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Children in poor rural communities are in at severe risk especially with the escalation of the crisis in these areas. A lot of kids are neglected and abused and even abandoned. These kids have experienced the horrors and frightening sight of war. Also, many of them have lost all or one their parents in the crisis. In our community visits, we realize many of the kids are exposed to joining armed groups, drug addiction, prostitution and other crime related activities. This is largely due the gross neglect and abuse of children in armed conflict. Child neglect or abuse is unacceptable in any form.

Children are one of the most vulnerable groups in these emergencies. Children who have experienced armed conflict and natural disasters and their aftermath face multiple risks, such as fleeing for their lives, abandoning threatened homes and communities or struggling to survive in post conflict contexts. In these conditions, government structures are often weakened and families are forced to cope with destroyed livelihoods, separation, security concerns.

BIHAPH’s campaign on COVID-19 was therefore aimed at creating awareness by sensitizing the population on the realities of the pandemic and call their attention on the need to observe the different preventive measures instituted by the powers that be, in order to roll back this deadly pandemic from our midst. High quality and long-lasting face masks were distributed to all participants at the campaign by BIHAPH CEO who was assisted by the President of the BOD in the person of Prof. MENDI Grace, after which a series of presentations were made by BIHAPH members on the following topics: COVID-19: what development actors should know and do by Achataseh Godwill, Preventive Methods of Corona Virus instituted by the World Health Organization (WHO) by Njuh Marie-Goretti, Preventive Methods of Corona Virus instituted by the Government of Cameroon by Echambohnui Madeleine, meanwhile the last and final presentation was on the theme of the campaign, How Corona Virus Impacts Crisis Zones: Together for an Effective Response and an end to the spread done by BIHAPH CEO Mrs. Mih Bibiana Mbei Epse DIGHAMBONG

BIHAPH has launched a long term strategic plan that would help the organisation attain its long term goals in a well organised and structured manner.

The strategic plan of BIHAPH is well outlined in an 89-page document that can be accessed via this website by going to the "About" section and following the link to the strategic plan.

According to the UN Children’s Fund, in 2014 at least 123 girls under the age of 20 have been forced to engage in sex or perform other sexual acts. Millions more including boys, never tell anyone about being abuse as a result of fear and stigma. In all of these, little has been done in terms off national and organizational policies and actions to fight against SEA. The prevalence in developing countries and communities is very high. Wum a rural community in the North West Region of Cameroon falls under this category. According to BIHAP field reports on SEA within the Wum community at least 1 in every household is a victim of SEA and 4 out of 10 have consciously or unconsciously suffered one form of sexual exploitation or abuse.

The high prevalence of SEA in rural communities is as a result of limited knowledge in terms of what it is and equally preventive actions. The stigma associated with SEA and failure to integrate it as a social problem with the community because of cultural perceptions has given a free operating space for its perpetrators.

The need to educate the community on the evils of SEA and provide guidelines against SEA especially within the context of Covid-19 becomes urgent. This is working inline with the Sustainable Development Goals and target 16.2 to “end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture of children” by 2030.

This project therefore seeks to: increase community awareness and action against SEA. This will be done through the production of context-based education and communication materials and guideline on against SEA.

If the Western and developed  world can not beat and defeat  Covid-19,the impact on poor and developing countries will be so catastrophic. It will return to haunt us all.

Fragile and vulnerable at the best of times, poor and developing economies are staring at an abyss. Let me illustrate this with the situation in our communities,  Still facing the devastating consequences of the an on-going crisis with unmeasurable humanitarian crisis, nothing has prepared us for threats posed by Covid-19. Most of our healthcare facilities  have been destroyed. Most  Medical personel have flee from communities where the conflict is escalating due to threat and fear.Access to basic health services remains the exception rather than the norm. Even taking such common-sense precautions as washing hands is often an unaffordable luxury to the half of the population who lack access to clean water.

In the name of such euphemisms as sovereignty,  freedom and liberation, war Lords everywhere, are exacting a deadly cost. Militarism everywhere is out of control, cutting a violent swath of pandemic proportions across our planet. Women and children account for almost 80% of the casualties of conflict and war as well as 80% of the 40 million people in world who are now refugees from their homes. It is one of the unspoken facts of militarism that women often become the spoils of war, their deaths are considered collateral damage and their bodies are frequently used as battlegrounds and as commodities that can be traded. This has been the plight of women, children and girls in the ongoing Anglophone crisis for over 40 months today. Most often the crimes go unchecked and unabated as no one accounts for such high cost of human rights violations and humanitarian crisis. 

"Women and girls are not just killed, they are raped, sexually attacked, mutilated and humiliated. Custom, culture and religion have built an image of women as bearing the 'honour' of their communities. Disparaging a woman's sexuality and destroying her physical integrity have become a means by which to terrorize, demean and 'defeat' entire communities, as well as to punish, intimidate and humiliate women," A nightmare of sorrows and pains in the Anglophone regions ... FOR HOW LONG LONG

Our hearts are broken for all the children women and mothers living in war-torn Zones in the Ongoing crisis in the North West and South West Regions. BIHAPH condemn  In strongest term the killing of pregnant women, children and civilian in a village called NTUMBAW AND NGARBUH in Ndu Sub Division. The perpetrators must be booked to justice if we have any iota of plan to end this senseless  war!!!! This is unacceptable for any sane and humane society... 

This unimaginable acts is not the first time women and children are targe

Our hearts are broken for all the women and mothers living in war-torn Zones in the Ongoing crisis in the North West and South West Regions. BIHAPH condemn   In strongest term the killing of pregnant women, children and civilian in a village in Ndu Sub Division. The perpetrators must be booked to justice if we have any iota of plan to end this senseless  war!!!! This is unacceptable for any sane and humane society..