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CULTURAL REGENERATION

Making a difference through Music

Contact Person:Paul Nchu Ngang Email:paul_4u@hotmail.com P.O Box: 558 Limbe Website: www.culreg.org www.facebook.com/culreg

Status
Reg. No: SW/GP/038/09/8069 Common Initiative Group With the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

JEUNESSE MUSICALES INTERNATIONAL IN COLLABORATION WITH THE WORLD BANK INSTITUTE CULTURAL REGENERATION CAMEROON
Youths Using Music to Fight Corruption FAIR PLAY
http://youtu.be/IRRa3KGZ9M8 http://youtu.be/bewUm5AdZwY

CULTURAL REGENERATION

Executive Board: Paul Nchu N, Honore Ndukong T,Peter Che N, Daniel Njang M, Fidel Abong

INTRODUCTION: Jeunesse Musicales International is the Worlds largest youth and musical Network with 66 years of working experience. With its headquarters in Belgium, it has current member organizations in 45 countries, contacts organizations in another 35 countries with CULTURAL REGENERATION being its representative in Cameroon and the Central African Region. MISSION: It has as mission to help young people develop through music using its international projects like Jazz Camps, Ethno Camps, Young Audience, World Youth Choir, Imagine Festivals and FAIR PLAY. PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION: Jeunesse Musicales International (JMI) collaborating with the World Bank Institute gets its members worldwide to partner with the project so as to get young music minds involved in the project. It begins with the creation of the projects website where every information concerning the project can be gotten. The youths are involved using the means available. In Cameroon, we go to school, churches, Radio and T.V Stations,posters,use the internet (emails) and also by word of mouth. Young musicians and bands who catches the vision move straight to work by composing and coming up with video tracts on anticorruption. The videos are then uploaded to the projects website for online voting. At the end of this process, the best three videos are selected by the Jury being put in place by JMI and the World Bank Institute. They are given the opportunity to perform a live concert in a chosen country organized by JMI and the World Bank Institute. Furthermore they are also given an opportunity to a studio production which put them on an advantage to meet and share ideas with World Class established music Icons. At this point, they are exposed to international media hence an occasion for them to be heard and seen world wide meeting up with JMIs mission to develop young people through music. The target group of the project are the youths because they are considered to be leaders of tomorrow. Therefore they should be schooled to shun corruptive practices. PURPOSE AND NEEDS: The main purpose of the project is to change the mind set of the population of the world towards embracing basic virtues like integrity, transparency, accountability and honesty in order to guarantee societies where each individual could perform his/her innate responsibility to God and to humanity.

PROBLEM STATEMENT: There is so much tears in the eyes of individuals and families due to the devastating effects of corruption. Individuals especially in rural areas have been denied access to good health, potable water, goad roads and quality education because they do not have someone to speak for them in government offices. Corruption causes unemployment, poverty and general hardship, a function of the fact that the wealth of our nation is being embezzled by just a few powerful capitalists politicians, administrators, the civil society and even the clergy. A case in point is Africa where 60 % of the population still live below the poverty line while their leaders live in affluence and magnificent with thousands of dollars in their bank accounts. In Cameroon for instance, according to the recent IMF report for 2011, 40 % of its inhabitants are unemployed while a couple of leaders languish in various prisons across the country for embezzling billions of FRS CFA stocked in foreign banks. However, corruption is manifested in every area of our life i.e. in schools, government offices, banks, hospitals, shops, family just to name a few. RATIONALE: From time immemorial, music has always been a vehicle of mobilization towards behavioral change and change of mentality. The pivotal role of music in the dismantling of appetite in South Africa cannot be over emphasized. Equally, music has been instrumental in the breaking down of socio-cultural and racial barriers in the history of America. It can therefore not be denied that with the vision FIAR PLAY has and being consistent and systematic as it is, stands a great chance of breaking the vice of corruption to a very wide margin and inspire positive change. Culreg could not resist being a tool in this success story. RESULTS: - There have been increased love and peaceful coexistence as individuals tend to realize the essence of living. - It has promoted basic values of truth and better accountability. - A great number of Cameroonian youths were touched about 100.000 of them. - The corruption song is now very popular in Cameroon as youths who were able to catch the corruption message stick to it. The corruption song was sang in English, French and the local pidgin languages respectively so that every Cameroonian could get the corruption message. - We get some of the group a video link on YouTube (culreg One Heart) - http://youtu.be/IRRa3KGZ9M8 - http://youtu.be/bewUm5AdZwY

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