Peace Builders Cameroon Expands Tree-Planting and Peace Drive Across Southwest Region

Konye, Cameroon — Kumba-based civil society organisation Peace Builders Cameroon is advancing its Peace Initiative through a growing network of tree-planting and community outreach activities across the Southwest Region.

According to the founder and CEO of Peace Builders Cameroon, Ebot Theodor, the organisation has already carried out tree-planting exercises in Mbonge Sub-Division as well as Kumba 1, Kumba 2 and Kumba 3. The same initiative has now reached Konye Sub-Division, where the group delivered its message of peacebuilding.

The project combines environmental protection with peace education, encouraging communities to plant trees while promoting unity and peaceful coexistence.

It seeks to engage young people, community leaders and residents in protecting the environment and strengthening social cohesion.

The initiative is expected to contribute to a greener, more peaceful and resilient Southwest Region which has for 10 year experienced the amed conflict in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon.

The program is set to continue in Manyu Division, covering Upper Bayang, Akwaya, Eyumojock and Mamfe Central. After that, activities will proceed to Nguti, Tombel and Bangem in Kupe-Muanenguba Division.

Theodor described peace as a process that develops steadily, much like a tree. “Peace is a growing process as the tree is growing, so too shall peace continue to grow,” he said.

By restoring nature together, they’re also fostering unity and trust in communities that have been deeply divided by different forms of conflicts

Through these successive community engagements, Peace Builders Cameroon aims to root its message of dialogue, social cohesion and non-violence more deeply across the region.