Sport for IDP's

Football and Handball: ACUDAB Sustainable Sport Initiative

ACUDAB Sustainable Sport Initiative, a Resilience Livelihood for over 7000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), in Cameroon "Promote social inclusion / cohesion" amongst Internally Displaced person's (IDs), and host communities that contributes to peacebuilding, the empowerment of women and youth through sport and supports the achievement of multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those related to health, education, gender equality and reduced inequalities in Cameroon.

The ACUDAB Sport program for IDP's unified the host communities' combines players with IDP's (called IDP's athletes) and non IDP's (called partners) of similar skill levels in the same sports teams for training and competition. Alongside the development of sporting skills, the programmed offers IDP's a platform to socialize with peers and to take part in the life of their new community. Unified football and Handball and Golf teams within the regions of Cameroon participated. Individual and group interviews were held with athletes, partners, coaches, parents and community leaders.

Anglophone Cultural and Development Association Veteran Football Club –Baham

About Jean II Makoun, ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador:

In March 2023, Jean II Makoun, became the first footballer and first Cameroonian to be appointed as a Global Goodwill Ambassador for ACUDAB. Jean II Makoun, is a Former Cameroon National Football Team Player. Accepting his role as ACUDAB Goodwill Ambassador, Jean II Makoun said: "I am proud to join ACUDAB, as a Goodwill Ambassador. My own experiences make me want to speak up for Internally Displaced Person's (IDP's), to share their stories and to help make a difference."

Jean II Makoun received IDP Goodwill Ambassador Award from the Head of State Representative, the Sub-Divisional Officer for Baham.

Born in Cameroon and looking at the English Speaking Region Cameroonians who fled the civil war, Jean II Makoun knows first-hand what it means to be an IDP. Now Jean II Makoun is keen to support the work of ACUDAB and harness the power of sport to help those forced to flee to build a better future (Social Cohesion):IDP's need our support to survive, but also access to health, education, gender and sports, so they can fulfil their potential and truly thrive." Jean II Makoun started supporting IDP's in 2023, including through a livestream tournament for IDP's. In August 2024, Jean II Makoun helped launch a peace campaign, called ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together", to promote access to quality education, health, gender equality for IDP's in the Upper plateau Division of Cameroon and received a rural Coronation from His Majesty of Batie . In March 2024, ACUDAB launched a video together with football community 44, in which Jean II Makoun connects.

Jean II Makoun (ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador) , Tchouank Chief of Batie, Norbert Kum (Culture and Development Coordinator) and HRH Ngwa wilson Forbi (ACUDAB Coordinator).

Goodwill Ambassador Jean II Makoun for ACUDAB, is calling for urgent support for millions of displaced people in Cameroon following a visit to Batie in the West Region, one of the largest IDP host community in Cameroon last month. During his visit, Jean II Makoun met with displaced individuals and families experiencing life-threatening hardship, caused by the toxic mix of ongoing conflict, increased living costs, dwindling support from the international community, and the effects of climate change.

Jean II Makoun met with displaced individuals and families in Batie.

When visiting Baham, Jean II Makoun met Ngum who explained that she is confronted daily with unbearable decisions, such as whether to priorities food or medicine, whilst also being unable to send all of her children to school. Ngum's story is just one amongst millions in what is currently Africa's largest displacement crisis. "I'm extremely concerned," Jean II Makoun said. "Away from the headlines, millions of displaced people in Cameroon are struggling to survive. First, they were forced to flee unimaginable violence, and now, due to severe underfunding and shrinking life-saving assistance, they are forced to make impossible choices that no one should have to make. As the situation worsens women and girls are also at greater risk of violence. We cannot allow this to continue." As Jean II Makoun departed from West Region of Cameroon was repositioning resources in Baham, Batie, Bangou ,Bamenjou and Foumbot to aid thousands displaced by fresh clashes between armed groups and Cameroon forces, including from a site that until this month had hosted more than 2,000 people already forced to flee violence.

Jean II Makoun visited programmes by ACUDAB and partners, which focus on providing farming equipment's and essential items such as mats, blankets, jerry cans, and sanitary products for women. He also met internally displaced women and girls who were survivors of sexual violence to learn how medical and psycho-social support and livelihoods training were enabling them to rebuild their lives. Whilst witnessing the positive impact that can be made where limited funding is available, He also saw the desperate scale of the needs which cannot be met with current funding levels. In his role as ACUDAB Goodwill Ambassador, Jean II Makoun is calling on governments, international cooperation, the private sector and individuals to provide urgent funding to ACUDAB to meet the most pressing needs for the construction of schools, health clinics, and vocational training centers, income generating activities , sport complex and provide them with micro loans of those displaced. Without such support, the situation will continue to deteriorate. He added: "In the host communities, as in many forgotten emergencies in Cameroon, displaced families don't have enough shelter, food or clean water to survive. In the same way that the world has shown solidarity and compassion to those displaced by other crises, including the war in Ukraine, we must now unite to support those in Cameroon and other underfunded emergencies."

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together"

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together",Batie And Bangou Football Match.

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together", IDPs Female Handball of Baham and Batie.

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together", IDPs Bamenjou Football Team.

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together", IDP Female Handball Team

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together", IDP Female Handball Teams in Action.

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together" Ernest Ngwa Best IDP Football Award medal and Trophy Player handed by Member of Parliament Hon Nji Fedlis.

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together" Best IDP Handball Medals Award Winners handed by Hon Member of parliament.

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together" Sirri Judith Best IDP Handball Goal Keep Award Medal and Trophy .Hon Kesto, Member of Parliament

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together" Best IDP Football Medals and Trophy Award Team Winner. Hand by Hon. Datouo Theodore, Deputy Speaker, Cameroon National Assembly.

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together" Second Best IDP Handball Award Medal Team Winners.Handed by Dieudonne Kamdem, the Lord Mayor of Baham

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together" Jume Fotso Best IDP Men Medal Handball Award Player handed Member of Parliament for Bamendjou.

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together" Best IDP Men Handball Award Medals Team Winners Handed by the Lord Mayor of Bamendjou .

ACUDAB Peace Tournament "Living Together" Four Best IDP Men Handball Award Medals Team Winners Handed by Member of Paliament.

Jean II Makoun, ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador Peace Tournament Tour "Living Together"

Norbert Kum (Culture and Development Coordinator) HRH Ngwa wilson Forbi (ACUDAB Coordinator), Jean II Makoun (ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador),Tchouank Chief of Batie and the Assistant Lord Mayor of Batie .

Jean II Makoun (ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador), with the Divisional Officer for Batie (Head of State Representative)

Jean II Makoun (ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador), with the Divisional Officer for Bamendjou (Head of State Representative)

Jean II Makoun (ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador), with the Divisional Officer for Baham (Head of State Representative)

Jean II Makoun (ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador), with the Divisional Officer for Bangou (Head of State Representative)

Jean II Makoun (ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador), with the Lord Mayor of Batie .

Jean II Makoun (ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador), with the Lord Mayor of Baham .

Jean II Makoun (ACUDAB IDP's Sport Goodwill Ambassador), with the Divisional Delegate of Social Affairs for the Upper-plateau Division.

About Mme Danielle EDIMO MONEFONG, ACUDAB IDP's Golf Sport Goodwill Ambassador:

Mme Danielle EDIMO MONEFONG, GOODWILL AMBASSADOR FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSON's (IDP's), IN CAMEROON.

Cameroonian born International Golfer appointed Goodwill Ambassador for Anglophone Cultural and Development Association (ACUDAB) in 2024.She advocate for the Internally Displaced Person's (IDP's), through sharing her own inspiring Gulf Sport story and has become a powerful voice for the forcibly displaced across the national territory and an example of the resilience and determination to rebuild lives and positively contribute to host communities. Mme Danielle EDIMO MONEFONG, GOODWILL AMBASSADOR will lead her first international ACUDAB IDP's Fundraising Golf Tournament in Alberta-Canada 2026 with the aimed to contributes to peacebuilding, the empowerment of women and youth through Golf sport and supports the achievement of multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those related to health, education, gender equality and reduced inequalities in Cameroon.

ACUDAB President HRH Wilson Ngwa Forbi , Rick and the wife (Members of the Couples Golf Tournament Canada),Handed a Golf Ball to the president of ACUDAB, a take home message for the upcoming ACUDAB IDP's Fundraising Golf Tournament scheduled July - August 2026 , in Alberta –Canada .

Couples Golf Tournament preparatory meeting for the upcoming ACUDAB IDP's Fundraising Golf Tournament scheduled July - August 2026, Alberta –Canada.

ACUDAB President HRH Wilson Ngwa Forbi during a friendly match with Couples Golf Members August 2025, in Alberta –Canada.

ACUDAB President HRH Wilson Ngwa Forbi during a friendly match with Couples Golf Members in Alberta –Canada August 2025.

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