2006 Press Releases
Press Release
Three Trafficking In Persons Grant Agreements To Be Signed Between The United States And Three Ngos
Yaounde – April 18, 2006
The United States Embassy in Cameroon announces that the United States Government (USG) and three NGOs—Nkumu Fed Fed, Center for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy (CHRAPA) and Center for the Environment and Rural Transformation (CERUT)—will hold a ceremony to sign three Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Grant Agreements resulting in ninety-two thousand dollars of assistance to be donated by the United States to these NGOs. The ceremony will be held at the Multipurpose Conference Room of the United States Embassy at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 18, 2006.
Every day, women and children are trafficked from rural areas of the North West Province and the Northern Provinces to the main cities in Cameroon and to trans-border countries.
The aim of the USG’s funding is to help educate both potential victims and the people receiving these laborers on the problem of trafficking in persons and its effects on Cameroon’s families and social structure.
Nkumu Fed Fed’s program will train community-based communicators on how to track the problem and help victims. Nkumu Fed Fed will also produce and disseminate packages on the legal framework governing trafficking in children, child labor, as well as children’s rights and responsibilities in Cameroon.
Through positive dialogue via the radio and local newspapers, the Center for the Environment and Rural Transformation will inform people about the issues surrounding trafficking in persons in an effort to make people more conscious of the problem in their own communities.
The Center for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy will work to prevent trafficking in persons through intensive sensitization and civic education campaigns. Using the media, cultural groups and religious denominations, CHRAPA will sensitize the general public, law enforcement officials and policy makers on the dangers of trafficking in persons and child abuse.
The Agreement will be signed on behalf of Nkumu Fed Fed by its President, Mrs. Helen Gwanfogbe. CERUT Program Administrator, Mr. Ake Eric Ekine, will sign for the Center for the Environment and Rural Transformation and CHRAPA President, Mr Joseph Chongsi, will sign for the Center for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy. Ambassador Niels Marquardt, Ambassador of the United States of America in Cameroon, will represent the United States Government.
Any press queries regarding this program should be directed to Judith Ravin, Public Affairs Officer, United States Embassy, Yaounde, Cameroon.