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During our stay, we also raised the issue of access to healthcare. A 12-year-old boy died. A disappearance that could have been avoided with proper medical care. Why not combine the two needs by offering healthcare campaigns to villages that invest in collecting recyclables? There's no fatality, just problems to be solved, one by one or two by two!
The story behind the creation of our association
Someone said we could only have one country. They're wrong. Just as we usually have two parents, we can have two countries. [...]
My mother is France. She gave me everything. From that lilting little accent that comes back with a vengeance and makes Parisians smile [...], to the opportunity to benefit from a broad education, both academic and cultural. My father is Cameroon. He, too, has given me a great deal: a wealth that can't be counted in euros or francs, but in curiosity, openness (or in the number of cousins!), and roots that have allowed me, and still allow me, to grow, wherever I may be.
by its president : Marie-Agnès
My first memory of tasting a soda was in Cameroon. During my first stay with my parents I was 5 years old. [...] Soda was so good in its glass bottle! In those days, like beer, soda was bought in returnable glass bottles carried in crates. This system lasted until around 2010, when beverage manufacturers gradually switched to plastic. [...] The notorious PET became established, and although glass still exists, it is now in the minority and reserved mainly for drinks outlets. Today, soft drinks come in plastic bottles and beer in aluminum cans. It didn't take long for the effect to be felt. [...] If you drive around Cameroon today, you'll be struck by the piles of plastic everywhere. The ecological catastrophe is underway.
During our trip in 2020, I was shocked to see a plastic dump at the entrance to my village. [...] I said to myself: "We've got to do something". A month later, covid arrived and my good intentions were drowned in the pandemic. Back in 2023, I had no more excuses. The situation hadn't improved, and I also learned that the villagers were using the bottles to start fires on their fields. [...] I tried to talk about it and I found in one of my little brothers on the spot an attentive ear and the will to do something. That's all it took. The "Là où coule la Sanaga" association was really born there, in Nkakanzock, even if its legal existence only came into being a few weeks later in the Gers, on my return to France [...].
Other family members and friends in Cameroon, and the rest of the family in France, have also responded, and with a little help, we may not be able to stop the scourge, but at least awaken a few consciences and rid the country's soil and air of a little of this pollution!
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