About US

SN Cameroon is an organization that seeks to promote the rights of women and girls through educative and empowerment programs, which enhance self-reliance and financial independence of vulnerable population.

To prevent Trafficking which falls under target 8.7 of the 17 SDGs and cut across many of the other SDGs, people, specifically women and adolescent young women and girls, who are most vulnerable to these abuses, are offered vocational training to build capacity and skills so that they can work and become self-sufficient in their home countries. The goal of this is to reduce the rate and percentage of trafficking amongst vulnerable population.

Aside providing economic empowerment programs, Survivors’ Network also carry out advocacy campaigns, where she lobbies the government and international bodies for effective social protection polices to protect children and women from becoming victims of trafficking, with a fair share of the world’ resources. We also carry out child friendly programs in the crisis context such as the Peace Project where we assembled together 100 children in different crisis affected Regions in Cameroon every Saturday for nine months teaching them on Peace building. To aid and ease their learning process, they were provided with tablets and solar power banks as well as lunch packs and were also given face masks, hand sanitizers, water bottles (to help prevent them from the Covid-19 virus).

Survivors’ Network also ran aMultipurpose Vocational Training and Empowerment Center, and a Safe Shelter home which provided accommodation to survivors of Gender Based Violence, Human Trafficking and associated abuses as well as homeless Internally Displaced women and girls who were trained in different livelihood skills at the Vocational Training Center. The Shelter / Vocational Training center accommodate more than 500 vulnerable Internally displaced victims and survivors of Gender Based Violence and Human Trafficking over is existence of 2 years. We are open for more support as we intend to extend the various services that we already offer and equally introduce more livelihood skills and activities to rehabilitate and build the capacities of survivors to make them self-reliant and less vulnerable in their communities.

In 2015 / 2016, SN rescued 28 ladies from the Middle Eastern countries of Kuwait and Lebanon to their respective African Countries; 12 ladies to Cameroon, 12 ladies to Ghana, 2 ladies to Senegal and 2 ladies to Nigeria. Upon their arrival, we receive them at the airport, where we offer them Psychological First Aid and create sessions for trauma healing. On the 23^rd of October 2020, we worked in partnership with Anti- Racism Movement in Lebanon and Human is Right NGO in Buea, South West Region to rescue another 31 ladies who were trafficked to Lebanon by paying their flights back to Cameroon. Upon arrival, we provided them with 2 face masks each, a bottle of hand sanitizer and cash assistance to serve as transport fair to their various destinations.

Within Cameroon, we have rescued and guided the escape path of about 2000 children, girls and women in captivity, abusive relationships, and forced /child labor. Survivors’ Network has developed a unique approach to women empowerment by focusing on economic independence and fostering entrepreneurship among women and girls. This takes from it theoretical modules called The Locus Economic Systems to the practical and donation of start up kits. So far, we have built the capacities of about 5000 women and girls, and our organization have carried out several sensitization campaigns at the level of CNN, Canal2 Douala, CRTV Monday show and Hello Cameroon program, My Media Prime TV, Equinox TV, KCBS TV, Calvary Good News Radio, Lake Site Radio, not leaving out schools, orphanages, churches, markets and motor parks. We have also visited many rural areas and villages in the South West, North West and Central Regions of Cameroon to carry out awareness raising and sensitization as well as economic empowerment programs.

We have provided vocational trainings and have given seed capital to survivors to start small businesses. As of now we have helped create income generating activities to more than 5000 female survivors and vulnerable women and girls across Cameroon and Sub-Saharan African countries by providing micro financing to small businesses and building of entrepreneurial skills. We have also reached out to many internally displaced female-headed families with food and basic needs donations and hope to do more if we have financial assistance.

Every school year, we bring together vulnerable, internally displaced children and give them back to school kits to support them for the academic year.

As at now, we have engaged in to a massive Agricultural project in the East Region of Cameroon, where we cultivate food crops like cassava, maize, soya beans, plantains, melon seeds, and, we use survivors/vulnerable women from the cultivation stage to the distribution stage when the crops will be turned to finish products (cassava flour, corn flour, cassava flakes, etc) for consumption. We are using this; still as a strategy to enable survivors sustain themselves and become self-reliant. We came to realize that most of our beneficiaries (survivors, Internally Displaced Persons, Refugees) after a long period, some of the businesses they obtain from our economic empowerment programs turn to crumble either from mismanagement or due to so much financial responsibilities that made the capital to be diverted for some other use and also some survivors don’t have the ability to run a business or patience to learn a skill. We now use this strategy to enable vulnerable women who are farmers to work in the farms and are paid on piece rate. Our goal of doing so is to ensure that these vulnerable women are able to provide for themselves and fend for their families on daily bases.

With all the services that we offer to the vulnerable population in carrying out our interventions, every survivor that we come across is able to fit in to at least one of our programs and be self-capacitated so that she will not be vulnerable to be re trafficked or remain in an abusive relationship for fear of not able to fend for themselves.