VISION
This initiative will offer scholarships to students based on merit and financial need
MISSION:
Supporting the academically sound but financially handicapped children of Mankon by way of scholarship and education
Mankon has a significant number of primary, secondary as well as high schools. Mankon boasts of some of the best schools training citizens who have successfully found careers in different works of life. Not only does Mankon host these schools, it also has produced some of the best and brightest minds of the country.
Education will remain the foremost in empowerment. Unfortunately, a great proportion of our fellow citizens are being left behind primarily due to financial constraints. Our goal will be to ease the pain of those families who have demonstrated extraordinary academic abilities but do not have the adequate means of furthering their education.
Additionally, since 2016, Mankon has been caught in the civil war between the government and the indigenes of the Southern Cameroons. Schools have remained partially or completely shut down. Many students have been displaced and deprived of the value of quality education. MFSI will partner with community schools to provide education to the innocent children trapped in the civil war while the conflict lasts and position itself to restructure the educational experience post war.
HISTORY
The Mankon Forum Scholarship Initiative (MFSI) is the conception of Fausta Ditah, MD, MPH founded in 2006. MFSI has as its main objectives to support the academically gifted but financially handicapped children of Mankon by way of scholarship and education. Between 2007 and 2016, MFSI recruited and provided scholarships to pupils who had successfully passed their end of primary exams to pursue secondary education at Government Bilingual High School (GBHS) Mankon. At full capacity, MFSI was supporting 50 students annually in its core program and providing additional scholarships to over 100 pupils across Mankon. Since 2017, secondary to armed conflict, formal education has been disrupted in Mankon with many internally displaced children. Over the past 2 years, community schools have cropped up to fill the educational gap. MFSI has partnered with some of these schools to continue to foster the mission of providing education for the disadvantaged children of Mankon.
Who we Are?
We aim to provide financial support
MFSI is a group comprised of sons, daughters and well wishers of Mankon that seek to encourage education through scholarship and academic support. We are a non political, non denominational, not for profit organization and every individual who meets the requirements for consideration cannot be disqualified on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, educational institution, race, religion or political affiliation.
We work on raising funds to support the scholarship initiative and maintaining relationships with donors.
It develops new programs and evaluates existing ones to ensure they meet the organization’s goals and the needs of the community
This team helps set the long-term strategic direction of the organization and works to ensure that all departments align with these strategic goals.
Team Members
Our team members
Dr. Fausta Ditah
Doreen Abanda
Callistus Ditah
Join us in this noble endeavor.
With your support, the Mankon Scholarship Initiative can be more than a scholarship program; it can be a movement. A movement that believes in the power of education, the promise of our youth, and the transformation of our community.