Eco Friendly Initiatives to Boast Environmental Protection in Cameroon
Friday, July 1, 2016
By Aaron Yancho Kaah
In the outskirt of the city of bamenda an eco friendly initiative is budding with five tree houses constructed to serve as lodging and bar restaurant.
The owner one Asangawa Stephen says he wants to highlight the importance of trees and to bring humanity closer to nature with this project that started five years ago.
These tree lodging houses that are built around some 8trees lasting at least 20yrs hang from a height of 7meters each above the ground .
"There is no way I can give back to nature all the food things I have received from the chest of mother nature" Stephen the proprietor of this project said as he ushered in his two foreign visitors.
This piece of land on which Stephen is promoting this eco friendly initiative was bequeathed to him by his late Dad. "I want to make the most of it in this modern times" he said. More than 50environmental friendly trees have also been planted on this land ranging from fruits trees like mangos to prunus Africanas
Talking about the material used in constructing these tree ldging houses ..Stephen explained that low cost material like bamboo, fibre an cane where his main substance. "As you can see I have not bought any of these raw materials, I'm making good use of this low cost accessible and cheap natural products to give this project its full potentials” Stephen remarked.
These tree lodging houses are well ventilated and are serviced with all social amenities like flushing toilets, TV sets and wool carpets.
Security as in Stephen terms has been well guarantee as he has afforded two modern fire extinguishers just in case of any fire out breaks. "In the days ahead I will be getting certification from the Cameroon on the safety of this project". Stephen recounted.
While appreciating Stephen idea has a stepping stone to more self reliance and a boast to the tourism industry in Cameroon, King Wilfred divisional delegate of commerce in Bamenda pinpointed that Stephen idea was renovative and worth supporting. “This is a remarkable contribution to the fight against deforestation and climate change" Wilfred added.
A room in Stephen tree house cost an approximate 8000 fcfa. More than 70 foreign and national guests have visited this project.
Stephen is a determined farmer and has over 5kids. In his vision the sky is his limits in contributing to this fight against climate change in Africa.
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New OCDA Exco Envisages Fundraiser to Steam Up its Mission
By Aaron Yancho Kaah
The Oku community nationwide has been challenged to fight off their fears and to be confident that the new exco of the Oku cultural and development association OCDA will deliver on the promise of transparency, accountability and hope. Speaking shortly after an enlarged extra ordinary executive meeting of OCDA since his inauguration as the national president of this association last march, Mr. Keng Wilfred Nshom added that a common bond of love among the Oku was a recipe that was needed to redeem OCDA and Oku development.
While reciting that this wasn't time to recount the woes and losses of the past, Mr. Keng remarked that his executive had magnificent dreams for Oku and its people beginning with the launch of a fund raiser jamboree this July 9th at the Oku Fons palace plaza. Adding that time was of the essence, he said that this fundraiser would run till December 2016 in all OCDA home, national and international branches. “All Oku sons and daughters must know that we all mean business and we must carry our weight now behind OCDA," he noted. While pinpointing accountability and transparency as the main pillars of his regime, Mr. Keng pledged to flush out fugitives and debtors keeping any assets of this association in the past. He called on OCDA branches nationwide to be vigilant and steadfast for all upcoming events.
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COP21 Negotiations! Africa is Getting Ready
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Aaron Kaah Yancho reports from Dar es salaam Tanzania
The just ended pioneering AFRICAN CLIMATE Talk’s conference on the Julius Nyerere international conference center in Tanzania has mobilized the engagement of Africans from all spheres of life in the lead up to the Paris Cop21 later this year.
This 3 days conference also built up consensus towards a common African position on the post 2015 frame work and also developed mechanisms to hold African policy makers and negotiations accountable to that vision.
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Promoted by hard work
Monday, June 15, 2015
Aaron Kaah Yancho
Chuye Violet is an award winning farmer delivered on Heifer international Cameroon’s training and goat support project through her Binju farmer’s common initiative group in Nkambe of Donga Mantung Division of the North West region in 2005.
Violet and her husband Thomas have 5 children (4boys and a girl). They are subsistent farmers who had being glowing with the abilities to move mountains in their community. “I was farming food crops and vegetables with my family on large scale” she said. The out of the food crops were not good enough as her family wished even though Edna and her family fed enough and had won some prizes in Agro pastoral shows on maize and Irish potato production in her division. Their financial situation was pitiful despite their efforts. “There was never enough money to pay for the children school fee and take care of some basic needs” she said of her past. In the quest to keep her family in a better financial situation, Edna registered her membership with the Binju farmer’s common initiative group with 23 members in 2009. ‘I was fortunate to get to the group at a time Heifer international Cameroon had retained the group members for a goat support project” violet recalled. Violet and members of her group were initiated in to the support project with a series of trainings covering livestock management, pasture establishment, pen construction, integrated livestock management, manure making, gender equity, sanitation and hygiene and the Heifer international Cameroon 12 cornerstones of love and sharing.
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Traditional Culture and Future Development
Monday, April 13, 2015
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Regulated by Record keeping to a life of self satisfaction
Monday, September 1, 2014
Aaron Kaah Yancho
Nkwanyuy Edna is a resourceful Heifer international Cameroon farmer in the Kikaikom village in Bui division of the North West Region in Cameroon. Edna benefitted from a Heifer international Cameroon training and support of a sheep project in her Tirnyuy women’s common initiative group in 2005. Edna (44years), is married to Shumoh Emmanuel and they have three children and two granddaughters.
Before benefitting from a Heifer international Cameroon support project, Edna was going through life like a “ghost”. “There was no means of survival and I was just living” Edna recalled. Edna and her family were surrounded with many issues like poor feeding, limited income, poor sanitation and hygiene as well as family squabbles that made life so painful for them. “My children were hospitalized very often and we did not know the cause” she said. Despite sacrificing much of her energy and time on the farm field, there was no means for her family to generate income. The income for the education of her children and emergency spending was never available. “My family could not distinguish reality from night mares” she said.
By pursuing life and striving to be happy again, Edna and some women with similar problems came into synergy and the Tirnyuy women’s common initiative group was born with 14 members in the year 2000. Their objectives were to win the battles over their limited income, low food crop yields and livestock production. “We wanted to share ideas, our sorrows and our pains so as to improve on our lives” Edna recalled. Though members of this group laboriously complemented one another, their collective abilities to succeed were always wearing thin.
The extra ordinary first good news to Edna and her group members was when Heifer international Cameroon responded to their application to subsidize their sheep projects in 2005. “To add our knowledge, Heifer international Cameroon started teaching us so many things” she said. The topics covered care for animals, how to improve nutrition and income, sanitation and hygiene, integrated livestock management, gender equity and Heifer international Cameroon 12 cornerstones of love and sharing. At the end of the coaching Heifer international Cameroon offered Edna and members of her group farm inputs, tools, and 4 sheep, 1 ram each.
“I did everything as instructed in the teachings; feeding my animals a balance diet” she affirmed. Under strict concentration and surveillance Edna expanded her herd to 45. “Logically, I was making use of compost manure” Edna said. With the compost manure, Edna initiated a gardening project next to her house and like a warrior concentrated seriously in digging her farm fields:-her dreams came alive. The farmers harvested 4 bags of beans as compared to 1 bag in the past, 10 bags of maize on like 2 in the past and 5 bags of Irish potatoes on like 1 in the past. Continuously evaluating the growth of her activities through good record keeping skills, she expanded to the rearing of pigs, goats and guinea pigs to sustain their income. The improved food crops and vegetables yields ameliorated the feeding conditions of her family- as she marketed spare food crops for cash. “I was monitoring myself and came out of poverty gradually”. With their 45 goats, Edna sold 30 at 600,000FCFA, took her vegetables and food crops to the market and made 800,000FCFA. “I paid my pass on the gift at 215,000FCFA and used the rest of the money in the buying and selling of food crops for more income” she said.
Edna with good dialogue benefitted the support of her husband in decision making and their children voluntarily “worked like ants “on their assignments. Edna’s brilliant knowledge of record keeping regulated her income and expenditure as she renovated her home with modern toilets, provided electricity and pipe borne water. Edna has saved according to her records 50,000FCFA in the revolving fund of her group, 36,000FCFA in the Mbve cooperative credit union and 50,000FCFA in a micro financial establishment in her community. Their annual spending income stands at 2,000,000FCFA. Edna and her husband have created links with the needy and orphans in their community to promote the Heifer international Cameroon 12 cornerstones of love and sharing.
Resourceful as Edna is, her capabilities have earned her unspoken respect. She is the president of the Tirnyuy women’s common initiative group and the Kikaikom pig farmers’ union and the treasurer of their community water supply project. Edna is also teaching members of the catholic women’s fellowship of her Christian congregation to grow from strength to strength as they depend on God and hard work. This farmer also sees herself as the minister of hygiene and sanitation in her community. “I keep record of everything in the village right down to sanitation for follow-up” she confirmed.
Heifer international Cameroon sounds like a healing name to Edna and her family and they look utterly happy with Heifer international Cameroon’s calendars on their house walls. “We have experienced a lot and I wish Heifer international Cameroon good luck” she prayed.
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Driven to Economic Prosperity on Heifer International - Cameroon’s knowledge of income Generation
Friday, August 29, 2014
Winifred Sighan and her husband Paul only saw the dawn of an economic prosperity through a Heifer international Cameroon training and support of a sheep project with their Tirnyuy women’s Common Initiative Group at the Kekaikom community in Bui division of the North West region of Cameroon in 2005.
Winifred and Paul have 8 children (4boys and 4 girls). Winifred had a challenging task to feed her family and support her husband’s limping business. “I was living in this compound in misery” she said of the past. Winifred’s over dependency on her husband for income and any emergency spending pushed her to a begging end and consequent misery. The kind of misery which necessitated her and some 13 women in her community to form the Tirnyuy women’s common initiative group in the year 2000. Their task was to complement one another in labor, with food crops and cash. “We wanted to help ourselves”. She said. Yet her dreams were never realized despite working in collaboration with her children their food crop harvest was never enough. Poor feeding brought in health complications like stomach problems for some of her children and gastric pains for Winifred. “Part of the children’s school fee was spent in the hospital” she recalled.
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Traditional Culture and Future Development
Thursday, October 31, 2013
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