She's STEM Foundation

Minanga Pulcherie is not just a cocoa farmer; she’s a trailblazer!

She is a member of the Common Initiative Group (CIG) Main de la Terre, a women-led group with 35 women farming on 52 hectares of cocoa farmland with an average annual savings of 5,568,080 Xaf.

Trained and supported by She’s STEM Foundation, rural women like Pulcherie are not just farming; they’re transforming their communities through:
Financial literacy, gaining skills in bookkeeping, savings, and loan management.
Collective action,economic empowerment, generating income and creating safety nets for their families.

“Thanks to Main de la Terre, I’ve started renovating my kitchen. I’m looking forward to the peak cocoa season so I can complete it with the help of the other women. We support one another, not just financially, but also through ‘tontine’ during harvesting and semi-processing.”Pulcherie shares

This years international day of the rural woman highlights the importance of supporting rural women like Pucherie to ensure they have equal access to resources, opportunities, and decision-making processes, in order to foster sustainable agricultural practices and food systems across Africa. We must continue to invest in our rural women.

Since 1994, World Teachers’ Day has been celebrated each year to honor teachers worldwide and to reaffirm the vital role they play in shaping inclusive, equitable, and resilient education systems. It also commemorates the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation on the Status of Teachers, a landmark framework defining teachers’ rights, responsibilities, and professional standards.

This year, the focus is on collaboration. Too often, teaching remains marked by isolation, limited support, and fragmented systems. Yet when teachers are empowered to work together, sharing expertise, mentoring peers, and building networks, they unlock transformative potential for themselves, their students, and society as a whole.

On this World Teachers’ Day, we call for:

Stronger policies and environments that enable teacher collaboration.
Greater investment in teacher well-being and professional growth.
Recognition of teachers as leaders, innovators, and changemakers in education.

At She’s STEM Foundation, we celebrate the extraordinary dedication of teachers and recommit to supporting their work in transforming education for all.
To every teacher: thank you for showing up, for inspiring confidence, for guiding us not just through textbooks but through life itself. You are mentors, role models, and changemakers, and the world is better because of you.
Photo: Mme Marvis, GPS Omeng, a school supported by She’s STEM Foundation

Despite relentless rainfall, fallen trees, and treacherous roads, our team pressed on because the community of Oveng needed us. What stood in our way was no match for what stood to be gained: clean, accessible water for an entire community.

Regardless of the challenges, we are happy to announce that we have successfully handed over a solar-powered water point to the people of Oveng in the South Region of Cameroon. The structure is projected to serve over 2,341 residents, including school children and the village health center, transforming daily life in ways that are immediate and long-lasting.

For the children, it means more time in school and less time walking long distances to fetch water. For the health center, it means safer hygiene practices and better patient care. For the entire community, it means dignity, health, and resilience
This is what it looks like when innovation meets determination. We didn’t wait for perfect conditions. We showed up, stood strong, and delivered. Because every community deserves access to basic needs, and every challenge is worth overcoming when lives are on the other side.