Takumbeng Relief Services (TRS) | Application Preview
Takumbeng Relief Services (TRS) is seeking government grants to address the urgent needs of women and girls affected by armed conflict in Cameroon, particularly those displaced by violence in the North West and South West regions since 2017. The organization highlights that women in refugee camps experience significant violence, contrary to the belief that they are protected by international standards. TRS aims to assist these vulnerable populations, emphasizing the inadequacies of existing support systems.
The funding will be utilized in various ways, including supporting women and children who have fled into hiding, providing prenatal and postnatal care, offering small business grants to women forced into prostitution, and covering logistical expenses for their field partners. TRS operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, relying on community fundraising and volunteer labor, which allows them to direct all funds to aid without payroll costs.
Since its inception in 2017, TRS has been actively involved in humanitarian work, providing essential support such as burial for the deceased and assistance to the wounded. The organization stands out by focusing on individuals not served by the UN refugee programs and maintains transparency through regular financial reporting. TRS collaborates with field volunteers who ensure effective intervention and support for the affected communities, reinforcing their commitment to alleviating suffering and improving civic engagement for women and girls in conflict-affected areas.
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 823678129
Location: Lowell, MA, United States
Length of Operation: Three years and gett
Number of Employees:
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Open to Loans: NO
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Funding Usage
Background: The proposal examined the complex levels of violence against women displaced by war, and often located in refugee camps that have been established by world organizations such as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) , or are in flight to seek refuge in refugee settlements. A general (mis) conception is that when women are in refugee camps, they are protected by international laws and organizations; yet a critical examination of reality in refugee settlements, indicate that because of the complex factors that womanhood embodies, women and girls in refugee settlements experience almost equal violence like those who are internally or displaced by war, or who have managed to escape to neighboring countries but are not registered as refugees by the UNHRC. Such violence within contexts that are expected to be “protected” by international organs, further disempower women and restricts their engagement in Civic spaces across Africa. In 2000, the UN Security council adopted resolution 1325 expressing concern for women, including children especially the girl child who are, for the most part, adversely affected by wars, and reaffirmed the need to protect this vulnerable group during armed conflicts. Despite the UN’s commitment to prevent violence against women affected by war, and involve them as equal participants in maintaining and promoting peace and security, women continue to be overwhelmingly affected by the outbreak of new conflicts allover Africa. This proposal focused on the Case in Cameroon, where an armed conflict that broke out, following the declaration of Independence by the North West and South Western regions in 2017 resulted in at least 200 ,000 people internally displaced in the two affected regions , and over 50,000 of whom escaped across the borders to the Cross River, Benue and Akwa Ibom States in Nigeria, among whom only 21 had been registered then as refugees. The crisis in the South-West and North-West Regions of Cameroon, compounded pre-existing vulnerabilities of women in civic spaces. The already existing socio-political instability was exacerbated by the sporadic violence, that negatively impacted the civilian populations of Cameroon’s South-West and North West Regions, (hosting more than four million inhabitants (16% of the total population); but most especially, the female populations. Funding will be use to: 1. Assis women, children and girls who have fled in to bushes 2. Assist pregnant women with pre-natal and post natal kits 3. Give grants to women and girls (who have been dragged into prostitution) to start small businesses businesses. 4. Provide logistics to our partners in the field who are in direct contact with victims 5. Cover communication and other logistical expenses. 6. Pay for yearly registration, website subscription, 8. Our workers are not paid because we work on a voluntary basis
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Business Plan
As a title 501 (c) (3) organization, we raise funds in the community, carry out advocacies and solicit funds from sympathetic individuals and from personal donations. We do not pay our workers; our work is on voluntary basis We have done this humanitarian work since 2017 by burring the dead, assisting the wounded, helped refurbished settlement/transit housing to hundreds of victims and there is material, financial reports, and verbal testimonies, authenticating our humanitarian work
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Self Identified Competition
Humanitarian work does not work with competitors but people and organizations that have human feelings and only interested in reducing pain and suffering Some of our competitors pay their employees but we do not spend even a dime on salaries. Our records are open for verification, 7 days a week, and twelve months a year to our donors. We send out financial reports, quarterly. The victims or refugees that we assist are mostly those who are not being helped by the UN refugee program, thus, we help victims who are dire need but have no place to go to. We have collaborators and volunteers in the field who monitor, advise, report, intervene, evaluate, etc.
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