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Hwalana For Peace And Development - HPD

We stand against hate speech and abuse of women and girls, while promoting peace, dignity, and development.

Hwalana is committed to creating safer communities where young girls and families can flourish.

22/06/2026

Equal means equal

19/06/2026

COUNTERING HATE SPEECH WITH HWALANA

A single hateful comment can do more damage than a physical wound.

Think about that for a moment.

Every day, people are attacked not because of what they have done, but because of who they are, where they come from, what they believe, or how they look. Hate speech continues to poison communities, fuel discrimination, deepen divisions, and sometimes even trigger violence.

The danger is that hate speech rarely starts with violence. It starts with words. A joke. A rumor. A social media post. A careless comment. When left unchecked, these words normalize prejudice and create an environment where intolerance thrives.

Today, as we commemorate the International Day of Countering Hate Speech, we are reminded that silence is not neutrality. Every one of us has a role to play in shaping conversations that promote dignity, respect, and inclusion.

✅Choose dialogue over division.
✅ Choose understanding over stereotypes.
✅ Choose facts over misinformation.
✅ Choose respect over hate.

Peaceful societies are not built by accident. They are built through the words we speak, the values we teach, and the example we set.

Hate speech divides. Peaceful speech transforms.

28/05/2026

Hwalana for Peace & Development joins others in the 2026 menstrual hygiene day celebrated globally on May 28. The campaign focuses on Education,access destigmatization. Let's join the world to break the silence around periods, tackle the stigma and raise awareness on the importance of menstrual hygiene.

on 28 May

08/05/2026

They sit with grieving mothers across divided lines. Turn pain into conversation and conversation into something looking like trust. This is one of the most demanding forms of courage there is.

Women respond to conflict but they equally remember what existed before it, the shared water, the borrowed salt, the children who played without asking about tribes. And because they remember, they know what to rebuild toward.

History has few times given them the podium, yet they have always been the ones quietly stitching communities back together.

Women carry the work forward because they understand what is lost when belonging breaks down.

Peace, in its most enduring form, has always looked like this.

30/03/2026

✊ Stop R**e. Stop Child Abuse. Stop Murder.

This week, we raise our voices against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and the horrific crimes destroying our communities.

🚨 R**e is NOT normal.
🚨 Murder is NOT negotiable.
✍️ Silence is NOT an option.

Every perpetrator must face justice. Protecting rapists or murderers because they are family is complicity. Accountability must prevail now.

👉 Report them.
👉 Stand with survivors.
👉 Demand stronger laws and enforcement.

Let justice prevail. Let humanity win.

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# Women & Girls Rights Advocate
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28/03/2026

She was the brightest student in her class.
But when her family moved to a different region, the teasing started. "You don't belong here." "Your tribe is not welcome." She stopped raising her hand. Then she stopped coming to school.

This is not fiction. This is someone's daughter. Maybe yours. Maybe mine.
Discrimination hurt feelings and it doesn't just end there, It steals futures and It silences voices. And it breaks the peace in our homes, our schools, and our communities long before it ever makes the headlines on the news.

Women and girls carry this weight differently. They face it at the market, in the classroom, at the places of worship.

And when discrimination is layered with gender, the burden becomes almost invisible to everyone except her.

We must be reminded that peace is not possible where people are treated as less.
We can do something about it, today!

Start with the child sitting beside you. The neighbor who speaks differently. The colleague from another region. Choose dignity. Choose to belong to each other.

Hwalana for Peace and Development, promotes peace and we believe ONLY peace will bring US together.

💬 Tell us: What is one thing you will do differently today to make someone feel they belong? You can share it with us in the comments section below 👇🏿

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25/03/2026

International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The transatlantic slave trade destroyed identities, shrouded languages, and sowed a deep belief that some human beings are worth less than the rest.

That belief did not die with the trade. It evolved.

Today it manifests as xenophobia, hate speech, tribalism, discrimination that tell children and people they do not belong because of where they come from.

We endeavor to trace the roots of the hatred we fight every day. You cannot uproot what you refuse to name.

25/03/2026

On March 19, our CEO Kate Tande PhD and Emily Miki of the Dennis Miki Foundation walked into New Wave Bilingual Secondary School in Molyko-Ngeme and did something simple yet very necessary. They sat with students and had an honest conversation about hate speech and xenophobia, two things that quietly poison communities when left unaddressed and these flourish in the classrooms.

In partnership with the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism, they challenged these young people to become ambassadors of tolerance, to stand against bullying, discriminatory talk, and the kind of thinking that teaches us to fear anyone who is different from us.

Change can begin anywhere. And it could start in a classroom in Molyko-Ngeme, with students who are finally being asked to see each other as human beings first. This is why and how Hwalana shows up. This is the work.

We thank the Cameroon Tribune for sharing light on this amazing work.

19/03/2026

𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕: 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑻𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊- 𝑯𝒂𝒕𝒆-𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎𝒔

Dr. Kate Tande, CEO of Hwalana for Peace and Development, Others Immortalize Event.

A growing push to confront hate speech and xenophobia at their roots is taking shape in classrooms across Cameroon. In line with this effort, Hwalana for Peace and Development led a high-impact engagement with students at New Wave Bilingual Secondary School. The initiative, spearheaded by the organization’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Kate Tande, brought together students, educators, and community stakeholders for an open dialogue on the dangers of divisive language and exclusion.

Addressing the students, Dr. Tande underscored the seriousness of hate speech, describing it as more than casual or careless talk. She explained that words that target an individual’s identity, whether based on tribe, religion, nationality, or social status, can inflict deep emotional harm and reinforce discrimination. Drawing from familiar school scenarios, she pointed to behaviors such as mocking accents, spreading harmful messages online, and excluding peers as examples of how harmful language manifests in everyday life.

The session, held in collaboration with the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism, also featured contributions from Emily Miki, CEO of the Dennis Miki Foundation. Held in the presence of the school’s proprietor, Alemnge Aloysius, the event transformed the campus into a space for reflection, where students were encouraged to critically examine the role they play in shaping a more inclusive society.

08/03/2026

Before the sun remembers to rise, she is already awake.

She has been awake, in truth, since the beginning of things. Tending fire. Carrying water. Holding the names of the dead and the dreams of the living in the same two hands, and somehow never dropping either.

She built what cannot be torn down. From patience. From sacrifice. From kind love.

They called her strong as if it were a compliment, not knowing that strength was the only token she was ever given and she spent it on us all.

Today, we look a her in the face and see, really see, what has been asked of her and what she gave away. Without receipt.

Every woman who has ever been made small in a room that was built by her own hands, you were never small. You were only surrounded by people with poor vision.

Today and every day that follows, may you be seen. May you be celebrated not just in words but in action, today, this month and every other month.

Happy women’s day.

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