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WORST CITY - Douala, Cameroon |
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Douala, Cameroon
Population:
1,200,000
Worst Feature:
Poverty, Disease Oppression
Best Feature:
It does have a tropical climate, and many very interesting tropical
diseases.
Like many of its neighbors that appear on this list Cameroon is another
“Tropical Paradise” you may want to consider living in - if along with
tropical breezes you enjoy tropical diseases like malaria, dengue fever, and
sleeping sickness.
Healthcare in Douala is generally low, read that
basically non-existent.
So called “Traditional Healers” i.e.: Witch Doctors
remain more prevalent and popular than modern medicine. Douala is Africa’s
most expensive city in terms of cost of living… or dying.
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These children are from the
village of New Hope, a settlement of survivors of Hansen's Disease (leprosy)
in Cameroon. KWIHEED serves two groups of women from this village. They
raise pineapples and cassava for market sales. |
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Sponsor a child in Cameroon with SOS
Children
Cameroon is in west central Africa,
on the shores of the Gulf of Guinea. The modern state was created in 1961
following the unification of two former colonies, one British and one
French, beginning its independence with a bloody insurrection which was
suppressed only with the help of French forces. Poverty is widespread, with
over 50 per cent of the population living below the poverty line,
particularly women and children. An estimated 56 per cent of the population
is under 20 years old and infant and under-five mortality rates are on the
increase. Debt servicing is a significant drain on government resources
which, together with growing defence expenditure and widespread corruption,
impacts considerably on the provision of basic services such as education
and health.
In January 1990 an agreement was signed between the charity and the
government of Cameroon to construct an SOS Children's community near the
capital, Yaoundé, in the small town of Mbalmayo. Construction started in
1998 and the village finally opened in1997. During this time, SOS Children's
Villages established a kindergarten and a primary school on the site in
response to the high rate of illiteracy in the area.
SOS Children Mbalmayo is 45 km from Yaoundé in a small village called
Ngallan. The charity has built ten family houses and is home to 100
children. The nursery school has room for 150 children and over 400 pupils,
mostly from the local community, attend the twelve-classroom primary school.
There are two sports grounds and a number of training workshops.
SOS Children
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