About Us
The Fobang Foundation, a nonprofit, apolitical and non-governmental organization was created and dedicated to the memory of Walter Fobang Mbacham ’29-’69, a Cameroon teacher and Boy Scout, whose ideal was to create conditions for a better world through Devotion, Openness, Truth and Justice that offered “the respect of the interdependence of diverse individuals within a population as the operational base of society”. The Foundation’s guiding principle is that defined by the Schweitzer ethic of “Reverence for Life in Action”. The Fobang Foundation since 1998, has a limited number of staff positions (4). According to need there might be other staff brought in to perform and receive allowances for carried out activities. It has a non-salaried executive committee which is selected from the board of officers, to which it is responsible. All functions and activities of the foundation are carried out by volunteers. The board of officers has to approve all the plans and activities undertaken by the foundation. The various officers each have a responsibility for certain programmes or part of programmes. Programmes are executed as written in a “Plan of Operations”, from which annual plans are derived.
Our Mission and Goals
Our Mission
The Fobang Foundation in Cameroon aims to help the population at large to accept biological sciences as a basis for their perception of health and disease in order to achieve more effective disease prevention and cure. The strategies to achieve this are based on the conviction that development has to start with people and that every learner must be encouraged to become a teacher.
Our Goal
The Fobang Foundation therefore seeks to improve the socio-economic status of the under-served and hard-to-reach populations in the developing world with Cameroon as a model, through positive community participation, health promotion, disease prevention and social welfare, in partnership with other institutions.
Our Strategies
- To provide altruistic people with opportunities for volunteerism and to support them in such efforts,
- To encourage health education and increase access to health services especially for the rural and urban poor and the handicap,
- To support educational opportunities for youths in medical and bio-science related disciplines
- To assist in science and health service innovations and discovery