The ‘Hope For Vulnerable and Orphans’ (HOVO) is a non governmental organization created to cater for women especially in the rural areas. The organization’s founder, Nadum Feka Parchibell says the N.G.O has come to fill a void… a void undoubtedly present amidst the rural women folk like providing washable pads to girls in schools.
But here’s more about the organization which has been created to provide better education, sanitary and health facilities to women, both young and old, who can barely take care of themselves.
- HOVO is a non governmental organization based in Cameroon. It advocates for the education and empowerment of girls and women. It also trains vocational skills and distributes washable pads to keep girls in schools around Cameroon. The NGO is supported by Rose Academies, an American non-profit organization; with a mission to educate and empower youths by giving them confidence and internal strength to stand up and be great.
- HOVO was founded on the June 23, 2013 to solve a problem… that children, especially girls faced a lot of challenges in schools and in their communities. Some of the girls, at some point, stopped going to school and this was not funny. After a long investigation, the organization discovered that some of these girls were sent into early marriages, some of their parents didn’t see why she had to go to school while others could not withstand their menstruation and the stigma they got when they were stained etc. It also discovered that women suffered a lot of violence in their marriages because they were “unproductive” according to their husbands.
Orphans do not only suffer but are most times traumatized because of lack of love from peers and are most times left isolated in misery. With these and many more, founder a powerful woman decided to create HOVO to try to empower girls and women and give them hope to face the challenges positively. - Nadum Feka Parchibell is the founder of HOVO. She is a teacher by profession. She is 2015 Teaching Excellent and Achievement (TEA) Alumnus and a mum of 3 lovely kids. Parchibell has gone through most of the challenges that she is trying to fight against so that her own kids, just like any other children, would not go through those challenges in life. She is very passionate about education and empowering women and girls. She wants a healthy environment for every child and woman.
- HOVO has manufactured and distributed sanitary pads in 3 regions in Cameroon, has trained 300 women and girls on how to sew washable pads and has a vocational center that was opened in Tiko (South West Region of Cameroon) with the aim of training life skills. The organization has also created Gender Clubs in some schools in the Center, South West and Littoral Regions in Cameroon in which kids are taught SRHR, Human rights, WASH etc.
- HOVO intends to open an extraordinary school with boarding facilities to teach and train girls from rural communities around Cameroon. “We equally want to train and empower as many women as possible over the 10 Regions of Cameroon,” says Parchibell.
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