Solange Swiri Tumasang
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Dr. Solange Swiri Tumasang coordinates networks of women-led organizations across Cameroon while showing her two children that leadership begins with service rather than status. We celebrate the community health initiatives mirrored in nutritious family meals, the female empowerment strategies reflected in raising confident children, and the way she diagnoses societal ills and childhood ailments with the same compassionate attention.
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Dr. Solange Swiri Tumasang is a distinguished educator, social entrepreneur, leadership coach, gender and child protection advocate, and philanthropist. She is the founder and general coordinator of the Network of Women-Led CSOs in Cameroon (NEWOLEC), an organization of over 100 women leaders dedicated to the socio-economic, professional, and personal development of women. In 2020, Dr. Tumasang established the Dr. Tumasang Swiri Foundation, which has donated back-to-school materials to over 1,000 orphans and internally displaced children in Cameroon. She also founded Kids for Kids Cameroon, an organization entirely devoted to the welfare and protection of children. Demonstrating her commitment to community health, she offers free medical consultations annually to vulnerable Cameroonians in areas such as physiotherapy, general medicine, and cancer prevention. One of her notable initiatives includes organizing an awareness walk against breast cancer, which brought together approximately 400 women. Her extensive work has been featured in both national and international media outlets, and she is an active international conference presenter, published researcher, reviewer, mentor, coach, peace lecturer with International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) and Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), poet, and mother of two.