Lights, Cameroon, Action: ASEED- Center for Orphaned & Abandoned Children

ASEED is always looking for financial support!

Please see these brochures for more information. Also we are working on making a website for ASEED (Association Pour L'Encadrement Des Enfants En Difficulte)

English version

French version

Thank you!!
Here is a thank you letter from Sister Carine & the children

Sister Carine and the children outside their home

The best way to give financial support is to give it to people who are already trying to help others and have shown that they are capable of using those funds for good and trustworthy reasons.

Your financial support is needed to help Sister Carine care for over 15 children who are either orphans or whose parents are incapable of raising them. They live in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon where there is no public orphanage yet and because some of the children are HIV positive, local families will not adopt them.

Go to this website to donate towards getting a specific item for them or donate to the general fund:
https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/36497?utm_campaign=ShortURLs&utm_medium=project_36497&utm_source=PlainShortURL

Please read about the children and Sister Carine below:

My friend from Germany who is a doctor introduced me to Sister Carine and the children. He also set up the website for the fundraiser.

Sister Carine is from Cameroon and while being a Sister of her church, she is also one of the leaders of an organization called ASEED Children whose mission is to start an orphanage in Ngaoundéré. They have started fundraising but the investments in such a project are high and it is not likely they will start building soon. Sister Carine teaches English at a local school, but she is finding it difficult to keep up with the costs of supporting the children. She needs your help in order to give a good life to these unique children who have no place else to go.

The oldest of the group is Afia. She is 21 years old and the mother of 10 month old Trevor. Therese Davila is 16 years old. Sister Carine paid for her to go to boarding school for 5 years before Sister Carine came to Ngaoundéré. Prudence is 14 years old and her parents live in another part of Cameroon with no finances to care for their daughter. David, who is 10, lost his mother and does not know his father. Two brothers, both named Tekela are 7 and 9 years old. Their parents have no money to raise them. Vilaine (7 years old) has a father, but he is too busy with his job guarding houses. Abigail is also 7 and an orphan. Marie Therese (4), Solontine (9), and Christa (14) are three siblings of a family with 8 children. Their mother is sick and their father is a drunk who abuses his family. Chris and Genevieve are both 4 years old. Genevieve also has a sick mother. A few of the children have pictures of their once happy families. Some of the parents even had good-paying jobs. But something happened that tore these families apart. When the children say their mother or father is sick, it sometimes means that they are seen by people as crazy and not able to work. One mother walks the streets of northern Cameroon, naked and with a mental illness. The youngest of all of the children is a one month old baby named Graciella who recently came to Sister Carine when she was found abandoned by the side of the river.

Sister Carine does not want to turn away these children who desperately need her love and care. Yet Sister Carine’s teacher salary cannot pay for the needs of these children. Right now she is able to put them all in school, but the rent for the house and the children’s health care are making it difficult for her to give them the life they deserve. They are in need of screens on the windows and mosquito nets for the beds because of the risks of malaria. Even a new mattress would help since Sister Carine and the children sleep on only 6 beds. She has done well to provide these children with the care they need so far and has proved that she will use any financial support in the most appropriate way to help the children.

Typically in Cameroon, where orphanages are almost non-existent, orphans or unwanted children are often cared for by other families in the village. Yet if a child comes from parents who have or have died from HIV/AIDS (and it is possible the child is positive too), no family in Cameroon will take care of them. Some of the children living with Sister Carine are HIV positive. Even if they were not positive and were cared for by families in their village, they would not receive education or decent health care because they are not the children of that family. Sister Carine is the best chance for these children to receive education, medical care, enough food, and love. She just needs a little bit of help.

Here is your chance to give what you can, knowing that it will be put to good use to create new life stories for these children whose smile can melt your heart along with brighten your spirit.