Narratives andShort Stories

The story I want to share with you guys, is that of the activation of SCOPE in our NMO, it particularly marked us because it starts from a period of hardship, a period of rejection and so many setbacks and obstacles. Last year our NMO embarked on the journey of SCOPE activation, which was a tremendous journey full of trials and tribulations. These trials and tribulations that we got were primarily from our administrators that did not get the vision of SCOPE and did not want this novel idea, they were afraid of how the idea was going to impact them and were reluctant to try a new thing, so many of our administrators were skeptical about accepting SCOPE, the SCOPE programs, the exchanges programs and so on in their universities so it was very difficult for us, in some places we were insulted, looked down upon and in others we weren’t even granted audience to talk, so activation could not be fast That’s why our activation process took a lot of time, it took a whole year, it took a longtime because we had to beg, we had to plead, we had to look for papers required by the university and papers required by IFMSA, so it was really really difficult. But thank God we had a really wonderful NT members, they where really proactive and they did not relent their efforts especially with regards to going towards those administrators, plead, look for other routes to reach to the route concerned, and finally upon all their efforts, they had the acceptance letter from one University (CATUC University of Bamenda) out of around 10 universities we have in Cameroun. After we got the activation letter we submitted everything to IFMSA, and they started laying as well because it was on the 27th of August, just few days after the AM2022 and they were all concentrated in the reports of the event Finally on the 25th of June 2022, we received the confirmation that Cameroon is SCOPE ACTIVE, that was the best news we had during all the year, we were just so excited to finally being eligible to exchange programs and have our first exchange. This story just reflect the fact that we do not have to relent our efforts in the face of adversity, in the face of trials and tribulations, we have to push through, because if we had abandoned , Cameroon wouldn’t have been SCOPE ACTIVE today.

LizethBustosBustos

1606694k@umich.mx