A delegation made up of Madam Amboh Annabelle, Mr. Fombang Dieudonne, Pastor Toh Godlove and Fongoh p. Ayeh in the evening of Thursday February 3rd 2022 paid a visit to Lois Nwerem in Njembeng quarter, Ku fondom, Mbengwi on behalf Mbengwi Online, a WhatsApp group encompassing sons and daughters of Mbengwi and non natives alike drawn from around the globe and all walks of life to console the victim and family for the unfortunate event they faced.
Ndapnwi Lois Nwerem was born on the 9th of September 2021 and on the 9th of January 2022, she got involved in a bike accident that resulted to her losing her right leg. As explained by her father Mr. Benjamin Ngangoe Nwerem, Lois' mum, a medical personnel working at the Mbengwi district hospital was returning home from work that Sunday morning on a bike she boarded, holding her baby wrapped in a loin cloth on her leg and along the way, it is alleged a loose end of the loin got trapped in the chain of the bike and before the ridder could halt, the baby's right leg had been cut off into two.
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| Ndapnwi Lois Nwerem |
When the news was broken, many persons became touched by the situation and consequently, members of Mbengwi Online (WhatsApp group) decided to launch a solidarity contribution to assist the baby. The exercise lasted just for a week within which the sum of four hundred thousand (400.000) Frs was raised. Upon return from a health facility in Bamenda where Lois had been receiving treatment all this while, the four man delegation immediately decided to pay them a visit to hand over the money expected to help them foot part of the hospital bills they've incurred.
In consoling the family, one of the visiting delegation members, Pastor Toh Godlove of Full Gospel Mission, Mbengwi District told them not to question God but accept the situation which to him is not the worst. He reminded them that some weeks back before Lois' accident, a child was also hit by a speeding bike as she tried to cross the road, still in Njembeng. She ended up dying in hospital. As such, if Lois survived her own accident, losing just a leg, then God's name still has to be praised.
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| Handing Over |
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| Handing Over the Financial Support |
After having handed the financial assistance directly into the baby's hands who grabbed the envelope firmly with a cute smile and giggled, her dad, Mr. Benjamin Ngangoe Nwerem said "We don't really know how to better put it for you to understand the joy you've put in our hearts. If there was any better way other than saying thank you very much, we won't have hesitated to use it. We are trusting God that with the support we've already seen coming now at the beginning, He will raise up men, women and people whom when the need arises, they'll stand up to support us to see that we give the best to our baby."
He went on to admit that he knows it won't be easy despite the evolution in science because for the baby to walk again normally will entail a lot of financial sacrifices. Considering that at their level as parents and family of baby Lois they might not be able, he pleaded that any individual or groups that can help them in anyway or connect them to some organisations that can provide a solution to such a problem shouldn't hesitate to do so.
Baby Lois' parents hail from Nwa subdivision in Donga Mantung division. They've been living in Mbengwi for about 7 years now and as Benjamin confirmed, "We've continued to see the love that the Mbengwi people are showing us. We want to say 'Thank You' for this support will go a very long way to relieve us from the pains that we are going through." It is speculated that if the baby will have to walk, then she will need an artificial leg and considering her tenderness, the leg will have to be changed from time to time as she grows up and just one of such artificial legs costs huge sums of money.
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| Delegation, Lois and her Parents |
As explained by Fongoh p. Ayeh, the brain behind Mbengwi Online, the WhatsApp group was created on September 12 2015 with the goal of feeding its members with news happenings in and out of Mbengwi. It started with few members and progressively grew till now that it's full already. The group is made up of traditional, religious and administrative authorities, business persons, drivers, bike riders, farmers, teachers, elites in and out of Mbengwi, people in the diaspora and non natives alike. Simply put, people from all walks of life. Away from news, the group once in a while carries out humanitarian actions when some stories touch the heart.
Sometimes in early 2018, a lady from Mbengeghang gave birth to a set of premature triplets at the Mbengwi District Hospital. They were later transfered to the Bamenda Regional Hospital and incubated. Mbengwi Online members mobilised funds, over a hundred thousand and reached out to the triplets. In 2019, to mark the first anniversary of their departure from planet earth, the sum of 110.000F was raised and handed to the orphaned children of late Azah Nancy and Njong Padisco, two nurses that were a couple, killed in Nyen village on Saturday 11 August 2018 supposedly by the military. To commemorate the 5th anniversary of the WhatsApp group, on Saturday November 25th 2020, material and financial support worth 105.500F was raised by members and handed to the group's founder and two others noted for being outstanding in feeding the rest with news.
Again, on two instances, the group has offered a brand new phone to it's founder. The first was an MTN pack phone bought for 45.0000F. It got missing and the second which the administrator has been using since till now, Tecno Pouvoir 3+ was again bought for 110.000F. The members make sure the administrator doesn't lack gadgets to facilitate his work of feeding them with news. On Friday the 29th of October 2021, the founder of the group got married and members raised close to 300.000F to support his wedding. As such, the recent donation to baby Lois Nwerem is just a continuation of the good works the group has been doing and will continue to do when need arises.
It should be recalled that away from WhatsApp, Mbengwi Online is also having a Facebook page with close to 5000 followers as at now, a YouTube channel with over 400 subscribers as at now, a twitter handle and blog, www.mbengwionline.blogspot.com
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