Each year, REWOCAM conducts Survivor (SUVAR) Workshops in which 30 highly motivated women not only receive healing from their own experiences, but are given the skills and confidence they need to design and implement their own advocacy programs against rape – particularly child rape. The women are divided into four teams based on the region they are from (Kumba, Buea, Douala, Yaounde) and are mentored as they develop proposals for their own projects that educate others, bring healing to victims, and train survivors in income-generating skills. Teams are then given a small grant to implement their ideas. This year we are funding the 2023, 2024, and 2025 teams – 12 total – which will keep spreading the impact beyond REWOCAM’s home-base of Kumba.
One of our Yaounde teams was recently featured on national television. People across Cameroon were able to hear the message as they spoke about their work. It is impossible for one person alone to change a country’s entrenched culture of child rape, but when Nakinti raises up an army of advocates, the impossible becomes possible. We are really excited about the impact REWOCAM is having.
Here’s a 20 second clip from the show: CLICK HERE
And to watch the after-show interview posted on Facebook: CLICK HERE
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