ABOUT US – RECEWAPEC

ABOUT RECEWAPEC

RECEWAPEC first members group in 1996

Our history

We started as a Common Initiative Group (CIG) known as the Regional Center for Human Welfare and Agro-Development (RECEHWEDEV) with a mission of helping elderly persons, families and communities in need. The organization was upgraded as an association following the Law of 1990 in Cameroon and later upgraded as a Non-Governmental Organization named the Regional Center for the Welfare of Ageing Persons in Cameroon (RECEWAPEC) in 2001. Since then, we’ve been working on promoting and protecting the welfare of ageing persons in Cameroon through activities aimed at improving their living conditions and our advocacy role has been instrumental in streamlining government policies in favor of old age peoples throughout the national territory.

Our Mission

The Regional Center for the Welfare of Ageing Persons in Cameroon (RECEWAPEC) mission is;

To provide charitable services from voluntary skills to income generating activities that can enhance livelihood and alleviate poverty among old age people.
To mobilize human resources (community nurses, social workers and volunteers in diverse fields) to adequately address issues of the elderly.
To promote recreational and cultural activities with exchange visits between elderly groups and ageing individuals.
To involve the elderly in a participatory and sustainable approach with income generating activities for lesser dependent living.
To advocate to government for the integration of ageing and ageing gender through issues in the mainstream policies according to the united nation charter.

Our Partners

International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse

RECEWAPEC has been working in collaboration with a host of partners including the older persons in the local communities served, traditional rulers, religious leaders, and central to local government administrative authorities, government agencies (ministries of social affairs, public health, territorial administration and decentralization), as well as international partners, such as: Seniorenhilfe Kamerun E.V., HelpAge International, International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, African Platform for Social Protection, International Federation of Aging (IFA), Right to Sight UK, United Nation ECOSOC…

Our Objectives

To establish social solidarity platforms for the improvement of the standard of living and dignity of older persons

To establish specialized Health centers offering holistic care and promotion of active ageing for older persons

To undertake adequate and affordable measures to ensure that those with eye problems find solutions at their door steps

To mobilize community actors for dialogue and joint action in favour of rights advocacy and social protection of older persons

To improve and expand the structural foundation, such as administration and finance, human resources, facilities, materials and equipment, that provides both public health and medical services to old age people in need

Health systems strengthening to achieve UHC, which aims both at preventing financial catastrophe due to medical costs and at addressing geographic, financial, and sociocultural barriers to essential health services to old age people

Working with and for the old since 1996

We’ve been working with and for old age people throughout Cameroon since 1996 as RECEHWEDEV and from 2001 as RECEWAPEC, helping aged persons, especially the poor and vulnerable to cope with crises and shocks, get favorable laws enacted to improve on their well being, invest in their productivity and health to living an active aging life.

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