“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is the difference we have made to the lives of others.” (Nelson Mandela)
Okah’s Helping Hands

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What your support looks like, on the ground.

Real photos from real projects, organised by when they happened. Every photo here is from an actual distribution, school visit or clinic support day in Cameroon, not a stock image.

2026

Payment of school fees: Fungom Subdivision

A community-wide session covering school fees for under-served students, with families, elders and local officials present.

Community hall packed with students seated on benches, elders and officials at the front table under an Okah's Helping Hand banner for school fee payment in Fungom Subdivision Wide view of the same school fee payment session, rows of students facing the officials' table Full room of students from the back, standing room only for the fee payment announcement A community representative addressing the room beside the Okah's Helping Hand banner A speaker presenting to the session with local officials seated at the table behind her

2026

Medical needs: pregnant women’s hospital bills

Hospital costs covered for expectant mothers, with a real cost-recovery receipt kept on file as proof the funds reached the clinic.

Hospital cost-recovery receipt from the Medicalized Health Center (CMA) ESU, made out to Okah's Helping Hand for pregnant women's hospital bills Pregnant women seated in a clinic waiting room during a support session A larger group of pregnant women seated on benches waiting to be seen Group photo of mothers, a health worker and community elders outside the clinic building

2025–2026 academic year

Back to school

Fee payments and school-related support handed over directly to students and their schools at the start of the academic year.

Large group of students gathered outdoors in school uniform for the start of the academic year Community elders and organisers reviewing paperwork together on a school veranda Students lined up along a school corridor for morning assembly Scholarship recipients kneeling with their award letters, community leaders standing behind them

2025

Basic needs & school fees

Food distribution alongside another Fungom Subdivision fee-payment session.

A child reaching for sacks of rice and bottles of cooking oil during a food distribution Officials seated at desks for a school fee payment session under the Okah's Helping Hand banner

2023–2024 academic year

Back to school

Notebooks, school kits and fee payments delivered classroom by classroom.

Five students and a community representative standing in front of a chalkboard holding new notebooks Students seated at their desks in a classroom during a school visit Four students with a community representative in front of a mathematics lesson on the chalkboard Students seated at classroom desks, one desk marked Honourable Ndongi A full classroom of students at their desks, several smiling at the camera A community representative with a group of smiling students in a classroom A student receiving a school kit from a program organiser, classmates seated behind Two rows of students at desks marked PNDP/ZHOA Council, with a community representative standing behind them

2021

Basic needs: emergency relief distribution

Rice, cooking oil and other essentials distributed with local chiefs and elders, in the organisation’s first year.

Rows of rice and cooking oil packages laid out on the ground ready for distribution Sacks of rice and boxes of cooking oil with community elders seated nearby A traditional chief handing a bag of relief supplies to an elderly woman Volunteers arranging relief packages along a dirt path between houses A row of seated traditional chiefs and elders at the relief distribution