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Donate to the Breaking Ground General Fund
 These contributions will be allocated to
Breaking Ground's various projects as needed, and will help support the
ongoing work of our Ground Coordinators in Cameroon.
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Donate to the Bridge Project
 These contributions will support the
construction of
a bridge over the Menouet River, which will benefit the 34,000
villagers of Foreke-Dschang, Fotetsa, Fossong- Watchang, and Fongo
Ndgeng by enabling them to earn a profit on the sale of their crops by
reducing the cost of transportation.
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Donate to Madame Becham's primary school
 A private elementary school started by a single mother of
four children in Ngaoundal, a town where only 35% of school aged
children attend school. Madame Becham currently has 43 students that
she solicited by going door-to-door and speaking with parents about the
importance of an education. We hope to build a two-classroom facility,
enabling her to stop paying rent. With these savings she will
expand the school by one classroom each year and improve the teachers’
salaries. |
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Donate to Soubataye's fish selling business
An illiterate widow with 9 children, aged 2 to
18, Soubataye has dedicated herself to the fish selling business. This
very profitable business consists of traveling at least four hours by
bus to purchase freshly caught fish and then returning to sell the fish
for a large profit at market. Her goal is to save enough money to send
all of her children to school and to move out of her one bedroom, one
living room house without running water. |
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Donate to Madame Pauline's fresh juice
business
 For three years Madame Pauline, married mother of two
children and responsible for six children, has sold fresh juices,
including lemon, ginger, orange, and mango out of a cooler from her
office in town. She wants to take her extremely successful juice
business to the next level by preparing it at home and selling it
around town in boutiques as well as on a pushcart. |
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Donate to Aissatou Bintou's sewing
business
 Madame Aissatou Bintou, single mother of one and grandmother
of four children, is a well-known tailor who wants to extend her sewing
boutique. In Cameroon people buy fabric at market and take it to a
seamstress who then cuts, designs, and makes the clothing. She is
asking Breaking Ground for a new sewing machine, 5 button presses, an
embroidery machine, and a finishing machine to aid with the extension
of her business. |
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Donate to Madame Guidjera
Elisabeth's fabric selling business
 For the past five years, Madame Guidjera Elisabeth has sold
fabric door to door throughout N'Gaoundéré before
festivals and holidays. Her goal is to travel to Nigeria where fabric
is less expensive and buy a bulk quantity of fabrics, returning to
Cameroon where profiting is inevitable. With the profits she makes, she
will then open a small store in the local market where she can sell
fabric year round.
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Donate to Madame Zenabou's fabric
dying business
 Our artistic project, Madame Zenabou, married mother of
seven children, buys white fabric and uses different dyes creating
patterns and designs. The exceptionally popular fabric is used for
clothing, table clothes, and draperies. For the past year, wears of
this kind have been scarce, as she has not had the capital to increase
her business.
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Donate to Madame Edwidge Tashi's
farming
business
Madame Edwidge Tashi has grown corn, manioc,
ginger, and other crops on her three fields since 2000. She wants to
upgrade her farming methods in order to sell more at market and make a
larger profit. She is also the future teacher of the business course.
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These contributions will support the
construction of
a bridge over the Menouet River, which will benefit the 34,000
villagers of Foreke-Dschang, Fotetsa, Fossong- Watchang, and Fongo
Ndgeng by enabling them to earn a profit on the sale of their crops by
reducing the cost of transportation.
A private elementary school started by a single mother of
four children in Ngaoundal, a town where only 35% of school aged
children attend school. Madame Becham currently has 43 students that
she solicited by going door-to-door and speaking with parents about the
importance of an education. We hope to build a two-classroom facility,
enabling her to stop paying rent. With these savings she will
expand the school by one classroom each year and improve the teachers’
salaries.
For three years Madame Pauline, married mother of two
children and responsible for six children, has sold fresh juices,
including lemon, ginger, orange, and mango out of a cooler from her
office in town. She wants to take her extremely successful juice
business to the next level by preparing it at home and selling it
around town in boutiques as well as on a pushcart. 
Madame Aissatou Bintou, single mother of one and grandmother
of four children, is a well-known tailor who wants to extend her sewing
boutique. In Cameroon people buy fabric at market and take it to a
seamstress who then cuts, designs, and makes the clothing. She is
asking Breaking Ground for a new sewing machine, 5 button presses, an
embroidery machine, and a finishing machine to aid with the extension
of her business.
For the past five years, Madame Guidjera Elisabeth has sold
fabric door to door throughout N'Gaoundéré before
festivals and holidays. Her goal is to travel to Nigeria where fabric
is less expensive and buy a bulk quantity of fabrics, returning to
Cameroon where profiting is inevitable. With the profits she makes, she
will then open a small store in the local market where she can sell
fabric year round. 
Our artistic project, Madame Zenabou, married mother of
seven children, buys white fabric and uses different dyes creating
patterns and designs. The exceptionally popular fabric is used for
clothing, table clothes, and draperies. For the past year, wears of
this kind have been scarce, as she has not had the capital to increase
her business.