I come from a family of five and my family’s financial background is very poor because of uneducated people, as we work from hand to mouth, coupled with the fact that my mother is late and my father is a poor farmer. I am the first child in our family and the first to attain secondary education in the history of my family. I have big dreams of becoming an architectural engineer in the faculty of civil engineering. When the crisis in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon started, I sadly dropped out of school. This was because of my dad’s financial situation and the crisis. The on-going crisis has crippled the economy of my country. I was left with no option but to engage in odd jobs like hawking, washing points, and fishing off shore. With no choice, I had to do all those hard works to get money to take care of myself and my academic career

I am 15 years old. I am the sixth of 15 in our family. I am a student of form three Grammar at Standard Academic Comprehensive High school Ndop. The ongoing socioeconomic crisis in the North West and South West Region has affected my family so much that our house was burnt to ashes and my father was kidnapped for ransom. Notwithstanding, I trek about 19.6km to attend school as a result of my parent being unable to pay my tuition and afford my academic need. As a result of this, I do odd jobs after school to raise money for my tuition and other didactic material since my mum can’t afford for us due to her health challenges. With all these happenings my family has been living from hand to mouth leaving me with no choice, to engage into into local sand minding every day after school. When the crisis escalated , we had sought refuge in ndop my big dream is to become an accountant .

I am from Balikumbat, a village in Ngoketunjia division. I come from a family of four. We live with our mother and she’s a single mother and is the only one providing our needs. She is a farmer and a business woman. At times, she buys food stuffs and sell by the road side while we assist her in selling during holidays and we also sell after school in order to raise money to pay our fees. We left Balikumbat to Ndop because our house was burnt down due to the crisis. This made us to relocate to Ndop. I am the second child of my mother. I have an elder brother who dropped out from school because my mum is unable to sponsor us.He stayed back home trying to help my mum with farm work in order to sponsor us. Most of the time, my mum is unable to afford a two square meal for us since the load is too heavy for her to carry all by herself. We live in a two room house on a single bed due to financial crisis. My dream has always been to become a forester.

My aspiration is to become a chartered accountant. I am the youngest in a family of five, and my father passed away when I was two years old, leaving my mother to care for me. She is my role model. I have sickle cell anemia, which has caused me to be ridiculed and mocked in society for my health condition. I remember a time when my cousin refused to buy medication for me, stating that people like me should die to stop burdening the family. I cried that night and questioned God. My family has struggled financially, and my older siblings had to drop out of school to work odd jobs to support our family.

I come from a family of nine and my family financial background isn’t the best as we work from hand to mouth coupled with the fact that my parents are old. I am the fifth child in our family and the second to attain a Secondary education in the history of my family with a dream of becoming an Agricultural Engineer. After the crisis in the North West and South west of Cameroon started, I was forced to drop out of school. This was as a result of my parents being unable to sponsor me in school coupled with the on-going crisis that has crippled the economy of my country and that of my community. I was left with no option than to stop schooling in Form Four and engaged into odd jobs such as: working on people farms, filling of potholes, serving as house help in people’s homes etc.

I am refugee from Babanki seeking refuge in Ndop. The beginning of this crisis has brought fought a lot of damages in my academic career, family life and our family economy. At the beginning of crisis, I was in form five. Dropping out of school was what I never thought of because I had so many dreams and my passion for a better life but it is not possible. I had to stay out of school for so long running from one village to another. Coming from a family of five and the eldest. I had to engage in odd jobs in order to get what to eat. Unfortunately for me and my siblings, my mum got very ill up to the point where she could no longer walk and my dad got kill by a stray bullet.

I am the first child in a family of five. My dad is of late and I am living with my mom and siblings. I come from a family whose financial background is weak and since the death of my dad; my mother and I have been the ones providing for the family, and supporting my education and that of my siblings. I doodd jobs to assist my mother in providing our school needs. Since the crisis started, I missed four academic years while working on the farm and construction sites to the detriment of my education in order to assist my mother in providing my school needs.working at construction sites, mechanic garages, in order to raise revenue for myself. With all my efforts it is not enough to provide all my basic school needs and fees. Your support will go a long way to help me to further my education and also to make my dream of becoming a weldering engineering come true. Thank you enormously for your consideration and I look forward to hearing from you.

The crisis led to the unexpected change of region by me and my family. We had to move over to the west region of Cameroon and resettle there. I for one found it difficult to cope with the environment and people there. I also had some issues with school work before I could cope and and fit in. The system of education was quite different from the one I had in my previous region. But by the grace of God things are getting better and I am managing to fit in. About food, we also found it difficult because relatives had to send food far from bamenda which made it even more difficult for me. I also had a problem getting my school needs and other necessities. Hopes to be an Engineer.

Due to the crises in the south west which let to the killing of many people and the shutting down of schools, my parents where forced to to send me to Douala for the sake of my life and for educational purposes to live with my uncle which has not also been easy at all because they have no job to sustain the living standard and also paying my fees and other school materials. Hopes to be a Navigator officer ( ship captain)

The Anglophone crisis has greatly disrupted my education. I come from the village of Wum in Menchum Division, Northwest Region. A few years ago, our lives changed forever when unknown gunmen attacked our community and unfortunately for us our home was burnt down in the attack . During the chaos, my beloved father was shot dead in the process . My poor mother as a widow was left alone to care for my elder brother, sister and I. Life in the village became extremely difficult and dangerous amid the conflict. After much struggle, Mom managed to rent a small home for us in Bafoussam town in the West Region. There I was able to continue my secondary education at Institude Polyvalent Bilingue Moyopo from Form 1 to Form 3.

I am the first child to my mother, but i was brought up by my Aunt, who raised and sponsored me from my childhood till when the Anglophone Crises begun in 2016. I was in Form Two back then. But due to the fact that schools were stopped, i had to stay in the house for Three years without schooling. For those three years, i was involved with activities like Agriculture and hunting. After the three years, i was called by my mother who was a pharmacist in the Southwest region with my juniors three in number alongside two of my cousins, giving a total of Six children. She was at Bafoussam due to the crises so i had to come and continue schooling. I grew up even till now without having an idea of who my father is. I was sent back to form two due to certain issues. We all continued schooling, and we’re all sponsored by my mother. She was a Retailer and in this time, she had some health problems.

I am writing to apply for the Open Dreams call for ‘Hope for Cameroon’ (HfC) Scholarship. I am an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) and I am facing financial difficulties. I am currently a form five student at Saker Baptist Comprehensive College Santa, and I am committed to pursuing a career in Medicine. I was displaced from my home town Douala when I was 10 years old due to high cost of living at the time and being an orphan also, it was not easy on my mother to take care of my 3 siblings and I. My elder brother and I left Douala for Bamenda and lived in the village “Awing” in the MEZAM division for two years. During that time, I had very limited access to education. However, I was determined to learn, and I made the most of the opportunities that were available to me. When I was 12 years old, I was able to resettle in the town of Bamenda though it was for a short while before moving to Kribi.

I am from Nso the crisis and lockdown caused so many schools to shutdown till date the few that open my parents are afraid to let us go because of frequent attacks, the crisis let to displacement of the entire family I am the 3rd born of 4, my Dad relocated to Yaoundé our mom stayed back. My oldest sister was taken by other family good friends living in a stable region, we stayed back with mom for 2years, the dad was able to take us in Yaoundé I started form one to form 4 but it was one of the challenging moments of our lives very difficult to feel among, and language difficulty due to financial problems we had to come to Bambili and just live with our oldest sister who managed to get a room for her self and her child she is to graduate, we left Yaoundé because of the flood that happened at Tam Tam where we lived destroyed almost everything chairs mattress food stuffs books and text books cloths shoes house utensils almost everything.