Year: 2022

IDF Recognized For Leadership On Political Exclusion Issues of Marginalized Women in NW Cameroon MARCH 18, 2014 Making Decentralization Meaningful For Marginalized Communities:Lessons From the Integrated Development Foundation in CameroonReviewed by Allan Sorflaten, BSc. MSc. The Integrated Development Foundation (IDF) has excellent qualifications gained from years of experience at implementing practical and effective social change on …

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Psychosocial Care to Children By Lydia Sorflaten I was invited to spend a day at a training session on psychosocial care conducted by the Monitoring and Evaluation officer, Ferdinand, of IDF with a group of 23 women and several small children In Bafut. I would like to share with you my impressions of the workshop.Before …

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Thousands of patients in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from incurable diseases, mainly HIV-AIDS, advancedcancer, hypertension and diabetes. These diseases seriously affect their well-being and that of theirfamilies. Palliative care, also called comfort care, is intended primarily to provide support to people whoare terminally ill through symptom and pain management. The goal of palliative care …

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Psycho-Social Care Training MARCH 21, 2014 General Background of the PSS project In 2008, a study was conducted by Plan WARO research team aimed at investigating the psycho-social impact of parental loss and orphan hood on children in the North West Region of Cameroon. Areas covered by the study included Momo Division and Bafut in …

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Social Engineering in Action: Ntambag, Bamenda, Cameroon. by Lydia Sorflaten Plans had to be changed Sunday,Feb. 23rd, 2014. Twenty five families were suddenly going to be compromised because an engineer made a decision to make the road through a community straight. When Mme. Oussematou got the call this morning, there was no question in her …

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Befang Primary School Project by Lydia Sorflaten Integrated Development Foundation has undertaken to implement a project to repair a three room school at the Befang Primary Presbytery School.  Mme Oussematou has spent days planning with stakeholders.  Would the community agree to having the three room structure repaired? Is this something the community wants?    What would …

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Mendi Henry Njah was born in Bangwe in 1975. He currently lives in Befang Menchum Divsion of the North West Region with his wife and three children. As a child Mendi suffered from an illness which left him disabled despite efforts by traditional healers. However, despite his physical disability he has persevered and became a …

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Falimatou is a young woman from Babessi (a village outside of Bamenda).  She is currently learning the information system in the IDF library to become a part-time librarian at IDF. Falimatou hasn’t always been a librarian, in fact, 4 years ago she was a single young mother who happened to live in a village where …

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IDF has signed a five years partnership with VSO following two years of memorandum of understanding. Many volunteers have been sent to IDF by VSO namely, Michael Mbowa, Enid, Mark Hall, Patrick Odadi and most recently Catherine Shih. Each of them contributed in one way or the other to make IDF fulfill her mission. Of …

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