Who We Are
The HIC is a non-governmental, apolitical and non-profit making organization focused on advocating for the rights of women and girls, foster Women and girls’ interest in STEM (science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), enhance STEM education for girls and ensure they have access to all needed resources. It seeks to engage girls and women from all the ten regions of Cameroon in the participation and inclusion in governance processes through seminars, conferences and projects. In addition, these women and girls will be mentored through high school, college and into career life to prevent women from abandoning STEM fields.
Our Vision
Our Vision is to provide and exploit a challenging learning environment in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, which maximizes individual potential and ensures that all those we with are well-equipped to meet the challenges in the world around them(such as healthcare, food insecurity, insecurity and unemployment. Thus establishing a country and continent where women and girls are presented with equal opportunities with their male counterparts especially in the STEM fields and enabling women to live confidently void of fear participating equally in governance processes and promoting growth and development. A country where the rights of minorities especially disabled women, children and elderly are catered for and they live in comfort.
Our Mission
HIC’s mission is to provide students especially girls and women with a mind blowing learning experience through practical and relevant content that dwells mostly on STEM related fields to produce people with sound critical, logical and problem solving skills needed to solve imminent pressing problems.
Our Goals
Enlisted below are the goals/objectives of HIC
- Serving as a link with other (domestic and international) organizations focused on the protection of the rights of women and girls and those fostering STEM education for girls.
- Shaping Policies and Practices that support the education of women in STEM in accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and U.N Resolution A/RES/70/212.
- Providing invaluable resources to persons seeking for industrial placement and volunteer opportunities, and also aspiring academics at all levels to engage in research on issues relating to Human Rights and STEM education.
- Advocate for strong institutions of justice in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goal 16.
- Empowering Women and Promoting Gender Equality which is crucial is accelerating Sustainable Development. Ending all forms of violations against Women and Girls is not only basic Human Rights, but it also has a multiplier effect across all other development areas.
- Advocate for the protection of the rights of girls and women in accordance with International Ratified Charters and National Legislations.
- Working with Schools directly to ascertain areas of discrepancies in our STEM subject with that of other countries especially those of the developed world in order to place our women and girls in a competitive edge.
- Collaborating with all those striving for social, educational and psychological interventions in the promotion of STEM education for Women and girls.
- Building Women and girls’ capacity, knowledge, confidence, skills and courage in any intervention to take ownership and sustainability of their interactions with state actors in a promising process that would gradually become a political culture in our country.
- Advocate for discussions that would bring to the fore increased awareness within women and girls of the benefits of certain policy measures as they seek to maximize social welfare.