BY MILDRED NDUM WUNG KUM
They have no shelter of their own, people wondering on the streets, many have lost their jobs, they can’t afford a square meal and in the worst case scenario, the category of persons are vulnerable to abuse and human rights violation.
These persons are just a quota of the whole lot being living victims of the Cameroon Anglophone crisis.
To tackle the growing effects of the crisis and vulnerability, the NGO known as Nkumu Fed Fed has extended its boundaries to Bamenda, capital of the North West region Cameroon with a humanitarian agenda.
NFF launched its head office in Bamenda on Saturday 12th October 2019 at Dreamland Hotel. At the launching ceremony that saw the turnout of NFF women, friends and wellwishers including the North West regional delegate of Economy Planning and Regional Development, the president of the organisation Madam Eunice Tita Tata made it clear to spectators that the group’s passion is to improve the status and living conditions of vulnerable communities.
Thus with the office installed in Bamenda, NFF shall respond to Internally Displaced Persons with sustainable livelihood programmes in fields like business, agriculture, mobile schools in homes, vocational education and training.
According to the International Secretary General of NFF Barister Ruth Leyuga Titamongu, the vision is to train 80 children in different activities some would be hair dressers, others would be civil engineers among other skills and “we envisage starting next week hoping that by the end of October 2020 we would have transformed lives and we pray too that peace can return to our region”. She said
The public installation of Nkumu Fed Fed Branch in Bamenda also featured a fund raising with the purpose to procure money for NFF rescue activities in Bamenda. The target was to realise 25,000000 FCFA; the campaign was progressive with more than 4,000000FCFA being realised at press time donated by husbands, partners, friends and well wishers. The office opened in Bamenda makes a total of twelve branches of NFF worldwide as the group has established itself in Limbe, Yaounde, Buea, Kumba, Douala, UK, Germany, Washington DC, Oklahoma, Texas, Delaware and Bamenda.
Nkumu Fed Fed is essentially a women’s group initiative, made up of women Bali descent with headquarters in Bali Nyonga, a town in the NW region of Cameroon. The phrase Nkumu Fed Fed comes from the Bali language. Nkumu means group and Fed Fed means sister or brother depending on the sex. Nkumu Fed Fed is thus a coming together of sisters. So far
since the cradle of NFF in 1996, it has impacted society within and outside Cameroon in the domain of education, gender and child rights child, health and HIV/AIDS, livelihood programmes and the creation of multipurpose centers. Today the group has a membership of 250 women up from 90 when it was created years back.