Tag Archive: Disability

In the past couple weeks, I gave three additional HIV Prevention workshops to persons with disabilities.  I traveled to an area called “Bamenda I.”  While this area is still part of the city of Bamenda, it’s located far from the center of the city and is on the outskirts.  I presented to a large group of […]

I marched in the parade with several other women with disabilities in Bamenda. I would like to take an opportunity to review facts about women with disabilities in general and also about what women with disabilities face in Cameroon and also in other developing countries: Fifteen percent of all women in the world are women […]

Daniel, an Education Peace Corps Volunteer, has been serving in Cameroon since May 2015.  He teaches high school physics to large classes of 60 students each.  I took an opportunity to interview Daniel because he is another Peace Corps Volunteer who also happens to have a disability.  He is an amputee and wears a prosthetic […]

Last Sunday, I took an almost six hours round-trip to Small Babanki, a town just outside of Bamenda, to present HIV Prevention to another group of persons with disabilities. At the presentation, one woman asked, “At what age is the limit for women to have sex?” “Until when they die,” I responded. “AH!” the woman squealed. […]

On February 14, in honor of Valentine’s Day, I hosted a Men as Partners activity by asking two disability groups, Helping Each Other and Northwest Association of Women with Disabilities, to come together and participate in learning about gender inequality in the disability community.  The activity we conducted was called “Fishbowl.”   During the first […]