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Relief to IDPs in Tiko
Armed conflict in the Cameroons has currently displaced over 900,000 persons within the region, rendering hundreds of thousands homeless and without basic life necessities, and hindering humanitarian efforts due to various structural development weaknesses and chronic vulnerabilities that affect the long-term recovery of the people.Learn more
Relief to Refugees in Gembu-Taraba State, Nigeria
Gembu is one of eleven jurisdictions in the Sardauna Local Government Area (LGA) of Taraba State in North-Eastern Nigeria and is host to over 18,000 refugees who have fled the escalating armed conflict in the Cameroons. These refugees are assessed to be some of the most neglected in terms of food assistance, and living conditions are often dehumanizing and health-threatening.Learn more
Relief to Refugees in Takum- Taraba State, Nigeria
Takum hosts over 5,000 of the more than 18,000 refugees in Taraba State and is assessed as receiving the least amount of relief support from humanitarian organizations. Due to widespread food insecurity, refugees are forced to cross back and forth to regions currently in conflict in search of nutrition to sustain their families, putting their lives in immense danger.Learn more
Relief to Prisons
Prison conditions in many regions of the world are overcrowded, unsanitary, and life-threatening, these conditions are specifically harrowing within the conflict zones of the Cameroons.Learn more
Empowerment of Victims of Conflict in Bamenda
Most community-based approaches to conflict de-escalation and peace efforts have failed, largely due to the relegation and disempowerment of local communities, and women especially, in the design and implementation of peace processes.Learn more
Women Refugee Healthcare Educators Program
Because of the continuing conflicts in war-torn areas such as the Cameroons, refugees' well-being is quickly becoming an inescapable reality, impacting the health and personal hygiene of women and children especially. The Atem Foundation in collaboration with local health leaders provided training to 60 refugee community preventive health educators in Benue (30) and Cross River (30) States in Nigeria. Proper health care for refugees is an integral part of AF’s work.Learn more
Empowerment of Female Refugees in Nigeria
The AF-TEEP is a gendered resiliency and refugee women's economic opportunity program for communities and people impacted by armed conflicts and crises. Globally, women continually face significant cultural, institutional, and structural barriers to meaningful economic participation in various facets of life. These challenges are only intensified for women living in or coming from countries presently embroiled in conflict. The AF- TEEP program provides economic empowerment training and business management skills for women in Nigeria who have fled the Cameroons conflict, while also providing micro-financing grants to support their entrepreneurial endeavors. For women who have fled conflicts in the Cameroons, such as the more than 60,000 currently living as refugees in Nigeria, Ghana, and other countries, life is defined by multiple hardships that make them more susceptible to domestic violence, sexual and domestic exploitation, and corresponding effects to their children such as poverty and lack of education. The Atem Foundation understands that women's economic empowerment worldwide strengthens human rights, granting women control over their lives and allowing them avenues to better provide for their families while contributing to society at large.Join our Humanitarian Mission
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Covid 19 and Cholera Relief Outreach in Yaounde Principal Prison
It is well known that prisons are high risk settings, prone to rapid outbreaks of infectious diseases such as cholera, COVID-19, and Tuberculosis (TB). The specific nature of the population and environmental challenges posed by overcrowded and closed settings present many unique challenges in managing such outbreaks. At least ten inmates in Cameroon’s largest jail, the “Central” prison in Yaounde, have died since March 2022 from the country’s cholera outbreak. A bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration, cholera is usually spread in water and can be fatal if not quickly treated. There are also fears the death toll could rise substantially in the overcrowded prison facilities in Yaounde which currently houses more than 5,000 prisoners, 5 times its constructed capacity. One of the numerous relief outreaches of the Atem Foundation to the prisons involves the supply of hand sanitizers and other sanitization items, including packs of bottled water, to the detainees to manage the spread of COVID-19 and Cholera . This is an attempt to fight both the already very disastrous COVID-19 and cope with the spread of cholera, especially in such inhumane living conditions favorable to such infections, compounded by the choked up prison cells, with very little or no ventilation possibility.This donation adds to routine cash assistance for medical coverage of some prisoners and food assistance to different prison facilities. The AF believes in the right to life, fundamental to which is the right to receive minimum services for disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, including detainees. This cholera outbreak shows how quickly abysmal prison conditions become life-threatening. We call on all stakeholders to act quickly not only to prevent the disease from spreading, but to protect those whose lives depend on protection.
Join our Humanitarian Mission
- Donate to the A.F Humanitarian Relief Fund
- Support our programs
- Become a ChangeVolunteer
Covid 19 and Cholera Relief Outreach in Bamenda Prison
As part of the Atem Foundation Cholera relief outreach, detainees of the Bamenda prison received food assistance and other materials to help combat the spread of cholera. The overcrowded prisons in Cameroon pose unique challenges for inmates and expose them during health outbreaks. Providing relief to prisoners is a core responsibility of AF to ensure the health of prisoners is not endangered by pandemics or health outbreaks. Cholera is a bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration, cholera is usually spread in water and can be fatal if not quickly treated. There are fears that any outbreak in the Bamenda prison would put the lives of detainees in danger with the potential of a high number of deaths in the already overcrowded prison facilities in Bamenda. One of the numerous relief outreaches of the Atem Foundation to the prisons involves the supply of hand sanitizers and other sanitization items, including packs of bottled water, to the detainees to manage the spread of COVID-19 and Cholera . This is an attempt to fight both the already very disastrous COVID-19 and cope with the spread of cholera, especially in such inhumane living conditions favorable to such infections, compounded by the choked up prison cells, with very little or no ventilation possibility.This donation adds to routine cash assistance for medical coverage of some prisoners and food assistance to different prison facilities. The AF believes in the right to life, fundamental to which is the right to receive minimum services for disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, including detainees. This cholera outbreak shows how quickly abysmal prison conditions become life-threatening. We call on all stakeholders to act quickly not only to prevent the disease from spreading, but to protect those whose lives depend on protection.