IN BETWEEN GETS BIGGER AND BETTER!

The In Between Magazine Project carried out in collaboration with OGCEYOD and ASYOUSED (Assembly for Youths and a Sustainable Environment and Development) has been an ongoing success story. In weekly meetings the two volunteers Jana Binder and Louisa Well meet with Cameroonian secondary school students and as a group they decide what to put inside each edition of the magazine and how to work on their articles. The quality of these meetings has improved, broadly because the group of students and the volunteers have got used to each other and the working procedure thus creating a more professional and productive atmosphere. 

Because there has been constant requests for magazines in the schools throughout Limbe the printing has now been doubled to 1000 magazines which now sell all over town every month. The latest edition came out in March and talked about Women’s Day on the 8^th of March as well as important Environmental issues.

In order to give the students a better insight into the topics, the team paid the Limbe Wildlife Centre a visit, did interviews with trainees from the Women’s Empowerment Centre and talked to a successful woman earning her own living by making bags out of beads. Activities like this don’t only provide information that can be shared with the readers of the magazine but also teach the young journalists how to do interviews, present themselves in front of authorities and provides the articles with that extra bit of spice which makes them interesting to read. We look forward to the next edition which will cover such varied topics as Malaria, World Book Day and what it’s like to be an albino in Cameroon.