Monday, July 30, 2018

HOFNA Illuminates Mandela Day With Youth Football Match In Bamenda

                     HOFNA CEO, Christelle B Chongwain Encouraging Youth Football Team Players


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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