Emergency Funds For Displaced Families In Cameroon

Greetings To Our Donors and Supporters;

One of the major problems for our displaced families has been the lack of communication from zone to zone and to our main headquarters in Yaounde.  Communication is one of the most important standard in our JRCCA Organization because of the challenges of the on-going  Civil War for the past five years and the rural environment that has tremendouly impacted our survival in an isolated environment.  

 We are indebted and give thanks  to our sisters organization in the USA who helped us by providing  finances to buy two Android phones to improve the communication challenge for some of our identified  displaced members who have been deprived of these tools  to use in carrying out organization activities at various levels in their zone.  These phones will be used as part of the Cyber-Cafe , Walkie Talkie, Project that will improve communication between the Zones and the Home Office in Yaounde as well as open doors to be able to communicate over the internet and zoon with sister organization in the USA.

This equipment (an Android phone of mark Itel A56) was handed to the  Zone 5  Director  for  Internally  Displaced People ( IDPS).   This event took place at the JRCCA Simbock Head office in Yaounde Cameroon ,Africa.  It was Coordinated by Manager of Cyber Cafe,  JRCCA President,  JRCCA Vice president and the Zone Director for Zone 5 and the SNT leaders for Zone 5 and FRD for Zone 5 in the SWR .

This equipment will be used to enhance communication in many ways bridging the gap between the rural communities and indigenous people of Weh , connecting the indigenous people of Weh via the internet and zoom.   Also connecting Wum  to the main office and the International Community and the USA via internet and zoom,  Reporting on activities of the JRCCA NGO work to support more than 10 families,  20 students, 10 women in Wum area, 30 women in Toneku village in Zone 1 in the English speaking region of  NW Cameroon. These phones  will also enhance the JRCCA Women Empowerment projects in Weh, Zone 5, Toneku village in Zone 1 which promote Women's rights for these women and girls who have been displaced from their families, villages, communities and region in Cameroon.  These zone are the most isolated at this time and the IDPs do not have access to outside information for days.

The equipment will also be used to promote and improve health education and sensitization on importance of education and awareness about the HiV/AIDS project for displaced families because of the Civil conflict and the pandemic.  Many of the displaced families are still in hiding in the bushes and are in situations where they do not have access to basic information.  Working with our new partners on collaborative projects we will be able to promote youths and sports projects which have always been main events for youths in the English speaking NW/SW Regions.  The equipment will help indigenous Bee Farmers in Weh and help establish JRCCA IT Cyber Cafe in Weh Village , Wum, and  TAAH and , Mbengwi in Momo Division  etc...

For example, one of the Android phone will reach the contact  person at a later unknown date. " He said he is in Kom for now and that when he will be going to Bamenda Town, he will inform me and in the mean while if any JRCCA officer will be coming to Bamenda, I can kindly inform him so he can rush and collect it. So I told him ok I will get with the President then get back to him".

 "With regards to the website, we are currently working on a cost analysis assessment of the potential solutions to adopt for our website infrastructure. We want to ensure that the development and maintenance of the site will be sustainable and easy to update. Once an ideal solution is chosen, we will do well to keep you apprised".  "JRCCA NGO has a a goal to developing Technology for Good in this World"

If we are going to implement the concept of global social responsibility for our displaced families because of the Civil conflict in the English speaking NW Region in Cameroon and in the USA (Relationship between USA and Cameroon does exist) to improve health, education, living conditions, clean water, the economy and reduce poverty in the families, villages, communities, regions and the nation of Cameroon, we need to continue to focus setting and achieving SMART GOALS with ACTION STEPS despite the challenges from the Civil Conflict, Pandemic or other adverse challenges to the English speaking NW/SW Regions in Cameroon.

We are grateful and thankful for donors and sponsors who understand this concept and who are willing to provide services above self that will benefit other human beings on this planet.

Kind Regards,

Greetings To Our Supporters and Donors;

We hope that when this report find you that you are in the best of health and full of joy as we continue to celebrate the loss of our founder at the age of 96 years old.  With your support, we were able to return his remains back to Zang Tabi, Cameroon where he was born.  Despite the continued Civil unrest in the area, the Rebels all agreed to put down their weapons and allow us the priviledge of laying our leadeer to rest and celebrate in the traditional African way with dancing, killing of a cow and paying respect to the life and work of our leader.  This was an opportunity for our people who in some cases had not seen each other in the past four years to come together and humanily relate over the course of several days without their lives being threatened.

Our organization passed a resolution to honor the work and life of the founder by dedicating his resting place as a Honey Bee Farm, Flower Sanctuary and Bee Research Center in collobaration with other international organizations which will bring  much needed jobs and employment to the Center and the area which will allow his legacy to live forever and provide a source of food and income for Dsiplaced families who wish to return to the soil of their birth as with our founder.

For those families who are slowly returning to some of the "safe areas" our organization has set up an office donated by the government to provide a source of information and opportunity to participate in Food Security Projects that will assist them as things are moving back to the way it used to be in the villages before the Civil conflict. 

Our newly appointed Human Resource Director and newly appointed Jobs and Training Director are offering training and the opportunity for individuals to come to the office and register for one of several projects that are being offered such as pig, chicken, quail, and corn farming with the opportunity to develop a business that will produce crops for the market and for their family.  When in full operation the jobs and training project will offer opportunities that are severly needed for our young men and women who have been out of school for the past four years due to the civil conflict.

Because of the Civil conflicts, the biggest problem that we have to deal with and overcome is the lack of trust among the people which has caused unnecessary anxiety among the people.  We are implementing strategies to help us overcome these challenges by using the internet, zoom and conference calling, face to face to communicate with the people in the villages and build trust.  Progress has been slow.  For example there was a natural loss of some pigs in one area of development which hampered growth.  Other challenges to our progress has included dealing with the rainy season, lack of internet connectivity, and the over all lack of trust for fear of losing their lives to the conflict.

The highlight for this report is the fact that our leadership continues to build relationships with other local and international organizations to help our people to try and recover from the devestation of having loss everything because of the civil conflict and attempting to start a new way of life without resources.  For example during the celebration and burial many of the displaced families hiding in the bushes came to the event and enjoyed a well prepared meal for the first time in many months as they have been surviving living off the land in the bushes for safety reason.

We are truly grateful and thankful for the resources that you have provided and we look forward to your continued humantarian support for our displaced families.  We look forward to the day when the civil conflict will be over and they will be able to resume their lives in peace in the villages.