​Over the past two years, our homeland country of Cameroon has faced tumultuous political instability, leaving thousands of women and children in the North West region internally displaced as refugees and vulnerable to the worst living conditions imaginable.

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As of October 2018, OCHA estimated there were 437,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Cameroon, 246,000 in the Southwest Region, 105,000 in the Northwest Region, and 86,000 in the Littoral and western regions.

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Per UNICEF Cameroon Humanitarian Situation Report, March 2019. United Nations estimates that over 430,000 people have been displaced by the conflict. Cameroon authorities say they are unable to reach most of the displaced in need because many have fled to remote areas and are trapped by ongoing fighting. Most independent help is limited to government-controlled areas.

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Situation in numbers

2,300,000 # of children in need of humanitarian assistance

4,300,000 # of people in need (Cameroon Humanitarian Needs Overview 2019)

Displacement

444,213 # of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North West and South-West regions (OCHA, December 2018)

237,349 # of Returnees in the North West and South-West regions (OCHA, December 2018)

362,896 #of IDPs and Returnees in the Far North region (Displacement Tracking Matrix 17, February 2019)

101,762 # of Nigerian Refugees in rural areas (UNHCR Fact Sheet, March 2019)

UNICEF Appeal 2019 US$ 39.3 million

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With this crisis foremost in our minds, we are partnering with some organizations back home in projects geared at helping the IDPs.