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KAMERUNILAISTEN
AKATEEMINEN YHDISTYS
RAUL YONDOHelsinki 05.11.2011 [email protected]
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KAY: What is meant exactly?
Concluding remarks
Activities & Functions
Organization
Aims
Membership: Types and Benefits
Miscellaneous
Content
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Information
COMBINING OUR DIFFERENCES AND
SKILLS
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KAY: What is meant exactly?
Kamerunilaisten Akateeminen Yhdistys (K.A.Y)
= Cameroonian Intelligentsia Society Why a Society, why not an Association?
Society = body of individuals (group, community) boundsby functional interdependence, common interests, goals or
professions. Term abundantly used in academiccommunities.
Association = membership based upon similar criteria as insocieties, but not predominantly social in nature.
A few elements of understanding
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KAY: What is meant exactly?
Cameroonian graduates in Finland: an illusion ofintegration.
Bring together Cameroonian intellectuals in Finland aroundcommon interests, goals and values.
Rethink of our integration strategies to avoid a lost ofhuman resources and personal tragedies.
Achieve a common vision for the emergence of a new eliteof Cameroonians in Finland
Lack of orientation and mentoring for Cameroonianstudents...
Why the need of a such an organization
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KAY: Aims
To establish a dynamic network of Cameroonianstudents and graduates in Finland.
To promote the possible economical, intellectual,political and cultural contributions of the Cameroonianstudents and graduates in Finland.
To promote diversity, to ensure equal opportunities andto warn & prevent discriminations.
To gather, within a network Cameroonian and Finnishcompanies, entrepreneurs, politicians, managers anddeciders in order to create a business club and anetwork of contacts.
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KAY: Aims
To establish a referral service of orientation and support (academic,job/internship hunt, leaflets, workshops, symposiums,...) forCameroonian students and graduates in Finland.
To promote and consolidate the academic/economicallinks/partnerships between Cameroonian and Finnishacademic/economical institutions.
To collaborate with the Finnish authorities for a better integration ofthe Cameroonian intelligentsia in the Finnish society.
To contribute to the appropriation of the Finnish language andvalues, while valuing our own identities.
To cooperate, exchange ideas and information with otherassociations whose purposes and activities benefit our members andare consistent with the purposes of the Association.
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KAY: Activities & Functions
Maintain an information service for the Members.
Establish a Secretariat to carry out the core activities of theOrganization.
Schedule and hold field trips, conferences, workshops,symposiums, discussion panels and other scholarly events.
Assist members to understand employers expectations and
support them to explore and find suitable opportunities inthe Finnish job market and elsewhere.
To provide a forum for discussion on common-interestissues.
What will be done to promote the above-mentioned aims
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KAY: Activities & Functions
Offer appropriate and consistent support to Finnish legalmembers who wish to establish a business in Cameroon or a
partnership with a Cameroonian organization and vice versa. Publish a tri-annual newsletter on the organization website, as
well as other single or periodic publications in various media.
Get financial backing for the smooth running/conduct of thevarious activities of the organization.
Search for members that could join the Business club. Encourage the creation of prizes, awards, and honors relevant
to the Organizations aims.
What will be done to promote the above-mentioned aims
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KAY Membership: Types & BenefitsMembership Types
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Undergraduate Cameroonian student
registered at a Finnish University.
Student Membership
Cameroonian Graduate Fellow with no
professional experience.
Graduate Fellow Membership
Cameroonian Graduate Fellow with less than
3 years of professional experience (early
career) / Postgraduate student.
Professional Fellow Membership
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1 Senior Fellow Membership
Cameroonian Graduate Fellow with more
than 3 years of professional experience
(confirmed, mid-career or experienced)
Corporates, associations, institutions or
other similar bodies.
Non-Cameroonian scholars, other
Cameroonians or other types of
sympathizers.
Honorary Fellow Membership
Corporate Membership
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KAY: Membership Benefits
Access to key/latest information and news.
Endless opportunities to network with Cameroonian graduatesand professionals throughout the Business Club.
A voice in the legislative policies affecting the organization
Recognition of your accomplishments.
Resources to support your career and professionaldevelopment.
Opportunities to hone your job hunting and projectmanagement skills.
Member-only savings on KAY activities, events and services.
As a member of KAY, you instantly have:
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Organization chart 2015
SecretaryGeneral
Advisory Board
GeneralAssembly
External
Auditor
President
BusinessClub
Deputy S.G.
Treasurer Legal Affairs andDiscipline Unit
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ElectoralComittee
Deputy Treasurer
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Organization chart 2015
Entertainment
EventsCoordinator
ExternalRelations and
CommunicationsUnit
Orientation
and CareerManagers
Website andForums Managers
EducationalEvents
Coordinator
Operation Units
ProjectsDevelopment Unit
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MembershipManager
Business
Creation Unit
Fund RaisingOfficer
ProjectCoordinators
Editorial Board
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Miscellaneous
What we think, or what weknow, or what we believe is, in
the end, of no consequence. The
only consequence is what we do
JOHN RUSKIN.
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Miscellaneous
What next should you do ?!
Register to KAYFacebook & LinkedIn
groups
Carefully read &accept the KAY rules
and regulations
Pay yourmembership fees,
develop your Finnishlanguage skills & be
an active member
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KAY Facebook PageKAY Linkedin Group
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Kiitos ajastanne!