The SAFETY NET program is currently effectively running in Andek council.
The beneficiaries engage in community work aimed at cleaning public places and council roads.
Andek council is one of the few councils in the North West Région that have so far benefited from the SAFETY NET program.
The SAFTY NET project is a World Bank project that assists some 1,000 vulnerable households in Ngie, with the sum of 30,000F per beneficiary per month.
The program has also employed 14 Relay Agents and one Field Officer to control its activities in the council area.
The month of November centered more on community work, sensitization for school resumption and promoting of income generating activities in all the communities that make up the council area.
Capacity building workshop on children rights, hygiene and sanitation and the importance of parents to send all children to school is still ongoing.
Teachers were taught modern methods of discipline as opposed to corporal punishment which is the order of the day in these schools.
Parents were advised to pay school fees for the children on time and to equipped them with all the necessary Text Books.
Hygiene and sanitation and the importance of washing the hands with running water and soap and sleeping under the mosquito net was equally highlighted.

At the end of these capacity building workshops, all the schools visited and homes, parents were advised to send children to school and to equipped them with all necessary text books and that no child should be kept at home. Parents were equally advised to assist their children do their Home Work.
In the cause of home visits, couples were advised on the danger of gender based violence. This is because many families had fallen apart because of gender based violence.
Sensitization on social security and environmental protection was equally handled during our home visits.
Notwithstanding the above activities in the month of November, some parents are still keeping their children at home and beneficiaries and relay agents have been for months without payments.


Special Community work is still ongoing in Bonambufei, Bonatu, Andek and Upper Mengom as Beneficiaries have embarked on opening farms to market roads.
Children are taught the importance of their rights. One of which is to the right to have a birth certificate, the right to education, health care, the right to play, food and shelter.
Campaign for school resumption and living togeBonambufeiace.

DIFFICULTIES FACED
– Insecurity
– Insufficient working tools
– Communication problem due to poor network.
– No transport allowances
– No communication credits
– Many farmers losing their pigs and piglets.
PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
-The field worker, relay agents and beneficiaries should be very vigilant and to report any case of insecurity to the Administration.
-Working tools should be provided
-Transport allowance and communication credit be provided
– A veterinary technician should be present and follow farmers on the field.

-The field worker, relay agents and beneficiaries should be very vigilant and to report any case of insecurity to the Administration.
-Working tools should be provided
-Transport allowance and communication credit be provided
– A veterinary technician should be present and follow farmers on the field.