By Neba Jerome Ambe
"If this message could be taken to my village of origin, Bagam, I would be a happy woman. To date, the people there don't know that boys and girls have equal rights. They don't care about the girl child but my focus on the boy. Concerning matters of inheritance, they give everything to the boy and some are even threatening to take girls who succeeded their mothers and give to boys. Girls have no space in Bagam village. When a man marries a woman there, the only thing he gives to her is a hoe. We need a change in that Community. We need to change the narrative".
The above words are that of Mrs. Ngoin Brenda an inhabitant of Ntarinkon Community in Bamenda II subdivision, Mezam Division of the North West Region reacting after receiving talk on the right of a girl child to Education, the elimination of discriminatory practices like excluding girls from inheritance and equal opportunities carried out by Tangwa Vivian, on Monday, September 23, 2024. She is a Community Spokes Person (CPS) trained with the context of the Adjust For Me project, sponsored by AMPLIFY CHANGE and implemented by Community Action for Gender Development, (COMAGEND), a Nonprofit organization.
The issue of gender equality, women's empowerment, fair inheritance, and the right of the girl child to Education has been on a decrease since the Genesis of the Anglophone crisis and her partners have come to say enough is enough. Mrs. Ngoin Brenda, like others who received the same message during the door-to-door sensitization, has called on the nonprofit organization to continue with the message into the hinterlands of the North West Region.
Adjust For Me has as an objective to fight against toxic masculinity, improve access to Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, (SRHR), and transform gender norms and behaviors.
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