Welcome to GLOBAL BABA SIMON FOUNDATION

  EDITORIAL

The Global Baba Simon Foundation Project humbly made available to serve you is a humanitarian Nonprofit Organization.

 It wants to be the gateway or even the bridge of hope of the human person wherever he is in the world under the weight of misery and poverty. Its mission is to reduce or eliminate misery ad poverty which are often at the root of social tensions, wars, terrorism, marginalization, illegal immigration, …and to strive for excellence in the promotion of human rights, good governance and democracy.The information, education and communication on the campaign in the education for the culture of peace is an extra mile in the search for excellence mentioned above.The achievement of this mission results into multifaceted services for several categories of target population.The education of the girl, the protection and assistance of the disabled child, the elderly and the homeless. Our duty to protect and assist also concerns women in rural areas, refugees, whether or not they are in refugee camp, people in prison, endangered tribes including Pygmies. We do not forget the employment of young people, the integration of people released from the prison, as well as those  pushed back from the borders. Particular emphasis will be placed on the survival and the development of children, including street children, orphans, children in conflict with the law, refugee children as called for in the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.The establishment of this foundation as well as its fundamental mission have inspired us by the dimension and mysticism of the work of an African priest. This << emblematic figure of the Roman Catholic church of Cameroon>> was called father Simon Mpecke.<< He was of a legendary generosity >> said << the kirdilogue >>Jean Baptiste Baskouda. The children of Northern Cameroon would consider him both as permanent Santa Claus and their messiah.Father Simon Mpecke,<<The Moses of Kirdis >> is universally known today as   << Baba Simon >>(Papa Simon)on supreme decision of the Children.Father Simon Mpecke is one of first eight Cameroonian priest ordained on December 8, 1935 in Edéa on the left bank of the Sanaga’s river. He was born in 1906 in Batombe village (Edea 1er) of pagan parents, living from fishing and agriculture. The gifts, charisma and leadership of father Simon Mpecke exploded in 1947 when he became parish priest of New-Bell Douala. The New-Bell’s neighborhood is a favela. It is << Africa in miniature >> junior in view of the ethnic and religious  In this case, where father Simon Mpecke, whom some call << widows husband >> and others << the father of orphans >> founded << The Cameroonian Catholic Relief >>.The Parish of New-Bell and its Cure became the center of Cameroon in the year 1955 at a time when this country was on fire and blood. Indeed, Cameroonian politicians of all stripes and ours Lords Bonneau and Thomas Mongo of Diocese of Douala go to consultation with the inevitable and untouchable Simon Mpecke who excels by his love for the truth and his leadership with his ability to put himself above the parties in the name of the superior interest of the Cameroonian child.In the same period the Roman Catholic Church of Cameroon has mesh with the Union of Population of Cameroon (UPC). The Episcopate of Cameroon sets its sights on father Simon Mpecke as the last bulwark and makes it his << ghostwriter >> and his spokesperson reports the Doctor of canon law father Roger Etamè  Baba Simon is a non violent apostle of peace. He has without weapons and without money in his campaign of education of the culture of peace achieved the feat through dialogue, listening to the other in the respect of the diversity, the tolerance to pacify finally in 1959 the North Cameroon. He thus puts an end to the << Djihad >> or << Holy War>>t of Ousman Dan Fodio.Without going through a commission of justice and truth as in South Africa. He reconciles muslims and Kirdis ( Christians and Pagan ).He built and an ivory tower of peace to the irreducible belligerents of yesterday after nearly two centuries of war on the battlefield << Kumdibar >>.This mythical place of peace, reconciliation fraternity and solidarity has become the city of Tokombere , the cornerstone of Cameroon as << haven of peace >>.The catechesis course in catholic school of Cameroon, March1991 of Yaounde’s Archdiocese informs us that:   << Baba Simon, the man who rejected ethnic and religious barriers >>In 2018 researcher Henrick Mouafo Djontu reframes Cameroonians with a historical reminder:<< Tokombere, place of action of Baba Simon as a place of opening and construction of living together >>Baba Simon << prophet and founder of national integration >> in 1959 consolidated peace here with a << Human dignity project in Tokombere >> said Doctor father Christian Aurenche.This project looks like two droops of water to the integrated implementation of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the rights of the Child.Baba Simon the << Moses Kirdis >> better<< Baba Simon the father of Kirdis >> did he plagiarize the work of UNICEF in 1959? One certainty, Baba Simon << the barefoot missionary >> died fourteen years before the adoption in 1989 of the said Convention in New -York.Education and health are the cornerstone of this project which puts man on his foot and freedom The Editorial Director of Pro-government Newspaper’s Cameroon Tribune, Maurice Nkedem outlines in 2005 this project:<< …Baba Simon could give up his entire life working to get innocent youths to school, heal the sick, dress wounds and appease belligerents people in far-away Tokombere…>>Pope John Paul II in his Encyclical on the Social Question numbers 46 ad 47 corroborates with the view of mind of Baba Simon when he says:<< The human being is totally free only when he is himself in the fullness of his rights and duties. The same must be said the, hole society…>>In his action, Baba Simon invents the theory of Inculturation which has become battle horse of the Vatican II Council repots the sociologist and babasimologist father Jean Marc Ela. A pioneer of << school under the tree >>, he became a specialist in the education of the girl. The emancipation of the Kirdi who can read and write. Its not likely please the regime of Yaounde whose Governance on the North is the opposite of the Baba Simon’s project. This earned him in 1970 at the age of sixty-five a deportation before being assigned in house arrest in Yaounde after a marathon interrogation directed by the hand of master by the fearsome and feared police commissioner Jean Fochive.Freeing the man from poverty and ignorance as Baba Simon did, is the mission assigned to himself by the Global Baba Simon Foundation by building the bridge of hope of poverty foe excellence with you materialized by your generosity. Make your voice and your leadership heard by bringing your multifaceted support to Global Baba Simon Foundationin the accomplishment of its mission.Your generosity is a response as Baba Simon << the universal man >> did so bluntly, to Matin Luther King’s exhortation to exercise your leadership in the service of the community when he asks:<< Life’s most persistent urgent question is, what are you doing for others?>> We are counting on you very much on your leadership ladies and gentlemen. Leadership is also, a sincere smile that your generosity or act of charity wrest from other through the bridge of hope for excellence of Global Baba Simon Foundation. Loe, Maurice Martin.Chief Executive Officer  of Global Baba Simon  Foundation.          

EDUCATION AND HEALTH ARE THE CORNERSTONE OF HUMAN 

DIGNITY PROJECT OF BABA SIMON IN TOKOMBERE 

BABA SIMON PIONEER OF THE SCHOOL UNDER THE TREE: 

He presents us his famous and legendary school under the tree founded in 1959 in Northern Cameroon.

<< I started, like any good missionary by the school. I already have about forty students: 18 children from 8 to 15 years old,16 boys from 17 to 23 years old and three girls, including two over 14 years old. Obviously, everyone is completely naked, except a boy who has a ripped panties. 

I do the class under a tree, we all sit on the floor and change place at least twice a day, according to the shadows, Monseigneur promised me help to build a school. 

The day I started my school, I didn't even have chalk and until now it was a slate attached to the tree that served me as a blackboard >>.

-Letter from Baba Simon to the Priestly Union, May 7, 1959, quoted by the Babasimlogue and postulator of the Cause of Baba Simon, Father Grégoire Cador in On l'appelait Baba Simon, les Editions terre africaine.p 137. 

 BABA SIMON YOUNG GIRL EDUCATION SPECIALIST. 

In Northern Cameroon, the girl holds a poor record when at 14 she is not at least at her second marriage. The arrival of Baba Simon in 1959 with his multifaceted peaceful revolution and in particular his special campaign relating to the education of the girl will change this situation. The rapid emancipation of these girls impresses as evidenced by this correspondence of the Superior of the Monastery of St. Clare of Laba to Monsignor de Bernon on June 16, 1969:

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<< Excellency, I come on behalf of my hundred daughters, and more especially of the thirty-four professed, to pray to you and beg you to give us Baba Simon as advisor and assistant of our young communities... I insist to tell you that it is absolutely necessary for me to have to help me in the work of formation, an African priest of the caliber of Baba Simon; having the wisdom and maturity that will balance with the youth of my daughters, and moreover that will help me in the relations with the outside >>.

Monsignor's answer is implacable on June 23, 1969: <<I cannot really accede to your request, and my entourage has given me reason...Baba Simon is the Fidei Donum of the Cameroun. He radiates enormously by his gesture, his presence around him. He made an excellent ministry in Tokombéré itself, he helps us a lot as a team of priests inside which he is very integrated...We must also take into account the public opinion of the Kirdi of Mora who would be devasted to see him go, Muslims who would also regret it...>>.

Sources: -Testimony of the << Kirdilogue>> Jean Baptiste Baskouda.  -In We called it Baba Simon, the African earth editions of the Babasimologist and Postulator of the cause of Baba Simon, Father Gregory Cador. Pg 182 and 183.

 BABA SIMON’S CREED TO CHILDREN

<< School is the key to life… Clean water is Jesus Christ >>

HEALTH PROMOTION BY BABA SIMON

<<We no longer want to lose five out of eight children>>,<< We no longer want to see the women who die so often in childbirth>>

Baba Simon quoted by Docter,Father Christian Aurenche at Press conference in Paris October 19,2002

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THE BABASIMOLOGUE DOCTOR, FATHER CHRISTIAN AURENCHE’S 

<<PASTORAL HEALTH PROJECT>> IS INSPIRED BY BABA SIMON’S 

 HEALTH POLICY.

<< I would very much like to live with this old priest. He was a reference for me, he wrote in his book the sacred tree, my pastoral health project had germinated with him.>>(pg 57)  

Doctor Christian Aurenche quoted by Doctor father Roger Etamè

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