Bamenda joined the rest of the world in celebrating 100th
birthday of the iconic South Africa’s Former President Nelson Mandela. Bamenda
based NGO, Hope For the Needy Association, HOFNA organized a series of youth
activities to commemorate the Man Nelson Mandela.
The CEO of HOFNA, Christelle Bay Chongwain, herself the 2014
Mandela Washington Fellow, led over 80 adolescents in a football encounter.
During this encounter, Christelle and other Mandela Washington Fellows thus
Yembe Nfor, Mirabel Nfihkela
Ngong did engage the Youths in talks around team building, self-esteem,
tolerance, Respect for Rules, honesty, humility and servant leadership, drawing
some insights from the football encounter and the life of Nelson Mandela. The
youths were also opportune with health talks from partners who shared knowledge
on HIV/STDS prevention and free HIV screening.
This annual event in commemoration of the icon Nelson Mandela
whose core values for peaceful coexistence serves as an inspiration for future
leaders. Christelle, 33, has taken up the challenge to always expose youths to
such opportunities of being inspired. Coincidentally the Mandela day is her
birth day which makes her feel so attached to the core values of the man who
stood for peace in forgiveness despite huge pressure from his comrades for him
strike even with all those who stood against black leadership in South Africa. Many
are still baffled by his most cherished quotation that true justice can only be
attained when one forgives and that after 27 years incarceration he thought to
himself that if he does not forgive all those who persecuted him, he would
still be imprisoned though walking as a free man. Nelson Mandela, the one
mandate head of State, draws a lot of admiration from people with little grains
of democracy and the mention of his name around long stay leaders is like night
mare.
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