Board of Directors:

WECMA’s Board of Directors is made up of 15 Women, 5 Executive Members and 3 Supervisory Committee Members..

Management of WECMA:

The coordinator of WECMA - SEVIDZEM Emmaculate BERINYUY

SEVIDZEM EMMACULATE BERINYUY was born on the 20th of August 1991. She grew up in a humble family where nature was their source of livelihood and good health. She completed primary education in 2003. In 2010, she obtained the Cameroon General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary-Level Certificate and in 2012 she obtained the Cameroon GCE Advanced- Level Certificate.

Emmaculate believes in nature and empowering communities to live healthy lives while conserving for future generations. In 2013 she was trained as an AUXILLARY NURSE in Baptist Training   School Nso-kumbo North West Region Cameroon. This training empowered her to understand how to care for the depressed and sick persons of all ages, developing health talks for patients with diverse illness and counsel them on best healthy behaviors to practice at home. Emmaculate is passionate about sustainable health practices.

From 2014 to 2016 she worked with Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services for two years in Baptist Health Centre Njikijem oku, Baptist health Centre Ngeptang, Baptist hospital Kumba and Banso Baptist Hospital. During these two years, she understood the role of indigenous herbal plants in promoting health and wellness especially in health concerns like typhoid, malaria, fever, hermoriod, gastritis, headache, hick cough, menstrual disorders, menopause, immune boaster and system detoxification.

Her two years’ experience nurtured her love for indigenous medicinal plants as she admired how modern health institutions encouraged many to trust indigenous medicinal plants as first aid in preventing various illnesses and enhancing the immune system. The experiences gathered from her work in health institutions helped her to understand better the role of herbal medicines in disease prevention and treatment.

In 2016, she joint Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch where she worked in honey value chain development especially in sensitizing the communities especially women on the opportunities available in non-timber forest products. CAMGEW gave her the opportunity to promote community health by sensitizing community members of the health benefits of honey and honey products, sensitize on livelihood opportunities found in non-timber forest products such as honey, mushroom, medicinal plants and vegetables and transform and market honey and honey products to meet community needs and create employment.

Emmaculate joint Women Ecovillage Change makers (WECMA) where she became coordinator in 2015. She has been empowering women and girls on organic farming, urban gardening, agroforestry for soil conservation and crop production, environmental education, cultivation and marketing of organic medicinal herbs, hygiene and sanitation for women/girls, healthy nutrition for teenage mothers using locally available food stuff.
Her passion, dynamism and dedication remained a force to reckon with.