SPATH

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.