I Wish I Could Achieve My Dream.

by Ngoh Michael Lyonga
(Buea,SWR,Cameroon)

I was born in Kumba,a small town in Cameroon. My mom was never married to my dad. She started raising me up in this small town.

I knew nothing at that age, but I could remember when things become rough in 1990 where, as a seamstress, she could not sustain life especially when my younger sister Fende G. was born.


We had to move to the village Diongo. I started school in a small primary school where I nearly become a hunter. My mom despite in the village could still not make life better. She decided to send me to my dad in a small town called Buea.

I completed my primary and secondary and when I was writing my final exam in high school in 2003 my father died . I was left to struggle with my step relations left by my Dad.

I stayed in the house, jobless, with my high school certificate for one year. Since I have had the love of becoming a scientist I decided to enrolling in a small University in the town where I help my self with the little less paid job and sometimes with money from my poor mom and other relation.

I got through in 2007 with degree programme but could not have excellent score because of my situation.

After the University I served as a student trainee in Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS), Korup Forest Dynamics Plot (KFDP) Cameroon for about one year four months. After which I applied for vliruos Scholarship but was giving just academic admission based on my former studies.

With the little finance I had from Kurop and with promises from relation I decided to go in for the program. I had payed my academic expense including my insurances before my Aunty husband who was supposed to finance my study so I could achieve my dreams died in August 2009.

I have no one to sign my financial pledge so I could go and study Biostatistics at Masters level in Belgium for a period of two years and come back to my country where it be possible at the stage to get a job and sustain my living .

I wish my cry could be heard.

I will give all the necessary information to anyone who is interested to help.

This just a summary of my story.