Dr Delphine Fanfon CEO ME4REAL International
Bamenda is host to a mind blowing
new paradigm shift from the traditional cut and paste style of learning in
schools and for which institutions keep churning out thousands of graduates who
had spent time repeating the same lessons that have little or nothing to do
with present day realities. Dr. Delphine Fanfon, Founder of an Organization,
ME4REAL International, has in its tenth anniversary put in to motion a solid
foundational learning Center dubbed Kids4Real that would accompany children’s
education with a creative digital learning program which would enable the
children to think independently and make informed choices.
Community challenges have been
left unresolved despite the fact that thousands are graduating from high school
every day. This is as a result of the type of education that does not address
immediate needs of the communities. Dr. Fanfon intimated that the Politicians
can make all the loud sounding promises of development projects in public but all
those promises would remain only on paper because enough brains have not been developed
to unravel the riddle behind the science of realizing these projects. To bridge
that gap in the future, Dr. Fanfon said through digital learning the children
at the center would be empowered to embrace a broader mindset as far as
intellectual capacity is concern.
Throwing light on how this will
work, the Founder said, the center would make available pre-installed software
on ipads and each child would be tested by the software and the level would established
and an account would for that child. Those who work at the center would not be
teaching the children anything rather the materials that have been packaged by Google
and Microsoft would be teaching each child. She calls this individualized
learning because it will be adapted to each child’s level based on the test
that they take and how they perform in that test. To incite creativity in the
children, Kids4Real Center has set up a program for arts and craft, a fit that
has disappeared from the regular schools and a playground to ensure the kids
are never bored. With this well packaged digital learning program, children
begin to choose and nurture their career from when they are still young so that
when they grow older they would be masters of their own craft and able to
create greater impact in the local communities and in the global space at large.
Azenui Ngufor Quarter Head of Bayele In Nkwen
The Kids4Real Center would be
inclusive given that children with special needs would not be excluded from
digital learning and volunteers at the center, would be opportune to benefit
from knowledge by exploring the rich library, on proper parenting and how to
take care of children with special needs. Hinting on the motivational factor
behind the project on Kids4Real Center, Dr. Fanfon said first of all schools in
the Northwest are not yet digitalized and secondly children need space to play
while they tickle their intellect. The other push factor for this project is
that due to the circumstances in the Region with many children just roaming the
streets and inculcating habits that would take a life to time to get rid of,
this center would shield the children away from the exposure of such habits.
The program at the center is tailored not to clash or interfere with the
regular school program meaning beginning September classes at the center are
held after school and on weekends but in Summer holidays there shall be all day
learning and workshops to keep the children usefully busy. On his part the
headquarter of Bayele, Azenui Ngufor, invoked God’s blessing to propel this
initiative planted in his quarter.
By Ignatius Nji
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