Nearly everyone in the world is experiencing the pains of climate change and global warming in one way or another. Climate change and global warming are no doubt the effects of human misuse of the environment. Cameroon like the rest of the world is not exempted, in Cameroon today there is a big negative shift from the natural order of things: While some parts of the country are experiencing long periods of unexpected droughts caused by extensive scorching sun; other parts witness damaging floods caused by heavy downpours. All these conditions either leave inhabitants homeless; incur both human and property loss; close down businesses due to destruction of business premises and property or cause low rates of agricultural outputs amounting to acute famine across the country and ill health to make matters even worse. 

Amidst the climate crisis in the country; women and children suffer disproportionately as compared to men. Often, the rural women are in charge of cultivating the majority of food stuff consumed in Cameroon, as such with the climatic conditions being unpredictable and shifting to a negative direction these rural farming women who depend solely on their local agriculture to earn a living are left stranded. Rural farming women especially single mothers and widows now find it difficult to educate their children; cater for basic needs of the family and access health care. Equally, women and children in both rural and urban communities are charged with the daily task of fetching water for the family, unfortunately with the reoccurrence of floods and extensive droughts in most parts of the country accessing portable drinking water becomes a nightmare; as such these women and children are forced to trek long distances in to the forests with all the risks of either being raped or chased/eaten by wild animals involved.