NWR: AGYW Embrace Strategies to combat prejudice








30 Adolescent Girls and Young Women have on Saturday May 15 attended a workshop titled; combating prejudice, a driver of violenc Organized by Common Action for Gender
and Development (COMAGEND).
The project which is funded by #defyhatenow Cameroon and her partners with COMAGEND being an partner is contribution of #defyhatenow Cameroon’s agenda on Mobilizing Civic Action to Encounter Violent Extremism, is meant to build the capacity of Adolescent Girls and Young Women on how to overcome prejudice based on identity and context which has proven to be on of the drivers of Violence and Hate in Contemporary Cameroon.
With the hope that people let go of their personal biases and prejudice especially through them getting involved in inter dialogue sessions in the face of the violent conflict the North West and South West are experiencing now.



According to Sally Mboumien the executive director of COMANGEND the conflict the North West and South West regions are experiencing is as a result of personal prejudice that was not solved“ if we look at the conflict our community is experiencing, precisely in bamenda where we are having this workshop, we realize that most of the things we are suffering now are as a result started as prejudice ,People have prejudice towards each other and different views on issues that were not sorted. So we realized that we have left the very beginning of where violence begins. We are holding this to start remedying within our community because we believe that we need so many processes to be able to address the conflict”

Participant

Bih Beneditt Tatiana, a participant expresses her satisfaction with the methods used to in facilitating. “ the workshop was very interesting, the material was good and the teachings too were very understanding and simple. I pray that God helps me to transmit the message to my community”
Nfor Yvette another participant says she goes back to her community as a better person” I have learnt a lot and I am going back rich enough and ready to impact the community. I am going back ready to handle cases of addicts of different types, ready to handle conflict and talk peace with young people and to change the ideology of people who believe that belonging to a different religion or speaking a different language is a problem. I am going back very different to preach the message of peace and I believe the community will be very impacted.”



These 30 AGYW are expected to host peace committees within their communities to discuss issues affecting the communities especially adolescent girls and young women.

By Tantan Patience

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