Harambe-Cameroon Information

Harambe Cameroon is a private, apolitical and legally Cameroonian organization led by the bright minds of Cameroon in the US, France, UK, Asia Diaspora and in the country, to engage young Cameroonians to transform local challenges into business ventures. The endeavor was founded in August 2008, and officially launched on November 12th, 2009 at Royal-Co Bastos, Yaounde. Harambe-Cameroon is an independent branch of a much larger international alliance called the Harambe Entrepreneurship Alliance (HEA). HEA is an alliance of African students studying at leading colleges and universities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, seeking "to capture, inform and engage Africa's global intellectual capital, towards a concerted, strategicc, and sustained development of Africa. " As part of this international endeavor, Harambe Cameroon spearheaded the first Social Entrepreneurship Program in the nation. The program seeks to change the paradigm of competition and entrepreneurship amongst Cameroonian students. Harambe-Cameroon’s mission is to inspire a new generation of young leaders and entrepreneurs who see problems as opportunities in need of solutions and have the poise and wherewithal to engage others to create long-lasting social impact.