When the child who has lost parental care can grow up in a loving family environment other than that of an SOS family, this form of care can be organized by SOS Children's Villages or other stakeholders. Advocacy is underway for the legalization of host families in Cameroon.

SOS Children's Gardens

In Cameroon, each site of the SOS Children's Village Program has a kindergarten. This structure is one of the components of the education that supports the two main programs of the SOS Families and Families of Origin and the community.

Indeed, SOS Kindergarten has the same pre-school goals as public kindergartens. Access is given primarily to children in the target group of the organization.

In general, the SOS Hermann Gmeiner Children's Gardens welcome these children to awaken and stimulate their senses and their mental faculties. They prepare them to easily access primary studies through the implementation of various psychomotor and expression activities. Their indoor and outdoor spaces are well appointed and well equipped. In the localities where they are located, they are the best structures that provide quality pre-school education. It could not be otherwise as these kindergartens are staffed with highly qualified staff.

SOS Hermann Gmeiner Children's Gardens have excellent relations with the families of the children who attend them. They are also developing great initiatives, including introduction to computers and English, well-prepared and professionally prepared educational outings, etc.

Primary Schools SOS Hermann Gmeiner

In Cameroon, every SOS Children's Village program site has a full cycle Herman Gmeiner primary school.

At SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School, learners are recruited without discrimination. They have the right to attend official school programs until the end of the school year and to take part in the various evaluations provided for by State educational structures.

The advantages offered by the SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School to its learners are:

• Strict respect for the rights of the child, including the principle of participation;

• Quality infrastructures;

• Appropriate teaching material;

• Computer and English education;

• Effective integration of the socio-cultural activities of the community into the education of the enrolled;

• School Scholarship Program

Douala Professional Training Center

The CFP trains under-educated girls and young women from the Bakoko canton in Douala. The project aims to improve the living conditions of under-educated women and girls through the development of income-generating activities with the aim of achieving their socio-professional integration, their empowerment and better care for their children.

Indeed, it will be a question of putting on the labor market after each training session a maximum of 50 girls / women now under school, equipped and able to create their own commercial activity. Training offered by the CFP: sewing, cooking, decoration, good manners and know-how.