VERDZEKOV DIVINE LUNGLA
Born on the 12th of August 1980 in to the family of Mr./Mrs. Jaff Lucas Verdzekov, I went to Presbyterian Primary School Nseh in Nso in Bui Division of the North West Region of Cameroon. After seven years of primary education, I was admitted at the Government Secondary School Tatum in 1994. Two years later, we were blessed with Mrs. Pavla Zakova – a US Peace Corps Volunteer who came in as a biology teacher. Together with other teachers in what can only be described as a supportive caring and dedicated staff environment, I was schooled through the interactive teaching approach made possible in small classrooms until 1999 when I graduated after writing the G.C.E Ordinary Level certificate exams.
Dark clouds started looming around my educational part, as my parents were not ready to single handedly financed my higher education. As subsistence farmers and with six of us to carter for, it became clear that that my educational career was going to end prematurely. However, Madame Pavla will always stand out for me because of her accommodating approach to education “assisting good, needy and intelligent students”
With the creation of Educare-Africa to help ameliorate the conditions of teachers and students in Cameroon, I was fortunate to be selected amongst her beneficiaries. Even though the assistance I got from Educare-Africa did not cover all my expenses, it is thanks to it that I completed from Government High School Kumbo with an Advanced Level Certificate in History and Geography. Through re-application and subsequent assistance from Educare-Africa, I later went to the University of Buea Cameroon where I did Women and Gender Studies together with Sociology and Anthropology for four years and came out with a double degree with an average of 2.97/4 in the above disciplines in 2007.
After graduation from the university, I volunteer for Community Education and Development Services (CEDS) Bamenda – a woman focused N.G.O. There I served as a program coordinator in charge of Advocacy, Networking and Lobbying till November 2008. At the moment, I am currently working as a Social Welfare Officer with the Diocesan Family Life Office for the Diocese of Kumbo specifically providing assistance to single parents and people living with HIV/AIDS on several incomes generating activities and other survival strategies.
It is still my wish to further my education through the Masters and PHD Levels to be able to better serve my nation. My field experience working with women and in particular the less privileged in mostly remote areas of the North West Region of Cameroon are now the contributing factors behind my desire for further knowledge within the disciplines of Women and Gender / Sociology and Anthropology. These are the desires of many good, needy and intelligent students in Africa and Cameroon in particular.
Born on the 12th of August 1980 in to the family of Mr./Mrs. Jaff Lucas Verdzekov, I went to Presbyterian Primary School Nseh in Nso in Bui Division of the North West Region of Cameroon. After seven years of primary education, I was admitted at the Government Secondary School Tatum in 1994. Two years later, we were blessed with Mrs. Pavla Zakova – a US Peace Corps Volunteer who came in as a biology teacher. Together with other teachers in what can only be described as a supportive caring and dedicated staff environment, I was schooled through the interactive teaching approach made possible in small classrooms until 1999 when I graduated after writing the G.C.E Ordinary Level certificate exams.
Dark clouds started looming around my educational part, as my parents were not ready to single handedly financed my higher education. As subsistence farmers and with six of us to carter for, it became clear that that my educational career was going to end prematurely. However, Madame Pavla will always stand out for me because of her accommodating approach to education “assisting good, needy and intelligent students”
With the creation of Educare-Africa to help ameliorate the conditions of teachers and students in Cameroon, I was fortunate to be selected amongst her beneficiaries. Even though the assistance I got from Educare-Africa did not cover all my expenses, it is thanks to it that I completed from Government High School Kumbo with an Advanced Level Certificate in History and Geography. Through re-application and subsequent assistance from Educare-Africa, I later went to the University of Buea Cameroon where I did Women and Gender Studies together with Sociology and Anthropology for four years and came out with a double degree with an average of 2.97/4 in the above disciplines in 2007.
After graduation from the university, I volunteer for Community Education and Development Services (CEDS) Bamenda – a woman focused N.G.O. There I served as a program coordinator in charge of Advocacy, Networking and Lobbying till November 2008. At the moment, I am currently working as a Social Welfare Officer with the Diocesan Family Life Office for the Diocese of Kumbo specifically providing assistance to single parents and people living with HIV/AIDS on several incomes generating activities and other survival strategies.
It is still my wish to further my education through the Masters and PHD Levels to be able to better serve my nation. My field experience working with women and in particular the less privileged in mostly remote areas of the North West Region of Cameroon are now the contributing factors behind my desire for further knowledge within the disciplines of Women and Gender / Sociology and Anthropology. These are the desires of many good, needy and intelligent students in Africa and Cameroon in particular.
