Before you do it, why not think of your Mother, Sister or Daughter?

Last month i identified a victim of domestic violence in the Southwest region of Cameroon.
Harriet died on Saturday May 19, 2018 at the Limbe District hospital. She died with a bald head, after her husband Henry popularly known as Sapeur had pulled off every strand of her hair.

Harriet Zohme Atanga was the sixth child in a family of  seven, from a very DECENT and MODERATE family. She was a mother of five kids. with the youngest 3 years old, and the eldest about 18 years old. From my findings, it was not the first time her husband got her beaten.

 Domestic
violence in particular continues to be frighteningly common in majority if not all homes in Cameroon.

… Two of the most common forms of violence
against women are abuse by intimate male partners and coerced sex, whether it takes place in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood. Intimate partner abuse known as domestic
violence , wife beating, and battering is now the order of the day.

… Violence against women includes rape,
domestic violence, torture, mutilation, murder, and sexual abuse. The impact on health should place the issues prominently in the public health context and should be seen as an obstacle to economic and social development.

Poor women with children who are the victims of domestic violence may rely on public assistance programs, social welfare and the judicial system as a safety net from homelessness and hunger when fleeing violent partners.

This volume on violence against women in Cameroon is directed to policymakers and focuses on primary prevention, legal reform, health care interventions, victim recovery programs and reeducation programs for perpetrators. The success of any program will be dependent on the impact and attention we attach to it.

Violence against women is a universal phenomenon that persists in all countries of the
world, and the perpetrators of that violence are often well known to their victims.

If development means the expansion of human capabilities, then freedom from domestic
violence should be an integral part of any exercise for evaluating developmental progress.

My dear brothers, if you don't love or want a lady again, kindly and quietly pack her out of your house. How do u turn a home which is suppose to be a safe haven for the family into a battle field? Do you ever imagine the trauma you put your children through?  I also call on all the victims not to keep quiet. Denounce it by reporting him when ever it happens.

Do not beat my mum
Do not beat my sister
Do not beat my daughter.
#NoToDomesticViolence
                                       
                                          Ambe Macmillian A.