BY KUMA MBOM HONORE
The international Non Governmental Organization Plan Cameroon have assisted some adolescence and their family victims of the Anglophone crisis with wash, dignity hygiene and food kits in the Fako Division in the Southwest Region.
The donation of the kits were carried out in Buea and Limbe for the Southwest Region at some identified Plan International voucher redemption stores across the Division.
According to Noella Epie Gender in Emergencies Officer, communication focal person for the Northwest and Southwest Region said the distribution of non food items, wash/dignity kits to conflict affected adolescence boys and girls as well as food items to some families is inline with the NGO project of Emergency Child Protection and Wash intervention for IDP'sand conflict affected communities in the two Anglophone Regions .
The GAC-IHA project is being implemented in some 15 communities in the NW and SW Region with an objective to provide the communities based child protection interventions in order to provide an environment for children and the adolescence as well as associate affected communities to meet the urgent water, hygiene and sanitation needs in this affected region.
In Fako Division some 15 communities were targeted which include Buea town , Small Soppo , Molyko, Buduma, cassava farms Mabeta new layout, New town, Bota , West coast and Isokolo were selected for the kits distribution.
The Communication Focal point Officer Noella Epie equally revealed that the NGO aimed at supporting vulnerable household with non food items as well as nutritional support in order to build their resilience. Children and Girls's within the household that have been affected by the ongoing anglophone crises, household containing mor than ten persons , survival of abuses , victims of gender based violence, persons living with disabilities were selected as beneficiaries for the distribution .
"Income of most families in the affected area is very low and the parents can't afford for this basic hygiene ad dignity kits that is the reason why we have to airport this families" she said.
The kits distributed for Foster parent's include pots, eating spoons and forks fry pan, blankets, bed sheets and pillows, mattresses as well as buckets. While those for Wash/hygiene/dignity kits took back home soap, Vaseline, toothbrush and paste , towel, pants detergent, loin cloth and buckets. And lastly those for nutritional needs benefited from the larges of Plan International took home rice , maggi, salt beans , dry fish, eggs Sardines, beans just to name but this few.
A total of two thousand and ten persons were beneficiary from the Wash/ hygiene / non food items and nutritional support
amounting to sum twenty seven , five hundred and fifty two thousand , seven hundred and sixty seven frs CFA.
The Plan International is a development and humanitarian organization that Advances the right of the children and equality for the girls . It was set up in 1937 by British journalist John Langdon-Dvies and a refugee worker Eric Muggeridge with aim to provide accommodation, food and education to children whose life were affected by the Spanish civil war.
The organization has no religious, government nor political affiliation . They are present in over 70 countries worldwide and 27 Africa Nation's including Cameroon.
Plan International has been operating in Cameroon since 1996 and are present in 8 regions including the Southwest and Northwest region working in close partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs, women empowerment with their area of intervention include child protection, water, sanitation and hygiene, livelihood, economic resilience education nutrition and distribution of non food items.
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