Cameroon:Tiko IDPs Receive Assistance from “Reaching Out International”

Tiko IDPs receiving gifts from Reaching Out International

By Christopher Ambe

Over 40 Internally Displaced People (IDPs), in the morning of Sunday March 21, at the Holt Forth Field, Tiko benefitted from the generosity of Reaching Out International, a philanthropic group of Cameroonians in the diaspora.

The beneficiaries, who included men, women and school children, smiled home with gifts such as food stuff/items, farm tools, seedlings, mattresses and cash, estimated to cost over one million Fcfa.

The brain behind “Reaching Out International is Enowmpey Besong, a Cameroonian resident in France,who said he thought they could not sit back and fold their arms while many Cameroonians were suffering back home as a consequence of the ongoing Anglophone crisis, which erupted in  2016 and has resulted in the deaths of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of others internally displaced.

Mr. Enowmpey, who grew up in Tiko, had persuaded his friends who chipped in their widow’s might so that the donation to the IDPs could be possible.

Presiding at the ceremony, Nchamukong Stanley Babila (friend of Mr. Enowmpey), lauded Reaching Out International for the concern they have for suffering Cameroonians. He advised the beneficiaries, who were some of the most desperate IDPs in Tiko,to be thankful to God and remain ever hopeful for  brighter days .

He advised them to share whatever food stuff they received with any other IDP who could approach them. Nothing is too small to share, Mr. Babila remarked.

According to Miss Ebaisem, out of the forty-four(44) beneficiaries,33 received food stuff and material things while eleven (11) who were school children received school fees.

Tiko IDP woman publicly thanking God for the gift of mattress she received

The beneficiaries were all thankful to the donors.

“Everybody here is happy with what they have received. I received a bag of rice and other food items. God should continue to bless the donor”, said Ashwembom Syndy Bright, student of Sure Foundation Comprehensive college, Tiko,who fled from Muyuka.

One woman, who received a mattress, was in tears of joy.She was particularly thankful to the donors, regretting that her own family seemed to have abandoned her at a time she needed their support most.

The donations included: thirty bags of rice, two cartons of soap, three cartons of groundnut oil; five cartons of tomatoes, two cartons of Maggi, farm tools and seedlings, as well as five mattresses.