Foundations that Break the Poverty Trap

Education is not just a classroom experience—it is a life-altering foundation that breaks the cycle of poverty and inequality. Our Education pillar is designed to empower young people with the knowledge, mindset, and guidance needed to make meaningful academic and career choices.

We support youth from the basic through secondary levels, offering personalized orientation beginning as early as Form 3, when many students begin considering their future academic and professional paths. Our approach integrates academic mentorship, career awareness, and moral instruction, ensuring that learning goes beyond passing exams—it prepares students for purposeful living.

We recognize that many young people are left behind not due to lack of intelligence, but because they are misguided or unsupported in making critical decisions about their studies. That’s why we place strong emphasis on career orientation, value-based education, and early intervention.

Our Education programs are developed in alignment with the realities of Cameroon’s dual educational system (English and French), and we seek to complement formal learning with community-based tutoring, literacy reinforcement, and partnerships with schools and parents.

Through this work, we aim to:

• Increase employability by aligning education with market-relevant skills

• Improve the standard of living by empowering youth to pursue sustainable career paths

• Build self-confidence through knowledge, helping students believe in their potential and plan beyond their circumstances

• Reduce school dropout rates, especially in vulnerable communities

• Encourage a merit-based mindset, where academic achievement is seen as a path to transformation

DTN sees education not only as a right, but as a mission —where transformation of mindsets leads to transformation of communities.