BIHAPH PARTNERS WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS TO TRAIN AND EMPOWER 30 GIRLS AT HIGH RISK OF PRECARIOUS ABUSES IN POOR RURAL COMMUNITIES

For the past eight years, girls and women in the English speaking regions of Cameroon are facing precarious emergencies humanitarian needs due the the armed conflict and it consequences. They have been out of school for the lost eight years. Given their extreme vulnerabilities, they have been exposed to multiple rapes, sexual abuse, exploitation and harrasment. They have equally experienced forced marriages, unwanted pregnancies, high sexual transmittable deseases. The repeated abuses on them put them in very, high risk, harmful  traumatic and depressing conditions. Most of them have been forced in family ways with more than three children with no income to take care of themselves and the children. Due to continuos economic hardship, these girls continue to experience cycle of violence and abuse just to earn a living. BIHAPH at the centre of community and grass root initiative and living the realities of the deteriorating humanitarian conditions, brave the odds amidst funding gaps to engage community leaders to take the lead in reponding to these emergency needs to prevent and protect the women and girls. In a six months project BIHAPH partners with the community leaders to train 30 girls in Tailoring, decor, pasteries, market gardening, sport to build resilience and hope, psycho social counselling. These initiative provided the girls with skills, to be self reliant, self worth, self esteem and to be better versions of themselves in building strong and healthy communities. EMPOWER A WOMAN OR GIRL, EMPOWER A NATION! WHEN WOMEN AND GIRLS THRIVE, OUR COMMUNITIES TRIUMPH!