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Princess Rabiatou Njoya of Cameroon will be the featured speaker at the Women Help Each Other Conference, presented by World Coming Together to Make a Difference, Incorporated (WOCOTOMADI), a local nonprofit organization working to unite community in service to the needy both locally and in the home country of Cameroon. WOCOTOMADI provides medical equipment to people in need in Cameroon.
Patriarchs Samuel Pani and Pierre Ngankeu of Cameroon will also speak at the Conference, to be held on June 27 at Fort Taber Community Center, 1000 A S. Rodney Boulevard, New Bedford, MA, the first building on the right at 2 PM.
In addition to initiating a conversation about how women help each other in difficult times, an important goal of the event is to connect Cameroon to New Bedford through exchanging services as collect medical equipment that can be given to the people in Cameroon. With donation of an item, such as a walker, blood pressure monitor, wheel chair, glucometer, books or the like, WOCOTOMADI will ship all equipment received to its representative in Cameroon for distribution to clinics and churches there.
“High blood pressure is a major health problem there, and that’s why we have chosen blood pressure monitors as the focus of our work. But all kinds of medical equipment are needed in clinics in Cameroon”, the West Region Hospital in Cameroon, she added.
Everyone interconnecting is encouraged to wear the traditional dress of their home country.
For more information, contact: Julienne Siwe Ngongang at (617) 953-4431 or by email: contact@wocotomadi.org
