\u201c#AFFCameroon started as #FactsMatter237 until the need to make it favourable for the continent. I was privileged to be part of the first cohort and witnessed this transition. I came into #AFFCameroon with a journalist\u2019s mindset but left transformed owing to the onsite sessions, social media health reports, fact-checking articles produced, spiced by the cream of facilitators we had from all over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This has not only shaped me as a person but seen me transform the lives of mid-term career journalists in training halls, particularly in my region and the country at large. Fact-checking would badly be mentioned in the North West Region without someone mentioning my name. It gives some comfort.<\/span><\/p>\n I led one of the groups during my cohort and this enhanced my leadership and networking qualities. Managing people from different backgrounds, ideologies & sentiments is not easy but through #AFFCameroon, I was able to navigate my way through. As #AFFCameroon proudly moves to its 6<\/span>th<\/span> Cohort hosting Northerners. My word for you: be determined, stay focused, come with an open mind and you will witness a transformational impact!\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shatu Pedmia, #FactsMatter237 & #AFFCameroon Cohort 2 Fellow \u201c#AFFCameroon started as #FactsMatter237 until the need to make it favourable for the continent. I was privileged to be part of the first cohort and witnessed this transition. I came into #AFFCameroon with a journalist\u2019s mindset but left transformed owing to the onsite sessions, social media health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-8045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reactions","tag-affcalumnireactions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8417,"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions\/8417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affcameroon.defyhatenow.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}