Cameroon Team

ASTRADHE

L’Association pour la Traduction, l’Alphabétisation, et le Développement Holistique de l’Etre Humain ASTRADHE is a local association based in Lomié, in the heart of the forest where our villages communities live. This dedicated and passionate team is from the very communities that our program serves, with deep trusting relationships and a strong commitment to building a future that reflects families’ diverse and nuanced aspirations. They are the key to its success and sustainability.

ASTRADHE leads the implementation, reflection, and innovation cycles that continuously strengthen our program in Cameroon. From its founding 2006, ASTRADHE has worked in Baka community rights, justice, and empowerment, including education and training programs, mother tongue instruction, community mapping of forest zones, and a comprehensive study on gender and education.

ASTRADHE works with Baka community members and Two Rabbits experts to create educational scenarios, songs, and games that comprise of curriculum. Their sound design team compiles recordings with voice actors, sound effects, and music, to make the content engaging, participatory, and fun.  ASTRADHE also conducts monitoring and coaching visits for teachers, and evaluates learner outcomes using our contextualized internationally-validated measures of child development.

Brigitte Anziom,Director

Brigitte is the Director of ASTRADHE. She co-led design of the Two Rabbits model, and oversaw its piloting, iteration, adaptation, and scale-up. She grew up in the Lomie area, and has dedicated her life to Baka empowerment and community-led development. Prior to founding ASTRADHE in 2006, she served as a preschool teacher, and a community mobilization agent with SNV. She has 20 years of experience designing, managing, and assessing community development initiatives in Baka communities. She has expertise in local language development and translation, community empowerment, conservation, and human rights. She has made ASTRADHE a leader among nonprofit organizations in integrating Baka leadership and participation in project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.