Mankon
Serving communities in Mankon and the Bamenda urban area
Mankon, in Bamenda, is where Caritas Bamenda is based. Our offices sit beside the Metropolitan Cathedral at Big Mankon, and the surrounding urban area has received large numbers of people displaced from rural communities across the North West.
Urban displacement
Displacement into a town looks different from displacement into a village. Families are absorbed into crowded compounds and rented rooms rather than camps, which makes them harder to identify and easy to overlook. Rent, food and school fees all have to be found in cash.
What we do here
Our work in the Bamenda urban area includes shelter and rental support, food assistance, education support, protection and health referral.
Our head office
Mankon is also where our programme, finance, logistics and support teams are based, and where partners, donors and community members can reach us. Contact details are here.
Stand with the families we serve
A gift to Caritas Bamenda becomes food on a table, a roof over a displaced family, clean water in a village, a child back in school.