Justice Assembly by YAFEJ

All is set for the Youth Day celebration in Donga Mantung The first preparatory meeting for the 52 nd National Youth day celebration in Donga Mantung took place at the Nkambe community hall, last Tuesday chaired by the Senior Divisional Officer For Donga Mantung, Kweti Simon Ndoh. The meeting brought together all the youth stakeholders including Delegates, Head teachers, fons, National youth Council and Youth leaders among others. In his opening remarks, the SDO Donga Mantung narrated the history of Cameroon up till the point where the National Youth day was instituted. The Divisional Chief of the Multipurpose Youth Empowerment center, Utia Andrew presented the summary report the 51 st edition of the Youth day celebration in the lone Nkambe youth day center, the challenges and the proposed solutions. The Divisional Delegates added that due to treats, very few people came to the Ndu grandstand and they sang the National Anthem and word from the Divisional officer Ndu. ...

NDU  Reproductive  health Campaigned  Planning meeting by Volunteers  The Ndu Reproductive Health Campaign is aimed towards educating the youth in the Ndu area about family planning, reproductive health and STDs. At least five villages in the Ndu municipality will be targeted in the project: Talla, Ndu, Wat, Mbot, and Njimkang. The project will  begin  in 2017 with a week-long trainings of volunteers, peer educators..... and with parents on how to talk to their children about reproductive health, and one with the youth who are not in school anymore about the topics named above. Finally, in each of the schools, we will also implement emergency menstruation centers where girls who have been surprised by their period can go to get pads and other necessary resources. The hopes are that after our campaign we will see a definite change in attitude towards safer sexual behavior and more awareness in gender issues in the population of th...

Donga Mantung Councilors on scale for the councilor of the Mandate Award Planning meeting in Nkambe / Ndu Councilors, civil society organization members, political actors, community leaders amongst others in Donga Mantung are nominating and voting for the first ever Councilor and Council of the Mandate award. The members of the Rogers Nforgwei People’s Award committee headed Kongor john Kwa as President, Utia Andrew Uze 1 as secretary and Marcel Abanda representative of Rogers Nforgwei, so far has held two meetings in Nkambe with representatives from Ako, Misaje and Nkambe and in Ndu with Representatives of actors from Nwa and Ndu Sub Divisions. The two meetings were held to selects the various categories and the criteria’s for the Rogers Nforgwei People’s Award. After all the meetings and consultation, the committee resolve that the beneficiaries of the Award should received the award base on Merit and performance. Consequently, 5 councilors of the mandate (2013-2018...

Coming Up: Uncovering the corruption, maffia and Malpractices at the Donga Mantung Divisional Participatory follow-up committee of Public Investment Projects in Donga Mantung

World Bank: Country Overview Cameroon is a lower-middle-income country with a population of 23.3 million people. Situated in Central Africa, it shares a border with Chad, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria. Two regions are Anglophone (the northwest and southwest regions that border Nigeria), while the rest of the country is Francophone. Cameroon is endowed with significant natural resources, including oil and gas, high-value timber species, minerals, and agricultural products such as coffee, cotton, cocoa, maize, and cassava. Political Context Cameroon’s ruling party, the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM), has long dominated the country’s political landscape and currently occupies 148 of the 180 seats in the National Assembly and 81 of the 100 seats in the Senate, which was created in 2013.  Presidential elections are scheduled for 2018.  While Cameroon has enjoyed peace for many decades in spite of its highly diverse popula...

Coming up: Rogers Nforgwei Rogers Nforgwei People’s Award Vision: Transform the Donga-Mantung socio-economic and political ecosystem through people-centered and unselfish development. Mission: To cultivate and encourage the scarce culture of caring about and loving the people in our community and providing sustainable community development in varied ways – infrastructural facilities, human capital development and social amenities for decent living. Eligibility: Nominated candidates who demonstrate the spirit of the Award and meet the criteria outlined by the Rogers Nforgwei People’s Award Organizing Committee. There’s no cash registration. However, amongst criteria to be outlined by the committee for each edition, winners should not have served a prison term, be under investigation or involved in an ongoing legal proceeding. Organizing Committee: This committee will be reviewed for each edition of the Rogers Nforgwei People’s Award. Categories: The cat...

Youth Assembly for Justice (YAFEJ) Cameroon Youth Assembly for Environmental Justice (YAFEJ) a Non Profit Marking Organization (NPO) has been very successful till date in achieving its mission of empowering young people and Cameroonians with informative materials on Climate Change, Environmental Conservation and actively participated in fostering Climate Justice. The Association was founded on June 5 th 2008 in Nkambe the Divisional head quarter of Donga Mantung with registration No. 504/E27/750/BAPP/2010.  Youth Assembly for environmental Justice is a legalised NGO base in Nkambe with the Vision of a future for all Cameroon Young People especially those from Donga Mantung and Nkambe, that promotes Democratic, Non-sexist, Non-Racist, Non-Tribal, United, Peaceful and Prosperous Society where youths can enjoy a full and abundant life that gives them the Opportunity to become central stage Participants in issues/activities that relates directly or indirectly to th...