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Cameroon: Emergency Aid
Cameroon: Emergency Aid and Rebuilding
Cameroon is located on the border between the anglophone part of West Africa and francophone Central Africa. A bloody conflict rages in the southwest of the country, caused by the political repression of the English-speaking minority. Together with Mission 21, the Basel Mission German Branch (BMDZ) is committed to providing emergency aid and rebuilding in the affected areas.
Since 2016, separatist groups in the anglophone part of Cameroon have been fighting against the francophone central government. They are demanding greater political involvement and equal rights. What started entirely peacefully, with strikes by teachers and lawyers, is always threatening to escalate. There is no end in sight. The police and military are cracking down on the rebels. It is primarily the anglophone population that is suffering. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forcibly displaced or have fled from the conflicts. Many of them camp in woodland without protection or shelter. Others are muddling through in the provincial capitals Buea and Bamenda.
Creating new livelihoods
Together with local partners, BMDZ and Mission 21 are combining rapid emergency aid with long-term measures: first of all, the refugees are given food, drinking water, tents and medication. To support them beyond their greatest needs, they receive building materials, tools and seeds. This allows the people to independently establish new livelihoods. Another offering is aimed at women: they are trained how to grow vegetables from the simplest of means, in order to be more self-sufficient.
Cameroon
27.74 million inhabitants, of which 700,000 on the run
Long-term rebuilding
The destruction of the infrastructure has set the economy in the affected areas back dramatically. For this reason, the Basel Mission German Branch and its partners are also involved in vocational training and education. As well as carpenters and construction specialists, IT experts are also trained. With their new qualifications, the graduates can provide for their families and help rebuild the country after the crisis.
Project goals
Together with Mission 21 and local partners, the Basel Mission German Branch (BMDZ) is committed to caring for internally displaced people in Cameroon, in order to alleviate the greatest hardships and help them survive. In the long term, the foundations are being laid for the rebuilding of the infrastructure and for creating new income opportunities.
Project work
Together with its partners, BMDZ supplies refugee camps with food, drinking water, medical aid and essential commodities, such as blankets, tents and hygiene items. To help community capacity building, people receive building materials, tools and seeds. At the same time, training unemployed and refugees in manual professions and IT lays an important foundation for rebuilding.
Project partner
The Basel Mission German Branch and Mission 21 work locally with churches like the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) and the Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC), as well as a number of non-government organisations. The project is run by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA).
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