Gender Equality Cameroon Project #33438

Women's Rights in 28 Villages Cameroon Africa

by John Retreat Foundation International USA Inc (JRFIUSA-INC)

Women's Rights in 28 Villages Cameroon Africa

Project Report | May 30, 2023
Updates On Women's Rights in 28 Villages in Cameroon, Africa

By Giddy, Celine, Loveline, Bertrand, Dr. Sam, Raymon | Team Representatives

Greetings To All Of Our Donors And Supporters;

We would like to thank all of our donors and supporters who have helped us to provide services and resources to many individuals who are blessed and fortunate that they live in an area where we provide services. During the past 90 days there were many postive things that we are able to report happened within our organization as a result of hard work and dedicated staff and volunteers despite the fact that we are still dealing with violent attacks from rebels who continue to engage in Civil War with our government. We have expanded our affiliation with friends in Liberia, Africa and looking forward to networking and collaborating with other African countries.

First we would like to report that the Tyrone Library in Tyrone Georgia donated a large number (almost 100lbs) of books to the JRCCA Village Library in Cameroon, Africa with the support of the Tyrone Georgia Rotary Club. With the donation of these books our women will be able to access information needed to assist them with their development of specific busines skills as they go through Vocational Training for self improvement. Expected arrival date for the books to the Guest House is in June of 2023.

Secondly, the highlight of this quarter's report is the outstanding successful work reported by our Women Empowerment Director of JRCCA who was able to visit with volunteers in the field who had come out of hiding in the jungle to attend the 2nd annual anniversary of our founder on April 23, 2023 to visit, dance, sing and enjoy a long overdue hot meal. After spending a week on the Memorial Site before the annual celebration she had collaborated with the local women to ensure that the celebration would be a success. Over 1000 friends and family attended this week long celebration of the late Pa John. For those volunteers who could not attend the live event in Zang Tabi at the Memorial Site, provision were made for them to hold separate celebration by Zoom at our BHO Office in Yaounde and with our affiliate in Liberia, Africa on Sunday, April 23, 2023.

One week after returning to Yaounde from the memorial celebration our Women Empowerment Director learned of the passing of the daughter of our President. She said I left Yaounde on May 4, 2023, arrived Bamenda on the May 5, 2023, I went to the Event Chairman's house located near the Memorial Site at the JRCCA World HQ. On Saturday May 6, 2023 the wife of the Chairman and I, prepared food and carried it to the village for the burial of JRCCA President's daughter. We gave the food and water to the President. After the burial all the SNT groups brought their support, 4000frs ($8) from each SNT that's 12000frs ($24) and BHO contributed 23500frs ($47). All together, a total of 35500frs( $71) was handed to the President. All the SNT groups in Zone One danced one common dance to mourn our daughter and to show the togetherness that we are. After dancing, food and water was served to all the SNT members. During refreshment, we now announced for everyone to meet at the Guest House in a"JRCCA American Corner in Kwojeoh Momo Division" for a Special SNT meeting on Thursday May 11, 2023. I also assisted our President during the burial of our late sister.

On Thursday May 11, 2023, all the SNT groups members in Zone One met at the Guest House in Kwojoh Teseh Zang Tabi village for our planned SNT Meeting. The meeting started at 3pm with 50 members present. The meeting lasted for 2 hours. Agenda of the meeting was approved by members. The moderator was myself the WE Director. A Word came from the Women Empowerment Department which I am the leader. I started by thanking God for bringing everyone, I said the purpose of the meeting is to form committees to create a vocational training and on agriculture project that will be supported in collaboration with our Satellite Rotary Club and our Sister NGO JRFIUSA, that will create jobs for the Women, girls , youths, boys in the communities and all five( 5) zones that we serve. Also to Educate everyone to gain knowledge and skills such as small business, vocational skill,learn on the job training, because our people perish because of lack of knowledge. JRCCA teaches people how to catch fish and we give fish for life, promote hard work commitment,integrity resulting in successful SMART GOALS and ACTION STEPS over the next 3 to 5 years.

Before forming the committees some questions came up from members which are: (1) is there any limited budget for each committee for the project, if yes how much, (2) What are the benefits of the members, (3) Does project come in from all the SNT groups from the villages, or it's only from the WHQ (4) Can one person belong to two committees? After that all the commuters were formed. The following committees were formed: (1) Health committee (2) Education committee (3) Maize committee (4) Beans committee (5) Piggy committee (6) Poultry committee (7) Plantain and Banana committee. (8) Construction, (9) Renovation and (10) Maintenance. After forming these committees, members proposed Tuesday for each committee to submit their budget and it was agreed by all. All the SNT groups took a family picture showing our togetherness. The meeting ended at 5pm with 61 participants, and with light refreshment.

On May 13, 2023, I visited two SNT groups in Zone Three ( 3), I visited JRCCA Success Network Team (SNT) in Kob and met with some members at the Tad market and talked about the Vocational Training and Agriculture Project that is going to start at the WHQ, I explained to them the importance of the vocational training, this will help create job in the community for both boys and girls and women. They appreciated it and said they are ready to join.

I left and went to SNT Njinibi and gave the rice that was given to them, I also talked about the Vocational Training and Agriculture Project in the WHQ in Tuseh Zang Tabi village. Other visitors who were present ask if they could form their own group in South West Region? I said yes. The members were very grateful and appreciated it, many thanks to Chairman of JRCCA/JRFIUSA who delivered on his promise that as President of the Tyrone Rotary Club/USA that he would deliver a Satellite Rotary Club to Cameroon, Africa that would help us meet our SMART GOALS and ACTION STEPS in promoting the legacy of our founder Pa John in all five zones in 28 Villages that we serve in Cameroon, Africa and Liberia. We have also been approved to attend and serve on United Nation Committee thanks to the work of or Barrister and Chairman.

On Tuesday May 16, 2023, all the SNT Leaders met at the ZD's resident to submit their proposed budgets following all the committees that were formed. All the proposed budgets are hand written which I collected to bring to the BHO for processing by our foundation/fund raising committee. We will get the job done using our SNT Model, OJT Model and Onsite Face to Face Classes, Zoom and the Iternet. She returned to Yaounde on May 17, 2023.

Our Women Empowerment Director reported that the need is great and that she will try to visit with the WE Leaders in person at least once monthly at the World Headquarters as we begin to identify the participants and vendors who will be a part of this project over the next five years. We are still in a War Zone and Bullets or still flying through the air. A gift or donation of any size will help us help many of these individuals who are still in hiding in the jungles impacted by a Crisis that has been ongoing for more than five years and has disrupted the normal patterns of living including the closing of schools. We are thanking you in advance for your generous support and donations to help defray the cost of implementing the Vocational Training and Agricultural Project for Women, Girls, Boys and Youth who are being left behind in our society.

Thank you for your response!

Sincerely

Women Empowerment Committee

WE Leader

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JRCCA Serving Hot Meal to thousand people in the jungles

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Feb 6, 2023
Women's Rights in 28 Villages in Cameroon Africa

By Giddy, Celine, Sam, Bertrand, Rose,Loveline | Project Leaders

Greetings To Our Donors and Supporters;

Your donations and support goes a long way to help our Women Empowerment Leadership Team and Department provide the necessary leadership and training for our women and girls who have been born into a male dominated environment in which their legal rights to become all that they can become have been denyed them for the past generations. During this past quarter our Women Empowerment Leadership Team stepped up and got involved with activities that expanded the understanding of the role of communication in project implementation, sharing knowledge of sound communication skills and the principles of partnerships and creatively using social networks to achieve its mission of the empowerment of women and girls.

Despite the lock down days and ghost days our women leaders were able to safely travel into the field to inform the Mayor, DO and Executive Director at the Guest House Headquarters of past, present and future programs and changes and support that could be expected from our BHO Headquarters in Yaounde, the Capital City in Cameroon. The next major upcoming event is for our organization to plan the joint events that will celebrate the second annual Memorial Day for our founder and leader the late Pa John Ticha who mandated that females would be given equal opportunity to excel in our organization on April 24, 2023. Despite the warnings from the State Department, the Women Empowerment Leaders believe that without their show of courage and going into the jungle and villages where many women and girls are still hiding as a result of the Civil conflict that the women and girls would continue to be left out and behind in terms of benefiting from the opportunities presented by our organization that will be offered at the Guest House Center in Zang Tabi.

We have received the state certificate for basic education programs and we are planning to host various training classes at the Guest House under the leadership of the Executive Director. We will offer training and classes that will produce jobs and job development opportunities. Kudos to the Women Empowerment Leaders and Team members.

Our Women Empowerment Leadership Team took time out from their busy schedules to collaborate and support the Governance Council and the Human Resource Department to implement our annual Thanksgiving Feed The People Project by providing a hot meal for members of our staff and local volunteers. In addition to working with the Human Resource Department to distribute funds to local churches and programs for orphange children to provide a hot traditional Western meal to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. HRD reported that over 500 Adults and children were fed in several locations. The President of the Governance Council is a female which demonstrates that our organization is promoting the fact that women can be just as effective as men in our society.

In addition to assisting the Human Resource Department to implement our annual Thanksgiving Feed The People Feast, the team members were actively involved in sharing their resources to assist the Human Resource Department with providing funds and supervising at various churches that were hosting Toys For Tots Day for over 500 children ranging in ages from 3 to 10. This year the two annual programs were expanded to support families in our affiliates in Doula, Cameroon and Liberia, Africa. Our Women Empowerment Leadership Team's focus here is to operate pursuant to a strategic plan including a strategic marketing plan that focus on highlighting the importance of women and and girls in leadership roles.

The Women Empowerment Team members have been busy studying and planning for the induction of our members into our newly formed Satellite Rotary Club of Tyrone, GA - USA in Cameroon Africa during the first week of March 2023. Currently the host Rotary Club in Tyrone, GA-USA is in the process of registering new members with the International Rotary Club. The good news is that our Assistant Executive Chairperson is a female. She along with the other Women Empowerment Team will be able to implement the Rotary 4 Way Test, Objectives of Rotary and the 20 reasons that one should become a Rotarian. As previously discussed above, the foundation or basis of working in an NGO like the Rotary Club is the law on freedom of association, and the enabling laws or legal framework for the creation and operation of an organization that will provide relief from enslavement of our women and girls for future generations.

We are determined to open doors and make ways for our women and girls to excel and become all that they can become using their God given rights to develop the necessary skills and qualifications to determine and achieve the jobs and careers of their personal choice. We are continuing to grow and help our women and girls who were deprived of their human rights for past generations to become all that they can become. We ask that you continue to open your hearts and your pockets to provide us with the support to get the job done. Please accept our sincere appreciations and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support.

Kind Regards,

Women Empowerment Team

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Oct 12, 2022
Updates On Women's Rights In 28 Villages Cameroon Africa

By Bertrand, NI Reuben, Giddy Ma Celine and Dr. Sam | Project Leaders

Women committed to planting trees

Greetings To Our Donors, Supporters and Sponsors;

Our Women Empowerment Leadership Department has been very busy either planning or leading training session for our women at our BHO headquarters. At JRCCA Guest House (GH) our new Executive Director in Zone 1 and SNT and Zone Director and focus group leaders at the World Head Quarter "JRCCA AMERICAN CORNER in Kwojeoh Tuseh Zang-Tabi TAAH META NWR promised "never to allow the GH be dormant". Some share the ideal of combating climate change with planting trees. Rising Momo River that flows into the Atlantic Ocean that flows down to Florida in USA. These workshops have included training in health and sanitation as well as how to prepare a traditional meal which will help them to start up a small restaurant to earn a living. Our traininng also included how to write a petit project with strategies to start a small business. Training also included health education that will hopefully lead to the reduction of diseases that are impacting the health of our population. The Women Empowerment Department will be supporting and working with its IDP Director who will be organizing a workshop from the cultural department on how to produce an authentic traditional dress with a case study called “Danshiki”. Many of our women and girls cannot afford to pay a fee to attend these workshop or cover the cost of materials needed for the training and workshop. Your donations and support goes a long way in helping our organization to stay afloat and assist these women to be a part of these training and workshop. Thank you for your donations!   On October 4, 2022, we welcomed three New Members into JRCCA in Zone 5 ( One from BaliTribe, NWR, one from Bakossi Tribe in SWR and One from Moghamo) in Douala, Cameroon. On October 7, 2022, we received a new member from Zone 5 in Yaounde, a student graduate from the Catholic University in Buea.

The Women Empowerment Department submitted the following as their report: On September 8th, we started by updating and reminding everyone on policies and procedures of JRCCA in which we posted on the forums "Here, we learn, teach and share ideas. We also have Our SNT and Regular Business Meeting every Tuesdays and Wednesdays respectively. You are invited to attend. Open to the public. Our JRCCA NGO Staff and volunteers at Branch Head Office (BHO) in collaboration with our sister Organization in Tyrone , Georgia , USA , JRFIUSA 501(C)(3) world HQ in Tyrone, scheduled and met with the Representative from the Ministry of Social Services at BHO office in Yaoundé during an Educational, training and awareness workshop. This was an opportunity that gave everyone the chance to have frank and open discussion with the representative who advised us on how to ensure that our NGO is registered with DO of District 6 Yaounde and we are working on a partnership collaboration with other ministries like Basic Education etc. The Workshop ended with a Q&A and was well attended. Great meeting and assistance from the Ministry of Social Services in Yaounde Cameroon. JRCCA Team Presented its Vision, Mission, Goals and Objectives, its Structure, flow chart made up of 5 zones focused on helping on working with indigeneous people in remote villages and communities in all 5 Zones . Bottom line is to create Jobs and Employment to help combat hunger, promote food security and serve on health and sanitation projects to make life better for all.

The JRCCA Women Empowerment Team at BHO has also joined with Rotarians in Yaoundé and JRFIUSA in the USA to create a Satellite International Rotary Club in Nsimbock. The JRCCA/JRFIUSA Team is also working with the Garden, a group of good people from the Sillicon Valley in the great State of California USA to ensure that JRCCA NGO enforces all it's policies and procedures to include the enforcement of discipline measure on any one who breach the peace and order reigning in the JRCCA NGO which is an auxiliary of the Cameroon Government.   After our deliberation with the BHO Team, we contacted the Secretary at the Social Service Center of the Social Affairs Ministry.   . He told HRD Monday 12th was good and that as he had told us, we are to take charge of his transport and report typing fee.   The Secretary was overwhelmed with our vision, Mission and objectives. He further encouraged us to get a particular tagged in which we will be working with and he said he will be there to assist us in everything to see that we are on track as required by his Ministry. To the fact that we need to visit the Authorities here in Yaoundé 6, it was recommended that we go through our Acknowledgment receipt by the SDO.

On September 18th, our Women Empowerment Leadership Team received leadership training from JRFIUSA Partners. We had a Great training session with JRCCA Volunteers to include assistant Housing Manager at BHO, assistant Zone 1 Director, Zone 5 Youths and Sports Director and the Chairman of JRFIUSA. Through such training members are more uplifted and prepared to carry out their task especially Moderation of Meetings and becoming informed on the Background about JRCCA and how to write SMART Goals with Action steps etc. Takeaway from our training of the day is to give back to others what we have learned and always organize training like this which will encourage members to participate and grow in all ways of life. We must never forget that women in our 28 villages have rights in Cameroon, Africa.

Our Women Empowerment Leadership Group will be participating in our annual Thanksgiving celebration which is an event that is Celebrated in the USA annually every 24th of November and now it is being implemented here at JRCCA and in our 5 zones with indigeneous people in Cameroon. Thanks to our sponsors and sister organization JRFIUSA. Also, Toys for Tots (TFT) will be celebrated in December as we receive gifts from our Sponsors and Sister organization JRFIUSA for our kids in our churches. This event is being carried out throughout all the 5 zones that we serve and this year we will be working with pastors to ensure that we get with all our JRCCA volunteers in the lowest levels in each Zones to include the JRCCA World HQ Guest House American Corner in Kwojeoh Tuseh TAAH META MOMO Division NWR Cameroon, Africa. We're encouraging our women and girls to always join us during our sustainable Education, training, and cultural Awareness leadership Training when announced more especially our Zone Directors (ZDs) including our affiliates in Liberia, DRC etc. As in America, we have many things to be grateful for in our communities and villages despite the ghost days and lock down days. Our women and girls can get hands on leadership experiences by participating in these trainings and events from our women leaders.

Pastors and Leaders must sign request in writing to participate with number of participants by October 1, 2022. This year we will be extending the program to Liberia, Zambia and DRC who are our new Affilliates in Africa as well as the Toys for Tots for children in Churches.   JRCCA would appreciate any donations however small to ensure that these families will enjoy a hot meal on Thanksgiving Day despite the ongoing civil conflicts because more and more families have gotten frustrated that the confilct which involved many innocent people has lasted so long without a resolution and they have decided to return to their home in their villages in Cameroon in spite of the latest announcement by the State Department that the NW/SW Regions are still unsafe due to armed separatist activities which has led to increased levels of violence.

The JRCCA/JRFIUSA Women Empowerment Leadership Team received good new from the JRCCA Barrister in which he announced during our meeting that JRCCA NGO Cameroon has been recommended to be accorded the status of SPECIAL Consultative Status at the UN this fall and this will be a major topic in the 3rd edition of the JRCCA NGO Newsletter to be published by October 1, 2022. In this regard we wish to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to the chairman and president of the joint boards, not forgetting all those who made it possible for the vision and mission of our founding father and patriarch of JRCCA and his successor to be actualized; and may his soul continue to rest in perfect peace. And to Him is the glory". The Chairman of JRFIUSA did an outstanding presentation on the good news from the legal department, clearly stating exactly the importance of JRCCA being granted/accorded the Special Consultative Status at the UN. The chairman also in his presentation, presented some background pictures of the Guest House (World's Head Quarter) in Zang-Tabi Taah Meta Momo Division NWR Cameroon Africa, picture of the village library and picture of some Government officials who visited the guest house. Also there are current pictures of members at the BHO who received the Representative from the social service center of the Social Affair Ministry with picture of the new Pastor/ED at the Guest House/WHQ etc who has demonstrated by his actions that he has plans to include our women in the renovation and redevelopment of the Guest House as the Center for the growth of families in our villages. Women and girls will be accorded the opportunity to participate in skill development training programs at the Guest House Center such as basic education and other opportunities offered by the UN.

In conclusion, our Women Empowerment Leadership Team is still growing in our ability to help families who were displaced because of the Civil War more than five years ago, which is still ongoing. Our vision is to support our families as they choose to return to their villages and home and begin a new life free of stress from being on the run for fear of being killed if they had stayed in their villages or homes. Despite the unsafe and unhealthy conditions we are committed to make a difference in the lives of our families and friends especially our women and girls. Thank you for your donations and support which helps us to carry out our mission and vision.

Sincere Appreciation,

JRCCA Women Empowerment Leadership Team

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