The more than 5-years collaboration between COSSA International- LICHA-Cameroon has continued to bear humanitarian fruits to the vulnerable in the society. 
Some weeks ago, COSSA and LICHA teams led a powerful delegation to donate fifty-five 3-weeks old table-birds to an internally displaced woman in the city center of Bamenda III Nkwen. This donation from COSSA- International was meant to boost the benevolent efforts of the said woman, who herself is hosting fourteen other less privileged children who are all internally displaced in her home.
This woman whose health condition is not at its best hale from the far-off Bui Division of the Northwest Region. She happened to have found herself in Bamenda town during the early days of the ongoing sociopolitical crisis bedeviling the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon. Having received a free accommodation from a goodwill Cameroonian abroad to live and take care of his house in town, this humanitarian IDP resolved to reciprocally begin lending a helping hand to many more internally displaced persons she has been encountering in her struggles. The current more than fourteen IDP’s who share the same roof with this woman do range from pupils, students, single mothers, apprentices and other elderly women. As LICHA in her fieldwork expedition encountered this woman in dire need of assistance to sustain herself and help other persons of her kind, her desperate cry was transmitted to COSSA International whom for a start responded favorably by donating to her 55 table-birds, — 5 bags of feed and a good number of poultry equipment in order to enhance her ongoing generous initiative of taking care of vulnerable persons, herself inclusive.
Receiving this significant donation from COSSA-International through LICHA, the recipient joyously thanked her donors praying to the Almighty to replenish their source umpteenth times. Adding that apart from his benevolent host, she has no sponsor and this debut bequest from COSSA/LICHA, she strongly believes shall serve as a door opener to her and many more under her tutelage of humanitarian Aid. Meanwhile, as LICHA continues to hail COSSA her arch partner for often reacting to her clarion calls of such a nature, Life Changing Humanitarian Association is calling on goodwill persons in the public to kindly come to the aid of this kindhearted woman and her numerous beneficiaries.

 

       

 

LICHA-Cameroon in one of her humanitarian interventions recently came to the rescue of a 23 years old mobility impaired lady who is suffering from multi-handicapping conditions as a result of a muscular dystrophy.  The young lady located in the interior village of Mbelewa Nkwen, Bamenda III sub Division who lost the father some six years ago became disabled in her early years of secondary school. Until the donation of a modern bed, mattress, pillows, blanket and a set of bedsheets to the Orphan lady, she was sleeping on a hard-wooden chair in their dilapidated house. LICHA had earlier donated a wheelchair to ease her mobility in and around the house and considering that her environment is not disability-friendly, LICHA pleads on any well wisher to come to our aid, so that we can construct a ramp in order to render their doorway and the environment accessible. 

  

The LICHA, HSUVI, CHRI and COSSA International detergent trainees have started bearing fruits. A fraction of the trainees mobilised themselves in a group to produce the detergent together, to ensure that they share their acquired knowledge practically in order to avoid making mistakes that can cost them their seed grants. 

               

 

 

Thursday, February 20th 2025, marked the end of the empowerment phase of the BIPMI-Project that began on January 7th 2025.  A total of nine (09) trainees who are all internally displaced visually impaired persons received complete empowerment items and equipment enabling them to start up a small income generating activity on Bleached Water and Local Omo Productions within their respective areas of settlement. 

     

 

 

LICHA through Community Creative Centre for Women and Girls with disabilities donated a wheelchair to Masebeline, 23 years old disable person on her birthday.   Her mother, the main source of mobility for Masebeline described this donation as a timely gesture from LICHA to rescue her from the stress of carrying Masebeline on every occasion on her back given her age. Amongst other major needs such as a bed and matrass, she went further to plead for an economic empowerment that will help her to carter for Masebeline as she is bound to be with Masebeline 24/7. LICHA therefore pleads with Men and Women of goodwill to reach out and empower Masebeline through her caretaker with these major needs ( a bed, matrass and a sustainable income generating business of the sales of foodstuff).  

 

LICHA and her partners in their charitable/ humanitarian gesture empowered ten (10) internally displaced visually impaired persons with skills in detergent production (Bleach water and Omo).  It all started on the 7th of January 2025 with the production of bleach water and the preparation of chemicals for the production of Omo. In the end, 60 litters of bleach water was produced, bottled and share among the participants to penetrate the market in their respective quarters. 

 

 

In continuation of the empowerment process for Omo production, a total of 574 sachets were produced by these internally displaced visually impaired persons. In the end, the omo was distributed to the beneficiaries to go and test the markets as a means of raising funds to use for the seed grant empowerment phase. The empowerment phase shall help them to fend for themselves and their families. 

 

 

 

As  a continuation of the BOOSTCAP Project, COSSA and LICHA empowered these two internally displaced women with poultry farming (table birds rearing) and by acquiring a piece of land and providing seed capital for the cultivation of  organic huckleberry as a means of improving on their livelihood.  Today , they can boost of producing great quantities which has gone a long way to improve their source livelihood.

LICHA joined Hope Social Union for the Visually impaired(HSUVI) by donating white canes and sensitizing the population of the Bamenda III Municipality( motor bike riders, taxi men and passer-by) on the different signs and uses of the white cane to persons with impairments, when and how to offer help to these persons.

Over 50 internally displaced children in the Banjah/Banshee Community in the North West Region of Cameroon benefited from Scholarship donated  by MANFU Group-LICHA. The socio-political crisis that left these children helpless attracted MANFU Group-LICHA who came in to put smiles on the faces of these less privileged children.