Combat Child Human Trafficking in Cameroon

 Colette is a young teenager who hails from Bambalang village. Although her parents are both alive, their economic situation and the large size of the family led her them to hand her over to an uncle who promised her a good education in the town of Batouri in the East Province of Cameroon. For a period of close to five years, she worked in domestic servitude in the house of her uncle, with apparently no prospects for the education she had been promised when she had left her parents. Her birth certificate was altered to bear the names of her benefactors (Ndi) as her parents, and consequently in her naivete could not imagine that she could return to her biological parents again. Coupled with this deception she suffered both physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her aunt whom she was forced to call mother. Eventually having given the impression that she had settled down, her uncle let her take a trip back home with them for a short vacation. This was the opportunity she had been waiting for, and arriving Bambalang she refused to return with them to Batouri. Colette’s dream is to be able to go back to school despite her age, and to get an education that will enable her to get a job that can improve on the economic situation of her family and give assistance to her younger siblings, so that they never have live through what she suffered.

• conducting one on one consultations
• distributing flyers
• airing a radio talk show on TIP,its affects and methods of curving it,
• conducting workshops with 22 community leaders and vigilante groups

Currently, Nascent has placed Collette in a vocational College to obtain basic computer skills. Will you help Nascent keep Collette and others in school. 

• The Case of Colette Nkazi (Ndi) (DOCX)

Prisca, the teenage daughter of Pecheye Helen, was taken away form her widowed mother by her stepbrother who happens to be a gendarme officer residing in Bamenda. He promised her a sound education in exchange for her assistance with house chores.  Helen saw in this an excellent opportunity for her daughter who was then in primary school, and gladly let her go. However after six years of toil in her step brother’s house and not a single day of school, Prisca finally fled, and with the assistance of benevolent passengers she met at the motor-park, was able to find her way back home. Her mother was greatly disappointed that Prisca had returned not only empty-handed, but had to go back to primary school at a very advanced age. Mockery from her classmates and village whispers about why she had fled from town embittered Prisca, and she became defiant and way ward, resulting in a teenage pregnancy and the termination of any hopes of a formal education. Helen believes that her stepson should be held responsible for the wreck that her daughter has become, but can hardly imagine how she can go about it.  Nascent Solutions through project SHIELD is assisting Prisca to get justice for her daughter, many more exploiters would give a second thought before taking advantage especially of poor relatives.