Chenwis Smile Foundation

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Motto:

Share and Send Smiles

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Building a Brighter Future

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Ensuring widows Empowerment

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Reshaping Destinies for a Better Tomorrow

Our Recent Activies

Donation to orphans for back to school 2024/2025

Health talk and body lotion production traing with widows and distribution of body lotion produced after training

Who We Are

CHENWIS SMILE FOUNDATION is Founded by TANGJANG Epse CHENWI CAROLINE NGWINIFORM and it’s located in Cameroon_Yaounde. CHENWIS SMILE FOUNDATION is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) whose main aim is to offer help/assistance to vulnerable people especially Widows and Orphans within our society. Let’s join hands together to lighten the burden of these less priveledged individuals by extending a hand of fellowship

Vision

CSF envisages a world in which disadvantaged individuals especially widows and orphans will achieve freedom from misery and poverty, live in dignity and integrity, enjoy human rights and realize their full potential thus serving as active participants in societal development.

Mission

Transform the lives of vulnerable individuals through economic and social empowerment, access to basic needs, advocating for their human rights, and undertaking sustainable measures in order to achieve self-reliance.

Core Values

Empathy

Empathy involves giving priority to other people’s needs over oneself by understanding their feelings and situation without judgment.

Charity

Showing kindness towards vulnerable people is utmost importance to us at CSF. We endeavour to share what we have available with individuals and the community especially widows

Self and Community development

Through our numerous sensitization campaings, capacity building exercises and training sessions, we ensure empowerment for the disadvantaged individuals and communities through education and health campaings.

Respect

We have respect for everyone irrespective of their socioeconomic, religious or political background

Living together

CSF upholds the principle of solidarity and unity, so we encourage and promote the spirit of love and togetherness.

The Fear of God

At CFS, We put ourselves in the shoes of disadvantaged people living in challenges this motivates us to show love and compassion to the needy.

Brief History of the Chenwi’s Smile Foundation

According to the (UN Women, 2018), “The loss of a partner is devastating. For many women, that loss is magnified by a long-term struggle for basic needs, their human rights and dignity. They may be denied inheritance rights to the piece of land that they relied on for livelihood or evicted from their homes, forced into unwanted marriages or traumatizing widowhood rituals. They are stigmatized for life, shunned and shamed. And, many of these abuses go unnoticed, even normalized.”

The Chenwi’s Smile Foundation is the fruit of a personal initiative of Mme. CHENWI CAROLINE which started timidly back in August 2016. She saw how sharing her widow`s mite with societal have-nots could actually be life changing.

The Foundation currently supports over 150 (one hundred and fifty) widows and 170 (one hundred and seventy) orphans.Top of FormBottom of Form

The main of the CSF is to empower the disadvantaged widows and orphans socially and economically to alleviate extreme poverty amongst them, enhance their capabilities, and help them live a self-reliant and autonomous life.

The organization also organizes some pertinent sensitization campaigns aimed at enhancing the psychosocial wellbeing of widows. The main beneficiaries of CSF are widows and orphans although destitute and highly disadvantaged individuals can also be prioritized in our support scheme.

Years of Existence

Orphans Reached

Widows Reached

What We Do

CSF is deeply engaged in community development within the rural and urban regions of Cameroon. We apply the community-based approach which involves closely collaborating with these communities to identify the specific needs of the vulnerable population within the community and deliver targeted support that adds significant value. At the heart of this is our self-motivated and highly dedicated team of CSF volunteers. These volunteers maintain contact with families, and disadvantaged individuals, diligently assessing their needs and challenges and closely monitoring the impact of our programs and campaigns. This collaboration enables management team to determine the most urgent cases requiring support.

Bearing in mind the fact that our principal goal is to transform the lives of vulnerable individuals through economic and social empowerment, access to basic needs, advocating for their human rights, and undertaking sustainable measures in order to achieve self-reliance.