We are a non-profit raising funds to build, operate, and maintain a school in Africa.

To promote economic development in Cameroon Africa by raising young leaders who are hungry to learn, serve God, and want to to create businesses that will improve lives in their communities. 

Our Vision:

Our Mission:

To equip young people in Africa through a transformative faith-based educational school founded on Discipleship, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship.  

Flourishing Seeds’ Backstory:

Born and raised on a coffee farm in Cameroon, Africa, Eric Neuyou witnessed the importance of education as a platform to positively change his environment.

“My family’s income was constantly impacted by fluctuations in coffee prices and its short seasonality (five months). During the coffee off-season, my family relied on my mother’s small business revenue. She owned a shop where she bought and sold a selected list of household items. Despite its success over many years and its impact in stabilizing our family’s well-being, my mother’s business became stagnant and less effective as a source of income. We struggled to stay on top of our bills and were behind in starting school and paying for supplies. She wanted to grow her business but struggled with managerial skills and access to affordable financing resources. Many women entrepreneurs face similar challenges that impede their potential to develop, to grow, and to succeed. Despite all the hardships, my parents never gave up on their children’s education. The instability of our family’s income and the difficulties faced by my mother as a woman entrepreneur instilled in me a passion to study economics after high school.” — Eric

In Yaoundé, July 2005, Eric Neuyou graduated with a master’s degree in international business from the International Relations Institute of Cameroon. Despite being the top student at the school, Eric was not able to secure a job because he came from a poor background and did not have any “connections.” Eric exploited the entrepreneurial mindset that his father taught him while growing up in a coffee farm in Nkongsamba to launch a tutoring business called “Group NANA”.

From 2005 to 2008 through Group Nana, Eric successfully trained and placed more 300 students from disadvantaged background into top administration and specialized engineering schools of Cameroon. This success challenged him to acknowledge God’s grace and gifts in his life and instilled in him a passion to invest into the education of younger children. Eric and his wife, Adeline, are passionate about giving back to their home country by building and operating a faith-based school system guided by a Christian Discipleship training with a focus on innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

 
 

Our Goals

 

  • Teach Christian values, financial literacy, trading techniques, and computer skills.

    Increase the number of young entrepreneurs in the country with expertise as electricians, welders, plumbers, carpenters, nurses, developers, seamstress clothing, and modern farmers by 20%.

  • Reduce unemployment and poverty in cities and in rural areas through small businesses and job creation by 20%.

    Improve access to clean water; teach children sustainable practices to grow healthy foods and protein (Crops, Fishing, Poultry).

 
 

Our Strategies

 

Unique Value Proposition:

Our vision is to offer an affordable trade and boarding school that will train future leaders with skills and life learning values that they can apply to identify issues in their communities and elaborate effective and sustainable ways to solve them. These challenges include basic first aid and preservation, diseases prevention, local materials to build houses, usage of cell phone and apps to facilitate business in remote areas, financial literacy, robotics, and artificial intelligence to improve productivity.

Customer Targets:

We are targeting children from a disadvantaged background in Cameroon and its surroundings countries (Chad, Gabon, Congo, Equatorial-Guinea…) with high potential to learn and thrive. We are also targeting children with disabilities because they usually lack funds or appropriate equipment to receive an education.

Teaching Techniques:

We are planning a comprehensive mix of techniques to train our students. These include regular classroom sessions, stimulating children imagination through cases studies, computer, science, and tech labs sessions, outdoor discovery time, field trips to local businesses and communities, practice day in the field, libraries discovery time, video and movie projects, coding camp, robotics workshop + transportation services provided to our students living far away from the campuses, volunteer work, internships, and extracurricular activities.

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Our Strategies Continued

 

Competitive Advantage:

Eric’s experience as a student, an educator, and a businessman in Africa and in the U.S gives him a unique perspective. We welcome any types of support from ministries, corporations, non-for-profit, and individuals who are willing to help kids in Africa learn, thrive, and become effective problem solvers in their communities.

Alliances:

We plan to partner with people and organizations that are willing to support a transformative education in Africa. We are considering schools of any kind and level, international organizations, corporations, non-for-profit organizations, professional training institution, individuals. Some of the schools and training centers that we would like to partner with include Ignite Tour center in Bentonville AR, Providence Academy Rogers AR, and Future School Forth Smith AR among many others.

Continued Investment:

We are going to use our profit to sponsor more disadvantaged kids (orphans, kids with disabilities), to fund school projects initiated by students, to subsidize, transportation, + pay for lodging and food accommodations to students and instructors that live far away and cannot in normal circumstances afford a regular home and/or meal.