# SGIF4IDPs
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Who I am
My name is Nahvoma Miranda Achiri. I live in Canada but I come from the English speaking region of Cameroon which is now conflict-stricken. I am a Humanitarian Ambassador for Spirit Gym Foundation (SGIF), a humanitarian grass-root organisation aimed at responding to the plight of the needy and alleviating poverty.
I remember as a kid when this white lady from the US visited our home in Bamenda. As my Dad presented his “kids”, she kept counting. She could not help but exclaim when she counted the 10th kid, “how do you manage to have all these children”? We all laughed but my Dad's response stayed with me, “here (Africa) your children are not just your biological kids. We are one big family”. Honestly, my Dad only had 2 biological kids amongst the 10. Myself and my kid brother.
Those words became my inspiration for Charity but they seem to have engraved a love for humanity in my kid brother T Juvet Lebga, Founder of SGIF. Today, I’m living that dream through SGIF as a goodwill Ambassador.
Through SGIF, I have been able to be part of formidable humanitarian projects like feeding and caring for the needy, providing for orphans, etc.
Humanitarian Crisis
https://youtu.be/slxrXXd3b9U
2017 saw the Anglophone minority population, clamouring for change due to an acclaimed systematic marginalisation which met a lethal military response. This led to some civilians picking up arms in a claim to defend themselves.
With more than 3000 civilian deaths, 100 villages and 70+ schools burnt down or vandalized -according to Human Rights Watch, the Anglophone region began seeing mass rural exodus.
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/styles/report-large/public/resources-pdf-previews/1455084-cameroun_nwsw_idp_factsheet_2019_draft_01.png?itok=Nb4YwHTt
By December 2019, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported over 50,000 displaced people as Refugees in Nigeria and 679,000 Internally Displaced Persons otherwise called IDPs (60,000+ in Douala alone), of which 53% were women and 46% children.
The most appalling fact is the extent to which the crisis has been neglected. It’s rated World Most Neglected Humanitarian Crisis according to the Norwegian Refugee Council. As both actors intensify the conflict, the innocent grass-root men suffer most thus pushing up the number of IDPs.
The recent COVID 19 pandemic hasn’t spared these IDPs as it virtually cripples economies. With workers laid off, companies winding up and little or no substantial support from the government, public spending has been greatly reduced. To this, petty trades owned by some of these IDPs have been ruined and gathering resources to ensure the financial, emotional, physical and social security of these people is harder. As a result, most of them have plunged into more deplorable conditions and basic protective COVID 19 gear like hand sanitizers and nose masks seems to be the least of their worries.
SGIF has been supporting IDP women and children with food, basic supply and health assistance and has also talked to over 80 IDPs in a bid to give them a voice.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2exxuFNiK3-ho8VP56GnlQ
Goal/Target
From their stories, you can feel pain and trauma, stemming from; frustration, hunger, homelessness, poverty, sickness and worst of all; exploitation, rape and bereavement.
In response, SGIF has designed a $10,000USD/13,500CAD project termed, #SGIF4IDPs which targets IDP women, children (of all ages), and men.
Objectives;
1. Feed/ provide basic needs and COVID 19 protective gear to 100 IDPs.
This is to respond to immediate needs and help SGIF build bonds to better understand the IDPs. For details, See Table 1 in appendix
https://youtu.be/yNVlETWxUGs
2. Sponsor 35 IDP kids (age 4-18yrs) in primary, secondary and university levels for 1 year.
This will increase the literacy level and reduce the educational cost burden on parents, thus creating time for other profitable activities. For details, See Table 2 in appendix
https://youtu.be/FB7c4ZjqWxw
3. Train 100 IDPs in profitable skills and petty trading.
SGIF acknowledge that focusing solely on relief packages breeds a perpetual state of dependency, reasons why this skill acquisition program was designed to advocate independence. For details, See Table 3 in appendix
https://youtu.be/6ehudENjNmQ
After actual calculations, the Budget is XAF5,400,000 ($9,000USD, £8,000, €7,200 and $11,100CAD). Which we approximate to $10,000usd, $13,500usd.
NB: Visit https://spiritgymfoundation.wixsite.com/sgif/projects for the Full PDF Document on our website.
Why crowdfund #SGIF4IDPs
The success of past projects can be accorded to the SGIF team (especially the founder) and well-wishers. This project is big, coming barely months after their outreach in May 2020. They can’t fund this alone. Grants are tough and time-consuming to secure of which time is of great essence here.
These are people (SGIF) with big hearts, putting their life earnings for the sake of others and they wish to do more. Though exhausted in funds, the suffering of IDPs remains a reality.
There are many out there, ready to help the vulnerable in society. If we each come together with a fraction of the full cost and a commitment to share with our network, we will surpass the target without any donor feeling the burden.
SGI Foundation has since midway of the Anglophone crisis build an umbrella which humanitarians can come under for a Transparent and Accountable collective response.
As a team, SGIF wants to do more. And for the first time, they are calling on a worldwide range of well-wishers to join them in giving hope to the hopeless and restore broken dreams to these vulnerable people especially the women and children.
SGIF believes and values the power of unity in a crowd, as thus SGIF respects every single person within its community.
Surplus Cash
Project SGIF4idps is designed to be scalable. I.e. in case of surplus cash, the number of participants can simply be increased to cover a broader scale.
Let us rally and support this great initiative to fight hunger, COVID 19, illiteracy, child hawking, domestic violence/abuse, and poverty by Donating and Sharing this campaign 1-on-1 with friends, colleagues, nieghbours, and family. Let us also encourage them to Donate and also Share amongst friends, colleagues, etc. Its the only way to get mass attention and Donation.
Together with SGIF, let us give these vulnerable women and children a chance to fight COVID 19 on level terms.
Together, we are #BridgingtheGap with #SGIF4idps.
The last words T Juvet Lebga said to me were, "If helping the needy is the only thing I will achieve in life, then its worth sacrificing any other dream. I still believe there are good people out there and we can make a difference together". Lets give him his dream.
Please care to join SGIF’s Humanitarian Facebook Group https://web.facebook.com/groups/sgifoundation/ and follow the FB page https://web.facebook.com/SGIFoundationn/ for Project Live Updates and also see past projects as you Donate and feel that energy that comes with giving.
Team SGIF
Below are Tables of the budgets
Appendix pictures:
Table 1
Table 2
Table 3
My name is Nahvoma Miranda Achiri. I live in Canada but I come from the English speaking region of Cameroon which is now conflict-stricken. I am a Humanitarian Ambassador for Spirit Gym Foundation (SGIF), a humanitarian grass-root organisation aimed at responding to the plight of the needy and alleviating poverty.
I remember as a kid when this white lady from the US visited our home in Bamenda. As my Dad presented his “kids”, she kept counting. She could not help but exclaim when she counted the 10th kid, “how do you manage to have all these children”? We all laughed but my Dad's response stayed with me, “here (Africa) your children are not just your biological kids. We are one big family”. Honestly, my Dad only had 2 biological kids amongst the 10. Myself and my kid brother.
Those words became my inspiration for Charity but they seem to have engraved a love for humanity in my kid brother T Juvet Lebga, Founder of SGIF. Today, I’m living that dream through SGIF as a goodwill Ambassador.
Through SGIF, I have been able to be part of formidable humanitarian projects like feeding and caring for the needy, providing for orphans, etc.
Humanitarian Crisis
https://youtu.be/slxrXXd3b9U
2017 saw the Anglophone minority population, clamouring for change due to an acclaimed systematic marginalisation which met a lethal military response. This led to some civilians picking up arms in a claim to defend themselves.
With more than 3000 civilian deaths, 100 villages and 70+ schools burnt down or vandalized -according to Human Rights Watch, the Anglophone region began seeing mass rural exodus.
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/styles/report-large/public/resources-pdf-previews/1455084-cameroun_nwsw_idp_factsheet_2019_draft_01.png?itok=Nb4YwHTt
By December 2019, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported over 50,000 displaced people as Refugees in Nigeria and 679,000 Internally Displaced Persons otherwise called IDPs (60,000+ in Douala alone), of which 53% were women and 46% children.
The most appalling fact is the extent to which the crisis has been neglected. It’s rated World Most Neglected Humanitarian Crisis according to the Norwegian Refugee Council. As both actors intensify the conflict, the innocent grass-root men suffer most thus pushing up the number of IDPs.
The recent COVID 19 pandemic hasn’t spared these IDPs as it virtually cripples economies. With workers laid off, companies winding up and little or no substantial support from the government, public spending has been greatly reduced. To this, petty trades owned by some of these IDPs have been ruined and gathering resources to ensure the financial, emotional, physical and social security of these people is harder. As a result, most of them have plunged into more deplorable conditions and basic protective COVID 19 gear like hand sanitizers and nose masks seems to be the least of their worries.
SGIF has been supporting IDP women and children with food, basic supply and health assistance and has also talked to over 80 IDPs in a bid to give them a voice.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2exxuFNiK3-ho8VP56GnlQ
Goal/Target
From their stories, you can feel pain and trauma, stemming from; frustration, hunger, homelessness, poverty, sickness and worst of all; exploitation, rape and bereavement.
In response, SGIF has designed a $10,000USD/13,500CAD project termed, #SGIF4IDPs which targets IDP women, children (of all ages), and men.
Objectives;
1. Feed/ provide basic needs and COVID 19 protective gear to 100 IDPs.
This is to respond to immediate needs and help SGIF build bonds to better understand the IDPs. For details, See Table 1 in appendix
https://youtu.be/yNVlETWxUGs
2. Sponsor 35 IDP kids (age 4-18yrs) in primary, secondary and university levels for 1 year.
This will increase the literacy level and reduce the educational cost burden on parents, thus creating time for other profitable activities. For details, See Table 2 in appendix
https://youtu.be/FB7c4ZjqWxw
3. Train 100 IDPs in profitable skills and petty trading.
SGIF acknowledge that focusing solely on relief packages breeds a perpetual state of dependency, reasons why this skill acquisition program was designed to advocate independence. For details, See Table 3 in appendix
https://youtu.be/6ehudENjNmQ
After actual calculations, the Budget is XAF5,400,000 ($9,000USD, £8,000, €7,200 and $11,100CAD). Which we approximate to $10,000usd, $13,500usd.
NB: Visit https://spiritgymfoundation.wixsite.com/sgif/projects for the Full PDF Document on our website.
Why crowdfund #SGIF4IDPs
The success of past projects can be accorded to the SGIF team (especially the founder) and well-wishers. This project is big, coming barely months after their outreach in May 2020. They can’t fund this alone. Grants are tough and time-consuming to secure of which time is of great essence here.
These are people (SGIF) with big hearts, putting their life earnings for the sake of others and they wish to do more. Though exhausted in funds, the suffering of IDPs remains a reality.
There are many out there, ready to help the vulnerable in society. If we each come together with a fraction of the full cost and a commitment to share with our network, we will surpass the target without any donor feeling the burden.
SGI Foundation has since midway of the Anglophone crisis build an umbrella which humanitarians can come under for a Transparent and Accountable collective response.
As a team, SGIF wants to do more. And for the first time, they are calling on a worldwide range of well-wishers to join them in giving hope to the hopeless and restore broken dreams to these vulnerable people especially the women and children.
SGIF believes and values the power of unity in a crowd, as thus SGIF respects every single person within its community.
Surplus Cash
Project SGIF4idps is designed to be scalable. I.e. in case of surplus cash, the number of participants can simply be increased to cover a broader scale.
Let us rally and support this great initiative to fight hunger, COVID 19, illiteracy, child hawking, domestic violence/abuse, and poverty by Donating and Sharing this campaign 1-on-1 with friends, colleagues, nieghbours, and family. Let us also encourage them to Donate and also Share amongst friends, colleagues, etc. Its the only way to get mass attention and Donation.
Together with SGIF, let us give these vulnerable women and children a chance to fight COVID 19 on level terms.
Together, we are #BridgingtheGap with #SGIF4idps.
The last words T Juvet Lebga said to me were, "If helping the needy is the only thing I will achieve in life, then its worth sacrificing any other dream. I still believe there are good people out there and we can make a difference together". Lets give him his dream.
Please care to join SGIF’s Humanitarian Facebook Group https://web.facebook.com/groups/sgifoundation/ and follow the FB page https://web.facebook.com/SGIFoundationn/ for Project Live Updates and also see past projects as you Donate and feel that energy that comes with giving.
Team SGIF
Below are Tables of the budgets
Appendix pictures:
Table 1
Table 2
Table 3
Organizer
Lebga Juvet
Organizer
Kingston, ON