Welcome Message
...We are dedicated to promoting peace, social justice and sustainable development in Cameroon...
Since 1999 we have been working to influence policies that impact positively on the lives of citizens while providing direct community support programs with a focus on women and children living in the rural and sub-urban communities.
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What We do
We work to balance direct community action with policies that influence those community needs. -
Our Vision & Mission
LUKMEF believes that durable peace, democracy, the respect of fundamental human rights and sustainable development is achievable in Cameroon. We have the understanding that every citizen and every generation should be capable of attaining their life expectations; hence the current generation must promote dialogue across cultures, economics, environment, religions, sexes and sexual orientations to gain peace, development and shared values.
LUKMEF NEWS
Conserving and protecting rivers that flow through cities in Cameroon targeted by LUKMEF as an important environmental priority for city councils. PASOC gives $11,000 towards the campaign in 2010
Many rivers and marshy areas in Cameroon are fast running dry. Rivers flowing through the cities are either seriously polluted or are also running dry. Most of these city rivers constitute an environmental and health hazard yet nothing is being done by the city councils to conserve, protect and manage these important resources. Some cities like Yaounde have seen most water taps run dry for weeks. Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon has seen many of its rivers gone dead over the decades. The city of Limbe as well as many other cities in Cameroon are seeing a steady drop in volume and purities of its rivers. All these can be attributed to the simple disrespect of existing national and local laws relating to the management of such resources as well as human settlement around such resources.
The current pilot project seeks to educate the population and advocate for the proper implementation of existing national laws relating to the use of natural resources or campaign for new laws where they do not exist.
Urgent Projects
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The Peace Institute
The African Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development is specialised in providing academic and applied skills in peace building, democracy and policy issues that affect sustainable development in Africa
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Citizens Investment Fund
CIF's seeks to provide technical and financial support to low income and aspiring citizens (with a focus on women) of Cameroon to faciliate the attainment of sustainable socioeconomic development that conventional funding systems cannot support.
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The Awing women's Food Cooperative
80-93% of women living in the rural areas depend on agriculture for livelihood. More than 50% of their farm products never find their way to the urban markets due to poor farm to market roads. Traders who managed to get to these rural areas pay very low prices for...
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