Our Work In Cameroon

Working with Omer Songwe and Youth Outreach around Bamenda to empower youth through providing training in environmental awareness, tree planting, tree nursery management, grafting, beekeeping and other alternative income generating activities.

During the 1980's, experts from Switzerland led a project that planted millions of eucalyptus trees around Lake Jakiri in the Northwest Province. These insatiable trees greedily sucked the groundwater, and before long the lake went dry!

That horrible fate is what brought Mayor Akoso Neba of Bafut, Cameroon to work on this project. Mayor Neba is planning two large-scale reforestation efforts in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. A major goal is the replacement of eucalyptus trees with other, beneficial species that build groundwater supplies and encourage vegetative growth. We are working to support his endeavors.

We are also now working in Nkwen-Bamenda, located in the North West Province working on various projects with dozens of school environmental clubs, the development of fruit tree orchards, and a kids tree planting campaign.

In Kumba, President Ngoh Nkelle Victor of the Center for the Promotion of Cooperative Initiative (CEPIC ) is working to rehabilitate the Lake Barombi Forest Reserve, a denuded watershed that is being eroded into Lake Barombi. The fish and wildlife are struggling to survive. In response to this, CEPIC has begun planting nearly 10,000 trees, and plans to triple that over the next year. They have trained two women's groups in agroforestry and soil conservation and they are distributing seedlings to local farmers.