NW women announce fundraising for Boko Haram victims

From Michael Ndi in Bamenda
 

An ecumenical service that will be marked by a grand fundraising to assist Boko Haram victims in Cameroon has been billed for Monday October 13, 2014 in Bamenda.

The organisers championed by the North West regional delegate of women empowerment and the family, Judith Abong and the CPDM political bureau member, Regina Mundi, made the announcement recently.

Harping on the raison d’être of the ecumenical service, the regional delegate of women’s empowerment and the family, Judith Abong said over CRTV Bamenda yesterday that the occasion will be used to pray for peace in the country and raise funds to reach out to the victims of Boko Haram incursions in the Grand North.

“We the organizers of the ecumenical service led by Senator Regina Mundi are all women and as a woman, you cannot go to sleep when children like the over 200 girls of Nigeria who were kidnapped by the terrorist group -Boko Haram are still languishing in the bushes. At least, we know what brutes like the Boko Haram guys can do to the girls they kidnapped; threatening to sell them for marriages,” the regional delegate stated.

Abong lauded the courage of Cameroonian soldiers who sacrificed their lives to fight Boko Haram during which many of them lost their lives living behind widows and children plus close relations.

The delegate said Monday October 13, will be used to raise funds and assist the victims of Boko Haram up North. “...This explains why we are equally calling for our husbands and men in general to join us raise enough funds to assist the Boko Haram victims in the Grand North.”

 Next Monday, women will march from various directions of the town to the Bamenda congress hall where the occasion will hold, this reporter gathered.

Besides Boko Haram, the women, according to Judith Abong, will thank God for having protected Cameroon from the deadly disease - Ebola which although is already in next door Nigeria, has not affected any Cameroonians.

“So the fact that Ebola is in Nigeria and Cameroon has not yet touched us, we have all reasons to express our sincere thanks to the Almighty God for exceptionally protecting us.”

Besides the radio announcements on the ecumenical service of October 13, the organizers of the occasion are holding meetings and mobilizing the women and well wishers to make the occasion be aground-breaking event.