Fomunyoh Foundation, artist partner to raise funds for Boko Haram victims

Christopher Fomunyoh, Chief Executive Officer, CEO of the Fomunyoh Foundation, TFF, has gone into partnership with France based musician, Mana Ibrahima Idrissou, who goes with the artistic name of Idy Oulo, to raise funds for people affected by Boko haram attacks through city-wide music concerts across the country.

Money raised from the concerts will assist communities and internally displaced persons in the Far North Region, Mokun Njouny Nelson, Press Officer for TTF, told The Cameroon Journal in Bamenda, Saturday, March 21.

Mokun said the first of the musical concerts will hold in Garoua, and then move to other major cities in Cameroon including Yaounde in the Centre Region, Douala in the Littoral, and to culminate in Bamenda, the North West Region, on April 4, 2015.

"The President and CEO of TFF has promised that all proceeds from the concerts will be managed by the Foundation with all transparency to provide material assistance to affected communities and internally displaced people in the Far North Region, where innocent Cameroonians are suffering from the terrorism and hooliganism of Boko Haram,” Mokun explained.

He said the idea to partner with Idy Oulo came as a result of a humanitarian and fact finding trip undertaken to the northern regions of Cameroon by Christopher Fomunyoh.

The trip, Mokun said, lasted from March 1st through the 6th. The Press Officer said the team went through Maroua, Garoua, Mayo Oulo, Ngoundere, and other localities. At every stop, he went on, Fomunyoh and his delegation carried out humanitarian ventures very much appreciated by the beneficiaries.

Mokun listed the objectives of the trip to the Northern Regions to include showing TFF support to the nation’s troops fighting Boko Haram; solidarity with the affected population; communicate a message of hope, hard work and aspirations for a brighter future among youths; and contribute to the sensitization of national and international opinion to the inherent risk of Boko Haram in the immediate, medium and long term.

Mokun said at every stop, TFF delegation met with government officials, held working sessions with experts on regional security issues; and met with youth leaders of the different divisions of the Far North Region.

On the humanitarian phase of the trip, he said TFF made book donations to several colleges and technical schools in Maroua, Mayo Oulo, and some institutions housing Boko Haram victims, notably the Institution Camerounaise de l’Enface, an orphanage which hosts some 80 children rescued by the Cameroon Army, from a Boko Haram indoctrination camp in a locality called Amchide.

A major revelation from the trip, Mokun explained, was the fact that about 134 schools have been shut down various localities in the Far North due to insecurity from Boko Haram activities in the area.