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Nkumu Fed Fed Members With Graduands During Graduation Ceremony In Bali By Raymond Dingana Nkumu Fed Fed under the European Union funded project baptised Stop Violence Now Against Women and Girls has graduated 49 Gender Based Violence (GBV) survivors in Bali Nyonga, North West Region of Cameroon. The survivors from both sexes were fortified with start-up kits to enable them open their own businesses and continue empowering not only themselves but others economically. The graduation and certificate award ceremony that took place last Wednesday December 13,2023 at the Gwan Multipurpose Center in Bali Nyonga came after months of intense training on different income generating activities. Eunice Tita Tata Leading Saluting Graduands   Among the graduands were those trained as hair dressers, seamstresses, mechanic, just to name but these. As explained by Nyonglema Sandra, one of the survivors turned business owner thanks to Nkumu Fed Fed and partner, European Union, she will not be selfish w

    Food Items To Be Destined For Needy Persons In the NWR By Raymond Dingana The socio-political upheavals degrading lives in Cameroon's Anglophone North West and South West Regions has not ceased to produce vulnerable persons in this crisis hit parts of the country. The situation is so bad that many can't afford a three square meal per day, not to talk of adequate medical care, among others. As end of year festivities come knocking, one need not a soothsayer to be told that persons who have been facing challenges through out the year would surely face same during this period of feasting. It is for this reason and many others that the North West Regional Assembly (NWRA) in collaboration with The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) decided to offer Christmas goodies to the affected population especially Persons with Disabilities, PWDs, Internally Displaced, Persons,IDPs, the Elderly and many others. During the 3rd edition of the North West Christmas and Cultural Festival

  Photo Credit ( CRTV Web) Picture Used For Illustration Colbert Gwain So they came to Jerusalem, and Jesus went into the temple and began driving out those who bought and sold in the temple. He upset the tables of the money changers and the seats of the dealers in pigeons, and he would not allow anyone to use the temple court as the thoroughfare for carrying goods. Then he began to teach them and said: 'Does the scripture not say my house shall be called a house of prayer for the nations? But you have made it a robbers' cave.' Mark, 11:15-18 When one of the Members of Parliament for this 10th legislature arrived at the National Assembly in the winter of 2020 after winning the by-election following a re-run in one of the constituencies in Cameroon's North West Region, he told me he received some curious advice upon arrival at the Glass House. The newly elected ruling CPDM MP was told by his fellow backbenchers that at the National Assembly, there were only two political

    By Raymond Dingana   If there is a region in Cameroon that has suffered greatly in the hands of the Cholera epidemic, then that region is the South West Region (SWR) of Cameroon. The situation has also been compounded by the ongoing socio political crisis ravaging lives in the North West and South West Regions of the country. Given that poor sanitation, unsafe drinking water amongst others are some of the leading causes of cholera in the region,  the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, UNICEF has stepped in to help arrest the situation by providing safe drinking water, clean modern toilet facilities, and has also disinfected schools and hospitals in order to put cholera under check. Students Drinking Portable Water Provided By UNICEF During the presentation of some of some of its projects in the South West Region recently by UNICEF's representative in Cameroon, Nadine Perrault, a newly constructed solar powered water supply system funded by the European Union Humanita

Colbert Gwain, CEO of A Common Future, Bamenda-Cameroon With gun violence threatening an already lower blood supply in hospitals in Cameroon in general and the restive two English-speaking regions in particular, and with survivors of Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) often needing an adequate supply of blood where certain forms of abuse have occurred, being available to freely donate blood has never been an easy task. However, Mme Fitang Madeleine, a courageous 47-year-old woman from Njinikom in the Boyo Division of the North West Region of Cameroon stands in a class of her own. Understanding that blood was a life-saving commodity that wasn't coming cheap for hospitals to obtain, Mme Fitang Magdaleine, herself a Nurse by profession, quickly made the decision very early in her life to become a free blood donor. At A Common Future organization,  we celebrate her resilience and courage during these 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence as she puts smiles on the faces

   Web Photo Used For Illustration Colbert Gwain, CEO of A Common Future, Bamenda-Cameroon Four years ago, a separatist fighter killed a 20 year old woman in Muteff village in Fundong Sub Division of the Boyo Division in the North West of Cameroon, after spending the night with her, and suspecting that she had 'fallen in love' with a fellow fighter in the same restive community.  Some five months ago, a group of fighters in the neighboring community gang-raped some three girls on their way to school, and when family members came weeping, one of the separatist fighters' commanders retorted by telling them not to weep because the act in itself was a blessing to their families. This was interpreted to mean that the families rather needed to count themselves lucky that the 'new counter elites' would choose their daughters to 'ease off their tensions.' Just three weeks ago, an armed gang invaded the Egbekaw village in Mamfe central Sub Division in the Manyu Divis

By Raymond Dingana At a time when women continue to wallow in pain as a result of Gender Based Violence (GBV) perpetrated on them, efforts have are being escalated to remedy the situation. During activities to launch this year's campaign against GBV baptized '16 Days Activism To End Violence Against Women And Girls,' Nkumu Fed Fed, with funds from the European Union EU trained and equipped 30 community communicators, Friday November 24. According to the President General of Nkumu Fed Fed, Unice Tita Tata, the stakes are high and much is expected from the participants. "We brought together community communicators, leaders, and traditional authorities to brainstorm on how to amplify the fact that GBV is a crime so that those venturing into the act should know what awaits them," She said and further explained that, "Now it is even an opportunity because the feedback is also extremely important that those who are already victims, we would transform them to survi