Best Community Development award winner Dr Hilary Ngide Ewang
By Ngalame Elias
Dr Hilary Ewang Ngide CEO of CCREAD-Cameroon is winner of CENPA’s 2024, young Community Development Champion Award.
The Cameroon English Newspaper Publishers Association (CENPA) in a heavily attended ceremony at the historic Buea Mountain Hotel Buea July 5th 2025 handed him the award at the second edition of the event.
According CENPA AWARD Jury member and human rights activist, Tambe Tiku Christopher, the young Dr Hilary Ngide Ewang epitomizes hope for the Cameroon youths.
“ We commend your community development strides and the fight against climate change through solar energy supply in vulnerable rural areas. We urge you to go ahead with the efforts,” Tiku Tambe said.
Dr Hilary Ewang Ngide is a young dynamic community development path finder and head of the Center for Community Regeneration and Development, (CCREAD) in
Cameroon, one of the winners of the 2016
UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for
Sustainable Development.
Helping improve lives in his community
Hilary says his drive as change agent and
Helper started by volunteering in his community during holidays in the area of hygiene and sanitation. At university, he still volunteered for NGOs.
Galvanized by these experiences, Hilary decided in 2004, to create his own platform – CCREAD – through which he has been helping to improve the lives of the underprivileged,
“marginalized” and vulnerable.
His community projects in providing solar energy in hospitals and village communities in Bangem and other villages in the Southwest in recent times assisting in bridging the energy supply gap in the region did not escape the attention of the CENPA Jury.
The laureate (middle) flanked by two publishers( Ngalame Elias of Eco Outlook and Dr Olive Ejang of The Ultimate) focused on reporting/publishing community development issues.
