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· The story of how a mining community in the east of Cameron transformed the women folks is a unique case how empowerment can be carried out if one can give a proactive leadership to them
· Thanks to a pilot project run by an NGO, the village of Gbanam, which is predominantly a habitat of mining community, is now providing women alternative sources of income to beef up their income and to lift them up from the subsistence level, which they have been living
The story of how a mining community in the east of Cameron transformed the women folks is a unique case how empowerment can be carried out if one can give proactive leadership to them. Thanks to a pilot project run by an NGO, the village of Gbanam, which is predominantly a habitat of the mining community, is now providing women alternative
sources of income to beef up their income and to lift them up from the subsistence level, which they have been living in.
The NGO, named FODER, introduced a pilot project for helping women carry out alternative activities to support their meager income. The aim was to promote agriculture among the mining community, which can help them to grow their food stuff, vegetables and fruits. The successful project has now become popular with the mining community and they find time to spend on agriculture. Since the pilot helped successfully involving women, more and more people are coming forward to become a member of the cooperative that has been formed in this regard.
FODER is doing its best to sensitize the women the need for creating alternative sources of income to emancipate them from poverty and destitution and to give a good life to their children. By helping women to grow crops, fruits and vegetables, the NGO has sensitized them how to be self reliant while pursuing their main activity –mining.
Now, FODER is planning to replicate the project in the surrounding communities and to intensify its activities in the already undertaken project so as to keep the pilot as a role model.
