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Hope for the Needy Association (HOFNA) with head quarters in Bamenda Cameroon has launched the Action 2015 which is a campaign to evaluate the millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to measure the extend which they have been achieved, its difficulties and place a way foreword for governments of the world to build an agenda for post 2015, give attention and a chance to adolescent youth, give especially the neglected ones to an opportunity to speak out. The launch took place at the main campus of Progressive Comprehensive High School Bamenda (P.C.H.S) recently in an open session with over 200 students of form Four Grammar. According to the programs manager of HOFNA, Munteh Florence,the association is involved in the action in line with the mission statement of HOFNA   which is to empower the most disadvantaged and susceptible youth achieve lasting positive changes in their lives, advocate for the sexual and reproductive health rights of young girls and the youth. As to the c

Hope For the Needy Association (HOFNA CAMEROON) was created in June 2007 with head quarters in Bamenda Cameroon and was officially registered as a common initiative group (CIG) in 2010 then as an Association in 2012.The Association has as mission to empower the most disadvantage and susceptible youth and women to achieve lasting positive changes in their lives. Based on this premise, the association in her effort of ensuring self sustenance and financial viability braced the challenge and embarked on an agricultural scheme in Bambui some few kilometers out of Bamenda town. The association secured a one hectare of uncultivated land for the project. After clearing, felling of trees and cultivation, the first ever water melon seeds were planted in Bamenda on the 30 of September 2014 and it took exactly 3months for the harvest to be done on the 6 th of January 2015 thanks to the sacrifice of time and energy by HOFNA staff led by Munteh Florence and the director Christelle Bay

The Bamenda City Council in partnership with the Ministry of Arts and culture   has announced the first ever cultural trade fair to take place in the city of Bamenda from the 7 th_ 21 st Of February   at the Bamenda Municipal stadium with the theme- the contribution of the youth, culture and heritage to an emerging Cameroon. The cultural trade fair to be organized in the city of Bamenda for the first time has as objective to brand Bamenda as a heritage city, celebrate the cultural specificities of the seven divisions of the North west Region, expose the socio-cultural way of life of the entire North west Region and to celebrate the birth of a new cultural heritage industry for the north west Region. The cultural trade fair will manifest its self through cultural dances of traditional patrimony, traditional dresses that tell the story of the people of Bamenda, songs of customs and traditions: incantations, dirges, birth celebrations, choral displays, culinary arts and guided tour

The Cameroon People”s   Democratic Movement, CPDM, party in a bid to identity its militants and to raise funds for party activities engaged a nationwide sale of party and contribution cards from the 14 th of November 2014, an exercise that was to last up till 30 th December 2014 prior to the reorganisation of party basic organs due for 2015. The time given for this exercise is said to have fallen short of the desired results as the expected number of militants and money raised through the sale of cards were not met either because sensitisation of militants was not intensive or simply that militants became reluctant to buy cards because the activity has not been given due consideration in recent years. Many say CPDM bigwigs have been used to dishing out money to militants, and that coming back to ask them to contribute looked more ironical, and to some this exercise was   going to scare away militants from the party. A communiqué issued by the party hierarchy on the 5 th of