowledge and skills at the service of the mission may become an adherent member.

  • Founding members: those present at the constitutive assembly of the first meeting.
  • Honorary members: awarded by the General Assembly for services rendered; exempt from dues, consultative voice.
  • Partner members: national associations directly partnered with the association's operations.
Secretary general
TESSA Richard
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02 · Donate

Fund an action

Choose the area you want to support, then go through the contact form.

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03 · Volunteering

Give your time

Coordinator
MBOMEDA Jean
Deputy coordinator
FOMI Georges
Offer your help

Events

Dates to be confirmed by MAMIKEU
Upcoming

General Assembly

The assembly that sets the dues, reviews the accounts and adopts the coming year's projects.

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Past · March 2026

Back to School handover ceremonies

Fokoué Centre-Ville and Yantou, with the Avery Dennison Foundation.

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Contacts ⟶
For members

Deciding, contributing, reporting

  • Statutory meetings and project votes
  • Dues and mutual support fund
  • Seminars on entrepreneurship and moral values
  • Support to members' economic activities
For non-members

Open to the whole community

  • School kit handovers
  • Health care campaigns for children
  • Clean-ups of public places
  • Holiday camps and trade training
Flagship event

Annual general meeting

Once a year, the members gather: accounts are presented, actions are reviewed, and the projects of the coming year are adopted. It is also the moment when new members are welcomed.

Take part
Next edition
Date and venue to be confirmed
Previous editions
History to be provided by MAMIKEU
Contact address
Dschang — Fokoué
Menoua Division
West Region
Cameroon
lesenfantsdemariemikeu@gmail.com+237 675 39 68 80www.mamikeu.org
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