Chief Charles &
Lady Morene Morfaw
BP 402 Dschang / Cameroon

Tel.: +237 7777 00 72
chiefmorfaw2000@yahoo.co.uk

Spendenkonto:
Volksbank
Paderborn-Höxter eG
BKLZ : 472 601 21
Konto Nr. : 87 24 34 34 00
Kontoinhaber:
Chief Charles Morfaw

The History of Rainbow School Dschang-Cameroon

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- Chief Charles Morfaw -

 

1993 - 2010

 

The story of Rainbow school goes as far back as 1993 after our wedding in Bonn.

I succeeded my father as the chief of Bellah, a village in Fontem Cameroon, when I was a student of pedagogy in the university of Bonn

in 1991. In 1993, I got married to Morene Tazitabong. She also studied  pedagogy in Cologne - Germany.

We were more certain than not, that at the end of  our studies, we were to return home so as to help build our country in the area of EDUCATION, which gives the base for all other development. I visited Cameroon many times as a student and realized that the job market was very tight.

 

On  returning to Germany from one of such trips in 1997,

 

we started with the preparations and feasibility studies of opening a private school.

 

Dschang with its Mediterranean climate (1600m above sea level), an area with very high birth rate and a university town without a bilingual Kindergarten and primary school at that time, we decided to settle there. Dschang is near Fontem, where we come from.

 In course of studying our marriage was blessed with four children. Now proud to be parents of five children, the youngest is five years old.

After our graduation, we left Bonn-Germany as a family in August 2000 for Dschang-Cameroon.

Dschang was to become our new home especially for our children with many cultural shocks.

To get a large piece of land and documents needed to run the school  took longer time than we estimated. The concept of time in this part of the world is different.

In other not to lose time, we opened an off license to be selling drinks while waiting. Where to get money for the buying of land and construction of classrooms was another source of worry.

 

We created a non profit making common initiative group called BENCIG with 4 major areas of activities:

1)      to educate children at an affordable price

2)      to provide good drinking water for Bellah village

3)      to provide electricity locally for Bellah village

4)      to provide basic health facilities for Bellah village and her neighbours

All these as our little contribution for the welfare of our people and our country at large.

 

In 2001 we bought land and constructed the first five classrooms and in

Sept.2003 the first 93 pupils were admitted into Kindergarten 1& 2 as well as primary one.

We went on progressively and in

June 2009 Rainbow sent out the first batch with 100% success both at the Government Common Entrance & First School Living Certificate Examinations with the highest number of Children on the honored list in the West Region of Cameroon.

 The second batch of June 2010 repeated the same success: making Rainbow School to continuously keep the flag as the most outstanding primary school in the West Region of Cameroon.

 Our school started in Foreke, which is in the South of Dschang town and after three years of operation, many parents came from the northern part of the town, which is also thickly populated, and complained that they loved our school but the distance was too long for their children. Most of them did not have the bus fee (31.000frs.CFA per year: about € 46) that was needed for the transportation of their children.

As a result we started with the construction of the second Rainbow Kindergarten & primary school there in Foto-Dschang.