Washington, June 14 -- When money and resources are withheld from women, they lose so much more than vital means of survival-they lose their sense of adequacy and autonomy. But in Blangoua, a town in Cameroon's Far North Region, a program funded by the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) is helping a community of women regain what they have lost.
In Cameroon, humanitarian needs are climbing: a recent upsurge in violence has left one in six people in acute need of assistance. Home to 350,000 refugees from neighboring Nigeria and the Central African Republic (CAR) in addition to nearly 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), Cameroon is one of the fastest-growing, yet often overlooked, displacement crises in...