{"id":14855,"date":"2016-02-09T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T11:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wearethecampus.org\/?p=14855"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:27:24","slug":"inter-campus-visit-bafoussam-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wearethecampus.org\/en\/inter-campus-visit-bafoussam-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Campus visit Bafoussam prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BAFOUSSAM<\/strong> \u2013 We are greeted with a chilling warning on our arrival at Bafoussam prison in Cameroon. &#8220;You can\u2019t take photographs \u2013 there are members of Boko Haram imprisoned here,&#8221; explains the prison chief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prison \u2013 which has different sections for men, women and minors \u2013 was to be our workplace for the next three days as we provided sports coaching courses to 30 adult prisoners and as many youngsters again. They youths were a little older than we\u2019re used to in Inter Campus, but an unusual situation calls for an unusual solution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the many years the Inter Campus project has been running, rarely have we seen such dutiful participation in the course from the adults and such explosive joy from the youngsters when playing and training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their stories \u2013 as told to us by Cameroon Sports Centre secretary Francis Kammogne and local Inter Campus activity coordinator Alphonse \u2013 are hard to hear, some of them so appalling that they are scarcely believable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indeed, some of those taking part in the course are serving long sentences of 20 or 30 years \u2013 and there is even one prisoner on death row. Yet what strikes us it the incredible determination they have to learn something that might help them to be better, to be of use to others. For the youths of the prison, focusing on something positive is a way of rebuilding their lives and bringing some hope and meaning back into their difficult existences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We organise the theoretical course among the pews of the prison chapel, while the practical training sessions are held by our coaches, Alberto and Andrea, in one of the prison yards, temporarily stripped of its cooking and work equipment to make way for a makeshift football pitch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our time at the prison ends with a celebration. We award certificates of achievement to the course members and organise a football tournament of the youngsters, while the adults get into the swing of things with sack races, tug of wards and arm-wrestling contests. By way of prizes, the victors are given food, clothing, soap\u2026 anything that may come in handy in prison life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s difficult to capture the sense of celebration and community we felt in the prison, a place where \u2013 as one prisoner explains \u2013 they feel that nobody cares about them and that they are completely cut off by the world. But that\u2019s not the case \u2013 not any more. From now on, with the help of our friends on the ground, Inter Campus are officially active in the Bafoussam. And as close followers of our work will know, once we set up somewhere we never leave\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">P.S. 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