Adah Mbah Muyang Dedicates Peace Woman Of The Year Award To Husband

 


Compiled By Ndassi Gilbert


The winner of the 2021 Peace Woman Award, Adah Mbah Muyang has dedicated the award to her husband for standing by her throughout her career as humanitarian and activist.

The Award winner is a dedicated humanitarian; a passionate activist, an educationist, a women and girls championing leader, a human rights advocate and community developer. She is founder and the executive director of Mother of Hope Cameroon (MOHCAM).

She also the co-founder of the Women Peacebuilder’s Network(WOPEN)and a graduate from the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC) where she studied Humanitarian Action, Peace and Conflict studies. She is an educationist with over twenty years of experience.

She is part of the peacebuilding advocacy carried out by women networks in Cameroon.

As a women’s leader and a frontline advocate for peace, Adah led the first women action for peace in the North West Region through a sit down lamentation.

She has also been strengthening women and youth voices in rural communities affected by conflict in effective participation as mediators and peace actors with the collaboration of the municipal councils.

Her engagements and campaigns for peace has put her life and family at high risk of being kidnapped or killed because she has been receiving threatening phone calls and messages from unidentified callers to stop her peaceful campaigns because they say, there cannot be peace without justice in Cameroon.

But despite the challenges she has been determined to change the narrative and fight against violence extremism and gender based violence in the conflict communities in the North West Region of Cameroon.

She is an expert in advocating for peace building in schools and communities. She is carrying out community trainings in engaging women in community mediation.

Adah is a Global Change Leader 2018 for the Coady International Institute in Canada where she studied women and peacebuilding.

She is a 2014 MASHAV Alumni-Israel, where she studied a course on Violence against Women and Children; she is also an Equitas-Canada 2015 Alumni where she has been trained as a human rights educator.

In 2016 she was recognized by the British High Commission as a beneficiary of the Cameroon Women Scholarship regarding women as agents of change.

She also received an award from Plan Cameroon in 2017 for the Best girl Initiative.

She is member of the steering committee for the women situation room for peace and security in Cameroon. 

Adah is a multi-disciplinary, multicultural and open minded. Besides, her international travel experiences, she is equipped with skills, which are reflected in her tolerance and compassion towards others.

The choice of the Organizers of the 2021 version of the PCC Peace Award, many who followed her profile say, was the best option.

 

 

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