{"id":6488,"date":"2015-04-15T06:58:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T11:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2015-04-20T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:00:22","slug":"overcoming-obstacles-to-empowerment-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2015\/04\/overcoming-obstacles-to-empowerment-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Obstacles to Empowerment in Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6489\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Bellow_women-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Bellow_women\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Bellow_women-300x231.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Bellow_women-1024x791.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Bellow_women.jpg 1483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Hope for All community organization in Belo, Cameroon, has been empowering women in small groups through chicken-raising in a CWR-funded project called Pass on the Gift. Two of the newly hatched chicks must be passed on to other women as they start new small groups.<\/p>\n<p>The Hope for All leaders decided to expand the program to include goats and sheep. However, they soon discovered that in one area of Belo it is considered a cultural taboo for women to raise goats and sheep. Pastor Daniel, the leader of Hope for All, met with the husbands of two women who had expressed a desire to raise sheep and goats. Those husbands eventually gave their permission and with a small beginning the taboo is now gradually being overcome.<\/p>\n<p>At present there is a cluster of women who are raising goats and sheep and will be passing on the firstborn to other women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=6488&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hope for All community organization in Belo, Cameroon, has been empowering women in small groups through chicken-raising in a CWR-funded project called Pass on the Gift. Two of the newly hatched chicks must be passed on to other women as they start new small groups. 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