This site is still being built. The members, payments, projects and photographs you see are placeholders — put here to show how the finished site will work. None of it is the association’s real record yet.
ATUCDA gathers the sons and daughters of Acha-Tugi — at home and abroad — to keep our history, hold our culture, and finance the works the village needs.
Acha-Tugi sits on the high grassland of Cameroon’s North West Region — a place of red earth, raffia and rolling ridges, where the compound, the palace and the market have organised village life for as long as the elders can account for.
The oral record traces our forebears’ migration into the Grassfields and the founding of the settlement on the ridge, where water, farmland and a defensible view came together. What has held since is not only the land, but a habit: whatever the village needed, the village put together — one contribution at a time.
In 19XX that habit was given a constitution. Traders and teachers from Acha-Tugi living in Bamenda formalised their meeting into the Acha-Tugi Cultural and Development Association, so that money, memory and effort could be pooled beyond one town, one generation, one lifetime.
Acha and Tugi — two quarters, one village. The figure running down the edge of every page is drawn from that: two forms, joined and held.
Extending the gravity-fed catchment with 3.2 km of new pipeline and four public standposts, bringing clean water within 300 m of every compound in the quarter.
A four-bed maternity annex so mothers no longer travel to the divisional hospital to deliver. Foundation and walls complete; roofing and fittings outstanding.
Acha-Tugi is in a legal dispute with a neighbouring village over land. The association is carrying the cost of the village’s defence, so that the case is decided on the evidence and not on who can afford to fight it.
The assembly has not set a figure for this yet.
Bamenda. Accounts presented, the meeting house design put to a vote, and cultural night on the closing evening.
25,000 F per member. 81% collected so far.
Give once, give monthly, or settle your annual dues — from a Cameroonian mobile wallet or an account abroad.