2022 World of Difference Awardee
2022 WORLD OF DIFFERENCE AWARDEE
Founder and Executive Director of Integrated Agricultural Association (IAA): Dungrila Pascal Mbimenyuy has been selected and recognized by TIAW as a 2022 extraordinary man under the champion of Women’s Economic Empowerment in Cameroon
To date, I.A.A. has trained over 5,000 smallholder farmers, many of them women, in sustainable agriculture and distributed 7,000 vegetable seed packets to 1,500 malnourished households. we’ve also trained over 2,000 young girls in menstrual hygiene management and supported 500 girls with sanitary pads. Dungrila’s work has also inspired and trained 1,000 girls in ICT, hardware and software maintenance and application development, as well as trained and supported over 500 young women in the production and marketing of detergents. Our team has planted over 15,000 agroforestry trees and restored 150 hectares of degraded farms while training over 850 women in agroforestry techniques in 5 years.
DUNGRILA PASCAL MBIMENYUY
The annual TIAW World of Difference Awards – recognise up to 100 women (and men) around the world whose efforts have advanced the economic empowerment of women locally, regionally or worldwide.
Since 2017, Integrated Agricultural Association (IAA) under the leadership of Dungrila Pascal Mbimenyuy have supported over one million (1000,000) women through sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurship and livelihood projects in rural communities within Cameroon.
To the above, Dungrila Pascal Mbimenyuy was recognized as a man whose actions, efforts and inspiration truly do make a ‘World of Difference’ in supporting the advancement of women in Cameroon through women economic empowerment.
CHAMPION OF WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Dungrila is passionate about creating social change and economic equity with a believe that the future of our world depends on collective action, through which we can sustain the environment by putting social justice at the center of development.