From
Mbuo Melani Mafisah in Bamenda
Strategic
humanitarian Services SHUMAS Cameroon has handed aid to 100 women in Bamenda.
The aid handing event at the SHUMAS head office in Nkwen-Bamenda August 24 came
at the close of a two day training session during which the beneficiaries
drilled on organic agriculture and managing a poultry farm with focus on caring
for chicks. The 60 internally displaced women and 40 host women selected from
Bamenda I, II and III Sub-Divisions in Mezam Division received over four months
Chicks, seeds, feeds, wheel barrows, cages, drinkers and manure.
According to
the Program Director for SHUMAS Cameroon Bilian Nyuykighan, the main objective
of the project is to help women who are internally displaced with things that
can sustain them financially. While expressing gratitude to her team and
Partners MANOS-UNIDAS for the efforts put in to ensure the success of the
project, she pleaded with the beneficiaries to use the items donated jealously
so as to preserve something for future generations to benefit. She used the
moment to announce another upcoming project by SHUMAS which will be focused on
psycho-social counselling.
Satisfied
with the aid, the women expressed gratitude to SHUMAS and partners in song and
dance before taking the items home.
“I am very
happy and I want to thank SHUMAS very much for my chicks and the training. This
will not only help me, it will also help my family. I thank SHUMAS for what
they have done to me and what they have been doing for the society. God will
continue to bless SHUMAS so that they can continue to help us and other women.”
Nyuwen Theodore a beneficiary said.
Created in
1993 and turned NGO in 2013, SHUMAS works in nine domains which are education, water
and sanitation, health, environmental protection, management, women
empowerment, agriculture and volunteering and all this projects are implemented
in discriminately to benefit all communities and group.
