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Workshop Participants and  CPS Coordinators  As part of measures to spread peace through communication, the Civil Peace Service of Bread for the World organized a 5- day workshop on radio drama production on the theme "Radio Drama: A Veritable Tool for the Promotion of Peace".The workshop which was held at the PCC Synod office in Buea brought together 17 CPS partner organizations from all over the country. Opening the training workshop, the representative of the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, the National Peace Coordinator, Rev. Nta William Nche disclosed that the workshop is coming at a time when all avenues have to be exploited to preach peace, and radio drama is one of them. During the 5-day training workshop, the participants were drilled on peace, peacebuilding, conflict, history of radio drama, elements of a good script amongst others by Julius Nzang and Achaleke Christian, who were the main facilitators. Cross section of Participants during the Works...

For decades now, gender stereotypes have kept women confined in spaces where they have been told there is only a certain job they can pursue. Most times, there is that face of amazement when a woman is seen in a male-dominated sector like driving, carpentry, and engineering amongst others. Although women have been pushing societal boundaries for ages,  breaking the glass ceiling by entering jobs that were traditionally done by men, the Anglophone crisis seems to have encouraged many to brave the odds. In Bamenda chief town of the North West Region, women now are into driving, weathering,  carpentry, and most especially funeral home business The Meta Quarter street which is popular for funeral homes, a business sector dominated by men seems to have changed in recent years as many women are fast engaging in the business. Speaking to Kiming Odilia, a co-owner of True Love Funeral home, she explains that her quest for survival during the phase of the crisis encouraged her to ventu...

  According to UNICEF,  the coronavirus pandemic which has accelerated the use of digital platforms for learning, earning, and connecting have also increased the gender digital divide. In this light, Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) alongside some ten heads of women-led organizations in Bamenda have had a consultation session to ponder on the key obstacles that refrain them from fully utilizing the digital space and the way forward. Organized by Common Action for Gender and Development, COMAGEND, Cameroon at their office in Bamenda on Saturday, October 9th, 2021. The seven-hour session was in commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child, celebrated annually on October 11. Observed this year on the theme "Digital generation, our generation", the participants facilitated by COMAGEND's founder Sally Mboumien, discussed how poor power supply, limited access to digital gadgets, high prices set for data bundles, body shaming, and many others have limited thei...