“I do not want to rely on anybody to feed my children and meet my needs so I hustle on my own and I make up to $3 to $5 per day.” Cameroonian refugees are exposed to food starvation in Nigeria, as global aid agencies are slowly abandoning them.
Helen Egbe goes into the forest to cut trees and shrubs for making the teeth-cleaning twigs. A country created by the unification of former British and French administrative units in 1961, Cameroon has 10 semi-autonomous regions, of which eight are Francophone and the other two mainly English-speaking people in the Northwest and Southwest regions.
But nothing angered the government like the declaration of a new state known as Ambazonia on October 1 2017 by separatists. Government security forces descended on protesters with brutal force, arresting people, burning villages and killing people. She is able to get at least six bags after the branches have been chopped into smaller pieces and makes up to $40 in profits. Her two children now attend a nearby school and she recently secured a single room for $36 a year.TRT World
This is what 30-year-old Queen Etta does to feed her six children and husband. None of her kids are attending school yet despite moving to the village in October 2017. Another refugee, Victor Eban, says he has taken to clearing farmlands for planting and weeding before the harvest to survive. At the settlement in Okende, temporary shelters built with mud bricks and covered with corrugated iron sheets dot the landscape, and so do water points, latrine blocks and bathing units. Children have also been enrolled in nearby schools.Some 1,059 permanent shelters like this one have been completed in three settlements for Cameroonian refugees that more than 80 percent of refugee households in settlements and those in host communities are “severely or moderately food insecure”.
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