Women's Rights in 28 Villages Cameroon Africa

We have been on the run since about August of 2018 because of the shutting down of schools, attacks of public and private houses, kidnapping and killings as some of the hallmarks of what is currently happening in our Anglephone regions (Meta) of Cameroon, Africa. 

As we have settled into our hiding space, we are surviving despite the fact that we have a lack of food, medical supplies and other necessities to be able to maintain a healthy life style.  Instead of looking at the glass as being half empty, we are looking at the glass as being half full.  We are thankful to God for being alive and able to wake up to a new day.  As we have settled into our new envirement, we have chosen to go out each day and try to develop relationships and find new resources as we connect with other families who are on the run from our 28 villages and communities. 

On June 24, 2019, Equinoxe TV reported on the six o'clock news that 1.3 million people had left the Meta Region and neighbor (NW/SW) that around 680,000 children from the NW/SW Region had left the area.  These numbers represents critical humanitarian concerns for families and children who are facing lack of medical care, food and basic needs including loss of opportunity to obtain basic education.  Schools in the area have been shut down.

Currently we are in the process of obtaining a small plot of land where we can relocate our headquarters, establish a small urgent care center, small computer center where our children can have access to the internet and online schooling, and build some low income houses for our families to have some decent living quarters.

We are contininuing to strive and prepare our families with skills and information necessary for them to return back to our villages in the Meta Regions when and if the government declares that the conflict is over and we can return safelfy to our villages and homes.

The military interventions continue to disrupt the daily lives of the people in our villages in the NW Region in Cameroon. Despite the fact that the Women Empowerment Team has not been able to return to our homes in Zang Tabi Village and the Meta area in the NW Region in Cameroon, the team has continued to create opportunities for our group while we are on the run. 

For example, we have conducted educational workshop about the goals and objectives of our organization JRCCA to encourage locals to join us in creating and negotiating to develop economic opportunities here in Cameroon with investors and partners in the USA, especially in Tyrone, GA.  Our goals and objectives are to be prepared to rebuild our homes, hospitals, urgent care centers, provide clean water and promote and create jobs that will improve the economic development for the area and our neighbors in more than 28 villages when the military interventions are over and we are allowed to return to our villages.

We have organized a group of ten delegates who are scheduled to travel,  meet with and attend the annual Light of Cameroon, Legacy Proclamation in honor of our founders and leaders Ma Salome and Pa John, and the Leadership Economic Summit in Tyrone, GA. USA from May 11 through June 9, 2019.  The delegation will be led by the honorable Lord Mayor Beatrice of Mbengwi Meta City Counsel in collaboration with our honorable President Ma Comfort. The stated objective is to properly honor the Legacy and humanitarian work of Ma Salome over several decades in the NW Region of Cameroon, meet investors and tour businesses of interest that will help us to develop an economic foundation in the NW Region of Meta

The attached MOU explains the relationship established in the JRCCA Memorandum of Understanding with Mayor of the City Council of Mbengwi with regards to all activities including the main project of constructing the JRCCA American Corner in Tonekoh Zang Tabi Taah Meta to serve more than 28 villages for youths and creating jobs and employment to help deal with the growth and development of our youths.

• MOU between Mayor of Mbengwi and JRCCA Cameroon (PDF)
  

Please see detail  updates report attached.

 Report by Ma Loveline Mufu and MA Comfort

 Mufu Loveline General Counsel member of JRCCA , Ambassador to all churches and culture , Madam Comfort Ticha President of JRCCA and Amundam Ruth Youth Ambassador visited (ZATACUDA) Zang Tabi Cultural development association meeting  in Yaounde Cameroon with a crate of drinks, to continue explaining to them more about our NGO.

We have to report at this time that the military conflict in the NW and SW Regions in Cameroon continues to make it unsafe for the displaced families to return to home and continue their way of life.  Despite the danger of traveling in the area, we continue to be aware of our fellow family members and friends who had to leave their homes and are still hiding in the bushes.  We are on the run and have been on the run from our homes and we are in an undisclosed place for our safety.  About six months ago, we were able to escape in the middle of the night to safety from the threat of being killed by gun fires or burned in our homes. 

We arrived there and went first to Pa Mbarica and the wife to have a brief discussion with them. We were very welcome; we informed them briefly of our intention of visiting the meeting and also about our fundraising programe. There after he gave us some guideline on the fundraising programe. He recommended that we need to have funding to secure a safe place as we ‘are going to invite dignitaries. He also advised us to understand that organizing fundraising is something that one may gain or loose so to plan well It will depend on the type of people we invite.  We are raising funds to support a trip to the USA to attend a leadership and training summit during the month of April 2019.  The purpose of this trip for members of our delegation is to obtain skills, training and make contact with USA investors who can help the people who are on the run and in the jungle to restart their lives.

After the brief discussion, we now proceeded to the ZATACUDA meeting hall. While in the meeting house, we were given very little time to talk and do our presentation Since the time was limited, I briefly introduced my team. A song was given by the president of JRCCA and the entire house sang! Then I went straight and explained to them the word “SWOT” and it meaning and how it will help in assisting with the implementation of our JRCCA Goals and objectives and our vision to helping in the rebuilding of our 29 villages and neighbors in the jungles of Meta where I was brought out from based on the presentation material that I had handed out to the meeting members and their leaders before I started my presentation to the more than 50 members and women, youths, boys,  girls, children and parents that were present .

I went on to explain the letters of “SWOT” for our JRCCA NGO as follows’ explained that Letter “S” Stands for Strength.  Letter “W” stands for Weaknesses. Letter “O” stands for Opportunities that our organization provides to all our people in the remote jungles deep forest of Meta with more than 29 villages and neighbors that we strive provide our humanitarian Relief services, like health, education, job training, etc.….Letter “T” Stands for threats affecting, challenges we face, and the people faces on daily lives in the functioning of our NGO in the jungles of Meta and Neighbors. 

I continued to explain the strength of our 29 villages and neighbors, Eg we have  encouraged farmers to plant American Palm trees that will grow at  very reasonable heights 16 feet, easy for the local farmers and the youths to be able  to conduct harvest without climbing very long Palm Trees which so many of them have now and when they fall many die and we currently have youths who we witness are suffering from injuries they sustained from falling from the long Palm trees that our great grandparents and founders planted in the jungles so that our families are able to  produces like Red Palm oil for survival. We also have cassava

Our farmers grow maize, coffee in Toneku villages, plantains, cocoyams, yams but using crude , old methods , hoes, (Cutlass) matchedes, and lack modern equipment causing hard labors on our families and farmers due to low productivity with no research to match the ever increasing population and poverty in Cameroon.

We also went further to explain weaknesses such as, lack of farm to market roads, crops destruction by some kind of diseases that no one has done research study, no opportunities to store and preserve our crops , no social services, no hospitals, no clinics, no medical doctors, no roads, no electricity, no internet, no library, no villages enterprise stores, no entrepreneurs businesses , there is extreme poverty in the jungles etc..

We went straight to explaining the vision, purpose of our fundraising to include support for our JRCCA Displaced Families on the run, providing education opportunities to train members of the JRCCA General Counsel, opportunity to invite others to join our organization and acquired the education and knowledge and many opportunities that our NGO provides and plan to provide to help left up our women, men, youths, families , villages and communities in the Meta and Neighbors in Cameroon like travelling to attend the JRFIUSA Global leadership Economic summit jointly organized by our JRFI sister organization in Tyrone, GA, USA. Great opportunity that will enable members of our NGO to acquire business, economic and social skills and knowledge that will equip them and support in the rebuilding process and rehabilitation of their loses, families, villages, communities, youths and neighbors when the returned home after the hostilities is over. I also informed them that this will also help the NGO support the Mayor of Mbengwi with city Council and the JRCCA delegation to attend the summit in Tyrone, GA, USA in April 2019 as well.

Again, we gave them copies of the SWOT share and see the things we explained which the Mayor and the delegation will bring to our sister organization in USA as our Wishlist for them to continue negotiations with our sister organization to invite investors to Meta rural villages, communities and neighbors in the future that will help create jobs for youths, families, villages, communities and neighbors in Cameroon

We explained opportunities that will results in opening more markets for exports as well, conferences, and workshops education training and awareness when our Multipurpose American Center is built in Tonekoh Taah Meta that will result in many job and employment creation for the youths, families, villages and communities.

Our JRCCA NGO greatly appreciated the vibrant leadership of this group lead by Mr. Christopher and his team for their support to our NGO. They have living testimonies  of the work that we do and participated in development  endeavors we conduct at the jungles in Meta  in and around our JRCCA HQ  “our American Corner in Tuseh Zang Tabi Taah Meta “Villages Cameroon prior to the crisis believe in the plan and vision that our founders have for the wellbeing of our rural communities, families that we support there.

Thank you ZATACUDA Yaounde. Mr. Christopher was able to answer questions and educated people about the vision, mission, policies and procedures of our Organization which he stated that is a legal entity in Cameroon that is also collaborating with our sister organization, JRFIUSA (501(c)3 an American based NGO with HQ in Tyrone, Georgia, in the United States of America. They are our Light of Cameroon, Africa and the World.

We know our father PA John Ticha and MA Salome co-founders of our great organization for their commitment to solving poverty and bring economic growth to our communities and have been providing these services from time immemorial to our Meta land and neighbors. Wishing him Happy 92nd birthday long life and prosperity.  He always collaborates with his fellow brothers PA Otengong, others and sisters in our land and make things happened for the good of the youths, families, villages and communities. A Good man. He’s our PA and MA.

MA Loveline  Mufu and Ma Comfort Ticha

General Counsel Member and President of JRCCA.

• JRCCA_Report_by_Loveline_and_MA_Comfort_Team_Written_Report_on_January_6_2019.pdf (PDF)
  

• identified many challenges that women are facing especially during this time of crisis in Cameroon where most of the women are been driven into the bushes and some killed
• Action Taken:
• Conducted 4 workshops , conferences and seminars
• Provided basic health and sanitation training to local women leaders who go out to the forest and help trained other women and girls on basic  hygiene methods, body wash, simple ways  brush teeth.
• broght the women and young girls from the forest to the center and feed them, tought them and pray with them
• Planned and tained  health and sensitization education awareness educators at the center. 
• Fed and Teach the kids at the center as well as provide adult literacy classes to local women at center. 
• Made arrangements to bring health care experts to focus on education and sensitization on HIV/AIDS  killer disease amongst community members and youths in villages and forest during this time of crisis in Cameroon. Identified other diseases plaquing the community and plan on strategy to come up with preventative ways.
• Identified major concerns , issues and challenges amongst women , lack of basic neccessity for women and you girls, water and energy, lack of road infrastructure, lack of Wells to fetch water and supply to the center, lack of energy, lack of internet, computer, generator
• Plan, conferenced workshops seminars to train on job creation, training opportunities for local small entrepeneurial spirit, 
• JRCCA team Met with mayor of Meta and planned visit to bring local women from the villages to attend JRFIUSA Leadership economic summit in Tyrone, GA, USA, Purpose is to teach them how to fish, 
• Provided education assistance  to 10 volunters who attended and participated at the JRCCA Workshop at the JRCCA HQ.
•  Our plan is to reach out to more than 28 villages  to help provide  access to basic sanitation and safe water  with improved hygiene  in disadvantaged households, schools and churches, markets places and JRCCA center.
• Met with local Mayor of Meta and invited her to chair our major project that will resulte in  municipalities.
• Invited expert to come and conduct HIV/AIDS education and training.  The first phase of the  of thiis programme started of the launching of the basic health and sanitation training program on July 11, 2018 by Will, Comfort, Richard , Tito, and Ruth that demonstrates increased household demand for  basic health and sanitation services, increasing access to these services will  improving hygiene practices. The second phase focuses on advocacy, support, and sharing of resources to sustainably scale up successful approaches,event plan for August 11, 2018. Work is going on great.

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