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I am the founder and CEO of Hope for Vulnerables and Orphans ( HOVO ). www.hovocam.com . This NGO came about from the challenges my female students faced. I had gone through a lot of challenges as a young girl who grew up with relatives. As I began teaching, I discovered that my female students were going through similar challenges and my head began ticking. I began by helping individual girls, reaching out to Orphans and women, but saw the need to reach out to many more students was high so, I created the Gender Club in my school. The girls started sharing their problems with me and in 2014, I met some few ladies with whom I shared my vision and we saw the birth of HOVO. I work with women social groups, other schools and villages. Presently, the Gender club is in the whole of the MBAM and INOUBOU division in the Center Region of Cameroon. My vision is to have this club all over Cameroon.
I work with students in schools through the Gender Club. In the club, students are taught their sexual, health and reproductive rights. I join other NGOs and we carry out events and activities on the women and girls' issues. I go into the villages and suburbs to sensitize and educate women on their issues through their social or tribal meeting groups and also offer trainings on lifeskills.
In the course of my meetings, I use our local Pidgin English, French and English languages so that my audience can understand my message. I am am presently on the production of washable pads. This is to keep my girls in schools, keep my women healthy and free from embarrassment from menstruation.
I have been assisted in this course by St. Mary di Rosa Academies, with the sanitary kits and sewing lessons on the production of the pads. The U.S Embassy in Yaounde also helped me by funding a Training of Trainers and the creation of Gender clubs in schools for Inclusive Learning in the MBAM and INOUBOU division. This training brought over 70 teachers. These people helped me and I need more help because the need is increasing as many women are tortured, they die in hospitals during child birth, our girls are forced into early marriages, our girls still stay at home because they can't buy pads, they become barren because they have carried out chronic abortion, picked up infections because of lack of pads. This battle is huge and it's very important to me and my community. I need as much help as possible to safe girls and women in my community.