Cameroon

29 July 2011

Cameroon: Cholera continues to claim lives

In Wobia, a small fishing village in southwest Cameroon, volunteers from the Cameroon Red Cross teach to kids how to protect themselves from cholera.
25 February 2009

Cameroon: Bringing hope to refugees

Joachim Ndagne has had a disabled left foot since early childhood and walks with a stick.
20 February 2008

Cameroon: journal of a delegate: assessment mission in Kousseri

In early January, tens of thousands of people fled N’Djamena, the capital city of Chad and the scene of violent clashes between rebel and government forces.
Cameroon Red Cross helps thousands displaced from Chad
4 February 2008

Cameroon Red Cross helps thousands displaced from Chad

Thousands of people are fleeing N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, after several days of fighting between rebel and government forces.
Cameroon: Hortense, the former ‘fille libre’ turned peer educator
28 November 2007

Cameroon: Hortense, the former ‘fille libre’ turned peer educator

Dressed in her Cameroon Red Cross peer educator T-shirt, Hortense is an elegant 30-year-old woman.
28 November 2007

Cameroon: the Red Cross helps the most vulnerable 'filles libres'

Marthe is 25 years old.
28 November 2007

Cameroon: Red Cross conducts school HIV awareness campaign

Nkol Eton secondary school in Yaoundé is one of the Cameroonian capital’s leading schools.
16 August 2006

The Cameroon Red Cross establishes a strategy for the fight against female genital mutilation

Female genital mutilation (FGM), quite apart from being a violation of the integrity of the person, can have very serious medical consequences.
15 March 2006

Free women in Cameroon

In Cameroon, sex workers are often social outcasts.
Protecting the “unattached” girls of Cameroon
29 October 2004

Protecting the “unattached” girls of Cameroon

Célestine is barely 23, a student and the second of five children from a humble family from Yaounde.
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