Community Work, the Only Way to Survive in A Crisis Zone.

Steem greetings all the way from the motherland-Cameroon to all friends on the Steemit ecosystem. We lived in a world where humans are prone to conflicts. This goes with the saying in conflict studies that “conflicts are unavoidable”. Ooh yes, conflicts can never be avoided and we should always prepare to face the realities of life.

My write up will focus on the perspective of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon. This is a crisis that existed even before I was born but we read that only in Cameroon history books. At that time, it was not yet bloody though some few persons sacrificed their lives in the course of fighting to get out of the cage. More about the Anglophone problem can be read in the book by Prof. Victor Julius Ngoh tittled The Untold Stories of Cameroon Reunification:1955-1961. Why this book, because the Anglophone problem spanned from reunification where Anglophones believed that the terms of the reunification are not properly implemented.

That said, we have been rocking the crisis for over 8 years now and counting. There is no clue to when it will end. All I know is that conflicts are easy to start but very difficult to end because there are some individuals benefiting from the crisis and would not in any way want it to end.

^{Voluntary Work by Organization to keep the town clean.}

This only puts the common man to suffer from violence from both parties actively taking part in the conflict. When the crisis become bloody, many companies where shutdown by the separatists fighters. This includes kidnapping of companies workers and some murdered. The garbage company suffered enormous losses due to this action from separatists fighters and they were forced to shutdown all their services within my region of my origin.

We have been living without garbage companies for all these years and some neighbourhoods tend to pay some individuals to carry their waste. Unfortunately, they carry and dump it wherever they want. This has caused serious drainage blockage and whenever it rains, it causes serious overflooding on the roads.

The only way out of this in a crisis zone is to engage in community work. This is the only means to survive to maintain our roads, keep our drainage clean and avoid overflooding.

^{The cleaning up of the drainage paths.}

No one is being paid for these voluntary services in maintaining a healthy environment for all, even those actively participating in the conflict. @thegreens is one of those ambitious youths campaigning and making sure to offer his free services to the public in a conflict zone, building embankments using old tyres cleaning off drainage paths and managing plastic waste.

^{Voluntary Building embankments using tyres with the greens and team.}

These acts of voluntary service to the public are hardly recognized especially by the warring parties. Some volunteers are even kidnapped and some murdered while trying to serve humanity for free. They pay for a crime they never committed.

This now gave me a reason to write this post to appreciate the efforts @thegreens has been making to serve humanity. Each day when I passed by and saw the work you are doing, I said to myself if all of us could do this, though living in a crisis zone, we will stay healthy without environmental issues that causes a lot of health challenges. I have worked in some of the most remote areas within the context of the crisis, and I can see lots of people suffering from illnesses caused by environmental factors.

I am sharing part of this post payout to support you and your team and I salute you and say never relent in your efforts to serve humanity.