March 9 and 10 2007, eighteen delegated Committees for Orientation and Follow-up (COS) of the EWC of eight cities of Cameroon (Bafoussam, Yaounde, Douala, Edéa, Bertoua, Ngaoundéré, Ebolowa and Garoua) met in Bafoussam for a seminar on the training for the Easter Weeks Campaign 2007. From the point of view of the current process aiming at ensuring a greater implication of the COS in the Campaign, the seminar especially made it possible to give them the means of carrying and of supporting the durable effort that this operation implies. After the prayer done by Mr. Abbot Guy-Christmas Tchapda, President of COS Bafoussam, and the opening word by Pasteur Jean-Blaise Kenmogne, General Manager of CIPCRE, the participants harnessed themselves to study thorough the Document of Orientation of the CSP

2007 adopted in February 23 in Yaoundé by the National Organizers. This moment aimed to well seizing all the stakes and the challenges related to this campaign which wants to be at the same time a continuity and a rupture with the campaign of the previous year. With this intention, an introduction to the overall methodology of the EWC 2007 was given by Sebastien Fornerod to establish the link between the Document of Orientation and the concrete actions to carry out. Thereafter, Pasteur Kä Mana, Theological Adviser of CIPCRE, and Mia C Østergaard, Tally-Stimulating of CIPCRE, animated workshops dedicated to the discussion around three important innovations of the EWC 2007. That means, Observatories, Centres of listening and White Steps.
The afternoon started with an exposed brilliance of Pasteur Kä Mana as a recall of the symbolic system of the dowry and the rites of widowhood in the African traditional society. This intervention made it possible to measure the difference between the original significance of these social practices and their current direction. A wide-ranging debate was followed from there which allowed the ones and to the others to have the same level of information on the dowry and the rites of widowhood. Three comic strips related to the topics of the Campaign were then presented. They will be used as supports in sensitizing of young people. Acting of the dynamics of the plea which must irrigate the campaign, the stress was laid on the need for sensitizing the Traditional Chiefs who, in their capacity as guards of the tradition, are actors by which it is possible to find the original direction of the rites. The participants finally profited from a rapid presentation of the basic documents put at their disposal, namely of the summaries of studies and works about the topics of the campaign, a chart about the sexual exploitation of the children accompanied by a questionnaire to evaluate the concrete risks related to the specific environment of each COS and to allow it, if necessary, to envisage pointed actions of prevention and intervention.

The evening, free in the beginning, was used to view two documentary videos on the dies of the African prostitution in Europe and on the development of tourism paedophile in Cameroon: the documentary heavy ones in emotion which started a new basic discussion on the actions to be undertaken and gave to the participants the opportunity to exchange on their experiments on the matter. The second day opened on the resumption of the discussion in connection with the observatories, the centres of listening and the white steps. At the time of this new exchange, one could measure the deepening of these subjects and lead to an undeniable enrichment of these three projects. In particular, it was agreed to stop the same date for the white steps in the whole country in order to give more impact to this action. The participants also decided to make sign a maximum of petitions which will have to be gathered and given to the political authorities in Yaoundé in December at the end of the great walk envisaged in the capital city.

After the prayer done by Mr. Abbot Guy-Christmas Tchapda, President of COS Bafoussam, and the opening word by Pasteur Jean-Blaise Kenmogne, General Manager of CIPCRE, the participants harnessed themselves to study thorough the Document of Orientation of the CSP 2007 adopted in February 23 in Yaoundé by the National Organizers. This moment aimed to well seizing all the stakes and the challenges related to this campaign which wants to be at the same time a continuity and a rupture with the campaign of the previous year. With this intention, an introduction to the overall methodology of the EWC 2007 was given by Sebastien Fornerod to establish the link between the Document of Orientation and the concrete actions to carry out. Thereafter, Pasteur Kä Mana, Theological Adviser of CIPCRE, and Mia C Østergaard, Tally-Stimulating of CIPCRE, animated workshops

dedicated to the discussion around three important innovations of the EWC 2007. That means, Observatories, Centres of listening and White Steps.

The afternoon started with an exposed brilliance of Pasteur Kä Mana as a recall of the symbolic system of the dowry and the rites of widowhood in the African traditional society. This intervention made it possible to measure the difference between the original significance of these social practices and their current direction. A wide-ranging debate was followed from there which allowed the ones and to the others to have the same level of information on the dowry and the rites of widowhood. Three comic strips related to the topics of the Campaign were then presented. They will be used as supports in sensitizing of young people. Acting of the dynamics of the plea which must irrigate the campaign, the stress was laid on the need for sensitizing the Traditional Chiefs who, in their capacity as guards of the tradition, are actors by which it is possible to find the original direction of the rites.

The participants finally profited from a rapid presentation of the basic documents put at their disposal, namely of the summaries of studies and works about the topics of the campaign, a chart about the sexual exploitation of the children accompanied by a questionnaire to evaluate the concrete risks related to the specific environment of each COS and to allow it, if necessary, to envisage pointed actions of prevention and intervention. The evening, free in the beginning, was used to view two documentary videos on the dies of the African prostitution in Europe and on the development of tourism paedophile in Cameroon: the documentary heavy ones in emotion which started a new basic discussion on the actions to be undertaken and gave to the participants the opportunity to exchange on their experiments on the matter. The second day opened on the resumption of the discussion in connection with the observatories, the centres of listening and the white steps. At the time of this new exchange, one could measure the deepening of these subjects and lead to an undeniable enrichment of these three projects. In particular, it was

agreed to stop the same date for the white steps in the whole country in order to give more impact to this action. The participants also decided to make sign a maximum of petitions which will have to be gathered and given to the political authorities in Yaoundé in December at the end of the great walk envisaged in the capital city.

Forts of these debates and the mutual enrichment of the discussions, the participants then harnessed to update their action plans, before dividing them at a plenary session. It is with these plans that they set out again in their respective cities, in order to enter the campaign fully. Before being left, they made a point of still discussing the later training necessary to the installation of the moment headlights of the campaign. It was the occasion, for the technical team of CIPCRE, to reaffirm its availability for ad hoc training, according to the particular requests for each COS which are placed best to identify the specific needs for their environment and to find there the adequate answers.To conclude the training course, the occasion was given to each one and each one to measure the progress achieved together since the day before and to appreciate the richness and the quality of the exchanges. A last prayer resounded to accompany the participants on the way by the return, with the promise to find themselves soon to continue advancing on the way of the caravan of the Easter Weeks Campaign 2007.