VICTORY FAMILY INTERNATIONAL

Victory Family International registered in Cameroon as The Christ Foundation Family  common initiative (CIG), (NW/GP/No30/01/5582) in 2001, is a non-denominational and non-political Common Initiative Group, supported by volunteers and Caroline Azieh Lochschmidt, the founder. This option for the underprivileged people especially children is an inspiration triggered by their poor conditions, abandonment and abuse of their rights. The common phenomenon in some parts of Cameroon today is the increased number of children whose parents have died prematurely, most often children, young girls and women subjected to rape or sexual assault. Furthermore, many children do not have support of parents who suffer disabilities or mental illness. Some of these underprivileged children are cared for by relatives, who often cannot afford to meet their educational and health care needs do to the fact that they are surviving by subsistence farming, the cost involved are rarely achievable. Poor children with disabilities are 10 times less likely to go to school than children without disabilities, and often suffer discrimination leaving them less educated and in poorer health condition. Such destructive practices cause injury whether deliberate or undeliberate emotional, physical, social and financial acts. When despised or scolded, the victims develop psychological insights and pressure that inhibit life to them. Often, they are driven to doldrums fear and some recoil from the public even at their own risk. Furthermore, most of them live on streets because they are homeless and are exploited by people who take advantage of them. This abuse, ill treatment and abandonment of the underprivileged people is often overlooked.