TRAINING OF UNDERPRIVILEGED AND MARGINALISED GIRLS AND WOMEN IN BAMENDA CITY ON POWDER SOAP PRODUCTION AND PROVIDING THEM SEED CAPITAL EACH (February 2024)
Presentation of project
Bamenda city is composed of Bamenda I, II, and III, Subdivisions as well as Municipalities dominated by Mankon, Nkwen, and Bamendankwe villages. The City of Bamenda has been greatly hit by the Anglophone crisis within the Northwest and Southwest region of Cameroon since October 2016. Relating the aforementioned, women and girls remain the most vulnerable victims as some lost husbands, source of livelihood, and others as usual haven been naturally underprivileged or marginalised. To this, we’ve been in the field (throughout Bamenda City) relating with the above persons and identifying their difficulties and flagged them all as underprivileged and marginalised women and girls. On the project as training of underprivileged and marginalised women and girls in Bamenda City on powder soap production and providing them seed capital, the methodology of training was aligned as:
- Oral presentation with the help of flip charts
- Practical production procedure
- Questions and answers sessions
Yvonne Leina Chi is an award winning international journalist and Women’s Rights Activist.She is Founder and CEO of the Women Relief Services where she joins forces with local women to combat harmful cultural practices against women and girls in African Communities.She is also the Global Outreach Strategist for
Grace is the CEO of Adelaar Energy and an advisory board member of the African Energy Chamber. She commenced her professional journey as an audit staff at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) before she transitioned to the energy industry. She started off as a Business Planning and Economic Analyst for Shell Cameroon and then worked as a Business Analyst and Economist for Shell Nigeria for several years. She also worked as a senior manager (business planning and economics) at a medium-sized multi-national company, Addax Petroleum (SINOPEC Company) before moving to Eroton Exploration & Production Company, one of Nigeria’s biggest indigenous startups where she served as a senior manager in Business strategy and economics.
