CAGEAD LAUNCHES OUTREACH TO IDPs IN BAMENDA

NGONG LOVELINE, MOTHER OF 5, TELLS HER STORY.

The Centre forAdvocacy in Gender Equality and for Development, CAGEAD, has launched a campaign to bring solace and humanitarian aid to hundreds of internally displaced persons in the North West region fleeing from the ongoing war in the region especially those from restive Boyo and Momo divisions and cramped with relatives in Bamenda.

Thursday July 19 shall be remembered by loveline and her 5 kids for a long time. She successfully fled from the war torn Belo, Boyo division after losing the husband, to death, during one of the shoot outs in belo. Aged 34, Loveline, mother of 5 kids narrated her pathetic story to the CAGEAD team sitting in front of her one room abode at Ntaturu Mankon Bamenda. ”we left our house in Belo to Bamenda because of the ongoing war there. My husband was killed. He took me and our kids to our compound at Acha because he was bereaved at Fuli. Upon his return, I’m told the military mistook his red feather as an Amabzonian fighter. He is a Chindo kom (palace guard) a respectable title in kom. He was shot killed and dumped at koini in Njninikom. We had to run away because everybody was running away.

Thanks to Aunty Brenda we secured this one room at the cost of 6000 frs and have been managing” she narrated.

Empathising with her, Mme Waah Clotilda Andiensa, CAGEAD director coached loveline to be courageous and take on the amour of God to face life challenges. She and volunteers handed over sleeping mattress, rice, blanket, dresses, shoes tea to help ameliorate her living conditions and that of her kids.

According to Quincy, 8yrs daughter of  loveline, life has changed since their arrival in Bamenda. “We use to eat 4 times a day in our house in Belo. Now we eat at most once a day and go to bed without even knowing what to eat next. I want to become a medical doctor in future and I believe that even with the death of my father, somebody out there can still help me to pay my fees, buy my school bag and books to make me attain this dream” she intimated.

CAGEAD COORDINATOR CONNECTS WITH FAMILY

Full of tears of joy,  loveline living in a single room with five children said it is a bad experience. “We live on one mattress on the floor. We do not have money to have electricity connected to this room. So far we have received some help from the Catholic Church but this gesture by CAGEAD has greatly changed our lives here. We can now boost of two mattresses and a comfortable blanket to cover at night. I pray God to bless and reward you”.

Like loveline and her children, hundreds of IDPs are in Bamenda and its environs separated from their homes, families and dreams.

HANDING OVER OF MATTRESS,BLANKET,RICE AND CLOTHES