Our Leadership Team
“Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” –Mattie Stepanek
Our leadership team consists of a Board of Directors made up of dynamic and passionate individuals.
Chief Robert Forlemu
Chief Forlemu launched Rural Cameroon Self-Reliance Development Organization (RUCADEV) in 2012 in Tucson, Az where he served as a community organizer. Forlemu’s professional background includes a political science degree from James Rogers college of Law of the University of Arizona in Tucson and experience helping to start companies and bring communities together. Growing up in a typical rural area, Forlemu quickly understood the need for capacity building through community based engagements as the main tool to eradicate poverty and shattered dreams in his village community. Forlemu shuttles back and forth between Cameroon and Tucson (where he spent the last 19 years) to seek funds and strategies for the transformation of the Cameroonian Rural communities from poverty stricken to healthy growth oriented communities.
Dr. Neville F Yimnai
I love to share my work and aspirations with my church and local community. That is where my passion and desire to positively impact disadvantage populations locally and in Cameroon has continued to develop. RUCADEV provides a unique platform to utilize our human resources and capital to help struggling populations in Cameroon and that is what make me tick. I am an associate professor of Chemistry, at Georgia Gwinnet College in Atlanta Georgia (GGC). I studied Biochemistry at the University of Buea in Cameroon and Physical chemistry at the University of North Dakota. Over the last 7 years I have carried out research in computational drug design of antimalarial and opiate pharmaceutical molecules at Mount Sinai school of medicine in New York and Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville. 571 Collingsworth Lane Lawrenceville GA, 30043
Edward Amin Tongwa
Edward has been a fervent advocate for mentally challenged patients in the California area where he has developed a deep passion on how to adequately care for his patients. He understands how drug and alcohol abuse, schizophrenia and other mental disorders can devastate families and communities. As manager of the California Department of Mental Health at Metropolitan State Hospital, Norwalk-California, he works tirelessly through seminars, conferences and community outreach programs to help alleviate and help solve these issues. He has developed an interest on how to help the population of villages in Cameroon live a healthy life by eliminating illnesses acquired through contaminated water and how to help the students in various schools in different suburban areas of Cameroon live a better life as well. 2145 Cedar Glen Dr. Corona, CA. 92879 Tel: 951 515 5463
Aaron Tsherk Mancho
Aaron is programmer with the Colorado Department of Taxation in Denver and Data analyst. 10408 Carriage Club Dr. Lone Tree, Co. 80124