NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM CAFOR CHAIRPERSON: PROF KATE ADOO-ADEKU

A YEAR IN RETROSPECT, we thank God for everything he did for CAFOR during 2022. This past year came with several challenges amid a war that has set the entire world in uncertainties with global economic hardship, with which our continent is still garbling.

However, despite all these, CAFOR is still growing steadily and has made significant strides, which we must be proud of despite our financial difficulties.

Our indefatigable Executive Director, Dr. Cole, has relentlessly put our mission forward to make our voices heard on different fora on the global scene. This triumph gradually puts CAFOR on center stage on the continent’s development agenda.

CAFOR is currently engaged in efforts to enhance its partnerships and mobilize resources for its program consisting of eleven projects, four of which are flagship projects. These are the Digital Community Platform, the African Digital Schools Initiative, the African Digital Books Library, and the Innovative Skills for Africa’s youths with support from local and international partners. Each of these schedules would have a scholarship dimension for young Africans at the European Business University, the University of Pécs in Hungary, and the European Erasmus+ program, which is now inviting CAFOR to participate in its various scholarship projects.

As CAFOR members of African organizations, we will also identify reputable training institutions continent-wide to design a unique digital training program for secondary school graduates on subject matters related to mathematics, science subjects, engineering technology, and other innovations. The focus on these four projects resides in them being measurable, creating value for rural areas, and heavily supporting the change urgency in African education after COVID-19. CAFOR will also help qualified, underprivileged young Africans with demonstrated high potential to access education and employable skills in the coming years.

Our Resource Mobilization strategy and efforts would ensure a transparent, systematic, predictable, and well-coordinated approach to soliciting, acquiring, utilizing, managing, monitoring, and evaluating assistance from International Cooperation Partners. Through our unique membership drive that we continue to raise with highly qualified people with individual specialties, we will remain focused on meeting our mission positively and influencing as many people in Africa as possible.

We are optimistic for the year 2023, so let us all put our heads together to support our Executive Director in every way possible, individually and collectively, as a family. Let us strengthen our network mechanism and enhance our fundraising strategies. I also appreciate Mr. Tshimanga’s commitment to achieving the objectives of CAFOR.

I sincerely thank every one of you for your efforts in diverse ways and wish to extend seasonal greetings and a fruitful, happy New Year.