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Preventing risks. Rescuing lives. Restoring hope.
Across Ndokotti, Deïdo and Bonabéri, CSCF turns dangerous stretches of road into safe routes to school, trains ordinary residents to act in the first minutes after a crash, and helps survivors get back on their feet.
Why we exist
Chia Safety & Care Foundation was registered under Cameroonian Law No. 90/053 to close a gap that families in Douala already knew by heart: the minutes between an incident and a response decide outcomes, and for too many households, that response either arrived too late or not at all.
We are not a general relief organisation. Every programme we run traces back to a specific, observable failure point along the path from risk to recovery — a school crossing with no signage, a taxi rank with no one trained in first aid, a crash survivor with nowhere to source a wheelchair. We build the missing link, then measure whether it held.
How we work
Four pillars, each answering a different point in the same chain of events.
Safe School Corridors & Clear Vision Safe Roads
Most of the crashes our partner clinics treat didn't have to happen. We work street by street with municipal authorities to repaint crossings, place speed bumps where they actually slow traffic, station crossing guards at opening and closing hours, and fix signage that a driver can read at speed rather than only up close.
First Responder Network
We train the people already on the street when something goes wrong — motorcycle-taxi riders, market traders, shopkeepers — in bleeding control, safe casualty handling and when to move someone versus when to wait. Each graduate keeps a kit and a card listing the nearest clinic that can take a referral.
Wheels of Hope
Wheelchairs, crutches and mobility referrals for crash survivors and residents with disabilities, fitted with a physiotherapist rather than handed out generically.
Livelihoods & youth leadership
Small grants and vocational training for households where an injury cost a breadwinner their income, plus youth-led safety leadership so the next generation doesn't inherit the same blind corners.
Where we work
We stay concentrated in three Douala neighbourhoods rather than spread thin across the city, because the depth of a relationship with a school or a clinic is what makes a referral actually happen.
Dense market traffic
One of Douala's busiest commercial junctions, where pedestrians, hand-carts and vehicles share the same narrow space for most of the day.
A highway that cuts through school routes
Several primary schools sit within a short walk of a fast, poorly-marked crossing — the focus of our current Safe School Corridors work.
Industrial freight corridor
Heavy trucks moving to and from the port share the road with residential traffic, raising both the frequency and severity of incidents.
"The training didn't just teach me what to do — it taught me not to freeze. Before, I would have just watched and waited for someone else to act."
Illustrative field account — First Responder Network graduate, Bonabéri. Replace with a verified, consented story before publishing.Active projects
Concept notes for institutional funders are available on request through the transparency page.
Safe School Corridors
Repainted crossings and trained crossing guards at high-risk school routes.
View project →First Responder Network
Community members trained and equipped for the first minutes after a crash.
View project →Clear Vision Safe Roads
Signage and visibility upgrades along the corridors with the highest incident rates.
View project →Registered, audited and independent
CSCF is registered under Cameroonian Law No. 90/053, operates under a published safeguarding and anti-corruption policy, and is independent of any commercial entity. Annual financial statements and our full constitution are available to institutional funders.
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