may our good God protect your family and confort them at this hard expected happening.
Funeral Program for Dorcas Mbonghabu Waindim
December 17th, 2015 - Wake at her Mile 3 Nkwen Residence (Behind Guinness Depot) - 5 - 8 p.m.
December 18th, 2015:
- 7 a.m. - Removal from the Akum Catholic Hospital Mortuary
- 8 a.m. - Church Service at Menda Baptist Church, Mile 3 Nkwen - 11.30 a.m. - Departure for Belo
- 12.30 p.m. - Burial at the Waindim's Compound at Nuifor, Belo. - 1.30 p.m. - Refreshments.
Gone too Soon - Dorcas Mbonghabu Waindim (1973 - 2015)
Dorcas Mbonghabu Waindim was born into the Fonfuka-Bum royal family on October 6th, 1973 to His Royal Highness Fon Emmanuel Ngweih and Ma Pauline Kang. The third child (second daughter) among five siblings, she was literally and figuratively the central pillar of her birth family and the backbone of her matrimonial home. And while family was foremost for Dorcas, she was a consummate professional who had made it her life mission to advocate for the impoverished through targeted public health programs. Mrs Dorcas Waindim was many things to different people - a friend, mentor, teacher, daughter, wife and mother - but she was consistently a shining example of a selflessly compassionate human being.
CAREER
Most notably, her chosen career path in public health demanded of her that she go the extra mile to serve populations that were oftentimes rejected by their families and communities. Thus, she served as a HIV/AIDS consultant with Peace Corps Cameroon Country Office. In that capacity, she attended several international workshops/trainings/conferences on HIV/AIDS, management of USAID Sub-Awards and on USAID Sub-Rules and Regulations, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), Gender etc.
For over twelve years (2003 till your demise in 2015), she brought passion and delivered experience in the management of communicable diseases (HIV/AIDS programs from prevention/education to palliative care), Tuberculosis Community Care, Malaria Prevention) and management of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). She also did Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Facilitative supervision, Capacity building, Project and Program design, implementation, supervision, M&E and Project Coordination. Dorcas also shared proven skills in Quality Improvement (Infection Prevention and Control) in Reproductive Health Programs, advocacy, administration, mentoring, leadership, gender and disability issues at the both the national and international levels.
She worked as a consultant for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Cameroon, the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Cameroon and as a research assistant with CNLS/UNDP Cameroon. In these respective positions, she carried out several research and baseline surveys on Child Trafficking, Improving the Economic Situation of OVC Caregivers in the North West Region, Cameroon, Impact of Cultural Practices in Promoting HIV/AIDS in Cameroon and Mainstreaming Gender in Organizations respectively. She also carried out baseline surveys on Maternal and Child Health in Boyo Division, Cameroon with VSO Cameroon and a baseline on the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS with CAPEC Cameroon.
Dorcas also had stints as Programme Manager for HIV and AIDS for VSO Cameroon; as Country Program Manager for Sightsavers International Cameroon Country Office; Project Coordinator for Prevention from Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS (PMTCT); and Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for USAID/AWARE-HIV/CBCHB Project. She was also the Public Health & Gender Consultant with Research for Development International (R4D Intl), Gender Consultant on Inclusive Land Policies “Women’s Land rights with International Land Coalition/MBOSCUDA, HIV/AIDS Consultant with US Peace Corps; and a Part time Lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bamenda, from September of 2014 till her time of death.
In November of 2013, Nawain Dorcas Waindim founded her own initiative - the Action for Social Empowerment and Economic Development (ASEED Cameroon). Her Bamenda based NGO rapidly established its credentials as an invaluable partner organisation to empower Women, Youths, Children and Vulnerable Populations. It was her soul and vision, and encapsulated all that she planned for the disenfranchised populations.
EDUCATION
But Na Marly's foray (fondly called "Na Marly" after her first daughter, Martha) into the public health world took many by surprise. From Saker Baptist College in Limbe, where she started her secondary school education, to GHS Fundong where she continued and completed secondary and high school education, friends and classmates remember Dorcas as the quiet and smart girl with an affectionate smile. But they also remember her, like her classmates at the University in Yaounde, as a History major. Indeed, she graduated with BA (Hons) in History from the Univerisity in 1997. But then 10 years later in 2007, and a few digs in-between, she made a life determining detour into Public Health, embarking on and completing a Master’s Degree in Public Health Education (MPHE) – Health Promotion from the University of Benin, Nigeria in 2010.
She also trained in the management of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Programme with the ACTION Project under the Institute of Human Virology in Nigeria and, before death fatally interrupted, was on schedule towards completing her PhD in Public Health Medicine at the University of KWA-Zulu Natal (UKZN), South Africa in March, 2016.
FAMILY & FAITH
Whatever her academic and professional achievements, Dorcas considered her home and family her foremost fortress. She had been prayed for and met her husband, Timothy Waindim at the last century turn in 2000. They were married on the 4th of May, 2001 and were richly blessed with the birth of their daughter, Martha (14 years old) and then a son, Ncham (11 years old).
Always, she maintained unbreakable bonds with her four siblings" Cletus Balla, Felicia Njang, Michelson Ngweih and Divine Ngweih. She loved and was considered a favorite auntie by her nephews and nieces. In accordance with her Christian faith, Dorcas, a member of the Menda Baptisit Church at Mile 3, in Nkwen - Bamenda, loved and respected her mother and father. She was a believer in Christ and a devout Christian who loved her Lord with all that she had, in the way she lived and the way in which she raised her kids and loved her husband.
This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Dorcas Waindim, 42, born on October 6, 1973 and passed away on November 28, 2015. We will remember her forever.
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Leave a tributemay our good God protect your family and confort them at this hard expected happening.
May the God of all consolation watch over your darling husband Timothy, beloved Martha and Ncham and your biological family. And to your friends and simpathizers i borrow.
the words of Seneca: The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
May your soul and the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. FAREWELL!
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may our good God protect your family and confort them at this hard expected happening.
My Sister, My Friend
It is hard to talk of you in the past. It is hard to believe that you are no more. I cannot stop asking questions about what happened; what went wrong; why did it happen; how did it happen; why now and why to my sister?
Sister, your transition to glory has left a big vacuum in our mist, in our family and has left us wondering. I called you at 5 pm on Friday when I heard you had been taken to hospital in Yaounde. Despite the fact that your voice was low, I could not imagine the unbearable. we talked and I planned to visit you the coming week, only to be called at 4 am on saturday that you had made your final breath.
Sister I do not know how to contend myself. It was better I did not call you on that Friday. Dorcas you surprised me, Dorcas you took me unaware, Dorcas you disgraced me, Dorcas you exposed me, Dorcas you did the unimaginable, Dorcas it pains........ At the end of the day I only have to conclude God knows why, his understanding surpasses all our imaginations. RIP sis.
Fuah Kwanga
My Conclusion
Did not know that she will be gone before meeting our baby, a year after she stood by us during our wedding.
Auntie Dorcas: ".......Isaac, I cannot come and see the baby in your absence. I will wait and come only when you come back!
Isaac: Ok, auntie Dorcas, no problem.
Auntie Dorcas: Greet Yvette and the baby for me!
Isaac: I'll do
Auntie Dorcas: Ok, Bye
Little did I knw this was going to be our last conversation on Earth. But I am confident that we will meet again in Heaven
My Conclusion is that the boundary between life and death is a very, very, very thin line.
Please accept my deepest condolences. I am so very sorry for your loss. I hope you might find comfort in knowing that our loved ones that have died are safe in Gods memory and we will soon have the opportunity to welcome these ones back to eternal life on a paradise earth. In God's word, the Bible, we find this promise: "The righteous will possess the earth, And they will live forever on it.". (Psalm 37:29)
With Sincerity,
Abby E" (This tribute was added by Abby E on 2nd December 2015)