Global Welfare Organization (GLOWA)

About us

The Global Welfare Association (GLOWA) is a not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization that fights against human trafficking and the damage it creates in communities throughout the Northwest Region of Cameroon. We do this by raising awareness in prone communities, supporting victims, and acting as advocates on their behalf. Through these works, GLOWA aims to nurture a culture of respect for human rights in the region, particularly those of children and women, and fight against the systematic abuses faced by the most vulnerable.

The goal of GLOWA is to significantly reduce the rate at which children are abused through trafficking and exploitation in the North West Region of Cameroon.

Vision
GLOWA believes that every child has the right to grow in an environment where he or she feels free and valued, and is given the opportunity to maximize his or her potential without succumbing to domestic and sexual servitude. We aspire to build child-friendly and abuse-sensitive communities where children are empowered as claim holders and promoters of their basic human rights. We are committed to upholding these rights as a way of preparing future generations of Cameroonians to become productive citizens of society.

Mission
GLOWA combats human trafficking and the damage it creates in communities throughout the Northwest Region of Cameroon through raising awareness, rehabilitation, and advocacy. Our work aims to nurture a culture of respect for human rights, particularly those of children and women, and fight against the systematic abuses faced by the most vulnerable.

What we do
• Trafficking Awareness: Human Trafficking awareness program seeks to improve on the situation of limited information amongst the population on human trafficking and its effects. The program uses all available tools and outlets to inform its target public on human (child) trafficking.
• Counter Trafficking Research Center: GLOWA operates a Counter Trafficking Resource Center that is responsible for conducting research on frequently used trafficking recruitment scams and behaviour patterns of traffickiers and other abusers. The resource center is the think tank of our community engagenment programs and strategies.
• Support for Victims: Our support program to victims of trafficking and other forms of abuses include short term and long term recovery activities. Through this program, GLOWA provides rehabilitation services to current and potential victims through a vocational training in marketable skills, Survivor Academic Rescue Fund; Basic Healthcare; Counseling; Paralegal Support.
• FollowCare Program: GLOWA runs a Followcare Program. This programs works with empowered survivor to provide them mentoring services so they start and grow their business ideas and live a sustainable live. Working one-on-one with survivors and other abused women business ideas are generated. GLOWA mobilizes the resources to finance the idea on an interest free revolving loan basis and then mentors the entrepreneur to grow the business. When the start-up capital loan is fully repaid, it if passed to another beneficiary.
• Advocacy: GLOWA as a grassroot organization has discovered that cultural practices are largely responsbile for teh easy release of children to trafficking and multiple forms of gender based violence. We engage with local and traditional authorities to adviocate for the modification and/or abrogation of paractices that perpetrate vulnerabiltity.
• GLOWA Haus: GLOWA Haus is an initiative to provide the city of Bamenda the very much-needed safe and confidential tempoary shelter to victims of abuse in Bamenda. The design and construction of the home shall ensure emergency services of lodging, feeding, healthcare, and proper case management to at risk youths as a way of preventing trafficking and/or secondary trafficking.

Jamils Richard Achunji Angiaseh is the Executive Director of the Global Welfare Association (GLOWA).

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