This child is waiting for a sponsor. Someone who will contribute money to help give him an education.

Not every child in Cameroon gets a chance to have an education and, with it, a shot at a better life. It does not cost that much by our standards to save a child from a life of poverty.

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It takes a good team to provide an education to children in need. It takes a great team to pull it off in Cameroon, in west Africa, where a large number of children are often abandoned to the streets, where they face a life of abject poverty, crime and abduction for work camps or the sex trade.

Reverend Teh Francis and his team, some of them pictured above, have done great things to help educate hundreds of children and save many others from the streets.

Education is the only route out of a life of poverty, crime and violence for many disadvantaged children in Cameroon. We here at Catalyst Exhibits are proud to have beeen working closely with Teh and his group for the past few years and it’s been amazing to see how far they have made our contributions go.

Our expertise as a company is in the events and exhibition sector but, through our Area 3 charity blog, we have taken an active role in helping out numerous worthy causes. As Teh wrote this week when he sent us the photo above:

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Last week, in our first installment, we caught up with Teh Francis about the impact the motorbikes we here at Catalyst Exhibits helped fund out in Cameroon, are having on the children.

This week, Teh tells us how the money the bikes have raised from being used as taxis by the locals, have directly improved the life of one young teenager.

“We are happy to announce that the motorbike fund is sending Pilate Diangha to driving school. He is a poor orphan boy and we are already sponsoring his younger brother and sister. He grew up with a foster family that did not take good care of him and finally he ended up in a cocoa farm in the Littoral Region of Cameroon.

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The headline says it all: breaking the circle of poverty. It’s hard to believe that a couple of motorbikes could make such a huge difference in the lives of so many kids with nothing. But they have.

Last year, Catalyst Exhibits provided a motorbike to GMM Africa, which is doing amazing work helping and educating underprivileged children in Cameroon. That bike allowed the group to transport the teachers around to remote villages and schools to teach the children. Remember, in these areas there is little or no public transport and the roads are nothing but pothole-dotted dirt tracks.

That bike proved so useful, the locals started to use it as a taxi too. So, with the help of Bekins Van Lines, another bike was bought to act exclusively as a taxi and the funds it raised went to help sponsor more children for education.

Almost a year on, Teh Francis has been in touch to let us know the huge impact they have had.

“I am glad again to share some good news with you people. I am always excited telling you about positive things that happen here due to your timely intervention. Thank you for recognizing that we are doing something here of great worth even though you are not in Africa. We are honoured and this encourages us to work even harder.

You know the motor-bikes have really helped us in several ways:

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