MPYRAA              

Objectives

  • To promote Peace, Unity and Progress amongst the Youths.
  • To instill in the Youths a sense of awareness and respect for the norms of the community and laws of the state.
  • To mobilize the Cameroonian youths in support of the fight against HIV/AIDS and STI’s.
  • To promote abstinence and fidelity in youths and couples.
  • To deliver teachings on HIV/AIDS and self-employment techniques in schools and colleges.
  • To create and run awareness centers for the fight against HIV/AIDS in our areas of operation.
  • To provide Education and training to the local population.
  • To organize seminars, conferences and public awareness talks aimed at educating both the village and urban communities on the deadly disease and promoting self-employment.
  • To sensitize and create awareness to the masses on the existence of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and it’s associated dangers.
  • To educate the population on environmental sanitation so as to leave healthily in order to avoid the risk of.
  • To provide a library where by the public can have easy access to information.
  • To provide a research and documentation unit for further analysis of our findings.
  • To encourage child welfare and discourage child Abuse.
  • To cooperate with various Divisional health posts and other Associations towards making the fight against poverty and HIV/AIDS and other health hazards become a reality.

 
The Long term objectives of MPYRAA are as follows:

  • The relief and assistance of children and young people in need;
  • The promotion of the education of children and young people;
  • The promotion among children and young people of the knowledge of the Christian faith or the faith in which they were brought up;
  • The relief of the poor, sick, handicapped and aged;

Provided always that the Association shall without prejudice to those objects and having regard to its CATHOLIC history and its Christian inspiration pay special regard to the following values:
  • Respecting the unique worth/Religious background of every person;
  • Encouraging people to fulfill their potential;
  • Working with hope to achieve these aims.

The Association shall have the following powers exercisable in furtherance of its said objects but not otherwise, namely:
  • To seek out and bring help to children and young people of both sexes in need; to maintain, provide board, lodging, clothing, medical or other treatment, family care services, education or craft training with a view to enabling them to achieve a full independent and beneficial life; to receive such children and young people irrespective of race, creed or color into Homes, foster-homes or other places managed by or under the supervision of the movement in Cameroon or elsewhere and to supervise them until they are capable of providing for themselves.
  • To provide an individual careers service for such children and young people to assist them in finding suitable employment; to provide them with clothing and equipment necessary for them to undertake such employment; to provide monetary help should they desire to emigrate; to set them up in business or enable them to attend an educational establishment to further their education and do all things necessary or expedient for the foregoing purposes.
  • To teach children and young people handicrafts, trades and commercial subjects; to institutes or promote the training in work of a commercial nature by children and young people and carry on any of the trades or industries in which they or any other individual likes best.
  • To afford help, protection and guidance to parents, whether married, unmarried or widowed, with or expecting children, being in need of care and assistance and that whether by family care service or any other way and when necessary to provide suitable accommodation for them and/or their children in any suitable Homes, foster-homes and other places managed by or under the supervision of the Association in Cameroon or elsewhere and to supervise them until they are capable of providing for themselves.
  • To carry on the business of an Adoption Society and to conduct negotiations with any person who having the care and possession of any child is desirous of adopting that child; to take care and possession of any child whose parent or guardian is desirous that the child be adopted and to arrange for such adoption as is beneficial to the child.
  • To borrow or raise money for the purposes of the Association on such terms and on such security as may be thought fit; to enter into agreements to acquire goods of any kind for its own use on such terms of credit, deferred credit or hire purchase agreement or other arrangement as may be considered advantageous to the Association.
  • To undertake or organize money raising and selling schemes, public and private appeals, the sale of products of the training or care schemes of the Association provided always that such activities are ancillary to the proper and adequate training of children or young people.
  • To invest the moneys of the Association not immediately required for any of its purposes in or with such concerns, securities or property as may be thought fit, subject nevertheless to such conditions (if any) and such consents (if any) as may for the time being be imposed or required by law and subject also as hereinafter provided.
  • To appoint as investment managers for the Association one or more persons who the Council is satisfied after inquiry are proper and competent persons to act in that capacity and who are:
    • Individuals of repute with at least fifteen years’ experience of investment management who are authorized persons within the meaning of the Financial Services Act 1986.
  • To delegate to any such investment manager so appointed power at his/her discretion to buy and sell investments for the Association on its behalf in accordance with the investment policy laid down by the Council. The Council may pay reasonable and proper remuneration to anyone appointed to act as investment manager for the Association.
  • The Council may:-
    • make such arrangements as they think fit for any investments of the Association or income from those investments to be held by a corporate body as the Association’s nominee;
    • Pay reasonable and proper remuneration to any corporate body acting as the association’s nominee in pursuance of
  • To purchase and acquire the assets and funds of or to establish and support or assist in the establishment and support of any charitable associations or institutions or to contribute by way of grant for research, investigation or experiment or to subscribe, lend or guarantee money for charitable purposes in any way connected with the purposes of the Association or calculated to further its objects.
  • To acquire land buildings and other erections thereon and to build, furnish and equip such accommodations as may be necessary to provide work places for young and adult persons with disabilities who by reasons of their disability are unable to find regular employment; to employ staff to manage these undertakings, to train the workers to make full use of their impaired capacity and to pay the staff and workers employed in these undertaking such salary or wages as the Council of the Association may consider to be reasonable; to provide warehouses, stores and showrooms necessary for the sale of the produce of these undertakings to the public, merchants and by private bargain in order to defray or reduce the cost to the Association’s General Funds of maintaining and operating such undertakings.
  • To make all reasonable and necessary provisions for the payment of pensions and superannuation to or on behalf of employees and their widows and other dependants and for the payment of death benefits to or on behalf of employees and their widows and other dependants by virtue of any scheme approved under the Cameroon income and corporation Taxes law or any Act amending or replacing same.
  • To do all or any of the above things in any part of the world and as principals, agents, contractors, trustees or otherwise and by or through trustees, agents or otherwise and either alone or in conjunction with others.
  • To do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the said objects or any of them, provided that.
  • In case the Association shall take or hold any property which may be subject to any trusts, the Association shall only deal with or invest the same in such manner as allowed by law, having regard to such trusts.
  • The objects of the Association shall not extend to the regulation of relations between workers and employers or organizations of workers and organizations of employers.
  • In case the Association shall take or hold any property subject to the jurisdiction of the Charity Commissioners for Cameroon, the Association shall not sell, mortgage, charge or lease the same within such authority, approval or consent as may be required by law, and as regards any such property the council of management or governing body of the Association shall be chargeable for any such property that may come into their hands and shall be answerable and accountable for their own acts, receipts, neglects and defaults, and for the due administration of such property in the same manner and to the same extent as they would as such council of management or governing body have been if no incorporation had been effect, and the incorporation of the Association shall not diminish or impair any control or authority exercisable by the Chancery Division, or the Charity Commissioners over such council of management or governing body, but they shall as regards any such property be subject jointly and separately to such control or authority as if the Association were not incorporated.
  • The income and property of the Association whensoever derived shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of the Association as set forth in this Memorandum of Association and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise howsoever by way of profit to the Members of the Association provided that nothing herein shall prevent the payment in good faith of remuneration of the officers or servants of the Association or subject to the provisions hereinafter contained to any Member of the Association or other person in return for any goods supplied or services actually rendered to the Association or of interest to any Member of the Association or other person who may advance money to the Association on mortgage or debentures or by way of loan or otherwise.
  • There is a condition on which a license is granted by the Board of Trade to the Association in pursuance of the Companies Act in Cameroon. If any Member of the Association pays or receives any dividend, bonus or other profit in contravention of the terms of the this condition, his/her liability shall be unlimited; provided further that no Member of the Council of Management or governing body of the Association shall be appointed to any salaries office of the Association or any office of the Association paid by fees, and that no remuneration or other benefit in money or money’s worth shall be given by the Association to any member of such Council or governing body, except repayment of out-of-pocket expenses and interest on money lent or reasonable and proper rent for premises demised or let to the Association or the payment of premiums in respect of indemnity insurance effected in accordance with the given Clause above; provided that the provision last aforesaid shall not apply to any payment to any Company of which a Member of the Council of Management or governing body may be a member, and in which such Member shall not be bound to account for any share of profits he/she may receive in respect of any such payment. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Clause it shall be competent for the Association to pay such Members of Council a fee for duties undertaken for and on behalf of the Council or the Association provided always that the number of Members of Council in receipt of such fees shall not exceed one third of the total active membership of the Council at that time and provided further that no member of the Council shall be competent to vote on any resolution for payment to him/her of such a fee.
  • Every Member of the Association undertakes to contribute to the assets of the Association in the event of the same being wound up during the time that he/she is a Member or within one year afterwards for payment of the debts and liabilities of the Association contracted before the time at which he/she ceases to be a Member and of the costs, charges and expenses of winding up the same and for the adjustment of the rights of the contributories amongst themselves such amount as may be required not exceeding 1000Frs CFA or in the case of his/her liability becoming unlimited such other amounts as may be required in pursuance of the last preceding paragraph of this Memorandum.
  • If upon the winding up or dissolution of the Association there remains after satisfaction of all the relevant debts and liabilities, any balance of funds or assets whatsoever, the same shall not be paid to or distributed among the Members of the Association but shall be paid over to some other charitable institution or institutions having objects similar to the objects of the Association and which shall prohibit the distribution of its or their income and property among its or their members to an extent al least as great as is imposed on the Association under or by virtue of Clause 5 hereof, such institution or institutions are to be determined by the Members of the Association at or before the time of dissolution, and if and so far as effect cannot be given to such provision, then to some charitable object.
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