Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 11th, 2017 No Comments »
November last year, the English speaking North & South western part of Cameroon started revolving against the repressions they suffer by the French speaking government. Due to general strikes, ghost towns, all the schools including our sewing centre were closed. Additional to other measures taken by the government, they also responded by shutting down the […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 12th, 2016 No Comments »
Five men on a decrepit moped, overloaded cars with cargo secured with makeshift means, people selling vegetables and sheet metal on the street, and sand colored red by iron oxide that seeps into your shoes no matter how careful you are: These were the first impressions Henkel employee Dr Inga Vockenroth had on the way […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 6th, 2016 No Comments »
Beginning of February, Anye, Luis and I traveled to Cameroon to visit our project. We distributed about 300 kg of donations in kind and looked at all the different parts of our project in detail to assess the status and make plans for the future. Most of the time we talked to people to get […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2016 Comments Off on …our the next visit to Akumalam: Feb. 2016!!!
Our next visit to Akumalam has been scheduled for Feb. 2016! Our main aim of this trip is to review, structure and future plans for our local projects (water source, library, schools, sewing centre and the dispensary). We will be visiting all 4 schools, meeting the pupils, teachers and further our strategy discussion with the local community: sustainability for the villagers. […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2015 Comments Off on Sewing Centre – Kick off!!