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NGO Jobs in Cameroon: How to Find and Land One
A practical guide to finding NGO jobs in Cameroon — where vacancies are actually posted, what employers in Buea, Bamenda, Douala and Yaoundé look for, and how to write an…
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A practical guide to finding NGO jobs in Cameroon — where vacancies are actually posted, what employers in Buea, Bamenda, Douala and Yaoundé look for, and how to write an…
News
The Foundation was invited by UNFPA to discuss possible collaboration and the use of the Women's Light platform to reach more…
Get Involved
How volunteering with a Cameroonian NGO actually works — how to find placements in Buea, Bamenda and beyond, what organisations…
Our Stories
Educational materials and essential support delivered to over 200 children, alongside conversations on dignity, personal safety…
Our Stories
A successful workshop closed with certificates handed out and beautiful memories made. Special thanks to the Youth Centre for…
Our Stories
Founder and team joined residents for a neighbourhood clean-up — part of our wider work on waste management and environmental…
Resources
The realistic funding landscape for Cameroonian associations and NGOs — which donors actually fund national organisations, what…
Gender Justice
Femicide is the killing of women and girls because they are women. It is the most extreme point on a continuum of violence that…
Our Work
Nearly one in two Cameroonian women has experienced physical or sexual violence. This is what the evidence says about why, what…
Our Stories
Menstrual hygiene management remains a major barrier to girls' school attendance. Our team visited schools to talk openly with…
Water & Sanitation
Marked every 28 May. Period poverty is not only about the cost of pads — it is about whether a school has water, a door that…
Livelihoods
Economic empowerment is not income. It is control over income — and the gap between the two is where most livelihoods programmes…
Education
The importance of girls' education is not disputed. What gets less attention is that most girls who drop out leave for reasons…
Water & Sanitation
SDG 6 promises water and sanitation for all by 2030. The world is not on track, and the reason is less about drilling wells than…
Water & Sanitation
World Water Day is marked every 22 March. The statistic that should define it is not how many people lack clean water, but who…
Gender Justice
Women's empowerment means expanding a woman's ability to make choices that shape her own life — and then to act on them. The…
Gender Justice
Marked every 8 March. If you want the day to do more than trend, the useful question is not which charity to give to but what to…
Gender Justice
About one in three women worldwide has experienced physical or sexual violence. The number is reliable, widely cited, and tells…
Gender Justice
GBV means violence directed at a person because of their gender, or that affects one gender disproportionately. It is not a…
Civil Society
Funds for NGOs exist in far greater volume than most small organisations realise. The obstacle is almost never the idea — it is…
Civil Society
Written from having done it in 2025. The registration is the easy part — what takes the time is the governance you have to build…
Our Stories
Our founder and team spent Christmas with children at a local orphanage, sharing gifts, food and time with young people who are…
Civil Society
Every NGO is a nonprofit. Not every nonprofit is an NGO. The difference is not pedantry — it determines how you register, how you…
Civil Society
NGO means non-governmental organisation — but the label covers everything from a two-person village association to a federation…
Gender Justice
Marked every 25 November, and named for three sisters murdered in 1960. It opens the 16 Days of Activism — and it is the one day…
Gender Justice
Sixteen days between 25 November and 10 December. The campaign works when it ends in something concrete, and achieves very little…
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