Lelewal has been actively supporting her communities in the domain of livelihoods and Alternative Skills development in other domains like Tailoring, income generating activities and the valorization of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP). Indigenous peoples in Cameroon are around ninety nine percent nature dependent mainly hunter-gatherer and traditional livestock grazing. The advent of climate change phenomenon has devastated their livelihoods and consequently well-being. The Baka Pygmies who depended on gathering of forest by products like wild fruits, ingredients, fishing and hunting of small animals for local consumption. This in recent times has being in disparity due to high temperatures making wild fruits to fall out before majority, illegal logging around their camps scaring away small animals far away into conservation areas where hunting is prohibited even if it is for local consumption. Drying up of streams where they usually do their fishing and the disparity of Mbwa mbwa species of fish use for traditional rites and ceremonies.
In the main time the Mbororo community of Ngorin who are mainly Pastoralists have been witnessing changes in their environment with the invasion of strange plants thus reduction of pastures for cattle grazing, drying of streams and rivers, land fragmentation and privatization, creation of large scale commercial and ranches, lack of clear policies on Pastoralism thus putting their livelihoods and subsistence options.
In many of our outings to the field, revealed that the Baka People has very limited sources of livelihoods due to the prevailing situations.
Lelewal in collaboration with the leaders of these communities has created community farms in Djoum for Baka Pygmies and in Ngorin for the Mbororo Pastoralists. Market gardening was also created, with the aim of providing enough food for the families and communities. Cocoa and fruit tree planting will in the long run serve as a poll of income generation for the communities. Lelewal has also provided water for some communities to avert water conflicts between communities and also to reduce child labor. Lelewal also created a tailoring workshop in Djoum to train women in dress making.
All these initiatives will continue in the futures and Lelewal will be expanding its geographical space to benefit other needy communities in other regions of Cameroon