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Cameroon: CDVTA - Director Wins Sheila Mckechine International Award
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The Post (Buea)
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Chris Mbunwe
The British Prime Minister, H.E Gordon Brown, will on Tuesday July 22, hand the Sheila Mckechine Foundation's International Global Human Rights Campaigner Award, to Francis Nchii Njuakom, Director of the Community Development Volunteer for Technical Assistance, CDVTA - Cameroon.
This is the first time a Cameroonian is wining the Award, which is sponsored by Concerned Worldwide UK.The award winner's reception will take place at Number 10 Downing Street, London.
The Sheila Mckechine Awards is an annual bursary scheme for grassroots and emerging campaigners, which have been created to equip high level professionals in campaigning to challenge unjust structures, provide visionary leadership and change the world.
The Director of CDVTA-Cameroon will be receiving his award alongside 11 other award winners who are professional campaigners in the UK.This International award recognises campaigners based outside of the UK in the Global South (the lowest 40 countries in the world as defined by the United Nations Human Development Index), working to achieve social or environmental justice in their home countries.
There is only one position offered for this international award every year and contestants come from 40 countries in the Global South. Njuakom emerged the 2008 winner from thousands of applicants from 40 other countries of the Global South. He is the second African to win this prestigious Award. It should be noted that the 2007 winner of this award came from Zambia.
By virtue of the award, Njuakom will benefit from mentoring, coaching, and world-class guidance from international experienced campaigners in the UK. This is to help him achieve maximum impact in his work and bring about great change in the society.
After receiving the award in the UK, Njuakom will continue his international campaign actions to Switzerland where he is scheduled to meet with other international campaign experts, policy makers and development organisations to discuss development, advocacy and networking for more development initiatives to the elderly in Cameroon.
Njuakom is currently Director of CDVTA Cameroon, an extensively successful development network of elderly people and communities, enhancing and securing their constitutional rights, through fighting discrimination, marginalisation and promoting positive ageing and securing high quality social welfare services for older persons in Cameroon.
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CDVTA is funded by the Methodist Relief and Development Fund Britain.Francis Njuakom as a social development officer and elderly leadership constitutional rights campaigner, has over the past 13 years been engaged in social development work at community, national and international levels in leadership, governance, combating poverty and exclusion, social gerontology, community geriatric care, human resource management, management, high level project advice and proposal development.
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