Empower women and girls as Agents of Change

I got married at the age of 22, and one the major challenge that surrounded my life was hardship and abject poverty. i did all kind of jobs to survive, carrying my baby on my back, i will move from house to house selling products like bags, jewelries, perfumes, paints, Brest wear, roast corn on the road side just to feed my family. Though i was a graduate from the university, many people saw me as an illiterate because of the hardship and poverty that surrounded my life. i was despised, rejected by many, humiliated in several occasions because i couldn't afford good cloths and shoes and do millennium makeups. I didn't have what it takes to get into certain circles. Most of my mates look down on me and many were not willing to associate or come close to me. I worked so hard as a young woman to come out of the pit in which i was. i told myself i must be great, i must make it and i must create the impact am born for. i taught in 7 private university institutions just to raise money to do a professional Masters program. I will go and teach in the different institutions during the day and in the evenings am in school to attend my Master classes. I usually arrived my house at mid night everyday when my kids are sleeping already. Being brought up by a widow, i witnessed the agony, the emotional torture, pain, stress, maltreatment and rejection by in-laws, harmful traditional practices and customs and the struggle my mum went through just to take care of us. I developed the burning passion to help support vulnerable and marginalized women and girls who live in the shadow of their destiny to train and empowered them to exercise their full human potential, raising them in the Excellency of Christ.

In 2015 i began gathering widows, vulnerable girls and women, giving them gifts, empowering them in different income generating activities and restoring hope to them. I created the organisation Women Empowerment Association for Development in Africa (WEADA) in 2020. As the Founder and Executive director of WEADA my contribution to the empowerment of women and girls is far reaching as i seek to strengthen women’s position as economic actors and to address their exclusion from economic processes and structures (informal as well as formal). My desire is to see women being able to participate in and reap the benefits of economic opportunities; and build prosperity for themselves, their families and their communities.

Am working hard to see that there is a reduction in the exploitation, marginalization and vulnerability of women; thus bringing change and development in the lives of many vulnerable women and communities in the different regions of Cameroon. I have been working on developing Women entrepreneurship which is the instrument of women empowerment. Creating Business Opportunities For over 5000 Women Through Craft Work and entrepreneurial skills. have been able to Support over 1500 young women and girls Internally Displaced Persons who are victims of the crises in the North west and south west improve on their livelihood and give them psychological support

 I was able to come up with the provision of vocational skills training, an initiative that addresses the needs of women and married girls, commercial sex workers in the north and Center regions of Cameroon by training them on different livelihood skills in sewing, entrepreneurship skills and computer training and given them psychosocial support, promote gender equality. the specific objectives of the initiative are to empower women and young girls economically and educationally to enable them participate in development activities, initiate the community to advocate for support and education of girls, to increase the enrolment of girls in the school, to change the life of poor women and their families through revolving fund provision and empower their households economically. At the WEADA women Empowerment and Literacy center women and girls learn craft work, inspiring them to create business opportunities for themselves, This includes training in how to display products, advertise and prepare for exhibitions and trade fairs, business knowledge and skills that do not only creates jobs, but also extends empowerment to the future, promotes decent work and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

WEADA in its plan of action for empowerment and a sustainable development has as objective to reach out to over 25000 women from 2022-2025.