Young, Dynamic Community Development path finder, Dr Hilary Ngide Ewang Wins 2024 CENPA Award.

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.

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