Our most recent initiative, Phase II which brought over 21.000 French language books to mostly rural schools and communities, has just been completed – thanks to the help and support of many friends like you! Photos are now up on Facebook of the ceremony (generously hosted by the elites of Batie) so please take a [...]
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Health care in Cameroon has made great strides, thanks in large measure to the dedicated efforts of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services (CBCHS). Providing quality health care to all regardless of their religious beliefs, the CBCHS operates 6 hospitals at Banso, Mbingo, Mutengene, Douala, Mbem, and Banyo, , offering some of the best health [...]
Ashoka is driving a new vision for the citizen sector— one based on individual innovators who inspire and lead everyone to be a ‘changemaker’ at some level. Ashoka’s core work is identifying and investing in leading social entrepreneurs with new ideas for social change as well as providing them with access to a global network [...]
By Andrew Harmon ADVOCATE.COM Civil rights attorney Alice Nkom Two women charged with homosexuality in the west central African nation of Cameroon are scheduled to go on trial Thursday, according to reports from advocacy groups. All Out, a grassroots, international LGBT rights group, reports that the two women, referred to on the organization’s website only [...]
Poachers believed to be invading from Sudan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, March 15, 2012, 3:06 PM In this February 2012 file photo released by Boubandjida Safari Lodge, the carcasses of elephants slaughtered by poachers are seen in Boubou Ndjida National Park, located in Cameroon, near the border with Chad. The director of the World Wildlife [...]
Cracks on wall caused by tremor By Divine Ntaryike Jr CameroonPostline.com — Residents of various settlements straddling the foot of Mt Cameroon in the country’s southwest are increasingly panic-stricken. Over the past one week, they have been witnessing and reporting mild tremors and explosions on the highest geographical peak in West Africa. The most palpable [...]
Some of the women who will benefit from the health clinic. 12 JANUARY 2012 Washington — A U.S. Peace Corps volunteer is helping to build a new health center in northern Cameroon that will eventually serve more than 14,000 people. Volunteer Cheryl Finell is working with her local community to build the center, which will [...]
Remarks of Ambassador Robert P. Jackson Mr. Minister, Mr. Prefect, Ladies and gentlemen the representatives of ministries and other diplomatic missions, Dear Cameroonian friends and colleagues, Dear Volunteers, Ladies and Gentlemen…Bonjour, Good Morning, It is a great pleasure to speak to you on this very special day. We are here, of course, to continue a [...]
Hello, I’m a currently serving volunteer in Cameroon working on a literacy project called Books for Cameroon. Phase I was successfully completed in 2010 and brought 23.000 English books to Cameroon. We are now working hard on Phase II and are currently fundraising to bring a sea container of 25,000 French books to our mostly [...]
Bamenda, the regional capital of Cameroon’s Northwest region, is a city vibrant with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and Associations dedicated to improving the lives of Cameroonians. They work in the sectors of women and children’s welfare development, HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention, environmental protection, agriculture, business, technology, human rights, and the arts. As [...]
In a video taken in February this year, Kah Walla, wearing jeans and a red t-shirt, stood facing the water cannon, her body leaning forward, both fists raised high in the air. High-powered blasts of chemical-tinged water wash over her and cloud the screen. Soon after, the police beat her and her companions with clubs. [...]
Peace Corps Volunteers in Cameroon attended a recent event wearing the 50th anniversary pagne. A small number of pieces are still available in the U.S. Contact bobebill@verizon.net if you would like to purchase one.
According the Peace Corps Country Director LaHoma Romocki, ” This will bring our total number of folks in country to 232!!”
Andrew Shippee Sterling, Conn. — A Sterling native will be among those honored this weekend when the Peace Corps recognizes its members who died in the line of duty. Andrew Shippee was 28 when he was killed in July 1995 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He will be among those honored at a Fallen Peace Corps [...]
The Providence Journal September 18, 2011 By Donita Naylor Journal Staff Writer Nanci Martin (Smith), right, served in Buea, West Cameroon, in 1964. On the left is Mrs. Musako, head senior tutor at the Baptist Teacher Training College, and her children. In 1959, Tom Wilson drove his Vespa back to college in Indiana from his [...]
Maroua, Cameroon (CNN) — Public health officials say nearly 500 people have died of cholera in Cameroon this month, and 13,000 cases have been reported in the country this year. More than 50 of this month’s deaths were in the Far North region, the hardest-hit area so far. Residents in the Logone and Chari divisions [...]
Rachel Hoy Deussom (’99) is co-founder of Education Fights AIDS (EFA) International. After graduating from Georgetown University in 2003, she served as a Peace Corps community health volunteer in northern Cameroon. During her service, a fellow volunteer, Andrew Koleros, introduced Rachel to a concerned group of HIV-positive youth, which became EFA’s original HIV-positive youth support [...]
The welcome193 campaign is using the power of social media to turn this global news event into a world wide show of support for the people of South Sudan as they celebrate their first independence day. On July 9, with your support, we aim to generate 10 million individual hellos from people all over the [...]
Celebrate Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary with the latest pagne out of Cameroon! Your choice in red or blue–while the limited supplies last. The six-meter cloth is $35 plus shipping, with local pick-up arranged in the D.C. area at no cost. Send your color preference and payment made out to the Friends of Cameroon, 13201 Stravinsky [...]
The Humane Society International – Wildlife Department seeks an intern to work in our Gaithersburg, Md. office for the 2011 summer and/or fall semesters. Intern will participate in development of educational wildlife protection materials in the French language, in cooperation with governments in Francophone Africa. Interns will also conduct internet research and prepare reports. This [...]
A2Empowerment will hold a phenomenally fun benefit event featuring Boston’s fantastic, one-and-only all-women swing orchestra, The Mood Swings. Join us June 18th, 2011 at the George Dilboy VFW Post in Davis Square, Somerville, from 7-11 pm. Premier dance instructor Liz Nania, director of OUT to Dance, will teach a fun and friendly swing lesson at [...]
http://activspaces.com/2011/05/energizing-cameroons-next-generation-of-developers/ We’re big proponents of training young people in science and math using the latest tools in education, including e-learning and interactive learning. This is why we’re excited to announce our next visiting fellow, Richard Anderson. Through a grant provided by the E.E. Ford Foundation, Richard will be leading Cameroonian youth ages 12-16 in “computational [...]
Madécasse is a chocolate company founded by RPCVs, Tim McCollum and Brett Beach, that makes bean-to-bar chocolate entirely in the cocoa country of origin, Madagascar. One of the only fine chocolates made all in Africa, each Madécasse bar you buy creates 4x the economic impact of fair trade practices alone, and tastes great too! Try [...]
JOB DESCRIPTION Morocco Exchange Ltd. Nonprofit organization for cross cultural education Job Posting: Morocco Exchange is looking for a RPCV for the short-term position of Program Leader. RPCVs must have and COSed before September 1, 2011 and must not be COSing early to begin the position. About us: Morocco Exchange is an intercultural immersion program [...]
Beacon Broadside mentions Friends of Cameroon in post, check it out here
I just returned to the US two weeks ago, after 2 1/2 years in Cameroon as a Peace Corps agroforestry volunteer. While I was there, I became friends a lot of the talented artists at the Garoua Alliance Franco-Camerounaise. One such group was Wam Kara, who was one of the best groups, music and performancewise, [...]
This commentary was written by Julius Amin, who was born and raised in Cameroon and is chair of the history department at the University of Dayton. By the Dayton Daily News | Thursday, March 3, 2011, 12:01 AM Thirty years ago, Peace Corps volunteer Alvin Blake and I were colleagues at the Government High School [...]
Foreign Policy, Josh Rogin, 3/1/11 The Empire State Building will be lit up red, white, and blue tonight, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s creation of the Peace Corps. “Life in the Peace Corps will not be easy,” Kennedy said on March 1, 1961. “But if the life will not [...]
From the Department of State website http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/baghdad_peace_corps 2011 is going to be a big year for the Peace Corps as the agency marks its 50th anniversary with celebrations around the United States and at locations throughout the world where Peace Corps Volunteers are serving and have served. To date, more than 200,000 Americans have served [...]
Here are a some YouTube links to watch while you celebrate your part of the 50th today: Peace Corps, Kennedy Outlines Program Peace Corps Volunteers for West Cameroons 1963 Peace Corps Cameroon 2008-2010.mov
Canandaigua resident Jennifer Brownell during the late-1990s, served with the Peace Corps in Cameroon. Here she is seen holding a baby at one of the clinics there where she helped with health care for women and children. By Julie Sherwood, staff writer Messenger Post Posted Feb 01, 2011 http://www.mpnnow.com/canandaigua/x1868084764/Local-Peace-Corps-stories-part-of-global-anniversary?img=5 After Peace Corps founder R. Sargent [...]
My Fulani multimedia presentation is now posted on the web at http://www.ireneabdouphotography.com/#/client/template.xml?aaa=portfolio/41391. Enjoy! Irene Abdou
I am a Niger RPCV (1995-1999) and now professional photographer, with one focus on West African countries and cultures. Not sure who best at Friends of Cameroon to send this e-mail to, so I appreciate your help! I thought the Friends of Cameroon membership might be interested in this, even though it’s Burkina-related, since Cameroon [...]
We are conducting an artifact search in concert with the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute, and the artifact lists are due by January 30, 2011. Guidelines for submission can be found at Peace Corps American History Artifact Guidelines. We see this as a great opportunity to establish the history of the [...]
Chief Dr. Sammy Enyong, warmly known as “Dr. Sammy”, passed away in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on December 25, 2010. Dr. Sammy proudly presented himself as a “moving monument” of Peace Corps Cameroon because he was a pioneer beneficiary of Peace Corps in Cameroon: Peace Corps Volunteers trained him as a Primary School Teacher, and again as [...]
Opportunity Africa’s mission is to enable Cameroonian students to achieve their educational dreams in order to overcome poverty and improve health outcomes. To accomplish this goal, Opportunity Africa provides educational scholarships to academically talented students in Cameroon who come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. To find out more please visit http://opportunityafrica.org/
(Based on a report by Maxwell Mogensen, Staff Writer for the Lewiston Sun-Journal) Pamela White, an Auburn native and graduate of Edward Little High School and the University of Maine, has been appointed by President Barack Obama as ambassador to The Gambia. She is the first University of Maine alum to be appointed to an [...]
After 30 years, ex-Peace Corps volunteer Richard Knutson returns to Cameroon with his wife, Kathy, to visit schools and deliver One World Futbols. Despite the distance and long absence, Knutson has maintained the friendships and connections he made in Cameroon when he volunteered there from 1978-1981. Photo: Ngueuliebou Frederic (from the Huffington Post)
Loa loa is a filarial infection that affects an estimated 13 million people in central and western Africa. Often, people can feel completely well and not realize that they have it. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD is seeking volunteers to participate in [...]
R. Steven Taylor, Peace Corps Director in Cameroon, Bulgaria and Russia passed away from a heart attack last spring. http://stevetaylormemorial.blogspot.com/
Annuaire des Entreprises et Sites Web du Cameroun : www.camerpages.net/ [Français] Directory of Companies and Websites of Cameroon :www.camerpages.net/en/ [English]
I am looking for a Cameroon RPCV. His name is John Noel, posted in MBalmayo around 74-76. Graeme Frelick gpfrelick @ verizon.net
November 14, 2010 Idaho Statesman Tony and Duvonte Boatman with Fon Fobuzie II of Chomba. Fobuzie was one of Tony’s students at Joseph Merrick Baptist College in Ndu in the mid-60’s. They call him “Pa,” a term of great respect. They call his son “brother” and tell him, “You’re one of us now. You are [...]
I am with Lionbridge Federal, a language services company, and I am looking for potential interpreters of various languages spoken in Cameroon, including Ngie, Mbo, Oroko, Ngoshie, Aghem, Bamileke-Fefe, and Bamun. We work with the Federal Immigration Court system all over the country, and we currently have an increased need for interpreters of these languages. [...]
Dear Returned Peace Corps Volunteer: Good morning. My name is Julius Amin, and I am doing a book length study on the Peace Corps at fifty in Cameroon. My hope is that this will come out by the time the Peace Corps celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its service in Cameroon. The purpose of my [...]
Robert Jackson was sworn in as the newest U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon on September 17th. His wife, Babette Pollard Jackson, is to the left. Robert P. Jackson U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon Robert P. Jackson served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., at the U.S. Embassy in Rabat from September [...]
The Pulaku Project is an initiative to document the changing lifestyles of the Fulani throughout West Africa. We are funding the project through photo print sales, but more importantly we want to reach an audience interested in the Fulani and West African culture. You can see more about it on our website: www.pulaku.com.
By Tony Boatman Ndu, 1965-68 Tony and Duvonte Boatman with Fon Fobuzie II of Chomba. Fobuzie was one of Tony’s students at Joseph Merrick Baptist College in Ndu in the mid-60’s. When our Land Rover wound its way “Up Station” in Bamenda on July 10, 1968, I gazed out the window over the valley of [...]
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