NYAWIDDA National EXCO
By Mesumbe Nelly
The Nyasoso Wives and Daughters Development Association,NYAWIDDA has celebrated five years of great development and cultural strides, epitomizing participatory development for the benefit of the population in general and especially the girl child and women in the Nyasoso community.
The celebrations took place in Tombel March 1, 2025 under the theme, “Celebrating achievements withing five years of existence” with the massive presence of NYAWIDDA women throughout the national territory, traditional authorities and lead elites of Nyasoso.
According to the President of NYAWIDDA, Commissioner Alobwede Mado Nzelle, the association has come a long way clocking five fruitful years. It came into existence in the late 2019/2020 during the armed conflict faced by the two anglophone regions of Cameroon with the objective of improving the livelihood of the population and bail them from the pangs of poverty imposed by the crisis.
“This crisis that led to pain and misery aggravating the already precarious conditions of our people back home. Confronted with this bad situations, the Nyasoso women had to speak out in order to better the conditions of their suffering population by providing both material, psychological, moral, education and socio-cultural support to the desperate community,” she said.
Among other actions to stamp out misery the association organized a food drive where basic commodities and foodstuffs were provided to all the 3 chiefdoms.
Their team travelled to the village to give psychological and moral support to parents and siblings who were undergoing a lot of trauma due to the socio political tension that existing during that period
Among one of their great achievements at the time was ensuring that schools reopen in the entire village especially G.H.S NYASOSO that had completely shut its doors for a period of 3years just like it’s counterparts in the entire division.
“With the advise of the vibrant and dynamic executives, championed by the advisory board, we embarked on a tireless advocacy throughout Nyasoso and neighboring villages to send their children back to school.We emphasized on the importance of education especially for girls who were victims of abuse and trauma during the Anglophone crisis.
To drive this efforts further NYAWIDDA in September 2021 awarded full scholarships to the first 13 girls whose return to school inspired other students to enroll. NYAWIDDA has since then sponsored 30 female students with 07 excelling at the GCE ordinary level and 03 at the Advanced level, it was disclosed.
In other achievements, NYAWIDDA extended the village electrification by changing all obsolete street bulbs with standard lamps. NYAWIDDA went ahead to procure durable solar lamps that are presently lighting the entire Nyasoso and Bendume village. They constantly provide amazone touchlights to the vigilante, who serve as auxiliary security.
NYAWIDDA also recently purchased a multipurpose grinding machine from Nigeria that grinds all types of tubers and grains in the village. NYAWIDDA went ahead to purchase VIP canopies and the chairs to solve the problem of moving to Loum or Douala to hire the said items for important events in the village. These VIP chairs that are let out are now serving all neighboring villages that used to go to distant places to hire for their events, the President said.
The proceeds from the multipurpose grinding mill, VIP canopies and chairs go a long way to enable NYAWIDDA realise her dreams of making Nyasoso great again.
The women lauded the support from their husbands, the powerful elites of Nyasoso at home and abroad that led to the aforementioned great strides.
A special appreciation was given to the administration of SOWEDA through their son Herbert Ediage for the creation and immediate construction of a social and women center in Nyasoso.
The Association that started with 24 women in Douala in November 2019, now has an affective membership of about 250 women. Many more women and daughters of Nyasoso lagging behind were encouraged to come on board.According to one of the key elite who have been very supportive to the association, Herbert Ediage it was very important for all the women in Nyasoso to join in.
“ I will encourage all those Nyasoso women who are not yet members to join and contribute their own quota to the development of Nysoso,” Ediage Hebert advised.
As plans in perspectives NYAWIDDA announced a project to build a multipurpose guest house in Nyasoso to solve the problem of accommodation to the visitors in Cameroon and abroad. It hoped to lay the foundation stone on the NYAWIDDA plot this December.
Dancing was also part of the celebration. Yaounde Ballet emerged champion
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