Spirit Award Nomination

I would like to nominate Veronica Ngum for a World Pulse Spirit Award. Veronica and I Zoom once a week and consequently I have come to learn a great deal about her in six months. Veronica always has several projects related to disability advocacy that she is working on at any one time, be it writing an article for one of several publications to explain the abilities, successes and skills of people with disabilities as well as diffusing misconceptions and myths about people with disabilities; leading workshops of on-line literacy to women and girls in her community, to attending national workshop sessions at national conferences in Cameroon where she builds her presentation skills as well as offers the herbal products that she makes for sale. She is continually applying for internships to build her own skills of community advocacy as well as applying for grants to support her own business, Community Association for Vulnerable Persons (CAVP) and her employees. Even with all this going on, Veronica is easy-going and takes tasks one step at a time. I have been impressed with her ability to maintain composure as she slowly and persistently pursues and succeeds at each of these efforts under difficult community circumstances occurring throughout her country from kidnapping, black out days in which citizens cannot leave their homes, to Internet interruptions and electricity blackouts. It is a pleasure to talk with Veronica as she shares with wonderful humor and patience what she is involved in. Veronica is an inspiration to me as someone who perseveres through hardships and nevertheless succeeds and makes progress on her goals. Her goals are recognized by myself and others she engages with as insightful and far-reaching. Her goals change the lives of her community members and the lives of women and girls with disabilities as well as expanding the general knowledge of disability to individuals and organizations sensitively and patiently. She is a wonderful candidate for a World Pulse Spirit Award.