CPDM Women in Donga Mantung V are kick-starting life afresh by learning and practicing petit trades for survival.
The women are being encouraged by Martha Njinkwen, the WCPDM section president for Nwa to forget the hardship brought by the crisis and look forward to the future. Mrs. Njinkwen is committed to re-write the history of the WCPDM in the section by revalorizing the potentials of the Nwa woman. She has been educating them on the need to be creative and to take advantage of every available opportunity and improve their lives. The women see reason in the WCPDM section presidents call. They have been indulging in the learning and practices of different trades. Hellen Nkubehshuap, a mother of three who was smart to answer the call is today involved in the production of palm oil, which she sells in the local market. According to Hellen, “I was able to sponsor my three children through school this year thanks to my palm oil business. I start work every day at 8:00am. I pick palm nuts in a farm owned by the CPDM section president for Nwa, in the person of Mr. Francis Mungusi. After picking, I wash and boil the palm nuts in preparation for the mill. My job keeps me very busy and I plan to keep it” she insisted.
Helen is a militant of the women’s wing of the CPDM in Nwa, and in her words “our women section president has been encouraging us not to be idle. We need to be viable militants in order to support the party by paying our contributions .That way the CPDM and our National President Paul Biya will encourage our efforts and bring in the desired developments for our area.” she maintained.
For her part, the WCPDM section president Mrs. Martha Njinkwen is of the opinion that, most of the women in the section, who are returnees beckon for assistance. “We have been pleading our elite and other people of good will to support them by engaging them in petit trades” she said.
“So far a number of our women are into poultry and pig farming”, Martha Njinken confirmed. The rest of them who are yet to get something to do, are encouraged to get involved in agriculture. “Our lands in Nwa are very fertile and every effort put in the soil will always yield fruits. We encourage them not to stay hungry or worse still indulge in any form of crime under the pretext of trying to survive, but to get to the farms, and the response is plausible especially in the Mbaw plain” Njikwen emphasised.
The women in Nwa are also being educated to keep the family unit warm and safe by inculcating the right values in their children.
Lasting peace will come with the contribution of every inhabitant of Nwa, particularly the women.
In the words of the WCPDM section president, “No job is small as long as it can put bread on the table, our women are dynamic and we trues they will overcome the present hardships”, Njinkwen emphasized.
Donga Mantung V section is situated east of the administrative headquarters. It is a porous, rural boarder section bounded to the north by the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Irene AWENEG
