3-Days outreach on Gender Based Violence and child trafficking in rural Cameroon

What a day! Wonderful civic engagement program in ‪Nkambe‬ ,NW organized by ‪#‎HOFNA‬ and 5 Mandela-Washington Fellows in the Donga-Mantung region of ‪‎Cameroon‬. 

With close to 150 Secondary School students from ‪#‎GBHS‬ Nkambe, and about 8 fons (chiefs)of villages in the division, the themes today were : Ending gender-based violence ‪#‎GBV‬ , promoting the girl-child ‪#‎education‬ , and decreasing the rate of child trafficking, very prevalent in this region of Cameroon .

I must say, the trip was quite arduous (11hours drive from Yaoundé yesterday, crater & lake-full potholes on the roads for 4hrs, 3 flat tires, tiredness, hunger, exhaustion...) but, it was worth every bit of it. When you see the impact such activity has on youths and leaders in remote and hardly accessible areas, you understand the importance of it. As aunty Gla always says, "Everybody is somebody, and nobody is a nobody." 

Personally, I had never been this far into Cameroon , and I got to see a 110 years old Fon, and I got to reconnect with the amazing and inspiring group of Mandela Washington Fellows, with whom we took a smashing selfie! What a day!

Thank you God.