The one-year project that runs from 2025-2026 took place on August 7, 2025 at the Baptist Centre Main Hall in Bamenda in the presence of major stakeholders. The Inclusive Humanitarian Health and Protection Response project is targeted to reach 6000 vulnerable groups of people affected by the ongoing crisis in the hard-to-reach villages in the Northwest region of Cameroon.
Launching the project in the Northwest region, Mr. Fon, Julius, Cameroon County Director of the Christian Blind Mission (CBM), the funding organization said, “CBM has always been committed to supporting the most vulnerable communities, those who face daily challenges that often go unseen. Among them, persons with disabilities remain, unfortunately, the most marginalized. Too often, they are left out of humanitarian intervention, even though their need for care, protection, and dignity is urgent,” Mr. Fon decried.
Assess to health and protection services remain a daily struggle for people with disabilities living in remote areas compounded by the current crisis affecting the Northwest region. According to recent assessments, the CBM Country Director lamented that less than 1% of persons with disabilities in certain divisions have not received humanitarian intervention since the beginning of the crisis, “This is unacceptable,” he stated categorically. “This is precisely why this project was developed,” he announced.
Presenting the project overview, the Project Coordinator, Ful Morine Fuen noted that the project is highly relevant to the CBCHS’s long-standing commitment to delivering inclusive, rights-based, and community-driven health and protection services across Cameroon, including in fragile and conflict-affected zones. According to her, the intervention will complement ongoing efforts by the Government, local authorities, and humanitarian partners, and hence contribute to strengthen the local health systems and promote community resilience.
Speaking earlier, the Director of Health Services (DHS), Mr. Ngum Samuel paid tribute to the long-standing partnership between CBM and CBC Health Services in addressing the critical health and protection needs of the most vulnerable populations. The DHS remarked that the project is designed to prioritize people with the highest needs; people with disabilities and their households, internally displaced persons, returnees, vulnerable host communities, pregnant and lactating women and children below 5 years. The goal of the project, he noted, is to alleviate suffering and improve access to essential care and protection services in the hard-to-reach communalities in the Northwest region of Cameroon.
On behalf of the beneficiaries, Mr. Chick Sama from the NW Coordinating Unit of Persons with Disabilities (CUPWD) welcomed the project as a dream come true for persons with disabilities in the remote villages who have suffered the most neglect in the crisis.
The government officials and sister NGOs all praised the initiative and pledged their support to the success of the project within one year. The Regional Delegates of Women and the Family and Social Affairs and the representative of their counterpart of Public Health were personally present to support the launching of such a lofty project rolled out once more by the CBC Health Services. The Inclusive Humanitarian Health and Protection Response project will target 6000 people in 8 Health Areas; two in Menchum Division precisely in Benade and Benabinge and six in Donga Mantung precisely in Ako, Nkambe and Nwa. The project will Improve access to basic healthcare and rehabilitation services to 4,500 people of the targeted crises affected areas and 1,500 people with emergency protection needs will receive appropriate and timely protection services.
