Aminatou Gambo
Aminatou Gambo’s eyes are smiling when we meet. She is an imposing woman: tall and joyful, she always greets us with Merci or Bonjour, the few words she knows in French. Even though she doesn’t remember when she exactly came to Cameroon, she tells us that she was part of the first refugee groups that settled in Boulembé in 2005. In the Central African Republic she made a living by subsistence trade: she was selling milk, corn flour and peanuts. Aminatou Gambo widowed shortly before the situation in the country deteriorated, so on her own she had to find a way of protecting her 9 children when bandits and rebel groups arrived in her village to steal cattle and kill locals. Every night, Aminatou Gambo brought her children to the countryside to sleep, as to avoid staying in her house and being an easy target. Finally, she decided to sell the few cattle she still had and pay a car to take her family to the Cameroon border. Through Sport Network funding, she is working the field and sells the clothing she makes, thanks to the machine donated in the frame of this project. With the benefits she earns through her trade, she is dreaming of buying a goat and a good bed.
Written by África Coloma, Sport Network's volunteer in Cameroon
Aminatou Gambo’s eyes are smiling when we meet. She is an imposing woman: tall and joyful, she always greets us with Merci or Bonjour, the few words she knows in French. Even though she doesn’t remember when she exactly came to Cameroon, she tells us that she was part of the first refugee groups that settled in Boulembé in 2005. In the Central African Republic she made a living by subsistence trade: she was selling milk, corn flour and peanuts. Aminatou Gambo widowed shortly before the situation in the country deteriorated, so on her own she had to find a way of protecting her 9 children when bandits and rebel groups arrived in her village to steal cattle and kill locals. Every night, Aminatou Gambo brought her children to the countryside to sleep, as to avoid staying in her house and being an easy target. Finally, she decided to sell the few cattle she still had and pay a car to take her family to the Cameroon border. Through Sport Network funding, she is working the field and sells the clothing she makes, thanks to the machine donated in the frame of this project. With the benefits she earns through her trade, she is dreaming of buying a goat and a good bed.
Read the introduction and the first short story about our beneficiaries in Cameroon.
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